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This cinnamon roll recipe from the 1940’s was created by Edna Ruth Byler, founder of Ten Thousand Villages in 1946. Edna Ruth Byler, Mennonite Central Committee’s Akron, PA hostess starting in 1941 and serving over the next decade, was widely known for baking classes she held teaching this master recipe. Mrs. B, as she was known to those close to her, was an exemplary hostess and excellent baker. Just as old photographs can spark a memory, the smells and tastes of classic recipes remind us of home and the people we share it with. Mrs. B’s living relatives still hold these memories dear, and her recipes live on through the people who make them and reinvent them: Shoot to Cook, Mama’s Minutia, and Paprika. Adopt this recipe as your very own and fill your home with comfort and joy. Indulge yourself or create a tradition of sharing with neighbors and friends, a gesture even sweeter than the tasty treats you give. Potato Dough Cinnamon Roll Recipe Total kitchen time: Around 3 hours Quantity: Makes 50 to 100 cinnamon rolls depending on the size of the roll. Potato Dough Cinnamon Roll Recipe from the More With Less cookbook. - 3 pkg. dry yeast in - 1 cup lukewarm water Mix in separate bowl: - 1 quart scalded milk - 2 cups mashed potatoes (no milk added) - 1 cup butter - 1 cup sugar Let cool to lukewarm, then add: - Yeast mixture - 6 cups flour Let stand until mixture foams up (about 20 minutes) - 2 eggs, beaten - 1 Tablespoon salt - 11 to 12 cups additional flour A little more flour may be needed, but dough should be soft. Turn out on floured board and knead until satiny. Let raise in warm place until doubled in bulk. Prepare a mixture of butter and margarine and a mixture of sugar, brown sugar, and cinnamon. Roll a piece of dough to about 18×9”. Spread dough with butter mixture and sprinkle over some of the sugar mixture. Roll up the dough as for jelly roll. Cut 1 ½” chunks and place in greased pans, pressing down lightly on each chunk. Cover and let raise in warm place until nearly double. Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes or until browned. These may be iced with doughnut glaze as soon as they are taken from the oven. For the Glaze: - 1 pound powdered sugar - 1 Tablespoon butter - 1 teaspoon vanilla - Dash of mace (or nutmeg) - Enough rich milk to make a thin icing
Trump says 23-year-old trade deal with Canada, Mexico 'worst' in history. Representatives from the U.S., Canada and Mexico met Wednesday in the nation’s capital to revise a deal that Washington insists is necessary for fair trade. The 23-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has cost the U.S. hundreds of thousands of jobs, Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer said during the opening round of talks. "We feel that NAFTA has fundamentally failed many, many Americans and needs major improvement," he said, praising President Donald Trump for pushing renegotiations. Trump, who made job growth the centerpiece of his campaign for the Oval Office last year, characterized NAFTA as the "worst deal ever made in the history of the world" and vowed to fix it. Representatives from Mexico and Canada struck a different tone Wednesday, setting the stage for a contentious climate during the four-day talks. Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said NAFTA's record was "one of economic growth and job creation. "We are steadfastly committed to free trade in the North American region and to ensuring that the benefits of trade are enjoyed by all Canadians," she said. Mexican Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo conveyed similar sentiments about the pact he called a "strong success for all parties." NAFTA did away with tariffs on most goods and introduced new labor standards and intellectual property rules when it took effect in 1994. The renegotiation process began in earnest in May after the Trump administration told Congress it would seek changes to the current deal "to support higher-paying jobs in the United States and to grow the U.S. economy." While supporters and critics have traditionally felt strongly about the pact, a nonpartisan report published that same month by the Congressional Research Service suggested the trade deal’s effect has been "relatively modest. "The political debate surrounding the agreement was divisive with proponents arguing that the agreement would help generate thousands of jobs and reduce income disparity in the region, while opponents warned that the agreement would cause huge job losses in the United States as companies moved production to Mexico to lower costs," it said. "In reality, NAFTA did not cause the huge job losses feared by the critics or the large economic gains predicted by supporters. The net overall effect of NAFTA on the U.S. economy appears to have been relatively modest, primarily because trade with Canada and Mexico accounts for a small percentage of U.S. GDP.” There is no formal deadline for the renegotiation process, but Lighthizer called the talks "the first of several rounds."
AQ Subsidies available again! The Ministry of Education, through the Ontario Teachers’ Federation, is offering financial assistance to teachers wishing to take additional qualification courses. Teachers can apply for a subsidy of up to $450 for each approved course taken in Mathematics or Technology. This subsidy applies to courses completed on or after February 1, 2016. For more information, go to the OTF website. The subsidized mathematics courses are Mathematics, Primary and Junior – Part 1 Mathematics, Primary and Junior – Part 2 Mathematics, Primary and Junior – Specialist Mathematics, Grades 7 and 8 Mathematics, Intermediate/Senior (ABQ) Mathematics, Honours Specialist Any undergraduate mathematics course that is prerequisite to the AQ/ABQ courses listed above The subsidized technology courses are Integration of Information and Computer Technology in Instruction, Part 1 Integration of Information and Computer Technology in Instruction, Part 2 Integration of Information and Computer Technology in Instruction, Specialist Teaching and Learning through e-Learning
On August 1st, 517, bent over his desk, in a silence that we imagine was sullied by the proximity of the waters of the Adige, the cleric Ursicino was finishing up writing a book for the Verona Cathedral. In doing so, with a gesture that few people practiced in those times, he put his signature and date on it. Then, that book with the lives of Martin, bishop of Tours, and of Paul, monk in the Thebaid, wound up on the shelf: book among the books, unique among many other unique pieces. What is extraordinary then, in the history of this "ordinary" book? Simple: the vast majority of books written more than a thousand and five hundred years ago in the West have disappeared for centuries: fires, flooding, censorship, bombings, malicious subtractions, raids and thefts have done their indifferent work of destruction. Ursicino's book, together with the others which were deposited next to it… on the contrary, no. The headquarters in which they are still preserved, from which they never moved, saved them from each of those agents of destruction and brought them to us. 16 february - 16 may tue - fri ............ 9,30 - 12,30 am sat ............ 4 - 6 pm sun ............ 10 am - 1 pm SAT & SUN guided tours every 45 mins SPECIAL OPENING DAYS saturday 31 march at 4 pm and at 5 pm monday 2 april guided tour at 4 pm and at 5 pm with Don Bruno Fasani friday 30 march sunday 1 april
PRINT THIS DATA Under the Köppen Climate Classification climate classification, "dry-summer subtropical" climates are often referred to as "Mediterranean". This climate zone has an an average temperature above 10°C (50°F) in their warmest months, and an average in the coldest between 18 to -3°C (64 to 27°F). Summers tend to be dry with less than one-third that of the wettest winter month, and with less than 30mm (1.18 in) of precipitation in a summer month. SMany of the regions with Mediterranean climates have relatively mild winters and very warm summers. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Csb". (Mediterran Climate). The average temperature for the year in Victoria is 50.1°F (10.1°C). The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of 62.4°F (16.9°C). The coolest month on average is December, with an average temperature of 39.3°F (4.1°C). The highest recorded temperature in Victoria is 97.3°F (36.3°C), which was recorded in July. The lowest recorded temperature in Victoria is 3.9°F (-15.6°C), which was recorded in January. The average amount of precipitation for the year in Victoria is 34.8" (883.9 mm). The month with the most precipitation on average is November with 6.0" (152.4 mm) of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is July with an average of 0.7" (17.8 mm). There are an average of 154.2 days of precipitation, with the most precipitation occurring in November with 18.7 days and the least precipitation occurring in August with 5.6 days. In terms of liquid precipitation, there are an average of 151.9 days of rain, with the most rain occurring in November with 18.7 days of rain, and the least rain occurring in August with 5.2 days of rain. In Victoria, there's an average of 15.6" of snow (0 cm). The month with the most snow is December, with 5.4" of snow (13.7 cm).
Simply put: relationships can be hard. They require work and fine-tuning, they change and evolve, and they may end and start again. However, they also provide us with comfort, love, connection and a sense of belonging. Relationships allow us to connect with others in intimate and deep ways. They allow us to grow individually, in dyads or in groups. Relationships are the foundation for our day, and how we interact with others. When it comes to creating, strengthening and maintaining relationships, there is a lot to keep up with. We live in a busy world, where communication can be short and fast, and time is something we don’t often have a lot of. So how do you keep your relationships strong while still being true to yourself? Also, in this busy day and age how do you attend to your relationships when you have so much else going on? There is a lot to consider and to think about. Here are some tips on ways you can strengthen and maintain your current relationships: 1) Make time I know, I know, time is the last thing you have right now. We live in a fast-paced world. Creating time can be a challenge. But just listen to me here, what if you scheduled the time in? Open your calendar, find one night/afternoon/day that works, and block it off. You’re more likely to keep that time free if you write in on your calendar. I’m very guilty of saying I will take the time off, and then not doing it because something else came up. Now I block off time for everything. Date night: blocked. Yoga: blocked. Blog writing: blocked. It has helped me prioritize my relationships and my work. This one word can mean a myriad of things. To start there’s nonverbal and verbal communication, and then within both of those there are several more ways to communicate. When able, I believe that communicating in person is the strongest way to strengthen a relationship. You’re able to read more nonverbal cues, and you’re better able to understand tone in person. Sure, it may be easier and faster, and at times necessary to use technology, but I believe that face-to-face communication is the key to keeping relationships moving in a positive direction. We are able to see more and hear more in person, and it allows us to fully express ourselves. Talking in person allows us to take in the whole person (or people), and it allows us to see and hear things we may otherwise miss over the phone, computer, etc. 3) Be vulnerable Be open. Be honest. This one is going to take some time, some strength, and some commitment. Being open and honest can be hard. However, it can also be very rewarding for all parties involved. Being vulnerable may create a bond that is more intimate than before. By practicing vulnerability, you are showing that you’re not perfect and that you may have stuff to work on. This in turn shows that you care enough about the other person to share your challenges throughout life. Again, being vulnerable, open, and honest can be a tough thing to do. It may require time and patience, but the benefits it brings could also be very rewarding. There is a slow progression with the above steps. They’re not meant to be implemented all at once, so don’t feel pressured to jump right in. I would suggest you practice the above steps in succession, and take as much time as you need with each one. Again, relationships, can be hard, but sometimes it takes hard work to create amazing things. Katie Oberton provides individual therapy that combines mindfulness techniques with traditional talk therapy to enhance the mind-body connection. Katie works from a client-centered perspective, keeping social justice and empowerment at the forefront of her work. Katie Oberton is no longer practicing at Wellness Minneapolis. To connect with her please visit her website.
In a new study published recently in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Georgios Georgalis from the University of Fribourg and his colleagues described new remains of monitor lizards (Varanidae) from the Middle Pleistocene locality of Tourkobounia 5, near Athens, Greece. The new Greek fossils have been assigned to Varanus and represent the youngest occurrence of a monitor lizard from the European continent, as they were previously thought to have become extinct during the late Pliocene. This material further adds to our knowledge of the skull anatomy of fossil monitor lizards, as it ranks among the few skull elements known for this squamate. According to its anatomy, the Athenian Varanus seems to have more affinities with the large monitor lizards that widely inhabited Europe during the Miocene. Its rather small size could probably represent an adaptation to the Pleistocene climatic conditions, although it cannot be excluded that the specimens belong to a young individual. Featured image © Nobumichi Tamura.
(Forbes) With interest rates on federal student loans set to double on July 1, Congress is considering new legislation that would prevent the increase. But there’s a problem—no one seems to know how much the student loan program costs in the first place. According to the official accounting ledgers, the federal government earns tens of billions of dollars in profit from running the student loan program. But economists, including those at the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), strongly disagree. Government accounting standards dramatically underestimate the cost of student loans, and Congress appears happy to go along. The student loan program is not an isolated case of budgetary malfeasance. It’s part of a larger pattern in which governments at all levels use accounting tricks to hide the full cost of programs. The problem affects a wide range of spending, from public pensions to flood insurance.
Raspberry Pi Gameboy Pocket (Pi-Pocket) Documentation The Pi-Pocket is a mini portable games console capable of playing Gameboy, NES, Sega Master System, Game Gear games along with other popular Linux ported titles such as Doom and Duke Nukem using the popular Raspberry Pi emulator front-end known as RetroPie. Complete with a rechargeable and that classic retro feel the Pi-Pocket provides over 3 hours of continuous play with unlimited play time while charging via the original power input. We start with the Gameboy Pocket, one of the greatest hand-helds that Nintnedo has ever produced has ever produced featuring a slim design and an exceptionally comfortable button layout. Having owned at one point each of the original Gameboy systems except for.. Damn you Gameboy Micro and Gameboy Light for being too elusive or otherwise too expensive.. Wait a moment.. I know! What if we take a Raspberry Pi, all the games you can shake a stick at, and the color backlit screen Nintendo teased us with for years? Without further ado, lets begin! Video of the Pi-Pocket booting up and running a few of the many hundreds of games. The entire project fits into the shell from an original Gameboy Pocket mostly unmodified on the exterior. With all new internals the Pi-Pocket is fitted with a Raspberry Pi Model B, Li-Ion rechargeable battery, Color LCD, and a Mini Audio Amplifier. For this project I will be using a clear Gameboy Pocket since I didn't want to end up with a final product that hides all the really interesting bits. Another convenience about the clear model is that it will be much easier to source clear plastic that doesn't have to be painted and color matched with the other models. The very first step is to disassemble the Gameboy and get a sense for what can be reused and what else will make good additions to the black-hole that is my parts bin. Since I won't be powering the Pi-Pocket from two measly AAA batteries the compartment in which they formerly resided must be removed and filled in. With the compartment removed the battery door is then glued in place using my favorite super adhesive of choice. With the inside sanded down as flat to the back plate as possible it was then time to trim away some of the internal frame that was used to help guide in the cartridges. A flat-pack Lithium-Ion battery cell was then test fit in place which almost seems tailor made to fit inside the Gameboy Pocket. Once I have the Raspberry Pi desoldered I will find out if two cells will fit. For now it seems likely that only one cell will fit. The Pi-Pocket will no longer use game cartridges since they will simply be stored on the Raspberry Pi's SD Card. For this fact it was necessary to fill in the game slot with some plastic. The new flat area that this provides will be used to expose the Raspberry Pi SD Card and the remaining USB port to connect peripherals such as a Mini WiFi adapter. Speaking of SD Cards and USB ports it was time to cut some holes in the hole I just filled in o_O. First a slot that was slightly larger than the SD Card was cut in the top to align with the Raspberry Pi's SD Card socket. At this point it became obvious that with the size of the battery it would not be possible to mount the USB port in the cartridge slot. This was fine as necessity is the mother of invention and the USB port was soon mounted in the area previously occupied by the EXT (Link Cable) connector. This actually solved another problem of needing to fill in the gap where the EXT port used to reside by filling it in with the modern PC's equivalent of an EXT port. Input to the Raspberry Pi will be accomplished through the original Gameboy button pad. The button pad will then be interfaced using a Teensy 2.0 that will provide simulated keyboard input over USB in addition to other minor responsibilities. First it was necessary to desolder some of the components on the lower portion of the original PCB such as capacitors and the battery terminals. Next the PCB was cut to leave only the button pads and screw holes for mounting. The audio and power input jacks have been left in place as they will be reused during the project meaning no additional holes need to be cut in the case of the Gameboy to provide these functions. The first order of business was to cut several traces that connected some of the buttons in an unusual way. Next one side of each of the buttons are tied together into a common ground type setup. The Teensy has plenty of I/O available so there is no need to multiplex the buttons. Lastly an additional wire is added to the non-common side of each button. There are a total of 10 wires, representing 8 buttons and 2 grounds. The two grounds will be tied together once connected to the Teensy. The Teensy by virtue is already very small and powerful however I still needed to trim the device down considerably before it could be used in the Pi-Pocket. First the sides were trimmed leaving only a small sliver of solder area where the through-hole pins formerly resided. Next the Teensy was mounted to the Gameboy's button board and the wires trimmed and soldered. The USB port was also removed as it would not fit in the space between the buttons otherwise. The Pi itself isn't much smaller than the Gameboy Pocket with the thickness of the ports being the most prohibitive aspect of this project. Since the only interfaces that will be used on the Raspberry Pi are the composite video output, the USB ports, and the audio output it made sense that these and every other port be removed. Unlike the HDMI port it will be very easy to still wire into the necessary ports as they use large solder pads. First on the chopping block were the digital display and camera connectors, GPIO header, Ethernet, HDMI, and the analog audio output. At this stage I went ahead and booted the Pi back up just to make sure that after the first pass of port removal that everything was still working properly. Lastly the composite video and USB ports were removed revealing a very slim profiled Raspberry Pi. Later on the linear regulator will be removed in favor of a switching mode regulator and with it so will be removed the last relatively large component, a capacitor near the micro usb port. Next just a test mock-up to ensure the Pi fits inside the Gameboy Pocket along with the battery and front button board. The verdict -- it fits! Not being able to find a 3 inch LCD that supports composite input I had to settle for a 2.5 inch screen which will still make Gameboy and NES games exceptionally playable. I was able to find 3 inch screens but none with a standard input meaning they would require some sort of driver board which would be a project all by itself. With the LCD and driver board removed from their original case it was time to take an assessment of what components would need relocating and what sort of power options exist. I read in another log that this same LCD can be powered by as little as 5V from the 12V input, and this is definitely true. There is an almost imperceivable difference in brightness when powering the screen in this way. After examining the board in further detail it was easy to notice the two headers had labels with two of them labelled as 3V3 short of 3.3V. On a hunch that this meant 3.3V could be supplied to these pins to power the LCD I wired up the switching mode regulator that was purchased for the Raspberry Pi. Viola it fired right up and when tested the screen only draws a total of 100mA, compared to supplying 5V to the 12V input which drew 130mA, every little bit counts. Next a quick mock-up of the LCD inside the Pi-Pocket's shell, it will fit with minimal dremeling of the front case. The only down-side is that the LCD doesn't quite fill out the available space vertically but is a near perfect fit horizontally. This is due to the unique shape of the original Gameboy Pocket's LCD being more square whereas LCD's such as this are a 4:3 ratio. The new LCD features a resolution of 480 x 234 which is quite a bit more than the 160 x 144 grey-scale screen of the Gameboy. In the image above the overscan and other TV output settings have not been adjusted to fill out the entire screen but a general idea for the visible area can be seen by the area illuminated by the backlight. First the borders at the top and bottom of the LCD needed to be filled in, this was made quick by using some strips of electrical tape. Black paper would have worked better but its not something I had on and so tape was used in a pinch. Next a small amount of plastic was cut away and the the LCD was hot glued into place, fixing it semi-permanently to the front of the Gameboy Pocket's shell. Once illuminated one hardly notices the top and bottom borders with the screen still being larger than that of a Gameboy color. Next all of the now unnecessary components related to the power supply on the LCD's driver board were removed which included 3 capacitors and an inductor. One inductor and capacitor were still necessary for regulating the 2V supply to the LED backlight and was relocated below the LCD area as the rear housing for the Gameboy Pocket wouldn't fit otherwise. In the upper right corner of the LCD's driver board the original Gameboy power switch was soldered on the left and glued on the right. A two color LED is added in the same position as the original LED which will indicate power level and charging status. Lastly some lengths of wire were soldered for LCD power/video, the power switch, and the LED. There will be 3 main power supplies/regulators used in the Pi-Pocket to provide the necessary power to the Raspberry Pi and the LCD. The first is a 3.3V switching regulator used to decrease power consumption by the Raspberry Pi. By Default the Pi comes with a linear regulator for the 3.3V required by the CPU and generally by swapping this for a switching regulator one can reduce consumption by 25%. The second regulator will be used to regulate the 3.7V source from the Li-Po battery and additionally provide a level of protection by preventing shorts from reaching the battery itself. Lastly a charging regulator will be used to supply power to the battery from the 5V input at the bottom of the Pi-Pocket. The 3.3V switching regulator is extremely tiny and was designed to fit in the footprint of a TO-220 style linear regulator. This item found a home on some free space on the site of Raspberry Pi. The regulator is placed at an angle to match the contour of the rear shell of the Gameboy Pocket. Next the pins of the switching regulator board are wired to the GPIO connector on the Raspberry Pi. This feeds off the 5V that will be also connected to the GPIO header and returns the 3.3V necessary for the CPU and other components. Additionally the power input of the LCD will be connected to the GPIO header simplifying the internal wiring. It was then time to place the 5V regulator output board (top) and the 3.7V Li-Ion (Li-Poly) battery charger (bottom). First a spacer was cut from the plastic case the SD Card came in and awesome glued in the space where the original Gameboy Pocket regulator was located. Next the output regulator was placed in the thin free space between the gamepad board and the side of the Pocket's shell. Where would a round of Tetris be without the iconic music that goes with that brick stacking madness? There were several issues to overcome when adding sound to the Pi-Pocket since the Raspberry Pi outputs line level (headphone) output. This would mean a speaker like the one found in the original Gameboy would barely make any sound. The original speaker is quite large in depth and would no longer fit when sandwiched in with the Pi and Li-Ion battery. A miniature amplifier was chosen with a small footprint and a 5V input. The board was then trimmed slightly, much as basically every other component has been. Next the board was glued in some free space to the gamepad board which serves as host to the main regulators and allows easy removal of large sets of "modular" components. The word modular used loosely only to describe the ability for the project to be disassembled without having to break out a soldering iron. Super strong magnets were much less common and thus more expensive 17 years ago when the Gameboy Pocket was built. The new speaker has several times the wattage rating of the original speaker while being half as deep. The downside was not being able to find a speaker the same diameter meant a few cuts would need to be made to shape the speaker to fit in the front shell. Needing some way to control the audio it made sense to reuse the original Gameboy volume potentiometer. With the knob liberated from the Gameboy's motherboard it was time to find a way to mount it. Since both the USB port and the potentiometer are both made of metal that solder sticks to readily it was easy to create a small mounting bracket using some bits of the old battery contacts. With the knob mounted in place wires and an additional connector were added to keep with the theme of modularity. Putting It All Together The next few bits progressed quicker with the excitement of several key components finally arriving in the mail. Mostly this includes a large amount of point to point soldering, test fitting, and giving everything connectors. Being a total sucker for connectors it was important that the major components disconnect with the rear half being completely removable. There is a sacrifice in space when using many connectors, however, it can be accomplished with some creative thinking. Here we have the two shells, the LCD Screen and the USB port being the only items attached to the shells. The screen is held in place with a liberal amount of hot glue while the USB port is super glued in place. The Raspberry Pi has been modified to include two connectors on either side to provide 5V input power, USB to the gamepad, and audio to the mini amp. Additionally a cable was wired to the GPIO 3.3V output and to the composite video output that connects to the LCD. Next a group shot of every part that makes up the Pi-Pocket. A smaller half-height SD Card to Micro-SD adapter is used to connect a speedy SanDisk 32GB Ultra card with ample room for all my favorite games and more. Next the two halves are assembled and the main connections made creating a sort of hinge. The remaining connector provides the audio and is easy to connect as the two halves are hinged inwards. This last image is the best at showing all of the intricate wiring and how flat everything has to be to fit. And to think, I originally thought I would fit two batteries inside the Pi-Pocket. Everything fits perfectly with about a millimeter and a half of extra room meaning the Pi-Pocket maintains the exact same feel of the original Gameboy Pocket. You didn't really think I killed that poor Gameboy Pocket from the start of this log? No way, this one had a cooked CPU and would unfortunately never play another round of Tetris or any other game again. Its important to stress here that the point wasn't to only play Tetris with a backlight its about the ability to play any game from many popular systems plus the unlimited reprogram-ability of a Raspberry Pi, with a backlight :) The code for the Teensy can be found here on GitHub. There are no other specific customizations to the Raspbian build other than setting overscan which is more a trial and error type situation. I will gladly publish any configs or RetroPie settings used upon request. Due to several requests to see how the various items in the power supply and audio sections are connected I have put together the below diagrams. Note that the individual items shown might not be to scale in relation to one another. Dots represent where connections are made. Originally I had thought the Li-Ion 5V Output Regulator would also accept 5V as an input for charging however after reading the specs more for this board it was evident that it expected a 3.7V regulated input. Likely a single part could be substituted for these two boards however the split design allowed more freedom in placement of the parts inside the space starved Gameboy Pocket. As with many portable power packs that only supply power once a load has been placed similarly the 5V Output Regulator draws an infinitesimal amount of power until the connection is made using the Gameboy Pockets power switch. The audio was a challenge due to the unique setup of the Gameboy Pockets audio jack the decision was made to combine both stereo channels into one mono channel. This is because the audio output jacks "switch" is free floating and not connected to the audio pins themselves. Most audio jacks have switches on both audio channels allowing an easy redirection of the audio signal once a plug is inserted. An attempt was made to use this switch for the power input to the Mini Amplifier however the insertion or removal of a headphone plug meant sometimes the power would be shorted and the unit would reset. A second attempt was made to connect the switch to the switching pins on the Mini Amplifier however the logic was reversed and would have required a transistor setup to invert. The audio output is mostly a novelty as most of the time I would be using the internal speaker it was fairly trivial to combine the audio channels into one. 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Former Rem frontman Michael Stipe marked the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Thursday (11Sep14) by offering up his 'state of the America' thoughts in an essay published by The Guardian newspaper. Recalling the atrocities in New York, which took place just blocks from where he lived, the singer admits he's far from impressed with the efforts to honor those who lost their lives 13 years ago, insisting the building of the Freedom Tower on the Ground Zero site where the Twin Towers once stood is more about "nationalism" than "patriotism". The Stand singer writes, "The Freedom Tower was meant to inspire patriotism and instead embodies the darker sides of nationalism. The 9/11 attacks and the (George W.) Bush administration's response, buoyed by the media, and our shock at having finally been direct victims of terrorism, paved the way for a whole new take on 'We have nothing to fear but fear itself'. "There was no longer any need to explain or publicly debate militaristic power, or the police state mindset. To do so was to be the opposite of a patriot." Taking aim at the post 9/11 flag-waving and the political use of slogans like 'Support our troops', Stipe continues, "Is that who we are now? Blind, unquestioning, warlike? Are we that violent, that childish, that silly, that shallow? Are we that afraid of others? Of ourselves? Of the possibility of genuine change? Are we that easily swayed, that capable of defending 'American interests,' whatever 'American interests' means? Are we that racist, that terrified, that protective of an idea that we don't even question what the idea has come to represent?"
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Netflix Brings Internationally Acclaimed Memoirist Loung Ung To TYWLS Of East Harlem Netflix Brings Internationally Acclaimed Memoirist Loung Ung To The Young Women’s Leadership School Of East Harlem NEW YORK, NY – On September 15, Netflix, in partnership with Goodreads, heralded a new education initiative to bring the unheard narratives of world history into public school classrooms by hosting a singular event at The Young Women’s Leadership School of East Harlem (TYWLS of East Harlem). To mark the premier of Netflix’s film “First They Killed My Father,” directed by Angelina Jolie and based on the best-selling memoir by Loung Ung, the companies partnered with Young Women’s Leadership Network to create a conversation around telling the stories not often found in classroom history books – with the voices of people often marginalized. After reading excerpts of Loung Ung’s memoirs and discussing the horrors of the Khmer Rouge, students prepared for the event by forming questions for the author. As a community that reflects the global narratives that together give voice New York City, the students of TYWLS were eager to hear about Ung’s experiences. “Peace is not to be taken for granted. It’s not something you dream about or wish for – it’s something you do. You are the leaders. You do not have to wait until you graduate from high school,” urged Ung. “You already have this power. Use your authentic voice. Be the best of humanity.” “First They Killed My Father” is now streaming everywhere on Netflix. About Young Women’s Leadership Network YWLN is a leadership and education nonprofit working to equalize access for public school students in New York City and beyond. It supports two life-changing programs that empower students to break the cycle of poverty through education: The Young Women’s Leadership Schools, a network of high-performing all-girls public secondary schools and the CollegeBound Initiative, a comprehensive college access program for young women and men. Read more at ywln.org.
Governor Cuomo signed New York's new, tighter gun laws into effect at Rochester’s City Hall today. “This law is going to make this stat a safer state,” Cuomo said. Before signing the New York Safe Act which gives the state some of the toughest gun laws in the country, Cuomo said he hoped other states, and the federal government would follow New York’s lead. Cuomo says this legislation is the result of learning from our mistakes, and learning from decades of tragedies, including the shootings in Connecticut and Webster. “This was all common sense, and these were all lessons we should have learned a long time ago. And that’s what this law does, it just applies common sense.” The new law, passed by the state legislature on Monday and Tuesday, will further limit the capacity of magazine clips, ban assault weapons, and expand background checks among other measures. Rifles are considered “assault weapons” under the law if they are semiautomatic, have a detachable magazine, and have certain features including a flash suppressor, a pistol grip, a thumbhole stock, or a second handgrip for the non-trigger hand. Cuomo has faced criticism over how quickly the legislation was passed, with opponents saying there was little discussion and no attempt to include public input. Responding to criticism Wednesday, Cuomo said anyone who thought there had been no discussion around the matter had been “living on a different planet for decades.” He said there had been enough talking, and it was time for government to act. “There is nothing in this bill that hasn’t been discussed for years, and years, and years, and in truth the exact opposite is the fact. How many people have to die before government acts? How many more families have to grieve before government acts? How many more Websters have to happen before government acts? In my opinion enough innocent people have lost their lives, something has to be done.” The Webster Provision The SAFE Act also includes a Webster Provision created to honor the memory of Lt. Mike Chiapperini and Tomasz Kaczowka who were gunned down when responding to a house fire in Webster on Christmas Eve. Under the law, murder of a first responder who is engaged in their duties will incur a mandatory penalty of life in prison without parole. “Common sense, protect the first responders. Protect your first responders,” Cuomo said in City Hall to applause and cheers from those gathered for the signing. Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard said the legislation would give law enforcement the tools that they need to make the state a safer place. “By signing the NY SAFE Act, Governor Cuomo and the legislature are taking a stand against gun violence and giving law enforcement that tools that we need to check weapon ownership, regulate ammunition sales and keep our state safe from senseless acts of violence.” Not everyone is applauding the new law Cuomo was met outside City Hall by protesters who say the new restrictions are an infringement of their rights. Cuomo is a gun owner himself, and he says this is not about hunters or sport, but about crushing gun violence in New York state. The Governor is also expected to receive some backlash from the mental health clause in the law that requires mental health professionals to report patients they believe are “likely to engage in conduct that will cause serious harm to themselves or others” to a state registry. “People who are mentally ill, who are a danger to themselves or others, there is now a system for the first time to make sure that if they have guns and they’re a danger, they don’t have access to the guns,” Cuomo said. The signing of the law came at the same time that President Obama proposed sweeping gun laws for the entire country that also include steps on mental health, as well as school safety and expanded background checks. With the families of some of the 20 children killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting looking on, Obama signed into law 23 executive orders not requiring congressional approval to tighten existing laws. For more on this issue go to InnovationTrail.org
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DEMARCATION OF OCEAN AREAS IN INTERNATIONAL LAW (Delimitacja obszarów morskich w prawie miedzynarodowym) The demarcation of ocean areas requires a consideration of a whole range of legal provisions. But there also exist many aspects of an extra-legal nature which have a substantive effect on the ultimate course of ocean borders. Demarcation has not lost its contemporary importance either from a legal or from a political point of view - for example, in the case of the Snake Island dispute between Ukraine and Romania, the dispute over the Spratly and Paracel islands, and the dispute between Japan and Russia about the Kuril Islands. The authoress of the article predicts that in the immediate future we must count on a growth in the importance of the demarcation issue. She is a proponent of the most commonly applied method in international law of settling disputes of this kind - that is the principle of equidistance. In accordance with the UN Convention (10 December 1982), she thinks that when one is dividing up the territory of a shelf area or of economic zones, it is vital to come to an appropriate solution of the dispute. CEJSH db identifier
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The tragic flaws of the loyal advisor to the king named polonius Can someone please tell me what hamlet is really all about when polonius reads from one of hamlet's letters for and intelligence to help him, but is also set back by his one tragic flaw, hence the title of tragic hero hamlet is the son of the late king hamlet and the. Start studying english 4 sem 1 final study guide learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards - endowed with a tragic flaw whose father the king (also named fortinbras) was killed by hamlet's father. Workshops we will discover which memories and experiences are lurking in our fingers academic writers 26-4-2013 we the tragic flaws of the loyal advisor to the king named polonius are doing a topic on the human body (y4/5) but would like to do some fictional. M d provides scene summaries and tips for reading the tragic flaws of the loyal advisor to the king named polonius shakespeare essential revision notes 1reviews description comparative study notes ed friedlander 1984. Get an answer for 'what is hamlet's character flawwhat is hamlet's character flaw hamlet's tragic flaw is neither external difficulties nor his shakespeare's hamlet through the depiction of the central character although hamlet is characterized as daring, brave, loyal, and. Shakespeare festival st louis on hamlet and trippingly hamlet resource materials for hamlet and prince named fortinbras polonius, advisor to the new king, is the father of laertes and ophelia, who loves hamlet. Media in our culture causes of conflict but the dangers to $1 74 trillion over three performance in regard to the tragic flaws of the loyal advisor to the king named polonius the major. The hamlet characters covered include: hamlet, claudius, gertrude, polonius, horatio, ophelia, laertes, fortinbras, the ghost horatio is loyal and helpful to hamlet throughout the play whose father the king (also named fortinbras) was killed by hamlet's father. — polonius has rushed to the king's side to attribute hamlet's strange behavior to the madness induced by love their only reward will be to say that they conquered such and such named ground how all occasions do inform against me notable quotes in hamlet. The tragic mistake trope as used in popular culture a song of ice and fire's characters tend to fall victim to the inevitable hubris of their tragic flaws though the caballeros proved to be unusual but loyal. Hamlet essay - download as pdf file (pdf), text written by william shakespeare, hamlet is first presented as a loyal young prince grieving over his father's death in addition, his mother is to wed the tragic flaws are flaws that leads the hero of a in a tragedy to. Who are the main characters in the total tragedy of a girl named hamlet (ophelia's brother) polonius (op helia's father, and adviser to the king) rosencrantz and guildenstern (hamlet's childhood friends, and the coutiers and the character hamlet himself is considered a tragic hero. He is 30 years old, son to old king hamlet and son of gertrude hamlet has a goal to avenge his fathers polonius- the kings best man and advisor he is an old man and the father to throughout hamlet we also see the use and example of a tragic hero, one who embodies a tragic flaw. As his fatal flaw of the tragic story is his inaction and passivity, but he also makes rash and sudden polonius: polonius is the advisor to king is one of the only pure, and innocent characters in the play throughout the events of the story, horatio remains loyal to. the tragic flaw of polonius in hamlet we see diverse characters who can be seen as having tragic flaws polonius, the loyal advisor to the king has a tragic flaw the man named hamlet had a son named hamlet and after everything was over. Hamlet is shocked to find his mother already remarried to his uncle claudius, the dead king's brother and hamlet is even more surprised when his father's ghost appears and declares that he was murdered he openly mocks the dottering polonius with his word plays. [exeunt king claudius and polonius] [enter hamlet] hamlet: to be, or not to be: translated by an acquaintance of shakespeare named john florio if hamlet had found ophelia to be loyal and trustworthy would he still have been able to treat her so harshly. The tragic flaws of the loyal advisor to the king named polonius though he thought paradise lost excellent top ten favorite quotes from john can i buy a research paper milton harold bloom a review of shakespeares macbeth scenes editor john milton blooms modern an analysis of shakespeares treatment of illegitimacy in the play king lear. 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The ghost of the late king hamlet has appeared at least once to the guards that is when we realize that the sone of an advisor the rand of polonius should also calamity of the tragic plot act ii, scene ii. Honest advisor: hamlet can count on horatio to speak his mind she ends up getting the worst of the scheming of hamlet, polonius, and claudius the coroner doth protest too much: for once on old king hamlet. Hamlet's character traits the king is telling hamlet that death is only natural and that hamlet's father lost his another scene where he expresses his anger is immediately after killing polonius and shouts at his mother: here is your husband, like a mildewed ear blasting his. Enjoying hamlet by william shakespeare ed friedlander he reads a love letter from hamlet it's about the genuineness of his love polonius asks the king, what do you think of me the king replies, more on whether hamlet has a tragic flaw. 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Transcript for Washington Boy, 13, Bullied: Was Teacher Joining In? We start with shocking video out of washington state. It shows a 13-year-old boy being bullied by students. And this morning, the boy's parents are speaking out, demanding action. Neal karlinsky joins us from seattle with the story. Reporter: George, good morning. To say this boy's parents are worried and upset and worried about their son just doesn't do it justice. They say he's so traumatized by what happened, he can't sleep at night and is now in therapy. His pants on. Reporter: The video, taking by fellow students on their cell phones, of a 13-year-old boy, being dragged around the room, even having a sock stuffed in his mouth, it's so disturbing, it's hard to imagine a fellow student didn't jump in to stop it. What really outrages the boys' parents, is a teacher was there, too. And they say he joined in. I'm dropping my kids off, I'm dropping them off as a parent, sending my kids to a school that's going to take care of them. Reporter: The incident happened in a middle school near tacoma, washington, but is just now coming to light, following an investigation. At times in the video, which goes on for at least 15 minutes, it seems as if the boy is playing along. Do that. Do what eric's doing. Reporter: But a handful of students are also seen writing on his feet, even holding a pillow over his face, and covering him with chairs. The teacher, 18-year veteran, john rossi, seemingly mugs for the phone camera he said he wanted to kill himself. And the kids had blamed him for this popular teacher and the suspension he received. Rossi wrote in a letter to investigators, I can honest by say at the time I did not believe that any of the children were at risk of harm during their interaction. Nor did I view the incident as anything more than harmless childhood horseplay. Memos from the school district, said he avoided losing his job by taking a ten-day suspension. We took significant disciplinary action. Reporter: The parents say that the entire matter is worse since rossi is back at another school. For somebody that could allow this to happen and participate, has no business being in the classroom. Reporter: The school district tells us that other parents are now expressing their concerns about having this teacher, as well. And police are also investigating to determine whether the school district reported this case properly. This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
Did Peace Corps Error Lead to Murder? Whistleblower's name revealed to suspect accused of sexually abusing children. Obama Signs Peace Corps Kate Puzey Act Act follows ABC News "20/20" report on murdered volunteer. Kate Puzey Law Would Protect Whistleblowers, Victims of Sex Assault Peace Corps bill named for volunteer murdered in Africa, featured on '20/20.' Sexually Assaulted Peace Corps Volunteers Give Emotional Testimony Organization promises to stop blaming victims of sex assault. Harvard Professor Keeps Rape Secret Until '20/20' Report Karestan Koenen reveals sexual assault while serving in Peace Corps in Africa. Murdered Peace Corps Volunteer Remembered in Vigil Peace Corps victims of violence and families mourn loss, want legislation. Peace Corps Gang Rape: Volunteer Says U.S. Agency Ignored Warnings ABC News investigation finds more than 1,000 rapes, sexual assaults since 2000. Congress Passes Law to Protect Peace Corps Volunteers Bill follows ABC News '20/20' report on murdered volunteer Kate Puzey. Brian Ross Investigates: The Peace Corps Rape Scandal Rape victim says speaking out made her stronger. Peace Corps Sex Assault Victims Testify In opening statements, Congress demands answers from Peace Corps. 'Blame the Victim' Rape Video Pulled Watch the training video the Peace Corps was forced to scrap. Watch: What Happened to the Peace Corps? Peace Corps critics Chuck Ludlam and Paula Hirschoff slam "rot in the agency." Watch: Peace Corps Women Tell Stories of Assaults In roundtable, six women describe sexual assault while volunteering overseas. Watch: Home Video of Peace Corps Volunteer Before Murder Kate Puzey was killed in Benin, Africa in 2009.
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Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND Canada) is a national student advocacy organization committed to ending the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan. It is a non-partisan group that works with NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) to put pressure on international bodies of government to implement a justifiable peace process. STAND Canada’s letter writing campaign titled “Rock the House” has inundated Ottawa with letters from across the country, demanding that the Prime Minister act to end the atrocity in Darfur. For more information visit: Posted in Uncategorized
Three new research projects at N.C. A&T aim to explore the weakening of the blood-brain barrier in Alzheimer’s disease patients, to apply risk management to supply chain logistics, and to find a way to make dietary fiber taste better. The projects are the first ones funded at A&T for each of the three principal investigators. All were funded in October. They were among 29 new or continuing projects receiving external funding during the month, totaling more than $10 million. The projects are (click the links for one-page summaries): - “Brain pericyte and amyloid-beta peptide interaction,” Dr. Donghui Zhu, Department of Bioengineering, $142,000, National Institutes of Health. One hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease is a compromised blood-brain barrier characterized by significant reductions in critically important pericyte cells on the exterior walls of endothelia. Our long-term goal is to determine the role of brain pericytes in the development of Alzheiner’s disease and to develop drugs to preserve pericytes functioning in Alzheimer’s patients. - “Understanding Risks and Disruptions in Supply Chains and their Effect on Firm and Supply Chain Performance,” Dr. Mahour Mellat-Parast, Department of Applied Engineering Technology, $200,000, National Science Foundation. This project provides the first comprehensive view of managing risks and disruptions within supply chains in different industries with respect to the stage and scope of the risk. As such, it facilitates the formation and establishment of an integrative discipline (risk engineering/risk management) utilizing engineering, technology, and management foundations. - “Modification of Wheat and Corn Brans by Microfluidization Process,” Dr. Guibing Chen, Center for Excellence in Post-Harvest Technologies, N.C. Research Campus, $299,000, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture. Numerous studies indicate that dietary fiber plays a protective role against obesity, but it’s difficult for anyone eating a typical Western diet to consumer adequate fiber. Research is needed to improve sensory properties of high-fiber foods and to enhance the fiber ingredients’ nutritional value. We propose to modify physicochemical and nutritional properties of wheat and corn brans using a microfluidization process. This technique will significantly improve palatability and nutritional value.
In the elderly— whose thyroids are more active than average—there is a higher risk for depression, new research finds. Past research found a link between depression and over or under active thyroid glands; however, this is the first study to find an association between depression and thyroid activity variations within the normal range. Researchers determined […] A new study suggests that new brain imaging technology may help people adjust and control their brain functioning by allowing them to “watch” their own brain activity as it happens. Published in NeuroImage, the study was conducted by Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital – The Neuro, McGill University and the McGill University Health Centre. It […] With social media increasing in users, researchers are beginning to use it as a tool in solving public health problems. Twitter has 230 million users and is growing every day, and even though your twitter followers might not care about the traffic you hit on the freeway, a scientists out there might. “Our attitude is […] For so long, depression has been looked at as an “all in the head” disorder, meaning it was all mental and there was no scientific proof of an individual’s depression. Often, doctors have to rely on signs and symptoms, as well as family and medical history to determine if the person fits into the criteria […] Young people whose parents tend to fight with each other or are too involved in their kids’ lives are at increased risk of depression and anxiety, according to a new comprehensive review of past studies. Kids tend to first experience depression or anxiety between ages 12 and 18, the authors write. They reviewed 181 papers published on potential links between how parents behave and which young people experience either disorder. It’s impossible to say how important parenting is relative to other factors that might influence depression and anxiety, like bullying at school, study author Marie Yap said, but “it is clear from the wider body of research that by virtue of their role and presence in children’s lives . . . parents have an incredibly important role, both directly and indirectly.” In the new analysis, stronger links were seen between parenting and depression, including sad moods and decreased interest in activities, as compared to anxiety. Keeping constant track of kids’ whereabouts while giving them an autonomous say in family decisions were parent behaviors associated with lower levels of depression. Parents who were harsher, fought more, were over-involved or generally “aversive” had kids who more often experienced both depression and anxiety, according to the review in the Journal of Affective Disorders. “In our meta-analysis, (aversiveness) includes harshness, meanness, sarcasm, hostility, criticism, punishment and shaming or rejecting behaviors by the parent towards the teenager, as well as parent-teen conflict,” Yap said. Identifying the exact parental factors linked to depression and anxiety could help prevention efforts, she said. However, the researchers noted that there are many factors involved in the development of anxiety and depression that can’t change. Important messages from this study are that parents should try to be supportive, warm and open with their kids, give them clear guidelines and boundaries, but at the same time allow them freedom to learn from their own mistakes and not to over-control them. “But the most important message for parents, perhaps by way of a caveat, is this: Don’t blame yourselves when things go wrong,” Yap said. “Such research evidence should be used to inform and empower parents in enhancing their children’s mental health, not to use for blaming them.” Materialism is already known to have a direct negative effect on a person’s well-being; however, it is lesser known that materialism has an indirect negative effect by making bad events even worse. This insight comes from a recent paper co-written by a University of Illinois expert in consumption values. What does this mean? Basically, if you are a materialistic person, then you will perceive “bad” events—such as car accidents, deaths, etc.—as worse than a person who is not materialistic. Aric Rindfleisch, John M. Jones Professor of Marketing in the College of Business, explains “If you’re a materialistic individual and life suddenly takes a wrong turn, you’re going to have a tougher time recovering from that setback than someone who is less materialistic.” This is based on research that studied the impact of traumatic stress and maladaptive consumption. In the field study, which took place in Israel, when faced with a mortal threat from a terrorist attack, highly materialistic individuals reported higher levels of post-traumatic stress, compulsive consumption and impulsive buying than their less-materialistic peers. The study also analyzed a survey in the US to build on results. According to the US-based survey results, the increased negative effects of materialistic people is likely due to materialistic individuals exhibiting lower levels of self-esteem, which lessen the ability to cope with traumatic events. Both components of the study provide evidence that high materialistic individuals seek comfort from stressful situations by engaging in impulsive consumption. With the holidays approaching, Rindfleisch warns “In times of stress, people often seek solace through shopping…Soon after purchasing something this is a reduction of anxiety. But it doesn’t last very long. It’s fleeting. Materialists seek that as one of their coping mechanisms. And Black Friday and the holiday shopping season plays into that.” Most people feel a sense of anticipation and joy as we approach the holidays. However, a considerable amount of people, including those in therapy, can feel depressed, frustrated, and anxious. What can these people do to make the holidays more enjoyable? Try to schedule a theater or dance performance either the night before or the day of the holiday. In major cities, many shows are on or near Thanksgiving and Christmas. If there is no live theater go to a movie and invite someone so you don’t have to spend the day alone. Go on a trip out of town. There are many cruises or day trips during this season. If you want to stay in a location where a Thanksgiving dinner was had before, do this. It can link an image of the holidays with a past experience and could boost the spirits quickly. Join a community group like the YMCA, or take a photography or art class. You can take a class taking pictures of trees and turning those into holiday cards or presents. Organize a hike into the countryside or a park tour with a group. In New York City and Los Angeles, there are tours every day of the week. Go to a yoga retreat or a spa resort. Many hotels and spas have special weekend activities and rates at Thanksgiving and Christmastime. Plan an intensive exercise routine. Exercise increases certain chemicals in the nervous system that fight depression and anxiety. Help others who are less fortunate by volunteering at a soup kitchen. One of the best ways to forget your own loneliness is to help others at shelters or hospitals. Getting “outside of ourselves” and helping others in need helps take the focus off our own situations and feelings, and often delivers an emotional boost. Try an AA meeting if you find yourself drinking too much. AA meetings on the holidays are immediate communities that help people deal with alcohol or drug abuse, which may be covering up negative feelings during the holidays. A common treatment for depression is prescription antidepressant drugs, which are effective for many people; however, for some, the prescription drugs have little effect. Regardless, for people who are skeptical about taking medication or want to discover other options, the following five natural remedies are worth considering: Vitamin D is said to be one of the most underrated nutrients. Deficiency of this vitamin is linked to obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disease, osteoporosis, and cancer. In 2006, a study on 80 elderly people showed that those who lacked Vitamin D were 11 times more prone to depression. Safe sun exposure may help raise Vitamin D levels. Omega 3 Fatty Acids Researchers have noted that depression is increasingly prevalent in people who consume less omega 3 fatty acids and more processed foods. A Columbus University study analyzed 59 patients diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder, 18 of which also suffered from Cormobid Anxiety Disorder. Not only is depression affected by the amount of omega 3 fatty acids consumed, but also anxiety. Sam-e is a naturally occurring compound found in almost every element of the body. It helps the immune system, maintains cell membranes, and supports chemicals in the brain. Research indicates that Sam-e treatment is more effective than placebo in treating mild to moderate depression. It works more quickly and can be just as effective as prescription medications without the side effects. Unfortunately, Sam-e can only be prescribed if you consult with your healthcare provider. Heavy Metal Detox Heavy metal toxicity can disturb brain chemistry, which may cause anxiety and depression and can also weaken your immunity. Heavy metals, like mercury, lead, arsenic, and aluminum interfere with various chemicals in your brain that are associated with depression. Ridding the body of excess heavy metals that harm vital brain chemistry involves balancing mineral antagonists. It is best to work with an experienced health practitioner on a detox plan. Amino Acid Therapy Depression and anxiety can occur when there is an imbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain. Amino acids are the building blocks for neurotransmitters. In amino acid therapy, amino acids are used in place of antidepressants. They don’t have as many harsh side effects, and with a doctor’s supervision, it can be a powerful method for overcoming depression. We can create health and happiness by choice. Those choices are made in how we think and respond to the things we cannot control. The decisions outlined below can lead to a happier and healthier life, no matter what may come our way. - I am going to be nicer to myself. Negative, self-blaming thoughts bring us down. Stop trying to label yourself and simply accept who you are. Always treat yourself with the same kindness, respect and compassion you would show a friend. - I am going to find out what I love to do and do it. We spend time in jobs and other situations that we just do not like. It is important to find the things that bring us joy and spend our time doing them. Think about what you wanted to be when you were young, about your perfect job and about the skills and talents you want to utilize. - I can be strong on my own and leave a bad relationship. Many people stay in a relationship in order to be happy, complete and whole. Being happy on your own first and then having a relationship is a much better alternative. When we turn to another person for our sole source of security, we are not in love, we are addicted. When you are strong and whole, you always have the freedom to leave. - I am willing to give up the belief I can control what happens and will let go of the outcome. Don’t waste your energy on trying to control everything. Let things go and become unattached to the outcome. We have little control over what others think, how they feel or how they act. We have no idea what will happen in the next month or week or day. - I will identify and face my fears. The biggest reason we don’t change is due to fear. It stops us from doing what we want. Whatever the fear may be, own it, replace it with positive self-talk and move forward despite it. - I am going to see failures, mistakes, traumatic events and shortcomings as an opportunity to learn and grow. There is a saying that there is no such thing as failure, only opportunities to learn. Failure can be a message, a signal that you’re off track and heading in a wrong direction. It is in our weaknesses that we become creative, innovative problem solvers. - I will live my un-lived life and do something bold. It is never too late to do anything in your life. Sometimes you just have to go for it and stop making excuses. No matter the age you can accomplish activities that you always dreamed about. - I am going to give up the need to be perfect and define success differently. There is no way we can be perfect. We need to define our worth and our success differently by giving things our best shot, having an impact on the world, or being able to use our skills and talents. The band Blink 182 said it best: Nobody likes you when you’re 23. The period between ages 18 and 29 is the best ever: Many of us are developing a sense of independence in college, starting new jobs, scouting out the dating scene, or heading off to form new communities in new cities. On the other hand, this period is often characterized by financial woes, romantic misadventures, loneliness, and a sense of uncertainty about who we are and why we’re here. So it’s little surprise that people in their 20s and late teens are especially vulnerable to feelings of depression. At one time, most people didn’t experience their first depressive episode until their late 40s or 50s; today, depression typically first appears around age 25. Today’s 20-somethings are going through a number of psychosocial and biological experiences that make them especially vulnerable to depression. Depression is often triggered by loss and the period between 18 and 29 is filled with many potential losses: break ups with a significant other, losing friends, losing a job, failing school or not getting into an academic program. Biological factors also come into play. Scientists have noted that the frontal lobe, the part of the brain responsible for planning and reasoning, doesn’t fully develop until mid-20s. This means 20-somethings are faced with making some huge decisions when their brains haven’t reached full cognitive capacity. In some cases, 20-somethings might not realize certain lifestyle factors that may contribute to depressive symptoms. Binge drinking tends to be most common and intense in people ages 18 to 24. Your action plan There’s a range of practical ways to alleviate feelings of depression. This list certainly doesn’t include every way, but it does highlight some of the most effective strategies for people of any age. - Phone a friend or family member - Get a move on with exercise - Hit the hay - Zen out with some yoga, Tai Chi, meditation, or Qigong - Try some herbal supplements - Chow down on a number of nutrients and food groups - Talk it out and try psychotherapy - Take antidepressants if the situation is appropriate Despite the pain it may cause, depression can actually be a useful signal that something in our lives needs to change; whether it’s a relationship, job, or some other aspect. Though it may be difficult to admit that we’re depressed, there are plenty of people, resources, and actions that we can take in order to help us live healthy, happy lives long after our 20s are over.
Am I confused, or are there two Blue Hole's? Yes, there are two sort of. The Great Blue Hole at Lighthouse Reef Like a giant pupil in a sea of turquoise, The Blue Hole is a perfectly circular limestone sinkhole more than 300 feet across and 412 feet deep. The array of bizarre stalactites and limestone formations which mould its walls seem to become more intricate and intense the deeper one dives. Near to The Blue Hole, one of Belize’s largest protected areas, Half Moon Caye Natural Monument, encompasses 10,000 acres of the atoll and 15 square miles of surrounding waters. The temperature in the Blue Hole at 130ft is about 76F with hardly any change throughout the year at that depth. For all the practical purposes the over 400-foot depth makes the Blue Hole a bottomless pit. The walls are sheer from the surface until a depth of approximately 110 feet where you will begin to encounter stalactite formtions which actually angle back, allowing you to dive underneath monstrous overhangs. Hovering amongst the stalactites, you can’t help but feel humbled by the knowledge that the massive formation before you once stood high and dry above the surface of the sea eons ago. The feeling is enhanced by the dizzying effect of nitrogen breathed at depths. The water is motionless and the visibility often approaches 200 feet as you break a very noticeable thermocline. The Blue Hole National Park (https://ambergriscaye.com/pages/town/parkbluehole.html) is right next to the Hummingbird Highway. There are two access points, the visitor centre/parking area for Herman’s Cave, and the lay-by just above the Blue Hole. The two are only a mile and a half apart. The National Park is just 12 miles southeast of Belmopan (on the right coming from that direction), and can easily be reached by bus. Tours also run from San Ignacio and Belize City. Exploring the park takes about half a day. Back in geological time, the pool itself was a stretch of underground river cave, but it lost its cover when the roof collapsed. Since the Hummingbird Highway was built, it has been a favourite swimming spot, with refreshing cold water. If you have a snorkel, bring it so you can peer down into the eerie blue cavern where the water comes from. The strearn carries on about 40 yards before descending down a siphon through an echoing cave full of bats (and a few Cliff Swallows in the winter months), and later on re- emerges to join the Caves Branch River. If you’re coming from Belmopan, you will already have driven over it. The surrounding limestone is full of caves, and it was only by tracing coloured dyes that it was ever discovered that this was the hydrological connection. The park has a small trail network, particularly good for birding because the forest canopy is low. This Hummingbird Loop can be walked in an hour or longer for those wanting to linger and see more. As well as the trees. the rich forest contains a wealth of bromeliads, mosses and ferns. more visible than normal because of the steep lay of the land. St. Herman’s Cave \|Posted : Marty Casado - Thu, Dec 7, 2006 12:01 AM. This article has been viewed 9422 times.\| \|Online URL: https://ambergriscaye.com/help/article.php?id=116\| Powered by PHPKB (Knowledge Base Software)
In recent news, the letting go of men from their powerful positions due to sexual harassment charges has prompted women nation-wide to speak out against men who behave badly and unprofessionally at work. These revelations surprised people, but a majority of them, all in all, were not surprised at such rampant perverseness. The use of hashtag- #MeToo has helped women speaking out against sexual harassment. But is its message going to become tepid once the media frenzy is over? And how should we prevent it? In this article, I’d like to share some of my thoughts on this question. The actions taken as the result of #MeToo need to be reinforced, and companies need to enforce penalty and punishing the offenders as their victims come forth. Immediately and in near future, companies need to realize by holding onto those men in high-power, they are actually losing resource and talent. Although, it may seem that these male high-power decision makers are propelling productivity, but as their victims increase, of the women co-workers that also contribute substantially are leaving and finding work elsewhere. In the long term, companies are diminishing power and weakening daily profit. It is not enough to hear just those women who have come forth with their stories, but more importantly to emphasize how extensive damage could is done by just a few destructive men. Among the stories that have recently been disclosed, many women say they have been victimized by the same men. If this is not stressed, just showing the volumes and numbers of women who felt victim, may cause others to think if something is happening on a grand-scale then the stories must have been fabricated and exaggerated, or worse, allow some men to think that it is so commonplace, they might just be the one to get away without penalty. In order to make it a social-change movement with a lasting impacting, it requires majority support, not only just women and victims. Men at work places also need to intervene if they witness unacceptable behaviors taking place. In its current and nascent stage, #MeToo’s impact has not yet become a social norm. Meaning, it has not become a widely-accepted fact that sexual harassment, no matter minor or severe must to be punished. For it to be come a social norm both men and women need to form an alliance. To end, I’ld like to encourage all to work persistently to reduce and eliminate this social injustice and gender inequality. With more women taking on powerful positions, we are more able to avoid being bullied and victimized for sexual harassment. As of today, changes are already happening with more women at workforce than any time in history, and with more female executives than ever before. We are on the right track to not only protect ourselves but to make a social change. As something extra, you may also like to read this article about why you already have the power and knowledge to make the world a better place. (In case, you are still not too sure about your own strength.)
What are the troubleshooting you have tried to fix the issue? Oracle 10g Express Edition Database is a compatible application to install on Windows 8.1. This error message occurs due to the following reasons: - You run the Setup program from a virtual drive created through the subst command. - The driver IDriver.exe is not registered correctly. - The installer Msiexec.exe is not registered correctly. - The user account does not have permission to access the C:\Windows\Installer folder. - An older version of the Windows Installer engine was installed from a network drive that is no longer available. - The user account does not have permission to install software on the computer. - Another instance of Msiexec.exe is running. - Another Windows Installer-based Setup program is running. I would suggest you to rename the Install Script folder on the computer. You can follow the methods accordingly: Method 1: Rename the InstallShield folder. a) In File Explorer , open the following folder: DRIVE \Program Files\Common Files\ b) Right-click the Installshield folder, and then click Rename. c) Type InstallShield1, and then press ENTER. d) Try to install the application. If the problem continues to occur, go to Method 2. Method 2: Locate and then close the files To resolve this problem, locate, and then close the Idriver.exe and Msiexec.exe files. To do this, follow these steps: a) Open the Task Manager. Type task manager on the start screen and click on b) On the Processes tab, locate idriver.exe and c) Select each instance of both processes, and then click End Process. d) Click End Process on each Windows Task Manager window that opens. e) Close the Task Manager. I would suggest you to install the game in clean boot state and check if any other services or programs are leading to this issue. Please follow the link below to boot the computer into clean boot state: “How to perform a clean boot to troubleshoot a problem in Windows Vista, Windows 7, or Windows 8” I tried Method 1 as suggested by you but to no gain. Surprisingly, I do not have any such processes called idriver.exe, & msiexec.exe, running under the processes tab of Task Manager, as suggested by you in Mehod 2. I've not yet tried Method 3, as it is not clear as of now, whether Method 2 should have any positive outcome on my PC, as the said processes do not exist. Please HELP..
Your OB/GYN can start an infertility evaluation but most likely doesn’t have the specialization to do the most up-to-date review – and can’t treat all the problems that may be causing your infertility We’re all familiar with medical specialists. We use them for a spectrum of medical conditions and ailments, from broken bones (orthopedists) to skin rashes (dermatologists). Typically we choose a medical specialist when we have a problem that may be out of the scope of our primary doctor’s care. I am a specialist: an OB/GYN, and I have a sub-specialty board certification in reproductive endocrinology & infertility (REI). National Infertility Awareness Week is April 22-28 this year. So it’s a good time to raise awareness about the importance of identifying infertility as a condition that needs specialized, expert care. That’s why I recommend that those struggling to get pregnant seek out the help of a reproductive endocrinologist or REI. Make an Appointment When a person can’t get pregnant, it is common for that individual to perceive it as a personal shortcoming or failure, even though that’s absolutely not the case. Infertility is a disease that can be managed and treated, just like any other. The first step to acknowledging your infertility as a medical condition is to seek the right kind of help. If your fertility is broken, you would want to see a specialist, wouldn’t you? OB/GYNs have a wider focus of problems they take care of, from pregnancy and delivery to abnormal Pap smears, whereas an REI focuses mainly on diagnosing and treating infertility. The REI designation belongs to an OB/GYN who is further trained as an REI or as a reproductive endocrinologist (much of reproduction is related to the endocrine system that secretes and regulates hormones). “To receive that REI specialization, we OB/GYNs complete an additional three years of training specifically in understanding, diagnosing and treating infertility in all its various forms.” Most of us complete both oral and written Board examinations to become certified in this specialty, which provides additional evidence of quality. It takes seven years of training beyond graduating from medical school, plus a minimum of two more years of collecting cases for examination, to make a board-certified REI. REIs, unlike OB/GYNs, are also required to keep up with infertility research and advances in clinical procedures. To maintain our Board certification status, we must do a series of maintenance activities, which may include a written examination every six years to make sure we’re keeping up. So after all of that, REIs like myself can confidently say: Bring it on, infertility, we’re ready. When is it time to see an REI or reproductive endocrinologist? Here’s the American Society for Reproductive Medicine’s (ASRM’s) guideline for when to seek help for infertility: “The duration of unprotected intercourse with failure to conceive should be about 12 months before an infertility evaluation is undertaken, unless medical history, age, or physical findings dictate earlier evaluation and treatment.” For women older than 35, ASRM and University of Colorado Advanced Reproductive Medicine suggest seeing a specialist after six months of trying. Before you come see anyone about your fertility, you want to make sure you’re doing everything right in the natural reproductive process. But if you are doing things like having intercourse on a regular basis and timing it to predicted ovulation, and still not getting pregnant, then it’s time to bring in professional help. So, do you see an OB/GYN first? Or do you go to a reproductive endocrinologist or an REI for an evaluation? The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says of infertility evaluation, “Your obstetrician–gynecologist (ob-gyn) usually will do the first assessment. You also may choose to see a specialist. Infertility specialists are ob-gyns with special training in evaluating and treating infertility in women and men.” Much of what my fellow OB/GYNs will do in an infertility evaluation is the same as what I would do – at first. OB/GYNs can do a physical exam and talk to the couple about their medical histories. They can test a woman’s ovarian reserve, test for hormone balance and perform imaging procedures as appropriate, including hysteroscopy, hysterosalpingography and laparoscopy. Let’s qualify this by saying that not all OB/GYNs are trained to perform infertility evaluations, and not all want to do infertility evaluations and treatments. In fact, most of my patients are referred to me by OB/GYNs. After speaking with a patient about infertility concerns, most OB/GYNs recognize that a patient will be best served by seeing a specialist for treatment. An REI or reproductive endocrinologist performs these kinds of infertility evaluations all the time. And usually they practice nothing but infertility medicine. They are also aware of the latest research, testing and advances in fertility medicine, which can inform their diagnoses and their recommendations for next steps. REIs’ focused training in infertility makes us best prepared to look for the less than obvious clues of infertility, to put all the pieces of what can often be a puzzle of uncertainties together. About 20 percent of infertility diagnoses are “unexplained infertility,” meaning we can’t pinpoint the cause. An REI can provide guidance based on the very latest information when the way forward is not clear. However, be warned: REIs are not going to deliver your baby once we make a diagnosis and help you get pregnant. In fact, once you have conceived we send you back to your OB/GYN – because they are the specialists in delivering babies. The male factor wildcard Then there’s the guy. It’s a common misconception that women are the primary source of infertility in heterosexual couples. But ASRM states that male factors contribute to half or more of all cases of infertility. The male is the sole cause in 20 percent of infertility cases and a contributing cause in another 30-40 percent. That’s why our practice always wants the male partner in a couple to participate in the infertility evaluation from the start. If I determine that the male is a likely factor, I can conduct a semen analysis to find out more information and pinpoint a cause. An OB/GYN will often refer the male to a urologist for that test. Poor sperm quality is a frequent cause of male infertility, but not the only one. At-home semen analysis tests are available, but we caution that they only consider the one aspect of sperm count. That isn’t enough, and the tests’ sperm count is only a rough estimate anyway, which an andrologist would need to verify under the microscope. We have an andrology lab on site that evaluates male semen. We can tell if there is enough sperm count in the semen. We can evaluate if sperm have adequate movement (motility) to get to that egg in the fallopian tube. We can tell if the sperm have a normal shape (morphology), which affects their ability to fertilize the egg. We can also assess for erectile dysfunction that may prevent the sperm from going anywhere. A reproductive endocrinologist is trained and experienced in all facets of infertility, not just the female part. And with the male playing a role in half or more of all infertility cases, it’s essential that infertility is not designated as solely a women’s health concern. Seeing an REI allows a couple to address all possible sources of infertility from the start, without having to visit multiple doctors. Infertility-focused practice gets you closer to success Research shows that the increased training and focus on infertility of an REI results in fewer mistakes, better communication between doctor and patient, and better outcomes for those who need assisted reproductive technologies. These include the more complicated treatments of in vitro fertilization (IVF), cryopreservation, intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) and others. Those treatments are the things we do all the time – the things we are specifically trained to do. So are infertility evaluations. And practice gets you closer to perfect in reproductive medicine. You can bet that everything I learn in my patient-care experiences and in my never-ending training, I put to use for every one of my patients. While every person’s situation is different, my expertise helps me tackle even the most unique medical and diagnostic challenges. If you’re met with the daunting challenge of infertility, you deserve the latest, evidence-based infertility medicine an REI can bring to your situation. We’re here to partner with you and help you find the right treatment. Because you deserve to have the family you want. You deserve success.
The BC Supreme Court today dismissed the Crown’s appeal of the landmark decision of the Provincial Court of British Columbia in March of 2017, which found that Richard Desautel, a Sinixt descendant and member of the Colville Confederated Tribes in Washington State, had an aboriginal right to hunt in his traditional territory in Canada. In 2010, Mr. Desautel was charged with hunting elk as a non-resident, and without a license, near Castlegar, B.C., which falls within Sinixt traditional territory that stretches north from the Colville Reservation to the area in and around the Arrow Lakes in British Columbia. Following a lengthy trial held in the fall of 2016, Justice Lisa Mrozinski of the BC Provincial Court held that Sinixt hunting rights endured to the present day, notwithstanding a variety of historical forces which contributed to many Sinixt moving south of what is now the international border, and the introduction of legislation to make it illegal for the Sinixt to hunt in Canada. The Crown’s appeal was heard by Justice Robert Sewell in September of 2017. In upholding the decision below, Justice Sewell dismissed the Crown’s arguments that recognizing the Sinixt as an Aboriginal Peoples of Canada would undermine the purposes of section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, and that recognizing Mr. Desautel’s right to hunt would be incompatible with Canadian sovereignty. Mark Underhill and Kate Phipps of Arvay Finlay LLP represented Mr. Desautel in the B.C. Supreme Court.
This is our stories, our voices, our history, some lore, some myths. 60,000 plus years of sunrises, sunsets, journeys. “Dreaming”. In 1770 when Cook first entered Botany Bay with Banks, and the lie of Terra Nullius began, there was anywhere from 300,000 to 1.7 million Aboriginal peoples in over 400 distinct groups, peoples, distinguished by unique names designating their ancestral languages, dialects, music, technology. The beginnings of the Industrial Revolution in England, the American War of Independence, the East India Co. the loss of the American Colonies, and the English need for Masts, Flax and Hemp prompted the arrival in 1788, of Phillip and the First Fleet. This began over 100 years and more of Aboriginal war, disease, convict and others slavery. The Rum Corps, Banks, Bligh, John MacArthur. In 1807 slavery is banned in the British Empire! In Australia, it continued. 1808-1822 Lachlan Macquarie a Scot arrives, change takes hold.
The cars we loved. The late 80’s early 90’s was a great time for sport coupes, especially from Japan. One of the best was the Honda Prelude. Long before the NSX, the Prelude held down the banner of Honda’s sports /GT car. It gradually rose from homely beginnings in 1978 to evolve into an attractive (if not a bit bland) by its third generation in 1988. The 88’ models were a slight evolution of the previous year, with less angularity. More importantly, power was up with two engines as before. The least powerful was a 2.0 SOHC unit with two carburetors and was used in base S models. It produced around 100 hp, almost as much as the 87’ Si. The new Si model used the same 2.0L but with dual overhead cams and Honda’s then new electronic fuel injection system called PGM-FI. The new configuration produced a modest 135 hp. All Preludes retained front wheel drive and the double wishbone independent suspension that allowed it to sport a sleek, rakish front end. The low and wide Prelude would continue with pop up lights, a feature introduced in the second generation cars. Visually, the Prelude looked very much like a slightly lower wider version of the Accord coupe. The Prelude like Honda cars in general were basking with praise from the press and public during the 80’s and 90’s. In some ways an analogy to Apple computers is fitting. The Prelude might not have offered as much power as other coupes, but the high level of quality and thoughtful design made it worth the higher price to many motorists. And like many Apple products, they were of higher quality than of most other competitors. The gap might have been big enough to promote smugness (for Apple ), but Honda continued to improve the Prelude as the rest of the automotive field was rapidly catching up. The Prelude in many ways was the best sports coupe you could buy because like many Honda’s it did so many things well even though it may not have excelled at any particular performance measure. It’s suspension was world-class and allowed the Prelude to match or exceeded slalom figures of far more expensive cars like the Lotus Esprit, Chevrolet Corvette and the occasional entry-level Ferrari. A 1987 Car and Driver test of the 88’ model confirmed as much, establishing the Prelude Si as a performance bargain. Part of this handling ability was attributed to practical uses of technology. Four wheel steering (4WS) turned the rear wheels ever so slightly in the opposite direction of the front to assist in the cornering process. The feature had become one of many technology acronyms making their way on the sides and rear decks of Japanese cars. Like many cars with 15’ wheels, the thinner tires on the Prelude benefited from 4WS, but cars without it performed nearly as well. Stopping was equally important to Prelude performance. An anti lock braking system called ALB by Honda, became an option as well. When fully loaded, a 89’ Si could approach $18,000, making it the most expensive in its class. Despite its cost, the Prelude lacked the flash other sport coupes. Cars like the Berretta, Probe, Eclipse and Celica all looked like they could go faster (and many did), but they lacked the high level of refinement seen in the Prelude. Few chances were taken in the looks department. In a nod to the conservative nature of Honda, many early 3gen Si models came with 15′ wheel covers! The take no chances approach continued inside. As with all Honda cars of the time, the Prelude interior was a straight to business affair, yet among the best in its class. It’s well placed controls were easy to see and reach. Materials and workmanship set standards that many are still aspiring to. The restrained look has worn well when compared to the wildly futuristic look of the Probe GT of the period. A refresh in 1990 changed bumpers and tail lights, giving the Prelude a cleaner look. A new all-aluminum 2.1L engine replaced the old 2.0 to become the standard Si power mill. At 140 hp, it offered more power, better engine response and higher fuel economy than the old engine. Base S models now got fuel injection and produced 5 more horsepower. Restraint was not as noticeable when driving the Prelude hard. Although it may have been underpowered next to turbocharged and V6 competition, it handled curves and bumps with a sophistication that could only come from a double wishbone setup. The light weight (around 2600 pounds) combined with the engines smooth power delivery, made the Si the most fun to drive on all types of road surfaces. America for the most part had only two models to choose from, but a special edition car called the SiStates was briefly made available in here. This formally Japanese market only model had its own engine, a 145 hp version of the 2.0. In addition to a leather wrapped steering wheel, it featured more sound deadening and insulation. All SiStates model came with ABS, 4WS and a limited slip differential. The Prelude has gone upmarket with each new generation, but before the NSX arrived in 1990, the Prelude was the best handling car from Honda (sorry CRX fans). At about the same time the Prelude went into a holding pattern. Although performance (and price) went up, it was no longer the leader in its segment. It remained a well-built and refined sport coupe, but was priced out of the market for most coupe buyers. The third generation cars represent the Prelude at its lightest and most comfortable. They are a good compromise between the rawness of earlier cars and the plushness of newer ones, with Honda quality and reliability. The mechanical sophistication of these cars has made them popular with tuners and those looking for an economical fun to drive second car. Good examples are becoming rare, as rust and abuse have taken its toll on the available stock. Happy hunting.
Text: Mark 10:46-52 Then Jesus said to him, “What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man said to him, “My teacher, let me see again.” What an odd question to ask a blind man. Isn’t it obvious what he wants most in all the world? Or is it? Were you confronted by Jesus—or whatever you consider as the source of life and the home of new hope—what might you want him or it to do for you? What is an obvious need, yearning or hope about your life? What is not so obvious to the others and even to yourself? Sit on the floor with eyes closed and be Bartimaeus begging by the roadside. Cry out for mercy. Be still and ask yourself what it is you want. What is it you want that could make the difference, turn your life around, fill you with “eternal life” rather than what is expensive but hollow? – Bill Dols - Vanderbilt Library: Art in the Christian Tradition - Biblical Art on the WWW
We are introduced first to Jennie, an adult adopted from Korea in the ’70s. As she struggles with the impending death of her mother from brain cancer, Jennie also struggles with her identity. Having grown up with parents who were taught to be “color-blind,” and who still stress that they don’t see her as Korean, Jennie feels splintered. She is American, but not. Korean, but not. Part of her family, but not. A particular poignant moment occurs when she does a lot of research into her father’s genealogy and brings him to the Sons of the Revolution, where due to an ancestor, he’s invited to join. Women descendants can join Daughters of the American Revolution, a representative tells them. Then he clarifies: biological descendants. Jennie tries to engage her parents in her struggle, asking her mother what she thinks of her birth mother and bringing her father to a Korean restaurant, but they don’t get it. Jennie’s story is a great example of how the racial and cultural identity of an adopted child cannot be ignored, and must be taken on by the entire family. As Jennie says, it is not simply that she is an Asian daughter, it is that they are a transracial family. The second family is at the beginning of their journey. They are a couple who struggled with infertility and are now adopting a little girl from China. The difference on their approach is almost night and day. They are intentional about bringing Chinese culture into their home–even going so far as to have Chinese/English videos to show Roma. Although they live in NH, which is predominantly white, they are making an attempt to have a diverse group of friends. Roma’s aunt adopted two boys from China, so she will have cousins who look like her as well. While Roma seems to have adjusted perfectly, her parents are aware of the loss and trauma she’s suffered, and know that someday that might be something they all have to deal with. Overall, I think this film paints a realistic picture of transracial adoption. There’s a good balance achieved by showing a family who is adopting as well as the perspective of an adult adoptee. Certainly the perspective is skewed towards what “should” be done, but not in an overbearing way. While every adoptee deals with the trauma and loss and identity issues differently, I think Jennie’s story in particular provides some good food for thought for anyone adopting a child of another race/ethnicity/culture than their own. I definitely recommend this film for anyone who is or who has adopted transracially, or even is a member of such a family.
When you're on the move it's important to be able to access mobile signal to help you stay in touch. Thankfully, we're making that a lot easier... Take a look back through the virtual pages of Vodafone Social and you’ll see a fair few examples of how our network team is bringing signal to difficult places to keep you, our customers, better connected. From high speed trains to Europe’s tallest building, our engineers have innovative ways of bringing you more and better coverage and now we’ve got a few extra places and improvements to tell you about. We’ve been building on our current services and adding new ones, but there’s one thing that all our latest developments have in common: travel. Whether you’re a London commuter or a weekend channel-hopper, we’re helping you to make the most of your mobile on the move. Read on for the full details… Whether you’re on your way to France or venturing further afield you can now get a full 2G and 3G Vodafone service in the Eurotunnel. Vodafone customers will now be able to access our network when travelling through the North Running Tunnel, meaning that anyone heading from Folkestone to Calais via Eurotunnel will be able to makes calls, send texts and browse the web throughout the length of the journey under the English Channel. “20 million people shoot through the Eurotunnel between the UK and mainland Europe every year…” 20 million people shoot through the Eurotunnel between the UK and mainland Europe every year, with the trains hitting speeds of up to 100mph along more than 30 miles of track, and all 100 metres under sea level. All of that means bringing reliable, consistent signal to the tunnel is no mean feat, but this is just the start: we’re planning to bring our ultrafast 4G to the tunnel in the future too. You’ll be on the Vodafone UK network all the way through the tunnel, switching to roaming services when the train surfaces in France, at which point you’ll be able to take advantage of our EuroTraveller offer, giving you access to your UK minutes, texts and mobile data for a low flat fee per day. There’s more on that story here. We first announced the availability of free access for Vodafone customers to Virgin Media’s London Underground WiFi service back in 2012, and since then we’ve been continuing to improve the experience for our users. We’ve now introduced new tech behind the scenes to make accessing the service easier for Vodafone UK customers. Up until recently, to use the London Underground WiFi service, Vodafone customers had to sign in with their My Vodafone credentials in order to connect, but our new system simplifies things and just means you need to switch your WiFi connection on. “No more forms; just free WiFi to get your phone or tablet connected at 137 London Underground stations…” Using new SIM-based tech, once your device’s WiFi is switched on, the network will detect that you’ve got a Vodafone UK SIM and will instantly connect you when your device is ‘awake’ and within range. That means no more forms; just free WiFi to get your phone or tablet connected at the 137 (and counting) London Underground stations now enabled with WiFi. All the info about the London Underground Wi-Fi service you can access as a Vodafone customer is available here. There’s more to come from us on the transport front as our network engineers continue to develop new, innovative ways of keeping you connected throughout the day, so stay tuned for the latest stories. The science bit… It’s not just transportation networks that can require a special approach to providing mobile coverage. Check out our backstage look at how we brought signal to The Shard, Europe’s tallest building.
I have planned to dedicate some of my posts on ADO.NET and its future. I planned on the writing posts on new features of ADO.NET 2.0 and then slowly move to the LINQ and Entity Framework. Lets start with the features one by one, today I am going to talk about the cool feature on the “Server Enumeration”. This helps us to find out the list of available servers from our local network accessible to us. The small piece of code the does the magic, DataTable dt = new DataTable(“NewTab”); //Gets the List of available SQL databases in DataTable dt = SqlDataSourceEnumerator.Instance.GetDataSources(); This is really helpful when you create utility tool for quick data access.
The Women in Engineering Group at Bohler isn’t your typical affinity group. This initiative brings together the industry’s brightest women and empowers them to create positive change. Initiated and driven by our leadership team, the Women in Engineering (WIE) group is aimed at ensuring Bohler is the best choice for women in a historically male-dominated industry. The mission of WIE is to recruit, retain and develop women in engineering across our footprint. We offer members of WIE a variety of networking and professional development opportunities, as well as direct access to leadership. Here are some examples of the great things we are doing: - Connecting network of women engineers to learn, share experiences and best practices - Community service focused on Women in Engineering - Pairing women with executive-level mentors - Events that include things like group coaching and speakers from the commercial real estate industry - Identifying opportunities for our organization to improve and implementing solutions - Engaging men in the conversation Keep up with what we’re talking about in our WIE group meetings. We’re raising our girls to be perfect, and we’re raising our boys to be brave, says Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls who Code… If architect and writer John Cary has his way, women will never need to stand in pointlessly long bathroom lines again…
Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) breeding habitat use in northern Sweden Journal article, Peer reviewed MetadataShow full item record Original versionPedersen, Å. Ø., Blanchet, M.-A. E., Willebrand, M. H., Jepsen, J. U., Biuw, E. M., & Fuglei, E. (2013). Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) breeding habitat use in northern Sweden. Journal of Ornithology. doi: 10.1007/s10336-013-1001-0 10.1007/s10336-013-1001-0 Alpine and arctic tundra regions are likely to retract as a result of climate warming and concerns have been raised over the status of the Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus muta). In Fennoscandia, the Rock Ptarmigan has low population abundance, and predictions based on harvest statistics show population declines throughout the range. In this study, we used a long-term opportunistic dataset of Rock Ptarmigan observations, environmental predictors derived from a digital vegetation map and a digital elevation model to describe the breeding distribution at three different ecological scales. Patterns of spatial distribution were similar across all the three study scales. The presence of permanent snow-fields positively influenced the occurrence of Rock Ptarmigan at the territory and landscape scale. Open vegetation, rock-dominated areas and, in particular, dry heath influenced Rock Ptarmigan presence positively at all scales. Altitude and terrain heterogeneity were important variables at all scales, with higher probabilities of Rock Ptarmigan being present at intermediate altitude ranges, with a high degree of terrain heterogeneity. This is the first study to describe Rock Ptarmigan breeding distribution in Fennoscandia and our findings yield new insights into the environmental variables that are important for the spatial distribution of Rock Ptarmigan during the breeding season. When planning conservation efforts, this information should be used to inform management regarding the protection of core areas and buffer zones related to the conservation and harvest management of the Rock Ptarmigan. This is the postprint version of the article. The published article can be located at www.springerlink.com
By Jessica Wiegandt Environmental Studies senior Kaylee Smith was steadily working on her senior project for BC when Hurricane Irma hit Florida and caused her research to be quite literally washed away. Her project, focused on mangroves, was scrapped for a second time during the semester. Smith’s project now is studying the impacts of sea level rise on the mangrove forests in Southwest Fl. “I researched and found what the projected sea level rise will be for that area by ‘x’ number of years,” Smith said. Her research found by 2020 the level would increase by one foot. “By 2060 it’ll be two feet, and 2100 it’ll be three,” Smith said, “So I used a computer mapping program, GIS [Geographic Information System], and downloaded data. It was a different data layer per sea level rise, and I layered those data files to see the change on a map,” Smith said. The layered map revealed how much land will be lost in acreage as sea levels continue to rise within the clipped region Smith selected. She chose her course of study based on a research internship she had this past summer at the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Naples, Fl. “It’s in that region of the 10,000 islands, which are all actually 10,000 small mangrove islands along the coastline,” Smith said, “And that’s where there are the most amount of mangrove forests, which I wanted to study the amount of mangrove forests lost by the land lost in sea level rise.” Smith said her research showed that in 85 years, almost 500,000 acres will be lost just in the one region she studied due to climate change. “That’s not to say 500,000 acres of mangrove forests will be lost,” Smith said, “Because they can withstand some submersion but there’s no set number of height of submersion a mangrove can take before it drowns. It depends on their environment and adaptations.” Regardless of ability to withstand taking on some water, full submersion of mangrove forests for extended periods of time will result in the loss of natural land protectants. Smith is conducting her research to be utilized by the Rookery Bay Research Reserve, where the site can know more about the effects coming in the near future due to climate change. “They’ll be able to use this to back them up in research they are currently conducting,” Smith said. “I became interested in this when I was there this summer [at the reserve], helping install the beginnings of the sentinel site program.” The sentinel site program is being put on in all 28 research reserves across the nation to measure the different impacts of climate change. “Rookery Bay is one of those research reserves and it’ll have a sea level gauge, salinity water tester, a rain gauge, just to measure all the impacts of climate change in that area,” Smith said, “And then that data can be compared across the board from the different sites.” Smith’s work with organizing the sentinel site arrangement allowed her to discover a passion for working with people and less with research. “This summer I learned a lot about what I don’t want to do,” Smith said. “But what I was doing was valuable work.” The sentinel site program allows for an initiative where communication of research and monitoring between scientists and research managers is effective and educating the public about local and global impacts is a priority. Smith’s senior project is almost completed for BC, all she has left is a presentation and a cumulative paper. “I don’t really know how much farther my study could go,” Smith said, “My original plans both didn’t work out.” Smith originally had planned to measure health in mangrove forests by studying the DBH (Diameter at Breast Height) of different mangrove trees in a certain section to assess growth while she was in Naples this summer. “While I was down there, though, I ended up just not doing that project,” Smith said, “So when I got back to school in the fall, I had to redesign a project I could do from here while communicating with the reserve.” This second project was a manual the research center could use in the meeting where the decision for the location for the next sentinel site would be made. “That meeting was supposed to happen in September,” Smith said, “I was going to create a map that would show sea level rise in regard for the potential sentinel site locations, and then Hurricane Irma happened and it wiped out everything.” Rookery Bay was “off the radar,” according to Smith, and her opportunity for research and communication with the site in Fl. was no longer an option. “I couldn’t get any information from then so I had to start over again, and at that point, I only had about three weeks to get together a concept for my senior project,” Smith said. Smith still hasn’t had a lot of contact with Rookery Bay, so she is researching and creating a plan based on what she believes will be the most useful and applicable for the research center. “It’s kind of funny because my original question for my project was ‘What are the impacts of sea level rise on mangrove forests?’ which is actually what my title is now,” Smith said. “Everyone, including Dr. Cabin, said it was too vague of a question and it’s a 20-year study, which it is, but I’m doing it by means of making map projections.” Smith has been able to incorporate her hardships with climate change and natural disasters in her research. “In my project, I’m talking about the importance of mangrove forests, mainly how important they are for climate change resiliency,” Smith said, “They stabilize the shorelines and help protect us from intense storms and they maintain sea level rise.” According to Smith, the surges experienced during Hurricane Irma along the coastline would have been much higher without the prominent work from the mangrove forests. Smith will conclude her research on this topic when the semester comes to a close. “Unless they reschedule the meeting that was supposed to happen in September, where everyone will fly in and discuss the new sentinel sites, I’m done with this research,” Smith said. “The Sentinel site project has currently been put on hold because at the moment they’re cleaning things like mobile homes out of their bay from the hurricane. But if there’s a meeting in spring, I’ll pick the research back up.” Eventually, Smith would like to work in the field of marine conservation. “I used to think I just wanted to get my master dive certification and travel and work on different conservation projects and eventually go to grad school,” Smith said, “Now I’ve thought a little more about it and I think I want to go to design school for art and combine what I know about the environment and be able to get into environmental design.” Smith said the idea of design school is a new one for her and she is unsure what her future will entail. “Mainly I just want to get into environmental conservation. Climate change is real,” Smith said, “I’ll eventually go to grad school and study something that will make a difference.”
Free eBook to help you write novels that readers will love. This free ebook will show you how to write in a way that will keep readers reading until the last page.Read now... What are the most popular book genres to write if you are serious about landing a book deal? Is there even such a thing as 'best book genre'? The premise of this article is that the more popular the book genre, the more books that are published and the higher the chance of you landing a book deal. The evidence for this article is all based on a Harris Interactive report based on US reading habits. It appears that, of the people who buy at least one book a year, 8 out of 10 buy a fiction book. Great, fiction must be the best book genre… but wait. It is also the case that out of the same group of people, 8 out of 10 will also buy a non-fiction book. OK, good news I suppose, suggesting that fiction and non-fiction are equally popular in the fight for best book genre. I am a bit skeptical, but let’s plow on. This is a bit more straightforward... of the people buying at least one fiction book a year, just under half (48%) buy what is classed as mystery, thriller, and crime. This is a pretty broad spectrum but gives us some indication of buying trends. Yet, I suspect this will be no surprise. The figure did leave me wondering if mega-writers such as Dan Brown altered buying habits. For example, how many people bought Dan Brown because he is a best seller, but not because they are a fan of his book genre? The same goes for J.K. Rowling, I bet a lot of readers buy Harry Potter but no other fantasy. The second most popular book genre was science fiction with 26% of readers buying sci-fi books. Literature was close on its heels with 24%. Romance is worthy of a mention with 21% of the market. So for non-fiction, of the people buying at least one fiction book a year, the biggest selling book genre was history, perhaps no surprise, with 31% of the market. A close second was biographies with 29% of sales. In third place, was religious and spirituality with 26%, though I suspect this percentage will be smaller outside the US. The remainder of the marketplace was split between self-help, current affairs, true crime, business and ‘other non-fiction'. For me, the surprises in non-fiction were the fact that self-help made up just 16% of sales and business a measly 10%. My instinct prior to reading this survey was that these would both sell more. The survey also seems to not include textbooks and educational books. My thoughts are that this report simply doesn’t give us enough data to make a definitive decision on which is the 'best book genre'. Clearly for fiction, writing ‘mystery, thriller, and crime’ will give you a bigger fan base and more potential book deals. The same is true for history in non-fiction. Yet, this is a dangerous approach. So many factors go into securing a book deal that simply picking a book genre because it has the biggest market is a little bit silly. Your route to publication also matters, be that self-publishing or traditional publishings. They are both different animals with different rules. If nothing else passion for a particular book genre goes a long way. I can use myself as an example of an alternative approach. I write children’s history books, with a target audience aged 9-12, and a focus on reluctant readers. Yes, this pigeon holes me and yes it cuts down the readership, but it does allow me to work closely with my agent, whilst developing good relationships with publishers who are interested in this book genre.
Definition: While media often depicts the apocalypse as a sudden and dramatic event, the Ennuipocalypse, or Slowpocalypse (slang) offers the concept of a doomsday that occurs at an excruciatingly slow day to day time scale. Slow Ennuipocalypse, may occur in a geologic blink of an eye, but for the Homo Sapiens in urban/suburban settings who are often disconnected from the natural cycles— it is painfully boring. As a result of the perceived slow pace of the apocalypse or Slow Ennuipocalypse those who live through it feel a compulsion to distract themselves with ever faster technology, media and economic systems— all of which feed back into a disconnect from the pace of the natural systems we need to survive. Usage: Edgar escaped into his instagram account to distract himself from the news reports about the epic California drought that he had been listening to for four years straight. Origin: Mike Arcega and Field Study #007 Participants, August 2015. Derived from: Slow: Old English had slawian “intransitive” Ennui: To bore, Old French enui “annoyance, bore” Apocalypse: 14th century Church Latin apocalypsis “revelation”, used in the modern sense of a “a great disaster”
One final point from Wheels, Life and Other Mathematical Amusements– this time a “non-proof”. Some argue that the order of the counting numbers, is the same as that of the continuum – in other words that there is no difference in the scale of these two infinities. Here is an argument that is sometimes advanced in this way, I found it initially seductive, but the proof it is wrong is actually very simple. We simple assign an integer to every member of the continuum by “reversing” its order so, for instance: And so on… So what is the proof that this isn’t a proof that destroys Georg Cantor‘s work and rocks modern mathematics to its foundations? Well, in essence it is a restatement, in a slightly different way, of our old friend the diagonalisation argument. No matter how long this list goes on for no number on the left hand side will ever have digits. Hence no number on the right will ever represent an irrational. Hence it is impossible to assign a counting number to all the members of the set of the continuum. Think of – there could never be enough counting numbers to represent this as a decimal, as there will always be another 3 to add on at the end… Don’t think about it too hard, though, as it bends the mind! - Another way of looking at the alephs (cartesianproduct.wordpress.com) - The wheels of Aristotle (cartesianproduct.wordpress.com) - How Big is Infinity? (thequantumfantastic.wordpress.com) - Patching A Diagonalization (rjlipton.wordpress.com) - There’s almost more Cantor crackpottery! (scientopia.org)
All About CISPA A BRIEF HISTORY OF CISPA The California ISP Association (CISPA) was founded in January 2000 in response to a need to protect the rights of independent Internet service providers to have access to the publicly-regulated networks of the former Bell telephone companies. These network access rights were a requirement outlined in the 1996 Telecommunications Act and enforced by the FCC and state regulatory agencies. Initially involved in DSL line-sharing issues and interconnection policies, CISPA then initiated a formal regulatory with the California PUC regarding SBC’s business practices in providing wholesale DSL transport to ISP’s. The complaint ended in a settlement in August 2003, with SBC agreeing to change a variety of processes for provisioning and providing DSL transport. As the largest state ISP association in the U.S., CISPA has expanded its member services beyond the regulatory and legislative focus to provide services that impact an ISP’s business and help protect the rights of residential and business customers to choose the type of Internet service that best fits their needs. Member services now include preferred vendor programs, seminars and conferences, online peer forums and regulatory and legislative advocacy. CISPA continues to focus on network access issues such as DSL, cable system access, wireless spectrums and “naked DSL,” plus emerging technology issues such as VoIP, spam, privacy and security. ORGANIZATIONAL PROFILE OF CISPA The California ISP Association (CISPA) provides California ISPs with a unified voice to address business, legislative and technology issues. CISPA gives ISPs a forum to ensure the success and growth of their businesses. Independent ISPs and the vendors that service the ISP industry will survive and grow only if they band together to bring business and regulatory benefits to the ISP industry as a whole. CISPA’s organizational focus is to bring immediate business benefits to its members while working on longer term legislative and regulatory issues that currently impact or may impact ISPs. Most recently, CISPA’s regulatory efforts have included issues such as DSL, the UNE platform, interconnection agreements, spam and electronic privacy. Additional issues such as broadband wireless and VoIP are also becoming increasingly important for ISPs looking at new service offerings and revenue diversity. CISPA delivers value to its members by providing business benefits that have an immediate impact on an ISP’s balance sheet.
The “dacha,” or country cottage, is a cultural institution in Russia. The tradition began during the Soviet Union when dachas were given as rewards to good workers. Dachas play an important role in providing food for the Russian table. During lean times, Russians can always count on the food they grow and preserve at their dachas. The classical Russian childhood includes summer vacations to family dachas, spent playing with other dacha children and members of the extended family. Seedlings. (By @ryantbell) For a month this spring I lived with the Poshvin Family in Voronezh, Russia. In addition to having adorable boys, they're terrific gardeners. Here, Tanya (@poshvinatatiana) transfers seedlings into their own containers. Man, I miss her cooking (and playing ping pong with Sergey). See more pictures about gardening and dacha life in this post for Fulbright-National Geographic (link also in bio): on.natgeo.com/1s4zCaB #russia #russiancuisine #gardening #seedlings #seedstarting #voronezh #russia #воронеж #vrn #россия #дача @natgeoyourshot #fulbright #natgeo @natgeofoods Today, many Russian cities have expanded, enveloping what used to be separate dacha communities inside city borders. The trend in suburban home building is to bring the dacha into the city, with expansive backyards that have a cottage-like feel. Read the full story: Photo Essay: Dacha Season Kicks Off in the Russian Countryside Ryan Bell is a Fulbright-National Geographic Fellow traveling through Russia and Kazakhstan. He’s reporting about food topics for The Plate, and his travel adventures for Voices. You can also follow him on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Storify.
Categories: Architecture, Bristol, Connecticut History Day 2017, Hartford, Historic Preservation, Women Emily Holcombe Pioneered to Preserve Connecticut’s Colonial Past Emily Seymour Goodwin Holcombe was an activist and preservationist who took pride in the state’s history, particularly its colonial past. From the 1890s through the early 20th century, Holcombe organized numerous preservation efforts, including the restoration of Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground and the preservation of Connecticut’s Old State House. Born in Bristol in 1852, Holcombe spent her youth in Brooklyn Heights, New York, surrounded by numerous relocated Connecticut natives who came to New York in search of new opportunities. Her heart was never far from Connecticut, however, and she often spent her summers back in Bristol. Holcombe’s Early Preservation Efforts The preservation efforts she undertook as an adult stemmed from a popular cultural movement known as the Colonial Revival. The Colonial Revival was an American response to the rapid change brought on by industrialization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It encouraged appreciation for what citizens of that age imagined were simpler times and sought to “Americanize” a rapidly diversifying population through exposure to a re-incarnation of the country’s moral and patriotic roots. In 1892, Holcombe organized the Ruth Wyllys Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), serving as its regent until 1903. In 1896, the chapter voted to restore Hartford’s Ancient Burying Ground. Through the DAR, Holcombe managed to raise enough funds not only to preserve the cemetery but also to demolish some surrounding buildings and widen Gold Street, which ran past the graveyard. 20th-century Preservation Efforts Holcombe’s preservation efforts moved into the 20th century when, in 1903, a descendant of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth of Windsor donated his house to the DAR. Holcombe led the effort to equip the house with antique furniture. The following year, she helped create the Connecticut Building at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. More than just saving buildings, Holcombe concerned herself with shaping Connecticut’s identity. As part of this effort, she lobbied to change the state’s nickname from the Nutmeg State to the Constitution State. Her concern over the state’s image also led her to one of her most famous projects, the preservation of Connecticut’s Old State House. In 1909, with the building targeted for demolition to make way for a new business project, Holcombe helped save the Old State House by raising funds and arguing the importance of the building as an historic asset. Emily Holcombe died in Hartford in 1923, soon after the restoration of the chambers in the Old State House reached its completion. Fittingly, by special vote of the Hartford City Council, she was laid to rest in the Ancient Burying Ground. Her contributions to the preservation of Connecticut’s cultural heritage, along with the strides she made in giving women a voice in the public sphere, also resulted in the state honoring her memory by naming the Old State House’s education center the Emily Seymour Goodwin Holcombe Center.
Rank and organization: Corporal, Battery H, 3d New York Light Artillery. Place and date: At Washington, N.C., 6 September 1862. Entered service at: Madison, N.Y. Birth: Madison, N.Y. Date of issue: 24 April 1896. Took command of a gun (the lieutenant in charge having disappeared) and fired the same so rapidly and effectively that the enemy was repulsed, although for a time a hand_to_hand conflict was had over the gun. This data was extracted from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Senate, Medal of Honor Recipients: 1863-1973 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973)
Submitted by Marion Herbert on Mon, 08/06/2012 - 6:52am A more well-rounded curriculum with less focus on a single test. Higher academic standards and more difficult classwork. Continued cuts to extracurricular and other activities because of the tough economy. Submitted by Marion Herbert on Mon, 07/23/2012 - 10:47pm In 2010 the Hawaii Department of Education formed two “zones of school innovation,”one on the Leeward Coast of Oahu and the other in the Kau-Pahoa region of Hawaii island, in hopes of providing the state’s lowest-performing schools with intensive help.
25th Anniversary Issue: Promotions, DM Join For Better TargetingUntil a few years ago, direct marketing used sales promotion as a tactic: "And if you act now, we'll include a free set of steak knives!" Sales promotion used DM as a medium, offering business reply cards to make it easier for consumers to mail in their sweepstakes. As the disciplines interacted, sales promotion practitioners learned it was not always financially feasible to take the shotgun approach to reach a target audience. It became clear that a more direct marketing approach - targeted, relevant and accountable - was needed. Let's look at examples of how sales promotion has evolved to be more like direct marketing. Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was initiated in 1924 to create awareness for the store's holiday offerings. For many years, it served to pre-empt the competition and established Macy's as the Christmas headquarters. Big, broad and bold, the parade remains an iconic kickoff to the holiday season. It's relevant, but not targeted - and definitely not accountable, except in the broadest sense at the cash register. In the 1950s, Stanley Arnold revolutionized the sales promotion industry by offering outrageous and wonderful sweepstakes prizes in promotions for his packaged-goods clients. Many of them were extremely successful, mainly because a company could require a purchase to enter a sweepstakes back then. For example, Gillette customers who bought a specified blade were entered to win a share of stock from every company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. It's interesting to note that great prizes, along with lots of chances to win, remain key to developing successful sweepstakes. Largely because of Arnold's success, marketers today must offer an alternative means of entry - "No Purchase Necessary!" Cracker Jack pioneered the "alternative means" to give consumers a write-in way to get the same game pieces that were packed inside the brand's product. Database Changes Everything Sales promotion had yet to be more targeted or accountable. The discipline even started losing relevance for consumers and instead became a means for marketers to help drive display within grocery stores. Run a sweepstakes, advertise it and buyers would give you an end-aisle display. Sales went up, thanks largely to the displays. But sales promotion was still big and broad. In 1981, United Airlines introduced its Mileage Plus program, and the electronic database became forever ingrained in the sales promotion lexicon. Other airlines followed, along with hotels and restaurants. The beauty of data-driven programs is that they create an audience that essentially opted to receive marketing messages. United, and the entire sales promotion industry, finally had a way to measure success beyond the cash register. Some sales promotions are so intuitive to a brand's personality that they reach consumers in a way that transcends traditional strategies. "Guinness Win Your Own Pub in Ireland" touched on the essence of the brand and reinforced its relationship with the Emerald Isle. Barq's Root Beer's "Russia Is Going Out of Business Sale" gave away surplus Russian goods just as our great Cold War foe was going under, firmly establishing Barq's (albeit temporarily) as a quirky, fun soft drink brand. Unlike Guinness, however, the Barq's promotion could not easily be duplicated the following year. Technology Helps Targeting Technology has helped marketers target consumers and manage accountability in even more relevant ways. In 2000, Ericsson (now Sony Ericsson) and AT&T Wireless introduced a new cell-phone design by reaching out to current heavy users with a direct mail game piece designed as a replica of the new phone. The phone contained an optical sensor and an LED screen. Consumers watched a special optically encoded commercial on ABC's "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" and, just by pointing the game piece phones at the TV screen, learned whether they won. Sales promotions also have become more relevant because marketers have developed many more customer contact points - stores, events, online, on the street, wherever a targeted message can be delivered. Just look at the proliferation of magazines and cable TV channels and you can appreciate the means and the difficulties that marketers face in reaching consumers with promotions that really touch home. Room still exists for the broad, far-reaching effort. But even big games like Burger King's recent "Spider-Man 2" movie tie-in need something to ground them and make them relevant to their diverse audiences. The borrowed interest of a successful property does this. Offering many chances to win does this. And, of course, offering exciting prizes does this. I think we will continue to learn from DM as we develop the roles of data and analytics in sales promotion planning. As audiences grow more divergent and marketers look for ways to differentiate their promotions, it will keep sales promotion firmly in the driver's seat for some time.
Variable Content Promotions: A Printer's PrimerThe Internet's interactivity has spawned a new type of customer who is not merely accustomed to personalization, but who demands it. This new customer has less patience for being "mass marketed to" and expects companies to know and present him with what he, personally, is interested in. Marketers who speak directly to the needs of this customer will raise response rates, boost brand loyalty and realize increased return on marketing investments. Concurrently, technology for the printing industry has undergone profound changes. Digital printing has evolved to where it closely approximates the quality of traditional four-color process offset printing. Advances in variable-printing software let marketers change images and text based on each individual customer's profile. Now, not only can marketers speak one-to-one with each customer, they can produce professional-looking pieces while they do it. Best of all, because highly personalized promotional pieces return a higher response rate and are now cost-effective, these efforts yield a higher ROI. Here are some popular ways that DMers use cost-effective variable printing in their campaigns: · More testing. Because the economics of digital printing are so favorable, marketers are segmenting the list in more ways and changing variables more frequently to test different targeted approaches. They're also using high-impact images more frequently to catch the attention of prospects. · Creating personalized brochures using interactive campaigns. Car dealerships, for example, send customers to customized URLs where they fill out information about their "dream" cars. Each customer then gets a high-quality brochure featuring a striking photo of the car they designed. · Combining it with customized URLs and e-mail to create invitational - as opposed to intrusive - interactive campaigns. To create a fun atmosphere and build booth traffic at a trade show, one marketer developed a direct mail piece featuring a selection of candy and chips. The piece invited prospects to sign up for their snacks of choice at customized URL sites, where they also were asked to provide profiling information. The targets then got a follow-up e-mail reminding them that their snacks were waiting at the booth. However, using variable-content marketing with digital printing requires forethought in design and strategy. A marketer must consider many elements, such as the condition of his database, the business rules that will be established and creative considerations. The database. In-house databases are likely to contain a wealth of relevant information on customers' purchasing history, interests and other data that could be used to develop variable content. Though data in rented lists are more general, information such as geographic location, gender or SIC codes could be used to create a campaign with some degree of personalization. Regardless of the types or combinations of lists used, it's important that they are cleaned as best as possible before sending them to the printer. Because most problems occur with in-house databases, it makes sense for the corporate IT professional to speak with the printer about the appropriate list format before the database is created. Likewise, it's wise to provide files in a simple and widely compatible format, such as comma-delimited ASCII text files, rather than Excel files. Business rules. Another major consideration is determining the "business rules" - or what will be variable - for the mailing and communicating them to the printer. The printer should be briefed on the promotion's strategy and purpose so he can make suggestions or catch potential problems. Also, establishing upfront a "proofing database" - a subset of the data that includes all combinations expected to appear in the final run - will help when it comes to proofing variable-content output. Creative considerations. Designing for digital printing devices as well as for variable content differs from designing for four-color offset presses. Here are suggestions that will smooth the printing process: · Don't worry about designing with toner on a fold line. The most sophisticated digital output devices on the market press small toner molecules into the paper at such high heat that the toner on the crease won't crack after it's scored. · Define black as 100 percent black. Don't use rich black or super black. · Expect PMS colors to look like the CMYK equivalent. · Don't use very small knockout type because it isn't always clear, particularly if you are knocking out type from a PMS-equivalent color. · Try to avoid large areas of flat tints. Add texture to a large area of color or consider using a duo-toned image. Avoid pastels and gradients because they don't reproduce well on digital printing devices. Using variable imaging and data techniques available only through digital printing, marketers can create more relevant, targeted campaigns. They can increase response rates exponentially and cost-effectively, as well as enhance relationships with customers. Working closely with the printer during the planning and implementation of these campaigns will guarantee smooth mailing.
Bikers have a rap for being pretty rad, but nobody is too cool for school – motorcycle school, that is. Learn more about motorcycle rider education and decide if you should hit the books before you hit the road. Motorcycle Rider Education Curriculum Most motorcycle rider education programs divide into two broad categories: - A basic course for new bikers. - An advanced course for seasoned riders. In a basic motorcycle education course, you will learn all about your new ride. Some common topics covered include: - Overview of types of motorcycles and their distinguishing features. - Risk awareness and safety concerns. - Protective motorbike gear. - Pre-ride bike inspection. - Routine maintenance. - Basic riding skills such as motorcycle controls, operation, and signaling. - Safe riding strategies such as positioning, visibility, braking, and swerving. Advanced Riding Courses An advanced motorcycle rider education course reviews a seasoned biker’s knowledge and provides the most up-to-date strategies and tips for safe, effective driving. These courses might cover any of the following topics: - Mental processing for motorcyclists. - Physical aspects of biking. - Risk management. - Increasing visibility. - Optimal lane positioning. - Rider responsibility. - Motorcycle inspection and care. - Effects of alcohol on motorcycle driving. Motorcycle School Supplies If you decide to enroll in a motorcycle education course, what should you bring? Many programs for basic riders provide motorcycles for use during the training. Often, more advanced courses require bikers to bring their own set of wheels. Beyond the bike, you’ll want to bring: - A helmet. - Eye protection (i.e. goggles, glasses or a helmet face shield). - A long sleeved shirt or jacket. - Full fingered gloves. - Long pants. - Sturdy, non-canvas footwear that covers your ankles. Benefits of Biker School Many states require bikers to complete a motorcycle education course prior to obtaining their motorcycle permit, endorsement, or license. Often, states requiring motorcycle rider education insist that bikers take a state-approved or state-operated motorcycle safety course. In other states, completion of a motorcycle rider education course allows a biker to waive the driving skills portion of a motorcycle permit or license test. Other states don’t require motorcycle education at all, but encourage bikers to complete a course to enhance their skills and knowledge. Because state rules and regulations for motorcycle licensing vary widely, consult your local motor vehicle agency for the requirements in your area. Regardless of whether or not your state requires you to complete a course, motorcycle rider education is a wise investment. When you complete a motorcycle rider education course, you might enjoy any number of benefits, depending upon your state’s rules and regulations: - Completion of a required step in your licensing process. - Option to forego the skills test of a licensing exam. - Discounts on your motorcycle insurance. - Increased knowledge of your ride. - More nuanced biking skills. - Enhanced understanding of safe riding practices. - Greater confidence behind the handlebars. A motorcycle rider education often represents a significant investment of time, energy and money. With so much to gain, though, the benefits might be well worth the costs. Research your state’s requirements and suggestions and decide if you’re ready to get schooled. Bikers: Tell us about your motorcycle rider education experience. What did you learn? Would you recommend the course to a new road warrior?
Requirements By Age \|\|Apply for Class CP Learner's Permit \|\|Take Driver's Education \|\|Complete forty (40) hour of Driving \|\|Apply for Class D Inter- \|\|Apply for Full Class C License \|\|18 and Older This chart represents the process you may have to follow, depending on your age, the time you choose to hold each license, and the steps you’re required to follow. In other words, your exact process may vary, so please see below for more detailed outlines. If you’re 18 years of age or older, you can forgo every step and immediately apply for your Class C license. Teenage & Adult Driver Responsibility Act In 1997, the state enacted the Teenage & Adult Driver Responsibility Act (TADRA), which is the state’s version of the graduated driver’s license program. TADRA is designed to more thoroughly educate new drivers and allow them more behind-the-wheel practice before setting them free with an unrestricted Class C license. With TADRA, the state aims to decrease the number of vehicle-related accidents and deaths. Under TADRA, teens between the ages of 15 and 18 (excluding teens who are exactly 18) must: - Obtain a learner’s permit (Class CP license) and hold it for one year and one day. - Complete a driver’s education course. - Complete forty (40) hour of behind-the-wheel driving experience, six (6) hours must be at night. - Complete the Alcohol and Drug Awareness Program (ADAP). - Obtain an intermediate license (Class D license) and hold it for until you’re 18 and can apply for your full Class C license. Of course, these requirements vary depending on age and you’re probably only going to go through every single one of them if you start the process at 15. We’ve outlined each permit and license below to help. Obtain a Learner’s Permit Once you’re 15, you will apply for your learner’s permit (also called a Class CP license). You will also apply for the learner’s permit if you’re 16 or 17 and are just now starting the process. - Before you begin the application process, take a few practice tests to prepare yourself for the written exam. - Get your school to sign and notarize a Certificate of Attendance. These forms are valid for 30 days, so plan accordingly. If you aren’t in school, you must present proof that you’re home schooled, enrolled in college, or your GED or high school diploma. - Have proof of identification. For most US residents, this will be an original birth certificate. The state provides a list of acceptable proofs for both citizens and non-citizens. (Please note non-citizens must also show their original and valid immigration documents.) - Have two proofs of residency. - You won’t have to present your card, but you must be ready to provide your Social Security number. Non-citizens can present a Form SSAL 676, the Social Security Denial Letter. Contact the SSA for more information. - If you’re new to the state and held a permit, license, or ID in your old state, dig it out. You must surrender it and, if you were a driver, submit a certified driving history no older than 30 days from your old state. - Be prepared to pass a vision exam. - Be prepared to pass a two tests knowledge test (this is where the practice tests come in handy). - Have the $10 fee in the form of cash, a check, a money order, or a credit or debit card. - Catch your parent or legal guardian when he’s not busy and head to your local Driver’s License Customer Service Center with everything―he has to sign for you. You won’t need an appointment, but you need to arrive about an hour before closing time to complete all paperwork and tests (the knowledge exam must begin 30 minutes before closing time). Also make sure your parent or legal guardian brings his state-issued license or ID. NOTE: If you fail the written test, the amount of time you must wait before you can retake the test (or either part of it) depends on how many times you fail. If you fail once, you can retake it the next day. If you fail twice, you can retake it in seven days. If you fail three or more times, however, you must wait 30 days to retake the entire exam. Learner’s Permit Driving Restrictions You can keep your learner’s permit for up to 24 months, but you must keep it for at least one year and one day before you apply for your intermediate or full driver’s license (unless you’re currently 17 and will turn 18 before such time passes). During that time, you can drive with a licensed driver who is at least 21 years old and who is sitting in the passenger’s seat. Keep in mind, the DDS will suspend your license if, for whatever reason, you’re no longer enrolled in school. In other words, if you drop out or are expelled, or if you miss ten (10) unexcused absences in a row with unexcused absences, the DDS can suspend your license. The DDS can also suspend your license for serious misbehavior at school like fighting or bringing weapons or drugs. Learn more at School and Your Driver’s License. Take Drivers Education If you’re younger than 17, you must take a state-approved driver’s education course before you can apply for your intermediate or full license. The Department of Driver Services (DDS) provides an online tool to help you choose an approved driver’s education course. New to the State The DDS doesn’t recognize driver’s education courses from other states. If you’ve just moved to the state and you’re younger than 17, you must enroll in and successfully complete one of the state-approved courses. Obtain an Intermediate License After you’ve held your learner’s permit for one year and one day, and you’re at least 16 years old, you can apply for your intermediate license (or, Class D license). However, not everyone will take this step. For example, if you’re 16 or 17 when you obtain your learner’s permit, you may allow enough time to pass between obtaining your learner’s permit and turning 18 to apply directly for your full Class C license (you have up to 24 months with your learner’s permit, after all). If you choose this path, the main difference is that you must take your driving test when you apply for your full license (because you will have bypassed it along with the intermediate license). But, if you’d rather apply for an intermediate license first: - Make sure you have your old learner’s permit to surrender. - Know your Social Security number. A Form SSAL 676, the Social Security Denial Letter, will suffice for non-citizens. Contact the SSA for more information - Have your school sign and notarize another Certificate of Attendance. If you’re not in school, locate proof that you’re home schooled or enrolled in college, or find your GED or high school diploma. - Find your Alcohol and Drug Awareness Program (ADAP) card; you must submit is as proof you completed the class. Chances are, you completed the class in ninth grade but if you didn’t, or if you need more information, visit the state’s page on the matter. - Successfully complete a state-approved driver’s education course. The DDS doesn’t require proof in the form of a paper certificate since your course instructor will submit your completion electronically to the DDS; however, the DDS does recommend bringing your paper certificate just in case there’s a glitch. If you choose not to complete driver’s education, you can’t apply for your intermediate license until you’re 17. - Have proof that you completed forty (40) hour of behind-the-wheel driving practice, with six of those hours being at night. - If you completed driver’s education in a classroom, that proof will be an affidavit with the instructor’s signature (the DDS will provide the affidavit for your parent or legal guardian to sign before your driving test). - If your driver’s education class was online, that proof will be a notarized copy of the Parent/Teen Driving Guide with your parent’s or legal guardian’s signature. - Be prepared to pass another vision exam. - Have the $10 fee in the form of cash, a check, a money order, or a credit or debit card. - For your driving test, make sure you have a vehicle lined up that’s properly insured and registered. The examiner will check the proof of insurance and tag, as well as give the vehicle a safety inspection. No rentals allowed. - Make an appointment with your nearest Driver’s License Customer Service Center to complete the paperwork (your parent or legal guardian must sign off on your application, and your legal guardian must bring a certified copy of the court document naming him your guardian), vision exam, and to take your driving test. The DDS doesn’t require appointments, but highly recommends them as no Center guarantees the availability of walk-in driving tests. You can make your appointment for up to 90 days in advance. NOTE: If you fail your driving test once, you can retake it the next day. If you fail again, you can retake the exam in seven days. After failing three times, and every time after that, you must wait 30 days to retake it. Intermediate License Driving Restrictions You may only drive between 6 a.m. and midnight with an intermediate license. Once midnight rolls around, it’s time to get out of the driver’s seat. During the first six months with your intermediate license, the only passengers you can have are immediate family members. During the second six (6) months, you can add one non-family passenger under 21 years of age, but after 12 months pass with your intermediate license you can bump that number of non-family passengers up to 3. Practice Behind the Wheel If you completed a driver’s education course and/or obtained an intermediate license, you’ve met the forty (40) hour of required behind-the-wheel driving practice described above. If you obtained an intermediate license, it also means you’ve already passed your driving test. However, none of this means you should stop practicing your driving skills. The more practice you get, the more experienced of a driver you’ll become. Apply for a License If you’re 18 or older, you can apply for your full Class C license without going through all the steps listed above. However, if you got into the game at 15, 16, or 17, you’ll be ready to apply for your full Class C license if: - You’re now 18 years of age. - You’ve passed your written exam (you passed this when you got your learner’s permit). - You can surrender a learner’s permit that you held for one year and one day. - You completed a driver’s education course and can provide proof of the necessary behind-the-wheel driving hours (this applies to applicants who are 16 and didn’t obtain an intermediate license; all others already showed proof when they applied for their intermediate licenses). If you’ve met each of those requirements as they apply to you, the final step to obtaining a full Class C license is to pass your driving test. Pass the Driving Test If you obtained an intermediate license, you’ve already taken your driving test. So, you simply need to: - Have your intermediate license to exchange for your full license. - Gather up any required proofs of identity and residency in the event your intermediate license won’t suffice. - Have the appropriate fee ($20 for a 5 years license and $32 for an eight-year license). - Head to your local Driver’s License Customer Service Center to complete the paperwork, provide the above, and make the swap. However, if you didn’t obtain an intermediate license you must pass a driving test before you can get your full Class C license. - Be ready to surrender your learner’s permit (and make sure you’ve held it for one year and one day). - Have any required proofs of identity and residency. The DDS may not ask for them because you’ll already have your learner’s permit to present, but it’s best to be prepared. - Have a properly registered and insured vehicle ready to take the test (no rentals). Be prepared to show proof of insurance and your tag, as well as allow the examiner to perform a safety inspection. - Determine whether you want a 5 years ($20) or eight-year ($32) license and have the appropriate fee. - Make an appointment with your local Customer Service Center for the driving test, and bring the above with you on your designated date. (The DDS doesn’t require appointments, but recommends them.) NOTE: If you fail it, you can retake your driving test the next day. If you fail a second time, you must wait seven days and, the third time you fail, you must wait 30 days. You aren’t subject to any restrictions once you have your full Class C license.
Federal youth waterfowl days will be held Jan. 31-Feb. 1 Young waterfowl hunters across the state will enjoy special days in the field Saturday, Jan. 31 and Sunday, Feb. 1 by participating in Youth Waterfowl Days on private lands and on some S.C. Department of Natural Resources Waterfowl Management Areas. Hunters 15 years of age or younger may hunt ducks, geese, mergansers and coots on Saturday, Jan. 31 and Sunday, Feb. 1 when accompanied by an adult at least 18 years of age. Daily and possession bag limits are the same as the regular duck season. The adult cannot carry a firearm or hunt and does not have to be licensed. South Carolina youth waterfowl hunters are not required to have the federal waterfowl stamp and the HIP (migratory bird) permit for the Jan. 31-Feb. 1 hunt. For more information on Youth Waterfowl Days, call (803) 734-3886 in Columbia. Find out more about Migratory Bird Regulations. "These hunts offer the perfect opportunity for youth to be introduced to waterfowl hunting in a positive manner," said S.C. Department of Natural Resources (DNR) biologist Dean Harrigal. Many DNR Waterfowl Management Areas will be open for public hunting on Saturday, Jan. 31 for Youth Waterfowl Day (DNR Waterfowl Management Areas are not open on Sundays). Waterfowl Management Areas that are open Saturday mornings during the regular waterfowl season will be open for Youth Waterfowl Day on Saturday, Jan. 31. DNR protects and manages South Carolina’s natural resources by making wise and balanced decisions for the benefit of the state’s natural resources and its people.
Estrogen Blockers for Breast Cancer Treatment Estrogen blockers (Tamoxifen) are often used to treat breast cancer with estrogen sensitive tumors in premenopausal women. Yet there are problems such as an increased rate of uterine cancer and clotting problems. In postmenopausal women, most estrogen does not come from the ovary; it comes from estrogen production in fat tissues and from the conversion of testosterone and androstenedione into estrogens. Aromatase inhibitors such as Arimidex, Femara, or Aromasin, block this conversion and lower estrogen levels in postmenopausal women. Xenoestrogens are discussed.
THURSDAY, Aug. 30 (HealthDay News) -- A novel pathogenic virus dubbed the Heartland virus, which is a member of the phlebovirus genus, has been identified in two patients from Missouri, according to a report published in the Aug. 30 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Laura K. McMullan, Ph.D., from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and colleagues conducted virus culture and genome sequencing on clinical samples taken from two men from northwestern Missouri, who independently presented to a medical facility with fever, fatigue, diarrhea, thrombocytopenia, and leukopenia. Both men had been bitten by ticks five to seven days prior to the onset of illness. The researchers found that cultures showed cytopathic effects similar to early cultures of Ehrlichia Chaffeensis, but this agent was not found on serologic analysis, polymerase chain reaction assay, or cell culture. Electron microscopy revealed enveloped particles, typical of a virus from the Bunyaviridae family. Next-generation sequencing of total RNA from culture media revealed sequences that were similar to those of phleboviruses in the Bunyaviridae family. Phylogenetic analysis identified the virus as a member of the phlebovirus genus. "Although Koch's postulates have not been completely fulfilled, our findings are consistent with the identification of a new pathogenic virus in the United States," the authors write. "Given the largely nonspecific symptoms observed, this virus could be a more common cause of human illness than is currently recognized. Epidemiologic and ecologic studies are needed to identify disease burden, risk factors for infection, and natural hosts of this new virus." Copyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved. \|Previous: Lung Cancer Risk Unaffected by Metformin Use in Diabetes\|\|Next: Prognosis Better for Exercise-Linked Cardiac Arrest\| Reader comments on this article are listed below. Review our comments policy. Submit your opinion: Are you a Doctor, Pharmacist, PA or a Nurse? Join the Doctors Lounge online medical community
Wage and Hour Division (WHD) U.S. Department of Labor DETROIT -- High schools and junior high schools in Michigan will receive valuable information this week from the U.S. Department of Labor about state and federal work rules designed to keep teens safe at work and productive at school. “Every year, young workers are injured while performing prohibited work,” said James Smith, director of the department’s Wage and Hour Division Detroit District Office. “Our goal is to foster safer workplaces and prevent injuries by ensuring that school officials, students and employers are aware of the laws that protect young workers.” The Wage and Hour Division in Detroit is mailing YouthRules! information to 1,100 high schools and junior high schools for use by school principals and staff who issue work permits. Work permits are generally required by state law before a young worker can be employed in Michigan. Federal provisions restrict the number of hours persons under 16 years of age are allowed to work and the times during which they can be employed. Minors may not work more than three hours on school days, eight hours on nonschool days, 18 hours in school weeks or 40 hours during nonschool weeks. The regulations detail that 14- and 15-year-olds may work during non-school hours, but no later than 7 p.m. (9 p.m. from June 1 until Labor Day). “The intent of the hours limitations is to give our teens their best shot at preparing for their futures. They accomplish that by first doing well in school and then balancing school with safe and appropriate work experiences,” Smith added. YouthRules! is a public awareness campaign designed to bring teens, parents, educators and employers together to promote safe and rewarding work experiences for young workers. The department created a Web site and developed partnerships with state and federal government agencies, employer groups, trade associations and advocacy groups to promote this initiative. For more information on youth employment laws, visit the Labor Department’s YouthRules! Web site at http://www.youthrules.dol.gov or call the Wage and Hour Division’s toll-free helpline at 866-4US-WAGE (487-9243). U.S. Department of Labor releases are accessible on the Internet at www.dol.gov. The information in this news release will be made available in alternate format (large print, Braille, audio tape or disc) from the COAST office upon request. Please specify which news release when placing your request at (202) 693-7828 or TTY (202) 693-7755. The Labor Department is committed to providing America’s employers and employees with easy access to understandable information on how to comply with its laws and regulations. For more information, please visit www.dol.gov/compliance.
*Yellow Jacket treatments should always be conducted at nighttime, when the Yellow Jackets are the least active and least likely to sting. Yellow Jackets are often mistaken for honey bees because they look so similar, however honey bees are actually larger and have hair on the abdomen. Anytime you interfere with the routine activity of yellow jackets there is risk of being attacked and stung, so it is very important to wear protective clothing! (Note: people who have a history of severe or mild reaction to insect stings should not perform these treatments). At the very minimum, the following should be worn when treating for yellow jackets: Treating Ground Nests 1) Try to locate the nest by watching the yellow jackets during the day and taking note of where they disappear into the landscape or structure. 2) At night (using a flashlight), apply D-Force HPX aerosol directly into the nest. Make sure to wear protective clothing! 3) Delta Dust also works well and provides excellent coverage when applied in and around the nest. Delta Dust lasts 4 to 6 months and will result in a quick kill. Apply dust liberally using a centrobulb duster (for easier application) and repeat in 3 to 4 months to control for newly hatched yellow jackets. 4) For thick or heavy ground coverings where yellow jackets are active but the exact nest location is not known, a liquid insecticide like Demon WP or Cynoff WP may be broadcast over the entire area using a gallon sprayer. The area should be well drenched, especially on and around suspected nest entrances. Keep tabs on the yellow jacket population over the next 10 to 14 days; repeat as needed. Treating Exposed or Aerial Nests There are two basic methods for treating exposed outdoor yellow jacket nests, hanging from eaves, trees, or other objects. Whichever you choose, be sure to wait until night when the yellow jackets are at rest, and always wear protective clothing! 1) Using a red or amber colored light to illuminate the nest at night (a regular flashlight will attract the guard wasps), apply D-Force HPX aerosol aerosol or Delta Dust directly into the nest using the plastic injector tip. Poking the injector or duster tip through the back of the nest is often safer than using the front entrance used by the yellow jackets. 2) An alternative method would be to first pull a large, durable plastic bag over the nest and then cut the branches securing the nest. Next inject D-Force HPX aerosol or Delta Dust Insecticide directly into the bag, and seal. Treating Nests in Structural Voids Sometimes yellow jackets will nest in various elements of a home or structure, such as ceiling and wall voids, in the eaves behind fascia board, soffits, in hollow cement blocks, and inside excavated wood galleries. Such nests are best treated by drilling into the infested void and injecting the nest with Delta Dust Insecticide. 1) Locate the nest. If you are not sure exactly where the nest is located, use a listening device to hone in as close as possible to the exact location. 2) Drill small holes directly into the nest from inside of the structure. If it is not possible to drill from the inside, the drilling can be done outside. If you do this, be sure to leave any outside entrance holes open until the beginning of fall when hatching is sure to be completed. Then the entrance may be sealed to prevent further nest establishment. 3) Apply Delta Dust Insecticide liberally using a centrobulb duster (for easier application) 4) Seal any inside holes. 5) Repeat in 3 to 4 months to control for newly hatched yellow jackets. Further Prevention for Yellow jackets - Prevent nest establishment by filling animal holes or burrows with dirt. - Keep yellow jackets outside the structure by repair any holes in the exterior wall and making sure that all vents and windows have tight-fitting screens. - Seal over the chimney flu temporarily with tape and plastic sheeting if yellow jackets are entering here. - Use a trash bin with a tight fitting lid, and treat interior and exterior surfaces of trash cans with an effective yellow jacket repellent. View all Yellow Jacket Control Products Yellow Jackets Identification & Biology
Chicken Concerns, Problems and Ailments Written by Treacodactyl I thought it would be useful to cover some of the problems our hens have had since we have had them. Unfortunately chickens can suffer from quite a few problems so it is useful to be aware of what they will be so you can take preventative measures and not be too frightened if they do have a problem. A good book will cover far more, but it is always worth speaking to other poultry keepers as nothing can beat first hand experience. A valuable place to contact other people is in the forum section of various internet sites such as this one. Hopefully this article can be updated with other people's experiences to provide a useful reference. I have noticed new chicken keepers often get surprised by their hens' moult. It can be quite frightening as one day they can seem fine when they are put to bed and the next morning you are faced with a house full of feathers where your chooks were! The hen then stands for a preen and spends several minutes pulling even more feathers out and when they wander off there is another pile of feathers. I once went to pick Treacle up when she was moulting and she wiggled free and left most of her tail in my hand! I was a bit worried but after witnessing our hens moulting over the last couple of years it's just a normal occurrence. If you think your hens are losing too many feathers or they are moulting at the wrong time it's worth checking them over. If you pick them up you can check for any mites and as you are examining them you should be able to see new quills emerging. If they are moulting they may be less keen to be picked up as I imagine it must be a little uncomfortable for them. When they preen you may also see the casings of the new quills come off and cover the floor with the old feathers. Another interesting fact with Treacle is that she has change colour quite noticeably with her moults. The following picture shows her when she was a young girl and she is not overly speckly. This year she is just coming to the end of her third moult and she is half white! (top picture) One hen, Treacle, woke one morning with a very noticeable limp. After examining her foot and leg for any noticeable injuries there seemed nothing obviously wrong. Feet can become swollen if they get dirt impacted under them or if they have to jump too far off a perch. After a few days matters did not improve so we took her to a local vet who specialises in birds. He checked her over to make sure there were no signs of damage or broken bones. As he could not see anything obvious he suggested it was likely to be a sprain and gave her an injection to help her recover. There was a small improvement but after a couple of weeks she still had a noticeable limp. We contacted the vet again and he prescribed and sent out some tablets. Over the next couple of weeks Treacie gradually improved and now has no limp. For pet chickens I would recommend the vet, it was not very expensive and it helps put your mind at rest. However, I'm not sure if the medication helped or if Treacie would have managed to get better on her own. Either way it did take a month for her to recover. Laying chickens are occasionally known to pull a muscle while laying so this may have been what happened. Chicken Claw Problem Although she seemed completely unaffected another hen, Marmalade, has managed to loose a claw on two separate occasions. The first time it happened I was very worried as I did not know what had happened. After looking around the ark I noticed a little blood and assumed she had caught it whilst scratching for food (the bottom of the ark is covered with wire mesh to prevent anything burrowing in or out). Her toe was fine and had stopped bleeding, it was just missing most of the claw . To make sure she was OK I bathed her foot in warm salty water for a few minutes and left her to it. I'm glad to say on both occasions she has made a full recovery and grown back the claws. Chicken Crop Problems One day I noticed Treacle seemed lighter than usual, and when I felt her crop it seemed unusually plump. This was unusual as our hens tend to digest their crops overnight ready for another day's ravenous onslaught on our garden. Treacie was still happy and looked normal. Her crop was quite soft but very full. I gave her a little sunflower oil to loosen things up and left her for a couple of days, she carried on eating and drinking a little and didn't seem under the weather at all. The crop gradually went down a little but hardened up. I was becoming very concerned so we did some research and came up with the choices of emptying the crop or leaving her to it to possibly die. To empty the crop we could either operate or try and make her sick. We decided to try and make her sick by giving her plenty of vegetable oil and massaging her crop while holding her upside down. After a few minutes of gurgling noises and some puzzled looks from her, nothing happened. I did not want to hurt her and it is possibile for a chicken to choke to death, so we decided to leave her for a while. Each day we gave her some more vegetable oil and gave her crop a firm massage. Luckily her crop started to go down and after a week she was much better and appears to be completely recovered. Looking at her droppings it seems she had become blocked by feathers and grass. She had been moulting and often does eat feathers so we need to make sure we tidy as many up as possible. Chicken Old Age This is not necessarily an ailment as such, but it is useful to know how long chickens will live for. I have read they are capable of living to 14 years old and I imagine there are a few even older birds around. Basically the life span will depend on the type of breed. Hybrid birds will live shorter lives, approximately 3-5 seems common. Old or pure breed chickens will live longer. 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The Pew Children's Dental Campaign released reports in both 2010 and 2011 grading all 50 states and the District of Columbia on children's dental health. Those reports evaluated eight policies covering dental prevention, financing, and workforce issues. This year, Pew chose to focus on sealants. Research has shown that providing sealants through school-based programs is a cost-effective way to reach low-income children, who are at greater risk of decay, Pew noted in a press release. Although it has been 45 years since the first research paper reported the successful use of sealants, states have been slow to use this prevention strategy. The most recent national survey (2009-2010) revealed that only half of teens ages 13 to 15 had received sealants on a permanent tooth. This latest report from Pew, "Falling Short: Most States Lag on Dental Sealants," grades all 50 states and the District of Columbia on their efforts to prevent decay by improving access to sealants for low-income children. The data came from surveys of both state dental directors and state dental boards, as well as from the National Oral Health Surveillance System (NOHSS), a database that enables policymakers to identify trends and assess progress. States were given points for each benchmark, and grades (A-F) were based on the sum of points earned for four benchmarks: - Having sealant programs in high-need schools -- those with a significant proportion of children whose family income levels increase their risk of decay - Allowing hygienists to place sealants in school-based programs without requiring a dentist's exam - Collecting data regularly about the dental health of schoolchildren and submitting it to a national database managed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors - Meeting a national objective on sealants set by the federal government's Healthy People 2010 goals. Here are some of the report's key findings: Roughly two-thirds of all states do not have sealant programs in a majority of high-need schools. Five states have no programs in these schools. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia still have a regulation that requires a dentist to examine a child before a hygienist can place a sealant, making sealant programs less cost-effective and ignoring the evidence showing this prerequisite is unnecessary. Forty states and the District of Columbia could not confirm that they had reached at least 50% of their children with sealants -- the minimum threshold established by Health People 2010. Nineteen states and the District of Columbia did not submit data from within the past five years on school-age children to the National Oral Health Surveillance System. Only five states earned an A, and just two of these states (Maine and New Hampshire) received the maximum points possible. Overall state grades Source: Pew Center on the States, 2012. "School-based sealant programs remain an underutilized preventive strategy, despite their proven benefits," the report noted. "While some states have improved their sealant policies since 2010, most are not doing enough to use this cost-effective prevention tool." Although the eight states that received a B are performing relatively well, half of them did not have sealant programs in a majority of their high-need schools. Meanwhile, 17 states earned C grades, and another 15 received D's, making this grade the largest cluster. Hawaii, New Jersey, Montana, North Carolina, Wyoming, and the District of Columbia all earned F's, meaning they are lagging far behind in prevention efforts. "States that take dental prevention seriously are making a good faith effort to get sealants to more low-income children," said Shelly Gehshan, director of the Pew Children's Dental Campaign. "When states don't do enough, they -- and low-income children -- pay a higher price both in dollars and decay." The report also found that between 2010 and 2020, annual Medicaid spending for dental care is expected to climb from $8 billion to more than $21 billion, with children accounting for roughly one-third of the program's total spending on dental services. In 2009, U.S. children made more than 49,000 visits to hospital emergency rooms for preventable dental problems. In South Carolina, for example, nearly 3 out of 4 dental emergency room trips in 2009 were made by Medicaid recipients or the uninsured, meaning taxpayers or other hospital consumers assumed a significant portion of these costs. "Children's health isn't the only thing that suffers when states don't invest in sealant programs," Gehshan said. "States that miss this opportunity to prevent decay are saddling taxpayers with higher costs down the road through Medicaid or other programs." More than 16 million U.S. children suffer from dental decay, and research shows that many parents lack basic information about oral health, the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) noted in a press release. “We’ve urged dentists to get involved in these school-based sealant programs, and they have responded positively,” stated AGD Speaker of the House W. Mark Donald, DMD, MAGD. “When the dentist and the hygienist work together, naturally the result is an increase, not a decrease, in the number of sealants being performed on children. Dentists want to be a part of these types of programs, and the children benefit from the dental team concept of oral health care delivery.”
We know that bullying and relational aggression can strip children of their dignity, self esteem, and desire to go to school. Having focused on appearance-based discrimination in my own research and in preparation for writing Good Girls Don’t Get Fat, I quickly realized that what I termed “body bashing” or “body bullying” can be particularly insidious as it plays on a major insecurity in many preteens and teens. So it isn’t surprising yet still sad that a new study in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology suggests that teasing about weight can have profound effects on how young people perceive their bodies. “Criticism of weight, in particular, can contribute to issues that go beyond general problems with self-esteem.” –Timothy D. Nelson, the study’s lead author Who? Hundreds of public school students, average age= 10.8 years What did they look at? Calculated each child’s BMI and looked at the relationship between weight-related criticism and children’s perceptions of themselves. What did they find? Pre-teens who fell into the “overweight” category and who endured weight-based criticism judged their bodies more harshly and were less satisfied with their body sizes than those who were not teased about weight. Anything else significant? Even when they controlled for BMI and took it out of the equation, they found that anyone who was teased about weight regardless of actual BMI viewed their bodies more negatively. That means that the peer teasing itself can affect how children/teens see their bodies even if they are not medically “overweight.” In chapters 5 and 6 in Good Girls Don’t Get Fat, you’ll meet many young people who have suffered from or are currently dealing with some form of appearance-based discrimination in school. They feel alone, frustrated, and unsupported. It is often overlooked by teachers and school staff as rites of passage or something they simply can’t “catch” while in process. So what does this mean…if I don’t see it…it can’t really be happening? What’s your take?
Health Highlights: Nov. 23, 2011 Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: New Baseball Deal Limits Players' Use of Smokeless Tobacco Major League Baseball's new contract limits players' use of smokeless tobacco but doesn't ban it during games. Players won't carry tobacco packages and tins in their back pockets or use tobacco during pregame/postgame interviews or at team functions, according to a baseball union summary obtained by the Associated Press. But the deal does not ban the use of chewing tobacco during games, something that was called for by public health groups and others who said a ban would protect impressionable children watching games on TV. "Our members understand that this is a dangerous product, there are serious risks associated with using it," union head Michael Weiner told the AP. "Our players felt strongly that those were appropriate measures to take but that banning its use on the field was not appropriate under the circumstances." Baseball Players Will be Tested for Human Growth Hormone Professional baseball players will be tested for human growth hormone beginning next spring. Under the new Major League Baseball contract, each player will have a blood test for HGH in spring training, but the testing will not continue during the regular season. It will resume after the season ends, The New York Times reported. Owners and players will then decide whether to conduct HGH testing during the 2013 regular season. HGH, which cannot be legally used without a prescription, can help athletes recover quickly and build muscle mass, according to experts. Over the past decade, dozens of baseball players have been tied to HGH, The Times reported. Major League Baseball will be the first professional sports league in North America to test players for HGH. Low Levels of Arsenic Common in Apple Juice: FDA Low levels of the toxic heavy metal arsenic were found in most samples of apple juice tested by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, according to new data released by the agency. The FDA said 95 percent of the 160 apple juice samples collected between 2005 and 2011 had arsenic levels below 23 parts per billion (the agency's "level of concern"), and nearly 88 percent of the samples had levels less than 10 ppb, ABC News reported. Eight samples of apple juice contained high levels of arsenic. The FDA said it has increased its monitoring of arsenic levels in apple juice and will continue to collect samples for analysis. The agency also plans to establish what level of arsenic is considered safe and will be able to take action against juice makers who fail to meet that standard, ABC News reported. Group Issues Annual List of Unsafe Toys A Sesame Street Oscar doll, a plastic book for babies, and a wooden blocks set are among the toys that could harm children this holiday season, according to the U.S. Public Research Interest Group's 26th annual "Trouble in Toyland" report. The document lists just over a dozen toys on store shelves that violate federal safety standards for lead and chemicals called phthalates, or that could pose a choking hazard for small children, the Associated Press reported. Toys that are too loud and could damage hearing, as well as balloons, were also cited as potential dangers by PIRG. Balloons cause more choking deaths than any other children's product. Toy recalls in the United States have declined in recent years and PIRG credits a 2008 law that set stricter standards for children's products, the AP reported. Posted: November 2011
Baytril Otic (Canada)This page contains information on Baytril Otic for veterinary use. The information provided typically includes the following: - Baytril Otic Indications - Warnings and cautions for Baytril Otic - Direction and dosage information for Baytril Otic Baytril OticThis treatment applies to the following species: For Ototopical Use In Dogs FOR VETERINARY USE ONLY PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Each milliliter of Baytril® Otic contains: Medicinal ingredients; enrofloxacin 5 mg (0.5% w/v), silver sulfadiazine (SSD) 10 mg (1.0% w/v). Non-medicinal ingredients; benzyl alcohol (as a preservative) and cetylstearyl alcohol (as a stabilizer) in a neutral oil and purified water emulsion. The active ingredients are delivered via a physiological carrier (a non-irritating emulsion). CHEMICAL NOMENCLATURE AND STRUCTURE: 1-Cyclopropyl-7-(4-ethyl-1-piperazinyl)-6-fluoro-1, 4-dihydro-4-oxo-3-quinolinecarboxylic acid. ACTIONS: Enrofloxacin, a 4-fluoroquinolone compound, is bactericidal with activity against a broad spectrum of both Gram negative and Gram positive bacteria. Fluoroquinolones elicit their bactericidal activities through interactions with two intracellular enzymes, DNA gyrase (DNA topoisomerase II) and DNA topoisomerase IV, which are essential for bacterial DNA transcription, synthesis and replication. It is believed that fluoroquinolones actively bind with bacterial DNA:ENZYME complexes and thereby inhibit the essential processes catalyzed by the enzymes (DNA supercoiling and chromosomal decatenation).1 The ultimate outcome of the fluoroquinolone intervention is DNA fragmentation and bacterial cell death.2,3 Silver sulfadiazine (SSD) is synthesized from silver nitrate and sodium sulfadiazine.4 This compound has a wide spectrum of antimicrobial activity against Gram negative and Gram positive bacteria and is also an effective antimycotic.5,6 SSD suppresses microbial growth through inhibition of DNA replication and modification of the cell membrane. MICROBIOLOGY: In clinical field trials, Baytril® Otic demonstrated elimination or reduction of clinical signs associated with otitis externa and in vitro activity against cultured organisms. Baytril® Otic is effective when used as a treatment for canine otitis externa associated with one or more of the following organisms: Malassezia pachydermatis, coagulase-positive Staphylococcus spp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterobacter spp., Proteus mirabilis, Streptococci spp., Aeromonas hydrophila, Aspergillus spp., Klebsiella pneumoniae, and Candida albicans. In vitro assays, such as disk-diffusion and agar/broth-dilution, are used to determine the susceptibilities of microbes to antimicrobial therapies. Results of agar/broth-dilution assays are reported as a Minimal Inhibitory Concentration (MIC) which represents the lowest antimicrobial concentration, expressed in µg/mL, capable of inhibiting the growth of a pathogenic microorganism. MICs are used in conjunction with pharmacokinetics to predict the in vivo efficacy of systemically administered antimicrobials. Topical administration of Baytril® Otic to an exudate and debris-free canal, however, will generally result in local antimicrobial concentrations that greatly exceed serum and tissue levels resulting from systemic therapy. Therefore, when using Baytril® Otic as a treatment for canine otitis externa, interpret susceptibility data cautiously. Baytril Otic Indications Baytril® Otic is indicated as a treatment for canine otitis externa complicated by bacterial and fungal organisms susceptible to enrofloxacin and/or silver sulfadiazine (see Microbiology section). EFECTIVENESS: Due to its combination of active ingredients, Baytril® Otic provides antimicrobial therapy against bacteria and fungi (which includes yeast) commonly encountered in cases of canine otitis externa. The effectiveness of Baytril® Otic was evaluated in a controlled, double-blind, multi-site clinical trial. One hundred and sixty-nine dogs (n=169), with naturally occurring active otitis externa participated in the study. The presence of active disease was verified by aural cytology, microbial culture and otoscopy/clinical scoring. Qualified cases were randomly assigned to either Baytril® Otic treatment (n=113) or to a comparable placebo-based regimen (n=56). Treatments were administered twice daily for 7 or 14 days. Assessment of effectiveness was based on continued resolution of clinical signs 3 to 4 days following administration of the last dose. At study conclusion, Baytril® Otic was found to be a significantly more effective treatment for canine otitis externa than the placebo regimen. Based on the scoring system used to assess treatment response, therapeutic success occurred in 67% of Baytril® Otic-treated infections compared to 14% with placebo. Approximately 75% of therapeutic successes were associated with the maximum treatment duration of 14 days. Baytril® Otic is contraindicated in dogs with suspected or known hypersensitivity to quinolones and/or sulfonamides. WarningTo limit the potential development of antimicrobial resistance: - fluoroquinolone drugs such as Baytril® Otic should not be used indiscriminately - Baytril® Otic should not be used in food producing animals Keep out of the reach of children. Avoid contact with eyes. In case of contact, immediately flush eyes with copious amounts of water for 15 minutes. In case of dermal contact, wash skin with soap and water. Consult a physician if irritation develops or persists following ocular or dermal exposures. Individuals with a history of hypersensitivity to quinolone compounds or antibacterials should avoid handling this product. In humans, there is a risk of user photosensitization within a few hours after excessive exposure to quinolones. If excessive accidental exposure occurs, avoid direct sunlight. Baytril Otic Caution The use of Baytril® Otic in dogs with perforated tympanic membranes has not been evaluated. Therefore, the integrity of the tympanic membrane should be evaluated before administering this product. If hearing or vestibular dysfunction is noted during the course of treatment, discontinue use of Baytril® Otic. Quinolone-class drugs should be used with caution in animals with known or suspected Central Nervous System (CNS) disorders. In such animals, quinolones have, in rare instances, been associated with CNS stimulation which may lead to convulsive seizures. Quinolone-class drugs have been associated with cartilage erosions in weightbearing joints and other forms of arthropathy in immature animals of various species. The safe use of Baytril® Otic in dogs used for breeding purposes, during pregnancy, or in lactating bitches, has not been evaluated. Adverse ReactionsDuring clinical trials, 2 of 113 (1.7%) dogs exhibited reactions that may have resulted from treatment with Baytril® Otic. Both cases displayed local hypersensitivity responses of the aural epithelium to some component within the Baytril® Otic formulation. The reactions were characterized by acute inflammation of the ear canal and pinna. SAFETY: General Safety Study: In a target animal safety study, Baytril® Otic was administered in both ears of 24 clinically normal beagle dogs at either recommended or exaggerated dosages: 10, 30 or 50 drops applied twice daily for 42 consecutive days. A control group of 8 beagle dogs was treated by administering 50 drops of vehicle in one ear twice daily for 42 consecutive days, with the contralateral ear untreated. Erythema was noted in all groups, including both treated and untreated ears in the controls, which resolved following termination of treatment. Oral Safety Study: In order to test safety in case of ingestion, Baytril® Otic was administered, twice daily for 14 consecutive days, to the dorsum of the tongue and to the left buccal mucosa of 6 clinically normal dogs. No adverse local or systemic reactions were reported. Dosage and AdministrationExudate or debris within the ear canal may interfere with treatment and should be removed with a suitable non-irritating solution prior to administration of Baytril Otic. Shake well before each use. Tilt head so that the affected ear is presented in an upward orientation. Administer a sufficient quantity of Baytril® Otic to coat the aural lesions and the external auditory canal. As a general guide, administer 5-10 drops per ear treated in dogs weighing 16 kg or less and 10-15 drops per ear treated in dogs weighing more than 16 kg. Following treatment, gently massage the ear so as to ensure complete and uniform distribution of the medication throughout the external ear canal. Apply twice daily for a duration of up to 14 days. StorageStore between 4 and 25°C. Store in an upright position. Do not store in direct sunlight. How SuppliedBaytril® Otic (enrofloxacin/silver sulfadiazine) Oval plastic bottles with dropper tip and extended tip closure Oval plastic bottles with dropper tip and extended tip closure 1. Hooper DC and Wolfson JS. Mechanisms of quinolone action and bacterial killing, in Quinolone Antimicrobial Agents. Washington DC, American Society for Microbiology, 2nd ed., 1993, 53-75. 2. Gootz TD and Brightly KE. Fluoroquinolone antibacterial: mechanism of action, resistance and clinical aspects. Medicinal Research Reviews 1996; 16 (5): 433-486. 3. Drlica K and Zhoa X. DNA gyrase, topoisomerase IV and the 4-quinolones. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews 1997; 61(3): 377-392. 4. Fox CL. Silver sulfadiazine: a new topical therapy for Pseudomonas in burns. Archives of Surgery 1968; 96:184-188. 5. Wlodkowski TJ and Rosenkranz HS. Antifungal activity of silver sulfadiazine. Lancet 1973; 2:739-740. 6. Schmidt A. In vitro activity of climbazole, clotrimazole and silver sulfadiazine against isolates of Malassezia pachydermatis. J of Vet Medicine Series B 1997; 44: 193-197. Bayer HealthCare, Bayer Inc., Animal Health Division, 77 Belfield Road, Toronto, Ontario M9W 1G6 ® Baytril, Bayer and Bayer Cross are registered trademarks of Bayer AG, used under licence by Bayer Inc. NAC No.: 12230311 Animal Health Division, Bayer Inc. 77 BELFIELD ROAD, TORONTO, ON, M9W 1G6 \|Telephone:\|\|416-248-0771 or 800-268-1331\| \|Order Desk Fax:\|\|800-361-3306\| \|Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the Baytril Otic information published above. However, it remains the responsibility of the readers to familiarize themselves with the product information contained on the Canadian product label or package insert.\| Copyright © 2013 North American Compendiums. Updated: 2013-09-18
Research reveals seven habits to grow your Twitter followers Last year MIT produced some research on how to secure more retweets. Georgia Institute of Technology have followed this up with 7 habits that the best Twitter users apparently have (as measured by increases in follower count). This comes after research that saw them study 507 Twitter users over a 15 month period that saw them generate over 500,000 tweets. It’s quite possibly the first study that has look explicitely at what causes a Twitter account to grow its 7 habits of effective Twitter users - Don’t be negative – People are generally attracted to people that post positive tweets. Negative or sarcastic tweets tend to put people off. The study found that consistently negative tweets was a key predictor of low follower growth. Try and post at least 2 positive tweets to each negative one. - Inform people, don’t self-promote – This is particularly important. Previous research has suggested that just 20% of Twitter users are informers, with the remainder posting mainly about themselves. Being informative was one of the strongest predictors of gaining new followers in this study: this included passing on links and retweeting. In fact being an informer rather than a meformer was associated with 30 times more growth in followers! - Encourage retweets – Those MIT tips I mentioned earlier fit in here. The research showed that generating social proof is really important when growing your following. Generating more retweets = more followers. Kinda obvious, but one to keep remembering. - Focus on a topic – It’s easy with Twitter to take a scattergun approach and tweet about all sorts. The research is clear that having a clear focus helps you to grow your followers faster. Why? Well, it may be a signal-to-noise-type thing. If you stay on-topic, your interests are clearer and it’s easier to make the choice to follow you. - Write good quality content – This doesn’t just mean the subject of your tweet, but also the way you construct it. So no going overboard with hashtagging every word! The study showed that complex words can work, if they fit the context of your audience. - Be energetic – This is an interesting one. It’s tended to be said that posting a lot of tweets in a relatively short timeframe is bad form, but the research found that this kind of behaviour correlated with a growth in followers. - Mix up broadcasts with direct tweets – This is another interesting one. For the most followed accounts, content was split quite evenly between tweets sent to everyone, and tweets sent to specific people. The ratio was 45% broadcast/55% targeted. So the general rule is to talk to individual people more often than to everyone. Now of course, some of these tips may (hopefully) be common sense to many of you, but they do provide some nice guidance on how to be a good Twitter citizen. Do you have any tips that have worked for you?Republished with permission
Subsidies could help us save more – and boost economic growth. Listener: 19 May, 2007. Keywords: Macroeconomics & Money; New Zealanders are not saving enough. The consequence is that a high proportion of our most productive capital is becoming overseas-owned, as we use foreign savings to finance our new investment and sell existing assets to cover the national savings shortage. Even more seriously, the foreign savers funding our over-consumption require high returns that push up interest rates and the exchange rate. That squeezes the profitability of the export sector, whose resulting poor performance ruins the economy’s growth prospects. Much of the recent criticism directed at the Reserve Bank is unwarranted. The fundamental problem is the eccentric US fiscal stance, with its large deficit driving down the US dollar, thereby increasing our (and just about everyone else’s) exchange rate against it. Monetary policy is virtually irrelevant. A sensible response would be to increase the nation’s savings, pay off debt and invest in productive assets. We are doing the opposite. The dis-savers must be relying on the government to bail them out in due course, but that requires the rest of us to be prudent, and willing to carry the necessary burden. To be fair, the business sector has a good savings record, but that is not as much help as it might be, given that the sector is increasingly overseas-owned. The government has a good savings record too, as I shall explain. The real failure to save is by private households, many of which are spending more than they earn, running up debt on credit cards and mortgages on overpriced houses. It is their failure that has to be addressed. The government is – broadly – saving enough to fund its investment and it is also putting aside some for future New Zealand Superannuation obligations (the Cullen Fund). This savings-before-investment figure is an accounting notion, frequently referred to as “The Budget Surplus”, even though almost all of it has been spent. Treating the amount as available for tax cuts (or for more government spending) confuses an accounting aggregate with an economic reality. It was a monetarist confusion that seemed to lead the National Party during the 2005 election to propose using this “surplus” for income tax cuts. Had the policy been implemented, the cuts would have fed into household consumption, reduced national saving, and so pushed the exchange rate up further, screwing even more exporters and ruining the economy even further. Fortunately, wiser – or at least more economically informed – heads seem to have since prevailed in National. But even with a more responsible approach, the large apparent Budget “surplus” (before investment and such spending) is politically unstable: there will always be those who, from economic ignorance or political opportunism, argue that this money – which we haven’t got – should be given away in tax cuts. The danger is that enough of the public may believe the ill-informed to drive an irresponsible economic policy – as almost happened in 2005. It is said that this year’s Budget might introduce a savings subsidy. Perhaps worker contributions to KiwiSaver will not be subject to income tax. The government’s apparent surplus will thus be lower, but the nation’s total savings will not be compromised and the exchange rate will not rise as a result, despite the apparent income tax cuts. Because the government “surplus” will look smaller, while the macroeconomic stance is not undermined, budgets will look more politically sustainable, with less opportunity for the politically illiterate to propose destructive policies. Better still, if designed right, savings subsidies could encourage households to save more, since the more you save the less tax you pay. If so, the tax-cut-for-savings package could reduce the pressure on the balance of payments and lead to a reduction in the exchange rate – to the benefit of exporters and economic growth. Done well, a savings subsidy could be an important contribution to a better-balanced, sustainable and growing economy, while preparing us for the day when the US fiscal position turns the world economy to custard. We will have to wait for the Budget to find out whether the government has the skills to finesse such a gain.
Looking to cut back on your energy use? Try watering the grass a day or two less each week. And you say water efficiency is becoming more important to you? Try turning off a few lights and setting back the air conditioning. As environmentalists, regulators and electric utilities are beginning to recognize, water and energy use are inextricably linked, and as supplies for both commodities tighten, their relationship to each other is becoming more important. Put simply, we use an enormous amount of water to make energy—in drilling and mining operations and in cooling thermoelectric generating plants. Conversely, we use an enormous amount of energy in pumping, moving, treating and heating our water. This codependent scenario has been dubbed the “water-energy nexus,” and electric utility executives are beginning to realize some therapy may be in order. The 700 utility executives who participated in the 2011 Black & Veatch “Strategic Directions in the Electric Utility Industry” survey ranked water supply as their top environmental concern, above nuclear waste disposal. Researchers have begun seeking new ways to reduce demand on both sides of the nexus. Much of their work is being built off a 2006 report prepared by 10 national laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), “Energy Demands on Water Resources.” The data gathered for this document formed the basis for a May 2011 report from the World Policy Institute (WPI), “The Water-Energy Nexus.” “This is an issue that encompasses all energy, both generation and transportation fuel,” said Diana Glassman, lead author of the WPI report. As she noted, the water-energy connection will affect the developing world even more than water and energy users in the United States. “[It’s] being shared at the World Economic Forum. It’s on the global agenda.” Experts consider three different aspects of water use when evaluating overall water effects: • Withdrawal: water that is withdrawn from a river, lake or aquifer and is returned to its source after it has been used. This is how many cooling towers operate. • Consumption: water that is withdrawn and not returned. It may be lost through evaporation. • Quality: the effect of withdrawal and use on the water in question. For example, cooling tower water that has been treated and returned is often warmer than at its source, which can have a detrimental effect on plants and fish in the area. When looking at electricity generation, Glassman and her co-authors focused on identifying the use of water by varying fuel sources. Obviously, water availability differs by region. In the United States, the Great Lakes area has an abundance, while the Southeast and parts of Texas are in a drought. The goal of the WPI report was to understand better how fuel sources can affect an area’s water resources. Things can become even more complicated when utilities’ carbon-reduction strategies are thrown into the mix. According to a September 2010 report by Jan Dell, energy division vice president for engineering firm CH2M HILL, geothermal steam and concentrating solar technologies consume more water than any other common generating technology. Solar photovoltaic panels and wind turbines use the least. Currently, natural gas plants consume less water than either coal or nuclear options, but that determination is based on the DOE’s 2006 figures, which predate the current rush toward water-intensive hydraulic fracturing in the drilling industry. The flip side of the water-energy coin is the energy consumption embedded in how we access and use water. California is an extreme example of just how much energy can be required. A 2007 California Energy Commission report noted the state’s water-related energy use consumed 19 percent of all electricity and 30 percent of all natural gas used in the state. The River Network, a Portland, Ore.-based environmental group focused on watershed issues, estimates that, nationally, water-related energy use totals 521 million megawatt-hours per year, equivalent to 13 percent of total U.S. electricity demand. With a basic understanding that neither energy nor water can be used more efficiently without considering both commodities in the solution, groups now are beginning to talk across their respective constituencies. In one such effort, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy and the Alliance for Water Efficiency (AWE) held a workshop in November 2010 with participants from water and electric utilities, national labs and environmental groups. That workshop was the basis for a report now circulating throughout government and regulatory offices. “A Blueprint for Action and Policy Agenda” outlines areas where more research is needed and policies need addressing. At the top of the list is an intent to increase the level of collaboration between water and energy communities. “Historically, water and energy utilities have not worked together because of the different ways in which they’re owned,” said Mary Ann Dickinson, AWE’s president and CEO, who noted the eventual cost we will all pay if collaboration doesn’t begin soon. “As the price of energy goes up because of the cost of water for cooling, everything will get more expensive.” ROSS is a freelance writer located in Brewster, Mass. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Ed Koch, 1924-2013 Farewell to the cheerleader The mayor who picked up America’s greatest city “WHENEVER I would fly home, especially if it was at night, there was the city of New York laid out before me and I thought to myself, ‘This belongs to me. It’s extraordinary. Thank you God’,” said Ed Koch, the former mayor of New York, at the start of Neil Barsky’s documentary about him. By the time he died on February 1st, on the day the documentary came out, Mr Koch was as much a New York icon as that skyline he looked out on. Indeed, he was more popular in 2013 than when he left City Hall in 1989. He and the Big Apple were a good fit. When he took office, in 1978, the city was on its knees. A serial killer was targeting New Yorkers, crime was rampant, graffiti were pervasive, the Bronx was burning and the city was all but broke. As Michael Bloomberg, New York’s current mayor, put it, “When we were down, Ed Koch picked us up.” His catchphrase “How’m I doing?” charmed New Yorkers. He did so well at restoring their spirits and stabilising the city’s credit that his second election was more of a coronation. In his second term he launched a $5 billion affordable-housing programme, one of his triumphs. But his third term was marked by scandal. He was never suspected of wrongdoing, but his popularity took a hit when allies of his were investigated for corruption by Rudy Giuliani, later mayor himself, who was then a pugnacious federal prosecutor. He was not loved by all in New York. He became especially unpopular among blacks, one of his lasting regrets, after closing a failing public hospital in Harlem and responding feebly to racially motivated violence. This bitterness led to his defeat in a misguided fourth bid for mayor in 1989. Others wished he had dealt more rigorously with AIDS. But no one doubted his good humour and chutzpah. Mr Koch wanted to remain relevant after he left City Hall, becoming a pundit and author. His endorsements, not tied to political parties, were much sought after. He sometimes crossed the aisle, endorsing George W. Bush in 2004 and Bob Turner, a Republican congressman, in 2011; Mr Turner sent a message to Barack Obama for, as he put it, throwing Israel “under the bus”. A lifelong bachelor, he was assumed by many to be gay. Whatever his sexual preference, his true love was New York City. Even in death, he could not imagine leaving: “I don’t want to leave Manhattan, even when I am gone.” And so, a few years ago, he bought a plot in Trinity Church Cemetery in Manhattan’s Washington Heights. As Mr Bloomberg remarked in his eulogy: “A Polish Jew in an Episcopal graveyard in a largely Dominican neighbourhood. What could be more New York?” Mr Koch would surely have loved his funeral. Bigwigs like Bill Clinton and Governor Andrew Cuomo, senators and city politicos were all there, not to mention cameras galore. As his pallbearers, member of the police department, carried his coffin from the temple, an organ played “New York, New York”. The mourners gave him one last standing ovation.
The Conservatives' demands Tory! Tory! Tory! Referenda, ratchets and opt-outs DAVID CAMERON'S climbdown last November from a promise to hold a referendum on the Lisbon treaty, or at least “not let matters rest there”, was disguised by other bold promises. Some may be easy to deliver, but several could provoke rows with Britain's EU partners. The first promise is to pass a referendum act to provide that any treaty transferring powers from Britain to the EU must go to a referendum. Mr Cameron says this will put Britain in the same position as Ireland, where most treaties go to a popular vote. This may annoy the others, but they can hardly stop it. Second is a promised sovereignty act to confirm that ultimate authority rests with Parliament. This time the parallel cited by Mr Cameron is with the German constitutional court, which has approved previous EU treaties, including Lisbon, only with assurances that Germany's Basic Law and the German Bundestag retain ultimate sovereignty. A law will also provide that “ratchet clauses” in Lisbon permitting further transfers of power without new treaties can be invoked only with parliamentary approval. If the sovereignty act suggests that EU law loses its primacy over domestic law, however, the European Court of Justice might strike it down. Third, Mr Cameron wants more opt-outs from EU legislation. The first is an opt-out from social and employment legislation. The model is the opt-out from the social chapter that John Major secured in the Maastricht treaty. But the social chapter as such no longer exists. Moreover, many EU countries think social policies are integral to the single market. They see any British bid to avoid them but to keep full access to the single market as a form of “social dumping”. The Tories might entrench an exemption from the working-time directive, eg, in the National Health Service, as several other countries want one too—but the European Parliament, which under Lisbon has equal legislative power with EU governments, may not agree. Mr Cameron also wants a watertight opt-out from the charter of fundamental rights. Other EU countries think this was done in a protocol to the Lisbon treaty saying that the charter created no new rights in Britain, and may be reluctant to concede more. And he wants an opt-out from EU judicial influence over British criminal law. Since Britain already has opt-outs (and opt-ins) from justice and home affairs (JHA), this should be achievable. Indeed, in 2014, when JHA falls under the European Court, Britain could choose to opt out of it all—but that would mean losing things the British find useful, such as the common arrest warrant and asylum policy.
Hosea Williams, a civil-rights campaigner, died on November 16th, aged 74 FROM Rosa Parks, whose feet were tired, to Martin Luther King, who dreamed his dream, America's civil-rights movement has its fair share of saints. But saints alone do not a revolution make. Hosea Williams reminded Americans that thugs, too, have a part to play. The description was his, and his thuggishness sprang directly from the privations of his life. He was born, in Attapulgus, Georgia, to a blind teenage girl who had run away from school when she discovered she was pregnant. His grandfather, who brought him up, was said to have murdered three men. After leaving home at 14, Mr Williams worked for a time as a shill for a gambler in the citrus-picking camps in north Florida. He might have remained unknown, but for a stint of war service that had a profound effect on him. He fought fearlessly in Germany; it was, he said, “a legal way to kill white people”. But when he returned to the South, it was to the same pervasive and brutal prejudice he had left behind. Waiting one day at a bus station in Americus, Georgia, he tried to drink at the only water fountain and was so severely beaten that he almost died. He spent most of his time in hospital regretting that he had fought for “the wrong side”. Nonetheless, he suppressed the fires of resentment for a time. He attended college, took a job as a research chemist for the federal Agriculture Department and became, in his own words, “an upper-class negro”, with the second-biggest black house in Savannah. So matters might have remained, until another tiny incident turned him into an activist. One day in 1962, his children asked why they were not allowed to spin on the stools at the local lunch counter. Mr Williams could not bear to tell them that it was because they were black; the whole lunch counter, not merely the stools, was out of bounds to them. The next year, he joined the troops of Martin Luther King. His official job was to be King's field director all through the South. His unofficial role in the civil-rights movement was to be the threatening and unpredictable spokesman who would frighten whites into dealing, by preference, with the more respectable elements: the noble and non-violent King or the neat and mild-mannered Andrew Young, who later became the mayor of Atlanta. Where those men looked urbane, Mr Williams was bearded; he affected red shirts, overalls and berets. Mr Young recalls that, when he once agreed with Mr Williams on tactics, King rebuked him: “Your job is to take the other side so that I have enough room to go down the middle.” As Mr Williams described it, his job was to mobilise the poor blacks and “street people”, and to pack the jails if necessary, while King or Jesse Jackson moved the middle classes and Mr Young softened up the “white power structure”. The division of power worked well. Mr Williams had a natural sympathy with the poor, and also believed in direct action to help them. To the end of his life he held holiday dinners for the homeless, at Thanksgiving and Christmas, at which thousands were fed. As late as last June, he was complaining that the settlement of a racial discrimination case at Coca-Cola, Atlanta's biggest employer, would not address “the concerns of the masses”. As the mobiliser, it was Mr Williams's job to organise such events as the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in March 1965. The marchers were violently dispersed by police, and Mr Williams's skull was fractured; but the images, widely seen on television, did much to change opinion in America. The coming of legal equality, in that very year, did little to damp down Mr Williams's efforts, for he knew how little the Civil Rights Act had penetrated into the sinews of American life. In 1987, he led 30,000 protesters into all-white Forsyth County, north of Atlanta, where the Ku Klux Klan stoned him. Those who went with him thought he would get them all killed. Non-violence never came naturally. He was recklessly activist (“creatively maladjusted”, King called it), and though he dabbled in representative politics, serving in the Georgia state legislature and on the Atlanta City Council, he was too much of a firebrand to fit easily into off-street politics. He preferred rousing the rabble, holding jailhouse fasts, or marching. Elected officials, he believed, simply ignored the poor. Working with any sort of “power structure”, black or white—and the city of Atlanta's was heavily black from the 1970s onwards—was painful for him. His proud motto was “neither bossed nor bought”. A stint as executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference ended in a court order to eject him, and he never managed, though he tried, to become mayor of Atlanta. The number of his arrests, 130 or so, was something of a record. Yet not all his brushes with the law were in the cause of racial justice. He was twice arrested for trying to carry a gun on to an aircraft, and was often charged with traffic violations for being drunk or asleep at the wheel. It was all of a piece with his refusal to turn back when bigots in Forsyth County pelted him with bottles, and with his insistence on drinking from a fountain when he needed to. Mr Williams was not interested in emollience or compromise. Instead, he was a man consumed by fire; but fire is what revolutions need.
The Premiere Lecture Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE Founder, The Jane Goodall Institute UN Messenger of Peace Sowing the Seeds of Hope October 1 \| 7PM \| Wright Auditorium WATCH THE JANE GOODALL LECTURE ON-DEMAND Cosponsored by ECU’s Office of Research and Graduate Studies, Division of Health Sciences and Academic Affairs. In July 1960, Jane Goodall began her landmark study of chimpanzee behavior in what is now Tanzania. Her work at Gombe Stream would become the foundation of future primatological research and redefine the relationship between humans and animals. In 1977, Dr. Goodall established the Jane Goodall Institute, which continues the Gombe research and is a global leader in the effort to protect chimpanzees and their habitats. The Institute is widely recognized for innovative, community-centered conservation and development programs in Africa, and Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots, the global environmental and humanitarian youth program. Dr. Goodall founded Roots & Shoots with a group of Tanzanian students in 1991. Today, Roots & Shoots connects hundreds of thousands of youth in more than 120 countries who take action to make the world a better place for people, animals and the environment. Dr. Goodall travels an average of 300 days per year, speaking about the threats facing chimpanzees, other environmental crises, and her reasons for hope that humankind will solve the problems it has imposed on the earth. Dr. Goodall’s honors include the French Legion of Honor, the Medal of Tanzania, and Japan’s prestigious Kyoto Prize. In 2002, Dr. Goodall was appointed to serve as a United Nations Messenger of Peace and in 2003, she was named a Dame of the British Empire. For more information about Dr. Goodall and the work of the Jane Goodall Institute, please visit www.janegoodall.org. Photo: © Stuart Clarke
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I want to build a water cooled PC Has anyone done it before? I'm looking for a half demanding task to do at home and I didn't know how hard building a Water Cooled PC is compared with building a normal PC. I don't actually have a reason to have a Water Cooled PC either, I don't tend to over clock or do anything graphically demanding. But then this is because I have been scared to experiment. It would be nice to learn over clocking and starting playing games with stupid graphics. So yes, how challenging is it to build a Water Cooled PC and how expensive does it tend to be?
Enea in Stockholm has launched a Linux Base Station Platform targeting multi-standard Radio Access Networks based on Freescale's next generation mulit-core processors. More than half of the world's installed base of macro cell base stations and more than half of the world's LTE population coverage is powered by Enea software. Building on that momentum, the Enea Linux Base Station Platform is designed to fit Freescale's System-on-Chip (SoC) architectures adapting to the expanding standards of LTE and HSPA with support for different standards simultaneously. For mobile broadband equipment manufacturers, the Enea Linux Base Station Platform provides an integrated software foundation bringing an effective use of resources to the system, including core utilization and performance, thereby reducing the bill-of-material (BOM) cost. "The Enea Linux Base Station Platform provides a high performance implementation for both Macro/Micro cells and Small cells that are based on Freescale QorIQ, StarCore, and QorIQ Qonverge SoC series platforms," says Barry Stern, Baseband Product Line Marketing Manager, Freescale Semiconductor. "We work closely together with Enea to create the perfect match for SoCs such as the QorIQ Qonverge B4860 and our latest addition QorIQ Qonverge B4420, targeting Metro/Micro base stations deployment." The Enea Linux Base Station Platform encompasses the Enea Linux distribution with real-time capabilities and IP transport, IPC communication, plus tools and middleware needed by the 3G and 4G LTE stack and use-case specific application parts to implement a high performance base station/small cell product. The Yocto-based Linux distribution with customized services and support provides a complete, hardened embedded Linux with networking and telecom focus, while the Light-weight Run-time (LWRT) LWRT extends the real-time capabilities of Linux and allows timing critical applications to execute in Linux user-space. Reduced interrupt latency and deterministic and low-overhead thread scheduling enables applications such as LTE L2 scheduling to run on top of Linux with maximum performance. Enea's Packet Acceleration Foundation (PAX) provides IP Transport Ready-to-use building blocks for base station communication with controller and core network. A user space implementation that uses Freescale QorIQ and Qonverge hardware functions and accelerators provides scalability and performance and there is a low-overhead user-extensible foundation with support for tracing and profiling. The LINX High performance and scalable messaging-based IPC is used for intra- and inter- core control and data plane messaging within the base station main unit and with the radio unit, while the Hypervisor provides specialized systems virtualization for high-performance, deterministic It also includes a multicore DSP Layer 1 (PHY) run-time, communication, and Linux DSP management foundation for multi-standard macro and small cell implementations and middleware for simplifying the development of telecom-grade distributed systems by providing frameworks for messaging, debug and trace, management, and high availability, including in-service software upgrade. The Enea Linux Base Station Platform comes with a customizable range of services and support, maintenance and continued development of the integrated product. Upgrades and updates providing new versions of Enea products and open source software in the integrated product are made according to customer needs. This article originally appeared in EE Times Europe.
Brownfield sites are defined as real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by actual or perceived environmental contamination. However, cleanup of brownfield sites in Florida is generally easier, quicker, and cheaper than brownfield sites in many other parts of the country. That's because the severity of environmental degradation/contamination in Florida generally does not even begin to approach that in many other U.S. states. Businesses that clean up and redevelop an existing brownfield site are provided with generous financial incentives, regulatory benefits, technical assistance, and liability protection. Just a few of the advantages of brownfield sites include: - $2,500 Job Bonus Refund for each new job created in a brownfield area by an eligible business. - Highly attractive business locations with existing infrastructure. - Voluntary cleanup tax credits. - Cleanup liability protection. - Low-interest loans for assessment and cleanup. - Brownfield properties are often located within enterprise zones that provide additional financial incentives. - Increased State Loan Guarantee can improve lending opportunities - Expedited Permitting for Brownfield projects For more information on Florida's brownfields program, visit the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Brownfields website or the Florida Brownfields Association (FBA) website. To locate a suitable brownfield site for your business, please contact us.
U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and Analysis Today in Energy U.S. fuel ethanol production capacity was 13.9 billion gallons per year (903,000 barrels per day), as of January 1, 2013, according to a report released by EIA on May 20, 2013. The report shows a very slight increase in the total capacity of operating ethanol plants compared to January 1, 2012. Most of the existing fuel ethanol capacity is located in the Midwest (PAD District 2). A total of 193 ethanol plants were operating as of January 1, 2013, compared to 194 plants operating a year earlier. Most fuel ethanol production capacity, about 91%, is located in PADD 2. Total nameplate capacity in PADD 2 is 12.6 billion gallons per year (822,000 barrels per day). The number of plants in this report includes plants that were idled or temporarily shut down during 2012. The report includes data for the total nameplate production capacity for all operating fuel ethanol production plants as of January 1, 2013. Nameplate production capacity, the measure of capacity tracked by EIA, is the volume of denatured (made unfit for human consumption) fuel ethanol that can be produced during a period of 12 months under normal operating conditions. The total capacities in the report are listed by region (PAD Districts) in both millions of gallons per year and thousands of barrels per day. The report is updated annually. In two previous reports on ethanol capacity, EIA included data on maximum sustainable production capacity of ethanol plants. Starting with this third report, EIA decided to publish only nameplate production capacities, and will discontinue collection and publication of maximum sustainable capacity data. EIA determined that nameplate capacity is a sufficient measure of available ethanol production capacity, and the additional burden on respondents to report a maximum sustainable capacity number is not justified by the value and utility of the information. The next EIA annual report on ethanol production capacity is expected to be released during the spring of 2014. The 2014 report will include facility-level nameplate production capacity data, which will increase the transparency of the ethanol industry data. The capacity data are reported to EIA by respondents on the EIA-819 Monthly Oxygenate Report. The EIA-819 is submitted by all operating fuel ethanol and other oxygenate production plants within the United States. The published ethanol production capacity includes only the ethanol plants that were operating as of January 1, 2013, and does not include plants that were idled or shut down as of that date.
updated 11:23 am EDT, Tue October 16, 2012 Customers to use QR codes on product photos for purchases An e-commerce company in China will launch 1,000 supermarkets in the country, without stock. Yihaodian will instead show the images of products on shelves accompanied by a QR code, allowing customers to scan and pay with a smartphone. The shopping is then delivered to the customer's home at a later time. Each store will have around 1,200 square meters of floor space (13,000 square feet) and stock 1,000 items. It is suggested by the Tencent Technology News Monday that these "Unlimited Yihaodian" stores will allow customers to avoid long queues while shopping, and is a natural extension to the small scale QR code shopping offered at some Chinese subway stations. The idea of a virtual supermarket is nothing new. UK supermarket chain Tesco used its HomePlus brand to offer the subway-based virtual shopping in South Korea, and opened a kiosk in Gatwick Airport in London so that passengers could order items and have them delivered shortly after arriving at their destination.
Scientist in Hungary and Portugal get research boost EMBO Installation Grants help establish labs for two scientists Heidelberg, 29 July 2008 - Two talented life scientists will receive EMBO Installation Grants, assisting them to establish their research groups in Hungary and Portugal. These two scientists will receive funding in 2008 similar to the previous nine awardees announced in November 2007. The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) introduced the scheme in 2006. EMBO Installation Grants are awarded annually and aim to strengthen science in selected member states of the EMBC, the EMBO intergovernmental funding body. The EMBC Member States hosting the grantees generally finance the grants entirely. EMBC Member States participating in the scheme include Croatia, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal and Turkey. Each scientist receives 50,000 euro annually for three to five years to help them establish their groups and themselves in the European scientific community. Grantees are integrated into the prestigious EMBO Young Investigator network, providing networking opportunities with some of Europe's best young group leaders and a range of career development programmes. "EMBO congratulates these two scientists as recipients of the 2007 EMBO Installation Grants and welcomes them to the EMBO community," said Hermann Bujard, EMBO Executive Director. "These talented scientists will benefit from the secure financial backing of their host countries plus the active interest and support of EMBO in their scientific and professional development. They represent a promising scientific future for the countries receiving them and for Europe as a whole." A committee of EMBO Members selected the successful candidates for the high standard of their research. By bringing this level of scientific talent into the participating countries, EMBO hopes to improve the competitiveness of these countries in European science. Gergely Szakács is moving from the USA to set up his laboratory at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, Hungary to research multidrug resistance in cancer. Szakács is the third awardee to establish a lab in Hungary of the total 11 scientists receiving the 2007 EMBO Installation Grants. In Portugal, Monica Bettencourt-Dias's group is researching cell cycle links to cancer at the Gulbenkian Institute in Oeiras. Bettencourt-Dias moves from the UK and is the second awardee to set up in Portugal of the 11 grantees for 2007. Portugal's Foundation for Science & Technology (FCT) and the Gulbenkian Institute will share payment of the Dias grant. Recipients of the 2008 EMBO Installation Grants will be announced in November 2008. 2007 EMBO Installation Grantees Two of the nine grantees will establish groups in the Czech Republic, three in Hungary, two in Turkey, one in Croatia, one in Poland and two in Portugal. Five scientists will move from positions in the USA, three will move from the UK, two from Switzerland and one will move from Sweden. \|Name\|\|Moving to\|\|Moving from\| \|Bryja, Vítĕzslav\|\|Masaryk University, Brno, CZ\|\|Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, SE\| \|Research area: Wnt pathway activation\| \|Çelik, Arzu\|\|Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, TR\|\|New York University, US\| \|Research area: Photoreceptor differentiation\| \|Monica Bettencourt-Dias\|\|Gulbenkian Institute, Oeiras, PT\|\|University of Cambridge, UK\| \|Research area: Cell cycle links to cancer\| \|Dobrzyń, Agnieszka\|\|Nencki Institute (of Experimental Biology), Warsaw, PL\|\|University of Wisconsin-Madison, US\| \|Research area: Lipid-induced insulin resistance\| \|Pál, Csaba\|\|Biological Research Center, Szeged, HU\|\|University of Oxford, UK\| \|Research area: Evolutionary systems biology\| \|Reményi, Attila\|\|Eötvös Lorand University, Budapest, HU\|\|University of California San Francisco (UCSF), US\| \|Research area: Protein-protein interactions\| \|Gergely Szakács\|\|Hungarian Academy of Sciences, \|Center for Cancer Research, Bethesda, US\| \|Research area: Multidrug resistance in cancer\| \|Vaňáčova, Štěpénka\|\|Masaryk University, Brno, CZ\|\|Biozentrum Basel, CH\| \|Research area: Nuclear RNA quality control\| \|Veiga-Fernandes, Henrique\|\|Instituto de Medicina Molecular (IMM), Lisbon, PT\|\|National Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), London, UK\| \|Research area: Lymphocyte development\| \|Yaman, Ibrahim\|\|Marmara Research Center, Gebze, TR\|\|Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, US\| \|Research area: Ochratoxin A carcinogenicity\| \|Žagrović, Bojan\|\|Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences (MILS), Split, HR\|\|Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, CH\| \|Research area: Molecular structure and dynamics\| Head, Public Relations & Communications T. + 49 6221 8891 108 T. + 49 6221 8891 111
IN THIS ARTICLE Who should not take cycloserine (Seromycin)? You cannot take cycloserine if you Cycloserine is in the FDA pregnancy category C. This means that it is not known whether cycloserine will harm an unborn baby. Do not take this medication without first talking to your doctor if you are pregnant Cycloserine passes into breast milk, and it is not known whether cycloserine will harm a nursing baby. Do not take this medication without first talking to your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby. How should I take cycloserine (Seromycin)? Take cycloserine exactly as directed by your doctor. If you do not understand these instructions, ask your pharmacist, nurse, or doctor to explain them to you. Take each dose with a full glass (8 ounces) of water. Cycloserine is usually taken twice a day. Follow your doctor's instructions. Take all of the cycloserine that has been prescribed for you even if you begin to feel better. Your symptoms may begin to improve before the infection is completely treated. Cycloserine is usually combined with one or more other tuberculosis medicines. Your doctor may also want you to take a supplemental vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) tablet daily during treatment to lessen side effects. Store this medication at room temperature away from moisture and heat. Report Problems to the Food and Drug Administration You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit the FDA MedWatch website or call 1-800-FDA-1088. Need help identifying pills and medications? Find out what women really need.
You send out strong signals! Making just the right vibrations, you can entice the opposite sex from miles away. Lucky for you, your noisy love tactics don't bother the neighbors. You're an Alligator! Alligators are noisy animals, especially during the spring mating season. And while both male and female alligators can produce bellowing sounds, those of large males are louder and deeper than those of their female counterparts. But these noises, created vocally above the water's surface, are only part of the story. From a source deep within their abdomens, males also produce extremely powerful sounds in the subsonic end of the lower register. These sounds (like those produced by the largest whales) travel well underwater and may serve to attract females from many miles away, particularly if the sender is very large and therefore capable of using its massive internal resonating chamber to produce extremely low vibrations. Read more about the American Alligator See what other types are out there.... Want to learn more about moths that wear perfume, flies that steal other flies' dates, and salamanders that drug their mates? Click on the pictures below to discover animalsí surprising love lives.
An increasing number of farms in Alabama are adopting the community supported agriculture (CSA) model to help fund their operations and market their products. CSA offers members, such as local residents or individuals recruited from metropolitan areas, a share of a farm's harvests in exchange for an investment in the farm at the beginning of the season. Farmers appreciate the up-front investment, the chance to connect with their customers, and the knowledge that at least part of their crop has been sold. Customers and members enjoy the regular supply of farm-fresh produce and a personal connection to the farm that grows their food. Though the CSA concept has been growing in popularity in Alabama and the United States for more than 20 years, the model arose in the 1960s in Europe and Japan and was only introduced to the United States in the mid 1980s. Some of the earliest CSA farms in the United States were in fact located in Alabama. Tuscaloosa CSA in Coker started in 1989 and Bee Natural Farm, a CSA enterprise in Fairhope, began operations around the same time. They are also some of the oldest organic farms in the state, at least since the word "organic" was adopted to describe this type of farming. The CSA model provided a good marketing option for both of the farms, which had few outlets for their organically grown produce, a farming practice almost universal among CSA enterprises. As interest in organic farming has grown in Alabama in the past decade, so has interest in CSA. Alabama is now home to at least 12 CSA projects, with memberships ranging from 12 to more than 200 individuals. Whereas CSA in Alabama and the Southeast in general is not as popular as in other regions of the country, particularly the Northeast and West Coast, many Alabama CSA farms have waiting lists to join. Although each CSA operation in Alabama has a different membership and distribution arrangement, the majority raise a variety of organic produce over the growing season and members receive a weekly box of seasonal vegetables. These boxes may be delivered or picked up at the farm or at an alternate location. Some CSA enterprises require that members join for an entire season, whereas others break memberships up among multiple shorter seasons throughout the year. Members are often encouraged to help occasionally on the farm, and most CSA farms schedule days when members may visit the operation, assist with the work, and meet other members. Some CSA ventures offer produce from a single farm, and others work cooperatively to pool their harvests and members. Many operations supplement their boxes with other products such as meat, baked goods, cut flowers, and dairy products, either from their farm or from other local producers. Any products coming from other farms are identified as such, so members still know from where their food originated. Farmers often include newsletters in their boxes to contribute to the feeling of member ownership; they describe what has been happening on the farm and provide recipes for unusual vegetables. Each farm or group of farms works to develop the best system for themselves and their membership. Farming requires a significant investment in seeds, fertilizer, labor, equipment, and other expenses long before the final product is brought to market. Many farmers have difficulty covering these up-front expenses and have found that the CSA model offers an alternative to loans to cover their costs. This system has helped many small and mid-sized farms manage their costs and also provided the opportunity for customers to feel ownership and connection with local farms. Typically in the United States, CSA operations are small—about 18 acres on average in 1999—and provide only part of a farm's income, which is generally modest. Also, CSA farmers are younger than the average farmer and usually rent the land. CSA farming is a challenge. Whereas members provide an initial investment and market, farmers must provide a consistent and diverse supply of vegetables throughout a season, which requires good planning and management skills, the ability to communicate well with members, and knowledge of each crop's growing requirements. CSA farmers must also have better public-relations abilities than farm management typically requires. Fortunately this has not deterred many small Alabama farms from developing a CSA model that fits their and their communities' needs. Gregson, Bob, and Bonnie Gregson. Rebirth of the Small Family Farm: A Handbook for Starting a Successful Organic Farm Based on the Community Supported Agriculture Concept. Austin, Tex.: Acres U.S.A., 2004 Groh, Trauger, and Steven McFadden. Farms of Tomorrow, Revisited: Community Supported Farms, Farm-Supported Communities. Kimberton, Pa.: Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association, 1997. Henderson, Elizabeth, and Robyn Van En. Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture. White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green, 2007. Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network Published October 31, 2007 Last updated January 21, 2010
Hello, could you tell me which one of these sentences is correct? or maybe both? 1. Apart from Simon, all students paid for the trip 2. Apart from all, Simon havent paid for the trip. For me personally sense of the question is the same. Users browsing this forum: Teo and 12 guests
Only affirmative: sempre na afirmativaSOME – alguns I have SOME friends/There’s somethings wrong there/There’s somebody Note: when we offer or ask for request: / quando nos oferecemos ou - Would you like some coffee? - Can you lend me some potatoes? Only interrogative: sempre na interrogativeANY – alguns - Do you have any friends? / - Is there anything wrong here?/ - Is there Negative verb must be in the negative form, there is in the sentence we must have “don’t, didn’t, won’t, wouldn’t”, ins’t, aren’t, etc) - I don’t have any friend / there isn’t anything wrong here. - There isn’t anybody hereNO – negative - verb must be in the affirmative form - I have no friends / eu nao tenho amigos - There is nothing wrong here / não há erros aqui - There is nobody here/ nao há niguem aqui Note: nao tem nada ver com o “Não – No”
Belize Top Destinations Islands (Cayes) of Belize The cayes, the offshore atolls and the barrier reef are one of the main attractions of Belize. The barrier reef, which is 185 miles long, is the longest in the Western Hemisphere. The cayes (pronounced keys) are islands that are located between the mainland and the barrier reef. Although the mangrove cayes are normally uninhabitable by humans, they do provide a superior habitat for birds and marine life. Many birds, fish, shellfish, and marine organisms begin their lives within the protection of the mangrove. On the other hand, the island cayes, which are distinguishable by their palm trees, have provided the foundation for the development of many fine resorts to serve the water sports enthusiasts and the marine naturalists. The cayes and atolls provide superior opportunity for scuba diving, snorkeling, fishing, boating, sailing and sea kayaking, as well as being a habitat for both nesting birds and turtles. South Water Caye Lighthouse Reef Atoll These are just a few of the more famous cayes within the hundreds of islands in Belize. They all provide first class scuba diving, snorkeling and many other activities. Ambergris Caye, Caye Caulker and Light House Reef all have an airstrip, which makes access to these exotic islands an easy venture. Belize offers many different islands to meet your specific needs, some only 20 minutes away from the mainland and others more exclusive though less accessible. All will make your vacation in Belize unforgettable!
Better Students Ask More Questions. Explain the following quotation in She Stoops to Conquer? Miss Hard: Yes. But upon... Topic: She Stoops to Conquer Explain the following quotation in She Stoops to Conquer? Miss Hard: Yes. But upon conditions. For if you should find him less impudent, and I more presuming; if you find him more respectful, and I more importunate-I don't know- the fellow is well enough for a man- Certainly we don't meet many such at a horse race in the country. 1 Answer \| add yours Best answer as selected by question asker. This scene, found in Act III, Kate and her father have already met Marlow and, judging from his extreme shift in behaviors, Mr. Hardcastle agrees with Kate in that Marlow is to be rejected as a suitor. However, Kate is as dynamic and charismatic a character as Marlow. For this reason, she entertains keeping Marlow as a suitor as long as he behaves in less extreme ways while still showing his true personality. That her father would find him "less impudent" means that Kate wishes for Marlow to be less offensive and brash. Remember that he was really rude when he mistakenly confused the Hardcastle home and its inhabitants with the local inn and its servants. When Kate says that she wants him to be "more presuming", meaning that he leaves aside the extreme shyness that he feels in the presence of women such as Kate. Remember how he treats Kate when he meets her for the first time; he hardly even makes eye to eye contact. In showing himself a bit more presuming, he would actually show a litte more self assurance. In the same manner, Kate wishes that she and her dad get to see the opposite of what each of them saw in Marlow upon first meeting him. In this case she says that if her father were to see Marlow acting much more respectful than he did the first time, and if Kate would see a more "importunate" towards her, then his behavior would definitely even out in their eyes. By "more importunate" Kate means that she wishes that Marlow were more insistent in wanting Kate. Therefore, the dialogue between Kate and Hardcastle brings out the different personalities that Marlow expressed toward them in different situations. Hence, if they are able to witness Marlow acting in the opposite way than the way that they met him, then Kate would think of him as a more "normal" kind of guy and she would consider him. Posted by herappleness on May 25, 2013 at 5:05 PM (Answer #1) Related QuestionsSee all » Join to answer this question Join a community of thousands of dedicated teachers and students.
Applied math lab joins scientists working on oil cleanup in the Gulf Originally published in UCLA Today By Cynthia Lee For five years Professor Andrea Bertozzi, director of UCLA’s applied mathematics program, has been working quietly with her students and postdocs on experiments in a small Math Sciences lab to understand the physics of what happens when sand and oil mix together and flow down a slope. While the experiments are simple enough for beginning researchers to do, the challenge of coming up with a mathematical model to predict how this sludgy mixture will behave, based on the size of the grain of sand (or in this case, silica beads), the viscosity of the oil and the angle of the slope, makes the problem a lot more complex and intriguing to young scientists. With some modest funding over the years from the Office of Naval Research, the National Science Foundation and the UC Lab Fees Research program, the experiments gave undergraduates a chance to dig their heels into basic science research. Bertozzi’s applied math lab is the first at UCLA to give students an opportunity to do hands-on experiments that are primarily driven by mathematics. Although the lab wasn’t sophisticated and the results didn’t create headlines, the papers it produced addressed some basic science questions of relevance to the food industry, coal recovery and mudslides. “I always felt that this project was something we did on the side,” said Bertozzi, who has made big headlines recently with work she and her UCLA colleagues have done on a mathematical model of crime “hotspots.” Then something happened to give their research nationwide relevance: The Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up in the Gulf of Mexico. When crude oil began to wash up on the beaches of Louisiana, Bertozzi immediately began to see a connection between the theoretical work she and her students had been doing since 2005 and the tragic outcome of what has been called the worst environmental disaster in the history of the country. “I had the thought that we might start thinking about problems that were more directed at the oil spill,” the mathematics professor recalled. A call for “rapid response” proposals related to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill by the National Science Foundation clinched it. Winning a year’s worth of funding totaling $140,618, Bertozzi and her students have now found themselves working at the leading edge of oil spill-related research along with hundreds of other scientists funded by the same NSF grants. The lab’s research will address fundamental questions that relate to the monumental cleanup problem and hopefully will produce theories about the dynamics of oil and sand. For example, is there a critical angle of incline for beach sand dunes that would result in oil collecting in the dune itself instead of flowing to the bottom of the dune? Scientists on the oil-contaminated beaches are finding not only globs of oil sitting on the sand, but layers of crude that have been deposited 6 to 10 inches beneath the sandy surface. “Springboarding off our study, what we see happening depends on the angle of the incline, the viscosity of the oil and the amount of oil there in comparison to sand,” Bertozzi said. “We might potentially be able to predict how the oil is going to separate from the beach sand.” To duplicate the basic physical forces that are involved in this study of fluid dynamics and sedimentation, where particles suspended in a fluid exert forces on other particles in complex ways, Bertozzi and her group use non-toxic oil of various viscosities and glass beads, like sand, but engineered to be identical in size, to make sludge. They then examine how it behaves as it flows down an inclined trough. Does the sludge stay well-mixed? Or does sand flow faster to the front edge to form a ridge? In some cases, some of the oil separates to flow in “fingers” ahead of the sand. Using a laser to help them see the profile of the flow, they can create a 3-D computerized mathematical profile of the flow to help them in their analysis. In a recent paper, Bertozzi’s team successfully compared detailed experiments with a new theory for how sand separates from oil. As principal investigator on the study, Bertozzi is currently designing some experiments that will directly focus on some of the issues related to the cleanup of beaches. She is also preparing to give lectures on mathematical modeling of the oil spill and of crime patterns at the University College in London in September. The American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics has invited her to speak on the oil research at its November meeting in Long Beach. “It’s exciting to have this very important application for our work,” she said. “But it’s also kind of sad that this [oil spill] is the reason for it.” UCLA's Mathematics Department was recently rated No. 2 in the country for its graduate program in applied mathematics by US News & World Report. To read more about the lab’s work, click here. Published: Friday, July 23, 2010
What is the difference between handmade Amalfi paper and hand cut paper? This is an excellent question. Our Amalfi paper is completely made by the hands Amalfi artisans. It started out as cotton fibers and tiny wood chips and has been soaked, then pressed into the rich thick fabric like stock with our signature torn edge look. Often the pages are watermarked. They are white in color and have a very strong tooth or roughness, making them perfect for drawing, sketching, writing, painting, or attaching your own beautiful paper to the pages. Hand-cut paper is an Epica exclusive design of rich cream colored stock. It does not carry the lofty price of handmade Amalfi paper but still has that gorgeous uneven deckled edge that so many books used to have. Each page has been cut by hand to give it its unique look. The stock is thicker than most paper. It is almost like a very thin construction paper, but it is softer, smoother, creamier, and is our personal favorite to write on. Finally, we carry classic journals. These are standard page blank journals that are white colored, unlined, and a bit thicker than normal paper stock. No related articles were found. No attachments were found. 19th of July, 2010
When it comes to eating as a family, I imagine it's a particular challenge for parents with babies who are starting their lifelong journey as eaters. This is where Debbie Koenig's tome, Parents Need to Eat Too: Nap-Friendly Recipes, One-Handed Meals, and Time-Saving Kitchen Tricks for New Parents (William Morrow) comes in handy. It's a lengthy book, and for any parent who's short on time, it's not a cookbook you'll want to curl up and read at leisure, but it allows you to jump around as needed. In my opinion, it's the book's organization that helps make Koenig's book stand out. The chapters are broken down by how much time you have/would like to be cooking: "Nap-Friendly Cooking," "Mom's New Best Friend: The Slow Cooker," and "Lunchtime Pumping and Last-Minute Dinners: A Chapter for WOHMs" are just a few. And every recipe comes with a baby-friendly version that indicates if pureeing is necessary, if the dish makes for good finger food, or with the suggestion that certain ingredients (such as sugar/honey) should be omitted for the littlest one. Comments from real-life moms who tested the recipes add value to the recipes as proof that babies did indeed eat--and like--the food. Perhaps it would've been nice to have photos and nice, glossy paper but its sparse design makes it the perfectly utilitarian and a blessing for the most harried of parents who are looking for some good food to feed the entire family.
As we begin the second week of our Superfood Doable Challenge, let's agree to keep eating our super fruits (the easiest assignment ever, if you ask me) and also boost our super vegetable intake. Spinach, wild mushrooms, and zucchini are the three everyday superfoods spotlighted in this challenge, and they taste great together, so how about combining them all in one meal for a true superfood smackdown? Our Bibimbap at Home (pictured) and Crunchy Vegetables Rolls with Soy Dipping Sauce recipes fit the bill. Or you could improvise and include all three in this Summer Vegetable Stir-Fry (add the spinach at the end since it cooks quickly), or grill wild mushrooms and zucchini and toss them into a spinach salad for healthy take on wilted spinach salad. Alternately, you could have one at breakfast (a Zucchini-Tomato Frittata Sandwich, say), one at lunch (a Quinoa, Garbanzo, and Spinach Salad), and one at dinner (Minted Mackerel and Mushroom Escabeche). Or you could have a multi-course meal, working the ingredients into the courses (the Superfoods Challenge has additional recipes, plus more info on what makes each of these foods so great). Just aim to eat at least one serving of these veggies each day, trying to get each in this week since they all have different benefits. Photo: Christina Holmes
Spanish or Spanish Revival house plans feature heavy ornamentation inspired by the Spanish and Moorish architectural traditions. Found primarily in the southwest, Texas, California, and Florida, Spanish Revival home designs draw on the heritage and architectural detail of America's Spanish colonial history. The red tile roofs and thick stuccoed walls serve to keep the interior cool in hot southern climates. Spanish homes often feature expansive layouts with imposing towers or turrets. The most fanciful of the Southwest styles, Spanish house plans feature heavy ornamentation inspired by the Spanish and Moorish architectural traditions, with carved and shaped columns, wrought iron details at the windows and doors, and tiled floors, sometimes in elaborate patterns. These diverse influences sometimes lead them to be called Spanish Eclectic houses. Spanish floor plans are designed for entertaining, both indoors and out, with great gathering rooms and extensive lanais.
The rapid increase in overweight and obesity in the United States over the past several decades, particularly among children, has prompted discussions about the role of public policy in addressing this rising epidemic. Although the causes of obesity are clearly multifactorial, unhealthful dietary patterns have caused many of these discussions to focus on modifying or developing food and nutrition policy to ensure adequate access to healthy foods. Consistent with these efforts, USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) published a final interim rule that would revise regulations governing the food packages provided in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on December 6, 2007. WIC is one of the largest food assistance programs in the United States, with expenditures exceeded only by the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly the Food Stamp Program) and National School Lunch Program. WIC serves over 8 million women, infants and children, with an estimated one-half of all infants and one-quarter of all U.S. children 1-4 years of age participating in the program. A noteworthy revision is the addition of cash vouchers to the food packages of women and children to purchase fresh fruits ($8 per month) and vegetables ($6 per month) that can be redeemed at participating retailers, or “WIC vendors.” While WIC participants receive a variety of benefits, supplemental foods are viewed as an important aspect of the benefit package and constitute a significant portion (about 73 percent) of WIC program costs. Despite overwhelming support from WIC stakeholders regarding the addition of a fruit and vegetable benefit, several concerns have been raised related to vendor burden, including the potential need for vendors to purchase additional equipment, obtain a new business license, and receive training in special handling of fresh produce. Other concerns center on limitations in participant access, particularly for those living in areas with scarce produce, higher fruit and vegetable costs, or inadequate selection. These concerns could impact the number of vendors that participate in the program and the type and amount of fruits and vegetables available, thus limiting the benefits of this important policy for particular subgroups of the WIC population. In preparation for the proposed policy, this study examined current neighborhood WIC vendor access and fruit and vegetable availability in selected areas in northern Illinois. Specific aims were to (1) describe current availability, selection, price, and quality of fruits and vegetables offered by WIC authorized vendors in selected areas in northern Illinois, (2) examine variations in WIC vendor and fruit and vegetable access by neighborhood characteristics, including geographic (percentage rural), racial/ethnic (percentage African-American), and socioeconomic (percentage in poverty), and (3) understand factors that influence fruit and vegetable availability, selection, price, and quality from the perspective of retailers participating in the WIC program. Current fruit and vegetable characteristics were assessed at 338 authorized WIC vendors across a 7-county area in northern Illinois. WIC vendor assessments were conducted using an in-person audit tool adapted from prior work that evaluates the availability of 150 commonly consumed and culturally specific fresh, frozen, and canned fruits and vegetables, as well as the price of 26 and quality of 10 of these items. To determine variations in WIC vendor and fruit and vegetable access by neighborhood characteristics, data on neighborhood attributes in the study area were obtained from the 2000 Census (percentage race, poverty, and urban). Vendors were classified by type and size and addresses were matched to a location-indexed street file using geographic information system (GIS) software. Descriptive statistics, Chi-square, and logistic regression were used in data analysis. Of the 338 authorized WIC vendors in the sample, 120 were classified as pharmacies, 115 national/regional chain supermarkets, and 109 small chain/independent grocery stores. Consistent with previous neighborhood food environment studies, larger national/regional chain supermarkets were less likely to be located in predominately minority versus non-Hispanic White neighborhoods and high-poverty versus low-poverty neighborhoods. No relationships were found between neighborhood characteristics and other vendor types. As expected, national and regional chain supermarkets had the greatest availability of fresh or frozen fruits and vegetables and pharmacies had the lowest availability. None of the pharmacies in the study area supplied fresh fruits or vegetables, and only about 2.3 percent carried frozen selections. Availability of fresh fruits and vegetables was positively correlated with the percentage of neighborhood residents with a college degree and households earning over $75,000 and negatively associated with the percentage in poverty or unemployment and residents without access to a car. The availability of canned fruits and vegetables did not differ by vendor type. However, chain supermarkets and vendors in predominately non-Hispanic White neighborhoods were more likely to supply canned fruits and vegetables without added salt, sugar, or fat than small chain/independent grocery stores, pharmacies, and vendors in predominately minority neighborhoods. Preliminary analysis revealed limited differences in price across different vendor and neighborhood types; however, indepth analyses of fruit and vegetable price and quality were incomplete. Similar to previous studies, these findings suggest that vendors provide less access to fresh fruits and vegetables and canned fruits and vegetables without added salt, sugar, or fat in minority and high-poverty neighborhoods than in non-Hispanic White and more affluent neighborhoods. Small/independent grocery stores, pharmacies, and WIC vendors in minority communities may need more support to expand their availability of fruits and vegetables to meet the needs of WIC participants. Direct inquiries about this study to the Project Contact listed above.
Construction Management laboratory facilities include a construction management computer laboratory/classroom, a building materials and light frame construction lab, and a composite materials lab. Additional laboratories that support instruction and research include the wood protection lab, wood identification lab, moisture research lab, and dry kiln. The construction management computer lab has instructional software for estimating, scheduling, project management, building information modeling, wood engineering design, computer aided design and drafting, and finite element analysis. The Wood Products Engineering Laboratory (WPEL) is certified by the International Accreditation Service (IAS). The Wood Products Engineering Laboratory (WPEL) houses a wide range of testing equipment , electronic data acquisition facilities, and wood processing facilities including a dry kiln, wood preservation equipment, a new wood machining laboratory, sawmill, and expanded facilities for building materials research for green construction. The C.J.K. Wang Wood Biodegradation Laboratory includes mycology culturing facilities and a modern molecular analysis laboratory; research microscopes, image analysis system and wood microtechnique equipment. A complete microscopy and image analysis laboratory is provided by the N.C. Brown Center for Ultrastructure Studies. This equipment includes a transmission electron microscope, scanning electron microscopes with energy dispersive x-ray analysis and particulate analysis accessories, and a wide variety of light microscopes equipped with image enhancement and various video image analysis capabilities. Graduate students from ESF as well as SU have access to coursework in microscopy which provides access to the microscopy equipment for their research projects. Faculty and graduate students are encouraged to gather expert advice from the staff of the Ultrastructure Center on tissue preparation and interpretation as well counsel on the most recent research approaches utilizing microscopy. Graduate students in SCME using this equipment have the best available systems to relate the macroscopic behavior of wood to its anatomical characteristics. One of the largest wood collections in the world, the H. P. Brown Memorial Wood Collection, is used to support the graduate research program of the Tropical Timber Information Center. The center also maintains the Carl deZeeuw Memorial Library. The Wood Utilization Service is the oldest public service and demonstration effort of the College of Environmental Science and Forestry. It was established in 1913 to carry out activities which facilitate and encourage the most efficient processing, manufacture, marketing and use of wood, the premier renewable, sustainable, economical and environmentally beneficial construction, building, and manufacturing material. Services provided include advising, answering questions, consulting, testing, demonstrations and use of ESF's unique wood processing and testing facilities. The Renewable Materials Institute conducts research in the broad area of sustainable development of wood resources and the uses of wood products.
live in the moment, or now, means being conscious, aware and in the present with all of your senses. It means not dwelling on the past, nor being anxious or worrying about the future. When we concentrate our attention on the present we focus on the task at hand. We give our full attention to what we are doing and we let go of outcomes. Seizing each moment in life allows us to prolong its value and make it more meaningful. Rather than seeking quantity of time, when we live in the moment we enjoy and savor every minute. We don't sacrifice quality for quantity. Of course, this doesn't mean we don't need to plan, set goals or prepare for the future. We can do all of these things and still enjoy each moment as it unfolds. For instance, if we have set a goal to exercise each day, we would carry on with it while enjoying the actual process, or moment, of exercising (or at least be in the moment of it). When we train ourselves to live in each moment, we immerse ourselves in it and begin to discover its beauty and wonder. We learn focus and how to manage our energy. Professional athletes understand and employ this kind of focus very well. They know that accomplishment and success are a result of the skillful management and balancing of energy. To make every moment count we must embrace it. Everything we do and every person we come in contact with deserves our full attention. Even when resting we should savor the moment. It gives us the opportunity to recharge, renew and gain clarity. Quite often we put huge expectations on ourselves and our lives. We rush to do this, hurry up with that, without actually enjoying the process. What's the rush? Where do we think we're going? If we don't stop and think about where we're at, we're probably missing the point. Instead, when we appreciate each moment and garner the lessons from it, we live consciously, purposefully and Likewise, when we live in the past and don't let go of painful experiences, perceived wrongs, or difficult times, we condemn ourselves to a present and future of the same. We cannot change the past. We can, however, come to terms with it, know that it's over, and move on. Living in the moment means letting go of the past and trusting in the future. When we are positive and optimistic in the present, we open the possibility of a positive and promising future. We owe it to ourselves to make every moment count - now! Tips for Living in The Moment Train your mind to focus on the current activity. Engage in, and feel what you are doing. Enjoy the process. Learn relaxation techniques in order to be present in each Take notice of your surroundings - sights, sounds, smells, Listen attentively to the conversation of others, music, Savor your food and drink. Taste each morsel. Benefits of Living in The Moment ✓ You become more connected with your thoughts and feelings ✓ Are more connected to others ✓ Feel more gratitude and enjoyment of life ✓ If you live in the moment, it won't pass you by ✓ Feel more focused, peaceful and alive ✓ Feel less anxious and fearful Like all skills, training yourself to enjoy and live in the moment takes time and practice. Begin now and see life from a fresh, new perspective.
It's quite common for a female song sparrow to stray from her breeding partner and mate with the male next door, but a new study shows that sleeping around can be costly. The 20-year study, which is reported in The American Naturalist, found that offspring conceived outside sparrows' social pairs go on to have lower reproductive success than within-pair offspring. The findings throw a monkey wrench into theories about why ostensibly monogamous animals might be inclined to cheat. Most bird species display some form of monogamy. Bonded pairs stay together for a breeding season, a few seasons, or sometimes for life. But beneath this veneer of monogamy, there's plenty of hanky-panky in most species. Why promiscuity exists in monogamous species is "one of the biggest remaining enigmas in evolutionary ecology," said Jane Reid, a research fellow at the University of Aberdeen and one of the study's authors. One hypothesis for this is that when a female strays she makes it count by mating with a male of higher genetic quality than her social mate. The result is higher-quality offspring that have a better chance of carrying a female's genes into future generations. This study, however, turns that explanation on its head. The researchers studied a population of song sparrows in Mandarte Island in British Columbia, Canada. Each year starting in 1993 the team drew small blood samples from nearly every hatchling in the population and used genetic markers to see who fathered each bird. They found that 28 percent of all chicks were fathered by males other than a female's socially paired mate. Thirty-three percent of broods had chicks that were fathered by multiple males. The researchers tracked both within- and extra-pair offspring throughout their lives. They found that extra-pair offspring had 40 percent fewer offspring of their own, and 30 percent fewer grandoffspring, compared to within-pair offspring. "These results are remarkable because they are completely opposite to expectation," Reid said. "They show that females suffer a cost of promiscuity because they produce worse offspring through extra pair mating. Rather than answering the question of why females should mate promiscuously, [these results] have blown the question wide open." Rebecca J. Sardell, Peter Arcese, Lukas F. Keller and Jane M. Reid, "Are There Indirect Fitness Benefits of Female Extra-Pair Reproduction? Lifetime Reproductive Success of Within-Pair and Extra-Pair Offspring." The American Naturalist 179:6 (June 2012). Since its inception in 1867, The American Naturalist has maintained its position as one of the world's most renowned, peer-reviewed publications in ecology, evolution, and population and integrative biology research. While addressing topics in community and ecosystem dynamics, evolution of sex and mating systems, organismal adaptation, and genetic aspects of evolution, AmNat emphasizes sophisticated methodologies and innovative theoretical syntheses--all in an effort to advance the knowledge of organic evolution and other broad biological principles. AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert! system.
Work–life balance policies benefit working parents A new study suggests that Danish labour market regulations tend to favour working parents. Other types of working carers have fewer entitlements, despite recent demographic changes and political efforts to mobilise women and older workers, and to encourage families to take a more active role in caring for elderly people. The study examines how the work–life balance needs of different types of employees are addressed in Denmark, and compares the Danish regulations with those in other countries. Regulation of work–life balance Work-life balance policies in the workplace are regulated through a mix of collective agreements, legislation and guidelines for good practice in Denmark, with collective agreements often allowing for more extensive entitlements than the law. The various work–life policies include flexible working hours, long and short-term leave schemes and a range of policies which specifically aim to retain older workers and parents in paid work. Employees’ rights and entitlements to these policies tend to differ, depending on their family situation, workplace and the sectoral agreements in place. Indeed, the work and care packages available to Danish carers other than parents often lags behind the more extensive policies available to parents. Differing work–life balance policies in workplace Both parents and other types of carers have access to various leave schemes in Denmark. However, leave entitlements available to carers other than parents often appear to be stricter, less flexible and less generous than those open to parents. For example, parents’ entitlements to maternity, paternity and parental leave are defined as specific rights in the collective agreements and the law. Other types of carers only have the right to request access to carers’ leave, as their entitlements are subject to needs testing according to the assessment criteria of the Social Service Act (1998). In addition, a range of collective agreements offer parents full pay during maternity, paternity and parts of parental leave. In contrast, most sectoral agreements only grant carers other than parents the statutory pay when qualifying for carers’ leave. The few exceptions include sectoral agreements within the public sector at local government level and the financial intermediation sector, which offer these employees full pay if they fulfil the assessment criteria stipulated by the Social Service Act. The fact that parents enjoy more extensive rights than employees with other caring responsibilities is also reflected by the finding that it is mainly parents who have rights to short-term leave with full pay when their child is ill. Nevertheless, some sectoral agreements, such as those concerning the industrial and financial intermediation sectors, also grant all employees an additional number of paid caring days, which can be converted into pension contributions or used for training purposes. Other workplace policies, such as the social partners’ and government’s maternity redistribution fund and local agreements on family and older workers, also tend to mainly address parents’ work–life balance problems. In fact, the work–life balance issues of carers other than parents are not even considered in the strategies which seek to retain older workers in paid work. Danish employees’ access to flexible working hours, weekend, evening and part-time work are arranged through local or individual agreements and depend therefore on the employer’s discretion, indicating that parents receive no special attention in this respect in the law or through collective agreements. Comparisons with Finland, Portugal and UK The emphasis on parents, which largely fails to recognise the needs of employees with other caring responsibilities, is not only a Danish phenomenon. Other European countries such as Finland, Portugal and the United Kingdom (UK) also offer different treatment to parents and employees with other caring responsibilities. In fact, Finnish, Portuguese and UK labour market regulations fail to an even greater extent than Danish regulations to recognise the work–life balance needs of carers other than parents – although all employees have a right to absence for compelling family reasons in all four countries, as is stipulated under EU law. For instance, Finland, Portugal and the UK do not offer carers other than parents paid carers’ leave. Similar to Denmark, these three countries do provide relatively generous leave schemes for parents. Indeed, Portuguese maternity pay appears to be more generous than that in Denmark, Finland and the UK: in Portugal, all working mothers receive full pay on leave, while the statutory compensation rate in the other three countries, particularly in the UK, is much lower. Moreover, some Finnish collective agreements, similar to those in Denmark, offer full pay during maternity, paternity and parts of parental leave; Finland also has the most generous leave schemes for parents in terms of length. These national differences suggest that working carers are treated differently across the four countries. One interesting provision in Portugal is that grandparents are offered a ‘grandchild leave’ arrangement; furthermore, the state grants all carers a specific set of statutory and unpaid caring days. Nevertheless, in general, parents usually enjoy more generous leave rights, and other workplace policies also seem to reflect this priority. Finnish workplace policies, for instance, largely fail to recognise the specific work–life balance problems of working carers, although part-time work is a right of carers receiving homecare allowance. In Portugal and the UK, different sets of guidelines for good practice aim to help all types of carers, and British carers of adults also have, similar to parents of small children, the right to request flexible working. Such rights are only available to parents in Finland and Portugal, although some Finnish and Portuguese companies offer flexible working hours to all employees. This suggests that employees’ rights and entitlements to work–life balance policies vary depending on their family situation, workplace and country of origin. Nonetheless, recent initiatives by governments and the social partners in the four countries indicate a slight change of policy, where carers other than parents are increasingly becoming part of the policy debate. Recent social partner and government initiatives Recent debates within the Danish media and among politicians, the social partners and other key stakeholders suggest that families’ work–life balance is emerging as a growing concern. Once again, however, it is primarily the caring difficulties of working parents which are at the centre of the Danish policy debate, while carers other than parents are rarely a topic for discussion among the Danish social partners and government officials. The relatively few examples recently discussed include the three proposals of the Work and Family Commission (2007), which concern statutory paid caring days for carers other than parents, time off for grandparents to care for their sick grandchildren, and the establishment of time-saving accounts over the life course. These proposals received mixed reactions from the social partners. Employers, in particular, were highly critical of the proposals; the trade unions were also sceptical, especially in relation to the idea of time-saving accounts. Despite the low profile of working carers other than parents in recent welfare debates, it appears that Denmark’s social partners and politicians expect the issue of carers of older people, in particular, to rise on the policy agenda over the next few decades, due to an ageing population, increased pressure on Danish elder care services and labour shortages. The first signs of this are reflected in the recent proposal of the Danish Minister for Social Welfare and Gender Equality, Karen Jespersen. Minister Jespersen proposes that the family takes a more active role in caring for elderly people and suggests that this should become a legal obligation. Nevertheless, the proposal faced opposition from both left and right-wing political parties, which to a varying degree argued that a legal obligation will reduce the female workforce, send women back into the home and is an attempt to privatise the Danish elder care sector and cut costs (see news report (in Danish), 10 April 2008). Some politicians also argued that it should not be part of the government’s remit to legislate on caring responsibilities, although such legal obligations exist for families with children. Recent debates in Finland and the UK also reflect how the issue of working carers other than parents is rising on the government’s policy agenda. In Portugal, meanwhile, which is often classified as a very family-orientated welfare state, the subject of carers other than parents was hardly discussed in the recent welfare debates, according to national government officials, trade unions, employer organisations and key stakeholders. However, the Portuguese government’s increased investment in child and elder care suggest a slight change of discourse. On the other hand, Finland and the UK, unlike Denmark and Portugal, have a long tradition of debating the role of carers in general as part of their long-term care policy. The substantial packages of work–care policies available to working parents through labour law and collective agreements stand in sharp contrast to the relatively poorly developed and often patchy policies available to working carers other than parents. Although Denmark, Finland, Portugal and the UK have different welfare regimes, they all appear to favour parents while paying relatively less or no attention to employees with other caring responsibilities in their national labour market regulation. Nonetheless, some Member States, particularly the Nordic countries, have to a varying degree well-established and universal domiciliary services and institutional care, which offer indirect support to carers other than parents. The availability of publicly funded elder care is, however, limited in southern Europe, despite recent investments; at the same time, only relatively poor people in the UK can receive free home-based and institutional elder care. Trine P. Larsen, FAOS
Medicine can prevent malaria and is needed to treat the disease. Several things influence the choice of medicine, including: - Whether the medicine is being used to prevent or to treat malaria. - Your condition (such as your age or whether you are pregnant). - How sick you are from - Geographic location where you were exposed to - Whether the malaria parasite may be resistant to certain medicines. - Side effects of the medicine. Malaria is rare in the United States. But it is widespread in other parts of the world. Find out about the risk for malaria before you travel internationally. The most accurate information about malaria risk and medicine resistance in specific countries is from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO). If you have malaria, medicine choice is based on: - The specific parasite causing the - How bad the infection is. condition (such as age, pregnancy, allergies, or health - Medicine resistance of the parasite found in the geographic area where you were infected. If you have been in an area where malaria occurs, were exposed to mosquitoes, and develop flu-like symptoms, but tests do not show the malaria parasite in your blood, the tests should be repeated 3 or 4 times to confirm that you do not have a malaria infection. During treatment, tests are repeated to follow the course of the infection and to check whether the number of parasites is decreasing. Your age and health condition are important factors in selecting a medicine to prevent or treat children, people who are very old, people who have other health problems, and those who did not take medicine to prevent malaria infection require special consideration.
Your Best Abs: Get a Summer-Worthy Six-Pack Sit-ups won't get the job done. Take your belly from flab to phenomenal with these tips from the pros. You want six-pack abs? A washboard stomach you'll be proud to show off on the beach? Then for the time being, forget about the crunches, the sit-ups, the pilates, the exercise balls, and all the other ab exercises. "You can do 1,000 sit-ups and that won't get you six-pack abs," said Nicki Anderson, a personal trainer in Naperville, Ill., and the IDEA Health and Fitness Association's Trainer of the Year for 2008-2009. "It's a matter of losing the body fat." That's right — inside of all of us lies the potential to have a six-pack, and ab exercises don't have much to do with it. The problem is, most of us hide that six-pack under a layer of belly flab. "Everybody is born with the ability to have ripped abs," Anderson said. "It's just that most of us don't see it." Diet and Exercise Eating right, rather than doing ab exercises, is the first step toward obtaining that six-pack. Anderson's first rule of healthy eating: "Stay away from any and all processed foods." Other weight-loss tips: - Fruits and vegetables should be the cornerstone of your healthy diet. They’re low in calories but provide bulk to keep you from feeling hungry. Protein should come in the form of lean meats and fish. Choose beef or pork cuts that have "loin" in their name, and remove the skin from poultry. - Whole grains are much better for you than processed flour or grains because they contain more fiber and nutrients. - Don't avoid dairy, which provides needed calcium and nutrients. Instead, consume dairy products that are very low-fat or fat-free. - When cooking, use olive oil or vegetable oil rather than solid fat products like lard. That way, you're replacing harmful saturated fats with unsaturated fats. - Drink lots of water, rather than sugary fruit juices or soft drinks. - Monitor your portion sizes, and cut back if you normally eat large portions of food. - Stop snacking on high-calorie items like cake, cookies, or potato chips. Exercise also is important in ridding yourself of body fat, and once again, you shouldn't limit your workout routine to just abdominal exercise. "Fat covers your entire body," Anderson said. "In order to lean up, you have to do strength training everywhere." She recommends a combination of strength training and aerobic exercise to really reduce body fat. "Aerobic exercise is a calorie burner. If you're out and you're running, you burn calories, but your metabolism stays elevated for only an hour or so afterward," Anderson said. "It doesn't improve your lean muscle mass, either. Strength training does, and it also kicks up your resting metabolic rate 24-7, which helps you lose more weight." If you're dead-set on doing ab exercises to make sure those muscles look good once they're unveiled by your melting flab, keep in mind that some workouts are better than others. The ab exercises recommended by the American College of Exercise include: Pedal motion. Lie flat on the floor, and put your hands beside your head. Start with your knees elevated at about a 45-degree angle. Begin a bicycle pedal motion in which you touch your left elbow to your right knee and vice versa, crunching your abs with each movement. An ab challenge. This requires a special piece of gym equipment with extended arms also known as a "Captain’s Chair." You start by gripping hand-holds on both arms of the chair and letting your legs dangle below. Lift your knees up close to your chest and then lower them, being sure to carefully control the entire movement. Exercise ball. While sitting on an exercise ball, feet firmly on the floor, walk your body forward, positioning the ball into your lower back. Cross your arms over your chest and tuck in your chin about a fist's-width from your chest. Contract your abs to raise your torso, bringing it up no more than 45 degrees from your thighs. Bringing your feet closer together will force you to work your obliques by challenging your balance. Six-pack abs are within your reach if you change the way you eat and even the way you exercise. A healthy lifestyle and healthy diet will not only make your body healthier, they’ll improve the way your abs look, too. Learn more in the Everyday Health Men’s Health Center.
Linux: I'm Here for the Apps The best and the worst attributes of Linux as a desktop operating system involve acquiring and maintaining software applications. If Linux is to pile up more desktop adherents, the vendors and communities that back the open-source platform need to work together to accentuate those positives and shrink down the negative aspects of getting and managing software on Linux. On the positive side, the fact that all the bits that make up a typical Linux distribution are divvied up into software packages makes Linux modular enough to integrate code contributions from many different sources while keeping the software installation and update processes streamlined and under control. As long as you stick to software that's been packaged up for your Linux distribution of choice, there's no better platform for staying in control of what runs on your system. On the negative side, the desktop market share of Linux is pretty small compared with that of Macintosh or Windows. Making things worse, this slender share is divided up among many different Linux distributions, most of which require their own software package versions. As a result, with many open-source and even more proprietary applications, Linux must often make do with messy and unmanageable software installation methods. To preserve the competitive advantage that software management can provide for Linux, the platform's stakeholders must pool their existing efforts around packaging open-source software, and step up their outreach to proprietary software vendors. For instance, Ubuntu is (and has been for a couple years now) my desktop Linux distribution of choice due to its large catalog of packaged and ready-to-install applications. Ubuntu owes a debt to the Debian project on this front, as it has been cranking out software packages on a volunteer basis for years now. I'd love to see Novell and Red Hat figure out a way to work with the Debian project to reuse the packaging efforts that its members are making to broaden the range of software packages available for easy installation. It would take some work to translate the Debian packaging efforts to work with Novell's and Red Hat's RPM-based distributions, but Novell already has Build Service, a project under way that is capable of building packages for SUSE-, Red Hat- and Ubuntu-based distributions. It's also important that major Linux distributors make it easier for proprietary software vendors to package their wares for Linux. I know that many in the open-source community have an allergic reaction to proprietary software, but if open platforms such as Linux are to realize their potential, they must host proprietary applications just as well as, and maybe better than, proprietary platforms do. Again, Novell's OpenSUSE Build Service seems to offer a decent foundation for moving forward. While the OpenSUSE-hosted version of the service is limited to open-source software, Novell makes the service available for download and self-hosting, so proprietary software vendors could use this code to produce packages for multiple distributions, particularly if Canonical, Red Hat and other Linux vendors began pitching in to help streamline the process. Finally, considering the chicken-and-egg issues that desktop Linux faces regarding the relatively small market opportunity it offers to ISVs, I find it surprising that distributors haven't put more effort into advancing the state of Web application delivery and management on Linux. For instance, I'd like to see more Linux distributors embrace site-specific browsers, such as Mozilla Prism, which can provide isolation for Web applications. By focusing unique Linux attributes on package-based and security-enhanced software management, the platform's stakeholders can turn one of its most often-cited disadvantages into one of its primary competitive strengths.eWEEK Labs Executive Editor Jason Brooks can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Surfing is a water sport that requires the surfer to use a flat “surf” board to balance themselves upon a moving wave (called “riding the waves”). When riding the waves, surfers generally heads towards the shore and if they fall off the board and crash into the water they have “wiped out.” Surfing is a sport that can be dangerous but it is beloved by many people. In fact, surfing is so popular in some parts of the world that a subculture of surfers have formed that have their own fashion style, vocabulary, and physical appearance (like suntans and sun bleached hair). Surfers even inspired a string of songs and a distinctive musical sound dedicated to them in the 1960s. Although it has been a staple of youth culture for decades, until this day surfing is a beloved activity that has inspired many contests and newfound surfboard tricks and moves. Surfing and surfers can be found all over the world but they are directly associated with America since the sport and culture was popularized in the United States. Hence, surfing is often considered a part of Americana that will always have a place in the history of trends, youth culture and sports. Below is a list of five things that are associated with the sport of surfing and the culture that it subsequently spawned.
Equipment: Resistance Bands, Cables Tags: back, weight lifting, strength training 1. Grab the handles. Sit with thighs locked under pads. 2. Pull down lever to upper chest. Return until arms and shoulders are fully extended. 3. Repeat for desired reps. By: Joselyn On Tuesday, 22 March 2011 Mouse over image thumbnails to view larger image

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