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At Wednesday's Kenai City Council meeting, Council Member Bob Molloy requested more time for people to comment on the city's Comprehensive Plan.
"It's a really important document," he said, "and 14 days including Saturdays and Sundays after it's been presented and explained to the public is too short a time period."
The city presented the plan at an open house Oct. 5 and set a two week public comment period.
Molloy said several people have told him two weeks is not enough, and Kenai resident Mark Scharg, 58, was one of them.
"We need more time," he said at the council meeting. "It would give more people time and give the city more time to work on it."
Molloy proposed the city extend its public comment period to Nov. 18, providing Kenai residents 30 more days to prepare their critiques.
Mayor Pat Porter, however, said she wants to see the comments from the two week period.
"There was plenty of notice given for the public input time of it," she said. "I haven't received any requests from any residents to extend that time myself."
Porter said increasing the comment period is an administrative decision; the council does not have a hand in it.
The current comment period is not the end of the road for residents to voice their opinions about the plan, she said.
"There is another process," she said. "Once the Planning and Zoning Commission gets whatever recommendations and tweaks to plan (whatever) they think needs to be happening, they will have another public hearing — then it would come to the council, where we would also have more public hearings."
She said the final decision is months away.
The council also approved its state capital improvements plan priority list for next year.
City Manager Rick Koch described the list as a "fluid process," because he said the state does not always grant the city its requested project funds.
The city's number one priority is paving and improving city streets. Koch is requesting $1 million from the state for the project, which would lower the city's street maintenance costs.
Priority two aims to conduct the first phase of upgrades to the city's waste water treatment plant, to comply with the Department of Environmental Conservations' likely increase in standards, Koch said. He is asking the state for about $1.67 million.
Priority three, the most expensive project at $2 million, would build a new, one-million gallon water storage reservoir.
"Any of these systems — whether it is a waste water treatment system, a water treatment system, a water storage system — it's a really good idea to have redundancy," Koch said.
Currently, the city's three-million gallon water storage reservoir has no back up, and the city needs to drain it for repairs, he said.
Repairs will take four to six months to complete, he said, and in the mean time the city will need an alternative site to store its water.
Priority four requests $2 million for a new city shop to store and repair the city's maintenance equipment. The old shop is too small and does not have proper ventilations systems, according to the SFY 2014 capital improvements project document.
Priority five aims to construct phase two of the Kenai Industrial Park. Koch is requesting $500,000 for phase two.
Priority six will improve the personal use fishery. Koch is asking for $150,000 to build three stations at the North and South Beach and the City Boat Launch for fish cleaning and waste, data collection, and enforcing fishery rules.
Last year the state granted the city $150,000, Koch said, providing them with enough money to build a station on North Beach, but an additional $150,000 will allow the city to build the other stations.
Mayor Porter swore in Ryan Marquis and Molly for their new three-year terms on city council. The council also voted 4-2 to re-elect Marquis as vice mayor.
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While viewing the second inauguration of President Barack Obama on TV, my thoughts took me back to 1947, when I was 8 years old and living in North Merrick.
I was glued to the family Philco Console radio when Jackie Robinson broke the racial barrier that had kept black players out of Major League Baseball. It was the great American pastime, but not the all-American pastime, since all Americans were not allowed to participate.
That remarkable year saw Robinson playing first base for my beloved Dodgers. How proud I was that of the 16 major league teams, it was my team, and its chief executive, Branch Rickey, that pioneered this bigot-shattering move.
But admission to the big leagues did not mean acceptance. Admission had its price. Robinson was reviled by the mean-spirited racists in and out of the majors, reportedly including a clique of his own teammates. They hurled every epithet in the bigot's thesaurus at him. Not content with despicable insults, pitchers, under orders or voluntarily, threw beanballs at his head. Baserunners gleefully attempted to cripple him, sliding spikes-high or stomping on his feet.
Robinson took it without voicing complaint or retaliating. He let his talents and abilities do the talking, earning rookie of the year in 1947. If he had batted .200 and committed 50 errors, the cause of integration in baseball, and democracy in America, would have been set back for God knows how long. Baseball's integration would have been viewed as a failure, a fluke, and it would be one and done.
The connection to Obama?
The re-election of President Obama was in many ways more important and significant than his election in 2008.
Rarely has an American president been as reviled. The extremists have questioned his birthplace and whether he is an American. They have challenged his college admission, grades, and records. They have smeared him as a communist, a Nazi, a socialist. Yes, even a racist. Everything short of hurling beanballs and stomping on his feet.
The "loyal opposition," totally obstructionist, was hellbent on making him a one-term president and his presidency a failure. His election in 2008 would have been viewed as a fluke, one and done, because he couldn't perform in the major leagues of politics.
And the cause of democracy in America would have been set back for God knows how long.
Obama endured the scathing insults. In the case of those who cast doubt on his birth in Hawaii, he did release his long-form birth certificate to put that issue to rest. However, he has never responded to his critics with vitriol. Both he and Robinson displayed grace under enormous pressure.
Jackie Robinson and Barack Obama, each in his chosen field and in his own time, have been extraordinarily important in helping to mold America into the great country that it is. They have been instrumental in fulfilling the grand experiment, the promise and the ideals of our nation.
Reader Jack Bilello lives in Massapequa Park.


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TOKYO (AP) — Japan's prime minister says he is willing to meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping to help mend ties hurt by an island dispute.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told a television talk show Tuesday that high-level talks are more significant in difficult times.
Ties between Japan and China have deteriorated since Tokyo nationalized uninhabited islands in the East China Sea claimed by both. The step triggered violent protests against Japanese businesses in China.
Abe said there is no room to negotiate ownership of the islands, but urged both sides to avoid letting the territorial spat hurt their economic ties.
China has sent surveillance ships regularly to waters near the islands, and aircraft from the two sides have trailed each other, raising the risk of missteps that could trigger a clash.


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ONE business was forced to close indefinitely yesterday after thunderstorms lashed the Ballarat region on Tuesday night.
Several other premises were flooded and had their roofs collapse.
Eight Below clothing store in Sturt Street locked its doors "until further notice" after storms left the shop flooded with the roof on the verge of caving in.
Store owner Krissy Papsworth said she arrived to find a similar scene to the one she saw same time last year.
"I think it was almost to the day that this happened last year after big storms," Ms Papsworth said.
After spending most of the morning mopping up, Ms Papsworth said she had been forced to close the business because of the danger to customers.
"You only have to look at that roof to see that it's about to come down," she said.
El Artista Hairdressing owner Tania Alsop said she too arrived at work to find her business submerged in water.
"It was absolutely everywhere," Ms Alsop said.
"There was literally water pouring down from the light fittings."
An already saturated Ballarat recorded a further 26 millimetre of rain Tuesday night, taking the total rainfall measurement to more that 70 millimetre in two days.
Weatherzone meteorologist Brett Dutschke said it had been more than a year since 70 millimetre of rain was recorded over two consecutive days.
"It was the same time last year that 73 millimetre of rain was recorded in the region over two days," Mr Dutschke said.
The SES responded to eight requests in the region on Tuesday night including fallen trees creating traffic hazards in Soldiers Hill, Springdallah, Scarsdale and Elaine.
In Mt Mercer more than 750 Powercor customers were without power after lightning struck early yesterday morning.
More thunderstorms were forecast last night with showers clearing this afternoon.


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Daffy Duck is hugging a six-year-old who's half his height. The flaky fowl has jumped off the screen and onto the midway at Six Flags New England theme park, where he cavorts daily with Bugs, Tweety Pie, Foghorn, Marvin the Martian and other celluloid pals from the Looney Tunes stable.
As he dances among the crowd, along comes a little motorized cart carrying two of the park's staff in dark green uniforms, apparently groundskeepers. But there's something a little off. In the cargo compartment there's an unlikely collection of tools. Along with a pair of long-handled Nifty Nabbers, there's a big yellow fishing net, a giant toothbrush and a rubber chicken.
The vehicle comes to a sudden halt and the crew leaps out—a young man and woman laser-focused on a piece of trash on the pavement. They grab the litter-pincers and stealthily approach the offending object: a tiny wadded-up gum wrapper. Passersby are stopping to watch, at first bemused, then chuckling as one member of the team snags the debris and deposits it in a nearby trash can, then poses valiantly like a superhero after a planet-saving mission, receiving laughter and applause from the onlookers.
This clownishly intrepid pair are one unit of the park's eight-member Mop Squad, I'm informed by my companion in this stroll down the midway. He's Eric Boucher, the park's entertainment coordinator and producer, who trains and supervises an 80-strong cadre of young performers who fill a variety of roles in the park. Working literally in the shadow of the park's massive rides, these earthbound artistes are an often unsung but ubiquitous presence in the park's environment.
The Looney Tunes characters, along with DC Comics' superheroes, are a staple throughout the nationwide Six Flags franchise, but the Mop Squad, now in its fifth year, is unique to the Agawam location. It's the invention of Boucher, whose background is in theater and comedy improvisation. "We wanted to remind people that we're trying to keep a clean park," he says. That initial goal developed into an improv troupe who interact humorously with the patrons (the official term is "guests").
Selected through a competitive audition process, the team goes through a three-week training session in improv and clowning before the summer season begins. "They create their own routines and we workshop those into effective bits," Boucher explains. "We also have a playbook of go-tos they can use in a variety of situations."
Although he regularly hits the midway to check in on his performers, Boucher says that with the Mop Squad, "You just have to trust them. They're going out there to interact with our guests with no script. It takes a lot of discipline." Because of that, most squad members have worked their way up through other roles in previous seasons.
Fractured Fairy Tales
Those other roles include joining the cast of "Fumbled Fables," a 20-minute performance in the StoryTale gazebo. In it, Suzie Goose (Mother G's daughter) drops her big storybook and mixes up the pages. The result is a medley of just about every fairy tale and nursery rhyme character. The other two actors serve primarily as coaches—wranglers, really—for the guest performers, both children and adults, who are drafted from the audience to play most of the parts. As the action rolls, it's underscored by the excited screams of passengers on the Goliath roller coaster roaring overhead.
Boucher, who wrote and directed the piece, tells me that StoryTale is one of the park's most popular non-ride attractions. "We get lots of feedback and return guests," he says, with kids and grown-ups coming back hoping to be cast in the show.
After the performance, Ben Wright, who was master of ceremonies here, tells me he got his start at Six Flags last fall in the annual Fright Fest, which serves as a training ground for quite a few of the summertime entertainment crew. He's a criminal justice major at American International College, but has done a lot of community theater. Here, he says, "I've learned how to better my performance, not just at the stage level but also in the general workplace."
Julianne Wendzel, from Southwick, is in her first Six Flags summer. "It was very difficult at first," she says of her rather complex role in this show, lining up all the audience volunteers, outfitting them with the right props and costumes, making sure they know where to go and what to do. "But now it's not hard anymore and I like it."
Sydney Grant, who played Suzie, is a theater student at Suffolk University. She's looking at a career in show business, and rates this as "a good theater job where I get the opportunity to act in the show and also perform as a dancer." She gets the chance to practice that art in her other daily gig—onstage in IllusionQuest, the park's magic show, where she and Wendzel do three shows a day, alternating with three StoryTale performances.
The Looney Bin
As they depart to prepare for that one, Boucher explains that each role in the "Fumbled Fables" show is double cast, "so the players get to work in different combinations, to keep it fresh and give them a variety of experience." He then takes me behind the scenes, through a couple of "Staff Only" gates, to the dressing room known on the lot as The Looney Bin.
This typically scruffy-looking backstage area is a closely guarded sanctuary for the Looney Tunes characters and other park performers, and I'm one of the few outsiders who's ever been let in. Here, taking a break before their next shift, are the Mop Squad team we saw earlier.
Katrina Perkins is a recent graduate of Cathedral High in Springfield, where, she says, "I wasn't really noticed at first. Being here is helping me to grow, because I'm a shy person. It's bringing me out and giving me more confidence in my acting ability."
Mike King is a three-year veteran who likewise credits the experience with freeing his self-confidence. Self-conscious at first, he's now in a mindset that says, "Okay, people are looking at you—who cares? I'm just gonna be an idiot, and they're enjoying it a majority of the time."
With a career in broadcasting in his sights, King does double duty as a DJ with Six Flags Radio. In that role, he emcees dance parties in the park, introduces routines with the Looney characters, and voices the live sound feed to locations around the site.
David Garrity has been doing magic at Six Flags since he was 16. Although he tours internationally, his home base is Six Flags, where he develops and hones new work. Today, Sydney Grant and Julianne Wendzel are his onstage assistants, no longer storybook figures but arrayed in a quick-change series of showy costumes.
As we enter the IllusionQuest theater, the two young women are participating in Garrity's "Twister" illusion, in which Grant seems to be corkscrewed around herself. Minutes later, she's the platinum-wigged image of Marilyn Monroe, waltzing with the magician.
There's as much going on backstage as on, the trio of performers tell me after the show. The two helpers are not only changing costumes (five different outfits in all) but setting props and set pieces for each new illusion. "There's a complete choreography back there," Garrity explains. He emphasizes that his assistants are also creative participants. "Everyone in the cast brings viewpoints and suggestions, and we give them an opportunity to improv and try new things."
As we hit the midway again, Daffy Duck is out in front of the radio booth, dancing with the DJ to the crowd's delight. Boucher says he's very pleased with the quality of talent and level of commitment his team bring to their work. "We have very good retention," he says with pride. "A lot of people come back every season because of the experience they have." The pay, he adds, is "about average, but I think the kids work here because the experience they get out of it is much more valuable for them."
Not to mention the free rides when they're off duty.•
Contact Chris Rohmann at email@example.com, and check out the StageStruck blog at http://www.valleyadvocate.com.


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Hello all,
Any help with the following that does not mean starting from scratch would be greatly appreciated.
The problem is this : I'm trying to set up a multiboot system on my laptop which is going fine until I took the decision to install Gentoo 2005.0 from the LXF68 coverdisc. For two days everything seemed to be buzzing along just fine till I finally got to the point where you're supposed to reboot and then it all went pearshaped.
Let me first give you some details of my setup :
My box is a Toshiba Satellite 1410-604 laptop with a 30G harddisk and a Mobile Intel Celeron CPU 1.80GHz
Here's my partition table:
/dev/hda 27,9G
/dev/hda1 4,0G Fat32 Windows C
/dev/hda2 8,0G Fat32 Windows E(for shared Linux and Windows files)
/dev/hda3 512M swap
/dev/hda4 15,4G Extended
/dev/hda5 4,0G ext2 Mandriva
/dev/hda6 4,0G ext2 SuSE 9.2
/dev/hda7 2,0G ext2 Ubuntu
/dev/hda8 2,0G ext2 Gentoo 2005.0
/dev/hda9 4,0G ext3 (shared Linux files)
I'm following motub's guide for setting up multiboot systems and am now in the stage of installing the various OS's. Mandriva, SuSE and Ubuntu are all in working order and bootable from Ubuntu's bootfloppy.
However ...
I tried to follow Gentoo's install handbook to the letter but as I say, I can't reboot.
First, when I got to the point where you have to unmount and reboot, I get a message saying that /mnt/gentoo/boot wasn't mounted in the first place ànd that /mnt/gentoo can't be unmounted because the device is busy. Couldn't get the cdrom unmounted either (nor ejected) so in the end I just halted the system, took out the DVD while system was down and then tried to boot again. Unfortunately I got the next message :
Booting 'Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r6'
root (hd0,7)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda8
Error 15 : File not found
Press any key to continue ...
After "pressing any key" I got a sort of contaminated screen (black with missing horizontal lines and white vertical stripes) with a barely readable grub where I could just make out "Gentoo" and "Windows". When I chose Gentoo I got the same "Booting 'Gentoo ...'" messages but now also on a contaminated screen. Windows still starts up as usual. (On the original "Booting 'Gentoo...'" screen the brackets around hd0,7 were already blurry.)
I ran through the installation disk again running the steps that I thought might solve the problem, which unfortunately they didn't. One of the things I thought might be of help was this : in the magazine you say that when compiling the kernel you can combine three code listings into one which handles copying the kernel to /boot/vmlinuz etc... and indeed the kernel was referred to as vmlinuz-2.6.11-gentoo-r6. However the handbook tells you to refer to the kernel as kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6 so thinking that's why grub can't find the file I changed that and created a symlink from vmlinuz to kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6. As I said :
with no positive result, I still get the same Error 15 when I try to reboot.
grub-install didn't work so I manually configured and installed it. Maybe there's a problem with my grub.conf file, so please have a look at that :
default 0
timeout 10
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.11-r6
root (hd0,7)
kernel /kernel-2.6.11-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda8
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
Since I already had three other linuxes installed I didn't create a separate /boot partition as discussed in the handbook. Maybe that's where the problem lies ? If it is, can I have a separate /boot partition for Gentoo that doesn't affect the others ?
Finally, I have configured my kernel for an i686 architecture (because it says somewhere that all modern systems should be i686. My laptop is two years old : is that modern enough?) with backwards compatibility (just in case) because I can't find what architecture I have anywhere in my documentation. However when I start up SuSE I notice that where there are multiple folders everything seems to be installed in i586 !
Should I recompile for an i586 architecture ?
Anyway, do let me know if you need more details.
Kind regards,


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Samoa all but sealed a place in the quarter-finals of the 2013 Rugby League World Cup with a 38-4 victory over Group B rivals Papua New Guinea at Craven Park in Hull on Monday.
Samoa smash PNG to put one foot in quarters
- Angkor Wat named as the top landmark for the second year
Travel website TripAdvisor has named Cambodia's ancient wonder Angkor Wat as the top landmark in the world for the second year running in their Travelers' Choice Award 2018, an achievement Cambodian tourism operators expect will attract more tourists to the Kingdom. The website uses traveller
- New US bill 'is a violation of Cambodian independence'
After a US congressmen introduced bipartisan legislation that will enact sanctions on Cambodian officials responsible for "undermining democracy" in the Kingdom, government officials and the ruling Cambodian People's Party on Sunday said they regarded the potential action as the "violation of independence and sovereignty
- Hun Sen detractors 'will die'
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday said those who curse or insult him would eventually die without a plot of land to bury their bodies after being killed by lightning, suffering the same fate as those who recently died in Thmar Baing district in Koh
- Ministry's plan for net sparks fears
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Despite being in the communications business, sometimes journalists aren't great at communicating exactly how we do things and why.
There are established methods that professionally trained journalists use: rules, codes of ethics, standards and practices, some of which vary from publication to publication and many of which are fairly universal.
But after reading a short piece on definitions from different journalists who had varying understanding of what "off the record" means, I was reminded that our internal definitions aren't of much use if the source doesn't share that definition.
Journalists aren't stenographers. We have many conversations with sources, and every word spoken does not appear in a story. Occasionally sources ask that those conversations are "off the record" or "on background."
While there are plenty of good journalism professors, some eggheads who spent more time in faculty development meetings than covering an actual beat say that everything said to a journalist should be presumed to be on the record – meaning fair game for publication.
That's not practical in the real world, although journalists must be very careful with "off the record" conversations. With higher-level sources, such as elected officials, they should be avoided.
Sometimes someone who would face repercussions from their employer if identified as a source will give you useful information that you can verify elsewhere. When these sources are in a position to know information, often better than their superiors, the news can be valuable.
The discussion made me recall one of my nastiest blowups with a key source many years ago on a homicide investigation. The source told me a good deal of information "off the record," and I agreed that I would not use the information provided by the source.
However, my definition of "off the record" was that I would not use his information for publication or identify him to anyone, but I would use it to find other sources and other means to gather the story, which I did.
After the story ran, we had a loud "discussion" punctuated by the colorful language sometimes used between cops and journalists. His definition of "off the record" was that it couldn't be published at all.
I wasn't backing down from my definition, and I still won't. First of all, if you don't want something to end up in a publication, don't tell a reporter. Secondly, sources can't just lock stories into an "off the record" vault because they mentioned it to you.
It took a little time to repair the damage with the source, but we later respected each other once again as we do to this day.
While I still think I was right about the journalism, I've since learned I was wrong about the approach. I operated under a faulty assumption of what my source believed our agreement was.
Had he said, "I'm going to give you some information that you can never use for any purpose," I would have never agreed to have the conversation. I enjoy a good yarn as much as the next guy, but if the information is newsworthy it's my job to report it.
Understanding the terms of an agreement with a journalist before the conversation begins is wise for both the journalist and the source. Reporters should assume nothing in those agreements, just as they wouldn't assume things in their copy.
• Kevin Lyons is news editor of the Northwest Herald. Reach him at 815-526-4505 or email him at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at @KevinLyonsNWH.


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Brazil, as the host country, will play the first game in this summer's World Cup, so it seems only fitting that on Wednesday it was also among the first countries to announce its 23-man roster for the tournament.
Not that any of the players Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari selected were a surprise. Among them were Toronto FC keeper Julio Cesar; defenders David Luiz (Chelsea), Thiago Silva (Paris Saint-Germain) and Dani Alves (Barcelona); Chelsea midfielder teammates Oscar, Ramires and Willian; and forwards Fred (Fluminese), Hulk (Zenit St. Petersburg) and Neymar (Barcelona).
Among the omissions were three former world players of the year in Kaka, Robinho and Ronaldinho, all of whom are well past their prime, as well as 21-year-old Liverpool midfielder Philippe Coutinho and Manchester United's Rafael Pereira da Silva, a 23-year-old right back.
Now comes the hard part for Scolari: convincing Brazilians that this team is worth the $11-billion investment the country made in the World Cup.
"Whether you disagree on a few players won't matter," the coach said. "I ask all Brazilians to support the squad no matter who the names are."
The complete squad:
Goalkeepers: Julio Cesar (Toronto FC), Jefferson (Botafogo), Victor (Atletico Mineiro)
Defenders: David Luiz (Chelsea), Dante (Bayern Munich), Thiago Silva (Paris Saint-Germain), Henrique (Napoli), Maicon (Roma), Dani Alves (Barcelona), Marcelo (Real Madrid), Maxwell (Paris Saint-Germain)
Midfielders: Luiz Gustavo (Wolfsburg), Paulinho (Tottenham), Fernandinho (Manchester City), Ramires (Chelsea), Oscar (Chelsea), Willian (Chelsea), Hernanes (Inter Milan)
Strikers: Hulk (Zenit St. Petersburg), Bernard (Shakhtar Donetsk), Neymar (Barcelona), Jo (Atletico Mineiro), Fred (Fluminense)


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Atlanta, GA - B.J. Upton returned to the lineup with two hits, including a game-ending single in the 10th inning that lifted the Atlanta Braves to a 2-1 win over the Washington Nationals on Saturday night.
Upton, hitting only .145 at the start of the game, had been held out of two straight starts by manager Fredi Gonzalez, who hoped the rest would jumpstart the center fielder.
And Upton came through with a single to right field off Henry Rodriguez (0-1) to drive in Jordan Schafer from second base. A sliding Schafer narrowly beat the throw from Roger Bernadina in right field, and Upton then was mobbed by his teammates between first base and second base.
Rodriguez walked Evan Gattis to open the 10th. Schafer replaced Gattis as a pinch-runner. Ramiro Pena popped out trying to bunt a high fastball, but Schafer stole second and Uggla drew a walk before Upton ended the game.
Jordan Walden (2-1) pitched a perfect 10th for the Braves.


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By Tiernan Ray
BMO Capital's Keith Bachman this afternoon reiterated an Outperform rating on shares of Apple (AAPL), while raising his price target to $675 from a prior $590, after raising his outlook for Apple's iPhone and iPad unit sales this quarter and the rest of the year.
Bachman believes that the iPad will have increasing uptake in corporations, not just among consumers, he writes, citing in part a recent InformationWeek survey that showed support for tablets on some level spreading throughout corporate IT shops:
As part of our views on the tablet market, we think corporate adoption will help, regardless of the ultimate purchaser of the device. More specifically, we think both end consumers will buy tablets for work purposes, and corporations will increasingly buy tablets, and thereby stretch PC replacement cycles.
As a consequence, Bachman sees Apple's iPad increasingly boosting its share not only of the traditional "PC market," but also Apple's shares of the market more broadly defined, including tablets as a computing device:
We believe Apple will continue to gain share in the PC market, and we assume Apple's share increases by about 100 bp from 5% in CY2011 to approximately 6% in CY2013. Importantly, if we look at iPads, we note that Apple's share has also increased relative all product categories. The iPad's share relative to the notebook market has increased from 7% in CY2010 to 19% in CY2011, and has increased from 4% in CY2010 to 11% in CY2011 relative to the total PC market. We believe this trend will continue, and we assume iPad share increases to 33% of the notebook market and 20% of total PC market in CY2013.
Bachman's estimate for the iPad this quarter goes to 11 million from 10 million. That brings his estimate for the fiscal year ending in September to 54.1 million units, up from 53.1 million previously.
For the iPhone, given greater geographic distribution and carrier partnerships, Bachman raised his estimate for the current quarter to 30 million units from 29 million. For the full year, he raised his estimate to 124 million units from 120 million.
Bachman's financial estimate for this quarter goes to $35.5 billion in revenue and $9.61 per share in profit, up from $34.3 billion and $9.16 a share. For the full year, he models $156.3 billion and $43.50, up from $153.3 billion and $42.33.


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Willard M. Daggett, MD, retired MGH cardiac surgeon and founder of the MGH Laboratory of Surgical Cardiovascular Physiologic Research, mentored hundreds of surgical trainees during his 50-year career at the MGH. His influence has fostered innovative research in surgical techniques for heart transplantation and complex cardiac surgical repairs. Students, surgeons, colleagues and patients all have benefited from his work.
To continue to stimulate the advancements in the area of cardiothoracic research, Cary W. Akins, MD, and his colleagues at the MGH Division of Cardiac Surgery established the Willard M. Daggett Cardiothoracic Research Scholarship. All residents and fellows from any surgical specialty currently conducting or planning to conduct research in some aspect of cardiothoracic surgery at the MGH were encouraged to apply for the award.
The inaugural recipients of the scholarship were named at the Dec. 18 Department of Surgery Grand Rounds. Gregory Veillette, MD, and Timothy M. Millington, MD, both of the Department of Surgery, were awarded $5,000 each by Daggett and Joren C. Madsen, MD, section head of Cardiac Surgery and director of the MGH Transplant Center. Veillette is examining "The Effects of Donor Brain Death and Prolonged Cold Ischemia on Lung Graft Tolerogenicity," and Millington is exploring "The Induction of Immunologic Tolerance to Cardiac Allografts." The researchers will use their scholarship awards to help further their research experiences.
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Even in the most advanced countries, there is no lack of hare-brained legislators who put silly laws in the books.
It is said that Providence, Rhode Island, has a city ordinance forbidding the sale of toothpaste and toothbrushes to the same customer on a Sunday. Arizona state law stipulates that one individual is not allowed to possess six or more dildos. Indiana shows its concern for young women's safety with its rule that any adult driver found to have a barefoot minor in his or her passenger seat may be arrested for statutory rape. While the island state of Hawaii does not allow people to put coins in their ears, landlocked Illinois forbids the consumption of food when a fire breaks out.
Europe may be renowned for its culture, but it also has its legal oddities. In September 2000, for example, the French town of Le Lavandou decreed that people who have not found a grave site for themselves are not allowed to die.
Taiwan's political hacks and bureaucrats are notoriously out of touch with public opinion. However, when they pass and enforce laws that are harmful to society, it may not be such a laughing matter.
The Constitution 133 Alliance (憲法一三三實踐聯盟) was recently launched with the purpose of putting into practice the right of recall as provided for by Article 133 of the Constitution. By targeting out-of-touch and out-of-key legislators for recall by their constituents, the alliance seeks to break out of the pattern in which the nation's citizens, who are supposed to be its masters, in reality only exert their sovereignty once every four years by casting a ballot. This campaign is certainly a welcome and refreshing development.
Vladimir Lenin, the leader of Russia's October Revolution, once wrote: "What is a constitution? A sheet of paper with the people's rights recorded on it. What is the guarantee of these rights being really recognized? It lies in the strength of those classes of the people that have become aware of those rights, and have been able to win them."
In Lenin's view, if there was a big difference between the law and reality, it meant that the constitution was bogus.
Confronted with the machinery of the state, be it the executive or the legislature, ordinary people must figure out effective ways of overseeing, molding and even countering and resisting it.
The idea of civil disobedience has become a hot topic for discussion in Taiwan. Whether it be Henri Thoreau's concept of civil disobedience, arising from free people's conscience, God's law and natural law, or that of liberals like John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin, based on the principle of constitutional justice, or the forms of empowerment or radical democracy of the post-democratic era — no matter how one approaches or understands it, it is necessary to find some kind of response.
The dignity of the law arises from the determination of the people.
Constitution 133 Alliance's focus on the right of recall is just a start. The campaign may suffer defeat within sight of victory, or be ignored. If that is the outcome, even in the case of a right so clearly enshrined in the Constitution, there is hardly any point in considering other forms of progress associated with the post-democratic era. If that happens, the current administration's insistence on "government in accordance with the law" — absurd and abhorrent as it so often is in Taiwan's legal system — will likely be the butt of jokes by countries and societies whose laws may be silly, but are at least quite cute and harmless.
Lin Chia-ho is an assistant professor at National Chengchi University's College of Law.
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"Old" Is Not a Disease
I HAD MET Bucky four times over the previous eight months. He wasn't the kind of dog who bounded around the waiting room, but this gigantic, obese ten-year-old was a happy goober, always glad for a belly rub or an affectionate stroke on the side of his face whenever he came to the clinic. He still had plenty of good-natured slobber in him; it was always a treat to see him.
His owners were referred to us from his primary care veterinarian. I could see from their address that each visit meant a forty-mile drive down the turnpike, then ten more miles past the office parks, until the road gave way to cows grazing on the hills where we let out the larger animals that we take care of.
They brought in Bucky, a velvety chocolate Lab, because he had a condition that makes it difficult to breathe — laryngeal paralysis, which occurs in older dogs. He needed an operation to correct the problem, but his owners kept resisting because they were afraid for their old dog to undergo surgery. They felt it was too much to put him through.
A lot of owners fear surgery for their dogs, particularly their older ones, in part because they project their experience, or that of a relative, onto their animal. But while dogs do contend with postsurgical pain, they tend to deal with operations very differently than people do and heal faster, putting them back on their feet and into their normal routine much sooner. That's true even for dogs of ten or older.
I explained this to Bucky's family at our first meeting, but still, they were skittish about the surgery and asked whether there was any alternative. Because Bucky was so overweight, I explained that slimming him down would at least buy some time by helping to keep the problem from progressing rapidly. Relieved, they went home determined to curb Bucky's calories and also have him burn off some pounds with increased activity.
But a couple of months went by, and when Bucky showed up at our clinic again, his breathing was more labored. He had not lost an ounce.
This happened two more times. Finally, Bucky came in barely able to breathe. He was so unable to take in air that he had to be anesthetized so a tube could be put down his throat to help with respiration. We thought that might give him the boost he needed, but every time we woke him up to see if he could breathe on his own, his tongue turned blue from lack of oxygen.
Sending him home and waiting for the next crisis was no longer an option. This was the ultimate crisis: he couldn't breathe on his own.
With misgivings, the owners gave permission for the procedure. Bucky came through with flying colors, as most dogs do, and went home within two days, breathing normally and comfortably.
About six months later, a chocolate Lab came in with a laceration in his paw that needed to be tended to professionally. The dog had been running along the beach and cut himself on some rocks. He was happy and calm, albeit dripping some blood from his foot pad.
It took only a moment to realize the dog was Bucky — not Bucky as I had first met him more than a year earlier, but Bucky the way his owners remembered him from before his laryngeal paralysis ever developed: exuberant, charged up, and happy to run around — as well as a little thinner because he became more active with the improvement in his breathing. The old boy lived a couple more years after that, with a wonderful quality of life unhindered by significant health problems.
— Scott Shaw, DVM, Assistant Professor, Department of Clinical Sciences/Emergency Critical Care
BRANDY SUDDENLY collapsed at home one morning while chewing on some rawhide. The family rushed her to the emergency room. They had no idea what was going on. She was eleven, but she had seemed perfectly fine until then. She was so sweet — a little curly-haired dachshund.
It turned out she had advanced heart disease that hadn't been picked up. But that morning, a valve malfunction in her heart apparently caused the pressure there to go high enough that she actually tore the wall of her left atrium. So much blood spilled into the sac around her heart that it just looked like a huge round basketball on an X-ray.
It was a bad sign — advanced heart failure. Her prognosis was only six to eight more months of life.
The family was panicked. They didn't see this coming. They had first brought Brandy home as a young puppy when the wife was pregnant with their first child, and the tiny thing would cuddle on the woman's stomach, even though a kick from the baby was enough to send her tumbling. Now the family numbered four — the children were ten and nine.
Scared as they all were, they sprang into action. They kept Brandy on the necessary exercise restriction. They enrolled her in a clinical trial at Tufts to test a new drug meant to treat heart failure — never knowing whether Brandy would get the drug or the placebo. They kept her from being startled, even telling people not to ring the doorbell, because the excitement would cause Brandy to faint. They taught the kids to administer extra Lasix to Brandy if they found her short of breath. They even allowed us to put her on Viagra, a potent pulmonary vasodilator that would open the vessels in her lungs, although it was prohibitively expensive.
The parents would come in with spreadsheets listing all the medicines Brandy was on, her dosages, and how often she was supposed to take them. And, beyond all probability, they rigged an oxygen cage for her at home from the wife's late father's oxygen concentrator — he had had emphysema — which we tested at the hospital to make sure it worked. That cut down on hospital stays, which cut down on costs. They were the most amazing people, and Brandy would always continue to run around like a loopy bandit, even though her heart by that point literally took up her entire chest.
My office isn't in the small-animal hospital itself. It's in the red barn on the other side of the road. I don't know how many times I ran across the way to see Brandy for various emergencies. When she finally died in the emergency room one night at age thirteen, twenty-two months after her first visit, we all had a good cry, including the husband, a six-foot-four lug of a man who was not prone to displays of raw emotion. It was cathartic. Though shaking with tears, the family had done everything they could to give Brandy almost two good years she wouldn't have had without them.
— Suzanne Cunningham, DVM, Cardiology Assistant Professor, Diplomate of the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (Cardiology)
Owners of old dogs often come in understandably frightened. They hear terms like "heart failure" or "laryngeal paralysis" and assume all is lost. Or maybe it's simpler. Their dog has lost bladder control to the point that expensive rugs in the house have been ruined and the owners are at their wits' end. Or a dog's joints are so stiff she can't make her way into the car, and they assume they will soon need to make an awful decision. Maybe nothing in particular is wrong, but the very idea of a dog's drawing near to the full span of life expectancy often fills owners with dread. Indeed, of the four million dogs relinquished to shelters every year in the United States, almost a million are given up because they're "too old."
But old age is not a disease. It's a stage of life.
Yes, the older a dog, the more vigilance is needed to combat various illnesses, and the more challenging the medical treatments. But, as they say, with age, what is lost on the swings is gained on the merry-go-round. An older dog may be more physically vulnerable, to be sure, but at the same time she may be more serene and easier to get along with — qualities that come with ripening, if you will.
Bucky and Brandy, for instance, still had a lot of life in them, but without the challenges of a puppy's incautious exuberance and curiosity — licking up antifreeze and other toxins, running into the road after a squirrel, jumping on everyone who walks into the house.
In other words, a dog's later years simply comprise one of a number of life phases with its own pluses and minuses, and are not to be dreaded but embraced.
Therein lies much of the pleasure we derive from our work — helping people enjoy their dog's old age rather than spend it in worry and despair.
The baseball legend Leroy "Satchel" Paige once asked, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?"
It was a rhetorical question, posed to make the point that age isn't just a number. It's also very much a state of mind, as well as a state of physical health. There are eighty-year-olds who seem more like sixty-year-olds, and people in their sixties who come across like octogenarians.
So it goes with dogs. We've cared for a thirteen-year-old poodle who had so much energy and joie de vivre you'd swear she was five. By the same token, we've taken care of five-year-old dogs hobbled by arthritis, diabetes, and other conditions typically associated with old age. That is, chronological age is fixed, but "old" age can be hard to pin down.
That's part of the reason that estimating a dog's age by employing the popular 7:1 ratio — assigning seven human years for every actual year a dog has lived — has its limitations. Because the passage of time plays out differently for different dogs and different people, it's not possible for there to be a fixed correlation. But there's also another issue.
The 7:1 ratio doesn't even apply across the board as a general estimate. That's a reasonable guide for mid-sized breeds and mutts — those dogs weighing somewhere between twenty and fifty pounds. But large dogs, such as Labrador retrievers, collies, and Saint Bernards, age more quickly, and small dogs, like Scottish terriers, Chihuahuas, and pugs, age more slowly. For instance, an eight-year-old dog who weighs fewer than twenty pounds tends to be around forty-eight in people years — squarely in middle age, with only six people years assigned for every actual year lived. An eight-year-old dog who weighs more than ninety pounds, on the other hand, is more likely to be roughly sixty-four in people years — closer to old than middle aged, with a ratio of 8:1 — eight people years for every year lived.
That's why the bigger the dog, the shorter, on average, her lifespan will be. Almost 40 percent of dogs weighing fewer than twenty pounds live ten years or longer (sometimes as long as twenty years), while only 13 percent of giant breeds like Great Danes and Newfoundlands live at least ten years.
We say on average because, again, aging and lifespan don't play out according to a precise formula. There are small dogs whose lives are cut short by unexpected disease and large dogs who beat the odds and live closer to twenty years than ten or fifteen. It's like weather; meteorologists talk about the average temperature and average amount of rainfall for the month, but you would be hard-pressed to find an actual "average" day.
Given that "age" and lifespan are a bit tricky to pin down, when does a dog pass from middle-aged adulthood to her geriatric years? The question presents some of the same problems that calculating a dog's age does, because old age is not a fixed threshold that all dogs of a certain size cross at the same time.
That said, we have established cutoff points for when a dog should be considered geriatric, or old, depending on her size. This is necessary because after a certain point, veterinarians need to monitor a dog's health a little differently than they would a younger dog, as you'll see in subsequent chapters. Nutrition needs change as well.
Don't get too hung up on the exact numbers. If your dog is young for her age and the vet starts checking her more thoroughly for various conditions common in old age before it is truly necessary, she will not be any worse off for the extra care. And if your dog is somewhat old for her age, a vet who has been taking care of her for a while should be able to ascertain any changes from her baseline health and treat her accordingly. You'll start to notice, too. Dogs, like people, often begin to slow down a little as they make their way into old age.
The longest-lived dog is said to be an Australian cattle dog who died at the super-ripe old age of twenty-nine. But that was reported in the 1930s, and there is no proof. And since Australian cattle dogs are medium-sized, weighing about thirty to thirty-five pounds, we have our doubts. The oldest dog we have on record at our clinic, where more than 100,000 dogs have been seen, is a twenty-one-year-old Chihuahua named Trudy.
There's no getting around the fact that certain diseases are much more common in older dogs. For instance, three in five dogs eventually die of cancer, kidney disease, or heart disease (the subjects of Chapters 5, 6, and 7, which will explain how to successfully manage these illnesses, often for long periods). A number of conditions that are not immediately life-threatening but are chronic and require ongoing medical therapy also strike older dogs more commonly. These include diabetes, Cushing's syndrome, and several others (covered in Chapter 3). Furthermore, every body system is more likely to fail in an older dog than in a younger one.
But there's no such thing as a dog (or a person, for that matter)
dying of old age or "natural causes." A severely diseased organ is always involved.
That said, there are changes a dog goes through that have nothing to do with disease processes but, rather, are simply normal physiologic shifts. To help you distinguish aging from illness, here is a rundown of those natural, expected modifications that occur as a dog enters and passes through her geriatric years. You'll see that many of them are similar to changes that people undergo, but which do not grip them with fear of imminent death or disability. They simply require a little more attention on the part of those caring for canine loved ones, along with an appreciation that the dog may very well need your sensitivity with regard to exercise intensity, severe weather conditions, and so forth.
Graying hair. The graying of humans' hair is most noticeable on top of the head. A dog's hairs, just like a person's, also start to turn gray in her later years, but the graying normally occurs right on the face, particularly around the muzzle. Nothing to worry about. Your pet won't even try to pluck them. (Some breeds, including golden retrievers, can go gray very early.)
Slower metabolism. Just like older people, older dogs burn fewer calories than they did in their younger years. Some of the decrease results from slower cell turnover and slower movement of bodily substances within and between cells — a decrease in activity on the biological level. And some results from the fact that dogs, like people, develop a higher fat-to-muscle ratio as they age; fat burns calories more slowly than muscle.
But most of the decrease in metabolic rate comes simply from dogs tending to become less physically active in old age. The less active they are, the more their muscle cells go unused and therefore atrophy and die off, increasing their fat-to-muscle ratio even more. Also, their heart, lungs, and the rest of their cardiovascular network become less revved, so those body systems need fewer calories to sustain themselves.
A slower metabolism, concomitant with a loss of muscle and a relative increase in fat, is not a catastrophe; metabolic decline happens. But a dog, like a person, will remain stronger and fitter — slower to become infirm — if she can hold on to muscle and retard the slowing of metabolic rate as she advances through the aging process. The silver lining here: slowed physical activity often comes from conditions like obesity or arthritis, which are more treatable than ever. Once these conditions are dealt with and the dog becomes more active again, she can build up more muscle and enjoy a renewed rise in metabolic rate, keeping her younger longer.
Difficulty adapting to hot and cold temperatures. Chicago is stuck in a deep freeze for two weeks. Houston swelters for days on end, with temperatures topping 100 degrees. In which group of people do news reporters broadcast deaths from hypothermia or heat stroke, or at least emergency visits to the hospital? The elderly.
Older dogs are also less physiologically tolerant of very hot or very cold weather. A geriatric dog left outside for a long time on a humid summer day with the sun beating down is more likely to become dehydrated and fall ill. That same dog will also have a harder time staying warm enough in frigid weather. Her body can adjust to the cold only so much.
Is it normal? Yes. Is it comfortable? No. Can it sometimes cause unnecessary illness or worse? Most definitely. It's important to keep in mind that (1) we don't all live in a San Diego–like climate, and (2) our dogs age a lot faster than we do. Thus, just because your dog was able to jog with you in 85-degree weather when you were thirty-two and she was two doesn't mean she'll be able to when you're thirty-nine and she's nine. That's seven years for you, but half a lifetime for her. Go easy.
Similarly, take simple steps to ensure your dog's comfort when it's very cold or very hot. Put her in a fuzzy dog bed with a blanket over her when it's cold out and you've lowered the thermostat to 60 degrees to conserve oil. (It's especially important because your dog is close to the floor, and hot air rises toward the ceiling, while cold air in the room sinks.) You may even want to get her a heating pad — some are made especially for dog beds nowadays.
In hot weather, make sure your pal has plenty of water available and is near a source of coolness or at least shade. And if you fly her from one place to another once or twice a year, consider buying a climate-controlled pet carrier that can heat or cool. (See Resources in the back of the book.) One of the most stressful places for the canine body in terms of extreme heat and cold might be an airport. The belly of the plane may be temperature-controlled, but not the tarmac in frigid or blazing hot weather.
Decreased immunity. One of the most common questions people ask veterinarians as their dog gets older is whether she still needs her vaccinations. In fact, a lot of people with dogs skip the vaccinations in later years, figuring that their pet has already been vaccinated against various illnesses a number of times and has not gotten sick to that point, so why put the animal through more shots? It's a grave mistake. Older dogs need their shots even more than when they were young and middle-aged. The immune system, like other body systems, slows down in old age, making a dog more susceptible not only to diseases such as cancer but also to infections. She simply cannot mount a sufficient immune response to illnesses she might have been able to ward off in her younger days.
Consider the following scenario, which we have seen more than once. An older dog is not kept up to date with her vaccines, but her people continue to let her romp where as-yet-unvaccinated puppies roam, or they introduce a still-unvaccinated puppy into the household. The older dog ends up with parvo virus, which attacks the gastrointestinal tract and immune system and causes severe vomiting and diarrhea. It can also cause a secondary bacterial infection that spreads from the GI tract to the rest of the body, sometimes resulting in death.
It's precisely because of unanticipated exposure to vaccine-preventable viruses that an older dog's vaccination schedule must be maintained. Her age is not a signal to slack off but, rather, all the more reason to make sure she gets her regular shots. Modern medicine can really be useful to counteract a normal, age-related decline, and it should be fully taken advantage of.
Decrease in heart and lung function. Aging dogs do not get coronary artery disease, and they don't get heart attacks, as people do. Rather, as a dog ages, she does not respond as efficiently to physiologic stress — an increase in heart rate resulting from exercise, for example. She doesn't have the needed cardiac reserve. The heart is also more susceptible to the effects of anesthesia. (This is not to say that geriatric dogs shouldn't undergo procedures requiring anesthesia. They should. The vet simply has to take age into account when administering the anesthetic.)
It's the same for the lungs, which function in close concert with the heart. The elastic fibers in a dog's lungs allow them to expand and contract with each breath. But as a dog grows older, some of the fibers are replaced by scar tissue, diminishing her ability to breathe as efficiently as possible. Lung secretions also change, which translates to a diminished capacity for oxygen to cross from the air the dog breathes into her lungs and then to the rest of the body. Thus, just as those who are used to exercising with their dogs need to recognize that an older dog can't exercise in extreme temperatures as well as when she was younger, they should recognize that, say, five years is going to change a human's exercise capacity much less dramatically than a dog's. A jog or brisk walk with a dog by your side may need to become significantly slower as the dog progresses through older ages. (And we don't like to see a dog of any age tethered to a bicycle.
Imagine not being able to stop running when you needed to.)
Hormonal changes. The network of hormones and the glands that secrete them is called the endocrine system. While age-related changes vary from gland to gland, overall there tends to be some degeneration. For instance, the response of the hormone insulin to clear sugar from the bloodstream after food has been eaten might not be as vigorous. What's "normal" for thyroid hormone values differs in older dogs, too, which is significant because the hormone coming from the thyroid gland is instrumental in the regulation of metabolic activity. These changes don't automatically translate to disease states, but aging dogs have to be watched more carefully for hormone-mediated conditions such as diabetes and hypothyroidism, both of which affect the body cells' ability to do what they have to do.
One study has shown that the normal thyroid level for a female beagle puppy is 4.3 milligrams per deciliter of blood, while the normal level for the same dog at age twelve would be 2.6.
Changes in the reproductive system. There is no menopause in the canine world. Female dogs never lose their ability to bear puppies. But fertility does decrease with age, resulting in smaller (and fewer) litters. Also, puppies born to older dogs often have congenital defects, and there can be complications with whelping (labor). Of course, we recommend that most dogs be spayed by the age of six months, anyway. Females are significantly more prone to developing cancerous tumors of the mammary glands if they are not spayed before their first heat (which generally occurs between the ages of six and twelve months).
Older male dogs, like older men, are prone to prostate problems resulting from enlargement. The greatest difficulty for dogs with enlarged prostates is an increased susceptibility to infections, which can lead to illness that is accompanied by fever. An enlarged prostate can also make it difficult to go to the bathroom, but whereas in men it's about urinating, in dogs it's sometimes about difficulty with bowel movements. The difference is likely due to differences in anatomy between the two species.
Note: Enlargement of the prostate occurs in male dogs who have not been neutered — a good reason to have them neutered before they reach their first birthdays, just like their female counterparts.
Gastrointestinal slowdown. No doubt if you've ever gotten up close to your dog (which you most assuredly have), you know where the term "dog breath" comes from. You don't like it, but you live with it — your dog may not love all of your scents, either. Sometimes, though, a dog's bad breath may not just be unpleasant, it could be a sign of dental disease, particularly in an older dog. Why? While GI function in older dogs remains pretty much intact in the stomach and intestines, there's a decrease in gastrointestinal action in the mouth, which is the beginning of the GI tract. Specifically, there is a decreased production of saliva, which helps clean the oral cavity. And the less clean the mouth, the more likely that problems with the teeth will occur.
Almost universal in older dogs is the development of dental tartar and periodontal, or gum, disease. That frequently makes eating difficult and increases the incidence of infections in the gingiva, the medical term for the gums. Some research has suggested that those infections can precipitate heart and kidney infections. It's not well-documented, but gingival infections certainly can be painful, and older dogs whose dental needs are not tended can lose their teeth.
It used to be that as dogs grew older and ended up with compromised teeth, the teeth were pulled as a matter of course. Today, a dog can undergo a lot of the same procedures people do in order to save their teeth — and their ability to chew and enjoy their food. (Chapter 3 covers saving your dog's teeth in greater detail.)
Decrease in liver size. The liver has two main functions. One is to manufacture proteins, which are the building blocks for all the tissues in the body. The other is to break down toxic substances and deposit them in bile, which makes its way to the intestinal tract and is then excreted in bowel movements.
As a dog ages, she actually loses liver cells, which makes her liver smaller. That, in turn, translates into a decrease in liver function, which means a diminished capacity to detoxify. For instance, because the liver helps metabolize drugs, an older dog might not handle a particular drug dose as well as she would have when she was younger. Even dietary supplements may be metabolized more slowly in an older dog.
This is not necessarily something you will ever end up dealing with. A shrinking liver with advanced age is a fact of life. But your veterinarian might very well end up taking liver capacity and function into account when prescribing drugs (including anesthetics) or advising you about supplements, which is why you should not only tell your veterinarian if you're giving your dog supplements, but also tell what amount, so she can let you know if the dose is too much of a liver burden. There's no simple test for liver function, so the vet won't be able to prescribe drugs for an older dog according to a precise formula. But various blood tests, considered in combination with the dog's age, allow for a reasonable, safe estimate of proper drug doses.
Decrease in kidney and bladder function. A dog, like a person (and almost all other animals), has two kidneys. And each kidney is composed of thousands of nephrons, sub-units that help filter waste from the blood and send it out of the body through the urine. Long story short: kidney function decreases with age.
Unfortunately, as with the liver, there's no single perfect test for kidney function. The screenings most commonly used don't show any abnormality until a dog has already lost 75 percent of her kidney capacity, which means a dog's kidneys could be in pretty bad shape, even though the numbers on a lab test might look normal. (More on detecting kidney problems — and what to do about them — in Chapter 7.)
The other major organ of the urinary system is the bladder. If her bladder doesn't function properly, a dog may end up dripping or leaving puddles where she has been sleeping. The condition has the same name as it does for humans — urinary incontinence. Older female dogs, predominantly those who have been spayed, are the ones to end up afflicted with urinary incontinence. There's a drop in levels of the hormone estrogen with spaying, which weakens the tone of the sphincter that controls urination and affects dogs more as they age. Between 20 and 50 percent of adult, spayed female dogs develop some degree of urinary incontinence.
The problem has traditionally led some owners to bring their older dogs to the pound, where they often meet the fate of euthanasia. But now incontinence can be treated much more successfully than it used to be. (Urine soiling, and how to solve it, will be discussed in some detail in Chapter 3.) Incontinence resulting from cognitive dysfunction ("canine Alzheimer's") can be dealt with, too.
Bone loss. Like people, aging dogs often undergo a decrease in bone density. Fortunately, because dogs have a shorter lifespan than people, they tend not to develop osteoporosis. Their loss in bone mass is rarely enough to cause problems such as a fracture upon falling. If a dog does break a bone, it usually signifies disease of the bone at that location rather than decreased bone density throughout the body. We call that a pathologic fracture.
Neurologic decline. Falloff in this area divides logically into two categories: a decline of the senses, including smell, sight, and hearing; and a decline in the function of brain cells. Both happen as a matter of course. It's the degree to which they occur that determines whether a dog's everyday life becomes significantly compromised. It's also important to pinpoint which parts of the neurologic, or nervous, system are causing a problem. Sometimes a neurologic deficit could seem like a decline in brain function when it is not.
Consider that a decline in the function of cells in the ear canal can lead to hearing loss. Easy, right? But such a sensory deficit might also lead to behavior that looks like senility, yet isn't. If your old dog isn't turning around when you call, you might suppose she's gone daft, when she simply can't hear you. Some degree of hearing loss is, in fact, quite common in older dogs. That's why it's important not to automatically assume your older dog has a canine version of Alzheimer's if her behavior has become erratic or she seems not to understand as much as she used to. Veterinary testing is key here.
Sometimes a screening at the vet's office will reveal a problem that has nothing to do with a root problem in the nervous system. For instance, a brain tumor could be causing a dog to act differently, less engaged or perhaps more erratically, from the way she used to. The earlier it's caught and treated, the less damage it will do.
Note that decreased eyesight, very common in aging dogs because of degenerative changes in the fluid of the eyes' back chambers along with degenerative changes in the lenses, tends not to be as serious for a dog as it would be for a person. You might not even notice. Why? Dogs are generally not involved in the fine visual detail work of, say, driving a car or reading the newspaper; they don't surf the Net. If the squirrel gets away, it's no big deal, and neither your dog nor you will suffer for it.
Just as it is important to understand the natural changes that occur in a dog as part of the aging process, so as not to become unduly alarmed and mistake age for illness, it is equally important not to dismiss true illness as a garden-variety symptom of old age. For instance, we've had people bring in old dogs who had always been active and now have great difficulty getting around. One owner of a particularly sweet black Lab/Border collie mix named Ellie told us, "It's okay. She's just getting old." But it wasn't okay. It's one thing to slow down a bit, but a barely ambulatory dog is a dog with a problem that needs tending, no matter what her age. Once Ellie, age twelve, had necessary knee surgery, she was, with no exaggeration, spry again. It happens all the time.
Likewise, if your dog starts to do something she didn't used to do, or stops doing something that has always been a habit, a visit to the veterinarian is in order. Any change that persists could be the sign of a problem and requires a professional look.
Don't be afraid to take your older dog to the vet because you don't want to hear bad news. Very often, we're able to tell people, "This is nothing to worry about. We can take care of it." People's minds are put at ease more often than they're presented with alarming findings.
Then, too, if you bring your dog in at the first sign of what appears to be trouble, more will be able to be done for her if there is something wrong. For instance, to give an obvious example, a small lump on a dog's flank is a lot less complicated to treat than one that has grown quite large and may have invaded surrounding tissue. There's no problem that isn't more easily dealt with when it's dealt with early.
It can be a bit of a balancing act. Some people with older dogs, understandably nervous about their pet's age, rush to the veterinarian's office when it's not necessary, say, if the dog throws up after eating grass (which she probably always did) or merely sneezes a few times in a row. Others delay when a problem needs immediate attention, sometimes trying to make a diagnosis themselves by going on the Internet or talking to a friend or breeder, which potentially deprives the dog of timely treatment.
How to walk the middle path? That's what the rest of this book is about — taking sensible preventive measures against disease and acting quickly and appropriately if something does go awry. We'll keep you from falling prey to some popular faulty notions about senior dog care, too.
Keep in mind, chances are that the end of your dog's life will most likely be a very, very small part of your time with her. Because veterinary advances keep coming fast and steadily, you will have years of wonderful, happy experiences with your older pet — more good years than ever before possible.


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Junior goalie Alexandre Popp (above) will guard the net this weekend for the Crimson (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The Crimson opens Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Northern Division play Saturday at home against Fordham and Iona.
1 p.m. vs. Fordham
9 p.m. vs. Iona
Players of the Week
Two Harvard players have earned Player of the Week nods, with seniors Alex Thompson and co-captain Bret Voith getting recognized already this season.
Thompson was named the CWPA Northern Division Player of the Week for Sept. 7 after leading the Crimson in scoring for two of its three games at the MIT Invitational. Thompson scored seven goals, notched an assist and had eight steals over the two-day tournament, including four goals in the 12-8 victory over Cal Lutheran.
Voith was chosen as Harvard's COOP Athlete of the Week for Sept. 14 after he had a solid weekend in the pool at the Princeton Invitational, leading the Crimson to a thrilling, 9-8, win over George Washington and near upsets of nationally-ranked Cal Baptist and Princeton. Voith totaled five goals, four assists and five steals in four games over the weekend, including three goals against No. 18 Princeton in the Tigers' home pool Sept. 11 in a televised game.
Three's a Crowd
The senior trio of Thompson, Lee and co-captain Voith has been overwhelming the Crimson's opponents with its presence this season.
The three seniors occupy the team's top three spots in scoring, Voith and Lee hold the Crimson's top two spots in assists and Thompson and Voith top the team list for steals.
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Harvard put on quite a scoring display against Washington & Jefferson in Sunday's 11th-place ECAC Championships game, putting up 19 goals in a 19-3 route.
The Crimson has scored 19 or more goals four times since 2002, with the most recent coming against Connecticut College, Nov. 7, 2009.
About Harvard
Harvard hosted the 2010 Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Championships at Blodgett Pool Sept. 17-19. The Crimson entered the 12-team tournament seeded 10th and wound up finishing 11th with a 19-3 victory Sunday over Washington & Jefferson.
Harvard has gone 2-2 in its last four games after starting the season 1-4 and will look to continue that momentum heading into CWPA league play.
The team is led by its three seniors, Alex Thompson, Jeff Lee and co-captain Bret Voith. Thompson leads the team in scoring (17 goals) with Lee (16) right behind him. Thompson also leads the team in steals (16) with Voith (12) at second on the team. Voith has accumulated the most assists on the team so far (10) and Lee follows him with seven on the year. Junior Alexandre Popp has made 71 stops in goal for the Crimson and has a .514 save percentage on the year
About Fordham
Fordham (7-7, 1-0 CWPA) finished right where it was expected to at the ECAC Championships last weekend after entering as the No. 6 seed. The Rams wound up sixth after a 9-6 loss to Johns Hopkins.
Fordham participated in two invitationals, Navy and Princeton, to start off its season. The Rams have fallen just short of victory several times against ranked teams, including an 11-10 loss against No. 14 Navy and a 13-9 overtime loss to No. 13 Santa Clara at the Princeton Invitational.
Harvard leads the all-time series against the Rams, 23-11, but Fordham has won five straight meetings dating back to 2008. The Crimson holds the longest winning streak in the series at 13 from 2000-07.
About Iona
The Gaels (1-6, 0-1 CWPA) finished 10th at last week's ECAC Championships after entering the tournament seeded eighth. Iona went 1-2 in the tournament with one-goal losses to George Washington (5-4) and Mercyhurst (9-8), while winning its second-round game, 12-5, over Washington & Jefferson.
The Crimson holds the all-time series advantage over Iona, 25-15, but the Gaels have had the upperhand as of late. Iona has won three straight against the Crimson and four of six since 2006.
Up Next
The Crimson will continue its homestand next week with a non-conference matchup against MIT Oct. 2 at Blodgett Pool. The team then heads west to California for five games Oct. 8-10.


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LORAIN — A standoff on July 8 led to the arrest of Isaac S. Legard, 34, who allegedly held his girlfriend against her will, police said.
An officer responded to a call at 10:48 a.m. from a man who told police he believed a female was being restrained inside of Legard's house located at 1609 Lehigh Ave., said Capt. James McCann.
The witness said when he peered inside the home, he saw the woman and "knew she was in trouble," according to McCann.
Shortly after arriving to the scene, the officer met the victim as she came out of the door near the driveway at the back of the home, police said. McCann added her eye was swollen shut and she had a fresh bruise on her chin.
According to police, the victim gave an officer an account of what occurred but not all details are known at this time.
McCann added police believe she was assaulted the evening of July 7 and left the home, but chose to return the next day for a bill or piece of mail, and Legard refused to let her leave.
"I don't think she was assaulted (July 8), but she was held against her will today," McCann said.
Police immediately formed a perimeter around the area, along with a
handful of SWAT team members and a K-9 unit, and waited for Legard to surrender. McCann said police did not enter the home as they did not have a search warrant.
Police were later alerted that Legard was picked up at his mother's house on the west side for a warrant issued for his arrest. Authorities cleared the scene at around 1:50 p.m.
McCann said police are unsure of when Legard left the Lehigh Avenue home, but assume it was before police came to the scene.
"He had to (have left) before we got on the scene because we had the perimeter set up right away, so there's no way he could've gotten out while we were here," McCann said.
He added the victim was in shock and disbelief that Legard fled the scene before the police came, and she continued to reiterate to police that, "There's no way he got out," McCann said.
Legard is currently being held in Lorain City Jail without bond until he is arraigned in Lorain Municipal Court July 9.
He is being charged with one count of abduction, according to Officer Christopher Harris.
In 2008, Legard was charged with abduction, assault on a police officer, domestic violence, obstruction of official business and resisting arrest, which he pleaded guilty to in August of 2009, according to
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IRVING, Texas (AP) — Food recycling company Darling International Inc. is buying a unit of Vion Holding NV for about 1.6 billion euros ($2.17 billion).
The Irving, Texas, company said Monday that the acquisition will help diversify its product line.
Vion Ingredients, based in the Netherlands, produces specialty ingredients from animal origin for applications in pharmaceuticals, food, feed, pet food, fertilizer and bio-energy. Its brands include Rendac, Sonac, Ecoson, Rousselot, CTH and Best Hides. The company reported 2012 revenue of about 1.6 billion euros ($2.17 billion).
Dirk Kloosterboer will remain CEO of Vion Ingredients and will become chief operating officer of Darling once the transaction is complete. He will also become a Darling board member.
Craig Irwin of Wedbush said in a client note that the transaction should help Darling to go global, as Vion has facilities in Europe, Asia and South America. The analyst maintained an "Outperform" rating and $23 price target.
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Sink and Float materials were on the shelves, as well as the Magnetic / Non-magnetic work. But a work I had never seen before soon caught my eye and my camera. The name of the work was "Dancing Raisins." Today, I presented it to the students in my afternoon class. I can not express the absolute wide-eyed joy they had in watching the raisins dance (and tumble).
The ingredients required are found in the pantry of most kitchens: water, vinegar, baking soda and raisins. I wrote on the instruction card for the classroom:
1 water
1 vinegar
4 raisins
2 baking soda.
I did not write 1 tbs or 1/2 cup as I was using a small pitcher that had no such demarcations and just figured that since the children were using the small pitcher for both the water and the vinegar that 1 was enough. The same was for the baking soda which is added last, after the raisins.
How to: In a small bowl pour 1 water, 1 vinegar and add 4 raisins. Notice and point out to the children that at this time the raisins have simply landed on the bottom of the bowl and are not moving. After I pointed out that the raisins weren't moving, one of my students said, "Well, Miss Dyer, they drowned."
When adding the baking soda be a little dramatic in your own expression as the white foam rises and then falls. After this initial fanfare of chemical reaction, have the children spend a few moments quietly watching the raisins - they will slowly begin to dance. One will roll over completely, another will bob to the surface. Most importantly, the child/children need to stay quietly focused on the four raisins and not give up too quickly. Then like slow motion jumping beans the raisin will perform.
All of the materials are taken off of the tray.
Water and vinegar have been poured into the bowl.
Small tongs were used to put four raisins, which are kept in
the butterfly shaped box, into the liquid mixture in the bowl.
Baking soda was added and then the raisins danced.
*Note the additional four raisins on the ceramic tray.
They are from my first demonstration. I immediately
repeated the presentation.
After a few minutes, I re-emphasized not putting the work away too quickly and that the work required their observation skills: to look at length, to note variations/movements. I told them that observing the clouds slowly move across the sky or watching an inch worm make its way from one place to another required a commitment of time and a willingness to see the slow wonders all around us. It was a beautiful lesson. After the lesson ended, I took the small tongs and removed the raisins to the ceramic, rectangle plate to throw them away (as we do with the pieces of stem cut during flower arranging work). I poured the liquids down the sink, wiped the bowl and put it all back on the shelf. It was time to go outside, so I will have to wait until tomorrow to see if a child chooses it.
Thursday, March 6, 2008
The Children watched with wide-eyed wonderment while the raisins did in fact dance.
Posted by Susan Slocum Dyer at 3:15 PM
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2 comments:
- Jennifer said...
Nice setup. I love the dancing raisins done in a tall slender glass with a stable base (The one I have may be a vase or a tall votive holder). The raisins ride up to the surface on the bubbles then sink to the bottom, again and again. I think I use less vinegar in relation to the water (needed to adjust amts a few times before I got proper bubbly effect without gushing over).
- April 8, 2009 at 9:39 AM
- Susan Y. Dyer said...
TY...I will note the adjustment in measurements in Jennifer.
Susan Dyer
The Moveable Alphabet
- April 13, 2009 at 10:44 AM
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Host Michel Martin discusses April's jobs report with Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., head of the Congressional Black Caucus, and NPR's Business Editor Marilyn Geewax. Just 115,000 jobs were created, fewer than most economists expected, but the unemployment rate fell to 8.1 percent.
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Who eats: Business folks, neighborhood types. Why eat: Upscale Japanese fare in River North. Ambience: Bathed in rich, dark wood and deep reds, Japonais has nailed the Asian vibe, complete with a wall fountain and a towering, Seuss-esque bonsai tree. The chairs are comfy but set fairly low, and though the dining area is comfortable and serene, some of the walls and furnishings show wear. Dress code: Most diners were in business attire, but there were plenty of jeans. Noise factor: You will have no trouble hearing your companions. Overheard: "We had a customer in New Jersey who insisted it be that way. It didn't work." Service: Our server was very nice, enthusiastic and had good knowledge of the menu, but she also disappeared for long stretches, and the pacing of the food was a bit off. There was a somewhat lengthy delay between the appetizers and the main courses. Cellphone reception/Wi-Fi: Full cell. Reservations: Accepted. Menu: Japanese with American influences. Reliable options: There is a full range of sushi, from pricey chef's special rolls (all elaborate, all $17 each), to simple nigiri ($3 for Ebi shrimp). We went with the lunch specials, several mix-and-match options. All specials include a soft drink, coffee or tea. The Bento Sushi Express ($20.13) offers a choice of two "traditional" sushi rolls and arrives with a side of vegetable tempura. Both rolls we chose (spicy octopus and tuna) were simple and fresh. The tempura was massive, though slightly soft, and accompanied by warm edamame. The Business Prix-Fixe Lunch ($18 without dessert, $22 with) also includes a drink and offers one tasting-size appetizer and one entree, each from a list of four. The result is a pretty hearty lunch. We tried the lobster spring rolls ($16 for a full serving), stuffed with plump chunks of lobster, deep fried and elegantly placed atop a tart mango relish. The three-piece crispy shrimp and salmon roll ($17 for a full roll) was fresh and delicious, the marinated salmon providing the perfect balance to the Panko-breaded shrimp. The server swore the Japonais burger ($11 on its own) was spectacular, and it was good ¿ cooked medium rare with just the right amount of bleu cheese goopiness. It arrived with a heaping serving of Japanese sweet potato fries, which the women in the next booth called "amazing." Plump and crispy, the fries were, in fact, great, and slightly milder than typical sweet potato fries. The miso barbecue sandwich ($10 on its own) was slathered in sauce and topped with provolone cheese, a nice complement. A side salad with ginger-carrot dressing was pleasantly light. We tried all three dessert sorbets (blackberry, mango and raspberry, $5 each) and all were refreshing, though a tad skimpy. Expect to pay: $20-$25 per person. Contacts: japonaischicago.com; 312-822-9600. -- Jon Yates
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Governor Steve Beshear is trying to raise awareness of Kentucky's offer of amnesty to delinquent taxpayers in hopes of filling state coffers with overdue cash. Beshear kicked off the first day of the amnesty offer Monday with a Capitol press conference, saying delinquent taxpayers can pay up without fear of penalties or prosecution.
Lawmakers authorized the amnesty offer earlier this year at the request of Beshear who expects it to reap $61 million for the cash-strapped state that's still feeling the pinch of economic recession.
The money will be used to help balance a two-year, $19 billion budget that requires most state agencies and programs to be cut by 8.4%
Kentucky has a list of nearly 170, 000 people and businesses behind on their tax payments.