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2D or not 2D. Though Panasonic has the largest 3D TV, 152" and possibly the most technologically advanced, 4 x full HD resolutions which virtually eliminates 3D double images, Panasonic is mindful of the fact most programming and viewers still are in the 2D realm and can't squeeze a ten foot set into their living room. Panasonic's 3D presentation, unlike that of Sony's the previous morning, was more low key and personal. There were more Panasonic presenters than press in the morning session, which took place in a suite in The Intercontinental Hotel in Century City.
Like all the competitors in the 3D derby they are not shy about trumpeting what they and their plasma sets do best and according them it is picture, picture, picture. In a Consumer Electronics show that was dominated by 3D entries Panasonic's 3D TC-PVT25 series snagged the award as the best product of CES 2010.
With the new TC-PVT25, the successor to the company's TC PV10 series, which included the TC P50V10, the only HDTV to earn CNET's Editor's Choice Award, Panasonic has addressed the criticisms of the earlier plasma sets while providing some innovative improvements of their own.
In 2D or 3D plasma their sets do a few things better, they have a higher contrast ratio, less blurring as images travel across the screen and most importantly they have put a lot money into reducing crosstalk. When you look at a 3 D image of say a waving branch in ICE AGE and you have double vision without an increase in blood alcohol level, that's crosstalk.
The new 2010 models boast an incredible 5,000,000:1 native contrast ratio 2.5 times that of the previous Plasma VIERA TVs that already had what people considered the best black levels in the business. When a space ship travels across the starry sky on plasma, deep space is pitch black compared to a LCD which never completely goes dark.
In the 2009 models the black level did not maintain itself in pristine condition for over one or two years. In order to deal with the black level issue, in 2010's Panasonic's Plasma HDTVS, an adjustment to the voltage regulator was made to handle the problem with picture degradation.
The highly rated moving picture resolution of earlier models has also been increased. The VT25 series (3D models) has faster acting phosphors and dual scan technology (scan the picture from top and bottom) resulting in a faster refresh rate which is needed to create 3D images without cross talk, but also results in a better motion resolution in 2D (when you see a football, soccer ball or car whiz across the screen from left to right). The feature is vital to 2D and 3D game play. How else are you going to pick off that alien with your cannon?
When displaying still images most HDTVS resolution is measured at 1080p it is static, once motion is introduced, resolution drops to around 900 lines. However, the VT25 series benefits from the 3D improvements by maintaining 1080-p resolution throughout allowing you to see the stitches on a fastball.
All the aforementioned operations of plasma caused a certain amount of power consumption, noticeably higher than LCD's. Despite dramatically improved image quality, energy consumption in the 2010 models was reduced by 40% compared with 2009 models, still not as green as LCD's, but within range of responsible energy usage.
To provide content for their HDTVS Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory boasts the state of the art Blu-ray authoring technology. Currently when you buy select Panasonic 3D TVS in addition to active shutter 3D glasses, you receive a 3D Blu-ray disc of Coraline and Ice Age:Dawn of The Dinosaurs. For more info on Panasonic products and technologies go to Panasonic 3D.


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Australian rider Casey Stoner's Phillip Island farewell is off to a flying start.
Aiming for his sixth successive win at the Australian Grand Prix, Stoner was fastest in opening MotoGP practice by nearly a full second.
He set an early flying lap of one minute 31.046 seconds before light rain interrupted the 45-minute session at Phillip Island.
But after the rain cleared, the Honda rider again put down a sizzling marker - his 1:30.374 lap faster than world championship contenders Jorge Lorenzo (1:31.279) and Dani Pedrosa (1:31.533).
Stoner is racing just weeks after surgery on a serious ankle injury, competing in his last Australian GP before retirement at the end of the season.
Yamaha rider Lorenzo leads Honda's Pedrosa by 23 points in the championship.
They are the only two riders who can win the crown with two races remaining.
Lorenzo has promised he won't "go crazy'' at Phillip Island this weekend in his attempts to wrap up the title ahead of fellow Spaniard Pedrosa, even though he could secure it with the right mix of results at the second-last race of the year.
"It would be great and we have possibilities (to wrap up the title at Phillip Island), but we're not going to go crazy to make it here,'' Lorenzo said.
"The most important thing is to make it.
"More than ever we must really concentrate and focus and not make any mistakes.''
Australian Kris McLaren, making his MotoGP debut as a replacement rider for the Avintia team, was slowest of the 20 riders with a 1:40.657 fastest lap.
A second practice session is scheduled for later on Friday ahead of Saturday's qualifying and Sunday's race.

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Last week, during the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting, Mayor Navarre read three proclamations. Two concerned behavior I have observed over my lifetime, Domestic Violence and Workplace Bullying. Assembly member Linda Murphy made comments about the Mayor's proclamations. She commented how she experienced domestic violence, at a time, when it was not talked about. She also stated how the mayor was going to show us where all the bullies are. She chuckled at the end of her second statement. She acted like she had no clue, what the mayor was referencing.
After hearing testimony from a victim of workplace bullying, Ms. Murphy apologized for her off the cuff remarks concerning bullying. I appreciate her apology. However, it raises the question of whether she has been listening about the devastating effects of workplace bullying prior to the Mayor's Proclamation? Has she ignored what people have been saying about Workplace Bullying over her months as Assembly member? Twenty years from now, will Ms. Murphy talk about the time when Workplace Bullying was ignored by politicians as they ignored Domestic Violence in the past? Ms. Murphy will do well to listen to the people and ignore the experts that tell her everything is well and just ignore Workplace Bullying.


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RE "BLUE Cross to pay board again after critics fueled halt" (Page A1, March 1): It is with great dismay that I read of the decision by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to reinstate pay for its board of directors. The following day, I read that Blue Cross had increased its net income for 2012 and had raised the compensation for its CEO. The March 2 Business article states that earnings have increased steadily over the last three years.
This is no surprise, as premiums have continued to rise along with high deductibles that leave subscribers paying ever more out-of-pocket costs for routine procedures.
As of Jan. 1, Blue Cross has also moved to decrease reimbursements to mental health providers for standard psychotherapy visits. This comes at a time when access to quality mental health care is seen as a national imperative.
The insurer is making a value decision with these moves, and it speaks loud and clear.
The writer is a psychotherapist.


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Former starter Duce Staley or third-down back Verron Haynes appeared to be competing for the job, but coach Bill Cowher said Wednesday the Steelers probably won't have such a specialist this season. That means starter Willie Parker might get the ball frequently inside the 10-yard line, something that rarely happened last season.
"It's hard for me to say when we get into short yardage that we're going to make any kind of change," Cowher said. "If somebody starts to surface and becomes that guy, I wouldn't rule it out, but I can't say right now there's been one person like there was with Jerome. And I don't think that's a bad thing. That's the way it was last year. This year's a different year."


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Karoshi 4.1.1 has now been released with some new bits and pieces but not anything major. We are still looking for people to help implement features. The features needed can be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=69 ... unc=browse
If you have any features you would like just post them here as well, we also need testers and promoters!!
Also Karoshi@Home 1.0.1 is now available. This needs testing and giving the once over before we get the peeps from MicroMart emailing me for help!!
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A shopping-centre Santa Claus has been arrested south of Adelaide, charged with the alleged indecent assault of a child.
Police arrested the 75-year-old man on Tuesday following an incident at Southgate Plaza Shopping Centre at Morphett Vale, in Adelaide's south.
The child's mother was present when the alleged assault occurred.
The man has been bailed to appear before the Christies Beach Magistrates Court in January.
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A lot of planning went into Friday evening's Children's Cabinet "Art of Childhood" annual fundraiser at the Governor's Mansion.
Besides the stemware, flatware and napkins, organizers thought a lot about the portable potties.
"When you have 500 people at an event, you want to make sure you have quality," says Mike Pomi, Executive Director of Children's Cabinet.
The final decision came down to the top of the line rest room.
And they are called rest rooms for a reason.
With running water, a flushable toilet, and even air conditioning--there's no other word to describe them,
"It's top of the line for us," says Vince Sciarrotta, Owner of Nevada Johns.
Sciarrotta says the luxury loos are more expensive than the standard outhouse to rent.
Typically reserved for weddings and other fancy events, they can even come with an attendant.
And the company has two, even larger cabins.
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Top featherweight contender Manny Gamburyan (11-5 MMA, 2-3 UFC) will have to wait a little longer to make his return to the octagon.
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) has confirmed that a back injury has forced Gamburyan out of a planned UFC 128 contest with Raphael Assuncao. The switch was first reported by MMA Fighting.
Featuring a light heavyweight title fight between champion Mauricio "Shogun" Rua and rising star Jon Jones, UFC 128 takes place March 19 at Prudential Center in Newark, N.J.
Erik Koch, who was recently left without an opponent at next week's UFC on Versus 3 event, would seem a top candidate to fill the open slot, but UFC officials have yet to announce a change.
Gamburyan made his UFC debut in 2007 as a lightweight finalist on "The Ultimate Fighter 5." Gamburyan fell short in the finals after suffering an injury, though he would return with wins over Nate Mohr and Jeff Cox.
Following consecutive losses to Thiago Tavares and Rob Emerson, Gamburyan dropped to 145 pounds and moved to the recently-merged WEC. Gamburyan posted a 3-1 record in the WEC, with his lone loss coming at the hands of current UFC champion Jose Aldo.
Meanwhile, Assuncao hopes to make his UFC debut following a 3-2 stint in the WEC. He fought most recently at this past November's WEC 52 event, where he earned a decision win over L.C. Davis.
For the latest on UFC 128, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of MMAjunkie.com.
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America and the world salute Neil Armstrong, the Apollo 11 astronaut who became the first human being to set foot on the moon and who died Aug. 25, 2012, aged 82. Inspiring millions with his actions, yet shunning the celebratory status which followed the lunar landing in July 1969, Armstrong remained an unassuming and deeply private man to the end.
Armstrong's astonishing life in aerospace included combat missions with the U.S. Navy, flying as a test pilot for NASA and commanding the Gemini 8 and Apollo 11 missions. Back on the ground after his flying exploits, Armstrong served as Deputy Associate Administrator for Aeronautics at NASA headquarters in Washington before becoming professor of aerospace Engineering at the University of Cincinnati from 1971 to 1979. Along with stints in industry, he also served as vice chairman of the presidential commission that investigated the Challenger disaster in 1986, and later, in 2003, was on the panel that investigated the loss of the Columbia.
Armstrong and the 'Eagle' Lunar Module on the moon in July 1969 (NASA)
Described in a statement by his family as a "reluctant American hero", Armstrong made few public appearances and avoided the limelight. However the statement says "as much as Neil cherished his privacy, he always appreciated the expressions of good will from people around the world and from all walks of life. While we mourn the loss of a very good man, we also celebrate his remarkable life and hope that it serves as an example to young people around the world to work hard to make their dreams come true, to be willing to explore and push the limits, and to selflessly serve a cause greater than themselves."
One of the few arenas in which Armstrong appeared to be more than happy to speak however was the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP). As a fellow of the Society, he was an occasional speaker and obviously felt very much at home as he shared his views and flight test experiences. One of these talks, delivered to a rapt audience at the SETP's annual symposium in 2007, covered the development and testing of the LLRV/LLTV (lunar landing research/training vehicle). The LLRV was built to help develop systems and piloting techniques to land the Apollo Lunar Module in the low gravity environment of the moon.
After Armstrong had finished his talk, I asked him about how much the experiences of testing the LLRV – including his ejection from the LLRV-1 which crashed in May 1968 – had really prepared him for that fateful first moon landing on July 20 the following year.
The landing was one of the most dangerous and momentous phases in the history of exploration. With less than 30 seconds of fuel remaining, Armstrong – aided with altitude callouts from Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin beside him – calmly piloted the Eagle Lunar Module around large boulders to a landing in the football field-sized crater to which it had been directed by the vehicle's auto-tracker system. The heart-stopping wait for confirmation of the safe landing prompted the now famous quote from Charlie Duke (Apollo 11 flight director Gene Kranz's Capsule Communications – CAPCOM) who said "Roger Tranquility we copy you down. You've got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot!"
But what did Neil Armstrong think? Was he turning blue up there too? The answer, as it happened, was the typically unflappable response from a seasoned test pilot. He told me "Oh, we had quite a few seconds to spare – it was longer than most people think. There was really plenty of time, and it's exactly what we'd been training for. The simulator system really worked."
No wonder, I thought, that NASA chose this man to land Apollo 11!
... and finally a thought from his family:
"For those who may ask what they can do to honor Neil, we have a simple request. Honor his example of service, accomplishment and modesty, and the next time you walk outside on a clear night and see the moon smiling down at you, think of Neil Armstrong and give him a wink."


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FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) -- The dollar on Thursday extended a modest gain versus the euro EURUSD, -0.0594% and added to an already big jump versus the Japanese yen USDJPY, -0.08% after the U.S. Labor Department said first-time applications for jobless benefits fell 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 330,000 in the week ended Jan. 19. Although January readings tend to be volatile, that's the lowest level for first-time claims since January 2008. Moreover, economists had forecast first-time claims to rise to 360,000. The dollar index DXY, -0.19% which tracks the U.S. unit against a basket of six major rivals, rose to 79.994 compared with around 79.940 in North American trade late Wednesday. The euro fell to $1.3338 versus the dollar compared with around $1.3355 ahead of the data, but still up from $1.3318 late Wednesday. The dollar fetched 89.74 Japanese yen, a gain of 1.4% from Wednesday.
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Webber not walking away says team boss
Mark Webber will not walk away from Red Bull despite his controversial clash with team-mate Sebastian Vettel at the Malaysian Grand Prix, according to team principal Christian Horner.
Defending champion Vettel deliberately disobeyed team orders by overtaking Webber in the closing stages of last Sunday's race, before driving to victory and leaving the Australian fuming.
Webber, 36, admitted that he had thought about "many things" over the race's closing stages, but Horner has dismissed speculation that he might be tempted to leave the team.
"It was the intent of the team that Mark win that race," Horner said.
"We didn't suddenly give Sebastian instruction and say: 'Go and pass your team-mate.'
"He (Webber) is big enough to know there was no malice or intent from the team to create any situation like that.
"He is in a car capable of winning grand prixs, and hopefully going for a championship, so I've no doubt Mark will see out the season with us."
Horner also revealed that Vettel visited the Red Bull factory in Milton Keynes, central England earlier this week to apologise for his conduct.
"He's accepted what he did was wrong, but that he can't turn back the clock," Horner told Sky Sports News.
"He has apologised to the team, apologised to every single member of staff for his actions, because he recognises the team is vitally important, and being part of a team is a crucial aspect of being able to challenge for those championships."
Meanwhile, Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko claims that Vettel and Webber have made peace.
"They don't have to be completely on the same page, but it must be a solid working partnership," he said.
"Sebastian apologised in the press conference and I think that was the first correct step to make.
"There was a debrief afterwards with the relevant discussions about the race and then there was a handshake between the two drivers. For us now the issue is settled."
Returning to the incident, Marko says Red Bull lost control of the situation when Vettel deliberately ignored his team's instructions after his final pit stop.
"We told Sebastian to hold his position because we didn't know what the tyre situation was and both drivers needed to bring home a good finish for the team," added Marko.
"But then came the attack against that strategy and it got out of control. You couldn't control it over radio or anything like that. Sebastian the racer came out and took the lead."
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DistroWatch reviews Geubuntu, and concludes: "For Enlightenment and Ubuntu fans this distro is custom made for you. It takes the best of Ubuntu and combines it with a great desktop environment. If Ubuntu or Kubuntu is a bit too heavy for your equipment, then Geubuntu just might be what you need. It might also be an idea for those who find Elive a bit overwhelming, or those who like to be a bit different from the rest of the crowd."
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RE: Times have certainly changed
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It's been completely rewritten since then. Maybe even more than once.
I'll have to check it out again one of these days in the not too distant future. I settled comfortably in to OpenBox a few years ago and haven't had much motivation to explore other WM's and Desktop Managers since.


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EAGAN, Minn. -- Barreling out of Florida with money and momentum on his side, Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney said Wednesday that the bare-knuckled nomination fight thus far has toughened him up for contests to come. Chief rival Newt Gingrich is regrouping after a significant loss and faces serious disadvantages in the next states to vote.
Romney, who won big in Florida with a barrage of negative ads, predicted the tone of the GOP campaign was "just a precursor to what you'll see" from President Barack Obama in the general election. And he said voters paid more attention to what they heard in the campaign debates than whatever ads were flooding the airwaves.
"Perhaps what we're getting now inoculates us, or at least prepares us, for what will come down the road," Romney said as he made the rounds of morning television shows.
House Speaker John Boehner dismissed any notion that the bitter tone of the race and the prospect of a drawn-out nomination battle are worrisome for Republicans.
"I understand that people are concerned about how long the primary process is dragging out," said Boehner, R-Ohio. "I would remind people that President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a fight that went through June of 2008. I think everybody just needs to realize that this will resolve itself."
Looking ahead, Romney said his campaign is focused squarely on middle-income Americans -- to the exclusion of others at either end of the spectrum.
"I'm not concerned about the very poor," Romney said on CNN. "We have a safety net there. If it needs repair, I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich. They're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the very heart of America, the 90-95 percent of Americans who are struggling."
Romney took another run at the issue as he flew from Florida to Minnesota and reporters questioned whether he cared about the poor. Romney said he'd been saying throughout the campaign that his prime focus is on middle-income people, and that his latest comments were in that same vein.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, no," he said. "No, no, no. You've got to take the whole sentence, alright, it's mostly the same." He reiterated his previous comments about the safety net for the poor, and said that "if there are people that are falling through the cracks, I want to fix that."
It didn't take long for Obama's campaign to pounce on Romney's comments: "So much for 'we're all in this together,'" tweeted Obama campaign manager Jim Messina.
The president's re-election operation also sought to make money off the GOP squabbling with a fundraising appeal Wednesday focused on the millions that Romney and his supporters had spent on negative ads.
"That's ugly, and it tells us a lot about what to expect from Romney if he wins the Republican nomination," Messina wrote. "They're going to try to spend and smear their way to the White House."
Romney said his path ahead "is looking very good" as he headed to Minnesota and Nevada for campaign stops Wednesday. Gingrich worked to convince supporters that the primary is a two-person race.
Vowing to stay the course, Gingrich said Tuesday, "We are going to contest everyplace." He planned one appearance in Reno, Nev., on Wednesday.
Nevada and Maine have caucuses on Saturday. Minnesota and Colorado hold contests on Tuesday. Michigan and Arizona hold primaries on Feb. 28.
Romney begins February with formidable advantages in fundraising and organization. His campaign raised $24 million in the final months of 2011, dwarfing his competitors and leaving him with $20 million to fight a primary battle that's increasingly spread across many states.
The former Massachusetts governor has had staff and volunteers on the ground in upcoming states for months as he's prepared for a drawn-out fight for delegates to the Republican National Convention in August. Gingrich doesn't have a strong ground game as he looks to contests in states that could prove problematic for him. And in a nomination fight so far defined by debates -- typically a strong point for the former House speaker -- he faces a three-week stretch without one. The candidates will next debate in Arizona on Feb. 22.
Romney won Nevada's caucuses in 2008, and a substantial Mormon population there could propel him to victory. Still, Texas Rep. Ron Paul has been organizing in the state for months and could pose a strong challenge. Romney's campaign is working to paint the nomination fight as a four-candidate contest, with Paul and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum still in the mix.
Santorum cast his 1-for-4 record in the voting so far as only a hiccup, projecting optimism despite a tough road ahead.
"Only four states have spoken," he said during a news conference Wednesday in Lakewood, Colo. "There are 46 others." Then he upped the number to 53, counting U.S. territories and the District of Columbia.
"This thing is far from over," he insisted, adding that all of Gingrich's votes would come to him if Gingrich left the race.
A super PAC hoping to help keep Santorum's candidacy alive announced it would run a TV ad in Missouri arguing he's the best candidate to put up against Obama. Santorum also picked up an endorsement from former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, a conservative and tea party favorite.
Paul, who celebrated his 55th wedding anniversary campaigning in Las Vegas, discussed immigration at a Hispanic event and said he favors a compassionate policy that doesn't rely on "barbed wire fences and guns on the border."
Romney's Florida win was a smart rebound from an earlier defeat and represented a major step toward the nomination. He'll receive Secret Service protection, beginning Wednesday, requested by his campaign.
Romney had 46 percent of the Florida vote to Gingrich's 32 percent. Santorum had 13 percent and Paul 7 percent; neither mounted a substantial effort in the state.
The winner-take-all primary was worth 50 Republican convention delegates, the most of any primary state so far.
By Kasie Hunt, Associated Press


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The Ayurvedic treatment of swine flu is aimed at treating the symptoms, controlling the virus, and preventing complications by boosting the immune status of the body. Medicines like Tribhuvan-Kirti-Ras, Sitopaladi-Churna, Triphal-Guggulu, Maha-Sudarshan-Churna, Shwas-Kuthar-Ras, Laxmi-Narayan-Ras, Sut-Shekhar-Ras and Samshamani-Vati can be used to treat the flu-like symptoms of fever, bodyache and cough.
Herbal medicines like Chirayta (Swertia chirata), Tulsi (Ocimum sanctum), Pippali (Piper longum), Vishwa (Zinziber officinalis), Haridra (Curcuma longa), Som (Ephedra vulgaris), Dhatura (Dhatura fastiosa) and Kantakari (Solanum xanthocarpum) can also be used for this purpose. Gastro-intestinal symptoms can be treated using medicines like Panchamrut-Parpati, Kutaj-Parpati, Kutaj-Ghan-Vati, Laghu-Sutshekhar-Ras and herbal medicines like Vishwa, Kutaj (Holarrhina antidysentrica), Musta (Cyperus rotundus) and Bilva (Aegle marmelos).
Herbal medicines with antiviral activity can be used to prevent or reduce the effects of the viral infection. These medicines include Yashtimadhuk (Glycyrrhiza glabra), Tulsi, Bhumiamalaki (Phyllanthus niruri), Haridra, Daruharidra (Berberis aristata), Kutki (Picrorrhiza kurroa), Chitrak (Plumbago zeylanica) and Amalaki (Emblica officinalis). In the case of swine flu, the earlier these medicines are started, the better the therapeutic effect.
It is also important to boost the immune status of the body in order to bring about a faster recovery and prevent complications. This can be done by using medicines like Shatavari (Asparagus racemosus), Ashwagandha (Withania somnifera), Bala (Sida cordifolia), Naagbala (Grewia hirsuta), Abhrak-Bhasma, Suvarna-Bhasma, Laghu-Malini-Vasant, Madhu-Malini-Vasant, Suvarna-Malini-Vasant and Suvarna-Parpati. These medicines can also be used for preventive purposes, both by the normal, unaffected population and also by those who are at special risk; for example, close contacts of affected individuals, and medical and para-medical staff.
The herbal medicine called Pippali has a special therapeutic affinity for the mucosa of the respiratory tract. It can reduce inflammation, swelling and excessive secretions in the lungs, throat and nose. In addition, it also normalizes the damage done to the mucosal lining due to acute and chronic disease. In acute disease of the respiratory tract, it is usually given in small doses along with other medicines. In chronic diseases, it is given in progressively increasing doses till tolerance, or till a pre-determined dose, and then reduced gradually. This tonifying medication is known as Vardhmaan-Pippali-Rasayan. This can be judiciously used to prevent serious damage due to swine flu infection, or as a preventive medication in individuals at risk.
It is important to take adequate preventive measures to keep the swine flu infection from spreading. Symptomatic individuals should observe voluntary quarantine for a period of seven to fourteen days, which is usually the time the contagious stage lasts. Simple measures like using tissue paper for nasal secretions, and disposing off these, can significantly reduce the risk of transmission to others.
Homeopathic Remedies
Homeopathy can both prevent and cure swine flu, sans any side effects, say doctors who practise this alternative medicine system in india where over 700 people have been diagnosed with the disease.
Considering that the Swine Flu virus produces symptoms similar to the human influenza virus, the following homeopathy medicines may prove useful in cases of swine influenza:
#Gelsemium. [Gels]
This remedy corresponds to the commencement of the trouble, when the patient is weak, tired and aches throughout the body. It removes speedily the intense aching and muscular soreness. There is constant chilliness and the patient hugs the fire; the fever is less acute than that of Aconite, and the cough is hard and painful. There are paroxysms of sneezing with excoriating discharge, and great torpor and apathy. Extensive experience with this remedy in the great Epidemic of 1918 proved its usefulness. Simple cases were speedily cured. Aconite will sometimes prove the better remedy for children, but the drug will never be a prominent one in influenza. Still it may be prescribed when indicated; it will, perhaps, soothe and moderate the subsequent attack, but its action is not quick here as in simple fevers, as we have to deal with a blood affection.
Influenza with marked gastro-intestinal symptoms may need this remedy, especially when there are putrid diarrhoea stools. Clarke considers this remedy the nearest specific for the disease; he prefers the 30th potency. Hughes also praises it, but uses it in the 1x and 2x dilutions, which seem to have more extensive testimony as to their efficacy.
#Eupatorium perfoliatum.
This remedy has much soreness and aching of the entire body; hoarseness and cough, with great soreness of the larynx and upper respiratory tract. Coryza with thirst. Drinking causes vomiting. The cough is a very shattering one, hurts the head and chest, and as in Drosera, the patient holds the chest with the hands. The breakbone pains are characteristic of the remedy. Add to these symptoms acute bilious derangements, and it is all the more indicated. Many physicians rely on this remedy in influenza / flu almost exclusively in the early stages.
#Sabadilla. [Sabad]
Sneezing is the great keynote of this remedy. Sneezing and lachrymation on going into the open air. The throat is swollen and the pain is worse on empty swallowing; the sneezing is excessive, shaking the whole body. Shudderings, with gooseflesh chills creeping upwards, are also prominent symptoms. Frontal headache, dryness of mouth, without thirst and cough, worse on lying down, are additional symptoms. It suits well many cases of the catarrhal form of flu; other remedies having sneezing are Cyclamen and Euphorbia.
#Arsenicum. [Ars]
This remedy covers more phases of flu than perhaps any other remedy. Hughes believes that it will cut short an attack, especially when there is a copious flow, prostration and paroxysmal coryza. Its periodicity makes it suitable to epidemics, and it suits the early symptoms when the affection is in the upper portion of the respiratory tract. The burning dryness and copious watery excoriating secretion and the involvement of the conjunctiva are unmistakable indications. Langour and prostration are prominent symptoms.
#Arsenicum iodide.
Chills, flushes of heat and severe fluent coryza, discharge irritating and corrosive, sneezing and prostration. It corresponds to true influenza and is highly recommended by Hale. Sanguinaria nitrate is especially valuable when the trachea and larynx are affected. Phytolacca is specific when the throat is inflamed and spotty, with great hardness and tenderness of the glands.
#Dulcamara. [Dulc]
This is one of our best remedies in the acute form; the eyes are suffused, the throat is sore and the cough hurts because of the muscular soreness. If brought on by damp, cold changes in the weather, so much the surer is Dulcamara indicated.
The trouble here is largely bronchial and going downward. When a person is very grumpy and feels miserable with the flu, wanting only to lie still and be left alone, this remedy is likely to be useful. Headache, muscle aches, and cough or stomach pain may be the major symptoms. Everything feels worse from even the slightest motion. The persons mouth usually is dry, with a thirst for large cold drinks.
#Phosphorus may be indicated, especially when the trouble moves towards the chest. It is a very useful remedy for the debility following la grippe, as it is usually of the pure nervous type. It is the great post-influenza tonic.
#Rhus toxicodendron. [Rhus-t]
Influenza, with severe aching in all the bones, sneezing and coughing. The cough is worse evenings and is caused by a tickling behind the upper part of the sternum. Especially is it useful in cases brought on by exposure to dampness. There is much prostration and depression, and the patient may have some symptoms which are suspicious as pointing towards typhoid fever, such as burning tongue, stupor and delirium. Aching pains and nightly restlessness are keynotes symptoms. Causticum, like both Rhus and Eupatorium, has a tired, sore, bruised sensation all over the body and soreness in the chest when coughing, but it has in addition involuntary urination when coughing.
#Allium cepa. [All-c]
Profuse catarrhal coryza; the nose runs freely, there is sneezing, irritability cough, the face is swollen and looks inflamed. Camphora. This remedy is often sufficient at the outset to cut short an attack, or at least modify the severity.
#Sticta. [Stict]
Nasal catarrh; headache, thirst, nightly expectoration, great watering of eyes, running at nose, hoarseness of voice, frontal headache and depression of whole system. Tuberculous subjects attacked by influenza. There is no better remedy, says Dr. Fornias,for the incessant wearing, racking cough of this class of patients. Tuberculinum is an excellent prevention of recurring attacks of influenza / flu in those who have annual attacks.
Adapted to cases where the gastric symptoms predominate; tongue clean or slightly coated. Nausea: with profuse saliva; vomiting of white, glairy mucus in large quantities, without relief; sleepy afterwards; worse from stooping. Low thirst. Cough: dry spasmodic, constricted, asthmatic. Difficult breathing from least exercise; violent dyspnoea, with wheezing and anxiety about the stomach. Cough, with rattling of mucus in bronchi when inspiring; threatened suffocation from mucus. Pains as if bones were all torn to pieces.
#Veratrum album
Adapted to diseases with rapid sinking of the vital forces; complete prostration; collapse. Cold perspiration on the forehead (over entire body, Tab. ) with nearly all complaints. Thirst: intense, unquenchable, for large quantities of very cold water and acid drinks; wants everything cold. Diarrhoea: frequent, greenish, watery, gushing: mixed with flakes: cutting colic, with cramps commencing in hands and feet and spreading all over; prostrating, after fright; < least movement; with vomiting, cold sweat on forehead during and prostration after. Vomiting: excessive with nausea and great prostration: < by drinking ( Ars. ); by least motion ( Tab. ); great weakness after.
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The following is a list of all the fillers that can be found in vaccines:
In addition to the viral and bacterial RNA or DNA that is part of the vaccines, here are the fillers:
aluminum hydroxide
aluminum phosphate
ammonium sulfate
amphotericin B
animal tissues: pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain,
dog kidney, monkey kidney,
chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg
calf (bovine) serum
fetal bovine serum
human diploid cells (originating from human aborted fetal tissue)
hydrolized gelatin
monosodium glutamate (MSG)
neomycin sulfate
phenol red indicator
phenoxyethanol (antifreeze)
potassium diphosphate
potassium monophosphate
polymyxin B
polysorbate 20
polysorbate 80
porcine (pig) pancreatic hydrolysate of casein
residual MRC5 proteins
thimerosal (mercury)
VERO cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells
washed sheep red blood cells
If your immune system is good you really have nothing to worry about with swine flu. Even if you get the virus you are very unlikely to have any complications from it. The best defense is to optimize the immune system through healthy living.
This is a very quickly mutating virus that is different this week from last week.
2 weeks ago there was little effect here, whereas a week ago the schools had a 50% absentee rate. Hospitals are beginning to be overrun, and reports of deep lung infections/problems are starting to develop.
While it's not earth-scorching...there is no evidence that it will remain relatively innocuous.
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Evidence suggests the death rate for swine flu is nearly identical to regular flu
"He came up with a range of mortality from swine flu, from 0.007 percent to 0.045 percent."
I'm not worried
Every year the vaccine is different due to the virus mutating and also only contains protections for a small number of the strains in circulation.
Your words:
If your immune system is good you really have nothing to worry about with swine flu. Even if you get the virus you are very unlikely to have any complications from it. The best defense is to optimize the immune system through healthy living.
You are predicting the future based on the current or previous "versions" of the swine flu. Contagiousness seems to have become more enhanced within the last two weeks, so there really is no way to know.
I'm all for NOT overhyping, but underhyping is the same type of logical error.
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Right but considering the fact that almost all the people in the modern(non 3rd world countries) who have contracted this virus have not died, getting the vaccine in the current form is IMO unnecessary.
IF the virus mutates in a way to cause significant death rate, say 5% or more, the structure of the virus would be so different that the vaccine we have now is unlikely to do anything.
The best thing you can do to prevent getting any illness, not just this is to keep your immune system strong.
Here is the situation right now:
Death rate of current virus not much different or significantly worse than regular flu
Vaccine treats current strains of flu only and has no guarantee for any future strains
Tamiflu and other antiviral medications don't actually help all that much in reducing the spread of infectiousness of the swine flu virus.
So, at least my opinion is this, given the current situation, what you should be doing
Keep eating healthy, take supplements that help support immune system health, current treatments aren't really necessary unless you have a compromised immune system already.
The bottom line in my view is that, even if the virus does somehow mutate into some massive killer virus, what we are doing right now(vaccines, antivirals) is not going to help in that case.
Also, the contagiousness may be going up but that does not necessarily mean that the death rate will go up as well. The best thing you can do to prevent being infected is keep yourself healthy and take precautions by not visiting areas that are vectors for infection.
In regards to the original post in this thread, there are some natural things like oregano oil which have been shown to be good antivirals. I can't say personally on the effectiveness against this virus but it's worth looking into. I'm not sure about the US govt. but here in Canada, they're looking at vitamin D's role in helping fend off swine flu due to how vit. D helps with supporting the immune system.
If people would just stay home and quit going to work/school sick, or running to the ER out of an overly dramatic "propagated fear" induced by the media, we could help to contain this issue to a good degree. Influenza is like any other virus; it can and will mutate, but that doesn't mean it will develop into an pandemic threat either.
There are certain genetic characteristics about a given virus that make it more virulent, and more likely to become a widespread threat. The Influenza outbreak of 1918 "Spanish Flu" was one of the more recent pandemic virus outbreaks that displayed these virulent viral component effects. The virus itself was capable of producing what is known as a "cytokine storm". Cytokines are markers in your body that are involved in the inflammatory process. This influneza A subtype was especially deadly to those with healthy immune systems because of this factor. The aggressive nature of a healthy immune system/inflammation would be greatly potentiated by this "cytokine storm". This had the potential to cause an enormous amount of pulmonary system swelling/inflammation, and in the end resulted in many deaths. In essence, the virus used the bodies own aggressive immune system response against itself. Please keep in mind also though that modern medicine wasn't anywhere near where we're at today back then. Antibiotics weren't around yet, so many of these people also died secondary to opportunistic bacterial infections.
Some points I wish some of the general public would get through their heads and quit flooding the damn Emergency Rooms across the country:
1) The key to preventing the spread of infection is CONTAINMENT. Stay home if you're sick!!!
2) Antibiotics DO NOT help with a viral-based infectious process (i.e, Influenza: AKA: The "Flu"). Opportunistic infections can occur (i.e., pneumonia, bronchitis), however this is not typically a normal occurance in an individual with an otherwise healthy immune system. Those individuals with who are immunocompromised (i.e., Cancer, Hiv/Aids, Autoimmune,) are at a much greater risk of development of opportunistic infections. The very young and old are also at an increased risk.
3) There is no specific curative medical treatment for influenza illness. There are some antivirals that can be taken (i.e., Tamiflu or Relenza), but they need to be started within 24-48 hours of symptom onset (otherwise they're useless), and they will only reduce a degree of the severity or overall duration of illness in some people. Many of the effects of influenza infection are self-limiting. Your immune system will recognize the virus; form a plan of attack; produce antibodies against the viral antigen; and then you'll begin to get well again, and develop an active-based immunity against it.
4) See #2's overall point again: Antibiotics DO NOT, I repeat DO NOT work against the viral component of illness!!
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Why would they target an organization that is helping them towards their goal of making America so unlivable that the people will accept Sharia Law as a lateral move?
Woosh to you, sir. The RIAA and other enemies of freedom look at LulzSec as worse than al quaida. As Mr. Leghorn says, "it's a joke, son." Peace on you, and lulz.
LulzSec, like Alkaida, is a CIA creation. Both are excuses manufactured by the *ministry of truth*. Politics of fear at best.
Why shoot your ally in the battle against liberty?
Indeed, I'm surprised the RIAA didn't put out a press release saying "JAPANESE TSUNAMI reason for PROTECT IP Act". There's no depth these vultures won't sink to.
And expose the sordid details of RIAA exec's child prostitution activities on their Thailand "business trips".
Their child prostitution is right out there leading their marketing pushes. Check out the "teen seen" music sources and Disney Channel fare. 13 year old girls in bustiers?
MAFIAA is _proud_ of their rampant selling of child sex and sexuality to the public. That it is more "child porn" than direct prostitution is the only possible argument.
I highly doubt they're proud of it. After all, they can't monopolize and cash in on it, I kinda wonder why they didn't try to buy a law for it yet. I mean, there is a market for it, isn't there? And all that money going to someone without a cut for the MAFIAA, that can't be!
I love the reasoning of why the Protect IP act is being pushed...make using stuff that's already been made against the law to use unless one is using it in accordance with an industry, and THEN people will stop using it because it will be against TWO laws. That'll work. Forget about the collateral damage to law abiding American citizens.
Protect IP matters because Detriot is an industrial wasteland. Intellectual Property is becoming more and more of the product we have to export. Because of this we escalate its importance to the point where at some future point we must defend our intellectual property using men with guns on foreign soil, defending our right to charge what we will for the broadcast rights to Justin Bieber's latest album on the peoples of India and China - who don't want to hear that crap anyway.
The whole thing is sick. Eventually the world is going to call us to the carpet on that and make us make useful stuff for the value we get. And then what have we got?
IP is no comparison to manufacturing industries. Whole industries including equipment and expertise had to be shifted before exports became imports. With IP to extort reduced tax rates and other concession, you just shift the country of ownership of the IP, takes a quick pen stroke and it's done and your tax base is screwed. IP is by far the most dangerous and unreliable national income base and is bound for inevitable failure.
Way to truly rebuild the economy is via fair trade. A international WTO system
With IP to extort reduced tax rates and other concession, you just shift the country of ownership of the IP, takes a quick pen stroke and it's done and your tax base is screwed.
exactly... look at how Microsoft hides [finfacts.ie] their IP in Ireland to minimise their tax bill [finfacts.ie]... but uses US patent law to enforce it...
You're onto something here. Maybe it's time we got up close and personal with the individual folk behind these attacks on our rights. Task: Lookup domestic info and current locations of studio executives and politically evil "representatives", their spouses and offspring for tracking purposes. Look for avenues of humint and telint.
Slashdot's not the right place for this so let's continue this discussion elsewhere.
Spearfishing to "sting" them.
First you get it into US law, then you convince the rest of the world to "harmonize" their laws. Almost a SOP for megacorps.
Wishful thinking made flesh. That's the bitter reality of the legislative process in today's United States.
Problem is that the said legislative process is a black market. Maybe if they used a normal process, it'd not be that bad.
I was actually wondering why they didn't use Fukushima as an excuse to ask for some kind of law, but perhaps they got a little more wary now that a few judges noticed that their excuses aren't even close to resembling sanity.
But this is at least somehow, in some way,
Because adding more regulations to what is already one of the most regulated industries in this country doesn't give them any additional control. They already have "authority" to take over in the case of nuclear accidents as well, so what really to they have to gain by making a big deal of this. No new plants are seriously being considered so traditional energy companies aren't concerned with trying to prevent competition.
Well maybe if you guys came up with a plan to dispose of the spent fuel from the reactors you wouldn't have this problem. One full reactor worth of spent fuel every 18 months is a serious accumulation over the span of the life of a nuclear plant - currently 60 years. That's 40 reactors worth of spent fuel per reactor, and even at half strength that's 20 reactors of spent fuel heat creation per reactor. Even selling the power generated by the spent fuel ponds is looking like an option now. At this point
Well maybe if you guys came up with a plan to dispose of the spent fuel from the reactors you wouldn't have this problem.
I thought DU rounds [wikipedia.org] were invented for this purpose...
I am not claiming in any way, shape or form that they are responsible for said events. Merely that they are taking advantage of them in this way.
Are you or are you not putting forward the claim that lulzsec and anonymous are false-flag operations? You don't get to have it both ways.
I find it amazing that people keep wanting to push around the "false flag" meme. Can't the RIAA simply be opportunistic parasites taking advantage of other's activities? You know. Like record executives.
I am not claiming in any way, shape or form that they are responsible for said events. Merely that they are taking advantage of them in this way.
Oh, you mean a "true flag," otherwise known as a "reason" for doing something.
"False flag (aka Black Flag) operations are covert operations designed to deceive the public in such a way that the operations appear as though they are being carried out by other entities."
It means what it says, one party pretending to be another. And yet, the RIAA is not disguising itself here.
Moreover, the RIAA's logic is basically correct: the only way to limit people from using the Internet to break laws would be for the government to have ultimat
No it's NOT all the same.
National security secrets, kiddie porn, and copyright violations are illegal. Home movies of kittens are not.
And unless the feds have probable cause, they've got no business snooping the wires enough to find out which of the above my traffic is.
Makes you wonder who is p(l)aying who?
But rest assured it won't. That would expose how flawed the law is. I didn't read it, but I am fairly sure there is some safeguard against someone just carpet bombing high profile sites with lawsuits, something like "has to be done by the rights owner". And of course they will not risk their precious tool.
LOL, since everything published is now under copyright, linking to anything violates the ProtectIP act! Google and Bing are the prime examples, they're violating slashdot's copyright by linking to it!
As long as there's a huge number of bumpkins that fall for it, why bother to stop?
The other day, after reading yet another news story about the censorship moves in Australia and more PROTECT IP stuff, I decided that it was time to try out configuring Privoxy to forward everything via SOCKS5 to Tor. I was expecting a much bigger performance hit than I actual did, though, which was a pleasant surprise. Sure, its annoying having to enter CAPTCHA tags for Google all the time, but that's really not that big of a hassle. For the less technical people, Vidalia + the Tor Button for Firefox are pretty much fool proof. Between advertisers, stories about repression of online descent in the middle east and asia, Facebook and Google tracking people all the damned time, etc, I think (or, at least, I would like to think) that it might only be a matter of time before more and more 'normal' people, even those who really, truely, have nothing to hide, start doing something similar.
When Comcast starts filtering port 9050 like they do with 25, then we'll know we've pretty much lost the Internet once and for all. But hey, at least the Department of State supports Internet freedom in China, right? pffft.
Tor I believe uses port 443 to communicate with relays. (At least there is an option to use it if the normal port is blocked.)
9050 is just the port it listens to locally.
Ironically (?), Tor receives a lot of funding from the US Government. They did a presentation [defcon.org] at Defcon a couple years ago.
Maybe by the time they figure out how to shut Tor down, we'll have developed wireless mesh networks.
Sony is a member of the RIAA, after all. I applaud LulzSec's actions (most of 'em, anyway) and urge them to keep up the good work.
I was the "victim" of a group much like LulzSec before the turn of the century, and it was hilarious (to me, anyway) indeed. My site, the Springfield Fragfest, made fun of everybody (for the lulz before "lulz" was coined). I was kind of the Don Rickles of the Quake world -- I made fun of everybody, and everybody I made fun of became fans (well, almost everybody, some folks have no sense of humor). I'd have folks' pet shamblers pissing on the couch, Thresh taking speed, etc.
There was a group much like LulzSec (for all I know it might have had some of the same members) that was in the nerd news, so I posted a bit about them accompanied by a photo of a group of Down's Syndrome kids as illustration.
They broke into my host's servers and removed the <img> tag and photo... and left the text intact! I was honored as well as amused.
But, you know, the people (and I use that term loosely) LulzSec are targeting have no sense of humor whatever. Again, guys, keep up the good work, and thanks for the lulz. I hope reports of LulSec's death are greatly exaggerated.
The hacking, compromising, or intrusion of a computer system has nothing to do with the copying/distribution of copy protected works. The unlawful access of a computer system is already against the law and there is nothing this act would do to improve security because security is up to each individual organization and how they implement it.
This is classic politics at work folks, keep your eye on the ball!
It will treat everyday law abiding citizens as charged criminals under investigation while the people it targets will patch over it in less than a day...
At this point I have trouble weighing out which group is dumber
Seems to me that the protect act violates the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th sections of the bill of rights.
I'd say that americans should be getting pretty close to the bullet box option by now.
Sure, first we'll just repeal the first amendment. . .
And the first thing that needs to be censored is the RIAA.
riaa is a terrorist org.
I think their DNS entries should be the first to be blacklisted.
they really are terrorists. I think they should be filtered. their whole concept is unamerican.
filter them first.
What Anonymous/LulzSec do (a good percentage of the time) is illegal anyways, yes? Why the crap do we need new laws when what they do is already criminal?
Nearly every CONgress on the world fails to even understand why you would ask something that obvious.
I never said anything about not practicing good security. If someone steals from you because of bad security, the criminal is still liable for damages (if he can be traced in the first place). Should businesses be liable to protect their customers' data? Of course they should, I'm for that entirely. However, the Protect IP Act looks like it has absolutely nothing to do with that whatsoever and it wouldn't help at all.
The ability of our country to lead -- and the ability of U.S. companies to create employment -- will depend upon our continued success.
Neil Turkewitz, Executive Vice President, International, RIAA
this is how the 'letter' on the riaa website ends.
'the ability of our country to lead': well, since engineering and manufacturing of actual goods has gone overseas, I suppose only you, your ilk and fast food workers are what we have left in the US. if the way we 'lead' the world is via your methods, I think we are better off not leading.
'US companies creating employment': lawyers and folks like that. yup. but do we want more of THAT kind of US employment?
and I even question the 'continued success' part. your buying base outright hates you and side-steps you at every turn. you war on them and wonder why they hate you and don't continue paying for your existence?
neil, you are so fucking full of yourself. probably considered a trait of success at the place you work at, though...
Why dont we do one better and to extend protections to the RIAA and others just flat out ban copyrighted material from the internet...we could go back to the days when "lawlessness" ruled the internet but it was also inherently more useful.
at least this time the powers that be didn't blow-up two buildings to make their strawman..
They need to be quicker on their feet to out adapt the world of technology. Counter measures roll out faster than laws countering measures. All it does is create some vicious enemies with long memories. The RIAA needs to STFU and come up with a modern working business model for the digital age. It doesn't take much brain activity to come up with something that could solve this problem, so what the hell is their problem?
The result of aggressive filtering and censorship like that in the US will be a decentralization of the Internet. Instead of relying on a few easily controlled DNS servers and other components, people will move to decentralized, self-validating systems that will be even harder for governments to control. And people will start encrypting their traffic regularly. So, go ahead, make our days!
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To Mom21son who asked how sister found out about us winning in the first place. Well a rather excited daughter (me) rang her mother at the time and I forgot to tell her not to pass on our good news. I didn't really mind her knowing but I should have known better really. By the way, the feedback after our call (from mother) is that sister is disgusted that with our good fortune we don't intend spreading it around the family "like she would if she had won".. HA, pigs might fly.
I still find it funny how the sister first insists that the visit has nothing to do with money, and when informed that no money will be forthcoming anyways, she pedals all the way back. Almost a shame you didn't call her out on that, though the conversation was epic enough as it was
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The Elkhorn Lodge may no longer be that ratty, tatty lady of disrepute and the eyesore she has fallen into the past several decades. She's receiving some TLC and may yet shine again as an apple of Estes Park's eye. Under new management and with a new lessee and landlords' representative, as well as new money from the owners bankrolling her, she is set for a new and improved debut this summer.
Owners Carole and Jerry Zahourek have decided to spend some money dressing up the old gal, and gave the lease to the property to Frank Theis for 2013. He has hired Tom Booth as the new manager.
Booth, in turn, recruited some mechanical wizards — named Chad and Jeremy, no less — who, for starters, got all the old vehicles that were scattered about the property up and running, and the old equipment in working order again. Volunteers are encouraged.
Last weekend, Adventure Scouts from Estes Park High School spent Sunday afternoon cleaning up the outer surroundings of the property — bagging, hauling, carting trash from the property and the nearby river away — so the ducks can actually find their way down the river on Duck Race Day, no fault, no fowl.
The lodge is starting to reflect its proud history again and is no longer the home repository for wayward vacuum cleaners and refrigerators. What can be recycled, repurposed or given to Habitat for Humanity, is; many truckloads of trash have already made their way to the dump.
In what Theis refers to as "baby steps," the idea is to keep the old gal from crumbling any further, and restoring the character, while preserving the history. Starting with various face-lifts and lipo-suctions, the property is being cleaned and pampered, fluffed and readied for its early June opening.
Old 1970s decor — paintings of beach scenes and red-fronted fireplaces — are being replaced with period pieces and less garish colors, remodeling and refurbishing are uncovering more history. Furniture appropriate for somewhere else is being donated. As pieces of history come to light, they are saved for the museum — which will be relocated from the main lodge to perhaps the Fish House. There is one dress that is literally crumbling (perhaps a wedding dress), and historians and seamstresses may be involved in its restoration.
Outside, a tubing hill — without snow or water — is planned as an attraction. Already shot down at the planning commission because of neighbors' objections regarding noise, the Elkhorners are hoping for a better reception at the April 23 town board meeting, where they will present their case. Theis and Booth spent part of Sunday taking ambient sound readings with a decibel meter and "screaming" Adventure Scout volunteers. They hope to convince the town board that the tubing hill will provide no greater noise — and neither the smell nor the mess — than the horses already do. In fact, they called the donkey who wanders about the property and brays a significantly louder sound than screams from the tubing hill.
A kitchen offering simple and comfortable food — manned or womanned by a well-known local foodie — is planned to open at the same time as the tubing hill.
Rugs and mattresses are being replaced, painting is beginning, thorough cleaning and airing is providing a new feel.
Theis said the owners are "spending a chunk of money on the rooms in the hotel. We're doing baby steps now, cleaning up." He commended the owners for putting in the money now, and said the area is no longer being let to fall apart.
Theis said he has no monetary interest in the property.
"My interest here is (to see it) continue. I earned the Zahourek's trust. I'm not paid by anybody," he said.
However, he lives on the property, as perhaps will one of the mechanics.
Theis said he has a great feel for the old history and buildings of the Elkhorn. Being an architect concerned with the environment, he said, the first step is to save a building, if you can. That is what the latest essence of Elkhorn is all about.
This property served as a community resource — community school, church, recreation area, he observed. Theis and Booth hope to get in into community-embraceable shape once again.
A special event, the Old Time Carnival, will be held at the Elkhorn Lodge on Saturday, April 20, beginning at 11 a.m. Old-fashioned carnival games, entertainment and much more will be available throughout the day and evening. Theis and Booth invite the community to come and see the "new" history.
Kickoff advertising for the summer season is planned for Duck Race weekend, with visitors welcomed to stay there, beginning by June 15, if not before, depending on the work schedule and weather.
Additional plans for the property include refurbishing the pavilion as a place to hold events, cleaning and stocking a fishing pond, spreading new grass and plantings (hopefully including Future Farmers of America student involvement) and even creating a theater over the horse barn area.
Theis thanked all the volunteers who have gotten the Elkhorn to this point — including the students who power-washed and painted the old schoolhouse last year, this year's student cleanup crew and Carrie Beesley, who was instrumental in refurbishing the chapel.
Anyone wishing to volunteer to help the Cproject should call Booth at 970-215-4384.
Take a modern-day drive to the old-timey Elkhorn. You'll see history and a new beginning.
Contact Trail-Gazette staffer Juley Harvey at 970-586-3356 or email@example.com.


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Lyon Arboretum announces new classes
Green gardening, Hawaiian crafts, flower arranging, and children's classes to be offeredUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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HONOLULU — The Lyon Arboretum announces a schedule of new classes for adults and children interested in all things botanical. Workshops on invasive plants, organic gardening, traditional Hawaiian crafts, flower arranging, garden photography, field sketching & nature journaling, oshibana and more will be offered at Lyon Arboretum.
A special set of children's classes are also scheduled for early October to keep children active, learning and having fun during the fall break when they are not in school.
Registration for classes is now open. Class size is limited, so enroll early. To view the class schedule, visit www.hawaii.edu/lyonarboretum. To register for classes, call 988-0461.
The Lyon Arboretum is open Monday — Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Arboretum is closed on state and federal holidays.
Lyon Arboretum is a 193.5 acre rainforest botanical garden administered by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Address: 3860 Manoa Road
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HAMILTON — The Steinert High boys swim team used precision and a little bit of luck to defend their Hornet Relay title for the fourth straight season Friday morning at Nottingham High.
The Spartans found itself coming in as the underdog for the 30th annual relays, having lost to Lawrence on opening day as well as losing a number of valuable contributors from last year.
"This was definitely the toughest Hornet meet out of the four. We lost a lot of good swimmers from last year, but we kept building to make sure we were ready for this. Lawrence is a great team. They beat us in our dual meet so we knew we'd have our hands full today," said Steinert senior Zach Mabin, who anchored two of his team's five winning relays.
Steinert's acute attention to detail and a late disqualification for the Cards helped the Spartans edge their CVC rivals 90-84 for the top spot in the six-team meet.
"Zach (Mabin) has been our go-to-guy since he's been with us," said Steinert coach Jen Thoman-Smith, "He's so focused and internally driven, that when he gets in the water, the calm sets over me. I never have to worry about him having an off day."
In each of the past four Hornet relays, Smith has not had to worry one bit about Mabin, who won at least two relays in each of Steinert's four triumphs.
On Friday, Mabin led the 750-meter crescendo relay team of Steven Chronowski, Michael Byrne and Jacob Kosawski to a win in 8:08.32. After four events, Steinert and Lawrence were tied for first with 46-points, but the Cards suffered an unfortunate disqualification in the 4x200-meter freestyle relay, which the Spartan team of Kosawski, Byrne, Billy Maloney and Tommy Wright won clocking a 9:05.69.
"I definitely don't hold anyone responsible for taking second place," Cards coach Mike Underwood said, "We were going all out and looking for an advantage. The ref said we went a little early. This was definitely a boxing match with us and Steinert that went back and forth for eight events, but the better team won today."
Lawrence came right back after the DQ to win the 4x50-meter backstroke relay. The team of Thomas Ikeda, Max Reitz, Pat Lavery and Peter Finnerty soared to win with a time of 2:08.08, just under twenty seconds faster than the second place team.
"It was a close second place, and it will definitely give us some fire heading into the next part of the season," Underwood said.
After the Cards stormed back, the Spartan 4x50-meter breaststroke relay team of Kosawski, Liedtka-Bizuga, Jaramelon and Mabin swam a wining time of 2:28.33 and a second place finish in the 200-meter freestyle relay gave Steinert the right to boast their fourth straight Hornet Relays trophy.
Team results: 1. Steinert 90; 2. Lawrence 84; 3. Hightstown 60; 4. Nottingham 40; 5. Hamilton 38; 6. Robbinsville 34
400 medley: 1. Lawrence (Finnerty, Hargraves-Dix, Thornton, Franceschini) 4:25.26; 2. Hightstown 4:26.09; 3. Steinert 4:57.44
4x100 IM: 1. Steinert (Liedtka-Bizuga, Jaralemon, Maloney, Gulsby) 4:54.37; 2. Lawrence 4:55.75; 3. Hightstown 5:12.91
750 crescendo: 1. Steinert (Chronowski, Byrne, Kosawski, Mabin) 8:08:32; 2. Hamilton 8:16.25; 3. Lawrence 8:22.87
4x50 fly: 1. Lawrence (Livecchi, Carpenelli, Reitz, Thornton) 2:12.27; 2. Steinert 2:13.68; 3. Hightstown 2:14.90
4x200 free: 1. Steinert (Kosawski, Byre, Maloney, Wright) 9:05.69; 2. Robbinsville 10:37.55; 3. Nottingham 10:46.89
4x50 back: 1. Lawrence (Ikeda, Reitz, Lavery, Finnerty) 2:08.08; 2. Hightstown 2:27.37; 3. Nottingham 2:29.46
4x50 breast: 1. Steinert (Kosawski, Liedtka-Bizuga, Jaralemon, Mabin) 2:28.33; 2. Lawrence 2:33.62; 3. Hightstown 2:39.28
200 free: 1. Lawrence (Ikeda, Hargraves-Dix, Carpenelli, Finnerty) 1:51.36; 3. Hightstown 1:55.99


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As I write this, our leaders in the Senate have completed their debate over landmark immigration reform and by the time you read this they will have voted in favor of its passage. This is unprecedented in recent times because, a) little that is "landmark" gets a green light on Capitol Hill these days; and b) we have support on reform from both sides of a deep political divide. While we wait as the Senate passes the baton to the House, I would encourage our leaders to take some inspiration from Hyeonseo Lee's riveting narrative of one immigrant's journey. Granted, her delivery is deadpan and moving from being indoctrinated in the north to fluency in English and worldly freedoms in the south of the Korean peninsula may all seem a bit too "foreign" for our legislators. But Ms. Lee speaks the universal truths of the immigrant experience: a dream, of place not one's own; a journey, quite distinct from travel of any other kind; and what, V.S. Naipaul has so eloquently described as the "enigma of arrival." Her story is simultaneously, harrowing and inspiring; every immigrant can find a tiny piece of their life in it.
Regardless of whether one comes by rickety boat, swims the Rio Grande or flies in on Lufthansa (as my wife and I did), the immigrant's narrative is a powerful one. There is a standard cliché that has been put into service by the Left to justify reform: we are a country of immigrants. I disagree. We are a country that is an accumulation of the results of immigration, but the majority of us have experiences and concerns that are fundamentally American. We perennially fall into the trap of becoming overly concerned about what is going on in the U.S. and despite the status of being the sole world super-power and with our global ambassador, McDonald's, operating in 122 countries, we, on average, care too little about the rest of the world. The ongoing presence of the recent immigrant in our midst is a reminder to not forget that if we go a few generations back most of us came from somewhere else. And that "somewhere else" is a part of the world that we as Americans should care about -- for political, business, security and sociological reasons. We need a jolt, a reminder, of what it means to be an immigrant.
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In a rating published on NHL.com, Jean-Sebastian Giguere is ranked as the top goalie in the Western Conference.
I'm not sure we would rank him ahead of Evgeni Nabokov and Roberto Luongo (who rank second and third respectively), but he is certainly on par with the fourth and fifth-ranked Chris Osgood and Marty Turco. Whatever the order, Giguere will make an excellent second-third round pick in most larger pools.


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European cancer groups urged to take action against glyphosate
Brussels, 4 February 2016 – The Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) is calling on Europe's most influential cancer societies to urge governments to put an immediate ban on glyphosate, a chemical used as a herbicide. (1)
In a letter sent on World Cancer Day (4 February) from HEAL's President, Dr Peter van den Hazel (2), he reminds leading national cancer groups that a ban on glyphosate represents a significant opportunity in cancer prevention. (1)
Glyphosate was classified as a "probable carcinogen" on the basis of currently available data by the World Health's Organization's (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in March 2015. (3)
Dr Peter van den Hazel says: "Defining glyphosate as a 'probable carcinogen' means that scientists have been able to show that glyphosate causes cancer in mammals. Policy makers in Europe and at national level should listen to the expertise of the leading WHO scientists and now urgently reduce exposure to this herbicide. We must assume that if exposure can produce cancer in animals, it can do the same in people."
Glyphosate is in widespread use in Europe. It is the active ingredient in most herbicides sold for use in the agricultural sector. It is also sold to consumers as a weed killer for private garden use and to public authorities to keep school grounds, hospitals grounds, public parks, pavements and railway lines clear of unwanted vegetation.
Surveys monitoring the body fluids of Europeans suggest exposure to glyphosate is increasing. Germany's federal environment agency (UBA) recently published the results of its regular testing of glyphosate in the urine of German residents. It showed that whereas only 10 percent of 400 urine samples taken in the survey in 2001 were contaminated with glyphosate, the percentage had increased to just under 60 percent in 2013 and to 40 percent in 2015. (4) Biomonitoring by Friends of the Earth Europe (FoEE) in 18 European countries in 2013 showed levels varied widely. (5)
Existing national initiatives
Some national cancer societies in Europe have already taken the action that HEAL is promoting. Last year, the French cancer league (la Ligue contre le cancer with a membership of 700,000) issued a statement calling on the French government to ban glyphosate and four other pesticides included in the IARC classification as soon as possible. A few months later, they launched a petition to prevent renewal of the licence for glyphosate by the European Union authorities. (6)
It seems their voice was heard as a few months after the first call, the French Environment Minister required French garden centres to stop sales of glyphosate to individuals unless a qualified vendor provides advice.
In the Netherlands, private sales of herbicides containing glyphosate were banned in 2014.
German state consumer protection ministries have called for a ban, and some retailers in Germany have voluntarily taken glyphosate products off their shelves.
The Danish Working Environment Authority, which is under the Danish Ministry of Employment, has followed the WHO/IARC decision by declaring glyphosate as a carcinogen. This will imply changes in application practices, including recommendations to use alternative, less toxic chemicals. (7)
Genon Jensen, HEAL's Executive Director says that she believes national cancer societies could be highly effective in bringing about a policy change that would reduce cancer risk.
"We are asking influential cancer organisations to encourage their national authorities to ban this probable carcinogen. Now is the time to do it because the EU is reviewing whether to renew the European licence on glyphosate. So alongside taking national action at home, we are asking national governments to oppose the renewal of glyphosate's authorisation at the EU level. Cancer leaders within the countries are well-placed to be heard and, in this way, can contribute to avoiding unnecessary cancer diagnoses from this exposure in the future."
HEAL is a signatory to a petition to the EU Commission, the Food Safety and Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis, and responsible Ministers of the Member States calling on them not to renew the licence for glyphosate. (8)
Note to journalists
1. Letter from HEAL president to national cancer bodies http://env-health.org/resources/letters/article/open-letter-to-national-cancer
2. Dr Peter van den Hazel is a medical doctor and International Coordinator of the International Network on Children's Health, Environment, and Safety (INCHES), the Netherlands.
3. Lancet Oncology, Carcinogenicity of tetrachlorvinphos, parathion, malathion, diazinon, and glyphosate, 20 March 2015, http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanonc/article/PIIS1470-2045(15)70134-8/abstract
4. GM Watch, 21 January 2016, http://www.gmwatch.org/2016-article... 5. Friends of the Earth Europe, 2013, community biomonitoring study showed that an average of 45% of urine samples from urban residents in 18 European countries contained glyphosate residues. The rates were highest in Malta, where 90% of urine samples were contaminated followed by Germany, UK and Poland where rates were 70%, Netherlands 63%, Czech Republic 60%, Belgium and Latvia 55%, Cyprus 50%, Spain and Croatia 40%, Hungary and France (30%). http://foeeurope.org/weed-killer-glyphosate-found-human-urine-across-Europe-130613
6. La Ligue contre le cancer https://www.ligue-cancer.net/article/33849_signez-la-petition-non-au-roundup
7. Institute of Science in Society (ISIS), Roundup listed carcinogen by Danish Authority, June 2015, http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Roundup_Listed_Carcinogen_by_Danish_Authority.php
8. Petition, Stop glyphosate, https://act.wemove.eu/campaigns/stop-glyphosate
Dr Peter van den Hazel, President, Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Genon K. Jensen, Executive Director, HEAL, Email: email@example.com Tel: +32 2 234 3640
Lisette van Vliet, Senior Policy Advisor, HEAL, Email: firstname.lastname@example.com Tel: +32 2 234 36 45. Mobile: +32 484 614 528
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Here is a leather kidney belt that I found late this past year. Attached to it was a badge from the 1953 Gypsy Tour. So I believe this would be from the 1940's to early 1950's. I posted the belt here and the badge seperately. For any motorcycle enthusiasts out there I am sure you will enjoy both these posts. Thank you for looking my friends and have a blessed evening and week ahead..... : )


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