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OrchestratorMail is order in a flood of cluttery correspondences.
OrchestratorMail is like a common thread that tracks, manages and organizes your email exchanges and correspondences. OrchestratorMail systematizes all of your communications into trackable, actionable, and results-oriented deliverables. Be your most organized professional self with OrchestratorMail by coordinating conveniently and harmoniously while eliminating clutter, stress and lost time.Learn more
OrchestratorMail is efficiency in a world full of miscoordination.
OrchestratorMail glues the ball to your hand so you never drop it by intuitively and effectively keeping track of communications and important business correspondences. OrchestratorMail displays a structured conversation list that provides at-a-glance context and clarifies tangible actions and next steps.Learn more
OrchestratorMail is the cure for common communication complications.
OrchestratorMail provides its users with Open Conversation Summaries: a daily record of correspondences in and out. These summaries clearly highlight the purpose, request, action and timeline of your messages and deliverables. Open Conversation Summaries provide a simple and structured workflow that reduces time, stress, and confusion.Learn more
OrchestratorMail is a direct line of correspondence in a multitude of distractions and obstacles.
Emails are full of extraneous information and dialogue that eat up valuable time and resources. OrchestratorMail eliminates the clutter of back-and-forth correspondences by instantly displaying common goals and follow-up steps. This way, workflow is streamlined, coordination is optimized, time and resources are saved and results are produced.Learn more
OrchestratorMail is harmony and balance in a barrage of communication chaos.
OrchestratorMail creates seamless follow-through that results in productive outcomes. OrchestratorMail sees every team project to its completion through tracking, highlighting actionable items and intelligently structuring all conversations. Instead of a thread or a web of communication, OrchestratorMail provides a direct line.Learn more
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How it works
An Application Layer designed to
fit seamlessly over your existing email.
Whether your business uses Microsoft Office, Gmail, or a combination of platforms, OrchestratorMail is designed to fit seamlessly over your current system. OrchestratorMail is also compatible with all major browser platforms and designed to work with any email-enabled device.
It starts with an email
Define the purpose of the conversation
With OrchestratorMail every conversation is defined at the outset so that the intention is clear every step of the way, from start to finish until the desired outcome is achieved.
State the Project and Due Date
By stating the Project and Due Date, the email is automatically tracked in accordance with specific deadlines. This relieves the burden to constantly keep track of every project and make sure nothing slips though the cracks.
Clear Response
Create a Structured Response
OrchestratorMail lets you create a clear response in a single click, saving you time, clarifying your role, and reducing the chance of confusion or ambiguity.
Common Language = Clarity
OrchestratorMail defines a language and a corresponding set of labels for every response. This way the recipient immediately understands the response as it relates to the requested action. The common language of OrchestratorMail ensures that everyone is on the exact same page every step of the way.
Track the Conversation
Mary asks John to send her the updated report.
John says he is presently updating the report.
Mary can either be satisfied and close the conversation or keep it open until the task is complete.
John sends the report and asks Mary if it is satisfactory.
Mary looks at it. She is satisfied and thanks John.
The conversation is complete.
Conversation Summary
Dashboard of open Conversations
See all open conversations in a single snapshot OrchestratorMail's daily snapshot summaries abstracts the intelligence out of every open conversation so that clear actions and next steps are immediately revealed and workflow is optimized.
In a single click, you can open any conversation right from the summary, and respond.
Conversation Server
Conversation Server is available as a hosted service or it can be licensed to operate in your own environment --> see PRICING
Authenticates users and manages the states of back and forth communication
Transforms xml to html interface with easy to respond buttons
Synchronizes due dates between users keeping everyone on the same timeline
Generates and delivers daily reports to users
The benefits
Don't drop the ball
OrchestratorMail ensures requests for coordination and due dates never go unmet. OrchestratorMail, email collaboration is organized into clearly defined requests, action items, and structures an easy-to-understand workflow by reducing the clutter and defining what's needed and what's next.
Productivity and effective coordination are achieved through OrchestratorMail's unique system of defining requests/offers; creating a common taxonomy; defining a clear due date; and creating a clear conversation summary that increases accountability, follow-through, and efficiency. The unique one-touch system seamlessly provides structure, helping to minimize misinterpretation and maximize efficiency.
Get straight to the point
An employee in corporate America receives an average of 180 emails per day, and nearly 45 percent of those emails aren't relevant to the immediate tasks at hand.
OrchestratorMail abstracts the intelligence out of every open conversation so that clear actions and next steps are immediately revealed and workflow is optimized.
All open conversations are listed with clearly defined next steps either due to you, or from you. And each snapshot provides an explicit due date, structured workflow, and clear visibility of open projects and next steps to help reduce stress, time, and confusion.
Avoid the flood of information
Coordinating and working with others is critical to an efficient workplace. OrchestratorMail removes the ambiguity and clutter of back-and-forth dialogue by abstracting critical information and revealing easy-to-understand actionable items and common goals.
OrchestratorMail creates a structured workflow for every email correspondence and clearly displays requests, offers, reminders, and goals so that follow-through is automated, confusion is eliminated, and common goals are achieved.
Stay on track
OrchestratorMail eliminates the need to keep track of multiple email conversations, requests, and due dates. In a single OrchestratorMail and Open Conversation Summary, emails are quickly turned into a clearly structured workflow and next action steps so that projects with others can easily be brought to fulfillment on time and more efficiently.
Each day, an Open Conversation Summary is created that reveals ongoing commitments, agreements, and undelivered items. Each one offers a clear view of critical and ongoing exchanges with others, and reveals to-do action items still unfilled. Time is saved. Coordination is optimized. Confusion is eliminated.
One Touch Response On-the-go
The OrchestratorMail App is available on your mobile device. Now with a single touch, you can respond to important emails. When you get back to the office your response appears in the conversation summary. No more writing yourself reminders to follow up. Now you can relax and let OrchestratorMail keep track. Coordinating on-the-go has never been so easy.
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Who it's for
An Application for the collaborative
business community
OrchestratorMail is for businesses that depends on effective coordination with others.
An employee in corporate America receives an average of 180 emails per day, and nearly 45 percent of those emails aren't revenant to the immediate tasks at hand. What's more, the increase in communication platforms, including IM and social-media apps for corporations, actually escalates interruption, confusion, and miscommunication. And with all this back and forth there is no often common language to establish expectations, set timelines, and clearly define the goal.
According to recent research, 47 percent of the average company's primary function has moved from production and transaction to collaboration and coordination.
The success of a project depends on the team's ability to coordinate efficiently. OrchestratorMail ensures follow through and accountability by keeping track of WHO will do WHAT by WHEN. Manager and team members can focus more on deliverables and less on trying to keep track of it all.
Executives are overloaded with email on a daily basis, and around half of those emails aren't revenant to the tasks at hand. OrchestratorMail cuts through the clutter, saving time, reducing stress and making sure that important communications don't slip though the cracks.
Global Workforce
In today's business environment email coordination across countries and cultures is commonplace. OrchestratorMail creates a common taxonomy around actions, creating clear intentions and timelines regardless of language and culture.
What people are saying about OrchestratorMail:
I am finding OrchestratorMail to be an extremely useful tool. It is the first time that I've actually felt as though I have visibility into what is going on across all of the key initiatives the people in my department are pursuing. I am currently tracking approximately 100 deliverables across 20 key projects and am able to see when things are past due, drive discussions of status and have a record of accomplishments that I can use to keep *my* management informed of what's going on. It also underscores the individuals that have the most trouble in managing commitments.
The daily summaries work well as a personal productivity tool and orient me toward the things that I really need to take care of. My practice is to look at the date summary of open items at the beginning of every day, send "nudges" to the people that are past due, and make sure I'm on top of the things that *I* need to take care of. During the day I receive emails and status updates on the various projects. Every other week or so I look at what's been accomplished in the last 2 weeks and will be accomplished in the next 2 in order to build a status report for the CFO.
Ken Brooks | SVP, Global Production & Manufacturing Services | Cengage Learning
In 25 years of introducing Commitment-based Management to companies, I have seen all kinds of software tools seeking to integrate the principles for action-based communication with email. OrchestratorMail does it better than any of them.
Christopher Davis | Managing Director | The Stratam Group
Our customers include:
Cengage Learning
Cengage is one of the largest publishers of textbooks in the US. OrchestratorMail is used by the leadership team to track initiatives and projects across the Global Supply Chain and Manufacturing division.
Community Development Institute (CDI)
CDI is a large Federally funded non-profit specializing in turning around of Public Schools. OrchestratorMail is used between the leadership team and site managers to foster a coordinated action environment, and ensuring that nothing gets dropped out.
NWP Corporation
One of the largest apartment utility company, uses OrchestratorMail to coordinate between service center and all the other divisions to coordinate different services or issues for their customers.
About us
Who We Are
Ritu Raj is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive with more than 22 years of experience in IT and five years in high-end consumer products and services.
In 2005 Ritu founded Wag Hotels, the largest chain of high-end hotels for dogs. After raising $11M from friends and family for the venture, the company generates more than $7M of revenue annually. Wag Hotels developed into a major brand success story in the Bay Area in only two years.
Previously, Ritu was a partner at Accenture. Before his time at Accenture, Ritu founded Avasta, one of the first companies to offer cloud computing. In 2000, Ritu successfully raised $50M in equity for Avasta, whose substantial investors included American Express, HP and Accenture, and in 2002 was acquired by Navisite.
In 2008, Ritu left Wag Hotels operations in the hand of his able CFO to return to his first love of communication systems and practices. His goal was to create a new email solution. He worked for 18 months building a standalone email communication platform, where he was introduced to the work of Terry Winograd, Fernando Flores and John Searle, the proponents of Language Action Perspective.
Harold Gray had developed a unique approach for creating structure over email communication, using a system of same-language action paradigm over a period of 10 years. Prior to that Harold had 30+ years of experience within the IT industry. He held technology and management roles in numerous technology startups. One startup became the premier developer of integrated collaboration and messaging solutions for Microsoft-based products, including Exchange and Outlook. It was acquired by IT Factory in 2001.
Harold is a true technology geek and a hardcore engineer. Ritu understands technology and is a visionary with a proven track record in taking large ideas to market. He specializes in creating strong brands and great customer experiences based on a innovative solutions and depth of technology that make life easier. This was the genesis of OrchestratorMail.
Advisory Board: OrchestratorMail has a very active advisory board consisting of Professor Terry Winograd (Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University), Sunil Paul (Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist) and Chris Davis (Management Consultant).
Our Philosophy
Our Philosophy
With the move to a collaborative economy, a distributed global workforce, and cross-functional business units, email has become a standard of communication.
Email is an incredible tool for communication, its ubiquitous, it provides for asynchronous communication over time zones and finally is also become a mode for documenting communication. However the unstructured and the mass of email, has become a major issue.
OrchestratorMail was designed to bring structure to the social, collaborative and global world of email and was heavily influenced by Philosophy of Language from John Austin, John Searle, Fernando Flores, Terry Winograd and Thomas Reid.
Coordination is distinct from collaboration.
Coordination means integrating or linking together different parts of an organization to accomplish a collective set of tasks.
Collaboration is through nonlinear creative processes (no one knows exactly what they have to do until they do it, and even then the outcome is unknown) a shared understanding is created amongst the participants - one unique to those participants and that collaboration.
Personal Actions and Social Actions
Personal Actions are your to-do lists and checklists. The objectives for these tasks are personal productivity. Social Actions are actions that require more than one person and typically involve coordinating with other people's time and efforts to move the event forward. The objective is group productivity and not necessarily personal productivity. The skills change from "specialization" to "communication". Most tools focus on Personal Actions. However in a global and very collaborative environment what's needed is a tool that can focus on Social Actions.
OrchestratorMail is a unique application that helps manage the communication in a Social environment.
OrchestratorMail makes Commitment Based Management a practical reality in everyday work. Commitment Based Management is the most successful management discipline to emerge in the last four decades. Commitment Based Management puts accountability and coordination at the center of producing results. Commitment Based Management was originally developed 20 years ago by Dr. Fernando Flores and his team.
Every day the average executive and employee misses 10 to 15 percent of email messages, which results in seriously decreased productivity.
An employee in corporate America receives an average of 180 emails per day, and nearly 45 percent of those emails aren't relevant to the immediate tasks at hand.
What's more, the increase in communication platforms, including IM and social-media apps for corporations, actually escalates interruption, confusion and miscommunication.
In a global and multicultural work environment, the interpretation of the message may be ambiguous based on the language and culture of the recipient.
Misinterpretation can be costly. And too much information and back-and-forth dialogue can be overwhelming, time-consuming and and confusing.
According to recent research, most people spend 45 percent of their time at work in Outlook or other email systems. And most employees spend an average of 1.8 hours a day simply trying to keep track of email conversations and requests.


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COLUMBIA, S.C. – Multiple UMBC track and field freshmen impressed once again as both the men's and women's teams opened the 2012 outdoor season at the two-day Weems Baskin Invitational on the campus of the University of South Carolina on Friday and Saturday.
Coming off of a third place finish at the America East Indoor Championships, the women's team shined for UMBC at the invitational with multiple athletes placing their names in the record book and picking up top-20 finishes.
Besting her showing at her first indoor meet in December, freshman Mercedes Jackson (Huntingtown, Md./Huntingtown) broke two UMBC school records in her initial outdoor collegiate meet. Claiming second place in both the 100m (11.81) and 200m dash (24.05), Jackson kicked off the outdoor season by smashing the two Retriever marks. Beverly Ruffin had previously set the 100m record back in 1997 with a time of 11.90 while Britney Foreman broke a 25-year old mark in the 200m two years ago (2010) with a mark of 24.41. Jackson now owns two indoor (60m and 200m) and two outdoor records.
Fellow freshman Paulette Fogle (Washington, D.C./Bishop McNamara) was impressive as well, jumping to third on the school's all-time list with a time of 1:03.87 in the 400m hurdles to place eighth at the meet.
In the 100m hurdles, junior Chowan Brightful (New Market, Md./Linganore) moved into third on UMBC's all-time list by finishing sixth in South Carolina with a time of 14.53. Senior Imani Colbert (Upper Marlboro, Md./C.H. Flowers), who holds the school record, finished tenth over the weekend in a time of 14.97.
Throwers Chrissy Robinson (Lusby, Md./Patuxent) and Amanda Deller (Aberdeen, Md./Aberdeen) each set personal-bests in the hammer throw in the Palmetto State. Robinson jumped over Deller with a toss of 43.91m (144'1") to take fourth while Deller slides to fifth after posting a mark of 42.62m (139'10").
For the men, mid-year transfer Chris Nash (Parkton, Md./Hereford) continues to make a mark at UMBC and now ranks eighth in school history in the hammer throw after a throw of 46.27m (151'10") at the invitational.
Freshman Malte Bertram (Einbeck, Germany/Goethschule Gymnasium) also jumped onto the school's top-ten list, placing seventh, with a mark of 45.73m (150'00") in the javelin.
UMBC now has the week off from competition before returning to the track for the Maryland Invitational in College Park on Mar. 31.


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Fiona Apple will never be mistaken for Katy Perry, Beyonc�, Britney Spears, Rihanna or Lady Gaga, and that is probably one of the few comforts she can find in life.
�The Idler Wheel Is Wiser Than The Driver Of The Screw And Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do,� the title of Apple�s fourth album (and first in seven years), is certainly a mouthful. It is also more poetic and profound than most of her dimwitted peers could hope to muster up in a lifetime of unsolicited Tweets.
Knowing how to orchestrate compelling melodies without getting consumed by them, the 34-year-old piano chanteuse effortlessly shifts from conversational to confessional, compassionate to confrontational, without missing a beat. Apple�s cathartic cleansings (which can be revealing, endearing, riveting and a tad bit irritating, all at the same time) are like spoonfuls of Drano for the soul, with all the acid-burning bile erupting with little regard for decorum or lasting consequence. And, not only is Apple�s unfiltered and unfettered frankness front and center, so too is her smoky alto and eccentric personality. Alongside drummer/co-producer Charley Drayton (who seems to understand Apple better than any of her previous collaborators), the arrangements are often naked and bare.
Apple�s brain is in overdrive (so what�s new?) as she gives the listener an intimate glimpse of her troubled psyche and fragile heart on the unorthodox opener, �Every Single Night.� With the unadulterated ferocity and might of a M80 being dropped in a clogged toilet, Apple expunges, �Every single night�s a fight with my brain/I just want to feel everything.� She transforms the word �brain� into a polysyllabic boogeyman of sorts and reveals the dark recesses of her mind in what sounds like a cathartic battle cry against the demons that plague her. Anyone with an ounce of sense would be immediately scared off by this proverbial basket-case but, at the same time, we can�t help being drawn to her takes-no-prisoners attitude and refreshing candor.
�I don�t feel anything until I smash it up,� Apple declares on the scathing, self-evaluation ditty, �Daredevil,� even though she is well aware that the object she might be obliterating to bits could be her sanity. Apple is committed to the material as much as she sounds like she should be committed. In addition to displaying myriad emotions, Apple manically stomps on the keys like she�s Sybil giving a piano concerto. And, if that�s not enough to put the listener on edge, how about the sound of thighs being slapped as the foundation of the track�s backbeat? Ouch. By song�s end (and by the time someone�s bare skin is beet red), the listener might be convinced Apple needs to be locked up in a rubber room or, at least, all sharp objects should be kept out of her reach. But, by the same token, she leaves a lasting impression that the listener will soon not forget.
It turns out that Apple is a real cutup, both figuratively and literally. On �Valentine,� she coyly confesses, �You didn�t see my valentine /I sent it via pantomime/While you were watching someone else/I stared at you and cut myself.� With the sound of a muffled heartbeat being smothered by her jazz-centric piano playing, Apple confesses her undying love and her inevitable undoing because of her inability to let go. A musical love letter that could spark both a restraining order and a suicide watch, Apple muses, �I�m a tulip in a cup/I stand no chance of growing up/I�ve made my peace; I�m dead; I�m done/I watch you live to have my fun.�
Inspired by her ex-boyfriend, author and �Bored to Death� creator Jonathan Ames, �Jonathan� captures a snapshot in time when everything seemed possible in a budding relationship, even though it was doomed from the start. Transported back to a trip to Coney Island, Apple commands her then paramour to, �Kiss me while I calculate/and calibrate and heaven�s sake/don�t make me explain/just tolerate my little fist/tugging on your forest chest.� As if to symbolize that her unbridled passion and unresolved feelings cannot be bottled up, her romantic musings are accompanied by her tempestuous piano playing and the mechanical clanking of bottles being capped and shipped off on a conveyor belt.
Sounding her most manic and intense in her eccentric vocal delivery, varied piano playing and vicarious wordplay, Apple is at the top of her game as the temptress, tormentor and the tormented on �Left Alone.� She reveals, as well as revels in her bizarre declaration, �You made your major overtures/when you were a sure and orotund mutt /And I was still a dewy petal/ rather than a moribund slut /My love wrecked you, you packed to twirl your skirt at the palace /it hurt more than it ought to hurt, I went to work to cultivate a callous.� Even though she potentially met Mr. Right (and did everything in her power to sabotage and destroy their relationship), the listener still feels for Apple, especially when she comes to the harsh realization, �How can I ask anyone to love me/When all I do is beg to be left alone?�
Before she was a lovable basket-case, Apple was just another innocent waif, case in point the dysfunctional relationship ditty from hell, �Regret.� Giving an ex-lover his just desserts, Apple, with scary, throat-shredding venom, snaps, �I ran out of white doves� feathers/to soak up the hot piss that comes from your mouth/every time you address me.� If this song doesn�t make you marvel at Apple�s uncompromising ferocity (as well as inspire you to stock up on white doves� feathers), nothing will.
Apple is joined by her cabaret singing sis Maude Maggart (who is obviously as wonderfully messed up as her kid sister) on the bewitching closer, �Hot Knife�. The song unfolds like an intense, erotic dream with layered vocals transforming a borderline clich� of �I�m a hot knife if he�s a pad of butter� into a hypnotic testament to sexual and creative expression.


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The History of Our Inn
Colonial Gardens Bed & Breakfast is located on one of the main historic corridors in Williamsburg, Virginia. The home was built by the Dean at the School of Law at William and Mary in the 1960s with bricks from a 1700's courthouse that was dismantled during the Rockefellers' restoration of the historic area of Williamsburg. Through out the inn, on both the inside and outside of the building, you may see initials on some of the bricks. These are the brick-maker marks of the indentured servants who made the bricks back in the late 1600s or early 1700s.
This historic house was turned into a B&B in 1992 by Wil & Scottie Philips, who personally over saw the transition from a home to an inn. The Philips ran the inn for a decade before retiring and handing it off to Karen and Ron Watkins. Ron spent 30 years in the United States Air Force and although he retired in 2007, is back at work in a consulting position, which has made Karen very happy! Once a commander, always a commander. Karen enjoys cooking and flower arranging, while Ron loves flying, shooting skeet and motorcycle riding.


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Today is Terra Madre Day! Celebrate Local Food, Enjoy the "Ark of Taste"
Today is Terra Madre Day! It's an international day set aside to celebrate local food.
There's no formal Slow Food Seattle event today, but please do stay tuned to see what we have in the works for 2014. Our leadership team has been discussing many really delicious possibilities for members and we hope to start announcing new events as we head into the new year.
In the meantime, you can celebrate local foods in your own home today and any day! One way is, of course, shopping locally for local produce.
Or consider checking out one of our Pacific Northwest products listed on Slow Food's Ark of Taste.
The Ark of Taste is a special project of Slow Food, with the mission to "rediscover, catalog and promote foods that are closely linked to specific communities and cultures but are threatened by industrial standardization. Today the Ark lists more than 1,100 unique foods from 50 countries. The Foundation has set an ambitious goal to board thousands more products over the next few years, tracking them down in every corner of the planet to provide a great step forward in protecting edible biodiversity."
What does this mean? It means the Ark of Taste is dedicated to making sure some of our most delicious foods don't go extinct! And to save them by eating them, and encouraging others to get to know these special ingredients.
You can explore the whole list here, but here are some ideas for something you could do for Terra Madre related to the Ark of Taste for dinner tonight!
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Slurp down some Olympia Oysters for an appetizer
Make a pot of chili with Jacob's Cattle Beans
Top your ice cream with Alaskan Birch Syrup for dessert


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Villagers in Koh Kong province say they are being kept in the dark on a hydroelectric dam planned to be built by a Chinese company in the remote Areng valley of the coastal province of Koh Kong. But villagers here say they are worried that if the dam is indeed built, it will cause major harm to their livelihoods. Cambodia has turned to the Chinese for a number of hydropower dams across the country. Supporters say they are needed to power the country's growth and development, but opponents say they are not worth the environmental costs. (Say Mony, Koh Kong)
On a road in Koh Kong province on Friday, Buddhist clergy and family members honored the environmentalist one year after his slaying. Chut Viuhy was shot dead at this remote location at a police check point during an NGO review of a forest area. VOA Khmer's Say Mony reports from Koh Kong province.
With economic concessions now widespread in the countryside, international donors must work harder to help Cambodia's ethnic minorities battle forced evictions and land grabs, a representative for these groups said. Yun Mane, chair of the Cambodia Indigenous Youth Association, is in Washington this week, meeting with international groups to push for more land rights for the indigenous. VOA Khmer's Sok Khemera, Washington.
Advocacy groups, environmentalists and policy-makers discussed for five days on events surrounding Mekong River issues in Washington. "Mekong Days," a series of talks, films and other events seeks to highlight issues in the region, where some 60 million people live. The Mekong River, a major source of food for many in the region, is currently under increased pressure from hydropower dam projects and the potential impact of climate change. Environmental advocates say the dams could hurt fish stocks in the river, even as temperature and rainfall changes threaten agriculture and livestock. (Sok Khemara, Washington)


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It is hard to determine the exact
incidence of diverticulosis (the formation of pouches in the wall of the large
intestine), because most people who have colon pouches do not have symptoms.
In general, diverticulosis becomes more likely with age.
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CitationsDavis BR, Matthews JB (2006). Diverticular disease of the colon. In M Wolfe et al., eds., Therapy of Digestive Disorders, 2nd ed., pp. 855–859. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.
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- Essence editor Angela Burt Murray says the uproar about the hiring of Elianna Placas, a white woman, as fashion director is baseless. Placas, a frequent freelancer, was chosen for "her creativity, vision, [and] the positive reader response to her work."
- She says of her magazine, "we remain committed to celebrating the unique beauty and style of African-American women." Murray also wrote that, "When we run pieces on how unemployment is devastating black men? Nada. When we run story after story on how HIV is the leading cause of death for black women age 18-34? Zilch. The things that really are the end of our world apparently aren't." [Fashion Bomb Daily]
- Justin Timberlake's clothing line, William Rast, is doing a collaboration with Target this winter. Men's and women's wear will go on sale in December. [WWD]
- Lazaro Hernandez: "Sometimes I think the people who buy our clothes live in a parallel universe. Hell, we can't even afford our clothes." [Racked]
- "I really like that she was wearing that hat. It shows she has grown from an innocent and is assured of herself as a woman. You can tell she's interested in fashion because she really fixes herself up," says a designer who did not design Chelsea Clinton's raffia hat. Wait, is this Us or Women's Wear Daily? [WWD]
- The people who made The Story of Stuff made an animated short about the beauty industry and toxic chemicals called The Story of Cosmetics. Congress is now considering legislation that would regulate the use of toxic chemicals in personal-care items, which the beauty industry opposes. The FDA currently has no authority to assess the safety of personal care products, and the industry is only subject to its own voluntary guidelines. [Story of Stuff]
- Mad Men nail polish: it's happening. [WWD]
- Gerard Butler is now the face of L'Oréal. [WWD]
- Angela Missoni, who has run Missoni since taking over from her mother Rosita in 1996, intends for her daughter, Margherita, to take the reins within the next two years. "Whenever Margherita is ready I'd let her take over," she said. "To be in fashion you need to be young and passionate and have the strength to fight against commercialism. As a daughter I gave the best gift to my mother and I'm proud of that." [Vogue UK]
- Marc Ecko, who faced bankruptcy last year before Iconix Brand Group invested in the company he founded, has more than doubled his licenses since the deal. There are Marc Ecko suits, Marc Ecko homewares, and another Marc Ecko fragrance in the works. [WWD]
- Of all the models we ever thought might sue over a magazine's decision to publish topless pictures, Lara "Boobies" Stone was not high on the list. But her management is claiming that the shoot that ended up in this month's French Playboy was unauthorized. [Independent]
- For his company's tenth anniversary, John Varvatos collaged together all the rock stars he's ever paid to be in his campaigns — Slash, ZZ Top, Franz Ferdinand, Lou Reed, Lenny Kravitz — and put them on a poster. [WWD]
- We learned yesterday that Dolce & Gabbana is dressing Chelsea, now Costume National is designing F.C. Internazionale's suits and formal wear. [Vogue UK]
- Joe Zee bravely hits the summer streets in Chanel's fur suit. [Styleite]
- Olivier Zahm's main girlfriend, Natacha Ramsay, left the Purple editor for another man. Probably because she woke up one day and realized she was fucking Olivier Zahm. He is now blogging about their breakup. "Right now I'm just a mess," he writes to his readers. "But I will hopefully recover soon and offer you some more pictures of love and sex." Chin up, old chap. At least you still have all those nude pictures of her you took and posted all over the Internet. [Purple Diary, Purple Diary]
- LAMINGTONS ARE NOT AUSTRALIAN. That is all. [WWD]
- Carla Bruni's husband took time off from affairs of state to come watch her filming on the set of Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen's latest. [Vogue UK]
- A woman named Victoria Davidova is now the editor in chief of Vogue Russia. [DFR]
- Selena Gomez's Dream Out Loud juniors line launches at Kmart stores this Sunday, and it's getting an advertising full-court press. Sales projections for the line are $100 million in its first year. [WWD]
- Levi's is now selling six styles of men's jeans at Brooks Brothers stores. The pants cost $148. [WWD]
- Tomorrow, Liam Gallagher's half-assed clothing line Pretty Green is opening a pop-up store in London. [Vogue UK]
- Walter and Giovanni Burani, two former executives at a bankrupt Italian clothing company that once manufactured for Vivienne Westwood and La Perla, were arrested in Milan for fraud. During better times, the father-son pair liked to kick back by racing vintage Formula 1 cars, living in a Renaissance castle, and lighting their cigars with 100 Euro notes they lit with 100 Euro notes. [WWD]
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Paediatric Audiological Medicine, 2nd Edition
Paediatric Audiological Medicine, 2nd Edition
ISBN: 978-0-470-98796-4 December 2008 536 Pages
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Table of contents
1 Epidemiology of permanent childhood hearing impairment(A. Davis, K. Davis and G. Mencher).
2 Screening and surveillance (J. Stevens and G. Parker).
3 Behavioural tests of hearing (F. Tweedy and R. Booth).
4 Neuro-diagnostic paediatric audiology (J.W. Hall III and L.M. Bondurant).
5 Radiological abnormalities of the ear (F. Calzolari and A. Martini).
6 Genetics of hearing loss (A.P. Read).
7 Craniofacial syndromes and hearing loss (V.E. Newton).
8 Infectious causes of paediatric hearing impairment (P.J. Vallely and P.E. Klapper).
9 Adverse perinatal factors and hearing loss (T. Sirimanna).
10 Acute otitis media and otitis media with effusion (E. Raglan).
11 Central auditory processing disorders (J.S. Martin and R.W. Keith).
12 Auditory neuropathy (D. Bamiou).
13 Progressive hearing loss (D. Lucas).
14 Children with unilateral sensorineural hearing loss (D.P. Sladen, A. Rothpletz and F.H. Bess).
15 Medical management of the deaf child in a multidisciplinary context (B. Mac Ardle and C. Munro).
16 Selecting amplifi cation for children (D. Toe).
17 Cochlear implants in children (R.T. Ramsden and P. Axon).
18 Managing the listening environment: classroom acoustics and assistive listening devices (D. Toe).
19 Balance disorders in children (K. Harrop-Griffiths).
20 Vestibular testing in children (C. Möller).
21 Management of tinnitus in children (C.B. Coelho and R.S. Tyler).
22 Development of early vocalisation and language behaviours of young hearing-impaired children (E.A. Tobey and A.D. Warner-Czyz).
23 Deaf children and communication approaches (L. Watson).
24 Delay and disorder in speech and language (G. Baird and T. Loucas).
25 Psychological effects of deafness and hearing impairment (R. Kentish and J. Mance).
26 The education of deaf and hearing-impaired children (I. Tucker).


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15 Unexpectedly Essential Items for Your Cruiseby Paul Motter | October 11, 2011
Our own experienced CruiseMates devise a list of essential items to bring on every cruise
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Unexpectedly Essential Cruise Items
Our astute forum participants at CruiseMates have contributed a number of "essential cruise packing items" - including many that I never would have imagined on my own. The best thing about this "Cruise Packing Tips" forum is that it was started five years ago, so now our readers have had plenty of time to test all of the ideas and report back on their relative value. Here is a list of unusual travel items to pack for your next cruise:
Yellow Highlighter Pen: Before and during your cruise you will receive a great deal of information, but while some of it is essential, much of it is forgettable. This pen can be used to highlight the paragraphs in your guidebooks most pertinent to your cruise. It is also invaluable for highlighting the activities on your daily cruise schedules where you want to arrive early for a good seat.
Over the Door Shoe Hanger: These collapsible, plastic shoe organizers add dozens of cubby-hole size storage compartments for everything from cameras, binoculars, eyeglasses, socks, underwear and even shoes. This is one of our top recommendations from the people who have tried them.
Night Light: Staterooms can get very dark at night, especially inside rooms. Obviously, a nightlight helps you see if you want to walk around late at night without disturbing your partner.
Laundry Bag: You are going to accumulate dirty clothes on any trip. Whether or not your ship has a laundry you want to keep the "dirties" separated. Even though many cruise ships already supply laundry bags, or you can use an empty drawer, the bags also aid during the trip home - unless, of course, everything is dirty by the end of the cruise anyway, usually true for me.
Plastic Bags: Many people suggest bringing simple plastic garbage bags - extra large - because they can hold laundry or become ad hoc raincoats in emergencies. Being waterproof is a big plus for any bag - you may have to pack bathing suits before they have a chance to dry.
Disposable Rain Poncho: I prefer this idea to wearing an adapted garbage bag over my shoulders, although I have used both. These disposable ones come in clear plastic so flexible they take up no more room than a fountain pen - unless you have to use it. Once unwrapped it will take up half of your suitcase - that is why they are "disposable."
Thermal Coffee Mug: This is one of my personal favorites. Sometimes room service is not offered on disembarkation days. These coolers let you get any drink in the buffet area and take it anywhere on the ship. Especially good for hot coffee because you can carry it back to the stateroom without spilling a drop.
Room Deodorizer: Sometimes there are smells you create, and sometimes odors come free with your stateroom when you arrive. Either way, this is one way to help you cope and maybe even save your entire vacation.
Bungee Cords: These flexible cords have many unexpected uses - make a clothesline for drying clothes you wash in the sink; hold the balcony door open on cool days or fasten your laptop carry-on bag securely to your rollaway luggage.
Duct Tape: Many people bring tape just because it is so versatile. They may use it to mark their luggage, hold the verandah door open, or put signs on their cabin door.
Luggage Identifiers: There are too many black or red bags these days. Obviously these help you identify your luggage quickly and on sight. They can be anything from pink pompoms to colored electrical tape applied to the handle.
Collapsible Cooler: This is for people who want to buy soda in port. Many staterooms don't have refrigerators, or else they are too small. An empty collapsible thermal cooler can be made very small and easy to pack.
Small Binoculars: The top cruise lines include binoculars in every stateroom, but a small pair from Wal-Mart can be surprisingly powerful and very handy for glacier watching in Alaska as well as sighting dolphins and whales.
Ear Plugs/ Eye Masks: Another one of my personal favorites, not only during the cruise, but even more important for the flights to and from the ship. Like the old Calgon trademark - ear plugs "take me away" from my surroundings.
Clothes Steamer: The simple device holds a cup of water and contains a heating element to steam it. The steam takes wrinkles out of your clothes like a regular iron, which many cruise lines do not allow on ships. These steamers can also heat a cup of water for tea or instant coffee.
Power Strip: Most cruise ships only offer one U.S.-standard, 110-volt electrical outlet per stateroom. The rest are European standard two round-prong 220-volt outlets. You can use a simple adaptor for many devices manufactured to use either voltage (110v or 220v; such as digital cameras, laptops, cell phones), but it can be a big mistake to plug a curling iron made for U.S. sockets into an adapted European outlet. You can burn your hair right off.
A power-strip makes it easy to plug in as many U.S. devices as you need. However, you should check with your cruise line before you pack this item as some (Carnival) put them on the "verboten" list in the past and would take them if they found them on a luggage x-ray.
Note: the last two items are not allowed on some ships.


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The Technical Working Group of the Basel Convention has developed in the Technical Guidelines, the elements for assisting States, in particular developing countries, in activities to be carried out within the framework of the environmentally sound management of the hazardous wastes they generate.
The Technical Guidelines are principally meant to provide guidance to countries which are building their capacity to manage waste in an environmentally and efficient way and in their development of detailed procedures, waste management plans or strategies.
Previously adopted versions
The present publication provides guidance on the environmentally sound co-processing of hazardous wastes in cement kilns. The technical guidelines was adopted by the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal (decision BC-10/8) in October 2011.
Co-processing of wastes in properly controlled cement kilns provides energy and materials recovery while cement is being produced, offering an environmentally sound recovery option for many waste materials. As countries strive for greater self-sufficiency in hazardous waste management, particularly in developing countries that may have little or no waste management infrastructure, properly controlled co-processing can provide a practical, cost effective and environmentally preferred option to landfill and incineration.
The guidelines are also available in Bengali, Hindi, Turkish and Urdu (Copyright, Part I, Part II)
The Technical Guidelines for the Environmentally Sound Management of the Full and Partial Dismantling of Ships have been prepared with the intention of providing guidance to countries which have, or wish to establish, facilities for ship dismantling. The guidelines provide information and recommendations on procedures, processes and practices that must be implemented to achieve Environmentally Sound Management (ESM) at such facilities. The guidelines also provide advice on monitoring and verification of environmental performance.
The present document discusses criteria for classifying wastes under the Basel Convention with regard to the Annex III hazard characteristic H11, delayed or chronic toxic hazard.
A key goal of the Basel Convention is to ensure the protection of human health and the environment during the transboundary movement and disposal of waste. In general terms, this means that people and the environment should be protected against potential adverse effects caused by the generation, transport, handling and disposal of waste being transported between countries that are parties to the convention. The Annex III hazard characteristics work with the Annex VIII and IX waste lists to help accomplish this goal. The H11 hazard characteristic (delayed or chronic toxicity) is intended to ensure protection from wastes or waste constituents that can cause adverse health effects following very low but prolonged exposure of people to the waste, with the adverse effects occurring either during the exposure period, or after exposure has ceased. When the hazard posed by a waste is too great, the waste is classified as Basel hazardous, and the range of Basel controls and protections will apply.
The present document proposes criteria for the ecotoxicological hazard of wastes.
It is an aim of the Basel Convention that the management and transboundary movement of hazardous waste are consistent with the protection of human health and the environment. In terms of ecotoxicity, this means that wildlife as well as the functioning of the ecosystems should be protected against potential adverse effects caused by the generation, transport and disposal of hazardous waste.
The purpose of this document is to provide the Parties to the Basel Convention with guidance on the application and use of H13 of Annex III of the Convention to determine the hazard properties of waste.
Under the Basel Convention hazardous wastes are defined according to a list of substances (Annex I – categories of waste to be controlled) and their characteristics. One of these characteristics is H13, which is defined in Annex III as "Capable, by any means, after disposal, of yielding another material, e.g., leachate, which possesses any of the characteristics above."
Many organic substances exhibit solvent type properties. Whilst any attempt to estimate the number in regular or common use involves subjective judgement, it is suggested that some 60 substances fall into this category. Annex 1 lists these substance, together with some information on their properties.
Solvents may be categorized in several ways, for example by industrial application, by chemical family, or by some property based description. The annex 2 shows groups of solvents by chemical type, or family.
Solvents display a very wide range of properties and characteristics. Many are flammable, some highly flammable, many are volatile and evaporate quite rapidly to give off vapours. Such vapours may be toxic or flammable-flammable vapours in confined spaces can be explosive. Toxic properties can be very varied, and include being carcinogenic, narcotic, ecotoxic and may even be mutagenic or teratogenic. Solvents may be more or less dense than water, more dense substances sinking to the bottom of watercourses, vessels etc. Whilst some solvents are totally miscible with water, others are not and display barely any solubility in water.
Oils originating from petroleum crude can be processed, blended and formulated to produce numerous ranges of products for many applications.
Users of oils and oil products include not only industrial and commercial interest, but by virtue in particular of lubricants and fuel oils, the individual citizen. This can have profound affects on waste disposal issues.
Household wastes are not normally regarded as hazardous, since they consist almost entirely of materials, which have been handled by individuals before being discarded. However, such wastes can be extremely variable in their composition, depending to a large extent on the lifestyle of the generator.
For example, it can be expected that in the countries where almost everything bought is associated with wrapping materials, the packaging waste very often comprises a significant part of household waste. There will also be foodstuffs adhering to it or unusable material derived from foods preparation, such as vegetable peelings, meat scrapes and bones, which make it unattractive for recycling. Also present in waste collected from households are such items as batteries and other electrical components, some of which may contain mercury, containers in which are present residues of oils, paints, pool chemicals, caustic materials, sterilizing agents, bleaches, medicines, etc. Although these constitute a small portion of wastes collected from households, they are particularly problematic due to their hazardous characteristic, variability in chemistry and associated high recovery costs. There may be in addition, aerosol canisters, caustic materials, sterilizing agents, bleaches, medicines, disposable baby's nappies or diapers, animal faeces and its associated litter along with discarded foodstuffs which rapidly degrade and become offensive by virtue of their smell. Such wastes are attractive to vermin, flies and scavenging animals and birds.
For all these reasons there is a need to control and give special consideration to household wastes and carry out practices, which demonstrate environmentally sound management. Such wastes could also be generated in offices, commercial establishments, hotels, etc.
These technical guidelines provide general guidance on specially engineered landfills used for the wastes which exhibit one or more hazardous characteristics. The technical guidelines also discuss the landfilling of other wastes, as defined in the Basel Convention, e.g. collected from households, to provide a more comprehensive picture on environmental and health problems arising from landfills. In addition to the requirements for establishing new landfills, the technical guidelines also consider the critical issue of existing or abandoned landfill sites which require strict control, monitoring and often remedial measures. They provide general guidance as to which hazardous wastes would be suitable for landfilling.
Landfill is by far the most commonly practised waste disposal method in the majority of countries. It is the descriptor used for the placement of wastes into or onto the ground and, in many cases because of the nature of the materials involved, equates to long-term storage.
As a result of serious environmental and health problems experienced with historic and abandoned dump sites and the very high costs associated with clean-up measures at contaminated sites, many countries have introduced the "specially engineered landfill concept", the wastes for which are only consigned to sites selected for their containment properties, these being natural, augmented by or provided directly by liners, the overall engineering being such as to ensure as far as possible the isolation of wastes from the environment. Such landfills are considered a final resort option only to be used after every effort has been made to reduce, mitigate or eliminate the hazards posed by such wastes.
Incineration is a high temperature, thermal treatment process in which hazardous wastes are converted into gases and essentially incombustible solid residue.
A high level of technical competence is required in designing, operating and monitoring an incineration facility. It is an integrated activity involving a number of process operations (feed reception, control and preparation - actual combustion stage - treatment of combustion products, waste gases and
residues). The options available within these process operations can be combined in various ways to meet the technical needs of a wide range of circumstances. Thermal treatments are of three main kinds: incineration; pyrolysis; other thermal processes (i.e. thermal oxidation). Thermal oxidation or process is by far the most used method for the treatment of hazardous wastes and is the subject matter of these draft technical guidelines.
The processing of used and waste oils has been practised for many years, with organised recycling of engine lubricating oil from vehicle fleets being well established by the 1930s. Certain waste oils streams arising on oil refinery sites have been fed into so called "crude ponds" and as part of material which was accumulated in these have been recycled.
In the context of these guidelines used oil means any semi-solid or liquid used product consisting totally or partially of mineral oil or synthesised hydrocarbons (synthetic oils), oily residues from tanks, oil-water mixtures and emulsions. These arising from industrial and non industrial sources where they have been used for lubricating, hydraulic, heat transfer, electrical insulating (dielectric) or other purposes and whose original characteristics have
changed during use thereby rendering them unsuitable for further use for the purpose for which they were originally intended.
The Guidelines seek to provide concise information to help competent and other authorities better understand the scope and nature of biological and physico-chemical processes.
In most countries, nowadays, used lead-acid batteries are returned for lead recycling. However, considering that a normal battery also contains sulfuric acid and several kinds of plastics, the recycling process may be a potentially dangerous process if not properly controlled.
These technical guidelines are, therefore, meant to provide guidance to countries which are planning to improve their capacity in order to manage the used lead-acid battery wastes.
The disposal of wastes originating from health-care establishments (public and private) can have an effect on human health and well-being, the environment (air, water, soil, animals, plants, landscape) and issues relating to public security and order.
Nevertheless, experience has proven that wastes originating from health-care establishments, when properly managed, generally pose no greater risks than that of properly treated municipal or industrial wastes. This also pertains to the disposal of biomedical and health-care wastes, in contrast to occasional public perception.
The guidelines provide information for the proper treatment of wastes from health-care establishments (public and private). The information provided takes due consideration of the waste management requirements of disposal and recovery measures as well as hygiene requirements. In addition to ecological aspects, the information and recommendations should be economically feasible and easy to undertake. It and also makes allowances for technical progress.
The present technical guidelines are principally intended to provide guidance, to countries which are building their capacity to manage waste in an environmentally sound and efficient manner, in their development of procedures or strategies for recycling metals and metal compounds, and to encourage further recycling of metals in an environmentally sound manner.
Some waste will contain metals and metal compounds in forms and amounts sufficient for recycling and reclamation to be considered in preference to disposal, and in that case such recycling and reclamation is to be preferred.
These guidelines focus mainly on the recycling and reclamation of metals and metal compounds that are listed in Annex I to the Basel Convention as categories of wastes to be controlled. Those categories include the following metals and their compounds: antimony (Sb), arsenic (As), beryllium (Be), cadmium (Cd), lead (Pb), mercury (Hg), selenium (Se), tellurium (Te) and thallium (Tl). They also include compounds of copper, zinc and hexavalent chromium, but not the metals themselves. These metals and metal compounds may be referred to as Annex I metals and metal compounds or, more simply, as Annex I metals. Materials that contain them are controlled under the Basel Convention if they fall within the Convention's definition of waste, unless they do not possess any of the hazardous characteristics listed in Annex III to the Convention.


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Having gone after pretty much every other "social malady" in the book, Rick Santorum is finally setting his sights on the big daddy of them all: Pornography.
In a statement that reads like something Anthony Comstock would have deemed "going too far," the GOP presidential candidate claims pornography "causes profound brain changes in both children and adults" and blasts the Justice Department for favoring "pornographers over children" by not enforcing obscenity laws.
Santorum continues: "[C]urrent federal 'obscenity' laws prohibit distribution of hardcore [obscene] pornography on the Internet, on cable/satellite TV, on hotel/motel TV, in retail shops and through the mail or by common carrier."
The former Pennsylvania Senator concludes by vowing that, as President, he will change the status quo as it concerns pornography.
It seems somewhat laughable, but can President Santorum really get rid of Internet porn if he set his mind to it? Yes, says UCLA Law Professor and noted blogger Eugene Volokh.
"If the government wanted to aggressively move against Internet pornography, it could do so," Volokh told The Daily Caller. "Here's the deal: In most parts of the country, a lot of pornography on the Internet would plausibly be seen as obscene."
The law may be on his side, but, if he were to pursue his anti-porn crusade, Santorum would likely find rather quickly that the only thing still able to blur the lines of political affiliation is porn.
"When it comes to adult entertainment, it seems people are more the same than different," said Harvard Business School's Benjamin Edelman, who, in 2009, published a nationwide study [pdf] on porn viewing habits that should give Santorum pause.
Eight out of the top 10 porn-loving states voted for John McCain in the 2008 presidential election. By comparison, six of the bottom 10 cast their vote for Obama.
[thehill / dailycaller / newscientist.]