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The Port of Portland's summer issue of Portside includes a cover story on the Port's "Material Metamorphosis" featuring its work with PSU's Community Environmental Services.
Port of Portland facilities are responsible for moving people and goods on a large scale. Portland International Airport welcomed 15.1 million travelers last year and Port marine terminals moved almost 12 million tons of cargo. With such large volumes of people and goods coming and going, waste is an unfortunate, but inevitable, by-product. In a world of finite resources, minimizing waste and repurposing waste materials doesn't just feel good, it's also good business and can provide an array of community benefits as well.
The Port has a robust waste management program in place and benefits from an 11-year partnership with Portland State University's Community Environmental Services program. Its student consultants, who work out of Port offices, provide the Port with a deeper bench to develop innovative waste management solutions using research, data collection, outreach and technical assistance.


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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- The latest development news, culled from recent wire reports:
Looking to keep track of all the various projects in development? Click here to visit our signature "Devwatch" section. There visitors can view our listings by network, genre, studio and even development stage (ordered to pilot, cast-contingent, script, etc.). It's updated every day!
"Star-Crossed" executive producers Richard Shepard, Sean Furst and Bryan Furst have inked an overall deal with 20th Century Fox Television, ending the run of their Olé banner at CBS Television Studios (Deadline.com); Brigid Brannagh, Sandra Bernhard, John Ratzenberger and Reiko Aylesworth are the latest faces bound for "Drop Dead Diva" this season (THR.com); and Ryan Murphy is in talks with FX for a potential companion talk show for the new season of "American Horror Story" (THR.com).

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ADESA Names Top Execs
ADESA announced that Paul Lips will take on the newly created position of chief commercial officer for ADESA and Srisu Subrahmanyam will join the ADESA senior management team as chief...
Audi Recalls Cars for Incorrect Tire Labelling
Volkswagen Group of America Inc. is recalling 3,543 2014-2015 Audi S7 and 2016-2018 RS7 vehicles. The tire information label on these vehicles incorrectly lists the combined maximum weight as 1146...
Kawaski Recalls Motorcycles for Gear Issues
Kawasaki Motors Corp. U.S.A. is recalling 3,964 2016-18 ZX-10R and...
CFPB Looks at Supervision Process
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a request for information...
ADESA Names Dealer Relations Director
ADESA announced that Trent Strauss has been promoted to director of dealer relations for ADESA, effective immediately. Strauss will report to Steve Dudash, vice president of dealer services. In his…Written on Wednesday, 28 September 2016 12:23
NAAA Offers Support for Flooded Sale
National Auto Auction Association President Mike Browning drew attention to the victims of the flooding in Louisiana in a letter to members on Aug. 19, spotlighting member Oak View Auto…Written on Friday, 19 August 2016 14:40
Depreciation Rates Improve
The average price of a used vehicle for model years 2011-15 depreciated by 1.5 percent during July, slightly better than June's 1.7 percent, according to Black Book. The market performance…Written on Wednesday, 10 August 2016 14:59
City Honors Auction for Community Involvement
Manheim Seattle won the City of Kent's "Best of Kent" award for the fifth consecutive year, qualifying the auto auction for the Kent Business Hall of Fame. The award is…Written on Wednesday, 03 August 2016 15:07
Cox Promotes Strategy VP
Cox Automotive has named Amy Mills senior vice president of strategy. In this role, Mills will work with Cox Automotive's executive leadership team to identify, execute and sustain strategic initiatives…Written on Thursday, 03 November 2016 20:51
Association Honors Charitable Auction
ADESA Winnipeg, located in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, has earned the inaugural 2016 Eastern Auction of the Year Award from the National Auto Auction Association. The award honors excellence in community…Written on Friday, 19 August 2016 14:40
Manheim Index Rises Again
Wholesale used vehicle prices (on a mix-, mileage-, and seasonally adjusted basis) increased for the fourth consecutive month in July. The Manheim Used Vehicle Value reading was 127 for July,…Written on Friday, 05 August 2016 14:32
Manheim Milwaukee Raises Money for Veterans
A group of Milwaukee-area veterans will soon take a memorable trip to Washington, D.C., thanks to Manheim Milwaukee Auto Auction's initiative to support Stars and Stripes Honor Flight, an organization…Written on Monday, 26 September 2016 03:09
Cox Names Financial Services President
Cox Automotive announced that Shane O'Dell has been named president of financial solutions. O'Dell will oversee NextGear Capital. He will report to Mark O'Neil, chief operating officer of Cox Automotive…Written on Friday, 02 September 2016 14:35
NAAA Boosts Prize Amount
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New Houston-area theme park under development
Developers hope an empty, heavily wooded plot of land in New Caney will transform into a thriving entertainment district by 2015- complete with a theme park, water park and a new dining and music scene and more elaborate attractions.
Construction will begin on the Grand Texas Theme Park in October to be ready for a grand opening in March 2015 if all goes according to plan, said Monty Galland, a pre-development manager for the project.
Developers and officials in Montgomery County will close by the end of April on land on State Highway 242 and U.S. Highway 59, about 15 miles from the Woodlands and 10 miles north of Kingwood.
The cost of the water park, theme park, amphitheater and paintball arena, which will be supported by Galland's group, will cost $119 million. The other developments, which include restaurant and hotel areas, will add $95 million to the overall cost. The project was discussed at a Feb. 14 board meeting of the East Montgomery County Improvement District. Developers project first year attendance to be around 665,000 to eventually reach about 1.8 million after several years.
"It's designed to focus on the residents of Houston," Galland said. "There is no large-scale park north of the Interstate 10 freeway. ... We really feel like there is a void in this area."
Galland said the idea is larger than a theme park and conceives of an entertainment district, complete with a water park, an amphitheater, a baseball stadium and a shopping and dining area.
He and other developers have been working on the concept of a theme park for about four years, but found their spot after some trial and error on the New Caney land. Others involved in the project have worked on major theme parks in the past and Galland said some Astro World veterans will help manage the new park.
The theme of Grand Texas will have its roots in Texas history, with educational exhibits and including a replica of a Native American village.
"It's not a Six Flags style park, it's got a lot more to it than rides," he said. "It will have entertainment, live music and stunt shows among other attractions."
Illegal immigrants: 30 stuffed in house rounded up
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Juicing has long been hailed as one of the best ways to get healthy, stay healthy, and live a full, active life. (Just look at Jack LaLanne!) But to get all of the health-inducing vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and enzymes that juicing has to offer, you first have to have the best juice extractor.
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Germ History 101
Humans and microorganisms have lived together for hundreds of thousands of years. Many bacteria are beneficial and live with us symbiotically, especially in our gut, where they promote our health in exchange for luxury intestinal hotel accommodations. The vast majority of microorganisms are neutral. And a few are called pathogens, meaning they make us sick.
A pathogen can be a bacteria, fungi, or virus. And they don't make us sick because they want to destroy us, though sometimes, by accident, they do. They make us sick to spread their numbers, to grow and proliferate. Whenever you cough or sneeze, you are sending these pathogens into the air to set up housekeeping in new hosts (people) where the cycle can repeat itself. Like blowing on a dandelion, the microorganisms are sent into the world.
Other pathogens get into our bodies by hitchhiking a ride on our food or drink, and some get into our bloodstream by cuts or open areas, or sharing needles.
The good news is we have our own defense force, constantly patrolling to find and destroy the bad guys. This is our immune system, and the most active parts of the blood-based immune system are our white blood cells.
The pathogens that cause all colds and flu (influenza) are viruses. Viruses are hard to deal with because there are almost no drugs that can treat the cause of colds and the flu. Antibiotics don't work—they only kill bacteria.
The best way to deal with colds and the flu is to not get sick in the first place. To avoid illness, you need three things. First, block or remove the virus before it gets in your body. One example: wash your hands! Second, make your immune system as powerful as it can be, and third, kill the viruses directly. These latter two strategies will also help you recover much faster should you become ill.
The intelligent use of dietary supplements can be a powerful weapon against these illnesses. Here are some of my favorites.
Vitamin D
Vitamin D has had a great deal of renewed interest with the advent of clinically supported higher dosages. While using 200 IU of vitamin D may not do much for cold and flu prevention, 2,000 IU (or more) can make a huge difference.
In a study involving school-age children, the effect of vitamin D was investigated for its effects on seasonal influenza A. The children were given either 1,200 IU/day of vitamin D or placebo. The vitamin D supplemented group experienced over a 40 percent decrease in influenza A infection, compared to placebo. Additionally, children with a previous history of asthma had a significant reduction in asthma attacks when supplemented with vitamin D.
In a 2016 study involving overseas air travelers, participants were given an Austrian Haschberg elderberry or placebo for cold prevention. The elderberry group had half as many illness (cold or flu) as the placebo group, and those in the elderberry group who did get sick recovered two days faster and their symptoms were not as severe
Scientific studies have shown that elderberry is a strong antiviral agent. In a cellular model, it was even effective against avian influenza (bird flu).
Elderberry acts against viruses in two ways. First, it neutralizes virus particles so that they cannot enter host cells. Viruses cannot reproduce outside of cells, so keeping them out means they cannot replicate. Second, elderberry causes the immune system to activate, which can help control the spread of a viral infection.
Elderberry can be even more powerful when it is taken with zinc, mixed bioflavonoids, and vitamin A.
Propolis is collected and transformed by bees prior to being used in the beehive for fortification and protection. In fact, propolis means "Defender of the City."
Propolis is antiviral, which is great news for a cold or flu, but also possesses some antibacterial properties as well. This means that propolis may be useful for preventing secondary infections triggered by a cold or flu—like pneumonia—which are usually bacterial. Many of the antiviral studies were done on a purified propolis, removing wax, resin and impurities to yield a more powerful concentrated extract, called GH2002 in Germany.
OK, not exactly a dietary supplement, but sleep is incredibly important for preventing and recovering from colds and influenza.
In a survey of sleep patterns and colds in over 22,000 adults, researchers found that "short sleepers" getting five or fewer hours of sleep a night were 28 percent more likely to have experienced a cold and 82 percent more likely to have the flu or ear infection in the preceding month than those sleeping seven or more hours a night.
Aside from feeling tired and run down, researchers have found that sleeping only four to five hours a night leads to up to a 70 percent reduction in natural killer cells, white blood cells that fight infection.
Stage four sleep is also the time you make most of your human growth hormone, which is used in the repair and rebuild mode the body enters in deepest sleep. That is one reason you are so sleepy when you are ill—your body wants you to shut down so it can get busy with the business of healing you.
Predictions for Flu 2017-2018
Many experts believe that 2017–2018 could be one of the worst years for flu illnesses to date.
Australia reported almost 100,000 confirmed cases of the flu, which is over 200 percent greater the infection rate last year. Patterns in Australia are often a good prediction of flu activity in the United States as we enter the winter months.
Hospitalizations in Australia due to the flu have also doubled. So this year, it is an especially good idea to take care of yourself and your family with healthy diet, lots of handwashing, and excellent immune-boosting supplements.
"Antimicrobial Activity of Propolis Special Extract GH 2002 Against Multidrug-resistant Clinical Isolates" by A. Astani et al, Pharmazie, 8/13
"Association of Insufficient Sleep With Respiratory Infection Among Adults in the United States" by A.A. Prather and C.W. Leung, JAMA Intern Med, 2016
"Elderberry Supplementation Reduces Cold Duration and Symptoms in Air-Travellers: A Randomized, Double-Blind Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial" by E. Tiralongo et al., Nutrients, 3/16
"Frequently Asked Flu Questions 2017-2018 Influenza Season," www.CDC.gov, 2017
"NHS Fears the Worst Flu Season in History" by Laura Donnelly, The Telegraph, www.Telegraph.co.uk, 9/12/17
"Randomized Trial of Vitamin D Supplementation to Prevent Seasonal Influenza A in Schoolchildren" by M. Urashima et al., Am J Clin Nutr, 5/10
"A Review of the Antiviral Properties of Black Elder (Sambucus nigra L.) Products" by R.S. Porter and R.F. Bode, Phytother Res, 4/17


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The NFL lockout is over, and the teams, players and staff are reporting back to work in an official manner. The day has been busy with news around the league, but not much so far in the Philadelphia Eagles camp, with only some rookie free agent signings and a number of rumors.
We come back from our lockout hiatus and jump into what we know so far and what we expect from here.
What we discussed:
- The Philadelphia Eagles will not be re-signing any of their free agents
- Surprised that Stewart Bradley will not be back
- Longtime favorite David Akers, a kicking legend in Philly and the last of the Eagles Super Bowl team, will also be gone
- We talk about Kevin Kolb and how his status is affected by the Seahawks' signing of two quarterbacks
- Brett Favre coming to Philly? No way, Eskin.
- Somehow Todd gets to talking about how bad Donovan McNabb played in that fateful Super Bowl
- We get a voicemail from Elijah Smalls
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San Francisco, CA, April 21, 2009: Protegrity Corporation, the leading provider of Data Security Management solutions, is pleased to announce that its Defiance Security Software Suite has won the "2009 Global Product Excellence - Database Security" Customer Trust award from Info Security Products Guide, a popular publication covering security-related products and technologies. "In an interconnected world threats have no boundaries and security has to remain a prime requirement," says Rake Narang, editor-in-chief of Info Security Products Guide. "We are pleased to honor Defiance Security Software Suite as winner for 2009." "We are delighted to have won the Database Security Customer Trust award," said Gordon Rapkin, Protegrity's president and CEO. "This reaffirms Protegrity's longstanding commitment to developing solutions that enable organizations to protect their data and their business, comply with industry regulations, and realize a measurable return on their data security investments." Attacks on critical digital data are sharply on the rise. In mid-March the chief enterprise risk officer for Visa, Ellen Richey, said that common sense dictates that a challenging economy will produce increased data theft activity -- sales of stolen data remains an exceptionally vibrant business despite the downturn. Richey added that "security and law enforcement experts have confirmed that cyber attacks on consumers and businesses have intensified in recent months." Protegrity's Defiance Security Suite comprehensively supports enterprises in meeting their challenging data security management and compliance requirements, protecting data from collection to disposal. Defiance Security Suite secures data across geographically dispersed, technically diverse systems against new and established threats emanating from outside and inside the enterprise, with minimal impact on existing applications, operations, and processes. Three core components, all key parts of the integrated solution, comprise the Defiance Security Suite. Defiance Threat Management System is a web application firewall that detects and blocks unwanted activity. Defiance Enterprise Security Administrator delivers alerting, reporting, and auditing for security events organization wide. Defiance Data Protection System provides encryption and hashing for applications, databases, and files. The architecture of the Defiance Data Protection System (DPS) was designed to comprehensively protect the dynamic data flow necessary in a modern enterprise. Data is secured through highly granular column-level encryption, masking ensures users see only the information they need to see and all activity is monitored and logged. File Protectors safeguard both structured and unstructured data wherever it may reside, files placed in secured folders and directories are automatically encrypted. DPS takes full advantage of the processing power offered by the database server, optimizing performance and enabling real scalability -- each database accesses the full processing power of its accompanying server, ensuring that accessibility and performance aren't sacrificed for security reasons. Policies can be centrally managed across the enterprise from one console, separation of duties between security and database administration is enforced. And DPS offers the broadest platform support -- for both databases and operating systems -- in the industry. Protegrity's focus on centrally managing data security across technology platforms and recognition that protecting data ultimately protects a company's brand and its ongoing business have been key to the company's success, even in challenging economic times. Over the past year the Defiance Security Suite has gained significant usage among large-scale retail outlets and enterprises around the world in all industries, particularly financial, government, manufacturing and education.
Protegrity delivers centralized data security management solutions that protect sensitive information from acquisition to deletion across the enterprise. Protegrity's customers maintain complete protection over their data and business by employing software and solutions specifically designed to encrypt data, safeguard web applications, and manage and report on security policy. The company's singular focus is on developing solutions that protect data. Protegrity employees are security technology specialists with deep expertise in encryption, key management, web application firewalls and security policy in distributed environments. Maximize security with minimal business impact with Protegrity's Defiance® Suite, the high performance, transparent solution optimized for the dynamic enterprise. To learn more, visit www.protegrity.com or call 203.326.7200. Protegrity and Defiance are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Protegrity Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners


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The Crafar Farms sale has become a flashpoint for public concern over foreign ownership. As politicians figure out how to repsond, how can we keep the land without closing the door to business and trade?
The Overseas Investment Office's recommendation on the Crafar Farms sale is sitting on the desks of Maurice Williamson and Jonathan Coleman, ticking away like that cliched old time bomb.
What should the government do? Should it approve Shanghai Pengxin's $200 million offer for the 16 farms? Of course it should; and it will. As the law stands, it's right and proper. Sure, Justice Forrie Miller's ruling may have raised the bar, forcing foreign investors to offer more benefits to New Zealand than previously. But nothing he said should be sufficient to scupper the deal.
So now the government has to announce that decision in the knowledge it will be met with hostility by voters, just at the time that voters are already meeting plans for partial state asset sales - even a bit of land in Devonport - with hostility. It also has to balance the diplomatic delicacy of a visit by China's fourth-ranked leader Jia Qinglin in a couple of weeks.
It's going to be awkward, to say the least.
But this is a done deal. Shanghai Pengxin have acted in good faith; you could even argue their offer is generous. Certainly Michael Fay's low-ball offer and attempt to play the race card for his own personal gain makes it look more-than-decent by comparison.
To change the rules on the hop would damage our reputation in Asia, a point Kiwi investment fund manager David Mahon made on Q+A:
New Zealand is under some scrutiny... not just in China, but throughout Asia with our major trading partners and these sizeable economies – India, Indonesia – would look upon this as being New Zealand as a narrow country after all, that New Zealand actually is racist in terms of its view of who it would like to be its business partners, which I think would be a sad misreading of New Zealand..."
So the question then becomes, what next? The Crafar Farms represent just .006% of our farmland, but two percent has been sold offshore in the past decade and interest is only growing.
The public mood is strong on this, and I don't think it's for the budging. Whether it's xenophobia, a proud love of the land or some latent business instinct, the vast bulk of New Zealanders think selling the land that underpins our prosperity is just daft.
So it's time to think about the creative solutions. The Greens have a simple answer - no sales to non-New Zealanders. That's one place to draw the line; presumably the land already in foreign hands would be exempt and slowly sold back into New Zealand hands if and when.
But are there other options? Different countries take a different approach to not only farmland, but residential property as well.
Australia is quite tight on residential land, but when it comes to farmland has a pretty open door - only farm sales over $244 million trigger a mere investigation by the Foreign Investment Review Board. But other countries have stricter lines. In Alberta, Canada, non-residents are limited to two plots of agricultural or recreational land not exceeding a total of 20 acres. Elsewhere in Canada, Manitoba prevents non-residents from owning more than 40 acres of farmland and requires that they move to the province within two years of purchasing the land.
Last year Argentina passed a new law restricting overseas buyers to 1,000 hectares in key areas of the country. It also sets a limit of 15% of total land being owned by foreigners. And that's a country with a heck of a lot more land than us.
Perhaps that offers a model for New Zealand to follow - a limit in either percentage terms in the total number of hectares that can be sold.
Undoubtedly, if other countries continue down the same track as Argentina, the pressure will grow on politicians here to act. Why? Because investors and governments in China and the Middle East, so eager to secure their food and resource supplies, won't stop their land grab.
So, if other countries tighten their ownership rules, demand for land here is likely to increase and drive the price upwards. Great for selling farmers in the short-term, but of little benefit for the country long-term and with a distinct downside.
Mahon also had an idea, which he raised on Q+A. What about leasehold?
There are solutions. Perhaps there could be a trust that acquires agricultural land from anybody. So farmers can sell, in a real sense, get value for their land, and then foreign buyers coming in acquire land through that trust. And that trust could base sales on the fact that all land purchased in New Zealand was leasehold.
Obviously private farmers can keep doing their thing, but if and when they want to sell, the government could bid and, should it win, build up a land bank to be leased to offshore investors. We all own the land, but we still attract foreign capital.
Might be too state-controlled for some, but the public feedback to Mahon's proposal was instant and favourable. People were writing and texting in saying leasehold was a great idea.
So perhaps there's a middle-ground between the rubber-stamping the Overseas Investment Office currently engages in and the complete ban the Greens and New Zealand First support. What do you think?


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CDBurnerXP is an easy to use and free application to burn CDs and DVDs, including Blu-Ray and HD-DVDs. It also includes the feature to burn and create ISOs, as well as a multilanguage interface. You can create data and audio CDs with or without gaps between tracks, burn and create ISO files, create bootable discs. It does however support Burn-Proof technology, multi-session disks, import of ISO images has bin/nrg - ISO converter, simple cover printing and much more. In addition to CD/DVD burning, you can also rip audio CDs, normalize WAV files, encode MP3 files, erase disks. Compatible with Windows 2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista/2008/Win7 operating systems. Everyone, even companies, can use it for free. It does not include adware or similar malicious components.
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• create bootable discs
• verify written Data automatically after burning process
• use either the internal browser to add your files or the intuitive Drop-Box to drag and drop files directly from any Windows Explorer window
• save your compilations for creation of backups
• burn on-the-fly and with buffer-underrun protections
• import previous (ISO 9660) sessions and edit existing file structure on CD/DVD
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• create Audio-CDs from mp3, wav, ogg and wma files
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The Well-Stocked Medicine Chest Every College Student Needs
by Sherman M. Fridman, JD
For college freshmen, going off to school can be exciting, but it can also be stressful and physically taxing. Late-night study sessions, parties, and easily passed cold and flu viruses can be a toll on an otherwise healthy body.
So, here are health essentials for any student's medicine cabinet.
These first aid must-haves come in many sizes and shapes. A well-stocked medicine cabinet should contain a reasonable assortment of individually wrapped bandages, as well as some individually packaged sterile gauze pads.
And, when thinking bandages, do not forget 3 other bandage-related essentials: a roll of sterile gauze to hold a dressing or splint in place, a compression bandage that can be effective in decreasing swelling or lending support to joints and muscles, and medical tape to hold them in place.
First Aid Equipment
A thermometer is a must for identifying a fever. Although they come in several types and styles, a simple, inexpensive oral digital thermometer will provide quick, reliable information. You will also need a pair of scissors for cutting bandages and a pair of fine-tipped tweezers for removing splinters or ticks.
Antiseptics and Antibiotic Ointment
The importance of cleanliness, especially around a wound, cannot be overstressed. Minor wounds and their surrounding areas can be cleansed with an antiseptic that can be applied as a liquid, spray, or by towelette. Also, have antibiotic ointment to apply to a wound.
Pain Relievers and Fever Reducers
Everyone gets aches and pains, so having one or two types of all-around pain relievers is essential. Acetaminophen is good for pain and fever relief. Naproxen or ibuprofen are good choices to reduce fever, pain, and inflammation.
There are some precautions, though, when choosing which over-the-counter medication to use. Here are some important points to keep in mind:
Cold Medications
Crowded dorms and closed-in lecture halls are perfect breeding grounds for cold viruses. Pain relievers will help to ease the aches and fevers associated with a cold, but nasal decongestants and cough medications might help alleviate a cold's most annoying symptoms.
By the time they have reached college, most students know whether they are allergic to grasses, pollens, or other natural elements. But going away to school in a different part of the country presents a new environment with its own set of allergens.
A college student's medicine cabinet should contain a nonsedating antihistamine, which, in addition to relieving a stuffy nose, can also treat hives, itching, and allergic skin reactions.
Two types of creams—hydrocortisone and antifungal creams—deserve a place in any student's medicine cabinet. A 1% solution of hydrocortisone cream will not only treat insect bites and encounters with poison ivy, but it can also relieve other rashes.
And students who forget that wearing sandals in a communal shower is the best protection against athlete's foot and other minor foot infections will be thankful that they have packed antifungal cream.
Stomach Remedies
For the after-effects of late-night pig-out parties, medications such as ranitidine, famotidine, and chewable antacids to treat indigestion, heartburn, or an upset stomach should be readily available in any student's medicine cabinet. Students who know ahead of time when they are about to make some questionable dietary choices should keep on hand a product containing a long-lasting formula that can be taken up to an hour before embarking upon a culinary adventure.
Artificial Tears
The American Optometric Association (AOA) reminds college students that all-night study sessions or long hours spent in front of a computer often result in dry, tired eyes. For wearers of contact lenses, the AOA says that their medicine cabinets should contain a bottle of the rewetting solution specifically recommended for their lenses. For those students who do not wear contacts, a bottle of artificial tears can help relieve the redness and dryness of overworked eyes.
Dental Floss
A daily routine of flossing not only removes annoying food particles from between the teeth, but it is essential in promoting healthy teeth and gums. Neglecting this necessary routine can put you at risk for gum disease, which can lead to other serious health complications.
Important Precautions
Of course, before taking any medications, even those sold over-the-counter, students should check labels to determine the proper dosage, as well as what warnings, side effects, and expiration dates are associated with the product. They should also check the label or contact their doctor or pharmacist to make sure that the product will not interact with any prescription drugs, supplements, or herbal remedies they might already be taking. Students experiencing persistent symptoms or who think they may have a more serious health problem should contact a doctor right away.
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[Scott Carpenter, one of the last two surviving astronauts of NASA's Project Mercury, died on Thursday in Denver. He was 88. Here, LIFE.com remembers Carpenter with a gallery of rare and classic photos from 1962.]
"When I reached orbit," astronaut Scott Carpenter wrote in the June 8, 1962, issue of LIFE, "the first thing that impressed me was the silence."
The 37-year-old Colorado native, just the second American to orbit the Earth (and the fourth American in space) was letting the magazine's millions of readers in on what he called "the great secret" he'd been privy to during his May 1962 Aurora 7 Mercury flight.
He remembered, Carpenter wrote in the long, exclusive piece in LIFE, "that when my grandfather was dying of a stroke he said to his doctor, 'At last I'll know the great secret.' High on top of the Atlas [rocket before liftoff] I was confident that everything was going to be all right, but I felt that I, too, was going to be let in on a great secret, that this experience I had looked forward to for so long would soon be here."
"Almost immediately," Carpenter wrote, describing the adventure — after the deep silence — that enveloped him once he was truly aloft, "I knew the second great sensation, weightlessness. [The] pressure suit,which is very constricting on the ground, became entirely comfortable. Though it was part of the planned routine to report this moment to the ground, it was so exhilarating that my report was really a spontaneous and joyful exclamation: "I am weightless!" Now the supreme experience had really begun."
But before the ultimate test of a real, live space flight could begin for any of NASA's original Mercury 7 (Carpenter, Alan Shepard, John Glenn, Deke Slayton, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra and Gordon Cooper), the competitive and profoundly confident astronauts had other things to attend to. Like training. And studying. And training some more.
And, of course, they had their families: sometimes right beside them as they braced themselves to push the envelope of exploration further than it had ever been pushed before; sometimes far away, in touch with each other only by phone or written letter or a message relayed by a friend, as the seven were often necessarily isolated in the midst of their intensive and grueling preparations for "the supreme experience."
For the Mercury 7 astronauts, yet another part of that preparation involved being photographed — a lot — and no other photographer spent more time with, or got closer to, Shepard, Glenn, Slayton, Grissom, Schirra, Cooper, Carpenter and their wives and kids than LIFE's Ralph Morse. From the very earliest days of NASA's push toward the moon (and beyond), Morse was, in effect, the de facto chronicler of the astronauts' public and, increasingly as time went on, private lives. He spent so much time with the Mercury 7, in fact, that John Glenn famously dubbed him the "eighth astronaut."
Here, five decades after Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth, LIFE.com celebrates his career as an astronaut with a series of photos — many of which never ran in LIFE — that focus not on the cutting-edge technology or the innovative training that made the Mercury flights possible (and helped make rock stars of the Mercury 7 in the early 1960s), but instead reveal the quieter, more intimate side of a legendary astronaut's life.
Morse's warm, companionable pictures convey not merely, as LIFE put it in one of several articles on Carpenter and his flight in the spring on 1962, "a sensitive man's exhilaration on a rugged ride," but a far broader — and richer — sense of the atmosphere surrounding all of the Mercury astronauts.
Yes, these were accomplished, driven men literally putting their lives on the line for something that they knew, in their bones, was both worthwhile and far bigger than any of them, individually or collectively. And yes, they were "flyboys" — tough, hardened test pilots who could, nevertheless, occasionally allow a glimpse behind the alpha-male persona they so often displayed in public. (When John Glenn lifted off on his historic February 1962 Friendship 7 orbital flight, it was Carpenter who uttered one of the single most memorable phrases of the entire era with the simple, heartfelt words, "Godspeed, John Glenn.")
But they were also husbands and fathers — "family men," in the perfectly apt, old-fashioned phrase — who tucked their kids in at night when they could, and sat up late at night with their wives, talking about the same things that spouses have always talked about: bills; how many of their children might need braces; when they'll ever find time to take a vacation.
But, of course, there were also clearly other topics in the astronauts' homes that were not exactly routine late-night conversation fare: Would the Atlas rocket fire properly? Would the oxygen supply in the Aurora 7 capsule work? Would NASA representatives be calling, or knocking on the door, tomorrow or next week with dreadful, devastating news about a mortal training accident, or an instance of unforeseen, lethal equipment failure? (Carpenter himself ran into mechanical trouble during his 1962 flight, when a pitch horizon scanner on board his capsule malfunctioned during re-entry, famously leaving him 200 miles away from his planned splashdown location. He was found and retrieved, in perfect health, three hours after his capsule's re-entry.)
In these pictures, we see one astronaut and his family (Carpenter divorced his wife, Rene, a few years later and remarried twice, divorcing again both times) embracing brief, quotidian moments of connection — moments that those of us who do not live our lives one small mistake removed from death can, and so often do, take for granted.
Carpenter — who, along with John Glenn, is one of the last two surviving Mercury 7 astronauts — retired from NASA in 1967 after badly injuring his arm in a motorcycle accident. While he did go on to engage in more pioneering scientific and exploration work (living on the ocean floor as part of the U.S. Navy's SEALAB project in 1965, for example) Scott Carpenter never flew in space again after his mission in the spring of 1962. But his one thrilling Mercury program flight ensured that his name, and that of Aurora 7, would always enjoy pride of place in NASA's storied annals.
— Ben Cosgrove is the Editor of LIFE.com


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BALTIMORE—Sophomore goalie Lauren Kadet (Oakville, Ontario/St. Thomas Aquinas) made seven saves as the UMBC women's soccer team (0-8-1) snapped its season-long eight-game losing streak with a 0-0 tie against in-state rival Navy (6-3-2) Wednesday evening at Retriever Soccer Park.
The America East Player of the Game, Kadet earned her second career shutout and first since a 2-0 clean slate against Vermont on Sept. 26, 2010.
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The Midshipmen outshot the Retrievers, 19-11, in the game and held an 8-4 advantage on corner kicks. Hoerner recorded five saves in nearly 97 minutes between the pipes for Navy. Junior forward Rachel McKee (Ellicott City, Md./Mt. Hebron) took a game-high four shots.
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* Getco offer values combined firm at $1.4 bln - sources
* Virtu offers to take Knight private for $1.1 bln - source
* Getco already owns 23.8 pct of Knight's shares
* Knight shares rise 15.2 pct (Adds details, background, comments from analyst and source)
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Nov 28 (Reuters) - Rival electronic trading firms Getco Holding Co and Virtu Financial LLC have made competing bids for Knight Capital Group, valuing the company at a minimum of $1.1 billion, as they both eye Knight's lucrative market-making business, sources said.
Getco proposed a $1.4 billion cash and stock deal that would see it merge into Knight as a public company, while Virtu offered a minimum of $1.1 billion in cash for what would end up a privately held firm, sources familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.
Knight's U.S. market-making business uses computer models to match buy and sell orders in stocks and options and executes around 10 percent of U.S. equity trading volume. It has managed to stay profitable amid a steep market-wide slump in equity trading along with increased competition.
There is no guarantee either firm will clinch a deal for Knight, which was made vulnerable to a takeover this summer when a trading glitch left it nearly bankrupt before a group of investors stepped in with $400 million in emergency capital.
"We think it absolutely could continue to operate and recover standalone over time," said Niamh Alexander, an analyst at Keefe Bruyette & Woods. "However, the overhang of six large shareholders along with the others won't make for an attractive stock."
Knight's shares jumped 15.2 percent on Wednesday, and were up 37.3 percent since Friday's close, before word of the behind-the-scenes talks surfaced. Still, the stock was worth just a third of its value from the day before the trading glitch.
Getco's proposal effectively would see it bought by Knight, while Getco's management, led by Chief Executive Daniel Coleman, would take control of the combined firm. The new firm would be publicly traded, allowing General Atlantic, which invested in Getco in 2007, to exit its investment.
"A private equity deal that's five years old is like 100 years in dog years," said an executive at a trading firm not included in either bid, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Talk has swirled around Getco going public for the past four years, but the weak economic environment has prevented that from happening, shackling General Atlantic to the high-speed trading firm as equity trading volumes dropped to multi-year lows, the person said. "This is their chance at an exit."
Getco already has a 23.8 percent stake in Knight.
Getco's cash and stock deal would value the combined company at $3.50 per share, according to a regulatory filing and sources close to Getco. That is a 41 percent premium over Knight's closing price on Nov. 23, the day before rumors of possible offers for Knight appeared in news reports.
Virtu offered to take Knight private for at least $3 a share in cash, and Knight CEO Tom Joyce would remain at the helm, a source with knowledge of the offer said. Virtu would look to sell off Knight's businesses other than market-making.
Private equity firm Silver Lake, a Virtu investor, would back the deal, along with other unnamed investors, the source said.
Knight makes markets and trades in more than 19,000 U.S. equities. For the first nine months of 2012, Knight's U.S. market-making unit traded an average of 3 billion shares a day.
Knight also owns bond and foreign exchange trading platforms and a reverse mortgage lender. It also holds a stake of about 20 percent in Direct Edge, the No. 4 U.S. cash equities exchange.
The bidding for Knight comes shortly after the Jersey City, New Jersey-based firm had to be rescued by Getco and other investors after a software glitch in August unleashed a flood of errant orders to the New York Stock Exchange, punching a $440 million hole in Knight's balance sheet.
The rescue was led by Jefferies Group, and also included Blackstone Group LP, Stephens Inc and financial services companies TD Ameritrade Holding Corp and Stifel Financial.
As part of the deal, General Atlantic, Blackstone and TD Ameritrade, were given seats on Knight's board.
Jefferies is now backing Getco's bid, a source close to Getco said. Jefferies spokesman Richard Khaleel declined to comment because the firm's holding of more than 40 percent of Knight's common shares makes it an insider.
A spokeswoman for Getco would not comment.
Chicago-based Getco, the No. 2 designated market maker at the New York Stock Exchange with more than 850 listing assignments, disclosed its offer in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. The filing included an offer letter to Knight directors.
Getco is proposing a two-step deal. First, Knight would buy Getco in exchange for 242 million newly issued shares, along with warrants to buy an additional 69 million shares.
Then the combined entity would launch a tender offer to buy up to 154 million shares at $3.50 per share. Getco and its former owners would not participate in the tender offer.
The deal would leave the new company with more debt. Getco said it has lined up $950 million of fully committed financing.
Knight's Joyce would become chairman of the board under the terms of Getco's deal. The proposal would also allow Getco to nominate four directors of the new company. Sources said Getco is ready to proceed with the deal as early as Dec. 3.
But the public option might create a steep overhang on Knight's stock, as Getco would have to restructure the new entity to deal with the higher debt load, said the person familiar with Virtu's offer. The warrants would also potentially be very dilutive to the stock, the person said.
Knight shares rose 45 cents to $3.42 on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. On July 31, the day before Knight's trading glitch, the company's shares closed at $10.33. (Reporting By David Henry, John McCrank, and Jed Horowitz in New York; Editing by Paritosh Bansal, Gerald E. McCormick, John Wallace, Tim Dobbyn and Bernard Orr)


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We have been dancing around here, to music we never expected to love.
Our friend Monique gave us a cd before Little Bean was born, telling me it was one of her kids' favorites. When I saw the name, I wanted to cringe, but I resisted. Raffi. I had heard of him, and I thought he was cheesy. I had a flash image of concerts with kids in the audience, all waving flags, everyone singing music that the parents couldn't stand to hear again. Before Little Bean was born, I swore we would never listen to music meant just for kids. Instead, we'd teach her how to sing with Johnny Cash, and Alison Kraus, and Elvis Costello. All our favorite music was good enough for her, right?
So I took the disc and thanked Monique and tucked it away.
One afternoon, about a month ago, Little Bean was crying. It was late afternoon, the time when babies grow fussy, mysteriously. (Does anyone know why that is?) She's such a sunny little being, with the wide-open eyes and tiny pursed mouth of a cartoon character, that her crying took me by surprise. I went through the usual routine to soothe her. Nothing worked. I danced her around the room to Prince, which had just come on the iPod. She was having none of that. We went outside. I took her in the kitchen to smell herbs. She jiggled on my knee. I tried to stay calm, which calmed her for a moment, but she went right back to crying in jagged sobs.
Exhausted, I remembered Monique's present. I flipped Baby Beluga into the cd player and turned it on. I swear, from the first high-pitched squeaks and giggles of the whale in the opening moments, Little Bean was transfixed. She forgot to cry. She started to smile.
"Hell with it," I thought, sinking back into the couch cushions. "Kids' music is fine."
When "Day-O" came on, I started to sing, exaggerating every syllable with my mouth, like Harry Belafonte on steroids with a face made out of rubber. Little Bean looked up at me, and she stayed looking. At that point, she only made glancing eye contact. The Chef and I both longed for her stare, the adoring eyes. Until that moment, the ceiling captured all her grins. But when I sang to her, the words tumbled from my memory, even though I didn't know I held them. As she bounced on my knee, she watched my mouth, looked at my eyes, and took me in, for the longest time since the day of her birth.
That was the point I began to love Raffi.
Since then, the Chef and I have been playing this album for her every day. She loves it every time, her eyebrows flinging upward, her feet beginning to kick. Each song makes her happy (except for one called Joshua Giraffe, which goes dark and stormy in the middle, and she cries every time). She always dances.
Here's what we never expected, however. The Chef and I are hooked on this music.
He'll call me from the restaurant and say, "I've been singing that one song all day."
"Which one?"
Now, normally, the answer might be some sappy country music song we heard on the radio on the way to work that made us both teary. Or some old song by the Clash that mirrors any anger in our minds. Or any of two dozen Beatles songs that are important to us.
But lately, it has been: "You know, that jaunty one, how oats and beans and barley grow."
And I start whistling, right away.
(I'll ignore, for the moment, the fact that barley contains gluten. We'll come up with another grain when she's older.)
These are great songs. I'm not kidding. They're funny and loving, memorable and whistle-able. (I don't care if that's not a real word.) And more than that, they are the kind of music we want Little Bean to listen to, as she's growing into this world.
One of the songs, "Thanks a Lot," feels like the only kind of prayer we're likely to say around the dinner table. A traditional song that Raffi sings so sweetly, "To Everyone in All the World" reminds me every time that our political system would be mighty much better if we lived like this: "I may not know the lingo/but I can say by jingo/no matter where you live, we can shake hands." And perhaps for obvious reasons, one song makes me cry every time:
"All I really need is a song in my heart
food in my belly
and love in my family."
Whenever that one comes on, the Chef and I scoop up Little Bean, hold her in our arms, and dance her around the living room, singing.
Okay, so we have become those parents. And you know what? We don't care. Little Bean has been in this world for less than three months, and already she has encouraged us to let go of ridiculous expectations. There's nothing wrong with admitting it: we love Raffi. If he were still giving concerts, we'd be first in line to wave flags and sing earnest songs that we still love to hear.
(So if any of you have recommendations for great kids' music that's still pretty damned cool for parents, we'd love to hear them.)
Besides, the best song on the disc is all about biscuits. "Biscuits in the oven, going to watch 'em rise…." After weeks of singing this to Little Bean, I couldn't stand it any more. I had to make biscuits.
I remember my mom making biscuits from scratch some evenings. Now, I realize she used Bisquick as the base. What does that matter? She still put them together with her capable hands, cut through the pillowy dough with an antique cutter given to her by her mother, and pulled the golden warmth from the oven to our oohs and ahhs. I remember standing beside her in the kitchen one day, when I was about seven or eight, and watching her hands make biscuits. They seemed so sure, so reassuring. I wondered if I would ever be that strong.
Now, I look down at my hands, almost exact replicas of my mother's at my age. And I wonder if, a few years from now, when I am making gluten-free biscuits inspired by the Raffi song, Little Bean will look at my hands and wonder what hers will look like when she is an adult.
I found, this week, that I had to create a gluten-free recipe that worked for me. The first two years of living gluten-free, I didn't really care that much about baked goods. But now that our darling, hilarious daughter is here, I realize I want to make her biscuits some evenings and have her ooh and ahh at the warmth I am pulling out of the oven with my hands.
"When they get ready going to jump and shout
roll my eyes and bug them out.
Hey hey."
Of course, the only problem with baking biscuits in this house after hearing that song is that gluten-free biscuits simply don't rise the way that regular biscuits do. Why? No gluten. That doesn't mean they can't be darned fine, however.
I've been baking biscuits for days around here, cutting butter into different flours and waiting in anticipation for the moment I could open the oven door. The first batch was horribly disappointing the expected gluten-free hockey puck. But I love this trial and error process. Every batch taught me something different. And by the time I crafted the recipe you see below, I really was jumping and shouting to see them, like Raffi sings in the song.
The egg white takes the place of the protein gluten provides to a baked good. Lately, I've been finding that just a bit of egg white gives strength and structure to gluten-free goods.
I'm pleased with the softness of these biscuits, the fluffy center with air holes, and the crispness of the bottoms. They're a little bit pillowy, and a little bit crusty. Frankly, I'm glad I found the recipe I like, because I have to stop eating so many biscuits now.
1/2 cup sorghum flour
1/2 cup tapioca starch
1/2 cup potato starch
1/2 cup sweet rice flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
1 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
4 tablespoons butter
1 egg white
3/4 cup buttermilk (give or take a bit)
Preheat the oven to 450°.
Combine all the flours, the baking powder, and the salt. Stir them up well so they are one. Sift them into a large bowl.
Cut the butter into small pieces and drop them into the flour mixture. Using a pastry blender (also known as a pastry cutter), or two forks if you don't own the fancier tool, cut the butter into the flours. You should have a good blend, with the butter the size of small peas, by the end.
Froth up the egg white with a fork or small whisk. You are not looking to make meringue here. Simply whip some air and volume into the egg white.
Pour the egg white and the buttermilk into the dry mixture. Stir them in slowly with a rubber spatula, taking care to not overwork the dough. When the liquids are incorporated into the flours, stop stirring. Bring it all together with your hands.
Drop small balls of the biscuit dough onto an ungreased cookie sheet. (I prefer these biscuits small, about the size of a plum, to help the middles bake through.) Slide the tray into the oven.
Bake the biscuits for about 20 to 25 minutes. Test for your own version of doneness.


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It's almost Mother's Day, and if you're looking for the perfect desert to surprise your favorite mom with, I've got a great one for you. This crunchy chocolate malt cupcake recipe has it all going on. It's rich and creamy, but with that sweet, crunchy malted surprise. It's almost a candy bar -- only it's been baked with love.
It's also made with malted milk powder and crispy rice cereal -- that's where the crunch comes in. Top with a few chocolate malt balls and some sprinkles to make it extra fun.
Crunchy Chocolate Malt Cupcakes via Food Network
For the Frosting:
2/3 cup sugar
1 teaspoon light corn syrup
3 cups heavy cream
3 tablespoons unsalted butter
7 ounces milk chocolate, chopped
4 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
For the Cupcakes:
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
3/4 teaspoon fine salt
1 cup malted milk powder (such as Carnation)
3/4 cup Dutch-process cocoa powder
1 1/3 cups sugar
1 stick unsalted butter, at room temperature
4 large eggs, at room temperature
1 3/4 cups half-and-half
1 1/2 cups crispy rice cereal
- Make the frosting: Sprinkle the sugar evenly in a large skillet and add the corn syrup. Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring once or twice. Continue to boil, swirling the pan but not stirring, until the caramel is amber. Carefully pour in the heavy cream (it can splatter) and add the butter. Simmer, whisking constantly, until the caramel is smooth, about 2 minutes.
- Combine both chocolates and the salt in a medium heatproof bowl. Pour the hot caramel over the chocolate and let stand until melted, about 5 minutes. Whisk until smooth and shiny, then cover and refrigerate until set, at least 4 hours or overnight. (The frosting can be made up to 2 days ahead.)
- Make the cupcakes: Position a rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 375 degrees F. Line two 12-cup muffin pans with paper liners. Whisk the flour, baking powder and salt in a bowl. Sift the malted milk and cocoa powders into another bowl.
- Beat the sugar and butter in a third bowl with a mixer until light and fluffy, about 7 minutes. Add the malted milk powder mixture and beat until combined. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. With the mixer on low speed, add the flour mixture in three parts, alternating with the half-and-half in two parts, beginning and ending with flour.
- Divide the batter evenly among the prepared cups, filling each about three-quarters of the way. Bake until a toothpick inserted into a cupcake comes out clean, 15 to 20 minutes. Let cool in the pans 10 minutes, then transfer the cupcakes to racks to cool completely.
- Beat the chilled frosting with a mixer or whisk until thick, about 2 minutes, but don't overwhip. Spread on the cupcakes or transfer to a pastry bag with a star tip and pipe on top. Refrigerate until ready to serve, then sprinkle with the cereal.
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