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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing the anticipated availability of conference grant funds for the support of State Food Safety Task Force meetings contingent on the availability of fiscal year (FY) 2000 funds. This initiative is intended to support and encourage State food regulatory agencies to establish (or provide support of existing) regularly scheduled Food Safety Task Force meetings. These meetings should foster communication and cooperation within the State among State and local food safety regulatory agencies and is part of the President's Food Safety Initiative (FSI).
For States with existing State Food Safety Task Forces, the lead/champion/food regulatory agency must submit applications by March 24, 2000. For States in the process of developing a State Food Safety Task Force, submit applications by April 15, 2000. If the closing date falls on a weekend, or the date falls on a holiday, the date of submission will be extended to the following workday.
Application forms are available from, and completed applications should be submitted to Cynthia M. Polit, Grants Management Office, Division of Contracts and Procurement Management (HFA-520), Food and Drug Administration, 5600 Fishers Lane, rm. 2129, Rockville, MD 20857, 301-827-7180, e-mail: email@example.com. Applications hand-carried or commercially delivered should be addressed to 5630 Fishers Lane, rm. 2129, Rockville, MD 20857.Start Further Info
Regarding the administrative and financial management aspects of this notice: Cynthia M. Polit (address above).
Regarding the programmatic aspects of this notice: Paul M. Raynes, or Glenn E. Johnson, Division of Federal-State Relations (DFSR), Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA), Food and Drug Administration (HFC-150), 5600 Fishers Lane, rm. 12-07, Rockville, MD 20857, 301-827-6906, or access the Internet at www.fda.gov/ora/fedXstate/default.htm.End Further Info End Preamble Start Supplemental Information
FDA will support meetings covered by this notice under section 1701 (300u-300u-5) of the Public Health Service (PHS) Act (42 U.S.C. 241) or the Radiation Control for Health and Safety Act of 1968 (Public Law 90-602) (42 U.S.C. 263b-n). FDA's Conference Grant Program is described in the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, No. 93-103 and applicants are limited to State food safety regulatory agencies. Applications submitted under this program are subject to the requirements of Executive Order 12372. Requirements under the original FDA request for applications for its Conference Grant Program (52 FR 12257, April 15, 1987) apply. PHS strongly encourages all award recipients to provide a smoke-free workplace and to discourage the use of all tobacco products. This is consistent with the PHS mission to protect and advance the physical and mental health of the American people.
PHS urges applicants to submit workplans that address specific objectives of "Healthy People 2000." Potential applicants may obtain a copy of "Health People 2000" (Full Report, stock No. 017-0010-0474-0) through the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402-9325, 202-512-1800.
I. Background
ORA is the inspection component of FDA and has 1,000 investigators and inspectors who cover the country's approximately 95,000 FDA-regulated businesses. These investigators and inspectors inspect more that 15,000 facilities a year. In addition to the standard inspection program, they conduct special investigations, food inspection recall audits, perform consumer complaint inspections and sample collections. FDA has relied on the States in assisting with the above duties through formal contracts, partnership agreements, and other informal arrangements. Under the FSI, the demands on both the agency and the States will increase. Procedures need to be reviewed and innovative changes made that increase effectiveness and efficiency and conserve resources. ORA will support FSI by: (1) Providing effective and efficient compliance of regulated products, and (2) providing high quality, science-based work that maximizes consumer protection.
Under the FSI, FDA is encouraging State food safety regulatory agencies to establish (or provide support of existing) regularly scheduled Food Safety Task Force meetings. These meetings should foster communication and cooperation within the State among State and local food safety regulatory agencies. The purpose of the meetings should be to discuss/resolve issues at the State and local level relating to: (1) State/local agency roles and responsibilities, (2) capacity and resource needs, (3) outbreak coordination and investigations, (4) information sharing and data collection, (5) uniform regulatory standards, (6) communications and education, (7) State/local laboratory operations and coordination, and (8) adoption/implementation of the Food Code.
II. Project Goals, Definitions, and Examples
The purpose of these meetings is to foster communication and cooperation within the State among State and local food safety regulatory agencies. The meetings should: (1) Provide a forum for all the stakeholders of the food safety initiative; (2) assist in adopting or implementing the Food Code; and (3) promote the integration of a Statewide food safety system to become a cost effective, efficient system to maximize the protection of the public health.
Grant funds will be awarded for 1 year for direct costs only to secure meeting facility rental/expenses and in-state travel expenses for meeting attendees during the 1-year period. FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture region/district representatives may be invited to be a non-member liaison or advisor at the meetings but the task force should develop its own guidelines for work, consensus decisionmaking, size, and format at the initial meeting. Conference grant funds may not be used for Federal employees to travel to these meetings.
DFSR will provide meeting guidelines and other meeting organization documents as requested. Information on "Productive Meeting Fundamentals" is available via the Fax-on-Demand system by calling 301-827-4352 and requesting document #1606. A model partnership agreement may be obtained from Fax-on-Demand by requesting document #1605. FDA encourages at least two meetings a year for these task forces and recommends one each quarter.
III. Reporting Requirements
A final Program Progress Report or conference proceedings and a final Financial Status Report (FSR) (SF-269) are required within 90 days of the expiration date of the project period as noted on the Notice of Grant Award. An original and two copies of each report shall be submitted to FDA's Grants Management Office. Failure to file these Start Printed Page 3721reports in a timely fashion may jeopardize future grant support.
IV. Mechanism of Support
A. Award Instrument
Support for this program will be in the form of a grant. These grants will be subject to all policies and requirements that govern the conference grant programs of PHS, including the provisions of 42 CFR part 52 and 45 CFR parts 74 and 92. The regulations issued under Executive Order 12372 also apply to this program and are implemented through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) regulations at 45 CFR part 100. Executive Order 12372 sets up a system for State and local government review of applications for Federal financial assistance. Applicants (other than federally recognized Indian tribal governments) should contact the State's Single Point of Contact (SPOC) as early as possible to alert them to the prospective application(s) and to receive any necessary instructions on the State's review process. A current listing of SPOC's is included in the application kit. The SPOC should send any State review process recommendations to the FDA Grants Management Office (address above). The due date for the State process recommendations is no later than 60 days after the deadline date for the receipt of applications. FDA does not guarantee to accommodate or explain SPOC comments that are received after the 60-day cutoff.
B. Eligibility
These grants are available to State food regulatory agencies (see section IV.A of this document).
C. Length of Support
The length of support will be for 1 year from the date of issuance of the award.
V. Review Procedure and Criteria
All applications submitted in response to this RFA will first be reviewed by grants management and program staff for responsiveness. If applications are found to be nonresponsive, they will be returned to the applicant without further consideration.
Responsive applications will be reviewed and evaluated for scientific and technical merit by an ad hoc panel of experts in the subject field of the specific application. Final funding decisions will be made by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs or her designee.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to contact FDA to resolve any questions regarding criteria prior to the submission of their application. All questions of a technical or programmatic nature must be directed to the ORA Program Staff (address above) and all questions of an administrative or financial nature must be directed to the Grants Management Staff (address above). Applications will be given an overall score and judged based on all of the following criteria:
1. Participant determination of the size and membership of the meetings' operating rules and goals in relation to the mission and priorities of FDA;
2. Makeup of the participants to include State and local food safety agencies, industry, consumers, legislators (State and local) and other interested associations or groups. Recommended attendance at meetings is approximately 15 to 20 persons;
3. Information dissemination to constituents regarding the existence of the meetings and information regarding the goals and outcomes;
4. Biannual or quarterly meetings as necessary to accomplish the established goals;
5. Yearly self-evaluation concerning the progress toward achieving goals and outcomes.
VI. Submission Requirements
The original and two copies of the completed grant application Form PHS-5161-1 (Revised 5/96) for State and local governments should be delivered to the Grants Management Office (address above). The application receipt date is March 24, 2000, for applicants with an established task force and April 15, 2000, for applicants in the process of developing a task force. If the receipt date falls on a weekend or if the date falls on a holiday, the date of submission will be extended to the following workday. No supplemental material or addenda will be accepted after the receipt date.
The outside of the mailing package and item 2 of the application facepage should be labeled "Response to RFA-FDA-ORA-00-1."
A lead/champion/initiating State food regulatory agency who will coordinate/host and take the lead in establishing the Food Safety Task Force must be determined within the State prior to submission of an application. That lead/champion/initiating State food regulatory agency would prepare and submit the application. Only one grant will be awarded per State. Approximately $250,000 will be available in FY 2000, subject to the availability of funds. FDA anticipates making awards, not to exceed $5,000 in direct costs per award. Support of these grants will be for 1 year. The number of grants funded will depend on the quality of the applications received and the availability of Federal funds to support the grant. These grants are available to State food regulatory agencies that have an existing State Food Safety Task Force as well as State food regulatory agencies that are in the process of developing a State Food Safety Task Force. The formation of these Food Safety Task Force meetings will not interfere with existing advisory mechanisms within the Federal/State/local system and is not a mandatory requirement of FDA.
VII. Method of Application
A. Submission Instructions
Applications will be accepted during working hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, on or before the established receipt date. Applications will be considered received on time if sent or mailed on or before the receipt date as evidenced by a legible U.S. Postal Service dated postmark or a legible date receipt from a commercial carrier, unless they arrive too late for orderly processing. Private metered postmarks shall not be acceptable as proof of timely mailing. Applications not received on time will not be considered for review and will be returned to the applicant. Applicants should note that the U.S. Postal Service does not uniformly provide dated postmarks. Before relying on this method, applicants should check with their local post office.
Do not send applications to the Center for Scientific Research, National Institutes of Health (NIH). Any application that is sent to NIH, that is then forwarded to FDA and not received in time for orderly processing, will be deemed nonresponsive and returned to the applicant. Instructions for completing the application are included in Form PHS-5161-1. FDA is unable to receive applications via the Internet.
B. Format for Application
When using Form PHS 5161-1 (Revised 5/96), all instructions for the enclosed Standard Form 424 (SF424) should be followed using the nonconstruction application pages. The facepage of the application should be labeled "RFA-FDA-ORA-00-1."
Data included in the application, if restricted with the legend specified below, may be entitled to confidential treatment as trade secret or confidential commercial information within the meaning of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4)) and FDA's implementing regulations (21 CFR 20.61).
Information collection requirements requested on PHS Form 5161-1 were approved and issued under the Office of Management and Budget Circular A-102. Start Printed Page 3722
C. Legend
Unless disclosure is required by FOIA as amended (5 U.S.C. 552), as determined by the freedom of information officials of DHHS or by a court, data contained in the portions of an application that have been specifically identified by page number, paragraph, etc., by the applicant as containing restricted and/or proprietary information shall not be used or disclosed except for evaluation purposes.Start Signature
Dated: January 12, 2000.
Margaret M. Dotzel,
Acting Associate Commissioner for Policy.
[FR Doc. 00-1539 Filed 1-21-00; 8:45 am]


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World Cup 2010 – weak demand prompts hotel sales
Nearly 8,000 hotel rooms for this summer's World Cup have been put back on the market by the organisers, due to low demand.
Match, the FIFA agency tasked with securing accommodation for the World Cup, has released 441,695 nights in hotel rooms, that's nearly a third of the total held by the organisation.
A spokesman for Match said that the 7,843 rooms are generally outside of the host cities and on either side of match days and claimed that their release is "in line with expectations."
"The move is good news for British football fans keen to see the action first hand and to take advantage of additional accommodation options at sensible prices," said Lebo Mokhesi, country manager for South African Tourism.
However some visitors are being put off by the high prices of hotel rooms in the host cities. Telegraph Travel reported in December that British visitors to South Africa during the World Cup in June could have to pay up to five times the usual rate for a hotel room, as hoteliers, accommodation agents and tour operators take advantage of the limited availability during the five-week tournament.
According to Hotels.com, the accommodation website, the four-star, centrally located Cape Town Lodge Hotel, was charging £68 per room per night from May 28 to June 5, but raised its rate on June 11, when the tournament gets under way, to £395 per night.
British-based South Africa travel specialists have expressed concern at the long-term damage that could be done to the country's image as a good-value destination. Two thirds of the available match tickets have already been sold, including over 41,000 to British football supporters. The next ticketing phase will start on February 9 and April 7, when an additional 400,000 tickets will be made available.
Source – The Telegraph Feb 2010
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The poetry of the Victorian Age is rich that produced two great poets Tennyson and Browning. There are minor poets whose contribution to literature is equally notable. Among them, Elizabeth Barrett Browning rightly occupies a central position.
It was the publication of Mrs. Browning's "The Seraphim and Other Poems (1838)" that brought her literary reputation. After that, her ill health and the shock of her brother's death made her broke down and was confined to the four walls of her room.
As she recovered slightly, she published "Poems" some of them were impulsive but favored by the public. One of such poems was "The Cry of the Children" which voiced the protest of humanity against the evil of child labor. This poem appealed the populace most and she became so much popular that her fame name was placed beside Tennyson and Browning. So mush so, when Wordsworth died, she was considered for the poet laureate but finally, this title was given to Tennyson.
Around 1845, she met Browning and they fell in love, eloped and married. The romance of their love is beautifully reflected in her "Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)". It has become the inspiring collection of love poems every student of literature would like to enjoy!
For the fifteen years, they lived very happy life. In 1856, Elizabeth Barrett published a novel in verse, "Aurora Leigh". The hero of the novel is a social reformer which suggests Browning and the heroine is enthusiastic which suggest Elizabeth herself. The social and moral ideals of the novel reminds of the Dickens and George Eliot.
Her two poems "Last Poems" and "Poems before Congress" were published just after her death in 1861.


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In the built environment, we tend to focus on the end result of the work we do—the building, the space or the community. But what about the impact from what happens before the building is constructed, or after it is no longer in use? This more holistic thinking is becoming the norm, and it's called life-cycle assessment, or LCA.
For this edition of Changemakers, USGBC talks with Dr. Shawn Hunter, the Global Product Sustainability Leader for the Dow Chemical Company. In this role, he oversees product stewardship and sustainability efforts for building and construction. Not only does Hunter have a deep understanding of life cycle assessment, but he puts it into practice every day.
Takeaways for changemakers
Hunter strives to use the power of business and technology to transition all of us to a prosperous society that lives within the means of the planet.
Things you can do right now:
- Want to learn how LCA thinking has affected LEED v4, the latest version of LEED? Take a look at the credits and options that address LCA at the building and product level.
- Check out the LEED v4 User's Guide to learn more about how the materials section has evolved from LEED 2009 to LEED v4.
- For tips on how to live more sustainably at home, visit Green Home Guide.
- Review courses on the Education@USGBC platform to learn more about materials, environmental product declarations and life cycle assessment.
- You can also get free CE hours by taking our quiz based on the conversation you just heard and reading this article.
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A year ago South Houston boys basketball coach Patrick McCoy found himself confronted with the same question just about every time he ran into one of his coaching colleagues. He finally came up with just the right tongue-in-cheek answer.
Why, his basketball buddies wanted to know, would McCoy agree to enter his team in the rough-and-tumble elite division of the McDonald's Texas Invitational Basketball Tournament? Why would the John Does from South Houston want to square off with the Vanderbilts of the state high school basketball scene?
McCoy learned to take his inquisitors in stride and respond with a smile.
"Because we just got tired of playing y'all!"
It was a year ago that McCoy's Trojans became the first Pasadena ISD team, on either the boys or girls side, to compete in the Division 1 half of the Texas Invitational – a division that has regularly produced state champions and showcased top talent during the tournament's 17-year history.
When the 18th edition of the Texas Invitational tips off on Nov. 17, South Houston will return to the ranks of Division 2. But McCoy says he'll never forget the experience of competing in Division 1 and that he'll always appreciate the positive impact it had on his team.
"It turned out to be huge for us," McCoy says. "It was the springboard that got us where we wanted to be."
The Trojans dropped their first four games in the tournament, losing to Class 6A powerhouses Richardson, Fort Bend Marshall, Duncanville and Kingwood. Still, three of the four losses were by respectable margins. And the Trojans capped off the tournament with a 19-point victory over C.E. King.
Dividends from that experience began to show up about a month later when the Trojans reeled off six consecutive victories. Then, after a District 22-6A loss to Manvel, South Houston won 14 in a row, finished second in the district race with a 14-2 record and then battered Port Arthur Memorial by 24 points in the first round of the state playoffs.
The playoff berth was the sixth for McCoy in his six years at South Houston. But the playoff victory snapped a streak of four consecutive first-round losses.
"It was important for us to get out of that bi-district round," he says. "We had gotten kind of stuck there."
The Texas Invitational features 80 high school teams – 48 on the boys' side and 32 on the girls' – from across the state, all competing over three days at 10 basketball venues around Pasadena and in Deer Park. Competing teams are seeded and placed in two divisions based upon their assigned seed.
It was a little over a year ago that McCoy got a call with an unusual offer. His Trojans, he was told, had just missed the Division 1 cut. However, another team assigned to play in Division 1 had asked to be placed in Division 2. That created an opening.
"I asked our players and told them it was going to be super difficult, but if it was something they wanted to do, it would be a good chance for us to test ourselves." McCoy recalls. "Every one of the kids said, 'Let's go!'"
"I said, 'That's good -- because I already said yes!'"
Says McCoy: "It was important that we do it. It was important because of the stature of the tournament. No team from our school district had ever done that before."
Had McCoy known he would be without his best player, he might have taken a different view.
Nick Hernandez, a three-year letterman and one of the area's best players, was sidelined by illness just before the tournament and didn't return to the court until the end of the year.
"That was the scary part of it -- Nick got sick and couldn't play," McCoy says. "Not having one of your most productive players – that was scary."
McCoy challenged his players to make the best of the situation, to fight through every situation and keep their eye on the ultimate goal – another dash to the state playoffs.
"We told our players that we weren't looking for one guy to give us an extra 10 points a game," McCoy says. "We were looking for eight guys to step up and give us an extra 10 points a game. In the tournament, we knew we would be playing Top 25 teams. We just said, 'Hey, we can do this!'"
Against Richardson, the Trojans faced a 7-foot center. They lost by 12. Against Fort Bend Marshall, they face another huge front line. They lost by eight.
Weary and forced to play an early game the second day, they lost to Duncanville by 22. But the Trojans bounced back against Kingwood, losing by only five. In their Saturday finale, the Trojans crushed C.E. King, 65-46.
"After our experience in the Texas Invitational, adversity wasn't really a problem for us," McCoy says. "We could be facing a really good team, but we always took the approach that they weren't going to be as good as the teams we saw in the Texas Invitational."
A year later, McCoy faces a different situation. South Houston returns only two starters – Jalen Amos and Deontae Johnson. Also back is sixth man Dralyn Brown. Still, no one on McCoy's squad averaged more than five points a game last year.
On top of that, McCoy must wait out the availability of six players coming out of football – re-enforcements that will be delayed even longer because of the Trojan football team's unexpected claim on a state playoff berth.
Of those six players, five are sophomores. But that list includes Torrence Stevens and Ethan Ponce, two of the football teams offensive standouts.
McCoy's roster last year didn't include any football players.
"Last year," he says, "everything broke right for us to do something big and important."
Managing expectations, McCoy says, may be a more difficult task. Still, McCoy says he has no regrets about his team's high altitude foray at the 2015 Texas Invitational.
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TSX-V: DOS August 31, 2012
Update on Dios' 2012 James Bay field work
PORPHYRY TYPE GoLD 33 Carats project returns 60 tonalite samples with disseminated copper sulfides
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Many tonalitic glacial boulders returning between 1.0 and 3.2 g/t Au discovered last Fall by Dios are located up ice of a gold in till train (252-2,090 ppb Au). A new series of reanalyzed tills grabbed for diamond exploration, returned anomalous values of 301, 352, 384, 424, 504, 1320, 2385, 2500 ppb Au in the heavy minerals concentrates which reinforce the well structured gold glacial train.
During the same period, Dios undertook prospecting-mapping on its 14 Karats project located between the Leran- Patamisk lakes, almost 50-75 km NE of 33 Carats. It covers a volcano-sedimentary sequence at the contact of sub-provinces La Grande (equivalent) and Opinaca and up ice of the gold in tills (356, 534, 583, 642, 1160, 2230 ppb Au). Almost 230 rock samples were grabbed and sent to laboratories and was also completed a glacial till sampling (69 samples) program.
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Dios plans other mapping-prospecting work on adjacent gold project LECARON which will target more precisely a sector covering mafics volcanics up ice of gold tills (208, 236, 265, 285, 666, 921, 925, 1035 ppb Au) where 37 rock samples were taken in 2012. A till sampling campaing (20 samples) was undertaken looking for other targets in the same area.
Still in the same area, on Au 33 West gold project, partner Osisko has completed a second year of soil samplings (140 samples of B horizon) and prospecting-mapping (364 rock samples with spectometry-K readings) which targeted porphyric mineralizations in the intrusive rocks. More work is planned for the fall, results pending.
Rock samples were sent to the ALS-CHEMEX laboratories and IOS Géoscientifiques completed glacial till sampling in these area and also completed soil sampling for Dios.
This press release was prepared par M.J. Girard, M.Sc.Geo, 43-101 QP.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Contact :
Marie-Jose Girard, President & CEO
Tel. : (514) 483-5149
Fax : (514) 485-2155
Website : www.diosexplo.com
Forward-Looking Statements: This news release contains discussion of items that may constitute forward-looking
statements within the meaning of securities laws that involve risks and uncertainties. Although the company believes
the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, it can give no
assurances that its expectations will be achieved. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially
from expectations include the effects of general economic conditions, actions by government authorities, uncertainties
associated with contract negotiations, additional financing requirements, market acceptance of the Company's products
and competitive pressures. These factors and others are more fully discussed in Company filings with Canadian securities
regulatory authorities.
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When Gail Davis downloaded Paper Glider on January 22, she probably wasn't expecting to make iTunes App Store history. The UK resident was awarded a $10,000 iTunes gift card for downloading the 10 billionth app from the App Store. Apple (AAPL), of course, is the real winner here. In conjunction with the 10 billionth app […]
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iPad owners have different interests. Weighed against the iPad list, it suggests people use the platforms for different things — namely, e-reading on the iPad, not so much on iPhone (not really shocking when you hold the two products up next to each other). And while iPad has its gaming representation, they're not big, well-known games. StickWars appears lower on the most-downloaded list for iPhone, and if it's the most downloaded game on the iPad, that suggests the platform lacks a "killer app" when it comes to gaming. Seems iPad needs its own Angry Birds.
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Destination travel service provider LazyCat Travel announced that it had received millions of yuan in its series A+ round funding. The round was completed in January and has K2VC, Guojin Capital and Shanghai Jucheng as lead investors.
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I probably eat more during the ride, but that's probably because I will stop at SAGs. Do you carbo load for a ride or maybe add a few more carbs/calories the day before a long, hard ride?
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I received an email asking about my pre-ride, intra-ride and post-ride nutrition/supplements for a 100 mile ride like the Horrible Hundred, which I did this past Sunday (see "Ride report: 2014 Horrible Hundred"). I thought I'd answer that excellent question in this morning's blog.
I need to point out that my intra-ride nutrition will vary quite a lot depending on the conditions (course difficulty, pace, temperature and so on), but my pre-ride and post-ride routine doesn't vary too much at all.
In the heat of the Florida summer I require more fluids, carbohydrates and electrolytes during the ride than I do during the cooler months. I'll touch on that a bit towards the end of the article, but for now I'm going to focus on exactly what I consumed before, during and after the 2014 Horrible Hundred.
Note: for a detailed look at my supplement and indoor bike equipment shelves, check out this recent article.
4:30 AM / Breakfast: (1) cup (before cooking) Quaker Old-Fashioned Oats, (1) Large Banana, (3) cups strong black coffee, 40 ounces water, (1) Kirkland Daily Multi, (2) Kirkland Fish Oil, (2) Nature Made Triple Flex, (1) Jarrow Formulas Milk Thistle
6:30 AM / Pre-ride: (1) Clif bar, (4) Sport Legs
7:30 AM / Ride Start: 50 ounces plain water, 25 ounces Gatorade, consumed while riding
8:30 AM / Mile 21: (1) GU energy gel
9:30 AM / Mile 44: (4) Sport Legs, (1) GU energy gel
10:30 AM / Mile 63: (1) Clif bar
11:30 AM / Mile 82: (4) Sport Legs, (1) SaltStick capsule, (1) GU energy gel
12:30 PM / Mile 102: Ride end, 25 ounces water, sipped during drive home
1:15 PM /Post-ride : Ultimate Recovery Smoothie
Of course the recovery process is not complete until I have my post-ride dinner, which is usually pizza and beer. Don't argue, it's science.
So, during the almost 5 hour / 102 mile / 5,200 feet elevation ride that's a total caloric intake of 3 GU Gels, a Clif bar and 25 ounces of Gatorade, which amounts of about 720 calories. I find this to be sufficient for a ride of this type, provided that I'm not in a caloric deficit and have been eating at, or above, maintenance level in the days preceding the event. When I'm actively cutting body fat and in a caloric deficit, however, I require more intra-ride nutrition to avoid bonking.
I definitely perform best with a light load on my stomach, and that's why I eat most of my pre-ride calories 2-3 hours in advance of the ride, and keep my intra-ride calories as low as possible. I'd rather have my blood shuttling oxygen to my muscles instead of working on digestion.
When it's hot outside I consume roughly the same amount of gels and Clif bars, but I will consume more SaltStick capsules (about 1 per hour), Gatorade and water.
I probably eat more during the ride, but that's probably because I will stop at SAGs. Do you carbo load for a ride or maybe add a few more carbs/calories the day before a long, hard ride?
I've experimented with carb loading in the days leading up to big rides, and I've never noticed any appreciable increase in performance. The only time I've seen benefit from carb loading is when I'm eating under maintenance, then it helps. When my nutrition is already on-point and at (or above) maintenance, I do just fine with my regular healthy diet.
John, Thanks again for sharing all your research.
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Quick Gameplay Thoughts: July 6
Hi folks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Usual Disclaimers** These posts will often contain talk about future work we're doing, or planning to do, that isn't yet guaranteed to ship. The nature of the work could change or, depending on what we discover, projects mentioned may get put delayed or even stopped. If you'd like to see a Tweet whenever a new one of these posts goes up: https://twitter.com/RiotMeddler ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Impact of 8.13b** We've been looking at the impact of the mini patch from earlier this week (8.13b). Looking reasonable so far, with moderate amounts of power as hoped added to Trist, Cait and Varus. We're keeping an eye on Aatrox, since we're starting to see some really strong performances from him on players who've got passed the initial learning curve. Also watching a couple of ADCs who were doing well before the changes who've benefited a bit from the Stormrazor change (e.g. Draven). No immediate plans to make changes to them, but want to make sure we haven't over buffed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Lissandra** As mentioned previously we've been testing a new Lissandra passive internally for a couple of weeks. It's been going fairly well, so figured I'd share a look at it as a result, despite some risk it still might not work out. Given this is still earlier in testing I've also omitted some numbers and those that are listed are more to give an example of how it works than because they're necessarily what could ship. "Iceborn When a champion Lissandra has damaged within the last 3 seconds dies they become a Frozen Statue. Frozen Statues slow nearby enemies by 30%. After 2.5 seconds Frozen Statues shatter, dealing X (+Y AP ratio) magic damage to nearby enemies." Intent is to help Lissandra's contributions to multi enemy fights after she's used her initial CDs. Use cases include getting a zone of control after diving in and killing a backline target and helping zone enemies after killing enemy divers or other front line. Doesn't have as much impact early game, but has proven useful in some early 2v2s when both junglers show up and early objective fights. If going ahead with it would be paired with some mana cost reductions to her kit. Statues also count as terrain, so they'll both block pathing slightly and can be combo'd with things like Gnar ult, Poppy E etc. In terms of time frame, we'll probably have a clear enough read on whether the gameplay's solid pretty soon, so will likely make a call on whether or not to go ahead within a week or two. One of the downsides of changing abilities like this however is that, where it's a big departure from previous functionality, there's a need for a bunch of art and audio work. Not sure yet what the likely timeframe on that would be, would take a while though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- **More 8.14 changes to hit the PBE today/next week** For anyone wondering why the PBE's been pretty quiet and where followup changes to various mages stuff's still coming. Should be some more balance changes to champions getting into the patch today and in the first half of next week. Since 8.13-8.14 is a 3 week patch we've been taking some time earlier in the cycle to work on other things, champ changes still coming though. http://ddragon.leagueoflegends.com/cdn/6.24.1/img/champion/Ziggs.png
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Radio in the United States is a forgotten art form. Yet, squeezed historically between the age of the talking film and the ascent of television, radio was once a major medium of news and entertainment, public service and information. Little remains of that era, save nostalgia recordings and old-time-radio programs located here and there on small-wattage FM radio stations.
However, there was much about the golden audio era that was socially and artistically impressive, much that should have transcended the collapse of network radio broadcasting. This was particularly true of the dramatists and their work, the radio play, which on many occasions massaged the emotions and intellect of their audiences. The United States fought a depression and two wars when radio was in its ascendance. And the dramas of writers like Norman Corwin and Arch Oboler and William N. Robson did much to give hope in such troubled times. From the intelligent soap opera that was Sandra Michael's Against the Storm, to Morton Wishengrad's work for The Eternal Light in quest of the meaning of being Jewish in a time of inhuman destruction, radio drama often inspired, challenged, and emboldened its listeners.
Less publicly than these giants of network theatricality—but just as surely as any of them—Richard Durham wrote for Chicago audiences one of the medium's most poignant series. His was only a local program, but its moral message was global. In his series, Destination Freedom, Durham produced radio's most persistent appeal for racial justice.
Durham was African-American, a rare credential for someone allowed to compose social dramas for commercial radio. But for two years in the late 1940s his Destination Freedom presented stirring plays about the enduring struggle of blacks to attain social freedom. Richard Durham and Destination Freedom were unprecedented: Nowhere else in radio history did a single series, written by a single talent over as long a period, project such a strident reminder of liberties denied and rights abused.
This book assembles some of his most memorable scripts. In the process, it is hoped that modern readers will gain insight into a uniquely passionate writer who used the aural medium to articulate themes still timely. It is hoped, too, that this compilation of scripts will remind those who had forgotten, and inform those who never knew, that once there was radio drama and it could inspire—dramatically so.


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Tonight I finally decided to get off my ass and do some work. Granted, not the school work I should be desperately diving into, but spiritual work, which I feel is as much needed right now as the other. I had recently found a groundhog skull and had received in the mail a red fox skull and a coyote skull. That, combined with the cat skull, magpie wing, and random other things I own, made me realize I really needed to do a good blessing tonight.
I first set everything up over the night and gathered what I thought I'd need. I have a few altar/shrines set up in my room. My large altar is definitely an altar, a working space and an area meant to call the Presences and where my ritual tools sit. Granted, while not a tiny area, I do have quite a bit on there, so I also will use the floor around it or a little tv stand next to it (the big altar is in the tv area of an entertainment system that I used to store all my witchy goodies). I have an altar/shrine to Hekate, in the sense that it works as both a permanent home to honor her as well as part of it being a work space, and then I have a shrine to honor my ancestors (I also can honor them at my large altar, and so I consider that an area where I'd work with the ancestors more actively, where the shrine is definitely a place for honoring instead of working).
I put on a spiritual play mix on my computer (which sits in the same room) and lit up all the candles and some incense and fumigated the area with it's delicious muskiness. I called the Presences and lit Hekate's area. I made holy water and washed all the skulls in it, washed my charms and fetishes and sprinkled my feathers with the water. I wrapped the skulls up and set them up on my altar while I continued, rubbing anointing oil and oil for the dead along with various other oils for poisonous magical allies when necessary. My new blade and my wand were anointed, as were my deity statues and all of the wonderful dead things. I did my best to empower and connect with each item, although I am still working on this process. As I made the bones home for allies, I made sure to specify that they would be the spirits of those animals who were friendly (at least, I tried to make sure I communicated that). This night was all about cleansing and consecrating and establishing my connection to the spirits. I am quite exhausted, but I was sleepy beforehand anyway (long day). I'm rather happy that everything seemed to go well, although I did have to calm down the red fox spirit a bit, but I hope I managed. The coyote grinned at me, he'll be a welcome handful. The cat I've had for years, and I'm pretty sure will always be with me. I have two more skulls on the way, 2 deer, as well as a few goodies incoming from various places, some of these I will need to cleanse and consecrate, and some I'll just need to connect with myself.
I also experimented with my first wood burning today. I'm not very good but I definitely could be doing worse. Anyway, I'm off to bed. I'll post altar pictures soon! Just too darn tired tonight to do much or care much after all that.


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SYNOPSIS:Paul (Greg Kinnear) and Jessie (Rebecca Romjin-Stamos) are devastated when their 8-year old son Adam (Cameron Bright) is killed in a freak accident on his birthday. When a distant acquaintance, Dr Richard Wells (Robert De Niro) approaches them with a cloning proposition, they eventually agree, despite knowing the risks and the legal/moral realities. Wells is anxious to prove his groundbreaking work in genetic engineering but what the traumatised parents can't know is what will happen when their replica son turns eight.
Review by Andrew L. Urban:Send in the clones is the appropriate theme song for this underwhelming attempt at psychological thrills; it ends up like any mass produced genre piece in which the only thing that is well developed is the film negative. Yes, it looks great. The script begins by posing the premise: what if your beloved son was killed and I could clone him for you so you had him back. The legal, moral and practical issues are indeed sensational material, a great and timely idea to explore.From this point, both the screenplay and the direction start to fray. The screenplay adds a layer of totally B grade supernatural, and the direction lacks any connection with the realities of the situation. Rapidly skimming through the plot points, Nick Hamm forgets to even hint at how or where Dr Wells obtains dead Adam's cells for the cloning. Later in the film we realise there is a reason for this evasion, and it has to do with a pathetic plot twist.Once Paul and Jessie agree to the highly secret and illegal plan, they have to start a new life on the Dr's extensive lakeside estate, severing all ties with family, friends and work. Snap your cinematic fingers and hey presto.More speed as we get past the pregnancy and birth, and wheee, now it's the replica Adam's 8th birthday again. It's fine that he looks 8, but his parents must have aged another eight years and nine months. Doesn't show. Indeed, nothing has changed in their lives in that time.There's also a nanny who confesses attempted murder to Paul when he comes knocking on her door, even though she's never laid eyes on him before, and in her confession she reveals information about a dead woman killed by her son, which only the dead woman could have known. Now I know there are strange bumps in the night in this film, and some para-normal activity is thrown around as part of mystification of the audience, but this nice nanny is not meant to be a seer.The script is so unrestrained that it just stumbles over every trap that it sets itself. Had common sense prevailed, this premise could have been teased out with vigour, drama and tons of emotional, moral cross roads to make us think and feel and struggle with the complex issues involved. It has dumbed itself down, star-cast itself up, and comes out like a sausage - without the sizzle.Review by Louise Keller:With its stimulating premise and a strong cast, Godsend offers the kind of elements that could work wonderfully - or not. The central premise of playing God raises powerful legal and moral issues, while the human drama evolving from the loss of a child offers turbulence at the most personal level.The genre is drama, thriller and horror, but director Nick Hamm only succeeds in part when it comes to the horror elements. That's when he appears to be in his element and instills a chilling mood, and doing so, excels at making us feel uneasy. But the script and storytelling is unconvincing and manipulative: we are told things, rather than allowed to feel what the characters are feeling. At times, events seem ridiculous, and badly formulaic. And much is done for effect only. Rather than the story evolving naturally, I found myself becoming annoyed at the many jumps in time, with the inclusion of token, often simplistic scenes. There's the scene showing the medical procedure; then we see the new house and an obviously pregnant Jessie sitting on the floor, surrounded by Adam's photos. We then cut to the delivery room, and suddenly it is eight years later. Of course Adam looks the same, but he has conveniently been given a different, severe haircut, for a vaguely demonic appearance.Grief is hard to watch, and in the early scenes when husband and wife experience the despair that losing a child brings, it is easy to connect on an emotional level. Greg Kinnear brings great depth to his devoted family man, traumatised by events, and becoming increasingly resentful of the importance Robert De Niro's brilliant doctor/scientist Dr Richard Wells plays in his family's life. Kinnear is everyman, and his sincerity rings true: it is through his eyes and heart that our emotions are considered. De Niro has the presence to carry off the role, and we are left with an effective image of his juggling the chiming, eastern meditation balls in the palm of his hand, as if juggling fate. Rebecca Romijn-Stamos shows that she can be more than just a pretty face as Jessie, while nine-year-old Cameron Bright (The Butterfly Effect) is haunting as Adam. Bright successfully conveys plenty through his almond-shaped eyes and expressive face, alternating easily between likeable and evil.Godsend is a bit of hit and miss. More miss, than hit. When it's good, it's creepy; when it's not, we hope the film will end quickly.
CRITICAL COUNTFavourable: 0Unfavourable: 2Mixed: 0
CAST: Greg Kinnear, Rebecca Romjin-Stamos, Cameron Bright and Robert De Niro
PRODUCER: Cathy Schulman, Sean O'Keefe, Marc Butan
DIRECTOR: Nick Hamm
SCRIPT: Mark Bomback
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Kramer Morgenthau
EDITOR: Steve Mirkovich ACA, Niven Howie
MUSIC: Brian Tyler
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Doug Kraner
RUNNING TIME: 112 minutes
AUSTRALIAN DISTRIBUTOR: Hoyts
AUSTRALIAN RELEASE: July 8, 2004


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Acorn employees were taped giving advice on tax avoidance and employment of 13-year-old illegal immigrants to Right-wing activists posing as brothel owners.
"It is clear that Acorn's affiliation with the 2010 census promotion has caused sufficient concern in the general public, has indeed become a distraction from our mission, and may even become a discouragement to public cooperation, negatively impacting 2010 census efforts," said Robert Groves, the census director.
Acorn - the Association of Community Organisations for Reform Now - is a poverty action group with over 400,00 members that pushes for better housing, government grants and voters registration.
The group became a controversial 2008 election issue after investigations showed that employees submitted dozens of false voter registration forms, including some with names such as Mickey Mouse.
Mr Obama, however, vigorously defended Acorn, saying last year: "I come out of a grassroots organising background.
"I've been fighting alongside Acorn on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, Acorn was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work."
Bertha Lewis, Acorn's chief organiser, said the sting was an attempt to smear Mr Obama. "It is no coincidence that the most recent attacks have been launched just when health care reform is gaining traction."
She added: "We are the boogeyman for the Right wing and its echo chambers."
Republicans had become increasingly critical of the census's ties with Acorn in conducting the 2010 census, which carried major political ramifications because it helps determine the allocation of congressional districts.
Activists James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles posed as a pimp and a prostitute and used a hidden camera to film themselves being advised by Acorn employees in Baltimore.
The undercover videotapes were posted on the BigGovernment.com website and then broadcast by Fox News.


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Knowing the beaches are a popular place on the holiday weekends, we went out early today before the crowds arrived. We weren't there long before families began to arrive for the day.
And lots of sailboats, jet skis, and parasails-
I spent a lazy day stretched out soaking up the sun, showing off my freshly painted toenails with bright Ragin' Cajun polish.


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Ending the Demand
It is the demand for women and children for commercial sex that is fueling sex trafficking. CATW is a leading architect of the end demand strategy to end human trafficking. CATW and our partners carry out groundbreaking programs to train youth, teachers, professionals, police, governmental authorities and the public about the harm of sexual exploitation and to prevent women and children from becoming victims.
CATW is a chief promoter of the Nordic Model, the world's first human rights based legal approach to ending human trafficking. It is the world's first law to recognize prostitution as violence against women and a violation of human rights. It criminalizes the purchase of commercial sex and offers the exploited an exit strategy. The Nordic Model originated in Sweden (1999), and has been passed in the Republic of Korea (South Korea, 2004), Norway (2009), and Iceland (2009).
- A Conversation Among Men About Sex Trafficking
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- Third session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
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America's Voice En Español »
Miller's Support for White Supremacist Groups Puts Spotlight on the Foundations and Donors Who Fund Them
An Opportunity for Jared: Texas Landowners Not Happy with Trump's Attempt to Seize Their Property for the Border Wall
Report Reveals Forcing Asylum Seekers to Wait in Mexico is a Humanitarian Catastrophe Created by the Trump Administration
The gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virginia offer two different models for the national Republican Party on immigration reform and outreach to Latino voters. Governor Chris Christie (R-NJ) is pro-immigrant and doing well. Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R-VA) is anti-immigrant and heading towards defeat. The results should speak loudly to a Republican Party that is deciding whether to embrace or reject immigration reform this year, and contemplating its chances in 2014 and 2016.
See below for a snapshot of Chris Christie and Ken Cuccinelli on immigration reform and Latino voter outreach:
Chris Christie: Pro-Immigration Reform with Dedicated Latino Outreach Strategy
Ken Cuccinelli: Driving Away Latino Voters with a Hard-line Immigration Stance
According to Frank Sharry, Executive Director of America's Voice:
The contrast is stark. Chris Christie is drawing on the tradition of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush by reaching out to Latino voters and supporting positive immigration reforms. He is on his way to winning a stunning victory in a blue state, which could catapult him to the front of the pack for the 2016 presidential race. Ken Cuccinelli is drawing on the tradition of Mitt Romney, Pat Buchanan and Steve King by alienating Latino voters with harsh anti-immigrant stances and statements. He is on his way to a historic defeat.
A word of caution is in order for Governor Christie and the GOP, however. As Senator John McCain found out in 2008, having a good individual record on immigration cannot overcome the damage done by a tarnished Republican brand that is associated with hostility toward Latinos and opposition to immigration reform. Speaker of the House John Boehner, along with a couple of influential Virginians – Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and Judiciary Committee Chair Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) – should take heed. How they handle immigration reform in the coming weeks and will not only influence the party's prospects in 2014, it may well determine whether the eventual 2016 GOP presidential nominee, no matter who it is, will be able to compete seriously for Latino voters.
Tomorrow, Latino Decisions, America's Voice and People For the American Way (PFAW) will release a new election-eve poll of Virginia Latino and Asian voters, assessing attitudes about the current immigration debate and how both candidates' positioning on this issue have impacted these voters' political decisions. Starting tomorrow, data on voters' attitudes on key immigration policy issues will be released on a rolling basis. Latino Decisions, PFAW, and America's Voice will first release the issue questions from this poll of 400 Asian and 400 Latino "extremely likely" voters in Virginia. Candidate selection data will also be available to reporters under embargo until 7pm Eastern if requested (please email firstname.lastname@example.com to receive embargoed data). The data will then be made public as the polls close in Virginia that night. On Wednesday, November 6th at 12pm ET, pollsters, civic engagement leaders and immigration experts will then analyze the full results on a press call/webinar (dial-in and webinar instructions available HERE).


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