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I'll take Things Gordon Beckham likes for $400 Alex:
A self-described Southern boy who loves sweet tea, barbecue and hunting, Beckham grew up in the Buckhead section of Atlanta and still calls the area home. His parents, mom Sully and dad Gordon, met in college at South Carolina, where he played quarterback and she was a cheerleader. He has two sisters: Gwen, 20, a junior at Georgia, and Grace, 17, a high school junior. The family came to Chicago when Beckham first was called up and plans another trip later in the season. In the meantime, they all will meet up in Hilton Head, S.C., during the All-Star break.

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www.ahusuk.org was a key part of the work of aHUSUK from 2011 until 2016 , when aHUSUK was wound up.
Its members at the final AGM asked for the website to be kept as a legacy of that period when a minority of UK aHUS patients worked together to get the access to the treatment and specialised service that aHUS patients enjoy today. Without them many more would be living on dialysis now and in the future.
As Professor Tim Goodship once said "… a patient-family support charity (aHUSUK) has played a pivotal role in lobbying for improved understanding of the disease and better care for those affected."
But that challenge has been met and the UK now has a world class service for aHUS
So the time has come to bring the curtain down on this website and its activities and pass the torch on to others , where those new to aHUS, or who want to learn more about what is happening in the UK as far as aHUS is concerned, can go for assistance and information.
- The National Renal Complement Therapy Centre's website has news and information about aHUS and the NHS specialised service for aHUS. Click here
- Kidney Research UK , the partner for Answers for aHUS has information about aHUS and research into the disease on its website Click here
- Rare Renal has a Rare Disease Group for aHUS and its webpages have information for clinicians and patients about aHUS registries, research and treatment protocols. For the aHUS pages click here
- aHUS alliance is an international aHUS organisation with news and information about aHUS around the world, and provides a lead on aHUS Awareness Day. Click here.


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Blogher, Part One
July 27, 2009
(Wow. So I originally planned to write about the entire conference in one post. HOURS AGO, I planned that. HOURS, I have been writing this and it really gets away from me at the end and I think I use the word "community" in a totally unironic sense and basically I'm going to publish this and write more tomorrow, because now I have to go punch myself in the neck.)
Part One: Not Off To A Real Brain-Trust-Like Start
I woke up at...oh, 4 A.M. in a dread pirate panic over things I had forgotten to pack. I should point out that I was still at home. And had many, many hours left before my flight to pack these things. No matter, I clearly needed to get out of bed and pack them RIGHT THAT SECOND, or ALL WOULD BE LOST. If a blogger goes to Blogher without her business cards, is she really at there? Does she cease to exist? These are the deep thoughts I had at 4:30 A.M. when I found out that not one, but BOTH of my babysitting leads had fallen through, and that I didn't have a confirmed sitter for the Mamapop party after all.
Some people might think: I know! I shall contact a reputable sitting service in the Chicago area! I shall use my SitterCity account! I shall ask the hotel concierge for recommendations!
I thought of none of those things. I contacted Twitter instead.
I...yeah. I know. I KNOW. Very very bad and irresponsible and boneheaded parenting, finding babysitters on Twitter. Except when you find a babysitter like Annabelle. Who was just SO lovely and sweet and Ezra and I both adored her. (I did like, you know, meet with her ahead of time to get a read on the whole "are you going to steal my baby and/or all the hotel room furniture" thing. She passed! I have terrific instincts.)
Anyway, my Twitter babysitter was totally better than your babysitter. I also remembered to pack my business cards.
Part Two: I'm Sick Of These Motherfucking Babies On This Motherfucking Plane
After reading all of your comments and suggestions for airplane-related entertainment for Ezra, I packed a small treasure trove of crappy cheap toys (and toy-like substances) that he'd never seen before. He ended up playing with 1) the laminated emergency procedures pamphlet, 2) plastic cups from the beverage cart, and 3) Jodi.
Jodi warned me that she was a nervous flyer, so our agreement was that in exchange for the baby-wrangling help, I'd do my best to distract her from the fact that we were in a rickety tin can 37,000,000 miles off the ground.
Problem solved!
Part Three: I Went To Blogher & All I Got Was Your Elbow In My Face
After getting to Chicago and to the hotel and into my hotel room and meeting my lovely roommate and eating a burger topped with cheddar cheese AND bacon cheddar cheese sauce and watching my baby sneeze hamburger meat directly into my lovely roommate's face, I was already Hearing Things About Swag. My Twitter stream was full of swag bag descriptions and people were whispering stories about other people getting gross and ugly and grabby and ditching parties as soon they got a bag and pwning wristband systems in order to steal more swag. I mentioned that last year I brought home 1) a tire pressure gauge, 2) a bottle opener keychain and 3) a magic 8 ball. I was informed that this year was PROBABLY going to be a little different.
I stuck Ezra in a sling and decided to check out the People's Party. It was loud. And crowded. Insanely crowded. By the time I filed into the room and realized OH MY GOD, the room was easily three times too small for the number of people crushing through the door, I was kind of stuck. I spent a few bewildered moments shouting at people I knew before I realized what a huge mistake it was, bringing Ezra in there, and that I absolutely had to leave. This realization was cemented when someone abruptly pushed past me towards the swag bags, I saw Ezra's head kind of...jerk to the side, and when I looked down at him his eyes were wide with surprise...and fear...AND PAIN. He dissolved into a wail.
People, someone goddamn elbowed my baby in the face. While rushing for SWAG. At a party sponsored by freaking PBS Sprout.
At the time, I 100% totally and completely blamed myself. I was horrified that I'd unwittingly brought my baby to a party where he wasn't SAFE. I mean, Twitter babysitters aside (which...you know I'm taking a little creative license with that, as I absolutely would never leave him with someone who I didn't believe was responsible and trustworthy), I take my care of my little people very seriously. I felt stupid for even thinking that this was a good idea. And I left, taking my own swag bag only after Jenny insisted I take one. ("But I'm not staying! Is that okay?") I Twittered about being stuck alone in the hotel room feeling sorry for myself, too embarassed to admit that my baby got hurt because I wanted to wear a pretty dress and get a drink ticket.
Part Four: We Used To Blog Uphill In The Snow, Both Ways, Hand-Coding CSS Until Our Fingers Bled, And We Liked It
I still blame myself, in part. The room was crowded and hard to navigate and while Ezra wasn't the only child there, I was asking too much of him, after a long day of travel and super-short naps and a heapload of sensory overload. And really, he's FINE. He's not bruised, he didn't get a black eye, maybe the mystery elbower had to pee, or something. Once we got back to the hotel room he was all smiles.
But as the weekend progressed and the swag thing turned into a Swag Thing (to the point that I commented how nice it was, since I didn't miss Noah as much I thought I would, what with being surrounded by toddlers), the Elbow Incident became oddly emblematic of the whole attitude. People completely disregarding other people's personal space and hard work (seriously, planning those parties takes EFFORT, you guys) and just goddamn common decency. Would let your kid show up at a birthday party, grab a handful of cake and a goodie bag and leave? Would you let him cheat at the games at Chuck E. Cheese, just so he could get more crappy prize tickets? Would you sit by and let her bitch on Christmas about not getting the gift she REALLY wanted, or whine that the gifts she got didn't cost enough?
God. I feel old and finger-waggy, but get a fucking grip, people.
And yet.
I've gone on some nice trips, I've gotten some really nice gifts from companies, I've gotten laughably bad product pitches that I would never in a million years want or use or "review." I've alternated between being delighted by the attention and annoyed by the way it's changed our community, I've struggled to keep that balance between wanting my blog to be "successful" and wanting my blog to be...you know, MY STUPID LITTLE BLOG.
And yet, even I need the occasional dose of perspective.
When I started writing online, signing up for a brand-new service called "Typepad," nobody really liked the word "blog." The people I read wrote journals or diaries. There was a still a wide gap between the two groups, a definite sense of old guard vs. new upstarts. Moveable Type was taking over the old hand-coded clunky sites, your free blogging platforms were Diaryland or livejournal or Blogger and when Diary-X went down, people lost everything because the entire service existed on one dude's hard drive that he'd forgotten to back up. Oh, man. There were A-listers and people who wanted to be the A-listers and people who spent most of their time complaining about the A-listers. People fretted over whether the new generation of "bloggers" were ruining the community, now that it was so easy to start a site. If you had your own site the hosting could cost you a fortune, since there was no Flickr or Vimeo, but there was still endless debate over whether an Amazon Wish List or PayPal Donate button made you a tacky sellout. Are bloggers even writers? Are all web writers bloggers? No! Yes! Sometimes!
When Google text ads started showing up on PERSONAL WEBSITES, the wank level went through the roof.
In summary: six short years on the Web and I'm a freaking dinosaur, apparently, but I guess my point is that there has always been something threatening the community. We have been on the brink of sellout-y destruction for as long as I've been doing this, and I'm pretty sure me and my weirdly-named blog and TWOP-aping writing style were once considered harbingers of literary doom and made fun of on some old-skool message board. Now we all just get to overreact on Twitter.
In other words, it's all going to be okay, as long as we at least stop elbowing each other in the face.
(I promise this entry is the only one where I'll get preachy and philosophical about Blogher. I had a fantastic time and did a shitload of stupid things that did not involve people beating up babies for free pens.)


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Obama on DC Vouchers. No 'June Surprise.'
Reports circulated yesterday that President Obama had reached an agreement with House speaker John Boehner (R‑OH) and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I‑CT) to not only sustain the DC school voucher program for another few years but to eliminate the legislative cap on student enrollment—theoretically allowing it to grow without limit. Based the program's performance to date, this would dramatically improve the graduation rate city‐wide, likely boost performance academically, and save hundreds of millions of dollars from the bloated DC K12 budget.
But I didn't write about it, because I didn't believe it. Sure enough, later in the day, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan offered a clarification. Far from allowing unlimited growth in the program, the president only intended to allow another 85 students to participate — and still opposes the program in principle.
There is simply no way — no way — that President Obama could support an unlimited expansion in this successful, fantastically cost‐effective education program. If he did, he would demoralize the most powerful force within the Democratic Party, the teachers' unions, in the run‐up to this fall's election. Clearly he has no intention of doing that, given his recent advocacy of using federal dollars to grow the public school workforce (despite the fact that public school employment has already grown 11 times faster than enrollment over the past four decades).
We have a president who, for political reasons, cannot throw his full support behind the only federal education program in the nation's history that is constitutional, successful, and cost‐effective.


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(e): Estimate. (f): Forecast. *2019 year runs from 1st April 2019 to the 31st March 2020.
- Large oil reserves (6% of world total)
- Accumulation of substantial external surpluses managed by the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) sovereign wealth fund, which holds USD 580 billion, equivalent to 490% of GDP
- Political obstacles to structural reforms
- Business climate and competitive context could be improved
- Location in a region of geopolitical tensions, specifically regarding its proximity to Iran and Iraq
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Growth conditioned by oil prices
Largely dependent on oil market conditions, the economy is expected to expand for the second year running in 2019 on the back of high oil prices. The oil industry (50% of GDP) will remain the primary contributor to the increase in GDP, with 3% growth expected. Increased oil production will also impact external demand by supporting exports. The non-oil sector is expected to grow robustly too, thanks notably to the services sector (especially telecommunications), but also the manufacturing industry. Despite a relatively moderate increase in wages at the end of 2018, private consumption is expected to continue expanding briskly in 2019. Driven by strong household confidence and an employment rate at a four-year high, consumption will benefit the services and automotive sectors. Low inflation, thanks to the decision to postpone the introduction of VAT until 2021 and the fall in rental and food prices, will also support consumption. Easy access to home loans, while diverting spending on consumer goods, should boost household investment. Overall, investment is expected to grow strongly. The increase in oil revenues is making it possible to develop public investment through infrastructure projects. Projects worth almost KWD 10 billion (more than USD 30 billion) are to be financed in 2019, mainly in the construction, water and electricity, and chemicals sectors, and will be conducted through public-private partnerships as the government pursues plans to diversify the economy by strengthening the non-oil sector.
Return to a balanced government primary budget before transfers to the Future Generations Fund
The primary balance, which does not take into account the investment income of the sovereign wealth fund (KIA), is expected to return to balance in the 2019/2020 financial year, after several years of deficit. This balance is largely dependent on oil revenues (and therefore on the price of a barrel), which represent nearly 90% of the state's total revenues. High prices in 2019 should compensate for the decision to push back the introduction of VAT until 2021. However, the transfer of 10% of oil revenues to the Reserve Fund for Future Generations Fund (RFFG), which constitutes 85% of the KIA fund, is expected to create a post-transfers primary deficit of about 6% of GDP. The latter, which was largely financed by borrowing, mainly external, but also domestic, until the 2017/2018 fiscal year will likely be financed chiefly by drawing on the General Reserve Fund (more than 3% of GDP, backed by a portion of the sovereign wealth fund's income) in 2019/2020, keeping public debt at a low level. The two main items of government expenditure will again be civil servant salaries (one third of expenditure) and grants (about 25% of expenditure), which should remain at the same nominal level and therefore decrease as a proportion of GDP. Capital expenditure, which represents a lower share, is expected to increase to around 15% of total expenditure, owing to the financing of projects under the Five-Year Development Plan. The largest of these projects will be the new international airport, whose construction, estimated at KWD 400 million, is expected to start in 2019. The overall public balance is largely positive, as it records the investment income of the sovereign wealth fund.
A current account surplus built on oil and investment income
The current account surplus is expected to slightly decline in 2019 from the four-year peak reached in 2018. Elevated oil prices will keep the structural trade surplus high, albeit lower than in 2018, when it was close to a quarter of GDP. Increasing Kuwaiti tourism spendings are expected to widen the services deficit to over 20% of GDP and offset the trade balance. The continued strong current account surplus will therefore be ensured by investment income (around 16% of GDP), which should exceed the largely negative transfer balance, in particular due to remittances from foreign workers (around 11% of GDP) to their home countries. Brisk exports will make it possible to maintain strong foreign exchange reserves (nearly seven months of imports) and ensure the stability of the Kuwaiti dinar, which is pegged to a basket comprising the currencies of the country's main trading partners.
Powers are concentrated around the royal family
The country is a parliamentary monarchy headed by the Al Sabah royal family. The Parliament is composed of 50 members. The continuing tensions between Parliament and the government appointed by Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah over the management of public accounts are expected to be exacerbated in 2019 by high oil prices, which are putting the fiscal consolidation policies into question. In addition, Kuwait signed an agreement in late 2018 with India on the situation of expatriate workers. These workers' living conditions, which have been widely criticised by the international community, should therefore improve in 2019. This will strengthen the country's diplomatic credibility, which will be useful in its role as a mediator in the conflict between Qatar and Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE.
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Rebecca Giggs
Rebecca Giggs writes about ecology and the environmental imagination, animals, landscape, politics and memory. Her essays and stories have appeared in The Best Australian Science Writing, The Best Australian Stories, Aeon, Meanjin and the Monthly. She teaches at Macquarie University in Sydney. Her first book is forthcoming from Scribe.


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Don't fall victim to scams
As much as I have written about scams, I was a victim of two of them recently. Fortunately, I was able to catch the problems in time and have them reversed.
I always check my credit card statements, and I noticed that I had three charges from TURKCELL from Istanbul, Turkey, on a recent statement. Each charge was for $47.70.
I called the credit card company and was told that the charges would be removed. My card would be blocked and a new one reissued.
The credit card companies are well aware of the scams, and are very helpful in assisting their customers in resolving the issue, while still keeping their clients.
I use Google for one of my email accounts, and one day a couple of months ago, I could no longer access my gmail account.
A picture of a man's smiling face and holding a phone to his ear had appeared on the top of my screen not long before that. There was a question mark near it, indicating that it could be a source for help.
I clicked on that icon, and was given a phone number to call.
I called it, and a man with a strange accent answered. He said that they could fix it so that I could get gmail again, with no problem.
As he talked, I could barely understand him. He switched me to another man who was as difficult to understand as the first one.
But they said that they could help, so I stayed on the line, and I did what I had to do to log them in so that they could take over my computer and fix the problem.
He took me to a screen and showed me the list of programs on my computer. I recognized some of them and he pointed out others that were viruses.
Of course, they were using scare tactics to sell their product.
They pointed out the investment that I had in my computer and talked about lifetime protection from viruses that I could purchase for $400. My computer would speed up too, once the viruses had been removed.
I agreed to purchase the protection, and a female technician worked on my computer to get rid of the viruses for the next hour or so. I had to stay close to the phone; she said that she would call me when she wanted me to go back on the computer.
Supposedly the problems were fixed. She set me up with shortcuts to get to my two email accounts, and I was good to go. I had given my credit card numbers to them to purchase the protection.
My computer operated well after that, and I could access my emails again.
However, a couple of weeks later, I had more problems, and I called Jason at Moose-Tec, right here in Moose Lake. I should have taken my computer to him in the first place. He has always answered my questions and fixed any problems that I have brought to him before.
He told me to bring my computer in and he would try to get it ready in time for me to meet my deadlines for submitting stories to the Star Gazette. And he came through; I was able to submit my stories and photos in time.
Jason found 12 viruses that the other company didn't remove from my computer. He also warned me again about those kinds of scams. He said that the company that I had dealt with, Superior Tech Help, did not have good reviews. Other people have had problems with them.
He took care of the problems with my computer and removed the viruses. He said that the icon of the picture of the man holding the phone to his ear had been a virus also.
His charge was just a fraction of what I had been charged before.
My heart sank when I realized that I had been scammed. But I went to the website for Superior Tech Help and sent the company an email to ask for a refund. I wrote that a local technician had found a dozen viruses that their technician had not removed.
I breathed a sigh of relief when I received a reply to that email that the refund would be issued. And I breathed another sigh of relief when I saw the credit on my credit card statement from that company.
My lessons can be everyone's lessons. Check your credit card statements each month for charges that you did not make, and watch out for potential scams like I had been a victim of with technical help.
I received a call from someone else a few weeks later offering the same kind of help. The caller had the same accent, and he used the same script. It was probably from a different company.
He had me go to a certain screen on my computer and asked if there were more than 20 errors and alarms.
When I told him that there were, he used a common American expression that I thought was a little strange. Again, it was a scare tactic.
I hung up on him.
I called Jason and told him about that call and that the caller had shown me the problems that I still had on my computer. I told him what screen the caller had taken me to.
Jason said that was a list of the times that something didn't work right on my computer, and I hadn't been able to assess something at the time. It could have been a problem with a drive or something similar. It wasn't a list of viruses, like the caller had told me.
That really opened my eyes as to the kind of scare tactics that they use. I, like so many others, don't know the difference. We can be easily fooled.
I have learned my lesson once again. Instead of falling into the trap of going to an outside source that you can't trust and that will just take your money without providing much service, I recommend that people call a local technician, like Jason at Moose-Tec.
Jason is very knowledgeable, and he is someone that you can trust. He also makes house calls, if necessary. You don't have to have Internet service from Moose-Tec to use his services.
"It's a nasty world out there," he told me. I am the voice of experience.


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Pine behind Carlton in buyout process
Pine County Administrator Dave Minke introduced the panel and guests attending the flood recovery meeting at the Rutledge Community Center January 17. Among the non-panel members were Pine County Commissioner Curt Rossow of Willow River, Pine County Sheriff Robin Cole representing Pine County Emergency Management and Minnesota House Rep. Tim Faust.
Tom Paull, the new Pine County flood recovery coordinator, spoke first talking about his involvement with the June 2012 flash flood in Moose Lake, where he was on the flood management team. Paull is currently the vice chairman for the regional long-term recovery committee. His office is located in the Moose Lake library building.
Paull said he will need to meet with each individual homeowner and will be attending all the city council meetings to again address the buyout program. He would like to see Pine County residents get started in the buyout process. Residents of Moose Lake are further along in the buyouts.
Kelly Schroeder, the Pine County assessor, has been establishing real estate tax bases for 2014 since January 3. She is re-evaluating damaged homes to see where repairs of structures are currently. Schroeder said this would not be a short process.
Quickstart loans
The Small Business Association (SBA) obligations had closed as of October 17, but they are still asking for applications as there are ways to accept them late in the system. Homeowners are asked to fill out applications with complete honesty when applying for SBA assistance in order to be possibly rejected and able to qualify for Quickstart, according to Dana Rauschnot, from Lakes and Pines Community Action Council, the project manager for homeless dollars and Quickstart.
If eligible for Quickstart, Rauschnot said, owners would then be able to receive up to $40,000 for repairs that would be forgiven if the homeowners stay in their homes the next 10 years. The Quickstart program deadline was extended to January 31. This is the third and last extension by the state. Rauschnot stressed again the need to apply for Quickstart with the looming deadline, despite current qualifications. She said there has been a low response from Pine County.
All funds offered are available to homeowners who stay current on their real estate taxes, mortgages and insurance. For some, this is difficult when living away from the damaged home.
Administration of aid
Lutheran Social Services (LSS) continues to be the administrators of flood relief, helping homeowners work through the processes of applying for the available funds, said Dean Minardi, reconstruction manager for the seven-county area from LSS. Minardi said LSS helps identify home damages and the possible pools of money that can be accessed to pay for the damages. Their regional and state case managers help flood victims through the whole process. Together, the homeowner and LSS look at whether or not the home can be fixed and, if so, attempt to get the home back to pre-flood conditions. Tim Holmstead of LSS, disaster case manager hired for residential properties, can be contacted at (218) 485-1409 and is located at 316 Elm Avenue in Moose Lake.
Homeowners who do not have working furnaces should contact LSS. "We want to make sure people are safe," said Holmstead. Ovens are not adequate, and small heaters corrode and start fires. To help make the recovery process easier, LSS asks homeowners to register online at http://floodhomeswithhope.org/ or call (218) 499-9480.
There will be no general funding available to help with non-homestead properties such as cabins. However, those properties do qualify for the buyout. Owners of rental properties and homesteaded residential properties qualify for all available funding and programs. Renters qualify as long-term residents. Landlords could qualify for repairs. Fifty percent of the properties affected by the flash flood were homesteaded.
A question was raised about wells and septics. Insurance does not generally cover them as they are underground. Some homes still have no water. Minardi said they have helped with some wells.
The panel stated, "If you even have a 1 percent chance of wanting the buyout available, you should sign up for it." The panel encouraged everyone to at least fill out all applications to be in the system before the deadlines.
There are two types of buyouts. FEMA is the first program that Jen Nelson of Homeland Security Emergency Management (HSEM), the state hazard mitigation officer representing the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant program, works with. The second buyout is by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Buyouts do not apply to historical properties.
Nelson emphasized applying for a buyout is voluntary. First, there needs to be a declaration of 50 percent or more damage. The county will work with the state and federal governments in the buyouts. Paull will be looking to connect with homesteaded property owners who apply first, followed by non-homestead property owners.
Nelson said they are hoping for no more then a 90-day time line for individuals from start to finish. Once grants are signed, property titles turned over and the money paid, the homeowner has two weeks to move, and the property would be demolished in 90 days. Homeowners are asked not to start demolition of their own property. The land will then be returned to a natural state.
Homeowners cannot get back any improvements invested with their own money but may possibly take improvements with them as long as the improvements are not resold. Homeowners must also prove any funding received was put into the home in order to retrieve it back on the buyout. Assessment of the property, Nelson stated, can be done by an independent, certified appraiser if a homeowner does not agree with the amount offered. The buyout programs do not cover personal losses.
Nelson explained a homeowner does have the option to refuse the buyout at any point in the process until the check is cashed.
FEMA requires participation in a FEMA-funded buyout project to be strictly voluntary and requires the city to notify all potential participants that neither the state of Minnesota nor the municipality will use its eminent domain authority to acquire the property for open purposes should negotiations fail, according to the front page of the buyout form.


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Maritime piracy returned from days of old to become a front-of-mind issue for governments, shipping companies, cruise lines, energy firms, global conglomerates and—perhaps most immediately—for sailors in the earliest part of the 21st Century. Since then, while some former piracy hot spots aren't as "hot" as they once were, the criminal phenomenon has persisted and spread globally.
When CNBC first examined the world's most dangerous waters in 2008, Somalian pirates operating in the Gulf of Aden and coastal Somalia easily dominated as the globe's most prolific, according to data compiled by the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre. Somalia and the Gulf of Aden still have treacherous waters, but no longer the worst: Over the last five quarters, examined here, a new country's national waters have become the most heavily pirated on earth.
Also changed are the tactics used to combat piracy. National navies have become much more active in the fight against piracy, and commercial tankers and cargo vessels increasingly employ armed security—a concept that was rare and even discouraged in many maritime circles as recently as 2008.
As may be expected, however, as greater arms have come to bear against the pirates, the maritime brigands have honed their tactics and beefed up their armament as well. Read on here, have a look at the world's most pirate-infested waters, and learn about individual attacks from each area.
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A 911 call made by David Hasselhoff's daughter over Thanksgiving weekend features a frantic Hayley Hasselhoff, 17, telling authorities her "Baywatch" dad "collapsed," sending the actor to the hospital for the fourth time in the past two years.
"My dad just…he's collapsed," a crying Hayley, 17, says on the 911 call. "He's standing up but he keeps falling back down…But then he got back up and he's fine."
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"It's kind of scaring me," Hayley says on the tape, obtained by People.com.
Hasselhoff, who has endured a longtime struggle with alcoholism, was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Nov. 27. Both the hospital and reps for the "America's Got Talent" host declined to explain why Hasselhoff made the hospital trip.
Hasselhoff's attorney Mel Goldsman said the actor is doing "fine."
"If he were close to death, he wouldn't be home right now recording songs with his daughters," Goldsman said.
Hasselhoff, 57, shot to fame as a shirtless lifeguard on "Baywatch" and can now be seen judging musical wanna-bes on the hit TV show "America's Got Talent."


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- The Harvard men's tennis team defeated Radford, 4-3, Thursday evening at the Murr Center Tennis Courts. The Crimson improve to 6-4 on the season with the win while the Highlanders drop to 2-7.
Harvard claimed a 1-0 lead going into singles play by winning two of the three doubles matches. Aba Omodele-Lucien and Christo Schultz picked up an 8-5 victory at the No. 1 position. Schultz closed out the match by serving up three aces in the final game. Alistair Felton and Andy Nguyen also won by the score of 8-5 at the No. 2 slot.
The doubles point turned out to be a crucial advantage in the match as both squads earned three singles victories. Nguyen grabbed a win at the No. 2 singles spot, 6-4, 6-7, 6-3. Omodele-Lucien cruised to victory in the fourth position, 6-2, 6-2. Schultz picked up Harvard's third singles win of the day with a three-set victory at the No. 6 slot.
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When everyone else wilted, Phil Mickelson hung on.
Coming down Merion Golf Club's devious home stretch, Mickelson played a nervy game and, despite a finishing bogey, grabbed a one-stroke lead at the U.S. Open heading into Sunday.
The fact that Mickelson was the only player under par after three rounds served as testament to the difficulty of a course whose final five holes squeezed bogey after bogey out of the golfers atop the leaderboard.
"I had to be really patient not to force the issue and fight for par out there," Mickelson said. "This is a really fun challenge. It is a hard challenge but it is really fun."
Among the other top golfers on Saturday, Charl Schwartzel and Hunter Mahan bogeyed Nos. 17 and 18, falling into a tie for second at even par. Luke Donald gave away three strokes in those two holes to finish at one over.
"It's all about patience, isn't it?" Mahan said. "You've just got to hang in there. You've got to fight."
Headed the opposite direction, Steve Stricker recorded a 32 on the back nine -- tied for best of the week -- to join Schwartzel and Mahan in second place. Donald, Justin Rose and Bill Horschel, who started the third round tied for the lead, stood tied for fifth, only two strokes back of Mickelson.
Fans cheered the Mickelson when he birdied No. 17, only the fifth player to do so all day. They cheered again as he walked up the 18th fairway, where his solid-looking second shot had the bad luck to dribble into a difficult lie just off the green.
The golfer known as "Lefty," who just missed a par putt on the 18th, has a history of losing tournaments at the very end, so there is still a chance for him to stumble. But on Saturday, no one in the U.S. Open field looked steadier.
"A lot of fun," Mickelson said, looking forward to the final round. "I can't wait to get back out there playing."
The final five holes take toll on leaders | 4:55 p.m.
Merion giveth. And Merion taketh away.
The much-scrutinized site of this year's U.S. Open has -- as expected -- offered players a chance to improve their scores on a string of favorable holes around the turn. But it also serves up an unforgiving final stretch.
As Saturday afternoon turned to evening, one round after another turned chilly in the last five holes, player after player either losing their leads or falling away from the pack.
Hunter Mahan dropped out of first place with bogeys on Nos. 17 and 18, finishing at even par. Same thing happened to another one-time leader, Charl Schwartzel.
Rickie Fowler gave back strokes at Nos. 13 and 15, heading into Sunday at three over.
"There's some tricky pin placements out there every day and that's part of the reason why the scores are where they're at," he said. "You can hit it on the green and there's some tough two putts out there."
How tough are the final five holes at Merion Golf Club?
As the last parings headed home, those holes were playing a combined 2.76 strokes over par. That ranks them as the toughest in the history of the U.S. Open.
Amateur Michael Kim, who went on a tear through the afternoon hours, dropped four strokes at the end to finish the third round at four over.
Not that he seemed to mind much. For awhile, at least, the kid could say he was in a toe-to-toe battle with Mickelson and Luke Donald.
"I kept looking at the leaderboard," he said. "It was so cool to see my name next to those names."
Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy fade away | 4:15 p.m.
With Phil Mickelson looking more and more like the man to beat at this year's U.S. Open, two other big names have played their way out of contention in the third round at Merion Golf Club.
Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy birdied the first hole on Saturday … and tumbled straight downhill from there.
Woods missed too many putts, bogeying Nos. 3, 5, 6, 10, 12, 16 and 18 on his way to a forgettable round, finishing miles off the pace at nine over. McIlroy matched him error for error with a score only slightly better at eight over.
It was Woods' highest total after 54 holes at a U.S. Open.
While the world's two highest-ranked players faded away, there were plenty of marquee golfers ready to fill the void at the top of the leaderboard.
Luke Donald, Charl Schwartzel and Hunter Mahan shared a slim lead at two under. Mickelson and Justin Rose followed one stroke back. Steve Stricker was at even par.
Mickelson threatened to move into a tie for first on the uphill No. 14 hole, hitting a classic Lefty wedge directly on line.
At any other course, the ball might have hit the flagstick and dropped in. But Merion has steel pins -- needed to hold up those funny wicker baskets on top iinstead of a flag -- so the shot clanged away, leaving a short par putt.
Luke Donald, Charl Schwartzel share lead | 3:23 p.m.
A fist pump. A big smile and a tip of the cap.
Phil Mickelson had the looks of a man on the move after scoring his second birdie in a row, moving into a tie for second place at the U.S. Open late Saturday afternoon.
At one under par, Mickelson stood just a stroke behind co-leaders Luke Donald and Charl Schwartzel.
His mini-charge began at the start of the back nine, considered the easiest stretch at Merion Golf Club, "easiest" being a relative term at this year's grueling test of golf's best players.
At No. 10, he hit an uncharacteristically conservative tee shot, a smart play that left him in position to score. Then came another makeable birdie putt on No. 11.
Hunter Mahan enjoyed similar success after the turn with three birdies in a four-hole stretch that left him standing alongside Mickelson at one under. Eight more golfers followed within three strokes of the lead, a tightly packed bunch that included Justin Rose, Ian Poulter and an unexpected name.
Even with a bogey at No. 16, 19-year-old Michael Kim remained stubbornly in contention at one over.
The amateur started Saturday's third round with a bogey on the third hole at Merion, but bounced back with a string of four birdies in five holes on the back nine. Not bad for a young man who finished the second round with modest goals.
"Trying not to think about it too much," he said. "Low expectations and whatever happens."
A native of South Korea, Kim played golf at Torrey Pines High and is now a junior on the California team. Just past 6 p.m. EDT, he was tied for fourth place.
Saturday afternoon saw several players making charges on the back nine. In addition to Kim, Jason Day moved to two over with birdies on Nos. 10 and 13.
Charl Schwartzel claims the lead at one under | 2:22 p.m.
There are two ways to miss a breaking putt.
That would be the high side of the hole or the low side, otherwise known as the "pro" side and the "amateur" side because professionals usually have the confidence to stroke the ball more firmly.
So why are players at this U.S. Open missing on the low side so often? Blame a tough course, tilted greens and the ever-changing weather over the last five days.
"When the greens are very fast like this and you have soft greens that get indentations and spikes and so forth, it's very hard to make putts," Phil Mickelson explained after the second round. "You can't hit them firm enough to hold the line."
On Saturday afternoon at Merion, Mickelson missed low on a putt to save par and Tiger Woods made the same mistake to settle for par on No. 8. Steve Stricker's low-side miss denied him a share of first place on the same hole.
Just past 5 p.m. EDT, Charl Schwartzel held a tenuous lead at one under, with Stricker, John Senden and Luke Donald a stroke back.
Yo, Adrian: The day before the U.S. Open began, Rory McIlroy took a break from preparations to drive into nearby downtown Philadelphia. The reason for his visit? The golfer from Northern Ireland wanted to run up the 72 stone steps in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
That's where Rocky trained before his big bout with Apollo Creed.
"Can't come to Philadelphia and not see the 'Rocky' steps!!" McIlroy tweeted.
With a Phillies cap turned around backward on his head, he paused at the top to strike Sylvester Stallone's iconic pose, arms thrust upward. But at six strokes off the lead on Saturday afternoon, he might need the golf equivalent of a 15th-round knockout to get back into contention.
Luke Donald, John Senden take the lead | 1:25 p.m.
We're halfway through moving day at the U.S. Open, but there hasn't been a whole lot of movement at the treacherous Merion Golf Club.
The U.S. Open tradition of par golf -- or worse -- continued to keep the field in check, with second-round leaders Phil Mickelson and Billy Horschel shifting into reverse, dropping a stroke to stand at even.
Meanwhile, Luke Donald and John Senden transformed birdie putts into a share of the lead at a modest one under par.
Coming into the third round, Mickelson looked at the pin placements and wondered if the course was set up for a few rounds in the mid-60s. Senden certainly started out that way, playing at two under through four holes. And Edward Loar clawed his way back into contention at one over with an eagle and birdie on the front nine.
But most of the field hovered around par as alternating scenes of frustration and small triumph played out across Merion's devilish 111 acres.
Justin Rose briefly moved into a tie for first with a tricky 14-foot putt on No. 4 just as Tiger Woods watched his delicate chip on No. 6 check up short and roll back, setting up a bogey that left him at five over, a backslide of two strokes from his starting point on the day.
Rory McIlroy was faring even worse, standing at six over, and leaving the chances increasingly slim that either of the world's two best players would be a factor in this year's U.S. Open.
As for the rest of the field, they could take solace in the fact that no one had played well enough to pull away. If the whole point of moving day is to put yourself in position for a Sunday afternoon challenge, there were still a dozen players within four strokes of the leaders late Saturday afternoon.
--David Wharton
Phil Mickelson, Billy Horschel begin third round | 12:40 p.m.
Phil Mickelson is on the course at Merion Golf Club and settled at the first hole for what should be the most comforting three words he'll hear all day: "Tap-in par."
Yes, Mickelson just missed his birdie chance at the par-four No. 1 but he'll keep his stress level low if he can keep making easy pars on a course that is spitting out a lot of bogeys during the 113th U.S. Open.
Co-leader Billy Horschel also made par at the first.
Mickelson hit his drive on the par-five second into thick rough, forcing a layup ... into the rough. He chopped his third shot to the green but missed another makeable birdie putt.
It was another solid par but Mickelson knows he could be winning this thing in a runaway if only he had made a few more mid-range putts.
On a course as tough as Merion, though, he's got to keep telling himself that par is OK and wait for the occassional gift.
Mickelson went all day without a birdie in the second round before rolling in a 21-footer at the 18th.
Meanwhile, Horschel hit a perfect drive on No. 2 but shank-hooked his second shot to the left and then chunked his third into the bunker. He made a beautiful up-and-down from there to save par and keep a share of the lead.
Look out for: John Senden. The Australian birdied his first two holes to join the leaders at one under. Senden is a solid ball striker who has been plagued by his putting. So far, so steady. Senden's only win on the PGA Tour was at the John Deere Classic in 2006. He's a four-time winner in international events.
Not so fast on that Tiger Woods-Rory McIlroy charge. Both got tripped up at the sensationally long, 256-yard par-three third hole. Both superstars came up short and missed par putts. McIlroy followed his opening birdie with two bogeys.
Woods was still three over par through four holes, same as he started the day. McIlroy has given back a shot and is four over.
Take your shoes off, but don't relax: Charley Hoffman removed his shoes and rolled up his pants to hit his third shot on the par-five fourth hole. Hoffman then chipped in for a birdie. A birdie at four is some achievement as the 600-plus-yard par-five hole is playing to an average of 5.3 shots this week.
Tiger Woods opens third round with a birdie | 11:45 a.m.
That gulp you just heard might have been from the top of the leaderboard after Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods opened their third rounds with birdies at the par-four first hole.
Woods and McIlroy, the top two ranked players in the world, started the day four shots back of co-leaders Phil Mickelson and Billy Horschel, who completed 36 holes at one-under-par 139.
Woods and McIlroy both made long putts on the first green, Woods holing a tricky, left-to-right, banana-shaped slider.
The second hole, a par five, didn't go so well for McIlroy, who knocked his drive out of bounds and gave a shot back with a bogey six. Woods hit his drive into the rough but ended up saving par.
The guy playing with Tiger and Rory?
His name is so long it has to be hyphenated on the leade board, but family and friends call him Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano, a fine player from Spain with six career wins on the European Tour. He qualified for the U.S. Open by being ranked in the top 60 (he's No. 41) of the Official World Golf Rankings.
Mickelson and Horschel tee off at 2:46 EDT.
Ouch: Sergio Garcia took a six-over 10 on the par-four 15th hole on the heels of two earlier bogeys. Garcia is already eight over for the day, 14 over for the tournament.
Garcia has really had to gut it out this week. There appeared no chance he would make the cut after going double bogey-quadruple bogey on consecutive holes on the front nine during his first round. Garcia, though, used an eagle three on his back nine to rally for an opening-round 73. He matched that with a second-round 73 to make the cut by two shots.
He has heard a few "fried chicken" taunts from the gallery in reference to his recent insensitive comments directed at Woods.
Save to say Garcia can't wait for this weekend to end.
Too bad: For the first time since 1997, none of the 20 players who competed in both local and sectional qualifying made the cut. Blame it on Merion, which played almost a full stroke harder in the secod round (75.1) than it did in the first round (74.3).
Amateur and pros alike feel full force of Merion Golf Club | 10:35 a.m.
Merion Golf Club has not discriminated. It has been an equal-opportunity destroyer. It has taken out young and old, weak and strong, the rich and the poor.
Grayson Murray, 19, shot the worst 36-hole score with rounds of 83-81. He left the course at 24 over par. But he wasn't even the youngest player to miss the cut. That was 18-year-old Gavin Hill, who went out at 11 over.
Don't sweat it guys, because Merion has made the pros look like amateurs.
Jay Don Blake, the oldest player in the field at 54, is also going home after rounds of 74-80. Being elder statesman and shooting 14 over is a lonely feeling.
"I don't know any of the guys walking in and out of the locker room," he said.
The old man didn't need to hang his head, and neither did the kids.
Merion beat the life out of 13 former major champions. You read that right: THIRTEEN.
Graeme McDowell won the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach only two years ago, yet he left Pennsylvania mumbling to himself after missing the cut at 13-over 153.
"It's that hard, it's that difficult, it's that long," McDowell said on his way out the door.
McDowell said the key is not letting one bad weekend wreck your whole summer.
"I'm temporarily dejected," he said.
Another surprise early check out was Jim Furyk, the 2003 U.S. Open winner at Olympia Fields. The course at Merion, less than 7,000 yards, seemed a good fit for the short-hitting Furyk, yet he shot rounds of 77-79.
"I don't think I've played worse for 36 holes," Furyk said.
Other major winners that went home losers: Angel Cabrera, Darren Clarke, Jose Maria Olazabal, Keegan Bradley, Michael Campbell, Y.E. Yang, Stewart Cink, Lucas Glover, David Toms and Zach Johnson.
Those 12 players shot a collective 162 over par.
Louis Oosthuizen, the 2010 British Open champion, withdrew with an injury after an opening-day 75.
Third round is underway with 73 golfers | 9:40 a.m.
Clear the third-round way ... finally!
After two major weather delays on Thursday, the 113th U.S. Open is finally back on track.
Sixty-eight players completed second-round play Saturday morning and 73 players ended up making the cut at eight over par or better.
The second round is official with Billy Horschel and Phil Mickelson sharing the 36-hole lead at one-under-par 139.
Three players are one shot back: Justin Rose, Steve Stricker and Luke Donald. Four players are two shots behind at plus one: Hunter Mahan, Charl Schwartzel, John Senden and Nicolas Cosaerts.
Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy stand at three-over 143 and start the third round tied for 13th.
Players again will tee off at holes Nos. 1 and 11. Woods and McIlroy, the top two players in the world, are paired again and will tee off 1:56 p.m. EDT on the first hole. The third golfer in their group is Spain's Gonzalo Fernandez-Castano.
Mickelson and Horschel are joined by Donald in the final grouping off the first tee at 2:40 local time. The second-to-last group out will be Stricker, Senden and Rose.
Other tidbits:
--Four amateurs made the cut, the most since 2004. They are Michael Kim (three over), Cheng-Tsung Pan (four over), Kevin Phelan and Micheal Weaver (both at eight over).
--Former U.S. Open champioins who missed the cut: Jim Furyk, Michael Campbell, Angel Cabrera, Lucas Glover and Graeme McDowell.
Phil Mickelson, Billy Horschel in lead as second-round play resumes | 6 a.m.
As you read this early Saturday morning players are finishing up their second rounds at Merion Golf Cub. Sixty-eight golfers had Friday leftover holes to play before the cut could be made atthe top 60 plus ties.
Only then can we move on to moving day at the 113th U.S. Open.
Billy Horschel and Phil Mickelson have completed two rounds and left the course Friday tied for the lead at one-under-par 139. Five other players are one shot back at even par.
It was important, as the sun set Friday, that the group of Mickelson, Steve Stricker and Keegan Bradley was able to complete their second round before the darkness siren sounded.
Little things like this can have an impact on the eventual winner.
In a week where the USGA is promoting fast play, well, you've never seen some players move so fast. Had the Mickelson group not teed off on 18 before the horn, it would have had to return early Saturday morning to complete the hole.
Rules state, though, that you can complete a hole if one player in the group hits a tee shot.
The Mickelson group was playing behind Dustin Johnson, Bubba Watson and Nicolas Colsaerts, which had been put on the clock for slow play earlier in the round.
Mickelson told Dustin Johnson and his caddie they might need to tee off while Johnson's group was still in the 18th fairway. Bradley was rushed up ahead to do the honors.
"So they moved to one side," Mickelson said of Johnson, Watson and Colsaerts. "Keegan hit, and that means the rest of the group can finish. It worked out we were fine time-wise, but it's nice when guys like that help you out."
Mickelson made his only birdie of the day at the 18th, rolling in a 21-foot putt to seize a share of the lead.
Stricker scratched out a par on No. 18 to stay at even for the tournament. Bradley is 12 over and will miss the cut, but he did his part.
Mickelson and Stricker got to sleep in Saturday and will be well rested when they tee off for this afternoon's third round.
"It's a big break for us to finish and get that extra rest," Stricker said, "because it's two long days and you need all the rest you can get."
--Chris Dufresne
Bill Dwyre: Merion shows its teeth to golf's best
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"Scientology is destructive and a rip-off. It's very, very dangerous for your spiritual, psychological, mental, emotional health and evolution. I think it stunts your evolution. If Scientology is real, then something's f—ed up."
Xenu will not be pleased. But word is, Xenu is taking a different approach. Instead of slipping a bag over his head and making him disappear, my sources say the GMD and his cluster of crazy freaks is dismissing Beghe's claims as the ramblings of a loser. He joined the Church because he was seduced by the success of its most famous followers. Therefore his motivations were not pure.
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The Strasbourg-based court ordered Italy in August to pay the couple 17,500 euros ($22,600) in damages and expenses for refusing to let the embryos be screened to avoid giving the disease to any future children.
Rome said in a statement that it was appealing the decision because the European court should have waited for the matter to be handled by the Italian judicial system.
Under Italian law the only alternative for the couple was to conceive a child and abort the foetus if it was found to have cystic fibrosis, which they had already done once.
The couple found out that they were carriers of the disease after their first child was born with it. They wanted to have a second child by IVF so that the embryo could be screened and aborted if it also was found to have cystic fibrosis.
They brought the case before the European court because predominantly Catholic Italy is one of the few European countries with a ban on screening embryos before they are implanted.
The Italian government had sought to justify the ban on the grounds that it was needed to protect the health of the mother and child and avoid the risk of eugenic abuses.
Reporting By Catherine Hornby; Editing by Mark Heinrich


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Faculty and Staff Directory
Sandra Kaufmann
Title/s: Director of Dance
Office #: Mundelein 921
Phone: 773.508.7513
Sandra Kaufmann is the founding director of the dance program at Loyola University. She teaches Modern I, Modern III, Ballet III and Ballet IV. Sandra is internationally recognized as a leading authority on classical modern dance technique and repertory with extensive experience as a dancer, director and educator.
Sandra performed throughout the world as a member of the Martha Graham Dance Company. While based in New York City, Sandra served on the faculty of the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and as Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Ensemble. Sandra continues to work actively with the Martha Graham Center, teaching in their international summer intensive workshop and serving as a regisseur staging the repertory of Martha Graham throughout the country. She also performed extensively with renown choreographers, Pearl Lang and Richard Move.
With MOMENTA and Silo Chamber Dancers, Sandra has had opportunities to dance many of the choreographic works by Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, two of modern dance's most influential artists. Sandra has taught Humphrey/Weidman technique and theory on faculty at Barnard College and New York University and as a repeat guest artist at Interlochen Academy. She serves as a member of the board of the Doris Humphrey Society.
A prolific choreographer, Ms. Kaufmann has created works for concert dance, musical theatre productions, opera, video and site specific works. Her choreography has been honored with awards from Dance Magazine Foundation, Tidmarsh Arts Foundation, The American College Dance Festival, Bossak/Heilbrun Foundation, The National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, and The Sloan Science and Technology Commission. With playwright, Michael Bassett and physicist, Brian Greene, Sandra presented the keynote address for Art/Science International's Annual Conference at the Museum of Natural History in New York City in 2001 on their full evening work, Superstrings.
Ms. Kaufmann graduated summa cum laude from the College of Education and the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Northern Illinois University, where she delivered the commencement addresses for both colleges. Sandra was awarded talented student scholarships from Northern Illinois University and the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and has received academic awards from Illinois Board of Regents, USA Today, Delta Kappa Gamma Teaching Sorority and George Hawkins Foundation.
Sandra served on the faculty of Barnard College, New York University and The Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in New York. In Chicago she has taught at The Chicago Academy for the Arts, University of Chicago, The Academy of Movement and Music and Loyola University Chicago.
B.S.Ed., Northern Illinois University
B.A., Northern Illinois University
Professional Studies Certification, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance


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What is the best general approach to dispersing an unknown solid sample in a liquid medium?
What is the best general approach to dispersing an unknown solid sample in a liquid medium?
It depends much on the characteristics of the material being dispersed. Mostly the surface area available, the surface tension properties of the materials and the rheology.
In my opinion, the easiest dispesion processes are done with high shear mixers. They are simple, easy to maintain and with a disciplined sequence are very repeatable.
For processes that require more work I like to use some type of media and a recirculating mill. There are some combinations of media and impeller systems that do a very good job in dispersion work.
Contact me if you need more information.
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This is just another of those threads where the answer is already hovering over the question. Second today in fact.
As a vendor or user of such mixing gear you are hopefully aware of Chemineer classification of pulp stability but failed to specify the degree of pulp stability required.
Furthermore, since pulp stability for an unknown solid in an unspecified liquid requires a degree of experimental work you will perhaps realise that the answer, nearly said solution, is already apparent in the question. The best general approach in this case is the one that works.
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The French government has outlawed the filming of violent acts by all but professional journalists in legislation passed by the parliament earlier this week. As one French civil liberties group warned, bloggers and amateurs filming for documentation, or those filming to collect evidence of a crime, are not exempt.
The new law is intended to target those involved in 'happy slapping' - the act of attacking someone and filming it for entertainment.
Anyone caught publishing violent images that they have filmed face five years in prison and a fine of 75,000 euros (£46,000). According to InfoWorld , that's potentially heavier than a sentence for committing a violent act.
The French government is also considering a proposal for a certification system for websites, blog-hosters, mobile-phone operators and internet service providers. If approved, the system will credit them as "government-approved sources of information".


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