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Atmospheric Physics
Faculty, students, and scientists in the UMBC Atmospheric Physics (ATPH) graduate program perform research in a number of areas in collaboration with affiliated and adjunct faculty from NASA and NOAA.
This research is conducted by members of the physics department in the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) who mainly work at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) 25 miles south of the campus in Greenbelt, Maryland. There are numerous research opportunities in atmospheric physics for both graduate and undergraduate students at UMBC.
Faculty research areas include infrared, visible and ultraviolet measurements of gases and aerosols in the atmosphere using both passive and active remote sensing systems. Tenured and tenure-track faculty are science team members on a number of NASA and NOAA missions including AIRS, CALIPSO, GLORY, MODIS, and GOES-R. Instrument specializations of the faculty include atmospheric lidar, infrared spectroscopy, and fundamental aerosol microphysical techniques. The research in the atmospheric physics group also includes some new efforts in the areas of hurricane modeling and modeling of low-level winds with applications to PBL/pollution studies. As a result of strong Center contributions, UMBC has recently been recognized as the #2 university in the US in 2006 in NASA university grant funding. UMBC also has recently been recognized as being the #3 university in the country from 2001-2006 in terms of citations in the geosciences. The UMBC Atmospheric Physics program has contributed significantly to that recognition.In addition to 5 tenured/tenure-track faculty, there are 10 faculty affiliated with the Physics Department through JCET, an additional 9 JCET faculty affiliated in other departments on campus and 3 adjunct faculty (one each from NASA Goddard, NOAA NESDIS, and Howard University). Typically, half of the Atmospheric Physics graduate students are supported by affiliated or adjunct research faculty.
For more information, please visit webpages for the individual Atmospheric Physics research groups, the Atmospheric Physics Graduate Program webpage, and the webpage for JCET.
Faculty with Research Interests in Atmospheric Physics:
Dr. Belay Demoz
Dr. J. Vanderlei Martins
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Dr. L. Larrabee Strow
Dr. Pengwang Zhai
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Dr. Zhibo Zhang
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Inhofe: Ending the Obama Administration's Attack on Affordable Energy
Inhofe Floor Speech March 10, 2011
Link to CRS Report: U.S. Fossel Fuels Resources
Full text of speech
As prepared for delivery
Mr. President, when President Obama took office, the national average price for regular gasoline was $1.84 per gallon. Today, the average price is $3.52 per gallon - a 91 percent increase. Prices have already topped $4.00 in some parts of the country.
There are many reasons for this - Middle East conflict and rapid growth in developing countries are two examples. But what I call the Obama Administration's cap-and-trade agenda is also playing a major role in pushing prices higher - and not just for gasoline. This agenda hurts families, truckers, and farmers-basically, anyone who drives, uses diesel, or flips a light switch. In a word: everyone.
My message today is simply this: higher gas prices - indeed, higher prices for the energy we use - are an explicit policy goal of the Obama Administration. Let me put it another way: the Obama Administration is attacking affordable energy.
How do I know this? Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy, told the Wall Street Journal in 2008 that "[s]omehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe." That's interesting. Just what are those "levels" in Europe?
The United Kingdom: $7.87 per gallon;
Italy: $7.54 per gallon;
France: $7.50 per gallon; and
Germany: $7.41 per gallon.
If you think $4.00 is too much for a gallon of regular, fasten your seat belts.
The central fact of the cap-and-trade agenda is inescapable: it's designed to make the energy we use more expensive. We all know the infamous quote from President Obama in 2008. He said that under his cap-and-trade plan, "electricity prices would necessarily skyrocket." Note the word "necessarily." The President had it right: the point of cap-and-trade regulations is to make you pay more on your utility bills. And the Obama EPA is here to make it happen.
Thankfully the House of Representatives is moving legislation today to stop the Obama Administration's attack on affordable energy. The House Energy and Power Subcommittee is voting on the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011, a bill I introduced in the Senate last week. My bipartisan bill has 43 Senate cosponsors.
The bottom line of the Energy Tax Prevention Act is this: EPA cannot implement global warming regulations under the Clean Air Act, the very regulations that will pinch your pocket at the pump and drive up your utility bills.
By stopping the President's costly cap-and-trade rules, we will also remove a significant barrier to developing America's energy resources. You see, the cap-and-trade agenda is also about energy austerity. The hope is that if we restrict enough supply, the price will increase, and we can then simply shift to less costly alternatives. Yet this is wishful thinking. Alternatives are fine, even necessary, but in most cases, they aren't widely available or commercially deployable yet-at least not in a form to efficiently, affordably, and reliably meet our existing energy needs. So oil, coal, and natural gas are here to stay.
But that's fine; there's nothing to worry about. Many are unaware that America's combined recoverable natural gas, oil, and coal endowment is the largest on Earth. In fact, America's recoverable resources are far larger than those of Saudi Arabia, China, and Canada combined.
Yet EPA, along with a host of other federal agencies, is actively blocking our ability to develop these resources. You can be sure Chinese officials are both stunned and pleased that America, through a conscious policy choice, is forgoing trillions of dollars of resource wealth to create jobs, raise revenue, spur new technology, and unleash growth and prosperity for generations to come. I, too, am stunned, but not pleased.
Thanks to the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, we now know what resources we have and what we aren't getting out of the ground. The CRS report was requested by me and my colleague, Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Frankly, we asked for this report because we grew tired of the Democrats' refrain that America only has 3 percent of global oil reserves - which, according to this view, means more drilling and production at home is futile. The 3 percent mantra is their bread and butter talking point.
President Obama himself has said it: "With 3 percent of the world's oil reserves, the U.S. cannot drill its way to energy security." My Democratic colleagues here in the Senate have said it: "The U.S. has only 3% of known oil reserves, yet we use 25% of the world's oil production. We cannot drill our way out of that math." But the non-partisan CRS shows the full, complete, accurate picture of America's resources - and shows that, yes, we can produce our way to energy security.
That's because CRS shows more than just our proven oil reserves, which is what the Democrats conveniently cite. America's proven reserves, of course, are a modest 28 billion barrels. The word "proven" is important here. The only way to estimate proven reserves is to drill. But lo and behold, that's not possible because federal policies, supported by President Obama and many Democrats, have made 83 percent - let me say that again: 83 percent - of America's federal land inaccessible to drilling.
Moreover, for decades, many Democrats supported drilling bans in the Outer Continental Shelf, on the East and West coasts, in offshore Alaska, and in large portions of the Gulf.
So the next time you hear someone say, "Well, we have just three percent, it won't mean a thing if we drill more," and that we have only 28 billion barrels of proven reserves, go read the CRS report for the complete picture. CRS includes the Energy Information Administration's estimates of proven reserves, as well as estimates from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement, which show America's recoverable oil resources from areas both accessible and inaccessible to drilling. It's all there.
We have, in fact, 163 billion barrels of recoverable oil - nearly six times higher than what President Obama and the Democrats like to claim. Let's think about 163 billion barrels for a moment: that is enough to maintain our current levels of production and replace our imports from the Persian Gulf for more than 50 years.
But oil resources offer only a glimpse of the full picture. As I noted earlier, CRS found that America's combined recoverable natural gas, oil, and coal endowment is the largest on Earth. It's far larger than that of Saudi Arabia, China, and Canada combined. And - this is what really stuns me - that's without including America's truly massive deposits of oil shale and methane hydrates.
The report also reveals that America is number one in coal reserves, with more than 28 percent of the world's coal. In fact, CRS cites America's recoverable coal reserves to be 262 billion short tons. For perspective, the US consumes just 1.2 billion short tons of coal per year. And though portions of this resource may not be accessible or economically recoverable today, these estimates could still prove to be conservative, as CRS states:
"...U.S. coal resource estimates do not include some potentially massive deposits of coal that exist in northwestern Alaska. These currently inaccessible coal deposits have been estimated to be more than 3,200 billion short tons of coal."
Another domestic energy resource that could lessen America's dependence on foreign energy is methane hydrates. Although still several years away from commercial feasibility, methane hydrates, according to the Department of Energy, possess energy content that is, "immense ... possibly exceeding the combined energy content of all other known fossil fuels."
While estimates vary significantly, the United States Geological Service (USGS) recently testified that: "the mean in-place gas hydrate resource for the entire United States is estimated to be 320,000 TCF of gas." For perspective, if just 3% of this resource can be commercialized in the years ahead, at current rates of consumption, that level of supply would be enough to provide America natural gas for more than 400 years.
For more than 400 years - that's what I call real energy security. This is an impressive piece of the largest energy resource base on Earth. This country cannot compete and cannot grow unless we develop our resources. So let's get to it. Let's end Obama's attack on affordable energy. That means stopping his cap-and-trade agenda and its mindless restrictions on our ability to develop and produce our own resources, right here at home.
Related Files
- CRS November 2010 - CRS_NOVEMBER2010.pdf (325.2 KBs)

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Obama's State of the Union shifts focus to economy, jobs
- President Obama says creating jobs and growing the economy %27must be the North Star%27
- Foreign policy topics include Afghanistan%2C North Korea
- State of the Union guests include survivors of mass shootings
Correction: In his State of the Union speech, President Obama said Social Security and Medicare recipients should not bear the brunt of debt reduction. An earlier version of this story misstated his position.
President Obama outlined plans Tuesday to revive American prosperity by rebuilding "a thriving middle class," calling it the "true engine of America's economic growth" during his annual State of the Union Address.
Growing the economy and creating good middle-class jobs "must be the North Star that guides our efforts," Obama told a joint session of Congress and a national television audience.
While devoting most of his speech to jobs and the economy, Obama also announced plans to pull 34,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan over the next year, reducing the American presence by about half as part of a planned overall withdrawal. "By the end of next year," Obama said, "our war in Afghanistan will be over."
The president also condemned the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran, and pledged to work with Russia to continue reducing American and Russian nuclear stockpiles.
In perhaps the most dramatic moment of the hour-long speech, Obama called on Congress to vote on gun-control proposals in order to honor "Americans whose lives have been torn apart" by mass violence. "They deserve a vote," Obama said.
In a litany of economic proposals, Obama called for an increase in the minimum wage — from $7.25 to $9 per hour — as well as new plans to speed up infrastructure projects, promote manufacturing, improve science and math education and develop alternative sources of energy.
Throughout his speech, Obama tied the economy to other aspects of his legislative agenda, including proposals for a major overhaul of the immigration system, legislation to combat gun violence, and programs to address climate change.
Obama urged members of Congress — especially Republicans — to avoid the "sequester," $85 billion in automatic spending cuts set to take effect March 1. The president said these "sudden, harsh, arbitrary cuts" would jeopardize military readiness and "devastate priorities" like education, energy, and medical research.
Instead, he urged a "balanced" plan to reduce the nation's $16-trillion-plus debt with both spending cuts and new tax revenues derived from closing loopholes and ending certain deductions.
The State of the Union also featured a new plan to protect the nation's infrastructure from cyberattacks and the creation of an election reform commission to deal with challenges such as long lines at polling places and voter registration problems.
Congressional Republicans said Obama's plans rely too much on government and not enough on the market to rebuild the middle class. In the formal Republican response to the State of the Union, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. — a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2016 — said that past presidents from both parties "have known that our free enterprise economy is the source of our middle class prosperity."
"But President Obama?" Rubio said. "He believes it's the cause of our problems."
Republicans also said that Obama's call for new tax revenues amounts to a tax hike that will further slow the economy, and that the debt should be reduced by spending cuts alone. They said Obama got a tax increase — in the form of higher income tax rates — as part of the "fiscal cliff" deal reached last month.
"So we're done with the tax part of the equation," said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. before Obama's speech.
In the address, Obama said that Social Security and Medicare recipients should not bear the brunt of debt reduction, and that "the wealthiest and most powerful" should contribute as well. He also pledged to work with Republicans to make "modest" changes to entitlement programs and to simplify the tax system.
Obama said that while Americans don't expect government to solve all the nation's problems, they do expect the parties to work together. Seeking to pressure Republicans, he urged Congress to avoid past disputes over the fiscal cliff, the debt ceiling, and the budget that damaged the nation's credit rating and threatened to shut down the government.
"The greatest nation on Earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufactured crisis to another," Obama said.
The president spoke amid reports that the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.9% in January, and that the overall economy contracted in the last quarter of 2012.
Describing his plans for the middle class, Obama said lawmakers should ask themselves three questions: "How do we attract more jobs to our shores? How do we equip our people with the skills they need to get those jobs? And how do we make sure that hard work leads to a decent living?"
Obama also said his proposed new programs are paid for, and will not increase budget deficits by "one dime."
Among his proposals: A "fix-it first" program to speed up certain infrastructure projects, and more pre-school for children from low- and moderate-income families.
The president also called for three new "Manufacturing Innovation Institutes," government-business partnerships seeking to develop new technologies; a "Master Teacher Corps" to improve math and science education, and an "Energy Security Trust" with the goal of moving cars and trucks off oil.
He renewed previous calls for major legislation, including his immigration overhaul plan that includes a pathway to citizenship for some 11 million illegal immigrants, an item some Republicans have criticized as amnesty for lawbreakers.
The president also said Congress needs to confront climate change, "for the sake of our children and our future." One solution, he said, is developing "clean energy" legislation.
And Obama called on congressional votes on proposals for "universal background checks," a renewal of the assault weapons ban and restrictions on the sizes of ammunition magazines.
Guns were a primary issue for many in the audience in the U.S House chamber. Both the White House and members of Congress invited families and friends who have endured the trauma of shootings.
The guest list for first lady Michelle Obama included the parents of Hadiya Pendleton, a 15-year-old from Chicago who was shot in the back and killed last month in an apparent act of gang violence just a mile away from the Obamas' house.
The first lady also welcomed a teacher from the elementary school in Newtown, Conn., where 20 children and six adults died in a Dec. 14 shooting. Members of Congress wore green ribbons in honor of the Newtown victims.
"The families of Newtown deserve a vote" on gun legislation. Obama said, a mantra he echoed for other communities "ripped open by gun violence."
Other White House guests — invited to personalize various aspects of the president's agenda — included a police officer wounded in a mass shooting at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee; members of the military; and business, education and health care professionals.
Some congressional Republicans also brought guests. Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, invited former rock-and-roller Ted Nugent, an outspoken critic of gun control who said last year he would wind up "dead or in jail" if Obama won re-election.
During a discussion of foreign affairs on foreign affairs, Obama made an apparent reference to his drone program in pledging to work with Congress to insure that "our targeting, detention and prosecution of terrorists remains consistent with our laws and our systems of checks and balances."
And he again pledged to prevent Iran from obtaining the means to make a nuclear weapon.
In announcing his visit to the Middle East next month, Obama pledged to help with Egypt's painful transition to democracy, and to pressure the regime of Syrian leader Bashar Assad.
The millions of television viewers included members of Organizing for America, the political action group formed by Obama 2012 campaign officials. OFA sponsored about 1,200 State of the Union "watch parties" across the country.
Obama made a conference call to these gatherings immediately after the speech, urging them to lobby Congress on behalf of his agenda. "Figure out how you guys are going to stay organized," the president said.


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Our employees are at the very heart of MAKE UP FOR EVER's success. Their motivation and passion for the Brand drive the ongoing evolution of the company.
MAKE UP FOR EVER's success comes from the passion and the investment of its employees.
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Our employees are at the very heart of MAKE UP FOR EVER's success. Their motivation and passion for the Brand drive the ongoing evolution of the company.
MAKE UP FOR EVER's success comes from the passion and the investment of its employees.
1. Our Brand
MAKE UP FOR EVER is the cult brand of professional makeup artists - now available to the public – that creates high performance cosmetic products and accessories for all needs and for all complexions.
Thanks to our MAKE UP FOR EVER Academy, our Make Up School and our training expertise, we are able to pass on our techniques, our passion and our love for make up.
We are a brand used backstage by professional makeup artists and all makeup lovers around the world to shine either on stage or in everyday life.
The Brand's success has grown steadily since its creation in 1984 due in part to the technical sophistication of its products and thanks to a global network of professional makeup artists developed by Dany.
Today, those passionate about our Brand constitute a large community spanning the globe that continues to support our development through its commitment and loyalty.
2. Our HR Values
Our employees are at the very heart of MAKE UP FOR EVER's success. Their motivation and passion for the Brand drive the ongoing evolution of the company.
Joining MAKE UP FOR EVER means becoming part of a fast-growing organization and contributing to its development, meeting new challenges every day and discovering the artistic universe of makeup.
It also means sharing knowledge, passing on our expertise while respecting the brand codes and making a strong investment in the development of our Brand. In a word, remaining simple in one's relations with others and in one's approach, sharing one's passion for makeup and one's profession and demonstrating the capacity for reactivity in any situation.
3. Our global presence
With over 1200 employees around the world and more than 300 in France, MAKE UP FOR EVER is first and foremost an international brand.
Present in over 50 countries, MAKE UP FOR EVER has enjoyed marked success notably in the following regions: the United States, China, Korea, Europe and the Middle East.
Our employees in France are spread across several offices in Paris and its suburbs, where our manufacturing site is located. A portion of our sales force is also deployed throughout the country in order to promote local sales of our products. One of our Parisian offices is a location rich with history: n° 5 rue de la Boétie, the Brand's headquarters and also where the very first products were created and which continues to be a reference for professionals.
In addition to our Parisian boutiques, MAKE UP FOR EVER products are also distributed throughout the entire Sephora network.
4. A LVMH Group Brand
LVMH, the world's leading Luxury group, boasts over 60 Houses across various sectors of activity. Today, more than 10 of those Houses are part of the perfume and cosmetics sector which MAKE UP FOR EVER joined in 1999.
The choice to join the Group can be explained by outlining the values we share such as innovation, entrepreneurial spirit, creativity and the excellence of our products and services. While these values are shared, each House maintains its identity and its own DNA.
The personal development of its employees around the world is one of the key elements of the Group's success. Internal mobility, the cornerstone of its Human Resources policy, means that employees at MAKE UP FOR EVER are eligible for diverse job opportunities and career paths within the Group's other Houses.
5. Our Professions
MAKE UP FOR EVER is comprised of a wide variety of professions, each essential in its contribution to the life of a product: from its creation (composition, R&D, marketing development) to its commercialization (sales, logistics, operational marketing) by way of the transmission of Dany's makeup expertise (International Training, Academy...).
In addition to the professions you can find throughout the organization, MAKE UP FOR EVER has a wealth of artists – seasoned makeup artists possessing true product sensitivity and backstage experience – who are at the heart of what we do. All departments work in close coordination with one another, whether it is research and development, visual creation, marketing...
Over the last five years, MAKE UP FOR EVER has experienced strong growth to the point that many new positions have been created and various departments have built up their staff to stay on top of the evolution.
It has also been an opportunity to help employees evolve internally: MAKE UP FOR EVER favors internal promotions and defines real career paths within the organization. As such, a makeup artist can advance to a training position, a salesperson can transition to become an Assistant Manager then Manager of a boutique, and a young graduate can become a manager.
6. Employee Development
Upon their arrival in the organization, each employee receives training on our Brand, entitled "Brand Induction", which introduces them to the many facets of MAKE UP FOR EVER: its values, history, operations...
MAKE UP FOR EVER strives to bring its employees on board for the long term by offering them development opportunities and growth that is in line with their expectations. After all, our employees are at the very heart of the Brand's success, constantly working to distinguish it in a highly competitive context.
MAKE UP FOR EVER's success comes from the passion and the investment of its employees and from their individual and group contributions to the global performance of our Brand.
Career development at MAKE UP FOR EVER begins with a solid mastery of the scope of one's role - a scope that evolves over the duration of an employee's career – before they grow and develop within other domains such as international roles or roles with managerial responsibilities.


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When you lose much of your strength or mobility, simple tasks like walking a dog or cleaning a cat's litter box can seem overwhelming. And if your immune system is weakened by HIV/AIDS, cancer, kidney or liver disease, old age, or pregnancy, you must take extra precautions to avoid disease-causing agents that any human or animal-including pets-can transmit.
Yet living with an illness or immunocompromising condition doesn't mean you have to live without your beloved pet. And, in most cases, you need not give up your pet. After all, research indicates that companion animals enhance immune functioning by decreasing stress levels and increasing levels of self confidence and self esteem. Pets provide us with a source of affection, support, and acceptance; enable us to feel needed and valued; and ease the pain, sorrow, and loneliness often experienced during illness.
That's why, for someone with a serious medical condition, the psychological and physical benefits of pet caregiving usually outweigh the risk of acquiring an illness from the pet-provided that proper precautions are followed.
How could pets increase my risk?
Although pets can do wonders for our physical and mental well being, they can get and transmit disease. To minimize the risk your pet poses to your health, you must minimize the risks to your pet's health. The key is to understand how best to care for your pet and to work with your veterinarian to keep your pet healthy.
Certain pets are more challenging than others. For example, many exotic animals, such as reptiles, are more likely than dogs and cats to transmit certain diseases, requiring owners to take extra precautions. (The HSUS, in fact, recommends that exotic animals not be kept as pets.) Likewise, puppies and kittens may be more susceptible to disease and prone to play-oriented nipping and scratching. And new pets may come with incomplete or unknown medical histories. This does not mean that you have to give up your playful puppy or can't get a new pet. It simply means that you need to rely on a veterinarian or animal shelter adoption counselor to advise you on appropriate pet selection and care.
No pet is guaranteed to be or remain disease-free. But your veterinarian can suggest preventive guidelines to keep a pet healthy, test your pet for parasites and other problems, and provide medical care to help a sick pet recover. And you can minimize risks for you and your pet by keeping your animal indoors, making sure he's well fed and groomed, and taking him to the veterinarian for vaccinations and annual check-ups.
What can I do to protect myself?
If you have a compromised immune system, follow these precautions:
What can I do to meet my pet's basic needs?
If your condition makes everyday pet care too challenging, you'll need to find outside assistance to make sure your pet gets the food, grooming, exercise, and general care he needs. When relatives, friends, and neighbors can't help, a nonprofit pet assistance organization may be able to lend a hand. Typically, these organizations help HIV-infected pet owners by providing everything from emergency foster care and animal transportation to dog walking, pet grooming, and litter box cleaning services.
If you can use this assistance, ask local veterinarians, animal shelters, physicians, health care clinics, social service agencies, veterinary schools, and libraries to refer you to resources in your community.


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Packet needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 28 designs submitted by 9 freelance designers.
We are looking for a new website Banner for the top of our website, which uses joomla, if you take a look at the top of http://www.hiphop.ie you will see what we are talking about
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same as site see http://www.hiphop.ie
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Hip-Hop Style
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We want something that incorporates our logo very well, our logo is linked below, obvisiously its a hiphop website so we want that banner to represent that and we want it to be unique and something we can call our own.Â
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Elimination Five - Winners' Final
The opening winners' final of the day saw a terrific battle for the top with several sailors holding the lead at any one time. Antoine Albeau made the best start of the bunch, but as the fleet rounded mark one it was Cedric Bordes (Tabou / GA Sails), who managed to edge into the lead by the narrowest of margins ahead of Arnon Dagan (RRD / NeilPryde), Albeau and Gonzalo Costa Hoevel (Starboard / Loft Sails). However, as by the second buoy it was Dagan who grabbed top spot, a lead he was able to hold until the penultimate straight. Albeau turned on the afterburners between mark three and four to move into lead. After safely navigating the final turn he stormed down the home straight to claim victory number one of the week ahead of Dagan and Bordes. Meanwhile, Bjorn Dunkerbeck (Starboard / Severne / Chris Benz / Dunkerbeck Eyewear) earned his best finish so far as he claimed fourth place.
Elimination Six - Winners' Final
The winners' final of elimination five proved to be an exciting race, but elimination six didn't disappoint either with yet more exhilarating racing. Ben Van Der Steen (Tabou / GA Sails / Mystic) timed his start best to cross the line in first place, but at the first mark the flying Dutchman proved almost inseparable from Micah Buzianis (JP / MauiSails) and Bjorn Dunkerbeck with the trio almost touching. With the front three distracted by each other Antoine Albeau raced into the lead, but his lead didn't last long as Dunkerbeck ran wide at the second mark, whilst battling with Albeau. Waiting in the wings was Julien Quentel, who swooped to move into the lead and then cruised to his second victory of the week to move back to the top of the event rankings, just ahead of Albeau, who claimed second. However, the action wasn't finished there as Dunkerbeck dropped his third gybe allowing Buzianis, Pierre Mortefon (Fanatic / North) and Van Der Steen back into the frame. On the final straight Van Der Steen made full use of his blistering speed to claim third ahead of Buzianis, fourth and Mortefon, fifth.
Julien Quentel said: "I'm really happy I was on my 7.0m and small board. At the second gybe I managed to go inside Bjorn and then hold onto the lead. The wind was really strong and I'm really happy to win for the second time this week and its even better that it keeps me at the top of the rankings."
Elsewhere in the sixth elimination Sinan Gerzile wasted a golden opportunity to qualify for the quarterfinals. The Turk held fourth place as he entered the final gybe, which he ultimately crashed, presenting Amado Vrieswijk (Starboard / Severne) with the perfect present as the Bonairean snuck into the final qualifying position behind Steve Allen (Starboard / Severne), Bjorn Dunkerbeck and Alexandre Cousin (Patrik / Loft Sails / Mystic).
Elimination Five - Winners' Final
Delphine Cousin timed her start to perfection to break into the lead from the outset and for the first time Sarah-Quita Offringa didn't hold the lead at the first mark. The reigning PWA Slalom World Champion was able to hold off the 2011 PWA Slalom World Champion as well as Lena Erdil (Patrik / Loft Sails / Mystic / AL360) and Valerie Ghibaudo (Tabou / GA Sails / Mystic). From here Cousin remained focused and composed and it wasn't long before she was celebrating her first bullet of the week. Behind her Erdil out manoeuvred SQO to claim second place, whilst Offringa finished third - a result she can discard - and Ghibaudo fourth.
Elimination Six - Winners' Final
Valerie Ghibaudo entered the opening buoy of the second winners' final of the day in first place ahead of Sarah-Quita Offringa, Delphine Cousin and Fulya Ünlü. Ghibaudo was able to hold onto her until the third mark, but unfortunately flamed her gybe, which allowed Offringa to burst into first place followed by Erdil Unlu and Cousin. The usually flawless Offringa, made her way through an extremely shaky final gybe, which gave Erdil a chance at victory, but unfortunately for the Turk she wasn't able to take full advantage of the opportunity presented before her as Offringa claimed victory number five. Erdil secured second ahead of Cousin in third, whilst Estelle Barré (Fanatic / North) finished fourth - her best so far.
The forecast for Saturday predicts further wind, although not as strong. As in the previous days the action will commence from 11:00.
Results After Elimination Six Pegasus Airlines Alicati PWA World Cup - Men's Slalom
1 Julien Quentel (RRD / NeilPryde)
2 Antoine Albeau (RRD / NeilPryde)
3 Pascal Toselli (Starboard / Point-7)
4 Pierre Mortefon (Fanatic / North)
5 Arnon Dagan (RRD / NeilPryde)
6 Tristan Algret (Patrik / Loft Sails / Mystic)
7 Ben Van Der Steen (Tabou / GA Sails / Mystic)
8 Josh Angulo (Angulo / Gun Sails)
9 Ross Williams (Tabou / GA Sails / Mystic)
10 Matteo Iachino (Fanatic / North)
Results After Elimination Six Pegasus Airlines Alicati PWA World Cup - Women's Slalom
1 Sarah-Quita Offringa (Starboard / Mystic)
2 Delphine Cousin (Starboard / Loft Sails)
3 Lena Erdil (Patrik / Loft Sails / Mystic / AL360)
4 Fujiko Onishi (Starboard / Loft Sails)
5 Fulya Ünlü (Starboard / Severne)
5 Cagla Kubat (Starboard / Loft Sails
Don't miss any of the exhilarating racing by tuning into www.pwaworldtour.com where you'll be able to follow the amazing action as it happens via the PWA live stream and live ticker.


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This bill has been 10 years in the making, but last week all the time and effort from those that support the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act paid off. I have written extensively about BRCA genetic testing for breast cancer and how it saved my sister's life and helped me to decide on a prophylactic mastectomy. I have also encouraged other survivors to get tested. One of the major stumbling blocks for many (justifiably) was the genuine concern that knowing they had a predisposition to breast cancer would also mark them for discrimination from health insurance companies and employers. That fear, my dear friends, is no longer a threat.
The passing of this bill means that employers cannot ask for this information, and neither can health insurance providers. In the recent past, if you belonged to a group insurance plan, they could not deny you, but those that sought individual coverage could be denied because of their predisposition to cancer. This bill ensures that they can no longer do that. Once again, lawmakers are showing compassion and wisdom in paving the way for a proactive approach to your personal decision regarding healthcare. I equate this decision with the bill that ensures for reconstruction surgery paid by insurance companies that also pay for mastectomies. We don't bring this disease on, so help and support from our government and other sources is imperative to fighting it and finding a cure.
So what's stopping you? I know, you probably think that ignorance is bliss and the mere fact of not knowing will keep it from affecting you or your family. Trust me, I have met many people like this, but if you get nothing else from my blogs, get this: Knowing that you are BRCA-positive can help you save your own life. More importantly, you can spare your children. I worry about my own boys and the ramifications to their lives and choices, but I also know that they are armed with this information for their future.
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U.S. officials continue to weigh a decision on military action as Secretary of State John Kerry said the U.S. has "high confidence" the Syrian regime was behind a chemical-weapons attack. Foreign Affairs writer Michael Weiss joins the News Hub with his take. Photo: AP.
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OCEAN CITY – Summer is quickly coming to an end and families across the country are starting to hang up their beach towels and put away their bathing suits, as they trade in their beach bag for their school books.
With the end of the summer blues hanging over the heads of the children and parents in Worcester County, it is almost possible to forget the fun that is about to begin at Northside Park. While the weather might began to change Ocean City Recreation and Parks promises to increase excitement this fall as participants "discover an ocean of fun" this season at Northside Park.
September is a busy month for even the smallest member of the family, as Ocean City Recreation and Parks offers three programs for toddlers under the age of 6.
The Start Smart Basketball and Soccer programs are both developmentally designed by the National Alliance for Youth Sports to help children prepare to enter the world of organized sports. These programs not only teach children fundamental motor skills such as throwing, catching, kicking and batting, but also provide age appropriate equipment to conduct fun exercise to help the children learn basic skills that will help them to exceed and excel once they enter youth sports.
Along with Start Smart Sports, Ocean City Recreation and Parks offers a fun and exciting playgroup for children from 18-months-old to 3-years-old. This program gives children and their parents the opportunity to interact with others while participating in a variety of activities including arts and crafts, singing, music, story time and active games.
For the elementary school children in the house, Ocean City offers numerous activities for both boys and girls. Beginning in early September, kids throughout the Eastern Shore have the opportunity to participate in soccer, basketball, lacrosse, skateboarding, swimming, flag football, cheerleading and fitness challenge. Also new to the fall line up is Hershey's Track & Field Fun Day, where children will meet at Stephen Decatur High School and participate in activities involving running, throwing, jumping and relays. Each program for elementary children offers boys and girls the chance to make new friends while improving their athletic abilities.
Along with the sports offered for the elementary school children are a few additional programs organized for the teenagers in town. Starting off the fall fun is the brand new high school lazer tag club.
"This is a really cool program," said Ron Strickler, Recreation Supervisor, "I am 25-years-old and I am just as excited about it as the kids. We are thankful to Planet Maze/Lazer Storm for providing us with the chance to offer something different to the children. Not every kid likes to play with a stick and a ball so this is something that will definitely attract boys and girls with interests outside of soccer, basketball and lacrosse."
Not only does Ocean City Recreation and Parks offer Lazer Tag Club for the adolescence out there, but also provides a Gladiator Dodgeball night for children in fifth through eighth grades. The special event, offered only four nights this season, allows kids the opportunity to come out on a Friday night and enjoy pizza, ice cream and the incorporation of dodgeball, flag football and capture the flag.
"Gladiator Dodgeball has been a huge hit for both the staff and the kids," said Kim Kinsey, Recreation Supervisor. "The staff loves it because it is something totally different then what we are used to and it also is a fun, safe and supervised activity for pre-teens and teenaged children. It is something different for them to do besides go to the mall or hang out at the movie theater and that is what the kids love about it. Plus, its free ice cream and pizza and what kid doesn't love that."
With all of the kids keeping busy, Ocean City Recreation and Parks has also come up with a few programs that will keep the parents having fun this fall as well. Not only can you enroll in "low impact" aerobics class, a "step it up" aerobics class, adult line dancing and couples line dancing, but Ocean City Recreation and Parks also offers four competitive sports leagues for those die-hard athletic adults.
Starting off the season is the return of Men's Fall Double Header League Softball and the anticipated return of the adult Flag Football League as well as the Co-Rec Adult Fall Volleyball. Starting later this fall is also the return of the Indoor Adult Soccer League, which draws teams from Russia, Romania and several participants from South America.
For the senior citizens of the family, Ocean City Recreation and Parks offers Senior Aerobics, Bingo, Senior Bowling League, Ceramic Classes, Oil Painting, Senior Shuffleboard League, Senior Water Aerobics and a Senior Computer Class.
"It is unbelievable how popular some of our senior programs have become," said Ann Brent, Senior Program Supervisor. "Most of our participants are retired and some are living alone. These programs are a great way to give them a little bit of activity during the week and it is also a great place for them to make lasting friends"
While the majority of the family will have probably found something fun to participate in at Northside Park, Ocean City Recreation and Parks is also offering a program to include the furriest family member this fall. Two obedience courses are offered for your family dog, with both a puppy training course and an obedience course for dogs that trains both advanced and beginner canines.
Not only do the programs at Northside Park promise some physical exercise but they also are a great way for parents and children to socialize outside of the school scene.
"Fall programs are probably one of my favorites of the year," Strickler said. "Its is great because the kids have just started school and we provide them with something to look forward to at the end of the day."
For more information about any of the programs offered at Ocean City Recreation and Parks, call 410-250-0125 or visit www.ococean.com/recprograms.html.


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What do I see for us in the coming year? A lot of changes. Here are my "predictions" based on what I've been seeing and hearing.
- A leveling-off of commercial, for-profit clubs.
The club-building craze will not stop (hundreds more small, "express" clubs on the slate for 2005, plus mega-clubs in construction in large-market areas), but there will be a close-the-doors, going-out-of-business rumble reminiscent of the early 1990s post-recession era.
- Continued growth in the not-for-profit fitness facility sector.
YMCAs, JCCs and hospital-based facilities will grow, both in terms of new facilities and in massive renovation plans.
- Slower net growth in memberships.
New member growth will still move ahead but at a slower pace, and attrition will rear its ugly head at a greater rate this year in part due to the economy, in part due to dissatisfied customers.
- The big will get bigger.
Those who are acquiring clubs, building more clubs and merging with other club organizations will have a banner year.
- Hard times ahead for indistinct ma-and-pa clubs.
Except in rural areas where they may hold on, this year is the beginning of the end for this segment of the fitness market starting in heavy-population and/or high-competition areas.
- The rubber hits the road for tired old mid-sizers.
Ditto the above. This sector has held on for too long because of low debt but has been slowly declining for years. This is the year that the final decay starts.
- More fragmentation of the club marketplace.
The consumer is lucky in 2005. There will be more and better clubs to choose from in all shapes, sizes and prices. Woe to the locked-in, dependent-on-dues clubs.
- Changes in sales and retention.
Feature selling will finally begin to disappear. More effort will be made to establish in-house profit areas and less wasted time and money will be spent on those halfway out the door.
- A move to attract management from outside the industry.
An industry crisis that nobody wants to talk about is that we don't have enough managers at any level to supply the growing demand. And our wage-and-benefits packages are substandard. I see a major shift in this category.
- More mergers and acquisitions.
I see smaller strength equipment companies being bought up by cardio companies or vice-versa in an attempt to compete with big equipment sellers who offer "one-stop shopping." Wrong move, but it'll happen.
- Some poorer players leave the field.
Goodbye to those who have been holding on by a shoestring — both in equipment and services. They won't be able to compete and will lose what market share they've had.
- Specialty players step out.
Those with unique equipment offerings (such as exercise documentation ala computerization or true circuit training capabilities) will flourish.
- Uncle Sam and health care costs.
Reactive care rather than preventive care has us on the verge of a bankrupt medical system. Fitness facilities are the likely place for the beginning of a new health care movement.
- The beginning of reimbursement.
Some insurers, HMOs, PPOs and others will take bold steps to implement proactive exercise measures. The result won't be memberships but short-term documented programs in qualified clubs.
- A slow-growth year.
This is the hardest call of all, but the one on which so much in our industry will be dependent. Early predictions are for a slowdown in earnings growth and capital spending, which means a slower economy and less available discretionary dollars for most folks.
- Some big "ifs."
The war. Record national debt. Higher interest rates. Jobs leaving the country. What effect will each and all of these have on consumers?
- A major player will disappear
Look for one of the major gym chains to either consolidate, re-structure, merge, be acquired or be absorbed in the marketplace.
- A new kid on the block
It is likely that a new club association, organization or alliance will surface.
- The breakup of aerobics.
The majority of clubs lose money with group exercise and will not stand for this much longer. Look for a re-thinking of group exercise in clubs and the emergence of independent group-exercise-only studios (and probably a national chain).
- If clubs don't do it this year, someone else will next year.
It may be the last year for clubs to make an impact with members. If not, our customers will become somebody else's customers…in droves!
And finally, one we can count on: we will all get a year older (and, we hope, wiser) this year. Have a great 2005.
Michael Scott Scudder is a 30-year veteran of the fitness industry. He is president of FITNESS FOCUS, a club management training company. He can be reached at 505-690-5974, by email at email@example.com or at his Web site, www.michaelscottscudder.com.


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Tokyo fashion: pulling power of fashion in this dynamic city of creativity
Tokyo fashion: pulling power of fashion in this dynamic city of creativity
Lee Jay Walker
Modern Tokyo Times
Tokyo is one of the most powerful cities in the world and the fashion scene continues to flourish and grow. Also, the international appeal of Tokyo is making major waves because more and more international musicians desire to be linked to this ultra-modern city.
At the same time animation, kawaii culture, cosplay, and a host of other vibrant areas, are rebranding the image of Tokyo because many young people from all over the world are connecting with the "soft power" of Japan. Therefore, Tokyo and other major cities like Osaka are helping to create "a hip Japan" which appeals to the younger generation.
However, despite the ultra-modern reality of Tokyo and other powerful cities the "old Japan" still survives. Therefore, places like Hakone, Koyasan, Kyoto, Nikko, and a host of other famous places, means that Japan provides something special because of multiple factors and the appeal applies to all generations.
When it comes to fashion then Tokyo is second to none when it applies to choice, exquisite quality, individualism, mainstream fashion and creativity. Therefore, all major international fashion houses want a slice of the Tokyo "apple pie" and this applies to other powerful cities like Osaka.
Clearly Milan, Paris, New York and London are internationally famous but the same also applies to Tokyo. However, the beauty of fashion in Tokyo is that indigenous fashion companies and international companies are based throughout the city.
Therefore, you are spoilt for choice and this applies to major fashion districts like Aoyama, Harajuku, Omotesando, Ginza, Shibuya Shinjuku, Roppongi Hills and other fashion districts like Ikebukuro and Ebisu. Alternatively, you have an abundance of fashion in smaller districts of Tokyo and Daikanyama, Kichijoji, Jiyugaoka, Nakano, Shimo Kitazawa, Naka Meguro and other places provide a more distinctive vibe and each area appeals for different factors. This, therefore, makes Tokyo unique because you have countless areas to visit and other parts of Tokyo like Ueno have their own distinctive feel and energy.
This reality is attracting major musicians to Tokyo and further afield in Japan. Michael Graham, in his article called Japan and the international music industry highlights this reality.
Michael Graham states that "From Lady Gaga to Kanye West, there are not many modern pop artists that haven't done "the Japan thing". This says a lot about how Japan is perceived to the rest of the world. It's modern, it's cool, and it's fun. If you are trying to show your fans that you are the newest biggest thing then you cannot go wrong with including Japanese style in your video's and why not?"
"Japan not only brings us some of the latest fashion, technology and art but its music industry is one of the most sophisticated and cutting edge in the world."
Michael Graham continues by stating that "This trend in music and Japan continues to be ever more present in modern music and does not show any signs of going away. You can look back at earlier artists such as Gwen Stefani because her music videos were covered in Japanese art and style. Gwen Stefani even brought out a clothing range inspired by Japanese clothing and her backing dancers were the Harajuku Girls. Therefore she could not have been anymore Japanese if she had tried."
"The list seems to be endless of videos or artists that use Japan for style and image and it looks set to continue. I for one cannot get enough of it!"
Therefore, the fashion scene in Tokyo is very potent and the same applies to modern Japanese culture which is making headway internationally and other famous musicians like Courtney Love simply adore Tokyo fashion.
Aoyama and Omotesando provide sophisticated fashion and both places are full of chic and style because you have endless exquisite boutiques to visit. At the same time, it is clear that architecture is important and this provides the icing on top of the cake because you can feel the passion, creativity and the buildings match the crème de la crème fashion which is provided by both international and Japanese fashion companies in these two districts of Tokyo.
In Aoyama alone you will find many panache and exquisite fashion companies and this applies to Comme des Garcons, 10 Corso Como, L'eclaireur, Prada, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Artisan, Loveless, Stella McCartney, Mark Jacobs, Bathing Ape, Tsumori Chisato, Diane Von Furstenberg, Undercover, Design Works, Frapbois, and many others like Deuxieme Classe.
The energy of exquisite fashion and individualistic fashion designers can be felt through the entire area which links Aoyama, Omotesando, Harajuku and Shibuya. In many ways Omotesando represents all the beauty of this area because it links high quality fashion companies with independent and stylish boutiques and in the backstreets you can find "street fashion."
Harajuku and Shibuya are global names for the younger international generation and like Michael Graham commented Gwen Stefani was inspired by Japan and her backing dancers were called the Harajuku Girls. Harajuku, therefore, is a major pulling power and the name sells itself.
The independent nature and creative spirit of companies like 6%DOKIDOKI means that the culture of Tokyo is influencing the younger generation in cities like London, Paris, New York and a host of other major cities. Therefore, kawaii culture, cosplay, Dolly-kei, fantasy fashion, Visual kei, Lolita and other trends are changing the image of Japan and independent companies like 6%DOKIDOKI, Grimoire, Macaronic, Candy and others are spreading a unique and distinctive fashion scene.
Internationally famous designers like Issey Miyake, Rei Kawakubo and Yohji Yamamoto provided a strong image for Japanese fashion and their energy was noticeable in the 1980s and onwards. Yet younger designers and famous individuals are changing the evolving fashion scene and Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Sebastian Masuda, Rei Kawakubo, Nobu Kitamura, Junya Watanabe, Takashi Aoki, Tsumori Chisato, Yoshie Itabashi, Kuniko Kato, Chiharu Kikuchi, and others, are all maintaining the freshness of fashion in Japan alongside companies like Grimoire and Candy.
Fashion is not about famous individuals it is about new vibes, new trends, keeping a fresh outlook and not remaining static. Therefore, Issey Miyake, Sebastian Masuda, Yohji Yamamoto, Takashi Aoki, and other fantastic designers add their own individual spark and energy. This spark in turn reaches far and wide and continues to draw in new designers who constantly maintain the freshness of fashion in Japan. Also, every so often unique designers emerge like Sebastian Masuda and they come along and bring a new angle and edge and each individual designer compliments the entire fashion industry.
6%DOKIDOKI, Candy, Grimoire, Macaronic, Metamorphose temps de fille, Alice and the Pirates, and other unique fashion companies are maintaining a bright spark. This energy can be felt internationally because the energetic vibe that they are creating is enabling Tokyo fashion to reach out to the international community.
Nobu Kitamura and Gwen Stefani sum up the nature of fashion because while Nobu Kitamura and Hysteric Glamour was influenced heavily by American culture. The singer Gwen Stefani is fascinated by Japanese culture and in her song she sang "My boyfriend bought me a Hysteric Glamour shirt. They're hard to find in the States, got me feeling couture."
The influence of cross cultural fashion and unique fashion companies can be found throughout Tokyo. Therefore, irrespective if you are an avid fan of Tracy Reese, Hysteric Glamour, Prada, SmackyGlam, Grimoire, Metamorphose temps de fille, 6%Dokidoki, Comme des Garcons, Macaronic, Alice and the Pirates, 10 Corso Como, L'eclaireur, Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, Candy, Artisan, Loveless, Stella McCartney, Mark Jacobs, Bathing Ape and many other amazing fashion companies, the simple fact is that you have choice in abundance in Tokyo.
In another article I wrote about fashion I stated that "Kawaii culture in Tokyo goes back several decades but this unique style which belongs to Japan continues to develop and modify. 6%DOKIDOKI is part and parcel of kawaii culture and the ongoing vibrancy of this unique style. However, Sebastian Masuda does not pertain to any single style because he is a creator and styles come from 6%DOKIDOKI. Therefore, Sebastian Masuda is not a follower of fashion but he is a rare creator of fashion and styles."
Therefore, it matters not what the fashion label is because fashion for some companies can never be fully pinned down because they are always evolving.
Tokyo is set to continue and prosper in the fashion sector and the international image will also grow because of the vibrant nature of modern Japan. Therefore, the magnet of Tokyo will continue to attract younger generations from all over the world who love fashion and this dynamic and creative city will continue to lead and inspire.
http://www.dokidoki6.com/ (6%DOKIDOKI website)
http://sebastianz.jugem.jp/ (Sebastian Masuda – also, please read about the Mighty Harajuku Project)
http://tokyofashion.com/6dokidoki-world-tour-harajuku-kawaii-experience/ (Many images of 6%DOKIDOKI)
http://sanyo-i.jp – Sanyo i Store (Sanyo Shokai Ltd)


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Loaded gun found in Brookfield church
A loaded gun was found inside a church in the Town of Brookfield last week.
According to a police report, a church staff member found the gun in a bathroom at Elmbrook Church on March 19 and approached a security guard.
Elmbrook Church told WISN 12 News a service for home-schooled elementary children was going on at the time, and the bathroom where the gun was found was accessible to those children.
An Oconomowoc woman who had been at the church for Bible study called later looking for the weapon, saying she had put it down to use the restroom and forgot it.
The church said the gun's safety was on, and no one was hurt.
In a statement the church said, "We do not restrict the ability to lawfully carry a weapon. We take the safety and security of our members and guests very seriously and believe that our internal protocols were followed and served to protect those in attendance that morning. No children were in the immediate area at the time of the incident."
Police said they have referred the case to the Waukesha County District Attorney's Office.
The District Attorney's Office told WISN News it has sent a letter to the woman giving her an opportunity for a pre-charging conference.


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Lauren loves hanging out in her room on her shag rug with her cat, Boris. Boris also sleeps in Lauren's bed and spends hours cleaning himself on the windowsill.
Lauren's asthma symptoms have been getting worse, though, so Lauren's doctor sent her to see an allergist. The allergist did a skin test and found that Lauren is allergic to animals. In other words, Lauren's allergic to Boris.
It's not the animal's fur that's the main problem. People can be allergic to birds as well. When people are allergic to animals, they're actually allergic to proteins found in:
Aside from carrying dander, saliva, or urine, fur can collect dust mites, pollen, mold, and other allergens. The droppings of caged animals — like hamsters — can attract mold and dust mites.
Although some people say that certain breeds of dogs or cats don't cause allergic reactions, that's not the case. All warm-blooded animals can cause allergic reactions.
If your pet triggers your asthma, especially if your asthma is severe, the best thing might be to find it another home. This is difficult to do, though. So if your doctor says it's OK, you may be able to try these steps first:
If you have a bird, gerbil, or other small caged animal, move the cage out of your room. Make sure your pet stays in its cage at all times. Have someone else clean the cage daily. Also make sure that the pet's cage isn't near any drafts. If the cage is sitting next to a heating or cooling vent, it could blow pet allergens through the room.
If you try all these things and are still having lots of asthma flare-ups, you might need to find another home for your pet. This is likely to be pretty upsetting for you and other members of your family.
You may feel lots of different emotions — from sadness to anger. These feelings might be so strong that they make it hard to eat, sleep, or concentrate. This is a natural part of losing something that is precious to you.
How you handle things depends on your personality. You may want to be so busy so that you aren't home to miss your pet, or you may want to spend time every day looking at pictures of you together.
There is no right or wrong way to handle feelings of loss. You might find it helpful to talk about it with friends, family, or a counselor.
It takes months for an animal's allergens to leave the house, so it might take a while before your symptoms improve. Even if you no longer have a pet at home, you're still going to be around animals from time to time. If you go to house where there is a pet, take any prescription allergy medicine before going and have your quick-relief medicine with you.
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Date reviewed: January 2014
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2010 midseason update!posted June 7th, 2010 by john
The 2010 season is in full swing. Some highlights:
- At the 4-11 AI event, no BDR member lost to anyone who wasn't also a BDR member: Dan 1st in AS; John/Travis 1st/2nd in STX; Slava/Mei/Ben 1st/2nd/3rd in STS.
- John and Travis split the first two WDCR points events. Travis won the "need to be careful and patient" event, with John taking the "need to be loud and crazy" event.
- Ed, Ben and Mark have all had excellent CDC finishes including Mark picking up 98 index points at the 5-29 event.
- John had the 4th fastest time overall and top time on street tires at the 4-17 BMWCCA event.
- PAX results have been very solid this year for everyone.
To keep up to date with project:BDR goings on, you can:
It seems pointless, but there may be a Twitter feed / Facebook page at some point since that's where all this "new media" jazz seems to be headed.


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SOCHI, Russia (AP) — For a man with a bit of explaining to do to the folks back home, Inge Andersen didn't seem terribly concerned as he ate a late breakfast Monday at the Norway House.
The head of the Norwegian Olympic Committee had more things to worry about than the stunning collapse of his country's men's cross-country relay team a day earlier, or the even more disastrous showing by the women on long skis the day before that.
There was talk Vladimir Putin might drop by for a visit. Later in the day, King Harald V would arrive along with Queen Sonja to get a closer look at how the country's athletes are doing at the Winter Olympics.
The royal couple was flying on a charter with other Norwegian tourists, Andersen said. One reason the king — who turns 77 on Friday — is so popular in Norway is that he's a man of the people, so no private jets for him.
"The best birthday present for him would be some medals," Andersen said. "He knows sports so well and loves to be with the athletes."
If Andersen was lucky, the king didn't read the morning papers. Splashed across the pages and accompanying websites were the faces of Norway's defeated cross-country stars.
The shock wasn't just so much that the Norwegians lost the races, though that was bad enough. It was that their next-door neighbors, those uppity Swedes, won both.
The newspaper Dagbladet ran a picture on its website of the four Swedish team members celebrating as Norwegian anchor Petter Northug crossed the finish line a minute behind, with a "Warning, strong images" disclaimer normally reserved for violence and gore.
"Humiliated by the Swedes — again!" read Verdens Gang.
This wasn't the way the Sochi Games were supposed to play out for the small country that almost always comes up big in the Winter Olympics. With its cross-country and biathlon athletes expected to dominate, there were predictions in the Norwegian media that the country might win 15 gold medals, maybe as many as 35 overall.
There was even a chance Norway could be the biggest winner of all in Sochi.
Not that the country has completely tanked. Any other country its size would be thrilled with the 14 medals won through Monday, including 5 gold, that put it fourth in the medal standings.
But there's a reason Norway — where 2.1 million of 5 million residents belong to sports clubs — has won more medals than any country in the Olympics. It wants desperately to be known as a winter sports powerhouse, not just as the home of those curlers with the crazy pants.
"Norway is a winter country," said Roy Wahlstrom, a journalist at Dagbladet. "There's a popular saying at home that Norwegians are born with skis on their feet."
Those skis were sluggish in the soft snow in the cross country relays, where the loss of gold that seemed almost guaranteed overshadowed even the super G win Sunday by Kjetil Jansrud. That gold was nice, but Norway is used to winning the super G every Olympics, so it hardly deadened the pain.
"It's difficult to accept that you fail at the Olympics when the expectations were gold," said Svein-Erik Nilsen, a ski wax company representative who was standing with a Norwegian flag near the cross-country finish line. "It's been two bad days. If you were betting this it would be 9,000-1, maybe 10,000-1 against this happening, especially with the women."
Indeed, the Norwegian women seemed particularly unbeatable in the 4x5-kilometer cross-country team relay on Saturday. Norway was not only the defending champion but had not lost a women's relay in any major competition in five years.
But the Swedes — yes, those Swedes — rallied from behind on the final leg and the Norwegians faded to an almost unthinkable fifth-place finish.
"That hurts because this is our national sport," Andersen said. "I have to congratulate Sweden because we are neighbors, we are brothers and sisters. But at the end it's important that we have more medals than Sweden."
That shouldn't be a problem, with Norway still ahead 14-9 in total medals with expectations of more in the biathlon, Nordic combined and cross-country skiing. Still, the Norwegian angst at losing medals the country almost took for granted was matched by the Swedish glee at snatching a few from their smaller neighbor.
"You can't have them all. Leave a few for your neighbors," Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf said after Sunday's race. "We're supposed to be brothers and share."
Sharing is something Norway hasn't been very good at since winning nine golds and 20 medals overall in 1992 and then following that with an even better performance at home in Lillehammer two years later. Aside from a mediocre 2006 Olympics, Norway has been near the top of the medal count in every Winter Games since, and led all nations with 303 medals, including 107 gold, coming into Sochi.
Northug, who likes to taunt Swedes by doing such things as wearing a t-shirt saying "Second place is also very good," blamed the relay loss on a bad combination of skis and wax.
"This isn't a power shift," he insisted.
But the weekend clearly stung, and then it got worse. Aksel Lund Svindal, who won three medals at the 2010 Vancouver Games and was expected to be a star in Sochi, pulled out of Wednesday's giant slalom, citing exhaustion, after failing to win a medal in three races.
And the curlers with the wild pants must play a tiebreaker to get in the semifinals after losing to Denmark 5-3.
But the king and queen were on their way, and for Andersen better days seemed ahead. There were still medals to be won, an Olympics to be salvaged.
And, of course, some Swedes to beat.
Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at firstname.lastname@example.com or http://twitter.com/timdahlberg


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Well boxes are being packed and my inner OCD is FREAKING out! Living in a house that you are packing, well there is just no keeping it neat and clean. On top of that March Madness has begun....I panicked a little when I wrote this on Friday!
Does your March look like this???
On another note Friday was favorite book character day. I went as the Paper Bag Princess. If you haven't read that book it's a MUST. Also here are some of my great co-workers and their costumes!
And finally...my daughter also had favorite character dress up on Friday, she went as a sassy Pinkalicious


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Why a New Version?During the whole time, I've been constantly gathering user feedback and looking at other products in the same field and have kept asking myself "what is the most important thing to do next?". Eventually, two main points started to emerge, that could not be addressed by software alone:
- I find that the paradigm of controlling I/O pins remotely (i.e. from an off-board processor) using a high-level Java API works really well. It has proven really great when you can seamlessly move your connection from wired to wireless or when you can easily integrate the capabilities of the host (Android) with the capabilities that IOIO adds. It has proven great when users with Java-only background could now easily be able to communicate with hardware, without needing to write any embedded code and without needing to develop a communication protocol themselves. I believe this paradigm can be just as useful for the PC world. Currently, the standard way to control I/O from a PC is to use an Arduino or a similar board, and having to write two separate programs which communicate with each other. The bandwidth in this case would be typically limited to 115Kb/s, which is far less than what USB is capable of.
- IOIO is too expensive. Not for business reasons, because there's hardly any competition, and making it cheaper might actually decrease net revenue. But my goal is increasing the number of units sold and the number of happy users. I'd consider this project a success if IOIO became something everybody knows and loves, and considered the standard and obvious solution for enhancing a host computer with I/O capabilities.


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U of A student government votes against guns on campus
University of Arkansas student representatives on Tuesday debated and voted against attempts by state legislators to allow faculty and staff to carry firearms on campus.
After two hours of debate, the Associated Student Government voted against Senate Resolution 35, which would have supported a measure authored by Rep. Charlie Collins of Fayetteville in the state legislature to allow University faculty and staff to carry concealed weapons inside University buildings and on school property. Just hours before, Rep. Collins's bill passed through the House Education Committee, and now heads to a vote of the full House.
Collins made amendments to his bill after students and faculty voiced opposition to the bill at local legislative forums. The changes allow schools to opt-out of eliminating their gun-free zones, but only if their Board of Trustees votes to do so annually. Student senators at the University of Arkansas on Tuesday voted not to support the policy.
"You're essentially putting a red dot on every faculty and staff member's head," ASG Sen. Ashton Williams said. "Having sought out the opinion of [University of Arkansas students], it was obvious how they would vote if they could, and I have the privilege to do so for them."
Several university employees spoke in opposition to the bill Tuesday, including Director of Fulbright College Honor Studies Dr. Sidney Burris, who started an online petition to fight against it. The petition has garnered almost 2,000 signatures in less than three weeks, according to a ASG news release.
Students voted down a resolution which would have allowed students to carry guns on campus as well, and passed a resolution supporting the University's current gun-free policy.


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Programmers Palettes
preview: http://paulwratt.github.io/programmers-palettes/ (HW-MSX only atm)
palettes for programmers, developers, and designers.
https://github.com/paulwratt/programmer ... aster/docs
an extensive suppliment to gimp-palettes by @denilsonsa
Is anyone interest in this sort of thing?
I thought it might be of interest, because after the shell scripts are developed (using HW-CGA), the next palette I was going to do is the DawnBringer16 mentioned here then the DawnBringer32
https://github.com/paulwratt/programmer ... master/bin
is there any other useful conversion outputs people might use, or palette files, or code output:
https://github.com/paulwratt/programmer ... FORMATS.md
I am planning on add palette files as I need them, but atm I am leaving (Atari) 256 color palettes till later (default.pal nvdi.pal common.pal), and I am not 100% sure what format one might use on 8bit hardware (or even if they can be used), except for MSX2+ VDP palettes


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This was for an iTunes project to coincide with the launch of the Black Eyed Peas album "Monkey Business". The photos were used in an iTunes exclusive downloadable Special Edition album "digital booklet". The video from this production was edited as a music video available on iTunes, and also used as the NAB 2005 demo for Final Cut Pro.Read More


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LOS ANGELES - Josh Brolin thought he was just being goofy when he launched into a Tommy Lee Jones impersonation on a night out with the Coen brothers and their pal Barry Sonnenfeld. Turns out, Brolin was on an audition of sorts.
Four years later, Brolin shows his Jones act to the world in Sonnenfeld's "Men in Black 3," playing a young version of Jones' Agent K opposite Will Smith's Agent J as the sci-fi comedy franchise returns after a 10-year break.
After the Directors Guild Awards in 2008, Brolin went out on the town with Joel and Ethan Coen, who had just won the top honor for "No Country for Old Men," their crime thriller that co-starred Jones and Brolin. Sonnenfeld, the cinematographer on the Coens' first three films, had won a TV prize for "Pushing Daisies" at the guild honors and joined them afterward, meeting Brolin for the first time.
Brolin had everyone laughing as he shifted into an imitation of Jones' melodic drawl.
He had no idea that years earlier, Smith had suggested a sequel idea in which Agent J travels back in time and encounters the younger incarnation of Jones' stone-faced Agent K.
When it came time to shoot "Men in Black 3," that was the story-line, and Sonnenfeld knew just the right guy to call.
"Barry was like, `Hey, Brolin! You want to be in "Men in Black"? It's fun!' And I was like, `Yeah, I love "Men in Black." But as what? Like, Agent Q or Agent Whatever?'" Brolin said. "And Barry said, `No, to play young Tommy! Remember, you did that impression for me?'
"There's one thing about being out at a bar with Barry and doing stupid impressions of Tommy Lee Jones with the Coens, and then there's another thing where somebody's telling you to do a movie that's going to be screening all over the planet."
Brolin, 44, has taken on tough interpretations before, earning acclaim as President George W. Bush in "W." and receiving an Academy Award nomination for "Milk" as San Francisco city supervisor Dan White, the man who killed fellow supervisor Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.
But Brolin said doing a credible take on Jones' Agent K may have been the most-challenging acting job he's had, requiring subtle humor as straight man to Smith while making the younger K his own man and not just a caricature.
Brolin holed up at a Mexican hotel practicing his Agent K routine syllable by syllable, eventually going out to restaurants there and speaking like a young Jones.
"Then, once I felt like I had conquered Mexico, I could come back to California and try it on a few people here, see if that worked, then try it on my friends," Brolin recalled. "Then I'd go through half days of doing nothing but Tommy."
"Men in Black 3" is the third movie featuring Jones and Brolin, after "No Country" and "In the Valley of Elah." The movie begins and ends in present times, with Smith's J, as always, trying to draw out Jones' taciturn sad-sack K. The mid-section sends J back to 1969, where a nasty alien plots to kill Brolin's young K so he can carry out an invasion of Earth in the future.
Sonnenfeld has vivid memories of that night with the Coens, when he first met Brolin. What struck Sonnenfeld more than Brolin's Jones impersonation was a physical feature the two actors share.
"What I remember," said the director, "is, oh my God, this man is the only person on the planet that has a head as physically as huge as Tommy Lee Jones."


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The consortium encompasses 22 institutions in North America, Europe, Australia and South America. Researchers will collaborate on investigations of the genetic causes for the high rates of schizophrenia in children and adults with the disorder. Approximately 25 to 30 percent of teens and young adults with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome go on to develop schizophrenia, compared with only 1 percent of the general population.
"This funding will provide us with the opportunity to mount a virtually worldwide collaborative effort to identify the risk and protective factors for psychiatric illness in this very high-risk population," said Tony J. Simon, a cognitive neuroscientist and professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences who directs the 22q11.2 deletion syndrome program at the MIND Institute.
"This consortium brings together 22 clinical and five basic science sites with extremely dedicated clinicians who are working together to improve patient care and long term-outcomes for people with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome," he said.
The condition affects an estimated 1 in 2,000 to 4,000 people and is characterized by congenital heart defects that often require surgery, an opening in the roof of the mouth, immune system dysfunction, and significant feeding and swallowing issues. Most children have developmental delays or learning disabilities and delayed language acquisition.
Some children also may be diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), obsessive-compulsive disorder or anxiety. Later in life, people with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome are at an increased risk of developing psychiatric illnesses such as depression and anxiety, as well as schizophrenia.
All of the consortium sites have extensive experience with applying genomic and brain-behavior strategies to study individuals with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and schizophrenia. Together, they have provided data on 1,000 genetically and phenotypically characterized individuals with the syndrome, the largest such available sample to date. The consortium's genomic efforts will include whole-genome sequencing to uncover genetic variation that may contribute to the heterogeneity of neuropsychiatric and neurobehavioral phenotypes of schizophrenia and psychosis.
"The knowledge that this endeavor will generate will accelerate progress towards early identification and therapeutic intervention for those at greatest risk and will benefit millions throughout the world, whether they have 22q11.2 deletion syndrome or not," Simon said.
Other sites in the United States include the University of Pennsylvania Health System, the 22q and You Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, UCLA, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Duke University, Emory University and the State University of New York Syracuse. Other sites are located in Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Israel, Australia and Chile.