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Here is a wonderful thought-provoking post from Sara at The Kingdom of Broken Bread. I especially love the last two paragraphs.
On Power: My Conversion From Religious Conservatism
Undergirding these structures are always religions of some sort. Even with the arrival of a god-less creation story, the religion of no religion is still a religion. Darwin's theory has served as a myth of origins to give moral commission for the advance of humanity, the pinnacle of evolutionary process. Humans alone possess the power to observe how the world works and this higher knowledge has allowed us to conquer disease, advance our technologies and make moral choices. Indeed, with our elaborate power structures, once seen as a way to mediate God's authority to the world, it is not surprising that the structures themselves would begin to replace God. After so long, with so little change, these fixtures seemed permanent, functioning to keep the wheels of politics, society, industry and innovation turning like clockwork.
The old traditions still have their proponents, of course. I once read a book that delineated the structures of Christian society into such neat hierarchies of church, family and state, that it was hailed by the publisher as a definitive work on the subject. I was quite taken with it at the time; it seemed to hold so much promise for the enlightenment of a world sitting in confused darkness. And then I met someone, or rather fell in love. He was actually the one who loaned the book to me, and then we started dating. But it was during one of our romantic, late night theological discussions that he dropped the proverbial anvil. "I really don't think there is a place for a Christian state. Every argument I've ever heard was just repeating Romans 13." In other words, he had begun to suspect that there really wasn't that much to go on. It was Romans 13 plus a whole lot of elaborate schematization that was needed to support the pillarized theory of Christian society.
My mind began scrolling through the paradigm. Israel had both a kingly and priestly function, divided that way through Moses and Aaron. That served, for covenant theologians at least, as a foundation for the state and church, right? But then the image of Christ enthroned in heaven, both as king and high priest, flashed through my brain. Weren't the two functions merged into one in the person of Christ? And didn't he begin a new kind of society from out of Israel itself? And didn't he make everyone who was part of that society both king and priest? I felt a large crack, almost audible, appear in my stable worldview. Light was filtering through, and God was wriggling out of my firm grasp like a muscled, slippery, wet fish.
That was just the beginning. It was not long before I began to pose the question, "What would the Bible and history look like if it were not read from the top looking down, with all of its structured hierarchies, but from the bottom looking up?" My worldview began to take on an entirely new shape. From N.T. Wright's "The New Testament and the People of God", I learned to read Jesus from the perspective of the Jew who had never quite recovered from the state of exile. From John Howard Yoder's "The Politics of Jesus", I began to see that taking up the cross didn't just mean bearing our own difficult burdens in life, it meant being on the wrong end, politically, of an imperial justice system. And through wide reading from many perspectives and disciplines, a clearer picture began to emerge as to just how imperial and oppressive my own history, as a US American Christian, actually was. I began to see colonization and industrialization from the perspective of the Native Americans, Australian Aborigines and African tribes, from the bottom looking up. I read of malappropriated lands, polluted rivers and razed forests, which once provided food, water and fuel for their previous inhabitants. Now they must work long hours in factories and corporate industry farms, every day, to make toys and games and chocolate for us to enjoy, while barely scraping enough to eat from their meager pay. I read how the World Bank uses loan sharks to persuade a country's rulers to go into debt. The loan goes to multinational corporations to set up their infrastructures which benefit a few rich, while the debt goes to the people who cannot repay it and must then become the labor force for the rest. And if the president refuses the loan, they are soon after killed in a tragic accident. But the next one usually takes it. And I read how missionaries were used as spies to destabilize tribal resistance to such predators. And how indigenous children were stolen from their families and forced to attend Christian boarding schools well into the 1960's in order to enculturate them to the white, Christian ways. I read how the missionaries always followed the armies and forts into the Western territories of Dakota and other Native peoples. And how Romans 13 was quoted by Lutherans in Germany when Hitler came to power. I read how SWAT teams invade homes in the ghetto and you can get shot if you even move, or if you are a little girl sleeping on the couch, even when they get the wrong address for a drug raid. And how these events happen every day, but go unreported. And how armies invade other countries to bring them freedom by deposing a tyrant, but somehow only depose tyrants in oil rich countries and ignore the rest, and somehow feel the need to stabilize oil rigs before stabilizing villages, and somehow end up staying and building permanent bases, and somehow the multinational corporations get the aid money to set up their infrastructures.
And I could go on. Needless to say, I found things a bit different from the glossed over account of history in the Christian curricula from my homeschooled days. An account gushing with God's favor upon those who emerged victorious. Yet nothing was ever said about those who lost their ancient homelands. The account was from the top looking down.
And here is the place to quote Walter Brueggemann. Looking to the Biblical narrative and Moses' prophetic stance against Egypt he writes, "We will not understand the meaning of prophetic imagination unless we see the connection between the religion of static triumphalism and the politics of oppression and exploitation…The gods of Egypt are the immovable lords of order. They call for, sanction, and legitimate a society of order, which was precisely what Egypt had. In Egypt,…there were no revolutions, no breaks for freedom. There were only the necessary political and economic arrangements to provide order, "naturally," the order of Pharaoh. Thus the religion of the static gods is not and never could be disinterested, but inevitably served the interests of the people in charge, presiding over the order and benefiting from the order. And the functioning of that society testified to the rightness of the religion because kings did prosper and bricks did get made." (Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination) Thus it was the function of the Egyptian religion to determine a static system of roles in order to keep everyone in their place.
Oh, how I detest the religion of fixed roles. I was told that because I was a woman I could never teach in church and that my place was in the home under my husband's "headship." And there were plenty of Bible verses to back it up. Yet somehow I could not reconcile that which I was not allowed to question with the vision of full participation that I saw elsewhere in Scripture, indeed, almost everywhere else. When I read of Abraham, I was Abraham. I was there somehow when that terrible sleep encompassed him and the torch passed between the divided animal carcasses. And the Holy One spoke in symbols, "So be it to me if I do not keep my promise to you." And I was Jacob, wrestling with God and not letting him go. Gripping flesh and not heeding pain until I limped away with the blessing of my deepest desires, which I had not known before I began wrestling. But I was not supposed to go there. I was breaking the rules. I was meant for other things. Like sitting on the sidelines as a spectator, waiting for Prince Charming to rescue me after I watched and applauded his valiant fight with the dragon. Ah, the Imperial Ego. It dragged me through Sunday mornings, choking on the array of chemical scents that formed a halo around the Moral Ones, and cowering under paste smeared faces, stuffed into shiny, hard shoes that squeezed my toes and clothes that prevented the freedom of my body by forcing me to be on constant guard that my underwear was not showing. I was a fish out of water, but made to feel that if I did not conform I was rebelling against God.
I no longer believe in that God. I do not worship the white Christ of dominion, fixed hierarchy, colonization, oppression and repression. God is the God of freedom. He doesn't function according to our neat, imperial categories. God's power is dynamic, always moving and always bringing those on the bottom, the prisoners, the exiled, those bowed down physically and those held down under imperial oppression, up to his side. The Apostle Paul knew this. His letters often were in response to questions about how the church should behave in a hostile, patriarchal society. Perhaps he felt a little like Samuel did when the Israelites demanded a king like the nations around them. His response was to get the power dynamic rolling, not to set up a static system of inequality. Slaves, wives, children, you are all on the bottom in this imperial society, so I am asking you to submit, that Christ might bring you upward . And those on top, the patriarchs, go down, kneel, and be like the Christ who lifts up those who are down. Because Christ went down from his place of power and lifted up those who were bowed down and seated them beside himself. As God raised Christ from the dead and seated him beside himself. So God is in Christ and Christ is in God and we are in Christ and Christ is in us, for in God we all live and move and have our being. It is not a static, fixed order, but a fluid, dynamic one, like the creation, the dance of the stars and seasons, the bonding and unbonding of atomic particles. All is perfect order, yet none of it of a static nature. It is a dynamic interplay of roles, like the blood that courses through the body that is joined to a head so the two might become one flesh. It is a profound mystery. And where the apostle leaves off talking about human relationships and goes into doxological stammerings of wonderment at the relationship of Christ and the Church is often hard to determine. He is so enamored with Jesus that all discussions trail off into open-ended mystery, of ways of being yet to be dreamed of. Exist peacefully with the Imperial order, each in their place, because a change is just around the corner.
Yet Paul is also a product of his times. His views cannot help but be shaped by the culture, language and history of which he is a part. Yes, God's Spirit breathes and penetrates through those, but never to the point of creating a static, ahistorical, universal system of truth. Truth is always relational. God allowed different viewpoints and perspectives by various authors of the Scriptures, yet taken together they form a unified narrative. The author of Judges seems to promote the idea that a king was what Israel needed. Samuel did not. And the prophetic tradition was usually against the king. And perhaps some things are left on purpose as unresolved plot tensions, awaiting the readers' response as they contemplate the larger narrative. Creation, Fall, the calling of Abraham, the creation of Israel from slavery in Egypt, their fall into idolatry and subsequent exile, the coming of Jesus to bring about a new exodus and a new creation humanity, to the formation of the Church, called out from every tribe and nation to be God's ministers of reconciliation in the world and to be raised at the last day when the whole creation is released from its bondage to death. Our task is to read the Scriptures faithfully and to take them as they are, in all their diversity and mystery and unresolved plot conflict. To realize the unified narrative and yet not repeat it verbatim as if it were a script or rulebook. We respond not with systematic theologies, fixed orders and imperialistically static roles, but with faithful improvisation, as actors in an unfinished play. And we read it from the bottom looking up.
The story of Israel has been a history lived from the bottom looking up. They were slaves in Egypt, wanderers of the wilderness. When they possessed land, they turned to other gods. Gods that were predictable. Gods that could guarantee that the storehouses would be full if their practical systems of production, labor and economy were implemented. Who wanted the unpredictable God of the wilderness, who only gave enough manna for one day? "We want a king like the other nations!" they begged. And so they were forced to build Solomon's empire and send their sons to die in his wars and send the fruit of their hard earned labor to his table. Oh, there was a surplus of food, and they all got a share of it, but they had no time. Day after day, there was nothing new under the sun. Rise, work, go to bed, then rise again the next day until they put you in your final bed with its blanket of sod. The best you can do is be happy with what you've got, stay in your place, and keep the wheels of industry turning to fill the tables of kings with sweets and trifles.
The prophets came, disrupting the daily cycles. They predicted droughts when the Baals promised eternal seasons. They were sustained in the wilderness by ravens who brought food each day. They defied gravity, floating ax heads, they turned bitter stews into nourishing food. Armies were sent after them and were struck blind. They humiliated kings. They walked around naked and starving, crying out that Israel was left destitute while everyone feasted around them. They defied every static, imperial claim to order. They were disorderly, dirty, dwelling in caves and wearing camel hair. And saying crazy things like "Every valley shall be exalted and every hill made low before the coming of the Lord." And when the dynasty ended, when the survivors found themselves enslaved in Babylon, they understood. But it was too late.
When Jesus came, it was not to those favored by the Empire, who helped keep the people in their proper roles through the temple system. It was to those who might not have known where the next meal would come from and who watched Imperial soldiers march outside of their windows on a daily basis. He went to the unclean, the shepherds, prostitutes, demon possessed, lepers and fishermen, who were not allowed to be touched by moral people. And to them was given the vision of the victor on the white horse, though when he was among them he rode a baby donkey. To those who were surrounded by horses and chariots on every side, announcing the Pax Romana, the peace that Caesar brought when he colonized the nations, bringing law, order, stability, predictability, transportation systems, sewer systems, economic systems. And at last life could be for everyone a long, deathless now. As long as everyone stayed in their place. Diverse religions were tolerated, but were relegated to hopes of the afterlife, something to look forward to if you kept in your proper place. They functioned to support the empire, for after all, the empire looked after you in this life and you should be willing to defend it if you were truly grateful.
And so the god of predictability and satiation was paid homage to daily. And the wheels kept turning. And those crushed under it cried out, but no one heard their cries. Because in the system the cries did not exist. Only lazy people, social misfits and criminals would defy the Order. They were the workers of Chaos, which the Order successfully vanquished. Babylon, the castle of the great Marduk, whose throne the king represented, had conquered the chaos beast, the sea goddess Tiamet, dismembering her carcass and creating the cosmos out of her slain parts. The forces of chaos, the defeated gods and goddesses, were forced to serve Marduk and his allies. Yet the defeated gods were still gods, still royalty, and so to serve them, Tiamet's consort Kingu was slain, and humanity fashioned from his blood, to be servants of all the gods. (see the description of the Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation myth, in Truth is Stranger Than It Used to Be by J. Richard Middleton and Brian Walsh)
Thus the Empire of Order has its national allies. And it has its deposed and defeated nations as well, but these it still treats well. Their people can still serve their own kings, if everyone cooperates, and the kings are guests in the emperor's palace. And the wheel keeps turning, all is well in the land. Now and then challengers come to disrupt the security that people call freedom, but they are quickly crushed by the military might of the empire. Lives are lost, but sacrifices are sometimes needed to maintain the Order. And the Empire memorializes those who are sacrificed, because the Empire is the Empire that cares.
One of these sacrifices, one of the criminals that the Empire had to do away with, because he was disrupting the peace, (and order must be maintained or civilization collapses) became a bit of a problem. They didn't want to kill him, because they thought he was an innocent man, but they had to, or chaos would have broken loose. That could have been the end of the story. But for some reason, his little band of followers kept claiming that he had come back to life. And they wouldn't go away. And some had prophetic visions that the Empire was the chaos beast from the sea, and that a greater God, who had just been leading it along, frolicking with it as if it was a toy, had grown tired of its boasting and angry at the innocent blood it devoured, and decided to end its reign. "In one hour such great wealth has been brought to ruin!" (Revelation 18:17)
And the wheel stopped turning for a second. The treaders stopped treading and turned their gray, tired faces upward for a moment. Was that hope? Was there an echo of something, somewhere? A different sort of freedom than that of order and security. A completely new creation, a new way of being. Full participation and inheritance for all. The supervisor gave a stern glance and the wheel started up again. But when the whistle blew, the workers started home under the smog choked stars and over the ash covered streets, and their step was just a little lighter, and a few of them cast knowing glances toward each other. And from somewhere beyond, where there were gardens and forests with deer and singing birds and the scent of real pine that the janitor would not have recognized, came a breeze. And on the breeze, a whisper. Just barely audible. "Alleluia. He lives."


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May 12, 2014
If you agreed with the overwhelmingly lukewarm consensus outlook for the municipal bond market in 2014, you would be pleasantly mistaken after the first quarter. The consensus view called for muted municipal returns due to rising rates on the back of continued Federal Reserve tapering and a strengthening economy. In fact, the municipal market is off to a blistering start! What happened?
Two key factors led to solid returns for the municipal market in the first quarter of 2014:
Treasury market rates have rallied as a result of weaker-than-expected economic data (potentially weather related), economic growth concerns in Europe and the emerging markets, and the Russian annexation of Crimea from the Ukraine. This series of events led to a "flight to quality" and lower U.S. Treasury rates. Municipal rates are directionally correlated to U.S. Treasury rates.
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10-year municipal bond yield vs. 10-year treasury yield
Data: MMD, as of April 2014. 10-year municipal bond represented by the AAA general obligation 10-year municipal bonds.
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As we entered the first quarter of 2014, the municipal market was primarily influenced by: (1) the fear of rising rates, (2) negative headlines surrounding the Detroit bankruptcy filing, (3) continuing concerns over Puerto Rico, (4) tax-loss selling in fixed income to offset strong equity market gains.
However, a reversal of 2013's $70 billion in municipal bond fund outflows in conjunction with less-than-forecasted new issuance resulted in positive supply-demand technicals for the municipal bond market during the quarter; conditions were similar to those seen in the 2011 and 2012 calendar years. Year-to-date supply is down 26% relative to the same period in 2013. At the close of the first quarter, we are seeing investment banks further revising (downsizing) their forecast for the balance of 2014. (Data: Municipal Market Data, as of April 2014.)
Municipal bonds' return for the 3-month period ended March 31, 2014, was 3.32% (as measured by the Barclays Municipal Bond Index), and municipal bonds were the best-performing major asset class within the broader fixed income market. (Data: Bloomberg, as of April 2014.)
Barclays index return
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Municipal bond mutual fund flows
Data: J.P. Morgan Municipal Research and Lipper, as of April 2014.
As April came to a close, we saw a continuation of these positive trends. This was evidenced by the lack of the seasonal effect normally expected during tax-filing time. Typically during this period flows turn negative; however, flows shifted to slightly positive during this time.
Additionally, demand for municipal bonds has been bolstered by higher 2013 tax rates (increases in state and federal taxes as well as the additional 3.8% healthcare surcharge). We expect that after investors meet with their accountants the reality of these tax hikes will further add to the appeal of the asset class, potentially prolonging the improved technical environment within which we have recently been operating.
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Gregory A. Gizzi is head of municipal bonds in the Americas, a role he assumed in February 2019. In this role, he is responsible for the overall operation of the strategy and is team lead on several of the tax-exempt strategies. Additionally, Gizzi continues to be responsible for the taxable municipal business and the marketing efforts for the municipal product. Previously, Gizzi was co-portfolio manager of the firm's municipal bond funds and several client accounts, a role he held since November 2011. Before joining Macquarie Investment Management (MIM) in January 2008 as head of municipal bond trading, he spent six years as a vice president at Lehman Brothers for the firm's tax-exempt institutional sales effort. Prior to that, he spent two years trading corporate bonds for UBS before joining Lehman Brothers in a sales capacity. Gizzi has more than 20 years of trading experience in the municipal securities industry, beginning at Kidder Peabody in 1984, where he started as a municipal bond trader and worked his way up to institutional block trading desk manager. He later worked in the same capacity at Dillon Read. Gizzi earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard University.

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A near-perfect close in Beijing for sync swim team
Members of the U.S. synchronized swimming team perform during the finals Saturday. The United States, including Centennial's Janet Culp, placed fifth in team competition at the National Aquatics Center in Beijing. (Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
Janet Culp: Today was our last day of competition at the Olympics! We had such a wonderful swim today. I mean really incredible. It was everything I had hoped it would be: slow-motion, in the moment, hard enough to know I gave it my all but not so much that I worried if I would make it through, feeling the energy of the audience, and connected with my team-mates the whole time. If I picture my perfect swim, our swim today would be it!
I'm writing this after having just attended a dinner in my team's honor with my parents, husband, and sister, and having spent a little time out in the city of Beijing celebrating with my friends. I was wondering what this moment would feel like, the moment when I look back on today and on the Olympics as a whole. I wondered whether I would be happy, satisfied, and relieved or disappointed, sad, and upset. And the thing is, even though our place today was not what I had hoped it would be, I'm not feeling angry or disappointed. I am so proud of myself and my team, no matter the place we ended up. It sure would have been incredible to medal–I can't deny that.
But at the same time, it was pretty incredible that we had our two best swims at the Olympics. And not only were they our best, but I think they were the best we could have done. I have no regrets about the competition. We worked hard every day and we really wanted it. Sometimes that's satisfying in itself, particularly when you're competing against the world's best!
Brooke Abel, Kate Hooven, Christina Jones, Becky Kim, Andrea Nott, Annabelle Orme, Jillian Penner, Kim Probst, and Janet Culp of the USA perform the team technical routine. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
So now all that's left is a little time in the village, closing ceremonies, and a little free time in Beijing with my family. This has been an incredible and indescribable experience…but it was everything I hoped it would be!
Littleton native Janet Culp, a member of the U.S. synchronized swimming team, earned a fifth-place and a sixth-place finish in competition at the Beijing Olympics. She is reporting on her experience half a world away for The Denver Post.


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Jewish World Review Nov. 8, 1999/27 Mar-Cheshvan, 5760
David Limbaugh
http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- DEMOCRATS ARE CRYING FOUL because Republicans have finally wised up and adopted some of their successful marketing techniques.
They are nervously reacting to a month-long, $445,000 National Republican Congressional Committee ad campaign portraying them as raiding the Social Security surplus and various Republican news releases suggesting that the Clinton administration has treated the retirement system like a credit card.
House Minority Leader Dick Gephardt is particularly exercised that the congressional majority has purloined the Social Security issue in its ongoing PR battle with President Clinton over the budget.
The exasperated Gephardt said, "It's kind of ironic that they have picked this issue to try to demagogue on, because this is the party that fought the creation of Social Security and Medicare."
Texas Democrat Martin Frost added, "The concern is if you repeat a big lie often enough, people may begin to believe it." Indeed.
I feel your pain, gentlemen, on two counts. First, Democrats, yourselves prominently included, have been demagoging issues and demonizing Republicans for years. Second, they have misappropriated many traditional Republican issues. In fact, there's overlap in these two because some of the Democrats' most effective demonization of Republicans has centered on issues they have stolen from them.
By now, everyone is surely familiar with the Mediscare episodes where Clinton, Gephardt and their cronies deliberately mischaracterized the Republican plan to reduce the rate of increase in Medicare spending as Draconian cuts that would ruthlessly deprive the elderly of their health care benefits.
And how can anyone forget the similar depiction of congressional Republicans as starving schoolchildren because they refused to increase spending on the federal school lunch program as well?
Just wait until the next election cycle to see how the Democrats picture Republicans as reckless champions of nuclear proliferation for failing to ratify the nuclear test ban treaty.
Perhaps the most offensive, though, is the repeated Democratic charge that Republicans, because they are beholden to the evil NRA, are causing violence and death in schools and society in general by opposing unreasonable and unconstitutional gun control legislation.
The list goes on an on, but suffice it to say that Democrats have mentored the Republicans quite well in the art of political warfare. But this isn't about revenge -- it isn't even primarily about demonizing Democrats.
It is, first and foremost, about budget negotiations with the president. It is a preemptive strike against Democrats to keep them from browbeating Republicans into capitulating again to Clinton's budget demands.
The Republicans, after turning their other cheek at Democratic abuse one too many times, have finally decided to become proactive and launch a PR offensive before Democrats have a chance to poison the public against them again. It's unfortunate that it's necessary for Republicans to resort to this tactic, but it is necessary.
It is also very difficult to sympathize with Democrats in their charge that Republicans are stealing their sacred Social Security issue. This brings to mind the adolescent rejoinder "it takes one to know one."
President Clinton and congressional Democrats are the quintessential issue thieves. A brief rundown will illustrate the point.
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Update: the personalrobots repository is now ros-pkg and wg-ros-pkg
A lot of people ask, "How is ROS different from X?" where X is another robotics software platform. For us, ROS was never about creating a platform with the most features, though we knew that the PR2 robot would drive many requirements. Instead, ROS is about creating a platform that would support sharing and collaboration. This may seem like an odd goal for a software framework, especially as it means that we want our code to be useful with or without ROS, but we think that one of the catalysts for robotics will be broad libraries of robotics drivers and algorithms that are freely available and easily integrated into any framework.
We're excited to see so many public ROS package repositories have already emerged. Here's the list that we know of:
personalrobots.sourceforge.net:(see update) focused on Personal Robotics applications. Willow Garage is helping to maintain this repository with contributions from many others (Stanford, UPenn, TUM, CMU, MIT, etc...).
- sail-ros-pkg.sourceforge.net: started by ROS lead developer Morgan Quigley to house code from the Stanford AI Lab (SAIL) code.
- cmu-ros-pkg.sourceforge.net: maintained by Rosen Diankov of CMU, who has also integrated OpenRAVE with ROS.
- tum-ros-pkg.sourceforge.net: contains several drivers released by Radu Rusu of TUM, who has also been busy with his many contributions to the personalrobots repository (e.g. point_cloud_mapping).
- code.google.com/p/lis-ros-pkg: contains an interface for the Barrett WAM and Hand, written by Kaijen Hsiao of MIT's Learning and Intelligent Systems Group
An ecosystem of federated package repositories is as important to ROS as the ROS node is for powering the distributed system of processes. Just as the ROS node is the unit of a ROS runtime, the ROS package is the unit of code sharing and the ROS package repository is the unit of collaboration. Each provides the opportunity for independent decisions about development and implementation, but all can be brought together with ROS infrastructure tools.
One of the tools we've written to support these federated repositories is roslocate. roslocate solves the problem of "where is package X?" For example, you can type "svn co `roslocate svn imagesift`" to quickly checkout the source code for the "imagesift" package from cmu-ros-pkg. As more ROS repositories emerge, we will continue to refine our tools so that multiple repositories can easily be an integral component of ROS development.
If you have any public repositories of your own that you'd like to share, drop us a note on ros-users and we'll add it to our list.


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Going Pro Expo - Chicago
Going Pro Entertainment, LLC
Sunday, June 30, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM (CDT)
Event Details
- Chicago Going Pro Expo
- Sunday, June 30, 2013
- 9:00am-5:30pm - Attend single sessions or all day
- General Entry tickets are required for all attendees
- Early Bird registration rates available through June 20
- Standard registration rates available June 21-June 29
- Walk ins welcome while space is available June 30
- HiFi Fitness, 820 North Orleans, Suite 100, Chicago IL 60610
Featuring pro dance choreographers of the ...
- NBA & NFL and other sports leagues
- Vendors for shopping and networking
- Presentations in areas of pageantry, fitness/nutrition, hair/makeup and directors/leadership
Costs ....
- General Entry Tickets
Early Bird Rate: $15.00 per person through June 20
Standard Rate: $25.00 per person June 21-29
Walk In Rate: $30.00 per person June 30, limited space
- Includes:
Dance Technique Class
Add Choreography sessions at $15.00 per class (4 classes available. If you would like to attend all dance masters classes please select the All Day Dance Ticket)
- Group discounts available for 5 or more attendees. If you need assistance with your group registration, please contact firstname.lastname@example.com.
- All Day Dance Ticket
Early Bird Rate: $70.00 per person through June 20
Standard Rate: $78.00 per person June 21-29
Walk In Rate: $85.00 per person if space is still available in masters classes
- Includes general entry, dance technique and all FOUR masters dance classes.
- $5.00 Pro discount for current and alumni NFL and NBA peformers. Please contact Going Pro with your name, team and years cheering for the discount code.
- Refund Policy: In the event you are no longer able to attend, tickets may be refunded through June 20 at midnight.
Please click on the choreographer's name for photo and background. Each choreography session requires a general entry fee plus $15.00 per class. Each choreography session is 90 minutes in length. Routines are 45-60 seconds in length, pro dance style with complimentary music files and routine videos after the event. Some routines may have groups and formations. Please arrive 15 minutes prior to your class. Each class will begin with a short warm up and stretch. Attire should be comfortable dance/fitness wear.
Please click on the Choreographer to see photo and bio
- 9:30-11:00am Gloria Esposito - Luvabulls / Adrenaline Rush
- 11:00-12:30pm Tessa Caccavallo - Pacemates / Colts
- 1:30-2:30pm Dance Technique - Donnette Cannonie
Walks, turns, kicks, leaps and style expected for pro level auditions
- 2:30-4:00pm Pam Marsh - Luvabulls / Rams
- 4:00-5:30pm Kate Anderson Hooper - Rams
- 11:00am-5:30pm Fitness Sessions - HiFi Fitness Personal Training Staff. Arrive early for the 10:00am fitness presentation and to get booked for one of HiFi's fabulous training sessions. Walk ins also welcome - but be sure to purchase a General Entry ticket! Sessions range from 30 to 60 minutes in length and include stretching, toning, boot camp, abs and more.
- 10:00-10:45am Take A Bite Out of the Competition - Pierce Hutchings, Personal Trainer. You know what you should and should not eat, but how do you make a plan that works? Pierce will guide you through a nutrition plan for getting the body you desire and developing the mind of a champion.
- 11:00-11:45am Light Up the Room - Wynne Lacey, Sports Entertainment Director, Certified Life Coach. Do you catch the director's eye as soon as you enter the room? Wynne will discuss how you can channel your energy and stand out from the crowd.
- 11:30-1:30 Lunch Available for Purchase by Factor 75 - you may also choose to bring your lunch, snack or leave the venue
- 12:30-1:30 Angela King Designs Trunk Show during Lunch
- 1:30-2:30pm Dance Technique - Donnette Cannonie.Get hands on instruction on walks, kicks, turns, leaps, and style at the pro level.
- 2:30-3:15pm Winning: Pageantry 101 - Shanon Lersch, Miss Illinois USA 2008. Shanon has allowed her Miss USA state title to launch her into international broadcasting and dance. Learn how you can get the winning edge or get started in pageantry with this talented pro dance alumna.
- 3:30-4:15pm The Realities of Reality TV - Yanina Beccaria, Love in the Wild Season II Winner. This former Ice Girl and LFL Player walked away with the small screen top prize live on NBC. Do you have what it takes to follow her path? Do you even want to? Get the scoop during this special presentation.
- 4:30-5:30pm Unlock Your Best Look - Chrissy McClaughry, Hair Stylist and Karisa Hansen, Motives Makeup Artist. Let your look reach its full potential no matter hair length, color or texture, no matter skin color or type. Get tips from experts from the finest companies and salons in the region. Bring your mirror and makeup kit for a hands on session!
Pam Marsh - Current NBA Luvabull, Alumni St Louis Rams Cheerleader. Pam has nearly a decade of professional dance and cheer experience. After college, Pam joined her hometown NFL team as a St. Louis Rams Cheerleader where she was a proud member for three years until she relocated to Chicago. There, she joined the only professional dance team in Chicago, the Chicago Bulls Cheerleaders known as "Luvabulls." She is now in her sixth season representing the Luvabulls. With experience in both NBA and NFL cheerleading, Pam has performed at hundreds of games, in front of thousands of audiences nationally and internationally, and knows what it takes to uphold expectations of distinguished entertainment teams while participating in media events, public appearances, and community promotions.
Tessa Caccavallo - NFL Cheerleader Alumna - Indianapolis Colts, NBA Alumna - Indiana Pacemates. Tessa graduated Cum Laude from the University of Southern Indiana with a degree in Public Relations in 2006. Tessa danced, choreographed and coached for an arena football team and a minor league baseball team in college. Tessa danced for the Pacers for three seasons before becoming an Indianapolis Colts Cheerleader. She had the honor of dancing on the sidelines at Superbowl XLIV and performing with Gretchen Wilson and Cheap Trick her rookie season. Tessa served as a squad captain her second year and was chosen to represent the Colts and promote NFL Mexico in Mexico City. She also participated in an Armed Forces Entertainment tour to Okinawa, Japan. That same year she was voted Pro Bowl Cheerleader by her teammates and represented the Colts Cheerleaders in Hawaii. Tessa has been featured in Maxim, SI.com, NFL.com and many other online and print publications. She has choreographed numerous routines for the Colts Cheerleaders and helped develop the first ever Indianapolis Colts Cheerleaders Training Program, which provides coaching and mentoring for aspiring Colts Cheerleaders.
Shanon Lersch - Miss Illinois USA 2008, Former NBA Chicago Luvabull, Director of DePaul Spirit Programs. Shanon is a Chicago native and postgraduate student who attended DePaul University with a dual Masters in Sociology & Communications. She was Miss Illinois USA 2008 and has had the opportunity to travel to Japan, Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Hong Kong, China, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and all of Southeast Asia as a Professional Model, NBA Dancer, and Spokesperson. She has been featured in national magazines and advertising campaigns including a feature article in the 2008 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. For six seasons, Shanon was an NBA dancer and captain with the Chicago Bulls. She is currently the Head Coach and Director of the Spirit Programs for DePaul University. Shanon has served as the Talent Manager for NBA China and recently completed season three of China's NBA Competition / Reality Dance Show "Dance Passion" where she was a Host, Choreographer, Dance Coach, and Celebrity Judge. The SUNTIMES has labeled Shanon as the next Paula Abdul of China. She also enjoys serving as the on-air host for NOW TV Sports, covering professional rugby, soccer and basketball for Hong Kong's largest cable operator. She is also the current in-arena emcee for DePaul Basketball and the AFL's Chicago Rush.
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Darlene Cavalier is a Philadelphia NBA alumni dancer who founded the Science Cheerleader to unite the citizen's desire to be heard and valued, the scientist's growing interest in the public's involvement, and government's need to garner public support. The Science Cheerleader features cheerleaders and dancers who work in or study science, math, engineering, health and other related fields. Launched in 2010, the Science Cheerleaders performance team has rocked the industry with live performances, ground breaking online videos and even shattered a world record! The Science Cheerleaders have performed in the Philadelphia, New York City, St. Louis, Las Vegas, Dallas, Washington, DC and other cities across the United States. Submit your application to join the performance team by visiting www.sciencecheerleader.com.
Going Pro Entertainment is the premier resource for professional cheerleading and dance services. Developed by former pro dancers from all United States sports leagues, GPE provides exclusive services in audition coaching, team consulting and choreography, and alumni talent management. GPE events feature choreography and mentorship by Pro Cheer All Stars in multiple cities, including Phoenix, Los Angeles, Reno, Denver, Kansas City, Chicago, St Louis, Omaha, Oklahoma City, Houston, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Minneapolis/St Paul, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Virginia Beach, Charlotte (NC), Miami, and Orlando. Visit www.goingproentertainment.com orwww.procheerallstars.eventbrite.com.
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Dr. Paulette Dillard is the 18th President of Shaw University. Prior to her appointment, she served in various capacities
such as department chair, dean and vice president for Academic Affairs. Dr. Dillard earned an MBA from Belmont University and a Ph.D. in cell biology from Clark Atlanta University.
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Entrepreneurial Thinking and Excellence | Presence | Innovative | Customer Care Shaw University is pleased to roll out its improved and enhanced strategic plan, EPIC 2020. Building on an existing plan, EPIC 2020 is the
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Shaw University is a accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC). With 25 academic programs and a 16 to 1 student to faculty ratio, students are sure to find a major that is a perfect fit and a professor that knows them by name. The learning experience at Shaw is based on relationships where the student's voice will be heard and learning becomes personal.


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
iActiveMarketing.com is an internet marketing company that needs a homepage and a template design for service pages(2 pages). I am open to suggestions on everything. Logo can just be text-based but feel free to experiment. This is just for the design but please contact me if you can also code.
I. Site Needs:Main Navigation: - Each category page will need a drop-down when its gets coded.1.Natural Search2.Paid Search3.Internet Marketing4.White Papers5.Blog/News6.Contact UsUpper Navigation:1.Home2.About Us3.Site Map4.Contact UsFooter Navigation:1.Home2.Testimonials3.Abut Us4.Privacy Policy5.FAQs6.Site Map7.Partners8.Contact UsII. Homepage Needs:1. Area for body text (ex: primevisiblity.com)2. Free Website Analysis, SEO Services, Paid Search Services, Affiliate Management Call-To-Actions. These need to be clear and obvious to potential site visitors (ex: evisibility.com, Primevisibility.com, ebrandz.com).3. "Receive Quote" Call-To-Action on homepage and all sub-pages4. All text based, no flash on site. 5. Section for client logos6. Section for top 3 recent blog/news posts7. Newsletter Signup8. Section for certificate logos9. Room for phone number and email address contact infoIII. Colors To Use – Blue, White, Grey, Black,, and Green for call to actions possibly ( Open to suggestions)IV. Site That I like In Order:Primevisibility.com – I like this site the most overall - should be #1 example.
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If you are in a hurry, but don't want to sacrifice taste for speed, I highly recommend this simple and spicy mung bean soup. There is very little preparation, most of which can be done while the beans are cooking. This recipe has long been one of my favorites.
|Indian Sour Mung Bean Soup
|Recipe by Lisa Turner
Cuisine: Indian
Published on September 12, 2007
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Behind Gay Marriage Momentum, Regional Gaps Persist
Two-to-One Support in New England, Opposition in South
Supporters of same-sex marriage won key victories in several states Tuesday, including the first instances in which laws allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally were approved by voters.
This comes at a time when support for same-sex marriage has been on the rise. Across four Pew Research Center surveys this year, 48% of Americans say they favor allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally, while 43% are opposed. Just four years ago, in the 2008 election cycle, 51% opposed making same-sex marriages legal and 39% supported it.
The steep recent trend has continued over the course of 2012. The most recent survey, conducted just two weeks before the election, found nearly half (49%) in favor of allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally, while opposition had fallen to an all-time low of 40%. (See survey topline). The tipping balance of American public opinion was confirmed in this week's national election exit polling: 49% of voters said their state should legally recognize same-sex marriage; 46% said it should not.
The recent gains come after years of electoral setbacks for advocates of same-sex marriage. More than 30 states have prohibited gay marriage by popular vote over the past 15 years. Yet on Election Day 2012, ballot measures legalizing same sex marriage were approved in Maine, Maryland and Washington State. In Minnesota, which already prohibits same-sex marriage, voters rejected a bid to add that prohibition to the state's constitution.
A look at different regions of the country finds wide disparities in attitudes about same-sex marriage. The states that approved measures this week are all in regions generally supportive of allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally. Other parts of the country are not as supportive.
In New England, 62% favor same-sex marriage, while 29% oppose it. In the mid-Atlantic, 57% favor and 34% oppose allowing gay marriage. Opinions among those on the Pacific Coast are similar (54% favor, 37% oppose).
In the Midwest, which includes Minnesota, opinion is more evenly divided (46% favor, 44% oppose). Voters in Minnesota did not approve gay marriage, but did vote to keep the ban from becoming part of the state's constitution.
People in the South express greater opposition. A majority (56%) in the central Southern states such as Alabama, Kentucky, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas oppose same-sex marriage, while about a third (35%) favors it. The divide is more narrow in the South Atlantic states such as Florida, Georgia, Virginia and the Carolinas (48% oppose, 42% favor). 1
The trend toward increased support for gay marriage is evident across all regions. In each, the percentage that currently favors allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally is far higher than it was a decade ago.
Attitudes toward gay marriage in the South are comparable to where the country as a whole was a decade ago. In the states ranging from Kentucky to Texas, 35% now support same-sex marriage. That is comparable to the 33% that said this nationwide in 2003.
At the same time, the proportion nationwide that currently favors allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally matches the percentage that said this in New England a decade ago (both 48%).
Black Support for Gay Marriage Rising
One of the striking results in the 2012 exit polls was the support for legalizing gay marriage among black voters. In the national exit poll interviewing conducted by Edison Research on behalf of the NEP, black voters favored their state legally recognizing same-sex marriage by a 51% to 41% margin, while among whites, 47% favored and 49% opposed this idea.
The latest polling by the Pew Research Center also finds some narrowing of long-standing racial differences in attitudes toward gay marriage. Consistently over the past decade, blacks have been far less supportive of legalizing gay marriage than whites. In 2011, for example, 49% of whites favored legalizing gay marriage, compared with just 36% of blacks.
But the latest survey conducted two weeks ago found blacks divided more evenly on this issue than in the past, with 44% in favor and 39% opposed to allowing gay marriage. Among whites, 49% favored and 41% opposed same-sex marriage.
The 2012 exit poll also found more Hispanic voters (59%) supporting gay marriage in their state than opposing it (32%). This also comports with the latest trends in Pew Research Center surveys of Hispanics nationwide. In the 2012 National Survey of Latinos conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center, 52% of Hispanics were in favor of allowing gays and lesbians to marry legally, while 34% were opposed. In both 2006 and 2009, opposition to gay marriage had exceeded support by wide margins among Hispanics.
For more on the demographics of support and opposition to gay marriage, see: Two-Thirds of Democrats Now Support Gay Marriage.
- These regional breakdowns are based on the U.S. Census regions and divisions, with two exceptions. Maryland, Delaware and the District of Columbia are grouped in the Mid Atlantic with New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, instead of in the South Atlantic. The Census divisions of East South Central and West South Central are combined into a single South Central designation. ↩


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35th Annual Leif Ericson Day Parade, Durham, New Hampshire
Sunday, October 7, 2012
6:30 AM at the Laundromat on Main Street
Thirty five years ago, in 1977, Nobel K. Peterson and two friends wanted to celebrate Leif Ericson Day, which is traditionally October 9th. They were doing laundry at the Laundromat when they decided to march next door to Young's Restaurant and have breakfast. This became an annual event, with the celebrants still meeting at the Laundromat and marching in a silly parade (all the entire 25 feet to breakfast), with Viking helmets and Icelandic sweaters, next door to have breakfast including many sillier speeches and toasts to the famous explorer. The New Hampshire Governor Lynch usually signs an annual proclamation, which will be read aloud, and last year President Obama sent a proclamation, too!
You don't have to be of Scandinavian heritage to participate. Just show up! Ha det gøy! (Have fun!)
This year you can join the fun on Facebook. There is an event at " Leif Ericson Parade in Durham, NH" and there is also a discussion group at the same name.
Young's Restaurant, 48 Main Street, Durham, New Hampshire www.youngsrestaurant.com
Also, check out the many silly videos of the Durham Leif Ericson parade on Youtube.com
Copyright 2012, Heather Wilkinson Rojo


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Choosing a prepackaged surround sound system
Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
Today's TVs look fantastic, but the sound you get from their small speakers just can't do the picture justice. There are a number of options for getting better sound, but if you want to get that "movie theater experience" in your home, a full surround sound system is the way to go.
You've got two options for surround sound: building your own system or choosing a prepackaged one. There are pros and cons to each. For example, building your own system will often offer higher performance, and give you the power needed for larger rooms. But a prepackaged system might save you some money and be easier to set up. You can also find some cool features in prepackaged systems, like wireless rear speakers, that are harder to get with separate components. [Shop for a prepackaged home theater system.]
All prepackaged home theater systems come with at least five speakers, a subwoofer, and an A/V receiver — beyond that, there are lots of additional features to choose from.
Video and music options
|If you already have a disc player, then look for a system with a standalone home theater receiver — it will also offer better sound quality, too.
Disc player
Some systems have a Blu-ray player built directly into the receiver to create a single media console. This is a great option if you don't have space for a lot of components.
Some newer prepackaged systems also allow you to connect the receiver to your existing wired or wireless home network and stream web content from services like YouTube™, Netflix®, and Pandora® Internet Radio. Many Wi-Fi-capable systems also let you play music stored on your computer.
iPod® dock
Some prepackaged home theater systems come with iPod docks in the box. Other systems offer USB inputs for connecting your iPod, iPhone, or iPad®. Be sure to check the compatibility of the home theater's receiver with your generation iPod, and read closely to find out exactly what kind of playback you get. For example, some systems will only play music from your iPod through the speakers; others will also give you video playback, onscreen menus, and full control of your iPod with the system's remote.
Sound quality
If you want better sound, look for systems with higher-quality receivers. For example, receivers with class D digital amplifiers offer clean power and detailed sound.
Powered subwoofer
"Powered" subs have their own built-in amplification, and can deliver deeper, more accurate bass. "Passive" subs get their power from the receiver, like the rest of the speakers, and won't pack as much of a punch.
Lossless surround sound formats
All home theater receivers these days support 5.1-channel Dolby® Digital and DTS®. Some also offer built-in decoding for Dolby® TrueHD and DTS-HD™ Master Audio. These two advanced surround sound formats give you exceptionally detailed sound to go with the high-def picture on your TV. You can learn more about the different surround sound formats available using our helpful chart.
Features for easier setup
Plenty of inputs
If you want to connect additional gear to your system, like a cable box or a gaming console, then you should check to make sure it has the type and number of audio and video inputs you'll need. For example, if you plan on hooking up high-def sources to your receiver, then make sure that it has enough HDMI or component video inputs. Prepackaged systems that offer a dedicated home theater receiver generally come with more inputs for additional gear.
|Wireless rear speakers can make your setup much easier. A separate rear amplifier means you won't have to run wires from the front of your room to the back. It receives signals from the receiver and provides power to your rear speakers. Just plug it into the wall and connect your surrounds.
Automatic speaker calibration
With automatic calibration, you simply place the speakers following these basic guidelines, and plug an included microphone into the receiver. The receiver plays test tones and "listens" to your speakers, adjusting their settings to best suit your room and setup. You can check out our video to learn more about how automatic speaker calibration works.
Wireless rear speakers
Some home theater systems come with a second, smaller rear amplifier that you can connect to your rear speakers. It saves you the hassle of running long wires from the front of your viewing room to the back. If it's not included with a system, you may be able to get it as an optional add-on.


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Browse FAQs
Video: Automatic Transfer Switch (AP44XX) front panel LEDs explained
Published date: 22 March 2018
Browse FAQs
|Picture 1
|Preference A/B Button
|Press to set a preferred source: the first press sets source A, the second press sets source B, and the third press sets no preference.
|Source A and B LEDs
|Indicate preferred source. If no source is preferred, both LEDs are illuminated. You can also see the preferred source on the LCD Display.
|Input Connector LEDs
|Provide information about input voltage from each source. If the RMS input voltage and measured frequency are within the selected tolerance range, the corresponding indicator will be illuminated. In a normal operating condition (full source redundancy) both sets of LEDs are illuminated.
|Output Connector LEDs
|Indicate which source is being used for the output (only one path will be illuminated at any time). Together, the Source Preference LEDs, the Connector LEDs, and the Output LED show the power flow through the ATS.
|Output LED
|Shows that voltage is available at the output for the ATS.
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Finding friends at the game
Vanessa Hudgens is off in Montreal filming a movie. And since LipGloss BlenderLegs Moist Face Zac Efron has no friends, he had to put in some man time at the Laker game last night.
It's actually rather endearing, seeing his face light up when the big boys pay attention to him. Reminds me of David Silver from the original 90210. How happy he was when Kelly & Co validated his existence by allowing him to talk to them…
Courtside Zac has that same look about him, especially since his idol Leonardo DiCaprio was there and decided to give the kid a Sunday blessing. Zac was so excited he had to call V and tell her. The difference though, and there are many, is that Leo always goes to the game with his boys. Leo actually has his own crew. He chatted up Simon Baker last night too.
Zac Efron has no crew. He only has a cheerleader. She's also his girlfriend.
Must have been a bad hair day though. He had his mop tucked under a hat. And STILL kept fidgeting with it the entire time. Just another in that long list of attributes that make Zac Efron totally unsexy.
I don't get it. Explain it to me. Because you are out there. I know you are out there. And I know you are older than 16. Tell me what it is. I will try my best to understand. After all, I admitted to Eminem, didn't I?
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By: Kara Duffy
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Moultrie, GA - The newly debuted electronic mini-helicopter may look like a child's toy, but folks in the agriculture industry say it's much more; they believe it could change the future of farming.
"Just think about being able to look out at the center of a 300 acre field, that you normally can't get out to, and there's an insect or a disease infestation, that you now can address immediately," explained Dr. Joe West, the Assistant Dean of the University of Georgia Tifton Campus.
Using advanced cameras and GPS software, the unmanned helicopter, created by Guided Systems Technologies, would allow farmers to one day do just that.
Innovators say the unmanned helicopter has the power to produce ariel images of crops and could give the one in seven Georgians who work in agricultural industry, a more sufficient way to maintain their crops and detect disease.
"Finding that little spot in the field can be tough sometimes," said Dr. John Beasley, the UGA Extension Agronomist for the peanut crop. "With this, you can correct a small area; as oppose to just treating the whole 200 acres, it might be you can just treat a 5 acre area. This technology allows a grower to quickly solve those problems."
Officials say they still have some hurdles to overcome before farmers can cash in on this product.
"Right now, the FAA doesn't have rules in place for commerical use of unmanned aircraft systems in national airspace," said Steve Justice, the Director of the Center of Innovation for Aerospace. "Congress has indicated to the FAA that they will have those rules in place no later than September 2015 so that's when we think this new market will take off," he added.
The crop-imaging research project is funded by the Georgia Centers of Innovation for Aerospace and Agribusiness, as well as the Guided Systems of Technologies.


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The mere thought of a colicky baby is often enough to strike fear in the heart of the parents of a newborn child. A baby with colic may cry for hours despite the parents' attempts at consolation; although the colicky phase will eventually end, it may seem like an eternity while it continues.
Colic is generally defined as excessive (frequently inconsolable) crying that lasts for more than three hours at least three days per week, continuing for at least three weeks; additionally, there must be no medical problem causing the crying.
Other symptoms frequently associated with colic include pulling the knees up towards the stomach, a hard and/or swollen stomach, and excessive gas. Crying occurs most often in the evening. Colic typically ends by the age of 4-5 months.
Colicky babies may be at an increased risk of abuse at the hands of exhausted and frustrated parents. Additionally, the parent may not properly bond with the child because of feelings of inadequacy and anger, leading to developing behavioral problems as the child grows.
No one knows for sure what causes colic, although there are many theories. One view attributes it to painful digestive cramps and/or excessive gas caused by allergic reaction to foods (such as milk). Another theory suggests that some babies may simply have a sensitive temperament, possibly compounded by a parental inability to respond to the infant's needs. Finally, what we call colic may just be an extreme version of normal infant crying, or an increased perception of normal crying by parents with less tolerance for it.
The antispasmodic and sedating drugs dicyclomine and dicycloverine appear to be effective for colic,1 but they can have dangerous side effects in infants and are not recommended. The gas-relieving drug dimethicone is also sometimes recommended, but evidence suggests that it does not work.2
A number of natural approaches to colic have preliminary supporting evidence.
In a
double-blind, placebo-controlled study, 125 infants with colic were given either placebo or fennel seed oil at a dose of 12 mg daily per kg of body weight.48
The results were promising. About 40% of the infants receiving fennel showed relief of colic symptoms, as compared to only 14% in the placebo group, a significant difference. Another way to look at the results involves hours of inconsolable crying. In the treated group, infants cried about nine hours per week, compared to twelve hours in the placebo group.
While these are encouraging results, confirmation by an independent research group is necessary before the treatment can be accepted as effective. Furthermore, the safety of fennel seed oil for infants has not been conclusively established.
For more information, see the full
fennel article.
Cow's milk can cause
allergic reactions. Most infant formula contains cow's milk, and can cause reactions in allergic babies. There is also some evidence that breast-fed infants may have allergic responses to cow's milk proteins in the mother's diet.3–7
Numerous small,
double-blind studies have evaluated the effects of cow's milk or cow's milk protein in the diet of infants with colic.8–23,47 Most (but not all) of these found an improvement in crying when cow's milk protein was removed from the diet of formula-fed infants, or from the diet of the mothers in breast-fed infants.24–31
As an alternative to standard cow's milk–based formula, researchers primarily used hypoallergenic formula made from hydrolyzed (processed) whey or casein. Formula based on these sources of protein may be superior to those based on soy, because soy itself can cause allergic reactions in sensitive children.
If no improvement is seen through eliminating cow's milk, some experts recommend searching in the breastfeeding mother's diet for other potential food allergens, such as wheat, soy, or eggs.32–34
However, it is important to keep nutritional needs in mind: the nursing mother who eliminates certain foods needs to maintain an adequate intake of calcium, protein, and other nutrients.
It should be noted that most infants with colic are able to tolerate cow's milk protein as they get older, so neither the mother nor the baby are doomed to life without milk. Researchers propose that this might be the result of an immature digestive system; according to this theory, maturation of the digestive tract is the reason that colic usually disappears on its own in time.
Milk also contains lactose, a form of sugar that many adults can't digest (see the
lactose intolerance
article for more information). However, reducing the lactose content of infant formula has
not been found helpful in treating colic.42
Probiotics are beneficial live intestinal bacteria. They may play a role in balancing bacteria in the gut, which may help relieve discomfort. Some, but not all, probiotics may be helpful for colic.
A randomized trial of 82 breastfed infants with colic compared supplementation with oral
Lactobacillus reuteri (L. reuteri)
to placebo for 21 days. A reduction in more that 50% in mean crying time was seen in all infants who received
L. reuteri
compared to 63% of infants in placebo group.
L. reuteri supplement and was also associated with a larger decrease in the amount of daily crying and better family quality of life scores.54
In another randomized trial of 50 exclusively breastfed infants with colic, supplementation with
L. reuteri for 21 days was associated with a 50% reduction in daily crying time when compared with placebo.57
A second randomized trial with 90 infants found a similar decrease in crying time with
L. reuteri, but there were no significant differences in crying time found in a small trial of 18 infants when
Lactobacillus rhamnosus
Propionibacterium freudenreichii were compared to placebo.55
L. reuteri
was also found to have significantly better reduction in crying time compared to simethicone in randomized trial of 82 infants with colic. After 28 days, median crying time was reduced from 197 minutes a day to 51 minutes a day with
L. reuteri
supplemention compared to 145 minutes a day with simethicone. Crying time decreased by 50% or more in 95% of infants taking
L. reuteri compared to 7% of infants taking simethicone.56
L. reuteri in formula-fed infants 6 weeks old or less had the opposite effect in a randomized trial with 50 infants. The probiotic was associated with an increase in fussing time (not crying, but awake and not content) compared to placebo. Probiotics were used for one month and the infants were followed for six months. There were no differences for infants who were exclusively breastfed.58
Many doctors believe that the cause of colic is not physical; rather, that it results from a child's oversensitivity to stimuli in the environment.36-40
Overanxious parents might contribute to the problem by adding more stimulation in an attempt to calm their child. Other parents might under-react in the belief that paying too much attention to the infant's cries will "spoil" him. Either response could set up a vicious cycle leading to long periods of inconsolable crying.
Based on these theories, some authorities recommend counseling the parents of a colicky infant on appropriate coping strategies, including building a personal support system and occasionally leaving the child with a different caregiver to provide a respite.
Studies evaluating the effects of carrying a colicky child more, or using a motion-simulation device, have not found benefit.41,42
A one week, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 93 breast-fed colicky infants found benefits with a standardized extract of fennel,
lemon balm, and
Another double-blind, placebo-controlled study found benefits with a combination of chamomile,
licorice, fennel, and lemon balm. However, the safety of these herbal combinations in infants have not been established.
A mixture of hydrolyzed whey protein and
prebiotics has shown some promise for reducing colic symptoms.51
One controlled study found that use of a special type of bottle for bottle feeding (Dr. Brown's Natural Flow Baby Bottle) reduced colic symptoms.50
Chiropractic spinal manipulation has also been tried for colic.44
One controlled study compared chiropractic treatments with the drug dimethicone. Fifty infants were randomly assigned one of the treatments for two weeks. By the sixth day of treatment, the spinal manipulation group cried significantly less than those on dimethicone. Whether this was a specific effect of the manipulation or a general response to attention and touch is difficult to determine.
In one small study, light needling at one acupuncture point on both hands was more effective than no needling among 40 infants with colic.52
In Britain, a preparation called "gripe water" is widely sold for the treatment of colic.45
Varying formulations exist; however, all include aromatic oils such as dill, spearmint, or
caraway, combined with alcohol, sucrose (sugar), and sodium bicarbonate. There is no scientific evidence to show whether or not gripe water works. It should be noted that at the recommended dosage, the infant would receive the equivalent of five shots of whiskey. That would be enough to calm anyone.
Other herbs sometimes recommended for colic include cardamom, angelica,
lemon balm,
rooibos (red tea)
yarrow. However, no scientific evidence as yet supports their use.
The use of an herbal tea may offer some benefits. Sixty-eight infants (aged 2-8 weeks old) with colic were randomized to receive herbal tea (German chamomile,
fennel, and balm-mint) or placebo (sugar water) up to three times daily during each colic episode.53
After one week, the infants in the herbal tea group had an improvement in their symptoms compared to those given the placebo.
The use of salt substitutes containing potassium have also been recommended, but they can be dangerous.46
Lucassen PL, Assendelft WJ, Gubbels JW, et al. Effectiveness of treatments for infantile colic: systematic review.
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Allergy Clin Immunol. 1986;77:341–347.
Stuart CA, Twiselton R, Nicholas MK, et al. Passage of cows' milk protein in breast milk.
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Gerrard JW. Allergy in breast fed babies to ingredients in breast milk.
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Iacono G, Carroccio A, Montalto G, et al. Severe infantile colic and food intolerance: a long-term prospective study.
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