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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (269 votes).
In short: Supportive relay runners and marshallsIn full: The marshalls and water station attendants were amazing, but there were too many uphill sections. I thought the relay runners who gave encouragement (as they shot passed!) was really nice. I would have to train seriously before contemplating another Luton marathon.Date of review: December 3, 2007
In short: A decent event which very bad weather did nothing to spoil.In full: I took part in the relay event, and would recommend this as a very different race experience. Great to be part of a team! The course was grimly urban and beatifully rural in equal measure. Marshalling was first rate - especially in that foul weatherDate of review: December 3, 2007
In short: Great event , Great marshallsIn full: Very tough, but it was my first Marathon (Baptism of fire!)The marshalls were just superb. Cannot praise them enough. Well organised, and despite the weather good funWill be backDate of review: December 3, 2007
In short: Wet, gale force, cold and hilly!!!In full: A very well organised race, marshalls were brilliant, all organisation superb, nice medal. BUT......in that weather it was hell!! If it was run in Springtime a probable pb course but those hills in the wind and rain of December it would be unlikely. But a good race to finish off the year and to make you feel less guilty about the Christmas indulgences!Date of review: December 3, 2007
In short: Excellent support from race marshals and brilliant organisation despite hideous weather!!Date of review: December 3, 2007
In short: Despite crazy weather loved the entire thingIn full: The organisers, marshalls and supporters were absolutely fantastic. I kept trying to work out who was madder, us for running in that weather or all of them for standing around in it to support us? After having a DNF at Luton last year I was determined to give it everything this year. Somehow managed to smash my PB and get myself a championship time for FLM so am bloody delighted.Date of review: December 3, 2007
In short: Fantastic organisation kept me going whne the wind blew me backwards! Thankyou to all the organisers.Date of review: December 3, 2007
In short: What a challangeIn full: I had a great run as part of a relay team, you can't always have good weather and this was one day when everything happened, cold wet and windy but I did it. Congratulations to everyone who did the three laps…..Well doneAs for the marshals who had to brave the elements you were fantastic, see you next year.Date of review: December 3, 2007
In short: OK race to finish of the racing yearIn full: The event organisation was excellent and the marshalls were very supportive. Not a scenic course, but that was too be exepcted. If you are looking for something to finish of the season, then go for it. It is quite a fast course as well, so perhaps some PB potential there.Date of review: December 3, 2007
In short: It seemed more relay people than marathon runners, but I was at the backDate of review: December 3, 2007
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Skip to comments.Cast aside: Thousands of votes from our military troops uncounted or missing
Posted on 11/08/2012 10:03:53 AM PST by Lucky9teen
According to the Naval Enlisted Reserve Association, scores of military absentee ballots cast in the 2012 Election will not be counted. U.S. Military personnel and their families are outraged: Where the hell is this countrys moral compass?! stated the mother of a 25 year old Marine who served in Afghanistan.
The military mail service is notoriously slow, and lawmakers have said that it could be almost two months after the election before ballots even arrive to be processed.
Add to that the incident on October 19th, just two and a half weeks before the November 6th elections, when a transport plane crashed at Shindad Air Base, destroying almost 5,000 pounds of mail including absentee ballots being sent to U.S. military serving in Afghanistan. Election officials recommended resending the ballots just two and a half weeks before the elections (bears repeating).
Michelle Malkin reported in an article published at Townhall.com, Despite a federal law mandating that every base establish a voting assistance office (the 2009 Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act), the Pentagon reported this summer that it could only contact such offices on half of the military's bases. In Wisconsin alone this election cycle, at least 30 municipalities failed to send absentee ballots to members of the military before the 45-day election deadline.
The bottom line is that our military, those men and women who risk their lives to protect our freedom, those most deserving to exercise their right to vote, are being prevented from doing so. This is unconscionable.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
This all along should have been the story of the day, and I can't imagine how the MSM got away without reporting this.
What are we to think of a nation that fights tooth and nail for illegal aliens to vote but disenfranchises soldiers fighting on our behalf?
But what passes for "Republicans" in Congress won't issue a peep. They are the true enemies of our country. They ALLOW this to happen.
Indeed. Hugh Hewitt should address this issue on his radio show.
EVERY SINGLE military vote...Every single person in our military that wishes to vote...These votes should ALWAYS be counted, no matter what!!!!!!!
These peoples lives are on the line a lot of the time depending on how an election goes.....
If even ONE military vote is ignored, disenfranchised or not allowed to be counted at any time, is a travesty of the worst.....
Just advice....
Try HUGE next time....
HUGH is the name of the Playboy editor, Hefner....
The military knows well what the dork thinks of them.
When CW-II comes, they will also know well that they have vowed to protect the constitution, not the dork.
Hopefully, the crew of AF-1 will refuse to fly the dork out of the country when the mobs reach the White House.
And the Marines at the White House will have the pleasure of flipping the dork the bird he so soundly deserves.
This is an outrage of the most unforgivable sort. Fighting men should be the FIRST to vote! In an electronic age, there is no excuse.
But the Republicans won't take a stand and fight for the people who fight (and die) for them. In fact, they won't fight for anything that matters.
They're not called the Wet Noodle Party for nothing. Good chance they've jumped the shark this time around.
Well I don't know about all that. I heard Bob Beckel on The Five last night say....well 50% of the military voted for him (obama), how do you explain that? The Republicans response was...I don't know.
Why can't service members file a voters rights law suit against the state govt's.
Many of these service members are also minorities who have even more standing under the law.
Congress should frame new legislation establishing a fail proof online or other voting system to supplement of replace state systems to insure that every service member..however remote or recently moved gets an opportunity to register and vote.
They had to protect their creation at all costs.
Are you series?
Mail? Overseas ballots should be airlifted back to the US, not sent through some regular mail channel. There are flights leaving every day from Afghanistan and Iraq back to the US. There is no excuse. Any public official that violated this law should be prosecuted.
*LOL* Kinda.....
I think Bob Beckel is full of Moose excrement......
We should bombard our congress person to pass a law that no election can be declared valid without our military votes being counted!!
All by design of the left...
Beckel is a giant @$$wipe!
Every election we hear the same old trope. Democrats complain about voters being disenfranchised and Republicans complain about military votes not being counted. If this is a serious issue, then the Republicans need to get off their duffs and actually propose and vote on a remedy. It should be fairly easy if done right- I can't see how anyone could object out in the open. Otherwise, it's just sour grapes.
I think about it once or perhaps twice per day as I make a symbolic deposit in my toilet.
I agree, it's outrageous. If Congress wants to investigate something, put this at the top of the list.
I'm wondering if we are about to see a mass exodus from the armed forces. Partly because of these repeated occurrences of denying them their ability to vote, but also because Obama abandoned the Ambassador and the Seals in Libya, and also because he has sacrificed so many troops in Afghanistan by not protecting them from these "friendly fire" attacks. This exodus may occur primarily from people deciding not to re-up, out of disgust.
It is outrageous and it should not stand. The electoral college should not be allowed to validate the election until all military personal have had the right to vote. How on earth can you justify this? The DOJ fights like a mad dog to make sure states can not require photo ids to vote for fear of disenfranchising some poor slob who can't find his way to the county clerk who will give him his id. Yet they seem more than willing to disenfranchise those who risk their lives to keep us safe. Absolute evil.
Military Absentee Ballots Delivered One Day Late, Would Have Swung Election For Romney
by drew on November 7, 2012 · 97 comments
WASHINGTON, DC Sources confirmed today that hundreds of thousands of military absentee ballots were delivered hours after the deadline for them to be counted, with preliminary counts showing that they would have overturned the vote in several states and brought a victory for Governor Mitt Romney.
Officials say the ballots were delivered late due to problems within the military mail system. Tracking invoices show the ballots sat in a warehouse for a month, then they were accidentally labeled as ammunition and shipped to Afghanistan. At Camp Dwyer, Marine Sergeant John Davis signed for them and was surprised at the contents.
I told Gunny we got a bunch of ballots instead of ammo, Davis told investigators earlier today. He told me to file a report of improper delivery and that the chain of command would take care of it. We didnt hear anything for three weeks. While we were waiting we came under fire so we dumped a bunch of them in the Hescoes. We didnt dig those ones back out.
After military officials realized the initial error, the ballots were then sent back to the U.S. but suffered a series of setbacks.
Twelve boxes of ballots were dropped overboard during delivery to the USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) in the Persian Gulf, then while the ship sailed to Bahrain, postal clerks allegedly pocketed whatever ballots they wanted.
The remaining absentee ballots were loaded onto a C-130, but the flight was delayed until November 1st so the crew could get tax free pay for the month. Once the ballots arrived stateside they were promptly mailed to each states counting facility, reaching their final destination on November 7th.
Its a shame, Rear Admiral John Dawes said when asked for comment. I expected a delay so I ordered that everyone cast their votes eight months ago. Its really unfortunate that our mail system failed us and directly affected the course of history.
Upon hearing the news, angry Republicans have begun a demand for a recount, but most military absentee voters have shrugged off the news, with many wondering whether the care packages their families sent six months ago were ever going to show up.
Read more: http://www.duffelblog.com/2012/11/military-absentee-ballots-delivered-one-day-late-would-have-swung-election-for-romney/#ixzz2BenNnbsE
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"Well I dont know about all that. I heard Bob Beckel on The Five last night say....well 50% of the military voted for him (obama), how do you explain that? The Republicans response was...I dont know."
Oh, I think they know why, but they can't say it. What they can't say is that a large percentage of the military is black now days.
Guys, the Congress keeps passing laws trying to help, but Holder gave a pass to all the dem states that didn't get the ballots out on time or clean up their voter rolls which by law was to be done years ago. Holder sued every state that tried to make it a clean election. We weren't allowed to use voter ID in TX even though a large majority voted for it.
Congress gave $75 million dollars to have a voting assistance office on all bases—about 211 total I believe. They held a hearing in Aug or Sept and asked the woman in charge why over half of the phone numbers didn't work or their calls weren't returned. She said they had done an excellent job and the problem was just that the phone numbers were out of date. Right.
During the last week to register in VA, the number of military requesting ballots was down over 90%. That can only be by design. Some vets helped get the number to about 40% of previous election which is still outrageous. My son was here on leave and TX is his home state so where he votes either in person or by requesting ballot to be sent to his base. They would not allow he and my daughter in law to vote. Yes, they were registered so that was not an issue. He said, "It's ok mom, don't worry about it." It's sure as hell is NOT ok to be refused your right to vote for your CIC. He left to see his grandparents the next day and there was someone that understood military voting there and he and my daughter in law were given a federal/state only ballot which is what should have been done here. One of the people that wouldn't allow them to vote was a dang judge! The woman where they voted took down the info of what happened to them and had a list of all the military having a hard time voting to turn over to elected officials.
If we are going to give Sandy victims the ability to vote then explain why military votes that were done properly but purposefully held back by forces beyond their control are not going to count? Because every vote doesn't "really" count. If your are a student and voted several times for Obama you can brag about it all over the internet. If you are risking your life for country you get cheated over and over and over again. I am 100% sure the ballots were destroyed and not delivered on time because the polling done showed military 75% for Romney.
A clarification on those numbers. First, the 50-50 split was in Virginia, not nationwide. Secondly, the percentage of blacks in the U.S. military is about the same as it is in the general population. However, exit polling makes no distinction between active duty military and veterans; in other words, a 30-year military retiree is lumped into the same category as someone who served a single hitch back in the 1980s. Virginia has a large number of Africa-American veterans and retirees, concentrated in the DC suburbs and the Hampton Roads region. Their representation in the Virginia population is higher than the national average, since the state has such a large military/retiree population.
To their credit, Team Obama clearly identified who these people were and got them to the polls. By comparison, the Romney campaign just assumed that military personnel, vets and retirees would show up. Some didn't, others didn't.
And of course, the GOP slit its own throat by not doing more to protect the rights of military absentee voters. Tens of thousands disenfranchised once again, but Republicans never make more than a token effort to get the problem fixed.
Among active duty personnel, there was a 60-30 split for Romney (according to campaign polls), and I believe that number was fairly accurate. But if many of those individuals can't vote because their ballot arrives late (or never at all), the GOP is giving away literally thousands of votes, every election cycle.
One lesson from this campaign is abundantly clear: demonization works. The VFW, American Legion, TROA, NCOA and others need to launch a TV campaign showing the faces of the service men and women who were denied the right to vote, along with those who are preventing it: Obama, Harry Reid and Leon Panetta. Keep running the ads until we get a military absentee voting system that works—and find a way to maximize the turnout for non-minority vets.
That's easy...look at military installation and you'll figure that one out in a heart beat.
This should be another cause to have the certification of electoral voters challenged. That veterans away from home and who have actually voted on or before November 6 do not get their votes counted is a travesty of government. That many ballots were lost or intentionally delayed going or coming is even worse. As this situation appears to be just one of strange events including multiple possibilities of fraudulent votes/voting there should be a loud outcry for challenging, suspending and even voiding any certification of the electoral votes until such have been aired and cleared. In the past it has been tradition for the President of the Senate (VP Biden in this case) to ask for objections to the certification. Whether Biden would hold to tradition and honor is problematical. However, if there were to be one fervent patriot in the Senate and one fervent patriot in the House of Representatives who would stand up and declare their objection to certification my guess would be that there would be some action/discussion to resolve a dispute. Of course Biden could just gavel the approval as being unanimous without any discussion of all the concerns but approximately 50% of the people in the USA would understand how corrupt democracy can take away what the Founders intended.
This should be another cause to have the certification of electoral voters challenged. That veterans away from home and who have actually voted on or before November 6 do not get their votes counted is a travesty of government. That many ballots were lost or intentionally delayed going or coming is even worse. As this situation appears to be just one of strange events including multiple possibilities of fraudulent votes/voting there should be a loud outcry for challenging, suspending and even voiding any certification of the electoral votes until such have been aired and cleared. In the past it has been tradition for the President of the Senate (VP Biden in this case) to ask for objections to the certification. Whether Biden would hold to tradition and honor is problematical. However, if there were to be one fervent patriot in the Senate and one fervent patriot in the House of Representatives who would stand up and declare their objection to certification my guess would be that there would be some action/discussion to resolve a dispute. Of course Biden could just gavel the approval as being unanimous without any discussion of all the concerns but approximately 50% of the people in the USA would understand how corrupt democracy can take away what the Founders intended.
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This fabulous arrow would pierce anyone's heart! This fun piece is comprised of a sterling silver arrow which has a brilliant gilt gold wash. The head of the arrow is bright red enamel and the shaft is covered in sparkling marcasites. The fletching, or feathers, is detailed in black enamel with the tips curled under for a 3-dimensional effect. This arrow can be worn as a pin, or a pendant with a chain attached to the loop at the top of the shaft by the feathers. On the back of the feathers is the marking "GERMANY". A remarkable piece for the true romantic!
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (352 votes).
In short: 2008 race :Poor organisation at the start but otherwise ok.In full: In spite of the appearance of oodles of people involved in organisation, the issuing of numbers and chips was ridiculous leading to the run being delayed by 15 mins. I note other runners comments but I arrive 1hr and 30 mins before the start and there was already a lengthy queue!!Those queueing for numbers etc. then traipsed over to the Baggage Drop Off and then queued there..... When the race finally kicked off the marshalls were excellent and very encouraging. I apologise to the one who asked me if I was OK several times. I was struggling with an injured foot and had my IPOD on full blast to try and distract me - thank you for trying to help but I limped round in the end. Goodie Bag was good value -good T Shirt and medal too!! Try sending numbers and chips out rather than saving money by having a small ineffective collection - unless you can process 900 runners more quickly!!!!Date of review: November 2, 2008
In short: quite a toughie constant undulations take their toll eventually. Nice finish at the stadium though and good changing washing facilities. Date of review: December 14, 2006
In short: Well organised, despite dodgy start. Friendly atmosphere. Quick (lowered by PB by 15 min!).Date of review: November 18, 2006
In short: Start was only blip. Much nicer course than you'd expect. Quite quick.In full: Very well organised getting to start and great idea having start/finish linked to running track.Start was just odd, but didn't cause major prob. Nice wide paths and park was enjoyable to run round. Undulating aspect made it more interesting, as did twists and turns, without seeming to slow the place. Liked having the two laps.Bottles of water would have been far easier to drink from. The quarter cupful just went up my nose!Well worth doing. Looking forward to next year. Date of review: November 14, 2006
In short: Very enjoyable course, definitely quick with the right training ! Well orgaised..SBDate of review: November 10, 2006
In short: Well organised and friendly raceIn full: An enjoyable race on a sunny autumn day. I don't really agree with the other comments about the start - when everyone else starts running you do the same as them. Any hold ups or slow sections sort themselves out over 13 miles. Date of review: November 10, 2006
In short: An excellent chance of a PB and a good intro to the distance for the first timerDate of review: November 10, 2006
In short: An enjoyable event - well marshalled with a great finishIn full: This was an enjoyable event for me on an almost entirely traffic free route with scenic parkland thrown in. The marshalls were very good and precise. I liked the finish on the track.The niggles : I found the start bizarre and lost a lot of ground there. I struggled very badly once underway for the first half mile up on the grass banks getting passed a huge number of other runners at a different pace and one of the water stations happened to get caught napping with every helper refilling just as I went through which was unlucky. Otherwise a very good event. Well done FVSDate of review: November 10, 2006
In short: well organised ,no traffic,pretty much flatDate of review: November 9, 2006
In short: Well organised and good PB potentialIn full: Organisation was generally very good, and the park and ride system worked surprisingly well. The start was confusing though - they really could have done with having expected finish time zones, and a louder way of starting the race. The dull scenery of the dual carriageways was made more pleasant by the laps of the lake. It seems to be a fast course despite the undulations, and I really liked the track finish.Date of review: November 9, 2006
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The Microworld Miracle
Algae: Miraculous Single-Celled Creatures
This alga seen during photosynthesis meets one of the principle requirements of life: Oxygen and food.
Some living things possess rings containing pigments. The characteristic of these is that electrons can move freely around them. The ring in question can therefore easily acquire or lose an electron, and thus immediately trap light and energy around it. The solar energy reaching the Earth is one form of energy with which that the pigment can interact. This pigment, which traps and absorbs solar energy is known as chlorophyll, which permits living things to perform photosynthesis.
Neither human beings nor animals can perform photosynthesis, because they contain no chlorophyll. Nor can this process be carried out artificially in laboratories. The mechanisms that take place in the chlorophyll pigment are exceedingly complex and are not yet fully understood. Apart from green plants and the photosynthetic bacteria we have already discussed, only algae can perform photosynthesis. They meet their own energy needs by way of photosynthesis, and meet the major requirements of the Earth. Algae absorb some 30% of the carbon dioxide gas and meet 70% of the planet's oxygen needs.67 They also provide 70% of the food requirements of all living species. They possess not only the capability of photosynthesis, but special mechanisms that permit solar rays to be transported to regions that never see any light. 68
Algae possess a perfect mechanism that no human being has yet been able to produce under special conditions. Thanks to the chemical factory in their single-celled bodies, they are able to make photosynthesis. This fact alone is sufficient for us to see and comprehend the greatness of Allah.
These microorganisms have no brains and cannot think or reason. They consist of just one or a few cells that can be seen only under a microscope. However, algae meet the ecosystem's most important needs—oxygen and food—with a microscopic factory specially created for them.
Algae are widely found in shallow waters, and can live on every water surface that receives sunlight: from thermal springs to the surfaces of ice and snow. The algae cell consists of two sections, one colored and one not. DNA and, in some species, the nucleus are found in the non-colored part, while the other portion contains RNA and color giving pigments.
The kind of pigment contained by particular algae groups differs from others depending on their cell walls and mobility. Algae containing only chlorophyll may be green or blue-green. Brown and red algae contain not only chlorophyll but also such pigments as carotene that conceal the green.69 Algae possess a thin and rigid cell membranes. Some algae move with tiny hairs known as flagella. The cell contains a complex nucleus. The chlorophyll is covered in, and protected by, a special membrane that carries out the photosynthetic reactions with light.
Algae can be green and turquoise, containing chlorophyll, or else brown and red.
1. Cell wall, 2. Central vacuole, 3. Chloroplast, 4. Cell wall, 5. Mitochondrion, 6. Nucleus, 7. Chloroplast
Algae have a thin, solid cell membrane and a complex nucleus. The chlorophyll is protected with a special membrane that carries out the photosynthesis light reaction.
Another of the important processes performed by algae is to produce large amounts of organic substances in the water around them, thus increasing the food available to water-dwelling organisms. Water containing algae is therefore very well suited for other forms of life. Algae also clean the water they live in. Some have constructive properties that actually change the form and nature of the shore and sea beds. Providing food and nutrients for living things, they constitute the basis of the food chain in the oceans.
Some algae use light and CO2 as their basic fuels. Others feed by producing complex organic substances from simple ones. For example, the energy from the Sun reaching the surface of the Atlantic Ocean on a summer day is around 2 billion calories. Some 99.5% of this energy is reflected and scattered. Only 1.67 million grams (0.5%) is used by single-celled algae to produce food. Algae absorb 32% carbon dioxide and dissolve and expel the remaining 8% in the form of organic substances.70 That level of 8% is needed by the planet as organic matter, which is transmitted to other living things.
Algae are used by industry in many ways—directly in the manufacture of foodstuffs, drugs and other industrial products, and also play a significant role in the manufacture of other goods. These products are in turn used to manufacture various foods, medical and cosmetic products.71 Allah has made this minute entity exceedingly useful—another important proof of the greatness of Allah, our Almighty Creator.
In providing their own nutrients, algae also produce energy. The energy they produce is at the level essential for life.
Thanks to the chemical processes they perform, algae are the main cause of energy transformations and temperature stability. The abilities they possess are beauties displayed in living things by Allah and placed at the disposal of human beings.
And you see the ships cleaving through it so that you can seek His bounty, and so that hopefully you will show thanks. (Surat an-Nahl, 14)
Whilst part of the energy reaching the oceans from the Sun is reflected, a very small part is used by algae. The food algae produce using this energy provides the organic substances needed by all living things.
A great many algae produce a gas known as dimethyl sulphate (DMS). This gas, as we have already briefly touched on, turns into solid particles by reacting with oxygen immediately above the sea, leading to cloud formation. Thus algae are responsible for forming clouds that reflect radiation from the Sun, keeping the planet cool, at its present temperature. Therefore, algae possess the effective important property of maintaining the temperature of the planet.
It is impossible for evolutionist biologists to understand this system and still account for it in terms of evolution. The theory of evolution can not explain a single-celled organism's effect on atmospheric conditions and the maintaining of Earth's temperature. Moreover, the mechanism that algae employs represents an even greater puzzle for evolutionists.
The activity of algae increases as the atmosphere warms up, and they begin producing DMS. The way and reason why algae produce this substance is still not yet fully understood. According to one view, DMS is a waste product given off by the cells. According to another claim, when cells are damaged, they release a toxic acid to defend themselves from enemies. Algae exposed to attack by viruses or plankton thus release large quantities of DMS. Even if this hypothesis is confirmed, it is still not yet known why algae release large amounts of this substance at some times and smaller amounts at others, apparently in response to need. Algae vary their production levels in line with temperature, with the aim of keeping the world cool: Algae to produce more DMS in tropical regions, and less of it in colder ones.
And We shaded you with clouds. . . . (Surat al-Baqara, 57)
Were it not for these organisms, the Earth would be a much warmer place. Indeed, as a result of them, a cooling of up to 40 degrees takes place on our planet. If it did not, the upper levels of the oceans would rapidly warm, separating from the cooler ones below, making it impossible for surface algae to reach the nutrients below. For that reason algae release this substance which exhibits antifreeze properties. But why should organisms living in tropical oceans need to manufacture antifreeze?
The gas DMS produced by algae enters into a reaction with the oxygen just above the sea and gives rise to clouds.
Algae need to produce antifreeze because with this substance, they can rise into the air when water evaporates. Algae climb into the upper layers of the atmosphere, helping them spread to more distant regions by air currents that effectively carry them all over the planet. That the sky is full of these organisms is thus not at all surprising. There are up to 10.000 microorganisms, of various species, in every cubic meter of air in the layer closest to the Earth. Up to a height of 50 kilometers (31 miles) in the atmosphere, there are living bacteria and fungi using the same method as algae, accelerating the photosynthesis of the algae on the Earth. As a result of photosynthesis, when the water surface warms up, bubbles form on the surface. Algae—just as if they knew that these bubbles would soon burst and expel themselves into the atmosphere, install themselves inside. When the bubble bursts, the algae leave the water and can enter the air, where they can move freely.
As DMS forms, it emits heat energy that warms the air around it. And this warm air rises. The air beneath is pulled upward by and the current that forms constitutes clouds. In this way, the algae on the water surface rise up with air currents and use wind in order to spread. The algae that rise into the air are red—another important point, since their color protects them from ultraviolet rays when they ascend into the atmosphere. 72
All this system we have described clearly shows that such a minute organism possesses all the requirements and mechanisms to spread all over the planet. The way that a minute living thing influences the temperature of the atmosphere and permits all life to survive is clear evidence of special Creation. Moreover, what is astonishing is the fact that everything consists of gas production, that this gas reaches the highest strata in special ways, that it causes clouds to form and, even more importantly, that this microorganism assists in these processes. As you have seen, evolutionists are baffled in the face of these phenomena, because a microorganism affecting the entire ecosystem in an organized fashion leaves the simple and illusory mechanisms of evolution far behind.
Diatoms covered with silesium display an extraordinary symmetry and beauty. The exhibition of such flawless and geometrical artistry in these microorganisms shows the full glory of Allah's infinite might.
Diatoms are algae that generally live in water and also possess the ability to perform photosynthesis. Diatoms represent 90% of the living organisms in the oceans. There are also freshwater varieties of diatoms.
Diatoms possess a double shell that is hard because it contains silesia, for which reason diatoms' forms are impressive and rather attractively arranged. They are divided in two symmetrically by a line running down their middles. Each symmetrical half contains other symmetrical figures. This symmetry exhibits a flawless geometry, a marvel of superior Creation. Diatoms are all works of art, displaying the most flawless structure among microorganisms. Their different shapes have measurements calculated with the greatest care, showing that these living things are the matchless work of a sublime Creator. In these terms, diatoms are all works of art, with the most flawless and symmetrical structure among microorganisms.
The way that a single-celled creature with just a cell membrane and chloroplast can function just like a chemical laboratory and exhibit such superb artistry amazes believers and leaves evolutionists in despair.
Some 10.000 living and 15,000 extinct species of diatom have been described. Along with other photosynthetic algae, they constitute the food chain of the tropical oceans. They are responsible for the annual production of 130,000 tons (286,600,000 pounds) of organic carbon, the basic nutrient of living things and whose production is most important for the world's ecology. Through their process of photosynthesis, diatoms are among the major consumers of carbon dioxide.
This living things, which produce their own food by photosynthesis and permits the release of free oxygen, are only some 25 microns in size. The other benefits provided by this microorganism may be summarized as follows. Diatoms represent an important food source for marine creatures like fish and whales. At the same time, they are responsible for providing the vitamin D in fish oil, very valuable for human development. Allah created this tiny creature out of compassion for fish, and for human beings who use fish as food.
In addition, diatoms also have industrial uses in filtering and insulation. These organisms are particularly important in transforming silica, nitrate and phosphate to a state that can be used by living things.73 They can even be used for purifying undrinkable water springs.
Most of these processes cannot be carried out under even modern-day laboratory conditions. But the way a single-celled diatom functions just like a chemical laboratory is of course none of its own doing. Unaware of the carbon dioxide outside, the oxygen it produces, or the importance of the vitamin D in fish oil, it merely fulfils the functions assigned to it. Its superior attributes and behavior are inspired by Allah, Who created it, as well as the Earth and sky and everything in them, with His simple command Be!
Our Word to a thing when We desire it is just to say to it, "Be!" and it is. (Surat an-Nahl, 40)
Coral shares its life with algae in order to survive. The single-celled algae that settle on the coral's surface lend it its beautiful colors and at the same time permit it to feed. Algae accelerate the formation of the lime necessary for the development of coral reefs and also protect the surface of these polyps from the erosive effects of salt water.
The most evident manifestation of this symbiosis between coral and algae can be seen in the lovely coral that give the Red Sea its color, as a result of this communal life.
The Red Sea, situated between two deserts, should be a most infertile region. The climate is dry, and there are no rivers or freshwater sources to feed the sea. The sea therefore possesses no sources to generate oxygen or nitrogen. Under normal circumstances the Red Sea should harbor very little life. In fact, however, that coral survives easily in this unfavorable environment, and also permits other organisms to live in it.
The main element allowing coral to survive is green algae. Algae sheltering on the surface of coral provide easy food for it thanks to the photosynthesis they carry out.
Green algae are the only elements that permit coral to survive in these waters with no other life source. The coral gives the algae a place to shelter inside itself, and thanks to the photosynthesis they perform, the algae provide the coral with food and energy. Coral uses all kinds of methods in order for algae to receive sunlight, their all-important source of energy. For that reason, coral polyps generally closes in on themselves in the daytime, leaving only their exoskeletons outside. In this way, the sunlight easily reaches the algae within, permitting the process of photosynthesis. In this way, the coral also obtains the food it needs.
Coral meets all its food requirements with a system peculiar to itself. These polyps secrete a digestive solution that weakens the skin of the algae. By this method, 80% of all the nutrients photosynthesized by algae emerge and enter the coral's own cells.74 This method employed by coral is a thoroughly planned one. Coral knows that algae represent a rich food source, and for that reason, it does not permit all the algae to die when it releases the dissolving substance to obtain the nourishment it needs. The amount released is just enough to assist the required amount of nourishment to be released.
In order for the algae they shelter to benefit from the Sun, coral closes in on itself during the day to expose the algae. This makes the process of photosynthesis easier.
The process of photosynthesis performed by algae also enriches oxygen content of the sea water. Oxygen-enriched water broadens the chain of life. The nitrogen level also rises, thanks to animal wastes and bacteria, making for an increase in fertility and life. That is also the reason why there is life in the Red Sea. Algae, too, benefit from this relationship, of course. Under normal conditions, coral gives off ammonia and CO2. These substances are a perfect source of fertilizer, and food for algae. At the same time, algae need nitrate and phosphate in order to survive, which substances are found in coral waste products.75 Coral has wastes, because as you know, coral is an animal, and not a plant. Therefore, all the raw materials necessary for algae to live are present in the coral's tissues. The algae obtain all the food they need, without expending any effort, from this invertebrate on which they live, which also protects them from enemies.
The two seas are not the same: the one is sweet, refreshing, delicious to drink, the other salty, bitter to the taste. ..(Surah Fatir, 12)
…Yet from both of them you eat fresh flesh and extract ornaments for yourselves to wear. (Surah Fatir, 12)
The methods developed by coral to provide sunlight for algae exhibit an obvious planning. Corals generally anchor themselves in places in the sea where there is strong sunlight, and especially in shallow waters. They spread out more thinly in deeper waters where sunlight is less, and settle into shape in such a way as to obtain the maximum amount of light in their environment. In this way, the algae obtain their most important source of energy. Clearly, coral is very well acquainted with algae and know what they need. Yet to claim that coral, a sea animal, and algae, a single-celled organism, are acquainted with one another is to claim that they exhibit conscious behavior. It is definitely impossible for coral to know that algae survive by taking energy from the Sun. It's equally out of the question for coral to think of using this property for its own benefit. In addition, it's impossible for coral to think of dissolving the algae's cell membrane to make greater use of them, and to locate in a special place in the water in order for algae to make greater use of sunlight. Yet these two symbiotic organisms are well acquainted with one another, and we must admit that the impossible has happened and that both behave in a seemingly conscious manner. Therefore, we once again see the manifestations of Allah's omniscience and realize that the idea of chance development is a huge misconception.
We have honored the sons of Adam and conveyed them on land and sea and provided them with good things and favored them greatly over many We have created. (Surat al-Isra', 70)
The benefits that algae confer on coral go even further. In a yet undetermined way, algae permit the coral skeleton to grow. This is a most important assistance because coral polyps can live only if they can form their own exoskeletons. Algae also produce a chemical substance that functions like a high-factor sun cream to protect both themselves and the polyp they live on from harmful ultraviolet rays. This substance is of great importance since it especially manufactured in tropical regions where the Sun's rays are very strong.76
A tiny algae cell is able to take a precautionary measure, as if it knew the harmful effects of too much ultraviolet light, and uses chemical methods to do this. Looked at from all these aspects, this common life the details of which we have been looking at is the best and most advanced symbiosis in the world. Coral can survive at a maximum temperature of 290C. When the water reaches 340C, coral casts off the algae on its surface. This reaction is the first step in the death of the coral. If the temperature rise persists for four weeks, it becomes impossible for the coral polyps to find the algae necessary for them to survive. 77
Sponges and foreign algae later settle in the emptied-out coral skeleton. But the algae leaving the coral with which they shared a common life also take with them the coral's beautiful colors, so that the coral turns brown and green. Coral that has lost all its bright hues, is also deprived of its protective algae and is now exposed to the corrosive effects of salt water. All that now remains of the original coral is its calcium and inorganic albumins.
Under the effect of passing years and the erosion caused by the water's movement, coral turns into sand. If the temperature rise persists for four weeks, it becomes impossible for the coral to find the algae necessary for them to survive.78
Under normal circumstances jellyfish feed on small fish. In seas where food is scarce, however, their only food source is algae. They way they recognize and store these in their bodies as a food depot is literally conscious behavior.
Masses of water produced by seas of parts of seas in certain regions of the sea are very impoverished in terms of food. Like coral, the jellyfish that live in such regions start looking for algae to absorb into their bodies, as if they knew where to find the nutrients they require. Under normal conditions, jellyfishes feed by catching small fish and crustaceans with their tentacles. That is impossible in infertile seas, however, which is why they embark on a shared life with algae. They detect algae with their tentacles and absorb them into their bodies without digesting them.
To obtain the necessary energy, jellyfishes head straight for the surface of the water, the region receiving the greatest amount of solar energy in the early morning. As the Sun travels from East to West in the sky, jellyfishes also follow its movement and face the direction of the Sun. A very large community of jellyfish can form a vertical wall extending up to 700 centimeters (22.97 feet) deep forms in the area where solar light strikes the water. If a beam of sunlight occurs between objects in the waters, jellyfishes make the most of the opportunity and line themselves along the beam in such a way that every one can see the sunlight. In short, wherever the Sun is, there the jellyfishes are, to obtain the energy necessary to nourish themselves by means of photosynthesis. In darker waters that do not receive sunlight, no trace of jellyfishes can be found. As the Sun sinks, the jellyfish come to the centre of the water they are in. When darkness falls, they feed on nitrates they produce themselves or find in the water.
Amaç sadece kendilerini besleyen fotosentetik canlılara gerekli olan enerjiyi sağlayabilmektir. Aynı bölgede güneş almayan karanlık sularda ise denizanalarından eser yoktur. Güneş iyice battığında denizanaları bulundukları su kütlesinin merkezine gelirler. Karanlık bastığında ise algleri, kendi ürettikleri veya suyun içinde bulunan nitratlarla beslerler.
In order to do all these extraordinary and completely rational things, jellyfish have been equipped with sense organs capable of detecting light at high and low concentrations. 78These enable them to make their daytime migrations to the brighter light in the water. The fact that a jellyfish has a delicate, light-sensitive system from which its symbiotic relationship benefits is not something to be ignored. Jellyfish never mistakenly absorb any other organism or a different species of algae into their bodies, only those species that will be of use. Jellyfishes have no eyes or brain, and consist largely of water. They need to establish whether there is a chloroplast in the living cell they touch. The way that they carry it straight towards the Sun instead of feeding on other organisms around them, shows that they know what will nourish the algae cells they have absorbed into themselves. Jellyfishes have known the properties of algae for millions of years. The way they use them for their own benefit reveals the existence of Allah's extraordinarily superior creative artistry.
Sea slugs that feed on coral separate out the algae on it and keep it alive. Thanks to the algae their color changes and they become difficult for predators to see.
Sea slugs with no shells live on corals and other hard marine surfaces. Since they have no shells they appear to be defenseless, but are protected from their enemies in a special way. Slugs are camouflaged by assuming the color of the coral they live on. The sole reason for their being the same color is algae.
These creatures that feed with corals separate the algae in the coral tissue as they digest it and keep the algae alive. The slug possesses a special mechanism to enable it to do this. It moves the algae cells it ingests from its stomach toward the tentacles on its outer surface and enables the algae to remain alive there. In this way, the defenseless sea slug is provided with perfect camouflage.79 The sea slug has now changed color thanks to the algae it has absorbed into its body and is much harder for predators to recognize.
Can a sea slug see colors? Is it aware of what color the coral is, and can it imagine that it will be inconspicuous to predators by assuming that color? How can it know that the algae gives coral its color and that it needs to separate out the algae from the foods it eats? How does it keep them alive in its body and move them to its extremities? In order to establish this technique, it must first calculate by what means it can avoid danger, then identify the source of the color in the coral, produce enzymes that prevents the algae from being digested, and develop a mechanism for transporting the algae that extends through its body. These are exceedingly complex and scientific processes that require long research and study by humans, yet they are performed very easily by a sea slug unaware of its own existence and other things around it, at every moment and by all other members of that species. This tiny living thing succeeds in all these miraculous processes that human beings cannot perform, and is one of the proofs of the absolute existence of Allah. It draws people who know and appreciate Allah closer to Him. It also deals a major blow to the Darwinism that seeks to conceal the existence of Allah from people and that deifies coincidences.
A sea slug shell almost entirely covered with coral
Flamingos are the colors of the algae they eat.
The flamingos we are used to perceiving as red actually draw their color from a very particular source: Algae. The algae that flamingos eat endow them with their own unique color. The algae that enter the bird's body spread all through it and impart their color to its feathers. 80
In addition, algae assist with the feeding of large sea combs. Zooxanthellae a small species of algae, is a microorganism that can live only in the bodies of other living things. It regards the sea comb as the safest place for it. Large sea combs provide these tiny, green algae with a comfortable environment in which to live and protect them from enemies. In addition, the sea combs provide the algae with such nutrients as carbon dioxide, nitrogen and phosphorus. In return, of course, substances produced by Zooxanthellae constitute the main foodstuff of the sea combs. 81
The proponents of the theory of evolution have advanced a number of scenarios about algae. According to the most widely accepted tale, algae are a primitive form of life that evolved and enabled plants to emerge. Here, the evolutionist obsession that we can summarize as "What is ancient and small is primitive" reveals itself here. As you saw earlier, the bacteria and viruses that evolutionists describe as "primitive" possess astonishing features and complex mechanisms; and algae assume vital functions in the continuation of life on Earth. These points are either glossed over or never mentioned at all in evolutionary scenarios.
There are fundamental questions to which the adherents of the theory of evolution have to give concrete replies. According to scientific research, algae emerged suddenly, in the form they possess today, some 3.5 billion years ago on rocks in South Africa. Like algae, bacteria also appeared suddenly in the same period and bear the same features now as they did then. No primitive entity that can be proposed as the ancestor of these living things ever existed. The fact is, these microorganisms have existed in the same form for billions of years, unchanged down to the present day. They never underwent evolution at any time.
Algae are one of the Earth's sources of oxygen and also a food resource, superior marvels of Creation that provide a number of benefits for all living things, from the smallest entities in the sea to the largest animals on land, and even for human beings. Not only do they keep themselves alive, they also enter the bodies of other living things and perform useful functions for them. All this is great and incomparable proof for those who wish to see the absolute existence of Allah. On this subject Allah reveals:
Allah Who creates as He creates, so that all creating seems the same to them?' Say: "Allah is the Creator of everything. He is the One, the All-Conquering." (Surat ar-Ra'd, 16)
From the smallest to the largest, algae, a source of food and oxygen, are a superior marvel of Creation that provide benefits for living things.


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A good move
In my late 20s I realized I needed to start thinking more seriously about my career. I had spent several years in radio, a year as a newspaper sports editor and was now selling advertising for the Sioux City Journal.
Selling advertising was a challenging job but it bought a better grade of hamburger and I was enjoying some success. This could be a career, I decided, and I committed myself to learn as much about it as possible.
Shortly before turning 34 I was named advertising manager of the Sioux City Journal.
As much as I enjoyed advertising, I still had a heart for the news side of the business. The next career move, I determined, would be the position of publisher where I would be responsible for the entire newspaper operation.
We had strong family ties in Iowa but the publisher opportunities for which I qualified were out of state. A newspaper industry head hunter called about a possible publisher job in Iowa down the road but could give me no details or a timeline. At the same time a national newspaper chain began recruiting me for an advertising management position.
As I flew home from an interview at their national headquarters I weighed my options. The big newspaper corporation moved their managers frequently and I didn't want that for our children. Yet, they offered a fast-track up the ladder.
The next day the head hunter called and told me the publisher position was in Creston in southwest Iowa. We knew little about Creston but my wife and I had moved to Sioux City from Webster City 14 years earlier and figured we would be comfortable back in a smaller town.
One thing led to another and on a wintery evening in January 25 years ago I left our home in Sioux City for a job interview in Creston the next day.
The Illinois company that owned the newspaper in Creston had made a reservation for me at the downtown hotel there. When I told the desk clerk my name and that I had a reservation she exclaimed, "Welcome to Creston, Mr. Huisman, we've been waiting for you!"
"You have?" I asked, bewildered.
"Yes, the rest of your friends are already here. Do you want me to call one of them for you?"
I had not yet met the CEO of the newspaper company and had no idea who my other "friends" might be. I politely declined the offer but made a mental note that Creston was much friendlier than the cities I visited regularly on behalf of the Sioux City Journal. No hotel desk clerk in Chicago ever told me that he or she was waiting for me. Thankfully.
The interview went well and a few days later I received an attractive offer which I accepted. We took the kids to Creston the next weekend. They made it clear they weren't at all enthused about leaving their friends in Sioux City.
When I pointed out the small downtown movie theater in Creston our daughter asked how many screens it had. She was shocked when I said, "One."
She was accustomed to the multi-screen theaters in the city and couldn't understand how a theater could have only one screen. She was even more disappointed when she asked to visit the mall and I told her there wasn't one.
After settling in, my wife and I discovered that 14 years in a larger community had changed us to some degree and it was tougher acclimating to small town life again than we had expected. Yet we had lumps in our throats at the end of moving day when we locked up our now empty Creston house and headed for Ankeny. We left a number of friends behind.
Both of our children did well in the Creston schools. My wife found her career niche at Southwestern Community College and that led to a quick hire at Des Moines Area Community college when we moved to Ankeny. I worked for an excellent company (and boss) and was exposed to many more opportunities than if I had stayed at my previous job.
Decisions about changing jobs and moving are almost always difficult. Our decision to move to Creston 25 years ago proved to be a good one.


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Ahmedabad is one of the largest and fastest growing cities of India. Located along the banks of river Sabarmati, Ahmedabad is fondly called Amdavad by the locals. It is one of the cities of India with historic imporatnce as well, because of its close association with Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation. The Sabarmati Ashram here is one of the most visited places of the city.Ahmedabad is also known as the "Manchester of the East" as it is renowned for its textile mills.An ancient city called Karnavati, Ahmedabad was renamed thus after being defeated by Sultan Ahmed Shah. The major attractions here include the Bhadra Fort, the tombs of Ahmed Shah and his queens, Ahmed Shah's Mosque, Jama Masjid, Mosque of Sidi Sayid, Teen Darwaza or Triple Gateway, to list a few.Ahmedabad can be easily reached by road and rail. Several buses connect the city to other important cities and towns nearby.


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State rec leaders visit Tech
HOUGHTON – Three high-level Michigan natural resource leaders visited Michigan Technological University Thursday morning, presenting a united front to address challenges throughout the state.
Department of Natural Resources Director and Tech alum Keith Creagh, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Upper Peninsula District Coordinator Steve Casey and Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Senior Policy Analyst Bill Bobier shared their visions for the future of state natural resources during presentations at Tech's U.J. Noblet Forestry Building.
"We always have to remind ourselves that virtually everything in this room and everything we do comes from natural resources," said Terry Sharik, dean of Tech's School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences, as the program wrapped up. "We cannot avoid talking about and being concerned about and being engaged in natural resources."
DNR director addresses natural resources challenges and opportunities
Creagh was the first to speak, and he started by pointing out Michigan's improving economy, which is at a 10-year high.
"Unemployment's down, home sales are up, college student readiness is a little bit better, per capita income has gone up," he said. "That's all good stuff, but what I want to talk about is how to use natural resources as a driver."
Michigan state owned forests produce 20 percent of timber to the state's $14 billion timber industry, 13 percent of Michigan's natural gas storage – the largest volume of any state – occurs on state land, Michigan's 101 state parks host 22 million visitors each year and the state has access to 90 percent of the country's fresh water, according to Creagh.
Those resources create an array of opportunities, which Creagh believes have been missed out on because of lack of collaboration between the three major resource departments. Now, he believes the DNR, DEQ and MDARD are as aligned as ever, under what Gov. Rick Snyder calls a "quality of life" grouping.
"In addition to being colleagues, we're actually all friends. There's not a whole lot of daylight between departments," Creagh said. "We used to be pretty big competitors. Mixed messages, competitors, now … we can get a lot done."
He pointed to the example of $21 million approved for dredging projects across the state, which was brought up as a major problem in December, with the $21 million to address it approved by the end of February.
"How did that happen? How did we get $21 million out in three months? It's alignment. It's about being on the same page," he said.
He said earlier this year all recreation representatives met in one room, consolidating many of the 39 different plans. The various departments are now working to engage businesses, while embracing many of the opportunities, even land-based resources like mining.
"We will support land-based industries. Anybody who doesn't want to do (mining), take your iPhone and throw it out the door," Creagh said, emphasizing that technology is only possible with mined resources. "If it's good enough to do it (somewhere else), it's good enough to do it here. The DEQ has great regulations."
Other DNR goals include protection (Asian carp, land/water use strategy and fracking, for example), recreation (support for Trust Fund projects, alignment for trail projects, low water levels), economy (energy efficiency, biofuels, timber business plans) and partners (businesses, local communities, joint management agreements).
MDEQ coordinator emphasizes importance of science over sound bites
Casey shared Creagh's sentiment about the DEQ's quality of regulations, but he said updating many of the regulations is particularly challenging in a "sound-bite society."
"How do we manage resources in a society where people make important decisions about how they vote, what car they buy based on a sound bite? They don't dig into the science," Casey lamented.
He pointed to a high-profile example: mercury. He noted that much of the science from 25 years ago has been clarified, including the fact that only methylmercury can move through the food chain with fish (not elemental and reactive mercury).
"We don't worry about (the two) others because they're not into food chain. People are not in danger unless the mercury gets 1,000 times higher than the water quality limit," Casey said.
He also said new scientific study has found that air releases (4,000 pounds per year released) are far more important than water releases (20 pounds per year), so much so that 90 percent of mercury loading to the Great Lakes comes from the atmosphere.
Another example is fillings in teeth, and he said that if you take the fillings from the mouths of seven adults, the amount of mercury in them would equal the same amount as in all the fish in the 1,000-acre Deer Lake in Marquette County, which was recently put on an International Joint Commission area of concern list for mercury contamination.
"Mercury is a complicated issue," he said. "The science has come a long way, but we're still using 1980s science to regulate mercury. The reason is because everyone gets afraid to stand up and propose new regulations because they'll be killed by soundbites. … If it wasn't for soundbites, we could be talking about how we can improve public health protection while reducing the economic impact of regulation."
He said the two new mines in the U.P – Eagle Mine in Marquette County and Copperwood Mine in Gogebic County – are investing $40 million in reverse osmosis water treatment, partially due to outdated mercury regulations.
MDARD analyst discusses abundance of resources in Michigan
Bobier also examined opportunities in the state, particularly with agriculture.
"Agriculture itself has faced its challenges. This is a great environment right now to be a farmer in terms of prices. It's a wonderful opportunity," he said, noting that it's possible for young people to start on 5 acres, whereas 10-15 years ago, starting a farm without significant capital investment would be nearly impossible.
He said fresh water is a key resource, but not the only one, and if some of the resources were used more fully, it could have huge economic impact.
"Here we are sitting on all these globally renowned resources – that hard maple doesn't grow like this anywhere else, all that great water, this combination of soil – we ought not to ship them raw. We ought to employ people (to make finished products)," he said.
MDARD has big goals to meet by 2015, including increasing the economic impact of food and agriculture from $71 billion to $100 billion per year, doubling agriculture exports, improving access to healthy foods and increasing sustainable food and agriculture systems.
"We are really working on getting farmers doing the right things themselves instead of the command-and-control model," he said.
He also said the state has been getting too "finicky" about dealing with some resources like watersheds, where not only are townships split over two different watersheds, some farms are even.
"We're hoping to at least have sensible discussions," he said.


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A Double-Blind Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of BMN 110 in Patients With Mucopolysaccharidosis IVA (Morquio A Syndrome)
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This Phase 3 study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of 2.0 mg/kg/week BMN 110 and 2.0 mg/kg/every other week BMN 110 in patients with mucopolysaccharidosis IVA (Morquio A Syndrome).
There is currently no standard accepted treatment for MPS IVA other than supportive care. Enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) may be a potential new treatment option for MPS IVA patients. BMN 110 is administered to MPS IVA patients by IV infusion, allowing cellular uptake by the mannose-6-phosphate receptor and transportation to the lysosomes.
This enzyme uptake into the lysosomes is hypothesized to promote increased catabolism of keratan sulfate (KS) in tissue macrophages, hyaline cartilage, other connective tissues, and heart valve, and reduce the progressive accumulation of KS which is responsible for the clinical manifestations of the disorders.
Drug: BMN 110 Weekly
Drug: Placebo
Drug: BMN 110 Every Other Week
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multinational Clinical Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of 2.0 mg/kg/Week and 2.0 mg/kg/Every Other Week BMN 110 in Patients With Mucopolysaccharidosis IVA (Morquio A Syndrome)
- Change From Baseline in Endurance as Measured by the 6-minute Walk Test [ Time Frame: Baseline to Week 24 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Change From Baseline in Endurance as Measured by the 3-minute Stair Climb Test [ Time Frame: Baseline to Week 24 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
- Percent Change From Baseline in Urine Keratan Sulfate Normalized for Urine Creatinine [ Time Frame: Baseline to Week 24 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
|Study Start Date:
|February 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|August 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|August 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
|Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Drug: Placebo
Intravenous infusion of placebo solution at a volume equivalent to that needed for 2.0 mg/kg dose of BMN 110 administered over a period of approximately 4 hours once a week.
|Experimental: BMN 110 Weekly
Drug: BMN 110 Weekly
BMN 110 Weekly: Intravenous infusion of BMN 110 at a dose of 2.0 mg/kg administered over a period of approximately 4 hours once a week.
Other Names:
|Experimental: BMN 110 Every Other Week
Drug: BMN 110 Every Other Week
BMN 110 Every Other Week: Intravenous infusion of BMN 110 at a dose of 2.0 mg/kg administered over a period of approximately 4 hours every other week and infusions of placebo on alternating weeks.
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
|5 Years and older (Child, Adult, Senior)
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- At least 5 years of age.
- Documented clinical diagnosis of MPS IVA based on clinical signs and symptoms of MPS IVA and documented reduced fibroblast or leukocyte GALNS enzyme activity or genetic testing confirming diagnosis of MPS IVA.
- Willing and able to provide written, signed informed consent, or in the case of patients under the age of 18 (or 16 years, depending on the region), provide written assent (if required) and written informed consent by a legally authorized representative after the nature of the study has been explained, and prior to any research-related procedures.
- Must meet the study entrance requirements for the 6-minute walk test.
- Sexually active patients must be willing to use an acceptable method of contraception while participating in the study.
- Females of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test at Screening and be willing to have additional pregnancy tests during the study.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Previous hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT).
- Previous treatment with BMN 110.
- Has known hypersensitivity to any of the components of BMN 110.
- Major surgery within 3 months prior to study entry or planned major surgery during the 24-week treatment period.
- Pregnant or breastfeeding at Screening or planning to become pregnant (self or partner) at any time during the study.
- Use of any investigational product or investigational medical device within 30 days prior to Screening, or requirement for any investigational agent prior to completion of all scheduled study assessments.
- Concurrent disease or condition, including but not limited to symptomatic cervical spine instability, clinically significant spinal cord compression, or severe cardiac disease that would interfere with study participation or safety as determined by the Investigator.
- Any condition that, in the view of the Investigator, places the patient at high risk of poor treatment compliance or of not completing the study.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01275066
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|Study Director:
|Debra Lounsbury
|BioMarin Pharmaceutical
Additional Information:
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
|Responsible Party:
|BioMarin Pharmaceutical
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01275066 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|January 10, 2011
|Results First Received:
|March 11, 2014
|Last Updated:
|June 6, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
United States: Institutional Review Board
United Kingdom: Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency
United Kingdom: Research Ethics Committee
Netherlands: Medical Ethics Review Committee (METC)
Netherlands: Central Committee for Research Involving Human Subjects (CCMO)
France: Afssaps - Agence française de sécurité sanitaire des produits de santé (Saint-Denis)
France: Conseil National de l'Ordre des Médecins
Canada: Health Canada
Korea: Food and Drug Administration
Taiwan : Food and Drug Administration
Taiwan: Department of Health
Italy: The Italian Medicines Agency
Italy: Ethics Committee
Argentina: Ministry of Health
Argentina: Administracion Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnologia Medica
Denmark: Ethics Committee
Denmark: Danish Health and Medicines Agency
Japan: Institutional Review Board
Japan: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency
Portugal: Ethics Committee for Clinical Research
Portugal: INFARMED - Autoridade Nacional do Medicamento e Produtos de Saúde, I.P
Brazil: Ethics Committee
Brazil: National Health Surveillance Agency
Brazil: National Committee of Ethics in Research
Colombia: INVIMA Instituto Nacional de Vigilancia de Medicamentos y Alimentos
Colombia: Institutional Review Board
Germany: Ethics Commission
Germany: Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices
Qatar: Hamad Medical Corporation
Saudi Arabia: Ethics Committee
Saudi Arabia: Saudi Food and Drug Authority
Keywords provided by BioMarin Pharmaceutical:
Mucopolysaccharidosis IV type A
Mucopolysaccharidosis IVA
MPS IV Type A
Morquio A Syndrome
Lysosomal Storage Disorder
N-acetylgalactosamine-6-sulfate sulfatase
enzyme replacement therapy
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Mucopolysaccharidosis IV
Carbohydrate Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Lysosomal Storage Diseases
Connective Tissue Diseases
Metabolic Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on January 17, 2017


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By THOMAS C. TOBIN
Published February 15, 2007
LARGO — A task force is proposing that Pinellas public schools end the long-standing practice of balancing enrollment by race, and also give students a better chance of attending a school close to home.
The group reached agreement and largely ended its work Thursday night after 18 months of meetings, public hearings and a recent survey of more than 7,700 households with children in Pinellas schools.
The survey made clear that a large majority of Pinellas families, regardless of their ethnic background, consider the racial makeup of a school and its staff a secondary matter. Large majorities also said they wanted their children in schools near their neighborhoods, particularly from kindergarten to fifth grade.
Members of the task force considered the survey as they spent the last two weeks talking through what they would recommend to the School Board. Their job, which began in August 2005, was to help the board find ways to improve the school choice plan and maintain diversity even as the district makes the transition away from 35 years of busing.
The group's suggestions, if adopted by the board, would significantly change the way students are assigned to schools.
"I thought the process had a lot of integrity and resulted in some important things being said and listened to,'' said task force member Adrien Helm, who sat on the group's diversity committee. "Ultimately, the School Board is going to have to make some difficult choices. … It's not going to be easy for them."
According to the task force, Pinellas no longer should balance school enrollments by categorizing students as "black" or "non-black." Instead, the group said, the district should create diversity by ensuring that students with learning disabilities, limited English skills, poor test scores and those from low-income families are not too heavily concentrated in any school.
The proposal is based on research that indicates children in those groups generally do better when they attend schools where the majority of students are middle class.
Using a student's social class is one way some districts have tried to maintain diverse schools as the nation's courts have grown increasingly cool to racial balancing.
Pinellas is in the final year of a court-ordered plan that uses racial balancing. The plan says no school's enrollment may be more than 42 percent black. The task force had the option of reviving some sort of race-based system but chose not to.
One factor that discouraged them from doing so was a ruling expected soon by the U.S. Supreme Court on how far school districts can go when using race in student assignment. The court appears poised to end the use of race or limit its use greatly.
As a way to get Pinellas students in schools closer to their homes, the task force is recommending that the School Board increase the number of attendance areas in the district. Attendance areas are zones that students are confined to when selecting a school.
The district has four attendance areas for elementary schools; the task force suggests as many as seven. There are three areas for middle school; the task force suggests four. It also suggests two high school attendance areas, in contrast to the current system, which allows students to apply for any high school in the county.
Among the group's other proposals:
-Expand the district's popular magnet programs.
-Increase the number of fundamental schools, the "back to basics" programs that, like magnets, have long waiting lists.
-Establish stronger "feeder" patterns across the county to make it easier for families to predict where their children will attend elementary, middle and high school.
The group said its goal was a plan that helps students achieve, promotes diversity, keeps students close to home, makes the system more predictable for families and reduces the soaring cost of busing.
In a final meeting Thursday night, the task force agreed on a number of proposals. A subcommittee will write its final report to the School Board, which will be left with the task of implementing something.
The details could include the politically perilous exercise of drawing attendance area boundaries, a task that is sure to cut some families off from a school they want to attend.
The board also will have to sort out how much it can afford. Some of the proposals, such as expanding magnet programs, will cost money in a district where budget cuts and dire talk about finances have become an annual ritual.
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With a quick look at her collection, one immediately sees the common thread that connects it. Symbolic shapes appear often, creating a signature without overtly stamping a logo or name. Case in point, the capricious candy/acorn charms that first won acclaim on Comolli's Flamenco bracelet have migrated to chandelier earrings and pendants on necklaces, all in array of colorful gemstones.
"I work with a lot of symbols," says Comolli. "My signature shape is the drop. It is the symbol of the ocean, the holiday feel that I always have in my head. I try to incorporate these familiar symbols throughout the collection in many different things so you can wear them all together."
Her designs, unlike those from many high-end jewelry houses, are not dictated by the stone, but rather driven by design. "A lot of times I have a design in mind and don't know what the gem could be to meet that particular idea."
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|Comolli sourcing some gems from the African sourcing booth at the Hong Kong gemstone market.
This has led Comolli to far-off locales in search of the right stone for her vision. The latest collections, India—named for the source of her raw material and available in April—and Ocean Jasper took her to India, Indonesia and Madagascar. Her travels brought about some rather interesting materials to incorporate into the brand.
The India collection features a recurring leaf mosaic that has been hand-carved from chalcedony quartz in Jaipur that is available in just about every color imaginable. Some of the pendants are cinched by similarly colored leathers, while others delicately hang from rose gold chains, giving them an earthy vibe.
|India Collection - Chalcedony Carved Leaf Pendants
The other portion of the India collection incorporates the heartwood of oud, or agarwood, the most expensive wood in the world (a quick search on eBay shows high-quality oud/agarwood/aloewood going for upwards of $640 for 80 g—roughly a quarter of the cost of gold—a lot for wood). Most commonly used in incense and perfumes, this exceedingly rare wood is an indigenous evergreen tree from Southeast Asia containing a fungus that triggers a response from the tree to produce a dense and dark resin within the heartwood. The wood darkens from a light beige to a dark brown to even black while adding density and imparting a rich, musty scent that has been used in incense for centuries. When sculpted and polished into beads, the exotic wood's deep color adds warmth to Comolli's mala bead rendition. And when punctuated with rose gold accents and inlaid with diamonds, it gives new meaning to the ancient practice of japa—this is truly wearable luxury.
Agarwood Mala Bracelet from Tamara Comolli's India Collection
The Ocean Jasper collection embraces Comolli's boho-chic sensibility. The multicolored chalcedony stone found on the Madagascar coast is speckled with orbicular structures, making each polished piece unique, even if cut from the same raw material.
"It has this wild pattern; no ring looks the same, but it is still the same material. It is quite luxury hippie," says Comolli of her Ocean Jasper collection. It breaks from the constraints of fine jewelry with a little gypsy flair. "A ring itself doesn't say much, that's why I think jewelry needs to speak to you; I think fine jewelry needs to tell a story."
Pieces from the Ocean Jasper Collection.
This speaks to Comolli's overall philosophy about wearing jewelry and the art of design. Her collection is internationally established, she has a team of more than 30 working with her in the studio, and she works hand-in-hand with some of the world's best goldsmiths and gemstone carvers. Still Comolli goes about her designs with the passion and zeal of someone in a start-up. She's not creating jewelry for the sake of continuing the brand, rather for getting to the heart of why people wear jewelry in the first place.
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It's what makes her designs so exciting, and why so many have gravitated to this free-spirited, gypsy style. Luxury as wearable art—a notion that clearly works.


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