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Shedding Royal Hope on Hyperemesis (Severe "Morning" Sickness)
When the news broke this week that Prince William's wife Kate Middleton is suffering from a rare pregnancy disorder called Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG) I instantly felt nauseous.
Oh Kate! I thought, it's hell, isn't it?
I know what HG is like because I have been there – I had it with both of my pregnancies, though most severe with my first.
As awful as I feel for Kate, though, I am hopeful that her suffering might shed more light and research on this oft misunderstood and diagnosed disorder.
As my contribution to the cause, I am re-running these words I wrote about HG last September:
This weekend I was excited to get an email from a research team at the University of Southern California (USC) regarding a study I'm taking part in on Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG)
HG is severe and prolonged nausea and vomiting in pregnancy.
Everyone has heard of "morning sickness," but HG is not even close – it is like "all the time sickness." It is not confined to the morning or to the first few weeks of pregnancy and cause death to the mother and to her unborn baby.
I had severe HG when I was pregnant with my first son Brice, now 7. I lost twenty pounds during my first trimester and spent a good portion of the pregnancy in the hospital on IV medications, nutrition and fluids because I could not even keep water down orally. I could not eat, drink, work, work out, read (reading made the nausea worse), travel, etc.
And, I was lucky! Not every woman who has HG has a baby, or healthy baby, at the end. Marlena Schoenberg Fejzo, the doctor leading USC's research on HG, lost her second baby to complications from HG at fifteen weeks. She tells her story here on a You Tube video.
My HG was not as severe with my second child Brady, 4, but I did need to take ant-vomiting and nausea medications that are used to treat chemotherapy patients from the day of my positive pregnancy test until he was born.
And, Brady was born with health complications that persist to this day. I have asked myself many times, could the medications I needed to preserve my pregnancy with Brady led to his issues? I don't know. I hope USC's important research sheds light on that question.
There is currently no known cause of HG, but researchers at USC are working hard to identify risk factors, propensity of it returning with subsequent pregnancies, implications on babies born to mothers that had HG and, hopefully, one day a cause and cure.
I am one of 764 women from across the country that has had HG and has given my DNA to USC for research (it was extremely easy – just a mouth swab)
I am also one of 1317 women that have had HG that has allowed the research team full access to my health and pregnancy records and participated in a phone survey and online survey about HG.
There is no payment or compensation to participate in any of this research, my motivation is to help raise awareness of HG and find a cause and cure.
I was so excited by the email I got this weekend because the research team announced that from the studies already conducted they are making great headway and have published 11 papers with their findings thus far.
Two of their papers are significant – one shows evidence of a genetic predisposition to HG (not surprising to me – my mother also had HG) and one shows that HG can lead to long term effects in children born to mothers with HG (also not surprisng to me)
Huge findings in this previously unstudied disorder.
The team still needs participants, though, and you do not have to have had HG to do so! Researchers need women who have given birth at least twice, but who have NOT had HG to serve as part of the control group. My very generous friend Liz did this and I so appreciate it.
You can also participate if you have had HG that required medical treatment including IV hydration, TPN, or not oral feeding (or both)
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Northern elephant seals are important as predators on octopus, squid, small sharks, skates, and fish. In this way they impact the populations of these animals. They are also important as food for animals which prey on them, such as Carcharodon carcharias and Orca orcinus. (Bonner, 1990; Le Boeuf et al., 2000)

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Quantum Mechanics and Probability Theory
Quantum mechanics looks just like probability theory with a slight twist. Instead of assigning probabilities to events you assign 'amplitudes' which are complex numbers. Computations with these amplitudes are carried out very similarly to computations with probabilitites. If we use a() to mean 'amplitude' a(A or B)=a(A)+a(B) and a(A and B)=a(A)a(B) under similar conditions to those in which P(A or B)=P(A)+P(B) and P(A and B)=P(A)P(B) in conventional probability theory. But these rules for a() only apply when the events A or B remain 'unobserved'. When we actually make observations we switch to a different rule where we now assign probabilities using the rule P(A)=|a(A)|² and these probabilities can be given your favourite probabilistic interpretation.
One interesting thing we can do is recast conventional probability theory so that it looks more like quantum mechanics. For example, consider coin tossing with two outcomes, H and T. We can use these states as the basis for a 2D vector space and write them as |H> and |T>. The outcome of a fair coin toss can be written as 0.5|H>+0.5|T>. When we come to 'observe' the coin its state vector 'collapses' to |H> or |T>. Suppose we have two such coins. Then the joint state space is the tensor product of the state spaces for individual coins. The rule for combining two independent coins into a joint state is the ordinary tensor product. So combining two fair coins gives the state (0.5|H>+0.5|T>)⊗(0.5|H>+0.5|T>)=0.25|H>|H>+0.25|H>|T>+0.25|T>|H>+0.25|T>|T> which can be interpreted as giving the usual probability assigments for fair coin tossing. If we couple the coins together on some way then the joint state might not be a product of individual coin states, ie. we might no longer have independence and their states would be 'entangled'.
Consider a physical process applied to the tossed coin. For example suppose we have a machine that always turns a head over to reveal a tail but only has a 50% chance of turning over a tail. We can think of this as a linear operator mapping |H>→|T> and |T>→0.5|H>+0.5|T>. In this formalism any physical process must be a linear operator given by a stochastic matrix.
Anyone who has studied a little quantum mechanics will recognise many of the phenomena above: the tensorial nature of joint systems, the linearity, the entanglement, the 'collapse' of the state on observation and so on as being nearly identical to features of quantum mechanics. So contrary to popular opinion I think I believe that whatever is interesting about quantum mechanics has nothing to do with any of these features. You can even shoe-horn a variant of the many worlds 'interpretation' of quantum mechanics into probability theory by insisting on the primacy of the state vector and pointing out that when a coin is observed the observation is described by a linear map defined by |H>→|H>|Observer sees H> and |H>→|T>|Observer sees T>.
But almost everyone agrees that quantum mechanics is weird. So how does it really differ from probability theory?
The biggest one is the feature called 'destructive interference'. In conventional probability theory we can combine two states together to make a new state. For example suppose process A generates state |A> and process B generates state |B>. Then we can choose to run either A or B with 50% probability resulting in a new state |C>=p|A>+(1-p)|B>. Suppose A and B are coin states. Then the probability of getting a head when observing state |C> is bounded between the probabilities of getting a head in states A and B. This is a kind of convexity condition. If processes A and B are both roughly fair there's no way of choosing p to 'refine' these states to make another one that's more unfair. And here's the big difference from quantum mechanics. In QM we can choose p to be negative (or any other complex number) and escape from this convexity condition. If we have a quantum coin toss, say |A>=0.6|H>+0.8|T> and |B>=0.8|H>+0.6|T> (in QM the sums of the squares of the moduli are one, not the sums themselves, that's why I chose 0.6 and 0.8), then we can combine them into |C>=-12/7|A>+16/7|B> and get a pure |H> state. We have made the |T> terms cancel out. This is an example of destructive interference. (How do we actually carry out this linear map for arbitrary complex numbers? It's actually very easy - see below.)
One very curious consequence of the above is that we can't ignore low amplitude outcomes. Classicaly, suppose |A>=sqrt(1-e)|H>+e|T> and |B>=sqrt(1-f)|H>+f|T>. If e and f are small enough then no matter what linear combination of |A> and |B> we use to make |C> we can choose to ignore the possibility that we have a head. But in QM, suppose |A>=sqrt(1-|e|²)|H>+e|T> and |B>=sqrt(1-|f|²)|H>+f|T>. Then be carefully crafting |C> from |A> and |B> we can make the probability of getting heads as high as we like.
It's destructive interference that underlies many of the interesting phenomena of QM. For example Shor's factorisation algorithm exploits destructive interference to remove those parts of the quantum computer state that give the wrong answer leaving us with an output that represents a factor.
Non-convexity also leads to other significant consequences. In conventional probability the basis elements |H> and |T> are 'special'. They lie at the extreme 'corners' of the space of possible states and can't be written as stochastic combinations of any other states. But for a quantum coin toss we've shown above that there is no special basis. The state |H> can be written as a linear combination of |A> and |B> just as easily as |A> can be written in terms of |H> and |T> and this is reflected in the fact that we can make a machine that combines |A> and |B> states to make an |H> state. In fact, this is straightforward to observe in the lab. Instead of considering |H> and |T> consider |+> and |-> which correspond to spin up or down states for an electron. Amazingly, if you rotate this state through 90 degrees to make a "spin left" state might get something like (|+>-i|->)/√2. (That answers the question I asked above, just rotate the system.) There is no conventional analogue of this. It is this that is the central problem with Schrödinger's cat. Many people think the problem is that the cat's state becomes something like (|alive>+|dead>)/√2 and can't figure out how to assign meaning to this. But this isn't an issue for QM at all, you can formalise conventional probability so that the cat is described by such a vector and nobody has any difficulty with that. The issue with the Cat is that when the cat is observed it appears to 'collapse' into either the state |dead> or |alive>. Why these two basis elements? In conventional probability these vectors are special. But in QM they are no more special than other vectors.
So in summary - I think that entanglement, wave function collapse and a whole host of other phenomena that are presented as specifically quantum phenomena are nothing but irrelevant distractions and aren't specific to QM at all. The interest value in QM comes from non-convexity and the important problem to solve is the preferred basis problem. (There's also the possibly unanswerable philosophical question of why in Heaven's name the universe looks like a stochastic system with complex numbers for probabilities? And if you're a Bayesian, in what way can a complex number possibly be interpreted as a degree of uncertainty?)
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- Suresh said...
But isn't Bell's theorem really about entanglement ? And since that is really what shows the distinctiveness of QM, isn't entanglement key ?
- Tuesday, 23 May, 2006
- sigfpe said...
Well I see entanglement as exactly analogous to joint probability distributions of non-independent variables. Bell's theorem shows that those joint probabilities can't possibly obey the usual rules of conventional probability. So I don't see it as fundamentally about entanglement.
- Tuesday, 23 May, 2006
- sigfpe said...
In more detail (and it's a long time since I worked through the proof of Bells' theorem so I may be slightly off) what Bell's theorem shows is that there is no way of interpreting the results of the EPR experiment as coming from a conventional classical setup with some hidden unknown variables described by some (conventional) probability distribution. If you reject anything other than this kind of approach then you are forced to accept some kind of spooky action at a distance.
If you look at the discussion here you can see how the 'paradox' comes about because we can craft states where the coefficient of a basis element can be negative. What Bell's theorem says is not that classical systems can't be entangled, but that there is a limit to how correlated such systems can be. By exploiting the fact that amplitudes can be complex you can make quantum systems much more correlated than classical ones. And that's why I see this kind of non-convexity as much more interesting than entanglement itself.
- Wednesday, 24 May, 2006
- Suresh said...
fair enough. overall I think your intuition is correct, in that quantum states, by virtue of being complex states, are more than just higher dimensional classical states.
Another discussion you might be interestsed in reading is
on quantum computing vs classical randomized algorithms; it boils down to similar arguments.
- Wednesday, 24 May, 2006
- sigfpe said...
Some things Oded says are wrong. Like "For example, it says that you cannot make non-Unitary transformations, but this by itself does not mean that you can effect any Unitary transformation that you want." isn't quit correct. There are "universal" quantum logic gates that allow you to get as close as you like to any unitary transformation. However, I still agree with the general tenor of his comments. (Though this is mostly a different topic to what I posted on.)
- Thursday, 25 May, 2006
- Theo said...
I see the main difference as whether the coefficients are complex or real. With, in fact, a little bit more of a twist: you point out both this difference, and that in QM, as opposed to Classical, the coefs are squared when normalizing the states.
So, it seems (and I'm thinking out loud more than making any definite or well-defined claims) that we jump all the way from the rig of positive integers to the ring of complex numbers, and over each impose a natural "unit sphere" condition.
(In fact, it's there's also something projective going on: we don't, in QM, care about the total phase of our system.)
So, one natural question: what is the proper in-between "probability" theory allowing positive and negative, but only real, probabilities? What's the correct norm?
Going the other way: what about probability theories with coefficients in the Quaternions?
- Saturday, 27 May, 2006
- sigfpe said...
I'd have thought the |.|² norm would be fine for reals and quaternions.
I think you can get something like quaternion probabilities if you consider physical systems with SU(2) symmetry. Any time you have a particle whose internal symmetry carries the adjoint representation of SU(2) (which is basically the vector space of quaternions x acted on by the unit quaternions via x→qxq^-1) then we have a quaternion valued wave function. (You'd get the adjoint representation if the particle was a bound state of a pair of particles carrying the fundamental representation.) The components of the quaternion tell you about the particle's composition - but if you ignore the particle's inner state and just consider its distribution in space then you can think of it having a quaternion valued 'amplitude' distribution. (I think that's right, I did my particle physics courses nearly 20 years ago...)
- Sunday, 28 May, 2006
- sigfpe said...
Hmmm...I'm not right. In particle physics we're looking at representations over C so in fact we're probably looking at a Q⊗C (⊗ over R) valued wavefunction.
- Sunday, 28 May, 2006
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In short: Well organised but tough race through some lovely Chiltern lanes. A sunny day made it all the better!Date of review: November 8, 2010
In short: One of my favourite races of all time - I can't fault it.In full: Extremely good organisation and facilities, fantastic marshals, lovely course. Highly recommended. Second year I've done it, this year bringing along a friend who'd never run a half marathon. We both loved it and would do it again!Date of review: November 7, 2010
In short: Definite race to do....if you are tough enough !In full: Loved it. Stunning autumn scenery, lovely weather,amazing marshals and a challenging course with the best fast finish possible.Date of review: November 7, 2010
In short: Brilliant again, but now straining at the seamsIn full: Once again Marlow Striders did a wonderful job. This is a glorious course through Buckinghamshire woodland with 2 horrific climbs at mile 8 and 11. Really well marshalled and many thanks to all who helped out. Great support from local residents/spectators too. One of my highlights of the year. The race feels like it is getting too big now though with lots of congestion at race hq (though none on the course); 45 minute queues for toilets and big queues for hot drinks afterwards. Please dont let it grow any bigger!Date of review: November 7, 2010
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In short: Superb half marathon, although somewhat punishing!In full: This was my first time at Marlow, and I am instantly won over. What a race. Stunning scenery and very good organisation. Hills... aaarghhh... horrible... especially those at ~ mile 8 and again at 11... ouch! Down was as hard as up! Final run-in to the finish was 1 mile+ of blissful gradual downhill running... best and fastest ever HM finish. Very well done Marlow Striders... if I can I will be back.Date of review: November 7, 2010
In short: Thank you Marow Striders and Marshalls, a great raceIn full: Third time for this race and the hills seemed even tougher! The race organisation was excellent and the support along the route was really encouraging. A very friendly race and not surprised it sells out early. Well done to Marlow StridersDate of review: November 7, 2010
In short: Tough but rewardingIn full: So the hills that people talk about are tough, but the downhill bits do allow you to make up time. Running conditions were beautiful today and I managed to run a pb. Scenery was nice, stewards did a great job and overall I'd highly recommend it (as long as you've trained for hills!)Date of review: November 7, 2010
In short: The hills at miles 9 & 11 are infamous, the marshals are amazing. One of the best races on the circuitIn full: This was my second Marlow HM and I'll keep coming back. The scenery is just stunning, made even better this year without the driving rain. The hills are tough, but plenty of encouragement from fellow runners and the wonderfully enthusiastic marshals keeps you going. And a huge fan of the long sleeve t's. Well done Marlow Striders, a great race.Date of review: November 7, 2010
In short: Some tough hills through a scenic route with a good quick downhill at the end. Friendly, encouraging marshalls.In full: Marlow Striders ordered some good weather today.I enjoyed the race, my legs are not as enthusiastic.Probably could do with some more toilets.Date of review: November 7, 2010
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Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) designed for usage with graphics processors is used both to make graphics cards as well as inside video game consoles. However, there are only three manufacturers who produce GDDR memory: Hynix Semiconductor, Samsung Electronics and Qimonda AG, which is bankrupt and will not be able to make memory any longer. Therefore, entering GDDR business seems to be very logical for many companies.
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Just to give an image, this girl and I are very close and have been for years. She's 18, I'm 20. She's very sweet, she isn't a skank or an idiot else I wouldn't be involved. She's got a good heart.
So I've known her since she was a freshman in high school and I was a junior. Now she's a freshman in college and I'm a junior. We've liked each other for years but we never said anything to each other. A big reason I didn't was because she had had a boyfriend for over a year, but a lot of her friends always said she always talked about me and said it was obvious she like me so I kissed her and told her I had feelings for her a couple months ago.
She was ecstatic, she told me she has always liked me and has been waiting for me to kiss her for years. Needless to say her boyfriend and her broke up a couple days later when she told him. I would feel bad but he was a bad person anyways, she found out later he was cheating on her.
The thing is, she was moving away to a college 3 hours from mine. I asked her what we were, and she said she didn't want to label it until after she had been at school a few weeks and felt things out. So we spent the last week together before she moved and tried doing the long distance thing. I visited her 3 weeks in to school because my family has a house 20 minutes from her university. The first night there she told me she didn't want to be together. I obviously got upset and asked why, she said "It's not that I don't want to be with you, I just don't want to be with anyone". So we spent the rest of the weekend together, which was amazing and sadly said our goodbyes.
At that point I prepared myself for the fact that I needed to move on. Thing is, she still tells me she likes me all the time, and that she misses me and wants me to visit. This is very confusing. I asked her a few days ago what she expected me to do. Am I supposed to wait and hope one day she comes around? I told her I was fine with waiting if she had future intentions but I can't wait forever. I told her I didn't like feeling like I was having a carrot dangled in front of my face and at some point I have to move forward. She got upset and said "I don't know what you want me to say. I never thought we didn't have something. I've always liked you. I've always wanted to be with you. I don't understand why you think differently". So I never really got an answer out of her.
Now, for a big list of reasons I've lost all my friends since I started college and I've been dealing with crushing loneliness for about 2 years. This has made me developed fairly bad social anxiety. Long story short, I'm by myself almost every day outside of class. Due to that, most days I sit in my room, watching my phone, hoping to get a text or call (which come some days and don't others) from her and it quite literally is driving me crazy. Since I don't get out much, talking to her to what sets the tone for my day. If we don't talk at all I get very depressed
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What a garden can grow: Sociology and the Global Politics of Food
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
For Associate Professor Tracy Ore, food is far more than something to be consumed. In her teaching, she uses food as a main ingredient for enlightening students about global political, environmental and economic issues. In her community advocacy, she employs it as a significant tool for building community and sharing culture.
Through her "Sociology and the Global Politics of Food" course and its outgrowth, a community garden that's building connections between campus and community, Tracy Ore helps students examine societal issues connected to the growing, production and distribution of food.
"Through food a lot of things can be seen," said senior Dawn Mikkelson, a sociology major from Shoreview who took Ore's class. The course helps students explore a range of topics, including how globalization affects farming communities and how to make discerning food choices at the grocery store. "She makes you see food in a different light," Mikkelson said.
Ore helps her students apply something as common as food to issues as complex as politics and economics of society, said senior Deanna Tatro, Little Falls, who as a class project researched sugar cane – a food item she took for granted – and discovered how it affects the people who grow it and how political agendas affect its production. "Sociology classes always give me aha moments,
It's important to Ore that her students understand where food comes from and how it's connected to people's surroundings and their health.
"We have problems with people getting access to food," she said, pointing out that for those without resources, food pantries are not a long-term solution. Some of her students have gotten involved in studying people's accessibility to food in St. Cloud, including identifying pockets in the community where grocery stores and bus routes to food sources are not readily available. The project has produced a 30-page document that will be sent to city leaders, asking for an assessment of food accessibility in Central Minnesota.
Ore contends that when people have more connection with their food and understand where it comes from, it can change their relationship with food. She takes her students to a poultry processing plant and to the community garden on campus to expand their thinking about the sources of food.
As the driving force behind the successful community garden on Fifth Avenue, north of the St. Cloud State Women's Center, Ore has given faculty and staff, students and neighbors a way to come together and connect as they plant, nurture and share food and flowers. Volunteer gardeners get down and dirty as they till and weed and harvest, but they also have fun sharing summer cookouts and taking home fresh-picked produce.
Creating a sustainable garden on a piece of land on campus that for years had been just a place to dump snow has been a learning experience. It also has been an enjoyable journey for Ore and her fellow gardeners, including Assistant Professor of English Catherine Fox, who has been a faithful volunteer from the beginning, and "garden ambassador" Holly Santiago, a university videographer.
Three years ago when she first put a shovel into the ground of the garden, Ore hit rock-hard soil one inch down. "You couldn't find a worm," she said. But with the right planning and care, the spot that Ore calls a "perfect location right there on the front door of the campus" has flourished.
"The garden is my connection to the University," said St. Cloud resident Chris Kerr, who has been involved with the community garden for three years. "It brings all kinds of people with similar interests together," he said. "It transcends race, generations." When Ore mentioned it would be nice to have a compost bin, he responded by building one for the garden and turning it into a fun project for a group of willing volunteers.
"Everybody's equal in the garden," said Ore, who has become a student of every aspect of producing, preserving and using food. "I got into it more as a way of meeting people. It's been pretty amazing how people have come together to plant things and to grow not just food, but to grow community."
Through the garden and through her teaching, Ore spreads awareness and understanding about investing in the earth and investing in people, about preserving the environment and preserving community.
"Any class with her is just amazing," Tatro said of Ore's ability to relate the common threads in sociology. "Family, money, food – it's all related."


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Book review - Sept. 30
September 29, 2012
'A Man Was a Real Man in Them Days'
"A Man Was a Real Man in Them Days" by Rose Powers White
In "A Man Was a Real Man in Them Days," the lives and character of the pioneers who dared to challenge the vast prairie of Eastern New Mexico come to life.
First-person accounts are gleaned from letters and interviews of early settlers collected by Rose Powers White in the 1930s and 1940s.
In 1860 after the Civil War, cowmen began to bring their herds to the Plains; and in 1898 when the railroad came, homesteaders poured in, lured by promises of free land.
Barbed-wire fences were put up, and the day of the open range was at an end.
These ranchers and homesteaders faced drought, prairie fire, rustlers, lack of food and water, and perhaps most of all, loneliness.
The courage, determination, and good humor of these first settlers is revealed in their own words in their letters and interviews, recorded while they were still living.
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Bruneau Cowboy Christmas !Posted Tuesday, November 10, 2009, at 2:44 PM
If you like horses, and you like Western "things".... or if you just like Christmas..... This is the event for you! I go to this 'Bazaar" in Bruneau religiously. I'm so excited that it's next weekend. Nov 20 and 21. Do not make the mistake thinking that this is just a small town country bumpkin bazaar. Amazingly, this is one of THE best in the Western States.
There will be Artists from several of the neighboring states, with all kinds of Art & Crafts. Every year I am amazed at the talent that is brought in. I never seem to have enough money to go 'round. This year will no doubt be the same.
I started going a few years ago, after I was invited by a young friend of mine. Becky Miller has wiggled her way into my heart starting years ago, when she was helping at the 4-H Horse Show as a young/teen adult. She worked hard and was the epitome of a 4-H/Ranch raised young adult. Respectful and always courteous. That her last name is Miller is just a coincidence. And that her mother's name is Jessie Miller is an even more eerie coincidence, but coincidence just the same. I love her as my own, name or not. Come meet her!
I just thought that rather than bring pictures to show after the fact, I would give you a "Heads Up" and invite you to join me.
Sunday morning will also be a Cowboy Church service, that is worth the drive. Come join me for one of the areas finest Western events ... have a snack and visit with the Artists. I don't think you would be sorry, and if you are... lemme know about it...and we can discuss it!
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I think it is actually the 21-22, but you are right this is a wonderful event. It is one of the highlights of my year I love buying unique gifts that my friends and family LOVE...I wouldn't miss it THANK YOU FOR SHARING with the rest of the readers.
I'm always amazed at how far these incredibly skilled artists and craftsmen come from-last year they had come as far as the east side of Montana- u know its good if they come that far. The handtooled leather, the barnwood furniture, the handmade quilts, and jewelry it is AWESOME. And the food in the "cowboy cafe" is sooo good too homemade chili, stew, cinnamon rolls, cornbread...cookies...yummy
And you are right Cowboy Church on Sunday is more than worth the drive it is always AMAZING!!!!! The music is beautiful and to hear cowboys and cowgirls sharing their hearts for God is AWESOME!!!
See ya there Jessie Thanks for the reminder that it is right around the corner!!!!
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Thursday's hearing will look at security failures at U.S. diplomatic facilities across the globe.
The House on Thursday says it will be pressing for answers on the Benghazi terror attack that killed four Americans after a senior State Department manager dismissed complaints that no one was held accountable for lax security at the consluate where the attack happened.
The testimony Wednesday of Patrick Kennedy, the State Department undersecretary for management, came as Republicans claimed the Obama administration is muzzling witnesses who were in Benghazi during the Sept. 11, 2012, attack that killed a U.S. ambassador and three others.
"That's something the White House is refusing us," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz, a Republican member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, which will hear more Benghazi testimony Thursday.
He said about 30 witnesses who were in Benghazi have yet to be interviewed by congressional investigators.
"The State Department, Department of Defense, CIA — we have multiple agencies (involved) and we're getting the same answers."
The White House, CIA and State have said no one has been prevented from testifying.
Kennedy told members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs that four employees singled out in the State Department's internal review of the incident were demoted to positions with less responsibility, which constitutes punishment.
"They were relieved of their senior-level positions. That is a serious disciplinary action," Kennedy said.
Secretary of State John Kerry approved the employees' return to duty last month after determining their actions did not constitute a "breach of duty" required for dismissal.
Several members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee disagreed. They said the employees' suspensions with pay and their reassignments to other positions, not demotions, amounted to slaps on the wrist for failures that contributed to the deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stevens, information management officer Sean Smith and two security officers who were former Navy SEALs, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty.
"Reassignment does not equal accountability," said Rep. Trey Radel, a Florida Republican. "They're reassigned, never miss a paycheck and still hold on to their cushy government jobs where they can retire with a pension. In the real world, this wouldn't happen. They would be fired."
Rep. Scott Perry, a Pennsylvania Republican, accused the State Department and the Obama administration of stonewalling Congress on what happened in Benghazi because "the facts did not comport to the president's positions" on terrorism and the Middle East.
The White House has said in the past that it has divulged all it needed to Congress and that the investigation by Republicans is an attempt to create a "phony" scandal.
The State Department has said any of its employees who want to share their account about what happened in Benghazi may do so. And in a Sept. 3 letter to Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, CIA Director John Brennan wrote: "I invited each of the officers who were in Benghazi on that night to speak with Congress, and indicated we would support such meetings."
Brennan said he "will not tolerate any effort to prevent the Intelligence oversight committees from doing their jobs."
But the GOP lawmakers who have been trying for a year to shed more light on the attack said much remains in the dark. They say the American public still does not know why the department under former secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton falsely blamed the attack on an anti-Islam video and denied it was a terrorist attack.
They also want to know what the president was doing the night of the attack, and will continue to investigate Thursday the lack of a U.S. military response to the hours-long terrorist attack.
Chaffetz said the oversight committee will hear Thursday from former U.S. Secret Service director Mark Sullivan, who headed a panel that evaluated the security failures at State and a report State issued absolving anyone from direct blame for the lax security in Benghazi.
The report, known as the Sullivan Report and not yet officially released, found that State knew of dangerously poor security at multiple embassies and consulates around the globe but that senior officials ignored warnings.
"Their review seems incomplete at best. We're going to explore what did they do and what didn't they look at," Chaffetz said.
The Clinton-ordered Accountability Review Board report looked at State Department issues related to Benghazi, "but there is a massive military component that they did not question," Chaffetz said.
"They did not look thoroughly at the military response. And there were people at State they did not talk to," such as the secretary of State herself, he said.


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Messy Punk Cropped Bob with Straight Across Bangs
Hot,hot,hot. This brunette looks incredible with this hair style. It is a messy look that is very trendy with the younger crowds. It is easy to achieve this look by messing the hair with a round brush and or scrunching the hair.This is a medium hair cut just above the shoulder. Her bangs have been cut slightly choppy in the front. Her hair covers her ears and it is even all around.This hair colour is a shade of black.
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Health Watch/Portage Health/Katriina Hopper, Geriatric and Internal Medicine
The growth of the number of adults over age 65 is unprecedented in the history of the United States. The National Institute on Aging reports that by 2030, almost one of every five Americans will be 65 years or older. In the next five years, 65+ year olds will outnumber children under 5. This population change is driven by the aging of the Baby Boomer generation, and an increase in life expectancy of older adults.
With this demographic shift, greater attention is being given to the healthy aging.
What is healthy aging?
Healthy aging is adapting to the physical, social and emotional changes that occur with age. It is preventing or managing chronic diseases that occur with age, like heart disease or dementia.
What do we know about healthy aging?
Exercise is the key to a healthy lifestyle at any age. Multiple studies have shown an association between exercise and disease prevention. It doesn't have to be high impact running or mountain biking. Walking as little as 20-to-30 minutes a day for five days a week is beneficial. For those who cannot walk, resistance or "chair" exercises have proven beneficial. Regular physical activity can prevent heart disease, improve blood sugar levels, prevent falls, regulate mood and may prevent some forms of dementia.
Maintaining connection to friends, family and your community is an important part of healthy aging as well. Aging is often associated with losses of loved ones and of the ability to live independently. Friendships and other social connections can help buffer the losses that we face as we age. Some studies have linked social engagement with a lower risk of dementia. Social connection can be as simple as having coffee with a friend, performing volunteer work, belonging to a club or going to church.
Stimulating your brain with new experiences, or challenging puzzles and games may reduce the risk or slow progression of dementia. Taking a community education class or attending a lecture or musical performance keeps your mind engaged. For those who have hearing and/or vision impairments that limit the ability to participate in these activities, treatment of these conditions can improve quality of life, prevent falls and improve cognitive function.
Treatment of chronic conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure will decrease risk of end-stage kidney and heart disease, and may decrease risk of dementia. Many of the lifestyle changes needed to control these diseases (like a healthy diet and exercise) also promote healthy aging. Over time, control of chronic conditions with medication and life style changes will prevent disability and lengthen life.
There are no pills or herbal remedies to reverse the aging process, but we know more about factors that affect how people age. The good news is that older adults are now living with less disability and more independence. So, if you are able, take a walk outside and enjoy the summer weather, and bring a friend. It will benefit you now and later in life.
Editor's note:?Dr. Katriina Hopper is a board certified internal medicine and geriatric medicine provider at Portage Health. Learn more about Dr. Hopper at portagehealth.org/hopper.


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Yoko Ono Sues Singer For Using The Name Lennon
Tuesday February 12, 2008
Lennon Murphy
Yoko Ono has filed a lawsuit against American singer Lennon Murphy for using the last name of her late husband.
Murphy's mother named her Lennon after the former Beatles member. She's been performing under the Lennon moniker since 1997 and used it when she was signed by Arista Records in 2000.
"My product manager at Arista was ironically the son of the lawyer who actually represents Yoko," Murphy wrote in a MySpace blog entry last week. "So he approached Yoko, to make her aware of the use, evidently giving her blessing as Arista proceeded forward with the album release and at the same time filing for the trademark," which was granted in 2003.
While we empathize with Murphy's situation, we hope her songwriting makes more sense than this next passage from her blog:
"8 long hard years pass and no one says a word. Just 2 days before the statue of limitations was up this very same lawyer we went to in 2000 filed their complain. I accusing me of falsly representing myself and causing confusion in the market place that has damaged to the John Lennon name."
Murphy says she can't afford to hire a lawyer and fight the suit, claiming that she hasn't worked since October and lives on just enough to get her through until she can start touring again. "I have no idea what I'm going to do yet in this situation, and I'm stressed, angry, and scared," she wrote.
"I'm pissed and hurt that someone in Yoko's position has nothing better to do than f**k with my life, and collect the $25,000,000 a year that the John Lennon estate brings in. Yes, this is a real number or close enough to it. This is how I look at it. With that kind of income she probably pays more in taxes every year the you or I will make in our whole life time. So what do I have that can be of such value to her after 8 years. I don't want to lose my name all because someone is bored in their life of luxury."
Interestingly, Julian Lennon (John Lennon's son from his first wife, Cynthia Lennon) has posted Murphy's entry on his MySpace blog page with a heading that says: "Sad but True & interesting........... I feel for her & know the situation well."
According to the bio on Murphy's MySpace page, this isn't the first bit of bad luck she's encountered. She's endured tour bus accidents, had to fight for the custody of her young sister after the death of their only parent, and had her debut album, 5:30 Saturday Morning, released by Arista on the fateful day of Sept. 11, 2001, when terrorists launched four suicide attacks in the U.S. that claimed 3,000 lives. Arista subsequently dropped Murphy.
Murphy's latest independent album is the appropriately titled Damaged Goods.


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Jeff Rubin: How High Oil Prices Could End Climate Change
Jeff Rubin is the best-selling author of "Why Your World Is About To Get A Whole Lot Smaller," and he was one of the first economists to predict peak oil years before prices started to rise. In this video, WatchMojo.com speaks with Rubin about his book "The End of Growth – but is that all bad?," where he picks up on the theme of how rising oil prices are affecting the world. We even discuss countries like Japan and Denmark that have implemented successful programs to limit consumption and emissions. He also posits that this increase in the cost of power might eventually limit the effects of climate change because we will no longer be able to afford to buy the fuel to cause the emissions. Silver lining indeed. For more information, click Here .


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by Anton Shilov
Toshiba Corp. has announced that on May 14, 2009, Toshiba filed suit in the United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin against Imation Corp., several manufacturers and several distributors of recordable DVD media, as a means to prohibit infringement of Toshiba's DVD patents.
Toshiba's complaint seeks damages for past infringement and requests that the court enjoin the sale, manufacture, and importation into the United States of recordable DVD media by the defendant companies named in the complaint. The infringing recordable DVD media is sold in the USA under at least the Imation and Memorex brand names.
Toshiba licenses patents essential for meeting DVD format specifications. Imation and the other defendant companies named in the complaint do not have license agreements with Toshiba or the DVD6C Licensing Group covering recordable DVD media, and have engaged in the importation and sale of recordable DVD media without permission.
Toshiba said that the infringement of Toshiba's patents by these companies, has negatively affected Toshiba's business, and also caused damage to the legitimate and licensed DVD product manufacturing and distribution business as a whole. Through the filing of the lawsuit, Toshiba seeks to recover monetary damages, prevent future infringement, and/or secure agreements to respect Toshiba's intellectual property rights in the future.


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Garrett Popcorn's Taste of Chicago menu is filled with cool choices, but two of those are COLD — the Popcornsicle and the CaramelCream ice cream!
Our Popcornsicle is a CaramelCrisp® popcorn ball placed on a stick and then flash-frozen in liquid nitrogen. While the Popcornsicle appears to smoke, that's only humidity from the air reacting to the cold popcorn. It's safe to eat as soon as we hand it to you, and after eight days we haven't heard one person complain of brain freeze.
I've seen people blow on the popcorn to warm it up, but it's more fun to take a bite and then blow out immediately so you appear to breath fire. We've had people call that effect "Dragon Breath", "Popcorn Smoke", and my personal favorite, "Foggy Mouth".
You can eat ice cream too fast, but with a flavor like CaramelCream, why not take the time and savor it? That's the best way to prevent mishaps. However, I know there's a lot to try at the Taste of Chicago so you may be tempted to eat your ice cream quickly. If you get that sudden, spike of pain to the head known as brain freeze, the best thing to do is place your tongue against your soft palate to warm it up. I also found a few other online tips to cure a cold brain.
There are only two more days left of Taste of Chicago. Check out our Facebook page to see what's happened so far, or visit us at Booth 22 across from the Petrillo Music Shell on Jackson to try our all-temperature menu!


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|Instrument: OTD : Optical Transient Detector
Instrument Category:
Earth Remote Sensing Instruments
Instrument Class: Passive Remote Sensing
Instrument Type: Photon/Optical Detectors
Instrument Subtype: OTD
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The Optical Transient Detector (OTD) is a highly compact
combination of optical and electronic elements. It was developed
as an in-house project at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in
Huntsville, Alabama. The name, Optical Transient Detector,
refers to its capability to detect the momentary changes in an
optical scene which indicate the occurrence of lightning. The
OTD instrument is a major advance over previous technology in
that it can gather lightning data under daytime conditions as
well as at night. In addition, it provides much higher detection
efficiency and spatial resolution than has been attained by
earlier lightning sensors.
At the heart of the system is a solid-state optical sensor
similar in some ways to a TV camera. However, in overall design
and many specific features, OTD had to be uniquely designed for
the job of observing and measuring lightning from space. Like a
TV camera, the OTD has a lens system, a detector array (serving
a function somewhat analogous to the retina in the human eye),
and circuitry to convert the electronic output of the system's
detector array into useful data.
The sensor system (camera) is approximately 8 inches in diameter
and 15 inches high, while the supporting electronics package is
about the size of a standard typewriter. Together, the two
modules weigh approximately 18 kilograms (40 pounds). The total
weight of the satellite placed on orbit is 75 kilograms (165
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Not all is well at Penn State...
1. Joe is not at practice more than an hour a day. He also rarely if ever attends any of the coaching or game prep meetings. She said people don't know how sick he was in the offseason implying that he went through a serious medical issue that has not been publicly reported. He has absolutely zero input into the gameplanning, and doesn't even know what it is until Friday night.
2. The dissention amongst the staff is at an all-time high. When Joe is not there, it's a contest to see who can act like they are in charge. There have been verbal arguments in front of the team in the middle of practice sessions between assistant coaches yelling at each other that they are in charge and are going to do what they want at that point of practice.
3. Multiple coaches on the staff have been reaching out to gauge interest from other programs as they are worried about their future in the program. One "high profile" coach on the staff actually reached out to the head coach of another PA school over the summer saying he was worried about his future at PSU and laying the groundwork for a possible move in the future.
4. There is a process in place amongst the staff to determine if a high school prospect should get an offer. Some of the coaches will vote against offering or recruiting certain kids just to spite the coaches who want them offered or are their primary recruiters. Whether this is actually going on or not I do not know, but at least one coach on the staff feels that way. For this reason, the coaches who actually do recruit have basically thrown their hands in the air and almost stopped recruiting all together.
5. "If Tom Bradley is the next head coach, the real coaches will leave in about 30 seconds."
From a recent PSU player:
"Let me start off by saying that our S&C program is a HUGE issue. 95% of the players I played with despised it. This WAS something we constantly bitched about in the locker room. Interestingly enough some of the biggest critics say good things about it when interviewed or asked publicly. Through my time at PSU I did feel like I lost strength and explosiveness....especially in the legs. Many of us did decide to train off campus when we could in order to improve. Problem is that you are so tired after a full day that it becomes difficult. Don't put too much stock into public interviews. No one wants really wants to badmouth anyone."


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Men's tennis earns 12th consecutive NCAA Division II tournament bid
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
St. Cloud State men's tennis, under the leadership of head coach Jerry Anderson '84, earned its 12th consecutive NCAA Division II tournament bid this spring.
An independent Division II program, the Huskies charted a 17-6 overall record, which ended with a tough 5-0 setback at Western New Mexico in first round play of the NCAA Division II Central Region tournament.
In singles play, junior Joao Orsi, Londrina, Brazil, and freshman Jordan Peterson, Staples, led SCSU with 13 wins apiece. On the doubles side, the tandem of freshman Tyler Halmquist, Moorhead, and sophomore Matt Sturgeon, West Des Moines, Iowa, paced the club with an 11-6 record at number one doubles.


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Release date: 10/23/2013
Raleigh: Attorney General Roy Cooper filed suit today against an alarm system company that made illegal robocalls to numbers listed on the Do Not Call Registry. The case comes ten years after the Registry first began protecting consumers from unwanted telemarketing calls.
"Thanks to the Do Not Call Registry, people have the right to decide who calls them at home and we want to protect that right," Cooper said. "The Registry has cut the number of unwanted sales calls, but some telemarketers continue to violate the law and that's why we're cracking down."
Do Not Call complaints were the top source of consumer complaints to Cooper's office last year, especially robocalls, which are automatically dialed, pre-recorded telemarketing calls. 6,126 consumers filed Do Not Call complaints with Cooper's office in 2012, mostly about robocalls. So far in 2013, consumers have filed nearly 3,200 Do Not Call complaints with Cooper's office and approximately 75 percent of those complaints were about robocalls.
Today, Cooper filed suit against ISI Alarms NC, Inc. and owner William Jason Waller of Iredell County, seeking civil penalties for illegal robocalls the company made to North Carolina consumers. ISI Alarms is no longer operating but Cooper wants to make sure it pays for violating telemarketing laws. State law allows penalties of up to $5,000 per Do Not Call violation.
More than 1,000 North Carolina consumers contacted the Consumer Protection Division after receiving misleading robocalls that claimed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) had received reports of recent break-ins in the area. Many consumers who reported getting these unwanted calls had listed their phone numbers on the Do Not Call Registry.
Cooper's complaint alleges that thousands of such calls were placed to North Carolina home and cell telephone numbers on behalf of ISI Alarm during the past two years, and that the company saw its sales quadruple as a result. The automated message prompted consumers to press a certain number to learn more about recent crimes in their area. Consumers were then transferred to a call center operated by ISI Alarms and heard a pitch for the company's home alarm system and alarm monitoring services. The automated message gave listeners the option to press a different number to stop the calls, which consumers said did not work.
Under both state and federal laws, it's illegal to make most commercial telemarketing calls to home and mobile telephone numbers listed on the Do Not Call Registry. North Carolina law offers additional protections from robocalls, making sales calls that use recorded messages illegal even if you haven't joined the Registry.
More than 6.4 million North Carolina telephone numbers are currently on the Do Not Call Registry. Since Do Not Call laws began protecting consumers in October 2003, Cooper's Consumer Protection Division has taken action against more than 30 companies that have broken the law, making violators pay more than $1 million in civil penalties and refunds.
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United States Olympic Education Center names 28 athletes to all-academic team
MARQUETTE – The U.S. Olympic Education Center named 28 student-athletes, including two from the area, to its All-Academic Team for the just-concluded fall semester.
These athletes were recognized for earning grade-point averages of at least 3.0, includingg 20 who were at 3.25 or better.
"It can be difficult to juggle academics and sport," USOEC assistant director Mike Fields said. "It is nice to see so many athletes earning honors in the classroom."
Locally, among those honored were a pair of weightlifters. One is sophomore Ann Bengry of Marquette, who is majoring in sports science, and the other is freshman Andrew Wener of Munising, a computer science major.
Here are those honored, listed with their class standing, major and hometown:
Greco-Roman wrestling – Alan Alvarez, soph., pre-chiropractic, Miami; Tanner Andrews, sr., criminal justice, North Aurora, Ill.; Austin Barton, soph., economics, Phoenix; Dallas Brown, fresh., physical therapy, Valdesta, Ga.; Arthur Carmona, fresh., business management, Brawley, Calif.; Joseph DeNova, jr., business management/accounting, Fortson, Ga.; Ethan Dondlinger, jr., history, Slinger, Wis.; Alex Fleming, sr., exercise science, Sterling, Va.; Zeke Honegger, fresh., undeclared, Lake Zurich, Ill.; Ryan Hope, sr., community health education, Carol Stream, Ill.; Mike Mioni, fresh., undeclared, Phoenix; Max Nowry, jr., secondary physical education, Wheeling, Ill.; Dmitry Ryabchinskiy, soph., biology, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Mark Stenberg, jr., industrial technology, Lockport, Ill.
Weightlifting – Joshua Barnett, sr., computer science, Sanford, Fla.; Ann Bengry, soph., sports science, Marquette; Ryan Borges, fresh., special education, Bradenton, Fla.; Brian Budd, soph., sports science, Okemos, Mich.; Max Cretcher, sr., physics/pre-medicine, Rochester Hills, Mich.; Dan Gorelik, jr., international studies, Moorestown, N.J.; Jeffrey Everson, graduate student, exercise science, Cedar, Mich.; Brennan Jaquint, jr., sports science/pre-medicine, Evansville, Wis.; Holly Krzeminski, soph., undeclared, Port Charlotte, Fla.; Chris Lenahen, sr., biology, Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.; John McGovern, jr., biochemistry/pre-medicine, Pensacola, Fla.; Andrew Wener, fresh., computer science, Munising, Mich.


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We are providing only the address at this time, there has been an error in the MAPQUEST link application. While we work on a resolution, we are providing the street address information and provided notes to playing fields. In addition, we are providing a DIRECT link to MapQuest - from which you can generate driving directions. Shortly we will restore the Mapping function.
Below you will find the address to Playing Field Newton North High School for NEBNOTES: 128/95 take exit 21 east(Rte 16/Washington St) after 3.1 miles, Ron Walnut St; field is .3 miles on right
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Jewish settlers arrived in Coro, a small town in western Venezuela that was the country's first capital, from Curacao in 1827. In 1855, nearly the entire community left after a mob ransacked Jewish homes and shops.
Venezuelan Jews say that was the last time anti-Semitism flared up in the country. But in the past few years, a community that had considered itself among the most well-established in South America has lost up to one-fifth of its members, prompted by an increasingly hostile environment under the government of President Hugo Chavez, a radical leftist who has been in power since 1999.
"People have left, but there hasn't been a massive exodus as some people have said," said Jacqueline Goldberg, editor of Nuevo Mundo Israelita, the community's weekly newspaper. Goldberg was referring to rumors in Caracas that up to half of the city's Jews had moved out of Venezuela since Chavez took power.
Accurate figures are hard to come by, but estimates suggest the community now numbers between 15,000 and 20,000. The vast majority are based in the capital of Caracas, with small communities in the cities of Valencia and Maracaibo and on the Caribbean island of Margarita.
A principal factor keeping them in Venezuela is quality of life. The community is mostly middle and upper class, and while it has suffered from living under a regime whose president routinely accuses the wealthy of undermining his "21st century socialist revolution," the government's policy platform also allows business opportunities.
"When you have a president who's massively expanding public spending, there's a lot of money to be made," said a Jewish businessman who asked not to be named. "A lot of Jews are involved in construction, which is booming, what with the government building more schools, hospitals, housing and roads."
Also keeping people from leaving are foreign exchange controls the Chavez government introduced in 2003, making it difficult for Venezuelans to take their wealth out of the country.
Another attraction is the strength and cohesion of the community. Given its small size, the Jewish infrastructure in Caracas is impressive: There are five synagogues, and the community carries out its own kosher slaughter. The centerpiece is the Club Hebraica, a large complex in Los Chorros, an up market residential neighborhood in the eastern part of the city.
The Hebraica comprises a well-equipped Jewish school and a sports and social club, with a large swimming pool, tennis, basketball and squash courts; soccer pitches, and even a bowling alley.
Hebraica's tranquility feels a world away from the social and economic revolution gripping Venezuela and symbolizes how the Caracas Jewish community has protected itself from some effects of that upheaval.
"If you're not involved in politics, you don't really feel the regime," said Rabbi Pynchas Brener, head of the Ashkenazi community.
Nevertheless, Venezuelan Jews feel a tangible discomfort.
"We've never had anti-Semitism here in Caracas, so this situation is something new," community member Moises Nessim said. "I would say there is worry and concern, but not yet fear -- more uncertainty about what's going to happen."
Although Chavez -- a former army officer and coup leader known for his fiery anti-American rhetoric -- has never been much favored by Venezuelan Jews, relations between his government and the community started to deteriorate in earnest in 2004. In November that year, Club Hebraica was raided by police under a search warrant issued by a local pro-Chavez judge. The warrant, which came after the murder of public prosecutor Danilo Anderson, suggested that the Hebraica was being used to store weapons.
The accusation apparently sprang from rumors that Anderson had been killed with equipment from Israel's Mossad spy agency. After searching the school and the club, police left empty-handed.
Incredulous that authorities might think the Jewish community was storing weapons in its school, some observers concluded that the raid really was intended to intimidate the community.
"Chavez must have known about" the raid, one community member said. "In this society, nothing happens without his permission. There was a feeling that the government wanted to send a sign that no group was immune from its control."
The situation deteriorated further a month later, when Chavez said in a speech that "the descendants of those who killed Christ" and "the descendants of the same ones that kicked Bolivar out of here" had "taken possession of all the wealth in the world."
Though the "Christ-killer" comment clearly appeared anti-Semitic, some commentators said Chavez actually was referring to global capitalism. Indeed, when Jewish leaders soon afterward met with the president at Miraflores Palace, his official residence, he assured them that he had not been referring to the Jewish community.
That meeting in January 2006 brokered an uneasy peace, but the official reaction to Israel's war with Hezbollah last year unleashed what Freddy Pressner, head of CAIV, the Jewish community's umbrella organization, calls "an explosion of anti-Semitism in Venezuela."
Chavez repeatedly compared Israel's behavior to that of the Nazis, a stance that locals say encouraged a wave of similar slanders. Sammy Eppel, a Jewish journalist in Caracas, catalogued a host of violently anti-Israel and anti-Semitic writing and cartoons in the local government and pro-government media.
In one article, which appeared last September in Diario de Caracas, a pro-government newspaper, journalist Tarek Muci Nasir wrote of the "Jewish race" that "the only resource they have left to stay united is to cause wars and genocide."
A cartoon that ran last year in Diario VEA, a state-owned newspaper, depicted Hitler saying, "How they've learned from me, these Israelis!"
One worrying trend is the extent to which these sentiments appear to be approved and encouraged by the government. The Ministry of Information last year organized a demonstration outside the main Sephardi synagogue in Caracas, an act that Pressner called "insensitive and imprudent."
After the demonstration, the wall outside the synagogue was daubed with "Jews, killers -- leave" and "Zionist baby-killers." At other times, graffiti has appeared there with slogans such as "Jews go home" and "Here are the murderers of the Palestinians."
A more worrying development was the appearance of a Venezuela-based Web site claiming to be the local branch of Hezbollah. The site warned, "Hizbolla Latin America is analyzing placing explosives against a U.S. ally in Latin America. This would indicate the launch of Hizbolla Latin America."
Another concern is over Chavez's increasingly close economic and political ties to Iran. As the world has condemned Tehran's nuclear ambitions, Venezuela has emerged as one of Iran's few solid allies in the world.
At the same time, Chavez effectively cut all diplomatic ties with Israel last year by withdrawing his charge d'affaires. He had recalled his ambassador three years earlier.
Pressner said Chavez's comments could trigger more extreme activists to feel they're acting with his blessing: "We fear what he has sowed. We fear what could happen if there is another conflict. If there were a conflict with Iran, for example, we don't know what the consequences would be for our community."
Nevertheless, most Jews in Caracas do not feel that anti-Israel sentiment will provoke physical attacks.
"They're not burning synagogues or persecuting people on the streets, but there is officially sanctioned anti-Semitism," Eppel said. "The Venezuelan people aren't anti-Semitic. This is being directed by a few activists."
A more immediate concern is over the government's plans for education. Chavez's stated aim is to spread "21st century socialist values" via the school system -- and to extend this through private schools as well. While it's not clear how this would work, many Jews find the proposal troubling.
"Chavez is putting his brother in charge of education reform, and he might base it on the model in Cuba, where he was a student," said Guillermo Schmidmajer, whose daughter teaches Hebrew at the Jewish school.
On a more positive note, the community can take heart not only from its own unity but from the solidarity and support it has received from across Latin America and the world. Last weekend, CAIV celebrated its 40th anniversary in a spirit of hopefulness and achievement.
To coincide with CAIV's anniversary, the Latin American Jewish Congress held a two-day meeting in Caracas attended by some 70 Jewish leaders from Latin America, the United States, Canada, Europe and Israel.
The highlight of the weekend was a commemoration at the Hebraica attended by some 1,200 people, featuring Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, first lady of Argentina and a senator there, as the keynote speaker.
In what seemed to be a swipe at Chavez, she told the meeting, "Each and every one of us who has the responsibility of being part of an elected institution in Latin America should not only raise our voices but act in a concrete way against any sign or glimpse of anti-Semitism."
Fernandez is widely expected to launch a bid to succeed her husband, Nestor Kirchner, in Argentina's presidential elections in October.
At a time of great concern over the actions and attitudes of its own president, the Venezuelan Jewish community is happy to have such influential friends.
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Here's how RW members rated this race (98 votes).
In short: Good fun runDate of review: January 9, 2007
In short: Very enjoyable, friendly marshalls, lovely location, will look forward to doing it next year.Date of review: December 28, 2006
In short: Interesting course.Nice scenery.Date of review: December 27, 2006
In short: really good fun and gorgeous location. Good parking availabilityDate of review: December 27, 2006
In short: wonderful pre-chistmas funIn full: a big thank you to the organisers, i had a fantastic morning. the festive atmosphere, challenging (if a tad under distance) course, mince pies, mulled wine and xmas pud all made for a memorable race. a great way to earn your christmas dinner, i'll be back next year.Date of review: December 27, 2006
In short: Good race just before Xmas.In full: Nice to see a race in the area just before Xmas. Enjoyable, but a tricky hill especially as slippery underfoot. Shame that the mulled wine ran out before I finished!Date of review: December 27, 2006
In short: Excellent and very friendly, great courseDate of review: December 26, 2006
In short: Friendly, enjoyable raceIn full: A really enjoyable event to take your mind off all the hype. I'm sure the minor problems will be sorted out for next time. The marshalls were really cheerful despite the cold, and the setting was beautiful. My 2 sons also enjoyed their first race, and we will all be there next year (maybe even my husband will enter!)Date of review: December 26, 2006
In short: Bit up and down literallyIn full: Ok course - 2 laps up one hill down the other side endof lap.Bit poor admin distance short, confusing mile markers run out of prizes. Excellent marshalls and atmosphere ok.Date of review: December 24, 2006
In short: Well DoneIn full: Thank you to all the organisers and marshalls. A very enjoyable run - a bit slippy on THAT hill but the time made up for it. Was it really 5 miles-if so I've done a PB? The mile markers really weren't that confusing. An a great freebie - thanks againDate of review: December 24, 2006
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"If you fly 200 hours a year, you will save 20 business days a year. And that's not including productivity on the plane. "
Giving Back: Pajama Program
BJT readers—who represent one of the highest-net-worth magazine audiences anywhere—clearly have the means to contribute to a better world. To help you do that, we're spotlighting one deserving organization per issue. All of them have received a four-star overall rating from Charity Navigator (charitynavigator.org), which evaluates philanthropic institutions based on their finances, accountability and transparency.
Pajama Program (pajamaprogram.org)
Pajama Program provides new pajamas and books to needy children, many of whom have been abandoned, abused or neglected and are waiting to be adopted. These children are frequently shuffled through group homes, shelters and temporary housing and many have never enjoyed clean, warm pajamas or a bedtime story. Since 2001, Pajama Program has provided more than two million pajamas and books to such children via 62 locations in 32 U.S. states.
The group also offers literacy programs tailored for kids of all ages. For example, during "Reading Round-Up" volunteers read to pre-kindergarten-aged children in small groups. Middle school and high school students can partake in programs that focus on topics ranging from expression through poetry to online technology. There's also a class called "Money Matters," which helps to educate teens about smart financial practices.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013
HeliVert-Built AW139 Takes Flight in Russia
Russian Helicopters and AgustaWestland joint venture, HeliVert, has conducted the initial flight of the first Russian-produced AW139. The test flight, which included with the helicopter's maiden liftoff and controlled hover, took place on December 19 at the HeliVert assembly plant in Tomilino near Moscow, lasting 37 minutes. HeliVert plans to introduce a second AW139 into the flight test program in February.
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This hairstyle is both fun and flirty. This woman has her hair styled into this short spiky do. The hair has been layered and messed up all around.For this haircut, the hair is short.The hair colour is a medium ash brown.
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For the past 20 years, the National Fenestration Rating Council (NFRC) has provided a fair, accurate, and credible rating and labeling system for windows, doors, and skylights used in residential construction. Now NFRC is providing the non-residential market with a powerful and exciting online program known as the Component Modeling Approach (CMA).
What is CMA?
CMA is a groundbreaking concept in the non-residential fenestration industry. It offers performance information on fenestration components through an online database. This is essentially a library that houses data on a wide variety of fenestration components and is available all of the time from anywhere in the world.
CMA shows how changing one component affects overall energy efficiency and provides information on which components can be combined. Ultimately, the information obtained from CMA can be used to determine a whole product energy performance rating for a fenestration system.
This rating information is incorporated into a CMA Label Certificate for product validation. The label certificate lists the performance for all fenestration systems for a given building project.
Furthermore, any products certified for a particular project can be used in subsequent projects without recertification. Finally, components and certified products are maintained indefinitely in CMA.
How is CMA Organized?
CMA is organized into three primary components:
Optical/spectral data from the International Glazing Database
Thermal performance data of frame cross-sections
Thermal performance of spacer component materials
Why did NFRC create CMA?
NFRC developed CMA to:
What's in it for me?
Architects and builders:
Building officials, state government employees, and other involved in code development and enforcement:
Government- and utility-run energy-efficiency programs:
Enter your contact information in the CMA Interest form. You will hear back from NFRC staff within a few days.
NFRC also has an online video that explains the Component Modeling Approach.
If you are a code official, NFRC has a website that brings all of your energy codes information into one place.
Visit the NFRC webinars page to register and join us for the latest in the series.
Utah Valley Convention Center Finds Right Tool for the Job in NFRC's CMA Program
"CMA was integral in streamlining the selection, certification, and code compliance processes for the fenestration on this project. It's the kind of tool you can rely on to get things done easier than ever before." --Todd Reynolds
Todd Reynolds wanted to simplify the process for achieving building energy code compliance and providing third-party certification for the glazed curtain wall surrounding the Utah Convention Center. He found just what he was looking for in the National Fenestration Rating Council's (NFRC) Component Modeling Approach (CMA) Program. Click here for the full story


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X-Ray Fluorescence spectrometer (XRF:
Primary X-Rays are used to excite (fluoresce) X-rays in the
specimen. A fused disc or pressed pellet is used for the
determination of major element concentrations or trace element
abundances in a bulk specimen. The X-ray detector utilizes a set
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Just wanted to say that I appreciated your article on the O'Bannon Case. My views on that organization are pretty well known (and for the record pre-date OSU's run in with the NCAA in 2011). You did a nice job making the point that the NCAA is broken, but O'Bannon is unlikely to fix it.
I have said that the NCAA runs a foul of anti-trust law and this is not the only place. Personally, I am all for the university's keeping all their money from TV revenue and etc. I just think that players should be allowed to earn too. If the NCAA wanted to say that scholarships are for amateurs only, and then allowed players to professionalize themselves while playing at schools by signing with agents, selling autographs, etc. I would be OK with that.
For a football team, you limit the roster to 105 (scholarship or not) and if an athlete choses to go "professional" he pays his own way and is still required to go to class in order to be affiliated with the school. More similar to the Olympic Model of Amateurism.


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Hard Times in the San Juans
Koerner surprises, Africa shakes runner-up status with Hardrock wins
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Hal Koerner can finally add the Hardrock Endurance Run to his extensive list of ultramarathon wins. The Ashland, Oregon, resident was not deterred by the race's high altitude and unrelenting steepness, finishing the 100-mile course through the San Juan Mountains outside Silverton, Colorado, Saturday in 24:50:13 - the third-fastest time in course history.
"There are things you know you are capable of, but sometimes it takes special people, places and circumstances for that to happen," Koerner says. "This year's Hardrock 100 encompassed all that."
Koerner, who won the Western States 100 in 2007 and 2009, had only attempted Hardrock once before—in 2005, when he placed third. He had recently notched wins at the Rocky Raccoon 100 Mile (February) and the Javelina "Jundred" 100 Mile (last November), but had posted disappointing results at the Chuckanut 50K in March (placing 16th), The North Face Endurance Challenge 50 Mile—San Francisco in December (placing 22nd) and the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in August (placing 372nd).
"I would like to say I surprised myself, but I was also out to surprise others as well," he says. "I thought I built off some lessons I learned from 2005 and made all the difference. Going in well-rested, making concessions for the altitude, staying patient and making myself stay focused for 100 miles made the day come to me."


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Question: What is the Dance Motion Program?
Assistant Secretary Stock: Dance Motion USA is a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the Department of State, and it's one of the most important programs we have.
Question: Why is the Dance Motion Program Important?
Assistant Secretary Stock: Well, in my mind, it connects dancers from all over the United States. This year it'll be four companies. And they travel throughout the world and they connect one-on-one with people. They do that through a variety of ways. They do performances, which a lot of people are invited to. They do master classes, they do training, and they do workshops. But I think the key thing here is that they form relationships that last a lifetime. And the other important thing for me is by using dance, we actually connect to youth all over the world.
Question: What Other Elements Will Add Into Dance Motion USA in 2011?
Assistant Secretary Stock: Well, in 2010 we started the program and it's been so successful. We had three dance companies that traveled to nine different countries. It was so popular with our embassies but also with the people of the other countries that we decided that we would expand the program. And this year we'll travel to 14 different countries with four -- we're adding one dance company, so we'll have a total of four dance companies traveling around the world.
Learn more about Dance Motion USA by visiting www.dancemotionusa.org. You can also follow @AnnAtState on Twitter to stay up to date on all ECA's programs and activities.


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Topic: How to get a URL to submit form data?
I have a basic search form in my rails app that records each search that has been entered. I also want my users to be able to initiate a search with a url in the browser. E.g. http://www.example.com/searches?q=fooI've played around with the different routing options and the logic in my controller but I can't seem to get this form:
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...to initiate a POST action on the database and submit a new search via a url.
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