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19th July 2013 12:32 AM #1
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Need urgent help- Cradle cap irritating my child for long time.
Hello, everyone,
It is very difficult to wash off the dandruff on the scalp of my child. She is only one year old now and has cradle cap since birth. I have tried many medicated lotions and shampoos but it doesn't go away. The doctors say, it will disappear with time. Her hair looks very- very dirty and people often blame me of not taking proper care when I take my child at social gatherings. The scalp also becomes very itchy sometimes and she remains scratching it. I know she must be very irritated with this. Please give some good suggestions to get rid of the problem without harming my child because she is very small and I do not want to take any health risks.
19th July 2013 02:34 AM #2
Hi Vinni,
Thank you for your post.
I'm sorry to hear your daughter is having problems with cradle cap. It is a very common problem in young babies and can cause them to have an itchy scalp.
I found that coating my baby's head with plenty of natural oil (you could try coconut oil or olive oil) and then rubbing it with a soft baby brush helped to remove the scaly cradle cap. I personally did not like using the medicated shampoos as I found these were too harsh.
Another method is to coat your baby's head with petroleum jelly before they go to bed at night and then wipe it off in the morning - it should bring the cradle cap off with it.
There is a previous thread here about cradle cap which I think you will find helpful. One suggestion is for the mother to take Evening Primrose Oil to reduce the cradle cap being caused.
I hope these suggestions help to resolve your daughter's cradle cap - please do post back if you need any further help.
Best wishes,
22nd July 2013 03:33 PM #3
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Hi ljmarsden,
Thanks a lot for your valuable suggestion. I am going to try this from today itself. I think coating the scalp with petroleum jelly at night is a good idea as my baby won't feel irritated all day long and I can wash it off in the morning.
24th July 2013 12:21 AM #4
You are very welcome Vinni - I really hope this helps your daughter. How did you get on?
24th July 2013 12:43 AM #5
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I am really very grateful to you ljmarsden. Your tip helped me a lot. In one day time, I can see a great change in the scalp of my child. It's smoother and is looking clean than before. However, I think it will take some days to go off permanently so I will continue with it till I set my child completely free from this problem. Thanks once again.
24th July 2013 10:45 AM #6
Hi Vinni,
So glad that the petroleum jelly has helped in removing the cradle cap. Something that can be very effective in keeping the cradle cap from coming back is to get some borage oil and rub that on the scalp and any other areas of the skin where the cradle cap (clinically known as infantile seborrhoic dermatitis) has appeared.
The skin is the largest organ of the body, and it absorbs both toxins and nutrients. Rubbing borage oil on the scalp and other parts of the body has been shown to be extremely effective in clearing cradle cap by addressing the cause. When borage oil is rubbed onto the skin it becomes available to the body as a source of gamma-linolenic acid and is used to synthesize Prostaglandin 1. Many mothers and children are deficient in gamma-linolenic acid and if mum doesn't have enough in her body, baby will not get enough from mother's milk. Many babies are born with a deficiency in enzymes which are needed to produce GLA which causes cradle cap.
I would encourage you to give your baby a massage on her back or tummy with borage oil. This will feel good to her, help her relax, and both you and she will absorb the borage oil into your bodies.
There was a clinical study done on 48 infants suffering from severe cradle cap. The infants were treated twice a day with topical applications (on the skin) of borage oil, and the condition cleared in 2 weeks. If the treatment was discontinued before 7 months of age, the cradle cap returned within a week.
Please post back and let us know how your daughter is doing.
Warm Regards,
24th July 2013 06:34 PM #7
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Hi 5Homebirths4Kate,
Thanks for this new information. I am surely going to try this along with the petroleum jelly method.
24th July 2013 11:58 PM #8
I'm so pleased this helped Vinni. That's great that you have had some extra information from Kate too about maintaining your baby's healthy scalp.
Best wishes,
1st August 2013 06:39 PM #9
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Hello LJ and Kate,
This is to inform both of you that your methods are working very efficiently on my baby. It's been only 14 days since I started the petroleum jelly and borage oil method and can notice a great change in the scalp condition of my baby. I can't thank you enough for this help. My baby is relieved from itching and her smile makes me so happy. Once again I would like to thank both of you.
2nd August 2013 02:08 AM #10
That's wonderful news - I'm so pleased.
Thank you for updating us,
3rd August 2013 10:00 AM #11
Hi Vinnie,
Thanks for posting your update. I'm so very glad you found the treatments helpful


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Jacopo Bassano was long considered a minor, provincial master, specialised mainly in the production of genre paintings and rural scenes which made the fortune of his studio. In actual fact, he can be considered one of the greatest Venetian artists of the Cinquecento, on a par with Veronese and Tintoretto. His artistic heritage was taken up by his four children — Leandro, Francesco, Gerolamo and Giambattista. He received his training in Venice but worked all his life in the town where he was born, while keeping himself constantly up-to-date on progress being made in Venetian and Central-Italian art, from Titian to Lotto and Vasari. His favourite sources for studies often included engravings by German and Italian masters, which provided him with a rich collection of ideas, models and figures.
The Martyrdom of St Catherine was painted in his youth but already demonstrates his wide range of interests. In the supernatural light radiated by the angel, the painting portrays a famous episode in the life of St Catherine of Alexandria, virgin and martyr, who lived in the 4th century AD. According to tradition, the saint was subjected to torture on the wheel but was miraculously saved by an angel who broke the instruments of martyrdom. The sacred episode, which takes place against an architectural backdrop, occupies the higher portion of the painting. Below this, the artist has dwelt on the depiction of the crowd of hirelings overcome by the violence of the miraculous event. The most immediate source for this composition is probably the series of engravings designed by Francesco Salviati to illustrate the Life of St Catherine written by Pietro Aretino.
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Egyptian, Israeli UN representatives to speak April 17
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Ambassador Ahmed Aboul Gheit, permanent representative of Egypt to the United Nations, and Ambassador Yehuda Lancry, permanent representative of Israel to the UN, will speak April 17 at 7:30 p.m. in McCosh 50. The lecture is entitled "Light at the End of the Tunnel? Costs and Benefits of Mideast Peace for the International Community" and will focus on prospects for peace between Israelis, Syrians, and Palestinians. This lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the United Nations Association of the United States. This event is free and open to the public.


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Contact Pacific Southwest Waste Program
Pacific Southwest, Region 9
Serving: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Pacific Islands, Tribal Nations
Lifecycle Building Challenge Winners
Innovative Green Building Competition
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is recognizing cutting-edge green building ideas to reduce the environmental and energy impacts of buildings. EPA Assistant Administrator Susan Bodine, American Institute of Architects President RK Stewart, and Building Materials Reuse Association President Brad Guy will recognize award winners of the Lifecycle Building Challenge competition in a video awards ceremony on September 20, 2007, at the West Coast Green Conference in San Francisco, California.
The competition, which is in its first year, collected ideas from students and professionals on designing buildings for adaptation, deconstruction, and material reuse. Lifecycle building incorporates innovative strategies for creating buildings that can be easily disassembled, allowing their components to be reused rather than landfilled to conserve resources and energy.
The project supports U.S. EPA's Green Building program, Resource Conservation Challenge and the Agency's Memorandum of Understanding on green building and sustainable development with the American Institute of Architects.
Reducing Construction and Demolition Debris and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Ideas from the design contest will jumpstart the building industry to help reuse more of the 100 million tons of building-related construction and demolition debris sent each year to landfills in the United States. Reusing building components also reduces the energy and greenhouse gases emissions associated with producing and transporting building materials. Construction and demolition debris comprises about 40 percent of the solid waste stream. To reverse this trend, a lifecycle building approach plans for deconstruction and fosters local material reuse.
Between the years 2000 and 2030, projections indicate that 27 percent of existing buildings will be replaced, and 50 percent of the total building stock will be constructed. Consequently, it is critical to focus on conserving building materials and energy by integrating lifecycle building practices into standard building practices and policies.
The competition builds on a U.S. EPA Design for Deconstruction grant to Chartwell School , a projected U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum green building project in Seaside, California.
Partners and Sponsors
The competition partners are the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the American Institute of Architects, the Building Materials Reuse Association, and West Coast Green. The Challenge sponsor, Green Building Blocks, is providing cash awards to the student winners and Green Building in Alameda County sponsored the deconstructable award objects made from used building materials.
The competition website with all entries is at Lifecycle Building Challenge Awards Ceremony.
Winning Entries
There are three categories: Building, Component, and Service and each category has Student, Professional – Built, and Professional – Unbuilt winners. A People's Choice Award based on online voting was also recognized.
Building: Professional - Built
Winner: Pavilion in the Park
Building that separates into four modules and can be moved by truck
David Miller (email@example.com)
architectural designer at The Miller|Hull Partnership
Seattle WA
(206) 682-6837
(attending conference)
Bill Franklin (firstname.lastname@example.com)
The 11,100 square foot Pavilion in the Park's entire structure is designed for future transportation, reassembly and reuse in a new location. The building's parts separate at three integrated joints to break into four separate modules that can be moved on trucks by surface street. The building sits lightly on the land atop short concrete piers allowing the grade and vegetation to run uninterrupted beneath. Gangway ramps with integrated hinged joints, allow the ramps to adapt to the topography of future locations.
Building: Professional - Unbuilt
Winner: GreenMobile Factory-built
Housing Units for SE USA Adaptable mobile home unit for disaster relief and permanent use
Michael Berk (email@example.com)
Mississippi State, MS
Professor at Mississippi State University School of Architecture
(662) 325-2202
(415) 626-8000
The GreenMobile ™ envisions affordable, factory-built energy efficient mobile home units that meet International Residential Code for housing with structurally-sound foundations, demountable for easy relocation, and can function in a place with a limited infrastructure or no utility grid in-place. They can be used for immediate disaster relief housing (including first responders) and later converted to permanent housing. This project will incorporate systematic strategies for growth and change as family structures also grow and change. "Pre-fabricated plug-in" rooms, plug-in porches, and surface mounted wiring are also featured in this design.
Building: Student
The groHome Open source housing modules to meet changing family and community needs
Adam Fenner (email@example.com), Jason Bond, Thomas Gerhardt, Josh Canez, Nick Schaider
A team of students at Texas A&M University, 2007 Solar Decathlon Team
College Station, TX
(214) 534-0028
The open source concept used in the software community is adapted in this entry to develop open source building systems allowing anyone to design and incorporate elements into the building system if grid protocols and standard joint connections are used. Using a library of pre-manufactured components brought to a site and assembled efficiently, the structure is designed with a specialized bolted connector joints that allows for components to be unplugged easily and without damage. Radio Frequency Identification Tags (RFID) can be embedded to take inventory and check the history of components. The project even includes a community building game, Utopia 2.0, to allow neighbors to swap building modules as family and community needs change.
People's Choice Award
Winner: Sustainability by Design
Deconstruction and Adaptive Reuse Comprehensive 99% reuse and recycling construction project
Mitch Boucher, Chuck Otto (email@example.com)
Haworth, Inc.
(616) 393-3856
When Haworth, a global designer and manufacturer of adaptable workspace environments, planned major renovations on its headquarters, the company set a goal to recycle or salvage up to 75 percent of the materials. The project diverted more than 99 percent of construction materials through reuse and recycling: 321 tons of steel were recycled; 75 workstations were donated; and even the door locksets were removed intact and reused in other facilities. More than 58,000 tons of carpet tiles were removed for re-installation, donation to local schools, or recycling.
Component: Professional - Built
Winner: Green-Zip-TapeTM Demountable Tape Drywall tape attachment system to support easy deconstruction and reuse
Frank Little
Founder of Tax Advantage Design
Magnolia, TX
(281) 356-2300
(281) 703-2300
This patented demountable tape provides an alternative method for hanging sheetrock for later de-construction and reuse. Drywall has traditionally been a barrier to gaining easy access to structural components of the building for repair or reuse. This tape and associated screw connectors allow drywall to be easily removed and replaces the traditional nailing mechanism, which can damage the drywall and inhibit reuse
Component: Professional - Unbuilt
Winner: Deconstructable and Reusable Composite Slab Reusable structural floor system
Mark D. Webster (email@example.com), Dirk M. Kestner, James C. Parker, Matthew H. Johnson
Structural Engineers Simpson Gumpertz & Heger
Waltham, MA
(781) 907-9369
(781) 907-9392
The composite component system uses specialized bolts, serrated clamps, and cast-in channels to create a more easily disassembled system, allowing reuse of the composite slab. A serious problem with the conventional composite slab is that it is a "throw-away" system; most of the parts are completely non-reusable at the end of the building's life. The team developed a composite slab system that maintains the efficiency benefits offered by composite action, while adding near 100 percent reusability. This structure allows the slab and beam to work together to resist bending due to floor loads. The size of the steel beam can be reduced by over 30% providing both economic and environmental benefits.
Component: Student
Winner: Guidelines for Building with Reusable Materials
Creative designs from reused building materials collected regionally
Aaron Tvrdy (firstname.lastname@example.com)
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
(402) 440-3914
This project foresees waste materials gathered in bulk, refurbished, and stored in regional design centers where designers can create components out of the former waste. One example uses discarded railroad track and ties to create a superstructure for a wood pallet wall system. With a creative design approach, reclaimed material kits can be used to create attractive components that can either celebrate or conceal their original identity.
Service: Professional - Built
Winner: ATHENA Assembly Evaluation Tool
Software on the lifecycle environmental impacts of building assemblies
Wayne Trusty
ATHENA Institute
Kutztown, PA
Mike Gehrig (email@example.com)
(312) 988-2065
(773) 610-7305
Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) is one tool for determining the environmental impacts of various building materials through all phases of its life, from extraction through use and disposal. The ATHENA software tool adopts LCA methodology to measure the climate-changing potential and other environmental impacts of more than 400 common building assemblies. A generic version will be made available, free of charge, to the entire sustainable construction community.
Service: Student
Winner: Deconstruction Engineer
Proposed new profession to support building deconstruction
Keith Cullum (firstname.lastname@example.com), Paul Sargent
California Polytechnic State University
Yorba Linda, CA
(714) 932-8729
The project proposes a new degree program and profession: the deconstruction engineer. These professionals would consult throughout a building's lifecycle to ensure that adaptation and deconstruction occur in the most effective way. During the first stages of planning a structure, the engineer would offer design suggestions to anticipate efficient deconstruction and at the end of a building's life, the deconstruction engineer would evaluate and assess safe reverse construction procedures for salvaging materials.
Honorable Mention
Honorable mention: Modular 3 - Flexible single family home with movable walls
Dan Rockhill (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Lawrence, KS
Studio 804¸ University of Kansas
(785) 393-0747
This two bedrooms and one bath residence utilizes all of the 1,200 square foot of living space that is composed of six modules. The proportions of Modular 3 have been tailored to the dimensions of a standard city lot, and a raised pier foundation allows for low-impact implementation in nearly any single-family residential context. A movable storage wall permits splitting an area such as a single bedroom into a separate office and storage space at the homeowner's whim.
Honorable mention: Re-use of Cleveland Iconographic Structure - Transit stations and street furniture made from a building façade
Dru McKeown (email@example.com)
Lakewood, OH
(216) 849-5304
Instead of creating new building systems, designs for bus and light rail transit stations and street furniture were created out of the façade of a building slated for demolition. The project recaptures the materials and embodied energy that were spent creating the initial structure. The entrant calculated that the average building embodied energy is equivalent 10 – 15 gallons of gasoline /square foot and that materials in an average American home have embodied energy equal to 29.25 autos weighing 1.5 tons.
Honorable mention: Transformative Multi-family Housing - Shape shifting residential and office space
Koji Saida (email@example.com), Mimi Sullivan, Hyun Joo Choi, Keiko Ito
Architect at Saida + Sullivan Design Partners
San Francisco, CA
(415) 777-0991 ext.112
(415) 794-9801
The transformative multi-family housing is a mixed use project with 12 residential units and one retail space on the ground level. By standardizing all the building components and using a simple connection system, the entire building's components can be easily deconstructed, reused and recycled. Housing which standardizes all the building components using a simple connection system. By exchanging some standardized wall panels, a 2 bedroom unit transforms into a 3 bedroom unit and by removing all non bearing walls, the three residential units which are grouped as typical can be transformed into an office use.
Honorable mention: Nine Components to Residential Architecture - Flexible modular housing with steel bearing pin foundation
Anthony Piede (email@example.com)
Student at Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA
(770) 354-9759
An integrated system that simplifies design, construction, and disassembly with a pieramid foundation raised on steel bearing pins to allow easy assembly and disassembly without poured concrete. Other featured components include modular decking frame, reclaimed wood decking, flitch beams and columns with simple screw and bolt connections, prefab structurally insulated panels, insulated glass units with optimal thermal performance, and snap-on panel aluminum roofing.
Honorable mention: Community Revival Shelter - Innovative structures for community rebuilding in disaster areas
Greta Modesitt (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Student at University of Virginia
New York, NY
(770) 833-7259
The concept creates transitional community spaces to support cooperation amongst the inhabitants while they renovate their post-disaster neighborhoods. An umbrella superstructure protects rebuilders from the elements while temporary steel web, cardboard, and fabric structures designed for off the grid living are erected and used until rebuilding of permanent structures is complete.
Honorable mention: Joist Lock - Rigid wood connecting system alternative to conventional framing
David Wilson (firstname.lastname@example.com) and Michael Kozel
Engineer at AVAVA Systems¸ LLC
Berkeley, CA
The joist-lock component is a strong, reusable alternative to conventional wood framing. This patent-pending device connects manufactured wood I-joists intersecting from two different planes and locks, creating rigid connection at the intersection. The rigid connection creates a force-resistant frame out of the wood shell of a building, eliminating the need for braces or shear walls to support the shell against wind and earthquake forces. The joist lock creates a rigid tube that can span from end to end, eliminating the need for continuous foundations used in traditional construction.
Honorable mention: Expansive Panel System - Reusable, waste reducing alternative to traditional wood framing
Sean Dorsy
Catholic University of America
Washington DC
(202) 246-4633
Inspired from the efficiency of pizza boxes, the Expansive Panel System [EPS] is an alternative to traditional wood framing. EPA uses Digital Fabrication and Computer Numerical Controlled machinery to fabricate with minimal material waste while allowing for a simple assembly using precise components. The EPS has a "zig-zagging" alternating pattern that allows panels to expand from a single sheet of plywood without added fasteners to conserve reduces material, time, and money. A projection comparing the EPS to traditional light-frame construction found a cost savings of $597 and material weight reduction of 4,406 pounds. These components are also designed for disassembly and for reuse in future structures.
Honorable mention: Low-tech Pre-fabricated Structural Building System - Flexible, recyclable cardboard and foam dome structure
Siobhan Rockcastle, Cayley Lambur (firstname.lastname@example.com), Dana Cupkova-Myers, and Kevin Pratt
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY (607) 351-4508
The flexible dome shaped system uses laser-cut recyclable cardboard, high-density polystyrene foam, and a waterproof fabric membrane option, which can be separated, readapted, and recycled as needed. The basic bracing structure can be sequentially erected very quickly: pre-fabricated cardboard bracing is folded along seams; waterproof glue with a catalytic release is applied to lower ridges of the bracing; hexagonal/triangular lightweight foam panels are then adhered; and a compressible foam rod is inserted between panels to eliminate the need for sealant.
Honorable mention: Light Switch/Geodesic Dome - Simple structures examining design for disassembly
Thomas Hagerty (email@example.com)
Iowa State University
Muscatine, IA
(563) 260-6612
This submission examined the question: "Why aren't buildings already designed to be disassembled?" A simple structure was made of light switch mounting brackets, an object from which many different structures could be built, and the project grew to include joint details, connection diagrams, and alternative spaces and elevations to support the concept of lifecycle building.
Honorable mention: The Nail Extractor - Nail and staple removal tool eases building disassembly
Jeff Wagner (firstname.lastname@example.com)
The Nail Extractor
Charleston, SC
(843) 556-0455
These extracting pliers were invented to aid in building restoration and renovation by removing fasteners without bending or cutting the exposed materials. During a renovation or salvage project, the amount of fastener removal that is required can be extensive and time-consuming. Though the nail extractor was originally designed to pull brittle older nails, it can also remove modern-day pneumatic nails and staples, with their slender shanks and undersized heads. The tool allows for easy, single-handed operation, using jaws that exert increasing gripping pressure in proportion to the resistance encountered during extraction.
Honorable mention: Promoting Reuse of Building Materials While Protecting Public Health - Proposal to examine lead-paint building material reuse options
Jennifer Voichick (email@example.com)
Habitat for Humanity of Dane County
Madison, WI
(608) 661-2813
This project that explores options to divert building materials with potential lead-paint hazards from landfills in a manner that is both environmentally responsible and addresses public health concerns. Under Wisconsin state law, all items with paint or other coatings produced before 1978 are presumed to present lead hazards unless tested to prove otherwise. The proposal would identify alternatives to landfills that allow reuse of materials with lead-based coatings and address concerns about lead poisoning that could serve as a national model and other businesses promoting reuse of building materials.
Honorable mention: AHP-Based Selection Model for Best Sustainable Practices for Construction Projects - Model to train contractors on sustainable construction priorities
Suhasini Hyderabad (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Albuquerque, NM
University of New Mexico
(505) 353-1438
This Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) Model allows contractors to evaluate sustainable construction methods against a set of criteria to help educate contractors on sustainable construction practices and their potential benefits. Reusable concrete forms are evaluated in the model. Benefits to contractors using sustainable methods, include: savings on construction costs, increased competitiveness between contractors in sustainable construction, and reduced impact on the environment.
Honorable mention: Living Homes Studio - Sustainable building prototype to demonstrate new housing technologies
Julie Phanstiel (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Los Angeles, CA
Art Center College of Design
(323) 440-1852
The Living Homes Studio has designed and built a full scale architectural prototype demonstrating the use of new technologies in creating a sustainable living environment. This photovoltaic powered prototype integrates prefabricated components with passive heating, cooling, and air exchange systems to create a model for sustainable housing. Through the use of pre-fabricated components, design for disassembly, and sustainable systems the project creates a project sensitive to its users and the natural environment.
EPA Contacts
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Julian Beaumont is the Chairman of the Macquarie Bank Art Collection. Mr Beaumont spent twenty-four years with Macquarie Bank and was Head of its Operations Group until 1996. He was also a development consultant to Accenture in the United States, involved in their senior educational program. He is currently Chairman of several toll road companies in Sydney associated with Macquarie interests. He is the Chairman of St Luke's Hospital in Sydney and of a number of commercial enterprises. Mr Beaumont has had a long association with the arts in Australia. He began the Macquarie Bank Art Collection in 1985 and has remained its Chairman ever since. In 1996 Mr Beaumont became Chairman of the Foundation for Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales, a position he held for about five years, and in the same year was appointed to the founding Advisory Board of the National Art School, Sydney. He has been a member of the judging panel of the National Sculpture Prize since its inception.
Dr Anna Gray is the Assistant Director, Australian Art, at the National Gallery of Australia. She was previously Director of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, and the Head of Art, Australian War Memorial. Anna Gray has written widely on Australian art and artists. Her publications include a major monograph on George Lambert, and she was the editor of the first volume of The diaries of Donald Friend (2001) and Australian art in the National Gallery of Australia (2002). She has curated numerous exhibitions, including The Edwardians: secrets and desires at the National Gallery of Australia (2004). She was awarded a fellowship at the Yale Center for British Art in 2005 and is currently working with Dr John Gage on a major exhibition on John Constable, scheduled for 2006. Dr Gray has served on many national and international boards and committees, and is currently a member of the Board of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University.
Dr Deborah Hart is Senior Curator of Australian Painting and Sculpture at the National Gallery of Australia. She was previously Director of the SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney, and has also worked for the Queensland Art Gallery, Wollongong City Gallery, Parliament House Art Collection and the University of Wollongong. She has curated numerous major exhibitions, including Grace Cossington Smith: a retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Australia (2005); John Olsen retrospective exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Art Gallery of New South Wales (1991–92); Identities: art from Australia at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan (1993–94), and was part of the curatorial team for the Third Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at the Queensland Art Gallery (1999). Dr Hart has written widely on Australian art and artists. Her monograph John Olsen, first published in 1991 and now in its third edition, was short-listed for a New South Wales Premier's literary award for non-fiction, and her book Joy Hester and friends has been re-published in its second edition by Thames and Hudson in association with the National Gallery of Australia. She is currently on the Art Advisory Committee for the Drill Hall Gallery, Canberra.
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Hilarie Mais is one of Australia's leading contemporary sculptors. She was born in England and studied at the Winchester School of Art and the Slade School of Art, London. In 1977 she was awarded the Boise Scholarship and moved to New York, where she was awarded a Fellowship to the New York Studio School. Hilarie Mais came to Australia in 1981. She has exhibited widely in Australia and internationally, including the 6th and 7th Biennale of Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (1986 and 1988); Systems end: contemporary art in Australia in Osaka, Japan, and touring Asia (1996); and Southern reflections, Stockholm Kulturhuset, Sweden, and touring Scandinavia (1998–99). Mais has received a number awards, including the Australia Council Fellowship in 1993, the Blake Prize for Religious Art in 1994 and a Pollock–Krasner Foundation Award in 2000. Hilarie Mais's work is represented in major public and private collections in Australia and internationally.
Ron Radford is the Director of the National Gallery of Australia. Prior to taking up this position in 2005 he was Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia from 1991 to 2004, and is an Affiliate Professor at the Adelaide University. He has worked in art museums in Victoria and South Australia for over thirty years, and has curated nearly sixty exhibitions, the latest being Island to Empire: 300 years of British art 1550–1850, presented at the Art Gallery of South Australia (2005). He has served on many boards and committees, including over four years as a member of the Australia Council and Chair of its Visual Arts/Craft Board. In 1999 he was appointed Australian Commissioner for the Venice Biennale. He was a Foundation Member of the National Portrait Gallery Board from 1997 and its Deputy Chair from 2001 to 2004. He is a Trustee of the Gordon Darling Foundation, a Board Member of Art Exhibitions Australia and in 2004 was appointed a member of the International Museums Directors Conference. In 2003 he was made a member of the Order of Australia.
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John Stringer is the Curator of the Kerry Stokes Collection, Perth. He has worked professionally in the visual arts, both in Australia and overseas, for a period exceeding forty years. Previous positions have included Exhibitions Officer, National Gallery of Victoria; Assistant Director, International Program, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Director of Visual Arts, Americas Society, New York; and Senior Curator, Art Gallery of Western Australia. He was curator of The field, the seminal exhibition that marked the opening of the National Gallery of Victoria in 1968, and recently curated seeking TRANSCENDENCE: Edvard Munch, Mark Rothko, Ann Hamilton, Robert Irwin, Wolfgang Laib for the 2005 Perth International Arts Festival. John Stringer has served on various boards, including the Visual Arts/Crafts Board of the Australia Council; Artbank, Sydney; and Murdoch University Art Collection, Perth.
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United is committed to supporting the communities we serve not only through air service, but also through in-kind contributions of travel and employee engagement. With a focus on our major U.S. hub locations, United actively supports arts and culture, youth, health and humanitarian aid organizations. Below are some of our key partners.


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Indian pharma and biotech sector cry foul after 2013 Union Budget
There is little to cheer for the pharmaceuticals and biotechnology industry in India's Budget for 2013-14, unlike the agricultural sector that got a boost of 22 percent in allocations. The pharma and biotech industry associations in the country have long been demanding some relief but no significant measures were announced even as the country's finance minister, Mr P Chidamabaram, presented the Union Budget in Parliament.
The biosciences industry has been demanding tax relief in the form of weighted tax deduction on R&D expenditure to provide a push for such activities in the country and reduction in customs duty on imported medical equipment.
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Dr GSK Velu, founder and MD, Trivitron Healthcare, while speaking about the budget said that, "This is another year in which the health sector has been ignored by the government. The healthcare domain wanted status similar to that given to the infrastructure sector, including incentives for local innovation and manufacturing in the medtech industry and higher tax exemption for annual health checkups to achieve the 'Health For all by 2020 Objective'. However, the entire health sector has been ignored with marginal budget allocation increase in the government spending on healthcare. Overall, this was a disappointing budget for the healthcare sector"
Reacting to the budget announcement, Mr Hitesh Sharma, partner and national leader, life sciences, Ernst & Young, India, commented that there was not much for the pharma or the healthcare sector in the budget. "Directionally, the government has shown the commitment towards the healthcare sector by increasing the spend for National Health Mission by 24 percent over RE of last year. Also the continued focus on medical education and training (including through AIIMs) is positive. Otherwise no other direct support has been provided in the Budget to the sector," he said.
The Union Budget has proposed $6.8 billion (Rs 37,330 crore) allocation to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Also, $869 million (Rs 4,727 crore) has been proposed for medical education, training and research in the country.
Pointing out the negatives in the budget, Mr Sharma said that the increase in surcharge from five percent-to-10 percent and an increase in royalty rates of tax from 10 percent-to-25 percent (subject to double tax treaty relief) will impact the pharma sector negatively. "Finally, the excise duty on MRP basis (with abatement of 35 percent) for ayurvedic, unani, bio chemic, Siddha and Homeopath medicines, aligns these areas with the present regime for the pharma sector. Most demands of the sector like tax holiday period increase for healthcare, GST roll out, service tax exemption for clinical trials activity, etc have not been addressed in the budget," he added.
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Ok maybe sand them might not be the "correct" wording. I know on glass calls you have to sand or "tune" them in the same direction. I'm wondering if the teasers are the same way or not.
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The Missing Strawberries, or Ten Vicious Attacks on Charles Johnson Before Breakfast
Imagine if I banned all of the people who make vicious comments about me, such as, "Bob, I disagree with you." To be honest, I've never banned a single person, although I have asked a couple of them to go away, mainly because they are just too stupid and/or annoying to understand what is going on here. I've never banned anyone for criticizing me, because in nearly every instance, the criticism is self-refuting, especially as it moves up the hysteria scale or down the materialist scale. As I've mentioned before, I don't even like it when other Raccoons reflexively defend me from these folks, unless they do so in a way that is funnier than the criticism -- which is almost always intrinsically funny if looked at from a sufficient height. In fact, I would be honored if Charles would link to this post, so we can see on a first hand basis how funny his dopey commenters would be!
Being that cyberspace persecutors are everywhere sapping his precious bodily fluids, Charles is a busy man, and can't possibly have noticed my previous vicious comments about him -- about his increasingly anti-intellectual rabble of illibertarian commenters and about what LGF has turned into, with its irrational lurch into a scientistic wacko chamber of substitious idolaters. Therefore, I've extended the courtesy of assembling them all in one place, so he can ban me retroactive to June 14, 2008, when I began addressing the subject. This is only the first ten. I'll post some more on the weekend.
1) As Charles Darwin wrote, "While nature, making procreation free, yet submitting survival to a hard trial, chooses from an excess number of individuals the best as worthy of living, thus preserving them alone and in them conserving the species, man limits procreation, but is hysterically concerned that once a being is born it should be preserved at any price."
Nah, just pulling your leg. That was Adolf Hitler explaining his values -- which he derived from immanent nature, not the transcendent Absolute -- in Mein Kampf. As someone once said, fascism in all its forms is the violent resistance to transcendence. Therefore, Charles at LGF, or the goons at dailykos, or any other flatland guardians, are not Nazis, since they engage in non-violent resistance to transcendence, as do the ACLU, or People for the American Way, or any other anti-religious activist and/or bigot or plain old ignoramus.
2) You see, the blinkered Lizard thinks that life only points down and back to the dead matter out of which it was magically given birth. But for the Raccoon, life is a symbol (symbol meaning "thrown across") that again points "up" and "in." We do not see life as a circular series of lateral mutations, but an open spiral that ultimately rejoins whole and part, absolute and relative, time and eternity, center and periphery, man and God.
And human beings are the "axis" or "pivot" of the whole existentialida. Deep down we all recognize this, albeit often in a garbled and perverted manner, for example, the environmental hysterics or the pompous and deluded LGFers who know they are superior to biology, but have no idea how or why.
Life! If Darwinism is all there is, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing. I have no respect for a reductionistic Lizard who is not a nihilist and a sociopath, for he is merely a weakling and coward who lacks basic intellectual honesty and the courage of his convictions. He has his feet planted in the soil of Judeo-Christian values, even while he has his head planted in his ass.
3) Again: to have the courage of one's convictions and to fully inhabit the Darwinist world of the scientistic imagination would be to live as an animal, not a human. Remember, to a Darwinist, a human being can be nothing other than an animal, pure and simple. Along the lines of our last couple of posts, there can be no radical discontinuity between human and animal -- or matter and Truth, behavior and Virtue, accident and Beauty, etc. It is a subhuman world unfit for Man. Which is again why none of them actually live there. They're all frauds, phonies, and crude loudmouths, including, sad to say, the Head Lizard.
4) Any Lizard who claims their life is meaningful in the context of reductionistic Darwinism is strictly fooling themselves. I won't argue with them, because there is no reason to take them seriously for even a single moment. If they don't understand this, they are either stupid or intellectually dishonest. The same applies without qualification to morality, beauty, and truth. Obviously, I will not waste my time "debating" someone who simultaneously believes in Darwinism and truth, as if the latter could ever be derived from former.
I notice that the unsophisticated commenters at LGF also have a caricatured view of the scientific endeavor, as if it is a strictly mechanical process that results from "facts + induction" -- as if it requires no imaginative leaps, or an overarching paradigm in order to even perceive a fact! I cannot see that any of them are the least bit acquainted with the philosophy of science, e.g., people like Whitehead and Polanyi.
One stupidly arrogant Lizard even said in response to one of my queries that he believed in "absolute facts" but not "absolute truth." How to even begin to respond to such sophistry? There is no fact that "speaks for itself," no experience that tells us what we are experiencing. To paraphrase Weaver, only by knowing little may we know much; logic depends on our "metaphysical dream," not vice versa. And it should go without saying that it is this Dream that unites men, not the logic. Nazis and Islamists are rational within the logic of their sick dreams.
5) Horizontal folks -- flatland materialists, secular pneumapaths, left-brainers, MENSA members, Lizards, et al -- love to sneer at religion and exalt the superiority of science or mere reason in understanding the world. But when they do this, they always deal with a caricature of religion based upon their own limited horizontal understanding. In this regard, they are very much like children or primitive people who cannot transcend their narrow cognitive horizons, and mock what they do not understand.
Science can never account for the scientist, that is, for the human subject capable of knowing real truth. Again, it simply assumes the existence of truth-bearing scientists, as if this is not deeply philosophically problematic. How can the watered-down evolution of reductionistic Darwinism ever account for that? It can only pretend to do so, again, by confusing the rays with the sun. But to understand Darwinism is to have transcended it.
6) The problem is, Darwinism should be taught as science, not metaphysics, but virtually all of the middlebrow Lizards absurdly elevate it to a quasi-religious metaphysic that is logically self-refuting at every turn. In turn -- and I have noticed this, for example, in many threads at LGF -- militant atheists do indeed confuse Darwinism with metaphysics, and blindly defend it with the same belligerence as any "fundamentalist." Light simply cannot break through their hardened defenses.
Religion easily accommodates science, while the reverse can never be true. Religion accommodates science for the same reason that our minds do. For our minds are designed to know truth, pure and simple, whether it is empirical truth, rational truth, artistic truth, moral truth, or metaphysical truth. Intelligence itself is prior to what it knows, and what it knows is truth (otherwise, "knowledge" is a meaningless, even absurd term). Therefore, intelligence is truth itself implanted within our being, or a prolongation of the Absolute within the relative.
7) Yesterday while commenting at LGF, I couldn't help noticing how the reductionistic Darwinists practice a sort of inverse mysticism, in that they elevate what can only be ceaseless change into eternal truth. With reductionistic Darwinism, all is change; everything is "on the way" to something else that is equally temporary. In such a paradigm, not only can truth not exist, but we couldn't know it anyway; the quantification of knowledge undermines its only meaningful measure, which is the intellect in light of the Absolute.
In a way, this is a caricature of Buddhist metaphysics, as it too advances what amounts to a paradox, i.e., "all is flux," so that it is folly to become attached to the passing stream of maya. However, the ignorant Lizards are missing a very important point, that being that it is possible to escape maya both from "above" and "below," and this makes all the difference, as the latter is actually a deeper plunge into its snares, a point that the -- let us say, less spiritually gifted -- LGF commenters never stop proving.
8) In other words, the Buddhist transcends the flux of maya in order to know the eternal, the transcendent Absolute, whereas the Darwinist Lizard goes the other route and identifies eternity with matter. Naturally this makes no sense in a cosmos that is itself contingent and evolving, but there you go. Metaphysically consistent they are not. There is a rebellious streak in them that is very similar to the left (who also escape reality from "below," except in their case, instead of becoming Darwinist "monotheists" they descend into the fragmented polytheism of multiculturalism, moral relativism, deconstruction, etc.).
In reality, they are two sides of the same worthless coin, just as, say, the Semitic and Eastern religions are two sides of an infinitely precious coin. I am disappointed that Charles can fall for this junk metaphysics -- just as he expressed disappointment in me -- but in my case I have an excuse, because I only want to be disappointed by the best. I do note that he clearly possesses a kind of peerless left brained, technological kind of lizardy wizardry, and that may be the issue, for every gift carries a potential curse. Every savant is an idiot in certain areas.
9) The scientific reductionist, like a machine, "has reversed the roles, turning its creators into its own creatures; it escapes the control of intelligence as such from the moment that it claims to define the nature of intelligence from the outside and below" (Schuon). People forget that the quantification of all knowledge "necessarily entails an inward impoverishment, unless accompanied by a spiritual science that re-establishes unity and maintains equilibrium."
This is one of the points I attempted to make at LGF, but to no avail. The bulk of commenters there seem to think that the "wall of separation" between church and state (itself a willful disunderstanding) must somehow extend to science and religion. Talk about a "wedge strategy"! But American schools are not failing because of "too much religion" (and by this I do not mean a religion, but simply a more sophisticated transcendental viewpoint that easily accommodates religion as such). To the contrary, our schools only began to fail after they were taken over by the radical secularists of the left. It could hardly be otherwise. What did you expect, wisdom?
10) Scientistic materialists -- including Lizards and other radical Darwinists -- are like defoliants, or people who would take an axe to this beautiful tree that has organically grown over the past 2000+ years. When you mess with the fundamental vision that holds a culture together "from the inside," you are messing with the equivalent of nuclear physics on the collective human plane: an Adam smasher, if you will. You just have no idea what you will unloose from the bowels of hell.
Human beings do not live in world of sense-data. But the postmodern vertical barbarians do. In their small Lizard minds, they are "liberated" from the "childish mythologies" of the past. In my opinion, Charles is quite naive about the inevitable implications of such an intrinsically anti-human ideology. The other day, one of the mutual readers of LGF and One Cosmos was also commenting on the increasing lurch into anti-intellectualism of the former, noting that his rabbi -- an eminent scholar -- had spent his entire life studying the Torah, and yet, had not even scratched its surface.
But it takes no learning -- let alone, wisdom -- for a jackbooted mob of metaphysical yahoos to, as the reader put it, "pontificate with grand self-assuredness that they know fully what is meant in all the intricacies and layers of Torah and the rest of us believers are a bunch of deluded dummies. There's nothing to be said to such people." Indeed, like gleeful, deicidal three year-olds, these Lizards can tear down in the space of five minutes what it took 3000 years of spiritual genius to build, from Moses to Sandy Koufax.


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There's a story buzzing around right now, that Gary Oldman has decided to take a pass on doing the voice for General Grievous. It's stated in an announcement at his "managements" Web site, that he's unwilling to work a non-SAG film.
Here's a link to the Douglas Management Group Web site. The statement's dated August 23rd.
If this turns out to be true, and honestly, at this point I'm not convinced that it's true, then I'm for sure gonna be a bit dissapointed.
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(Note: stories still being accepted)
Ok, so let me just say that the response to this has been AMAZEBALLS. (Thank you, Michelle Ward, for turning me on to that one, by the way.) I mean, I knew you guys would be into it, and I also knew you all had some pretty amazing stories to tell, but HELLO. My inbox is flooded with heartwarming, well thought out, totally surprising, totally inspiring proposal stories that had me sitting on the edge of my seat yesterday with a tissue box at the ready. And I have to say – the most surprising thing of all, so far? The stories that have come in from the guys out there. I don't know how you came upon the site, where from or who recommended you visit, but I am SO GLAD YOU FOUND ME. Because your proposal stories/photos/videos are RULING. And by the way? The stories I'm getting from all my females out there are equally as awesome – please don't get me wrong, ladies. I just felt compelled to give a z100 shout out to the fellas submitting their love-laden stories to the blog. I didn't expect it and it has made my year! (Seriously, just wait until you read/see/watch these things. I cannot wait to share them all!!!)
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Fun fact: the fiancé has been mostly a back-end guy (SHUT UP) when it comes to the site here. However, recently he's been trying his hand at a little TKB promotion. He asked me some time ago for a handful of my business cards, with the intention of handing them to engaged girls near his workplace. Every day he says he sees ladies with huge rocks on their fingers and he calls them all "missed opportunities." (In a business sense, not a nailing sense, obvs.) He's really serious about this, and because I admire his business sense, and have always felt I can trust his public and interpersonal appropriateness, I thought, hey, why not? It's not my first choice marketing approach, but he certainly wasn't reinventing the wheel. Well, last night I saw him in action…
Scenario one: He spies a young woman with a ginormous engagement ring. STOPS in the middle of the crosswalk. RUNS TO CATCH UP WITH HER. She's listening to music and walking briskly. Taps her on the shoulder and somewhat smoothly shoves the card in her face. RUNS AWAY FROM HER AND BACK TO ME.
Scenario dos: notices a young couple sitting a couple tables away from us at dinner. Asks me: "can you tell if she's wearing just an engagement ring, or both an engagement ring and a wedding ring?" Me: "Why." Him: "You know why." I'm already a little wary of what's about to go down, but I decide to go along with it, and I peer over to check her finger. It's dark, I'm half-committed to the operation anyway, and so I can't make out anything. Me: "Can't tell." Him: I THINK IT'S ONE… I'M GOING FOR IT…" Me: "No… wait, WHAT? No… ok fine." (He's already up when I say ok fine.) She gets up, he asks her if she's engaged or married… WEIRDED. OUT. She says, "umm… I'm married." He still gives her the card because how weird would that have been if he just walked away from the scene?! Card wasted? check. Girl sufficiently weirded out? check. Valiant, if misguided, effort by the fiancé? check.
I took the remaining cards back. Actually, I didn't have to say anything – he handed them over.
I am rethinking this approach. But even more, I'm waiting for these girls to leave comments on the blog. I expect they will go something a-like a-this:
"umm, hi alison, I like your site, I'm glad some random dude accosted me on the street/while I was enjoying dinner with my husband in a restaurant and shoved your card in my face. I know I gave him the dirtiest of looks when he turned around, but your business card is kickass and I just had to visit. So all in all, a win-win!"
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And now, since it was such a big freaking hit yesterday:
Remember that headgeartastic shot I threw in at the top of this post? Here's some more amazing amazingness, from Andrea and Marcus of Tag7 Photography…
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Headpieces: Twigs & Honey
Dresses: KirstieKelly Bridal & Sarah Seven
Shrug: Elizabeth Dye
Hair & Makeup: Erin Skipley & Lauren Napier
Ok, I'm about to g0 heavy on the Tec Petaja love today, because, well, he is phenom. So here we go…
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Satin belt: J. Crew / "Julianna" Dress: Christos / Photo: Tec Petaja / via WeddingBee
Here, by the way, is the Julianna in all its runway glory:
Obsessing over that sweet lil white frock she's sporting. Obsessing.
Watermelon Moon farm / Joy Thigpen Environments / Oncewed / Liz Agricola / B. Hughes
Quick reminder that Father's Day is June 20th this year. So if you've got a Hubby or Popsicle (that's what I affectionately call my Dad; yeah, you can steal it) who deserves a little special treatment, DO SOMETHING for him. No pressure. But keep in mind the fact that the World Cup games may be slightly more important to the man than family time in a cabin upstate. Just sayin'. She learned the hard way.
xoxo! -Alison
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Returned from a week of vacationing, fitter, happier, more productive (or is that Radiohead?). The weather suck, but it was nice nonetheless. I had plenty of time to sleep and read, and it was nice to be able to think about mostly nothing (not quite true, but anyway). On the last day I was out playing golf in Gilleleje in the early morning, so I was very tired, but also in quite a good mood when I got back to Copenhagen. I went to bed at 9 pm and slept till 11 am.
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Since no one except Pete will spend my actual birthday with me--being that it falls on Valentine's Day and many people seemed preoccupied with that--come knit with me on the Sunday after.
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Whoa! what a surprise to click and see something different than I expected! Welcome to blogging, Kate! I'll be there with bells on--
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Happy Birthday, Kate! I won't be able to make it Sunday, so try and have a good time w/o me.
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Happy Birthday, wish I could get there. Have fun.
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*Pasteurized eggs are uncooked eggs that have been heat-treated to kill bacteria. Because the egg yolks in this recipe are not fully cooked, be sure to use pasteurized eggs. They can be found in the dairy case at large supermarkets.
This recipe will work with all varieties of kale, but our favorite is the flat-leafed dinosaur kale. This variety is a bit easier to prep when removing the stems and ribs compared to curly kale.
For a quick spin on this recipe, use spinach. Cook bacon, onion and garlic per instructions above then add fresh spinach to the pan. Cook 5 minutes or until wilted and serve with toast and egg.
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Objective: The San Francisco Chronicle explored the causes and possible solutions to infant mortality. They examined infant mortality in California communities, counties, and zip codes.
Methods: In looking at the California zip codes with the highest infant mortality rates, the writers used a methodology to avoid the statistical flukes that can be caused by annual fluctuations when looking at a very small number of cases. Sparsely populated zip codes, which had fewer than 1,000 births in the analysis period, were excluded from the analysis. The analysis did not include fetal deaths.
Results: After identifying the worst areas for infant death, Chronicle reporters went into the communities to talk to parents, health officials and researchers about what they saw as the reasons behind the tragedies. A five-part series of articles was published in October 2004. All the areas written about in this series had rates that were significantly higher than the state average. As part of the series of articles, the San Francisco Chronicle created a query system where readers can enter a California zip code or county to look up statistics on births and infant deaths for that area.
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Well folks, we are going to have some fireworks at GLORY 12 when GLORY 10 Middleweight Champion Joe Schilling steps into the ring with New York's own Wayne Barrett. Barrett has made a name for himself with his three big Kickboxing wins, but then again, those are his only three professional Kickboxing fights. Compare that to Joe Schilling, who has been around Kickboxing and Muay Thai for years now, completely dedicating himself to it. It makes sense that Schilling sees a fighter like Barrett and shakes his head. It's not that he's underestimating him as much as he wants to prove to the world that he is indeed the best in the world by showing Barrett just how new he is to the sport of Kickboxing.
This interview is from GLORY's site.
"Personally I don't think he has the experience to be fighting me at this stage. He's a big strong guy but he is no Artem Levin, you know what I mean? But I will train hard for it the same as any other dangerous fight," he says.
"I've made the mistake of underestimating people in the past and I got caught out. There's no easy fights in GLORY, he is big and strong and athletic. I take him seriously. But on paper I think I should win."


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On September 9, 2009, a patent troll called Ultramercial sued a bunch of Internet companies alleging infringement of U.S. Patent 7,346,545. This patent claims a method for allowing Internet users to view copyrighted material free of charge in exchange for watching certain advertisements. Yes, you read that correctly. Ultramercial believed that it owned the idea of showing an ad before content on the Internet.
Update December 8, 2014: Today EFF, together with Engine Advocacy, filed public comments regarding the FTC's proposed consent agreement with MPHJ. We commend the FTC for taking action against this troll's deceptive conduct. At the same time, we urge the FTC to seek real penalties, such as disgorgement of licensing revenues secured through deception. We also request that the FTC take action against similar trolls such as the Innovatio IP Ventures, which sent thousands of deceptive letters to hotels and cafes demanding payment for using off-the-shelf Wi-Fi routers.
Update (Nov. 4, 2014): On Oct. 31, 2014 YogaGlo officially filed at the PTO to disclaim its patent as well as abandon its pending related application. We're happy to report that YogaGlo did the right thing (even if belatedly) in abandoning its stupid patent and application.
Update (Oct. 29, 2014): Yesterday, the Court granted [PDF] Capstone's Motion for Judgment on the pleadings, finding that all claims were invalid for claiming unpatentable subject matter, applying Alice v. CLS Bank. We're glad Capstone fought against these patents and achieved a total victory, despite the significant costs associated with doing so. We're also happy that the court decided this issue early, sparing the parties and the Court additional needless time and expense. We hope this decision motivates others to challenge stupid patents early.
Lumen View is a typical patent troll. Armed with a vague patent on "facilitating bilateral and multilateral decision-making," it sent out aggressive letters demanding payment. It refused to explain how its targets actually infringed its patent. Instead, it made shakedown offers it knew would be less than the cost of defending a lawsuit. When startup FindTheBest spoke up about Lumen View's tactics, the troll asked for a gag order.
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TUPELO – A healthier workforce and a healthier economy go hand-in-hand, state and economic leaders say.
On a three-city swing Friday, Gov. Phil Bryant, joined by Mississippi Economic Council President and CEO Blake Wilson and other officials, promoted the "Blueprint Mississippi Health Care: An Economic Driver" initiative.
They highlighted the reports of a Blueprint Mississippi health care study that outlines plans to grow the state's health care economy.
"It's the next big thing for Mississippi," Wilson said. "Health care is the fastest growing industry in the U.S. today. We can either wait for the train to pass us by or we can climb aboard and make a difference. What Mississippi ought to be doing is driving the train and not chasing after the caboose. That opportunity is here today. This is one of the first statewide studies undertaken, if not the first."
Bryant said the study isn't meant to collect dust on a shelf but is an action plan to expand the state's health care industry. Noting that Mississippi also is the most underserved state in terms of physician-per-patient ratio, he and others said growing the health care industry will serve a dual purpose.
"The challenge for us to bring in companies is they look at a state depicted as the most obese, with the highest rate of diabetes and heart disease," Bryant said. "As companies look at that workforce, they understand a healthy workforce is important to their bottom line. We began looking at a system to improve health care, but not directly as a policy issue – we'll leave that to policymakers in the future. We wanted to look at health care as an economic driver for those companies and also for the state."
The study found each physician brings in about $2 million in investment to the community he or she serves. Developing a health care economic development strategy is also broader than just physicians and hospitals. It can touch suppliers, research companies and entrepreneurs.
Bryant said a four-point strategy will be implemented expand the health care economy:
• Workforce development. A healthy, productive population enhances the prospects of business attraction, retention and growth. Strengthening math and science education and training programs will boost the number of Mississippians who can participate in the health care economy.
"It's about having a healthy workforce but also a medically trained workforce," Bryant said.
• Quality of life. Accessible affordable health care improves Mississippians' lives and provides a better quality of place because of availability of quality services and jobs and opportunities.
"We must always remember that quality of life begins with the individual and government cannot provide solutions to all our problems," he said. "So hopefully this will be a free market-based system that will add jobs and health care opportunities."
• Business sustainability. Healthier workers will reduce lost time due to illness and will increase productivity, improving Mississippi's competitiveness, growth and sustainability.
• Creation of economic wealth. Growth of a statewide health care industry cluster and collaboration across the economic sector will contribute jobs and encourage wealth creation.
Wilson said the plan to growth the state's health care economy is meant to complement, not compete with what is already in place.
"It about how do we drive the economic development end of health care. How do get more pharmaceutical companies here, how do we get more service industries, health care call centers and all that, as well as helping our existing health care institutions look for ways to build on their existing footprints," he said. "This is an economic study more than a quality of health care, or how to serve the underserved. It doesn't deal with that. It strictly deals with the economics."


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As announced on Twitter last month, abuse.ch Malware Database (AMaDa) has been discontinued on 2012-03-17.
Since my announcement on Twitter to discontinue AMaDa, I received several dozen emails from IT security representatives of ISPs, national CERTs as well as governmental and non-governmental organisations that were using AMaDa's blocklist to identify compromised computers within their networks. I have to say that I was quite amazed how many people used AMaDa's blocklist. However I'm unable to answer all these emails due to lack of time, hence I decided to publish a short statement on my blog.
AMaDa was launched in 2010, since then it has analysed 169'545 URLs serving malware, 160'183 malicious binaries and identified 1'685 malware botnet controllers associated with all kinds of Trojans (like Mebroot, TLD/TDSS, Carberp, BlackEnergy, Ramnit and many more).
In February 2011, I started Palevo Tracker as sub-project of AMaDa. Palevo Tracker's blocklist was served together with the AMaDa IP and Domain blocklist.
Running and maintaining the tracking infrastructure (ZeuS-, SpyEye- and Palevo Tracker) is very time intensive, also since it created much "background noise" (sometimes I think I need a secretary to handle all emails and requests). Hence I was prevented from blogging as much as I would have liked to last year. Unfortunately, every day only has 24 hours, and due to personal circumstances as well as my focus on other (non-public) projects I'm no longer able to provide AMaDa's data / information with a good enough quality. I always serve data and information on "best effort" basis, and as I'm no longer able commit to that for AMaDa I've decided to discontinue the project (please keep in mind that all these projects are done in my spare time).
I'm aware that this is bad news for many of you, but fortunately I also have some good news. This weekend I moved Palevo Tracker onto a new infrastructure. I decided to keep Palevo Tracker running as a "new" project. Since AMaDa is gone, Palevo Tracker has found a new home on it's own sub domain:
Palevo Tracker (including it's blocklists) can be found at https://palevotracker.abuse.ch
If you are using one of AMaDa's blocklists, please ensure that you stop query them as they are no longer available. If you want to keep up identifying Palevo botnet C&Cs please switch to one of the blocklists available on Palevo Tracker's Blocklist page.
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