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Bahrain GP 2008
Saturday Team Quotes
Felipe Massa (2nd, 1:33.123): "All things considered, I am still confident after this qualifying. We know we can count on a really good car, as we have seen so far here in Sakhir. In Q3, I always had a bit of traffic, but these things happen. We must remain concentrated and do the best job we can, making the most of all our resources. Congratulations to Robert, who really drove very well."
Kimi Raikkonen (4th, 1:33.418): "I'm not very happy with the way today went, but fourth place is still a good starting position for the race, given the potential we have. The balance of the car was not perfect right from this morning and I struggled a bit to be as quick as I would have liked to be and could have been. Now we have to look at the data to try and find out why. I think that tomorrow in the race, when points are up for grabs, I will be very strong. I think we might have made different choices in terms of strategy, but let's wait and see in the race if that's really the case."
Stefano Domenicali, Team Principal: "Obviously, we had hoped for a better result, but it's definitely not a case of bandaging your head before you've broken it! We have two cars on the front two rows and we have seen these past two days what potential we can rely on. Tomorrow, we will have to get a good start, try to manage our race as best as possible and, above all, to be reliable."
Luca Baldisserri, Head of Trackside Operations: "Today we weren't at the top of our game at the key moment, which means the final qualifying session. A shame, because up until them, it was clear we had everything in place to do well. All the same, it is as always the race that matters over a Grand Prix weekend, so better to wait until tomorrow before drawing conclusions. We know our car is very good over a long run and we must try and get the most out of it if we want to be ahead of our rivals."
BMW Sauber
Robert Kubica (1st, 1:33.096): "I am very happy. I missed the chance to take pole position in Australia, but this time it worked out well. My first run in Q3 was quite good, but I made a small mistake in the first corner. The second run was better, although I again made a small mistake in corner nine. We knew before the season that the car was good due to the results of the computer simulation and the wind tunnel work. Finally it has paid off that we never gave up working hard. I want to thank the entire team who have worked so hard over the last months. We will now study the data and prepare for tomorrow. A long race lies ahead of us."
Nick Heidfeld (6th, 1:33.737): "First of all I want to congratulate Robert. The first pole position for our team is a great success, and it is fantastic we have a car that enabled us to achieve this. In view of this, of course, I can't be satisfied with sixth. But after I had a lot of difficulties in the practice sessions getting the most out of the tyres and the grip for a single lap, it could have been a lot worse today. Since Friday we have changed the balance of the car and it is much better now. Anyway, on the long runs it was okay right from the beginning therefore I have no reason to hang my head down before the race."
Dr. Mario Theissen, BMW Motorsport Director: "This is a fantastic day for Robert and our young team. We really did not expect to be on pole position. We are only in our third season and are at the very top of the grid for the first time. It is another step up the ladder. On the pit wall I was told it took 256 races for Sauber to get there. Robert managed to do a perfect lap while Nick is not entirely happy here so far, but he also has good chances from the third row."
Willy Rampf, Technical Director: "This is a very special day for us because we have our first ever pole position as a team. We deserved it thanks to a good drive from Robert. A big compliment to him - not only for his final run as he has been very quick here since Friday morning. But Nick is also in a very good position for the race - we are really looking forward to it."
Fernando Alonso (10th, 1:35.115): "I am satisfied to have reached Q3 because I had some doubts that we would this morning. But we made several changes before qualifying and we felt they were an improvement after Q1, and that gave us the confidence to be more aggressive in Q2. Once we had qualified for Q3, we knew that it would be difficult to match the pace of the leading cars because we had already been pushing to the limit, so we took the decision to prepare for the race tomorrow. We will now see if we can get some points this weekend."
Nelson Piquet (14th, 1:32.790): "I am a bit disappointed because I had hoped to reach the final qualifying session today, even though I knew that it was going to be difficult. I did not do a perfect lap on my final run in Q2, but I hope that I will be able to reverse this tomorrow and that I can fight through the field. The race will be very competitive and we will have to fight hard, but I am determined to attack and to continue learning."
Pat Symonds, Executive Director of Engineering: "As we expected, the journey to Q3 was a difficult one and Nelson missed out. However, this is a circuit where the times are very close and his weekend has been positive up to this point. With Fernando we got through to Q3 and elected to use two sets of the harder tyres for the final runs, but unfortunately a mistake on the final run meant that he abandoned the lap and he therefore starts in tenth place."
Denis Chevrier, Engine Operations Manager: "That was a difficult qualifying session, as we thought it would be. One of our drivers made it, while the other missed out, which is probably a result of his lack of experience. For Nelson, he will need to fight hard in the race, especially in the first corner where he will be surrounded by several other rookies. Fernando tried his best this afternoon with the package he had available. Once he had made it through to the Q3, we took the decision to concentrate on the race, which will be very competitive tomorrow, but we hope we will be able to adapt our strategy to any incidents in the race and make the most of any opportunities."
Nico Rosberg (8th, 1:34.015): "I am happy because we are back where we expected to be at the moment, which is behind the top three teams, so eighth position is more or less the best we can do. It would have been nice to be ahead of Jarno Trulli, but he was a little bit quicker than me overall. We have a good race car, possibly stronger than our qualifying car, so I think we are in a good position for the race and strategy is also on target. It's definitely all going in the right direction."
Kazuki Nakajima (16th, 1:32.943): "It was not a great qualifying session for me today. I made it into Q2 which was okay, but I wasn't able to get the most out of the car or the tyres, which cost me quite a lot. Here at least it is a circuit where overtaking is possible, which will be important tomorrow considering from where I am starting the race."
Sam Michael, Technical Director: "We had a better qualifying session than in Malaysia, but it was still a bit disappointing after the pace we showed in practice, but tomorrow will be an interesting race, especially with everyone managing tyre degradation. Nico is in a good position from where he can score points. Kazuki didn't qualify so well which makes his race difficult tomorrow, but he has shown that he can fight strongly and we expect to see that in the race. We'll look at any fine tuning we can do for the race overnight."
Red Bull-Renault
Mark Webber (11th, 1:32.371): "Qualifying went smoothly today, in the first session we elected to do the first lap on the hard tyre and we used two sets of options in Q2. We knew it was going to be very tight to get into Q3, which turned out to be the case. It was very tough against Fernando (Alonso) and Jenson (Button) today; we weren't quick enough to go through."
David Coulthard (17th, 1:33.433): "I never felt comfortable with the balance of the car today and on this track you've got to attack on the entries. I had two bad runs in Q1, on the prime tyre and the option. The option lap was good enough to get through to Q2, until the last two turns when I had oversteer on the entry to Turn thirteen. I moved the brake balance forward to try and push in the last corner, but I had the same situation and dropped a couple of tenths. That was enough to stop me getting through. Tomorrow's another day and each day the set up of the car changes on the track, but we've had a lot of oversteer on this circuit all weekend, so we'll see."
Christian Horner, Sporting Director: "With qualifying being so close here, it's disappointing for David to go out in the first round of qualifying and for Mark to miss Q3 by the narrowest of margins. We'll consider our strategies carefully tonight, as it's a circuit that you can overtake on quite easily. We'll be focusing on how to move up the order in tomorrow's race."
Fabrice Lom, Renault: "Both cars missed the next qualifying sessions by very small amounts, which is very frustrating, but it shows how tight it is this year. We have to push hard to make sure we're at the front of the tight middle group. Hopefully we can do better tomorrow."
Jarno Trulli (7th, 1:33.994): "We are exactly where we wanted to be. Seventh is the best we could achieve in these conditions because we know that Ferrari, McLaren and BMW are still a little bit quicker. So I'm happy, particularly because we again easily made it into the top 10. Before Q3 our fuel rig had an electrical problem so we had to change the rig but it worked out in the end. The car seems well balanced and I am comfortable but obviously we all want a little bit more. We are catching up and we are getting closer to the front. Even if the race is tough with these windy conditions, I'm confident that I will be stronger in the race than in qualifying so we can definitely get points."
Timo Glock (13th, 1:32.528): "It was a bit difficult today, especially with the last set of tyres in Q2. On the first run I had confidence in the car and I knew that I could go quicker. But on the out lap for the last run I could feel that it wasn't working the same way. The wind also made it more difficult and the lap was not perfect so I couldn't improve my time. That took me out of the top ten so it just didn't happen this time. I'm disappointed because the last two Saturdays have been good for us and this makes it more difficult at the first corner tomorrow. Still, we will push hard to gain ground during the race."
Pascal Vasselon, Senior General Manager Chassis: "This weekend has been completely dominated by track conditions. When it's windy in Bahrain the track becomes dusty and sandy and that has determined the performance profile throughout the practice sessions. The wind and the dust leads to a contamination issue on the tyres which means you sometimes don't get the grip back from a given set. For us it has meant that the weekend has gone a little less smoothly than in Sepang, even if we seem to be operating at a similar level of competitiveness. In the end Jarno did a very good job and we took the place that we expected despite the problem with the fuel rig just before Q3. Timo also had the pace for Q3 but he didn't get his best lap time when it was important in Q2 and given how tight the midfield is he ended up outside the top ten. At least this means that we are free to choose his strategy tomorrow. Otherwise we are looking forward to the race because yesterday we were consistent on long runs."
Toro Rosso-Ferrari
Sebastien Bourdais (15th, 1:32.915): "My first time in Q2. We came close before and now we have made it. The cars we are racing against are in similar positions, so we could not really expect much more. I had hoped to be a contender for twelfth if we'd had a perfect qualifying but clearly the gap is too big. I think we did the best with what we had and the team worked well, worked really hard. We can take satisfaction from that, keep on working and wait for the new car. In race trim yesterday, the car was quite good over two long runs and its pace was fairly consistent. If we get to the finish and others have problems, maybe we can aim to be in the points."
Sebastian Vettel (19th, 1:33.562): "I am disappointed not to have got further than Q1. It has been difficult all weekend and yesterday we struggled to set up the car and we still haven't found the right set up. That made qualifying difficult as you need everything to be right on the car to produce one quick flying lap. We were not strong enough. Of course, it is partly down to me as I drive the car! Struggling with the set-up, I felt it was more a case of the car driving me than me driving the car."
Giorgio Ascanelli, Technical Director: "I am happy that Sebastien made his Q2 debut and pleased that he is not the last man in Q2. I am also pleased that we have done a lot of laps with both cars. I'd say our performance level is what it is on the screen."
Jenson Button (9th, 1:35.057): "I'm very pleased with our qualifying session today. To make it through to Q3 and be lining up on the clean side of the grid tomorrow in P9 is very satisfying for myself and the team. After struggling a little this morning, we were able to resolve the issues before qualifying and the car felt good this afternoon. We can have a strong race from here so I'm excited about the prospects for tomorrow. We haven't made any significant changes to the car since the first two races so really we are just working hard to optimise the current package. The car is still quite new to us as we only had the new aero package just before the first race of the season, so I'm happy with how this season is progressing. We're moving forward with each race and I'm confident that this will also be the case in Barcelona when our next upgrades arrive."
Rubens Barrichello (12th, 1:32.508): "I'm quite happy with qualifying today, particularly as we made a lot of improvements to the car since yesterday, so it was a very good job from our engineers overnight. Unfortunately we had a gearbox issue which interfered with my lap during Q2. Without that, I am confident that we could have had a place in the top ten. I enjoy this track and if the car is performing well again tomorrow, then I believe that we can be challenging for points here. A small mistake around this track can cost you a lot of time so the key is to keep focused and have confidence in your braking. If we can achieve this, then I'm expecting a good race."
Steve Clark, Head of Race & Test Engineering: "Obviously Jenson getting our first top ten qualifying of the season is very satisfying. He had no 'option' tyres left for the final session so we had no realistic chance to threaten the top half, although finishing ahead of Alonso is helpful for tomorrow. Rubens also had the pace to get to the last session but he had a gearbox problem on his last run which cost him that chance. Rubens was able to pass into Q2 with only one set of option tyres, so he has the advantage of a new set to start the race tomorrow. The wind could play a big part and we may see the track losing grip for the start of the race. We are running relatively high downforce here so we are hoping this will play into our hands. There is plenty of runoff at this circuit so I wouldn't expect many safety car events tomorrow; there has been just one in the past. There may well be plenty of overtaking, especially as the tyres start to give up grip. We were very happy with our race set-up from Friday and Jenson's car worked well with fuel in the final qualifying session."
Super Aguri-Honda
Anthony Davidson (21st, 1:34.140): "A good day's qualifying. I was happy with the balance of the car and I have always enjoyed the track here. Today it was good to us; we chased the car ahead closely right up until the end and there was only a few of tenths between me and Sutil. I really think that we have seen the limit of the car today, so we should all be pretty pleased."
Takuma Sato (22nd, 1:35.725): "We made good progress as a result of the overnight changes and the car came together during Free Practice this morning and I was happy with the balance. During qualifying my first run was a little bit slippery, but reasonable. I was much happier during my second run with the grip and I had a good feeling until the very last corner. Then I was touching on the outside kerb and the car ran wide and snapped quickly away from me. It is very disappointing that I could not complete qualifying, but hopefully we will show strong pace for the race tomorrow."
Graham Taylor, Sporting Director: "During free practice this morning both cars covered a good amount of work, especially for a race set-up, but we knew that we needed to work a little bit harder on the balance for qualifying, with one of the tyres giving us some issues. In qualifying everything was going according to plan, however, unfortunately Takuma was caught out at turn 15 and sustained some rear end damage, but Anthony did two very fine laps and we are looking forward to competing with the cars in front of us tomorrow."
Force India-Ferrari
Giancarlo Fisichella (18th, 1:33.501): "Malaysia was five hundredths away, here it was close again so it is really disappointing as we are almost there. We had a problem with the front brakes and especially with the front locking on both laps so it is a bit disappointing. It is important to be close and try to move up in the race."
Adrian Sutil (20th, 1:33.845): "The circumstances were quite difficult today and we just had four minutes left when the session restarted after the red flag so everybody went out to do a fast lap. It was very difficult to judge the traffic on the out lap and to find the space, but overall it was quite good. I feel better in the car than in the last races so we have made an improvement, but the field is very close and it is very hard to reach the top 16. We are close, but not quite there at the moment, but we will for sure improve for the next races."
Mike Gascoyne, Chief Technical Officer: "It was disappointing again to have missed out on Q2 by just under a tenth. Both drivers just missed out on their final laps, with both having a problem with locking brakes, but we know we have a competitive car for the race and we will have to look to pick up positions and get two cars to the finish tomorrow."
Lewis Hamilton (3rd, 1:33.292): "My fastest lap in qualifying was okay, but not perfect. The balance of the car was good, and I think a better time and a position on the front row would have been possible, but the times were very close. Yesterday's accident was no problem for me, at turn five where it happened, I was faster today than Friday. It was just a matter of going for it. I know the guys worked until early this morning preparing the car after yesterday's accident, so a big thank you to them. I will now analyse the data together with my engineers and look forward to an interesting race tomorrow. We have a good strategy, and I am confident."
Heikki Kovalainen (5th, 1:33.488): "The car felt good, especially on the softer tyre, but the lap time was not quick enough to get higher up the grid. There was little more wind than yesterday, but I don't think that had any influence. All the times are extremely close. I am positive for tomorrow's race and believe we can improve some positions. We are close to the top guys and anything can happen tomorrow. I am confident that we have a good strategy, and the most important thing is to keep scoring the points as we have been doing in the first two races."
Ron Dennis, Team Principal: "A trouble free qualifying session for Lewis and Heikki who both did an excellent job. Also the team did a great job overnight in making the necessary repairs to Lewis' car. The times at the top were extremely close which bodes well for an exciting race. We will now see how the race unfolds and if our strategy will work out as we have planned."
Norbert Haug, Mercedes Motorsport Director: "We have achieved a good basis for the race with third and fifth positions on the better side of the track for the start. The mechanics did a super job last night to virtually build up a new chassis for Lewis which he drove to third place on the grid - less than two tenths from pole position. Heikki did a great job and has good chances for a podium position tomorrow with his fifth place. Congratulations to BMW and Robert Kubica for their first pole as BMW-Sauber, well done. We expect an exciting race."


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[Editor's Note: The Book of Me is a series of writing prompts focusing on life streaming or preserving one's own memories rather than those of our ancestors and family members. Click here to read more.]
This week's prompt in The Book of Me is Journals and Diaries and this is an area in my life which has always vexed me. I don't maintain a daily journal although I'd absolutely love to. Here's why:
- I am on several social media channels every day where I am doing what some would call "lifestreaming" which is maintaining an online diary of my activities and thoughts.
- There are several programs that can aggregate all your lifestreams (Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest) into one platform but I've just been too busy to investigate them.
- My handwriting is so horrible (and always has been) that if I were to keep a written journal, no one - absolutely no one - would be able to read it. Talk about an exercise in futility.
My best hope for journaling is this little old blog right here which is coming up on its seventh anniversary in December. I began blogging to capture the family stories told by my mother as her Alzheimer's Disease advanced. This blog has turned into something much more and it is the closest thing I have to a diary.
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With Project RSX humming along at full song and poised to pounce on apexes with a quick flick of the wrist, it's time to focus our attention elsewhere. The Acura RSX Type-S is a powerful performer and we've done our best to hone its talents under the hood, at the corners and on its sheetmetal. In this installment, we're going to address one of the more important systems on any car-the brakes. As we mentioned in last month's "Brake Upgrade Buyers Guide," brakes impact performance, style and safety.
Cross-drilled and/or slotted rotors are big attention-getters but they do much more than drop jaws. It's all about outgassing-the term for evacuating the build-up of gases from the space between the pad and rotor. Under repeated hard stopping, so much heat is generated that a layer of gas forms between the pad and rotor.
When you depress the brake pedal, proper contact is denied with unmodified rotors and the car resists slowing down. This scenario can really elevate the pulse on twisty canyon roads. The efficiency (or lack thereof) of the OE brakes, weight of the car and driving habits all conspire to promote this phenomenon. The vanes or holes in upgraded rotors give the gas a way out. In most kits the rotors are bigger, giving the braking system more swept area and more bite. Add to this an upgraded caliper with four or six pistons and the clamping force of the brakes is even more dramatically increased. Note that some big brake systems may require an upgrade in wheel size. Calipers are usually made of aluminum versus the cast-iron units on many OE systems so you can shave off some unsprung weight when you upgrade, which further increases the stopping performance of the system.
The installation of brakes for some cars is simple and straightforward; on other applications, it can be a challenge. As with any modification, a well-designed product is key to a headache-less install, excellent performance and a long service life.
When it came time to put together Project RSX, we heard Wilwood was continuing its advancement into the import market and had already developed a kit for the RSX. Wilwood, a well-recognized name in NASCAR ranks, began producing import kits a year or so ago. It was wise to not only manufacture parts for the popular Honda and Mitsubishi models, but also get ahead of the curve and produce kits for up-and-coming stars like the RSX.
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More than £9 million has been promised by the government to boost the number of electric car charging points and First Great Western (FGW) has been awarded £315,000 to install them at 44 of its 210 stations.
FGW's major projects manager Sarah McManus said: "First Great Western are delighted to have been awarded this grant and the opportunity to improve the services we offer to our customers.
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The 44 stations included in the Office of Low Emission Vehicles grant include: Aldermaston, Barnstaple, Bodmin Parkway, Bourne End, Bristol Parkway, Bristol Temple Meads, Charlbury, Chippenham, Cholsey, Clifton Down, Crowthorne, Didcot Parkway, Exeter St Davids, Frome, Gloucester, Goring & Streatley, Henley-on-Thames, Kemble, Liskeard, Looe, Moreton-in-Marsh, Newquay, Newton Abbot, North Camp, Oxford, Pewsey, Plymouth, Reading, Redruth, Slough, Taplow, Teignmouth, Theale, Tiverton Parkway, Torquay, Trowbridge, Truro, Warminster, Westbury, Yate and Yatton.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg said: "Electric cars are one of the most promising of our green industries and we want to secure the UK's position as a global leader in both the production and adoption of these vehicles.
"The extremely low running costs of electric cars help drivers save money and we are allocating more than £9 million to boost chargepoints across the country to help drivers to go green.
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The announcement cames as the Deputy Prime Minister visited iconic transport venue Ace Cafe, just off the North Circular in North West London, where he met managing directors, staff and apprentices from BMW, Nissan, Renault, Toyota and Vauxhall.
The companies are all backing the Go Ultra Low campaign in a ground breaking partnership with government to debunk myths and misconceptions that put drivers off switching to electric or hybrid cars, such as cost and how far the vehicles can travel before being recharged.


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One of my patients was diagnosed with celiac disease and maintains a strict gluten-free diet. Is her fetus at risk of neural tube defects because she does not get folic acid from bread and other flour-based foods?
A woman with celiac disease must supplement her diet with multivitamins, including folic acid. Most prenatal vitamins contain 0.8 to 0.9 mg of folic acid, double the amount recommended by Health Canada for prevention of neural tube defects. Without supplementation (eg, undiagnosed pregnancy), women with celiac disease might not take in enough folate to maintain protective levels.
Une de mes patientes a reçu un diagnostic de maladie céliaque et elle suit un régime alimentaire strict sans gluten. Son foetus est-il à risque d'anomalie du tube médullaire parce qu'elle ne bénéficie pas de l'acide folique contenu dans le pain et les autres aliments à base de farine?
Le régime alimentaire d'une femme atteinte d'une maladie céliaque doit comporter un supplément de multivitamines, notamment d'acide folique. La plupart des vitamines prénatales contiennent de 0,8 à 0,9 mg d'acide folique, soit le double de la dose recommandée par Santé Canada pour prévenir les anomalies du tube médullaire. À défaut de supplément (par exemple, une grossesse non diagnostiquée), les femmes atteintes d'une maladie céliaque pourraient ne pas prendre suffisamment d'acide folique pour maintenir les taux voulus pour la protection contre ce risque.
Prevalence during pregnancy
The prevalence of undiagnosed celiac disease among pregnant women is unknown.2 The rate of celiac disease is higher in women than in men, but we do not know why.1 An Italian study screened 845 pregnant women and identified 12 with celiac disease, for a prevalence of 1/70.2 The authors called for routine testing for celiac disease during antenatal care because it is at least as common as many other diseases for which pregnant women are routinely screened.
Rates of diagnosed celiac disease in Minnesota have recently increased from 2.1 per 100 000 people from 1950 to 1989 to 3.3 per 100 000 in the 1990s. The authors speculated that this was due to an increased detection rate and possibly a true increase in incidence.3 One British study found that one in 60 mothers of children with neural tube defects had celiac disease. This study used the serum endomysial antibody (EMA) test, which has high sensitivity and specificity for celiac disease.4
Clinical effects
Celiac disease causes malabsorption of folic acid and other nutrients and has been linked to unfavourable outcomes of pregnancy.1,5 In a case-control study of 94 women with untreated celiac disease and 31 women with treated celiac disease, women with untreated celiac disease had a relative risk (RR) of 8.9 for abortion and of 5.8 for low birth weight babies compared with their treated counterparts.5 The untreated womenâs duration of breastfeeding was 2.5 times shorter than the treated womenâs.5 Another case-control study of 68 patient-control pairs found that celiac patients were older at menarche and younger at menopause, had a lower mean number of children, and had many more conceptions ending in miscarriage.6
A recent systematic review has found that patients with untreated celiac disease have higher rates of miscarriage, fetal growth restriction, and lower birth weight babies.7 In contrast, a large population-based cohort study of 5055 pregnant women in Italy observed no association between celiac disease and unfavourable pregnancy outcome.8 Using validated screening techniques, 51 previously undiagnosed celiac cases were identified (prevalence: 1/80). Most of the women identified by screening had no major clinical complaints, but there was a non-significant trend toward reduced birth weight and an increased abortion rate among celiac patients. This study had a different design from the previously cited case-control studies. The case-control studies looked mostly at women with severe clinical symptoms. The authors of this study8 do not deny that undiagnosed and untreated celiac disease can lead to unfavourable outcomes in pregnancy, but state that women identified by general screening are likely asymptomatic and therefore not necessarily at higher risk of negative pregnancy outcomes.
Women with celiac disease might not absorb folic acid efficiently. Although flour is fortified with folic acid, those with celiac disease abstain from eating bread and put their fetuses at risk of having neural tube defects (NTD). Whether women with untreated celiac disease are at higher risk of delivering babies with NTDs is still unclear. A PubMed search using the terms âceliac,â âneural tube defect,â and âpregnancyâ turned up only two studies. A study by Haslam and colleagues9 showed that five of 216 women with hemoglobin levels lower than 11g/dL were positive for celiac disease compared with none of 350 with hemoglobin levels at or above 11 g/dL.
This study9 found no association between positive celiac serology and folate deficiency, and none of 30 mothers of children with NTDs were found to have positive celiac serology by EMA test. A study by Dickey et al4 found that one in 60 mothers of children with NTDs tested positive for celiac disease. The authors suggested that the most important risk factor for NTDs is abnormalities in folic acid metabolism rather than absorption. One in 60 is, however, a slightly higher prevalence than was found in other studies. Both studies8,9 preceded flour fortification with folic acid, and hence cannot answer this question.
Further study of the effects of celiac disease during pregnancy is warranted. Celiac disease has been associated with reproductive disorders, and it has been recommended that patients with reproductive disorders be tested for celiac disease.10 Whether general screening for celiac disease in pregnant women is necessary is still a matter of debate and needs further study.
Nutrient absorption improves rapidly and intestinal mucosa heal once gluten has been eliminated from the diet.1 In most cases, after 6 to 12 months of a gluten-free diet, no increased unfavourable outcome of pregnancy is observed.1 While implementation of a gluten-free diet is difficult, it is not impossible. Some web resources to assist with gluten-free diets are www.gluten.net, www.csaceliacs.org, www.celiac.org, www.celiac.com, and www.glutenfreeinfo.com.
In gluten-free diets, a major source of dietary folic acid is lost because commercial cereal, bread, and pasta products must be excluded. In 1998, fortification of flour with folic acid became mandatory. Since then, there has been a decrease in the prevalence of NTDs.11 Health Canada recommends that pregnant women and women intending to become pregnant take supplements of 0.4 mg/d of folic acid in addition to their dietary intake. Women unable to consume commercial flour, such as women with celiac disease or others on low-carbohydrate diets, might be at increased risk of having children with NTDs and might need to increase their supplementation.
Celiac disease appears to be a relatively common yet a neglected disorder during pregnancy. Undiagnosed and untreated celiac disease can pose health risks to both mother and fetus. Unfavourable pregnancy outcomes associated with celiac disease could be prevented with a gluten-free diet. Managing a gluten-free diet is difficult; proper supplementation must be achieved in women of reproductive age, especially of folic acid because the main dietary source (flour) is eliminated.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Etsy Video
I'm conscious I'm running two identical blogs at the moment. Sorry about that. I'll veer off again soon!
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Simply brilliant.
- February 7, 2012 at 3:37 PM
- June said...
Thank you for sharing this with us... a privilege to see the piece in development. Really wonderful characters with stories to tell, and enough visuals to keep a traveller imagining on even the dullest of journeys.
- February 7, 2012 at 7:31 PM
- barbara said...
- February 8, 2012 at 6:39 AM
- Alicia Padrón said...
This is so amazing... Your work is so amazing Sophie!
Thanks so much for sharing this with us. I posted your video on the PBJunkies today. Such a big fan.
Hugs, :o)
- February 8, 2012 at 7:02 AM
- Lisa Firke said...
I love this work of yours! So glad Etsy made a fuss, so I could find you.
- February 8, 2012 at 10:23 AM
- JEANINE HENDERSON said...
This is fantastic—I just love the book, so inspiring! And, was so happy to see a few of the pieces made it into the Society of Illustrators book show-Congrats!!
- February 8, 2012 at 10:41 AM
- Elizabeth Rose Stanton said...
Wonderful video! Yay! Congrats on the poster. I will look for it next time I'm in NY!! Btw, I really enjoyed your talk at the conference last weekend. I am an ardent admirer!
- February 8, 2012 at 12:33 PM
Simply brillant indeed.
- February 8, 2012 at 12:36 PM
For years I've dreamed of owning your drawing of "A Happy Girl riding a bicycle and a Basket full of Apples". I've dream of finding it's Original buyer but never dared to ask. Recently, I've been wanting to Tattoo it on my arm and send you royalties, let's say 10cents a day & what a thing to take to the grave!... Respectfully Soul Searching for the rite thing to do, Jane
- February 8, 2012 at 12:58 PM
- Taili said...
I saw the poster on the train today!! Love it! :-)
- February 9, 2012 at 12:50 PM
- Lisa said...
Bravo! You are an inspiration!
- February 10, 2012 at 10:45 AM
- nicole j. wroblewski said...
Could not love this more! Loved getting a glimpse into your working process.
- February 10, 2012 at 2:21 PM
- Lori said...
That was sweet! I really adore your illustrations. I miss the ny subway.
- February 11, 2012 at 9:08 AM
- Dove said...
Wonderful! Thank you for sharing.
I found your blog after my toddler insisted we get "Are You Awake?" at the library. We both loved it, the story and the art and the having been up at 4 am -- thank you for writing it.
- February 13, 2012 at 9:28 PM
- Daniel said...
Wow! I was wondering if your work was strictly your imagination or creating caricatures of people you encounter.
Absolutely wonderful!
- February 18, 2012 at 5:49 PM
Your piece is fantastic, my favorite subway art piece yet. I watched your video and your drawing had the intended effect for me. I think I looked over it all the way from 6th ave to Montrose on the L one time.
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got mine in the mail and kept it in my desk drawer for weeks...the pink and green constrast are my favorite! smiles!
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- Christine Brallier said...
Just wonderful - love your artwork and really enjoyed getting to know about you and your process more. Thanks!!
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Adobe's public beta of Lightroom is now available. Since it's out, I thought I would briefly share some impressions. Those of you looking for the typically long Ars review will have to wait for the finished product to ship.
I know that many people are probably thinking that Lightroom is a disguised copy of Aperture, but this program has clearly been in the works for a while. It's possible Adobe got wind of Aperture before it was released, but screaming "Aperture copy!" is a little off base since other, lesser-known import, convert, keyword workflow apps have been making good money in the professional photography market for some time.
In particular, when you see the modal design of Lightroom, that splits the interface into Library, Develop, Slideshow and Print, you'll see that it's also a big departure from Aperture's all-in-one interface.
Still, there are definitely some similarities between Aperture and Lightroom that are bound to come up, but some are things (like the navigator) that have has been in Photoshop since version 5 or so (I can't remember what I did yesterday, so don't ask me to recall something like this).
The inner box of the navigator shows where you are in the photo. From left, Aperture, Photoshop, Lightroom.
Also, I wouldn't make too much of the fact that the public beta is Mac only for now. I think it's a safe assumption that professional photographers are still for the most part Mac users—that's not an assertion about which is better, so hold onto your flames—and since the OS X version is Cocoa, it's not your typical cross-platform port. I don't think it's a matter of politics, but of throwing your resources where most of your customers are.
The Windows beta should be coming within the next couple of months. If people are wondering if it's Mactel/OS X x86/Intelintosh compatible, it's not. Since the code base is completely Cocoa/Mach-O, it should be small work of getting it up and running once the machines are released. If the rumours, are correct, then they'll be starting that work tomorrow.
Despite the beta tag, which usually means "feature complete," it's not, so get your feature suggestions in while you can. If I have to put in my vote for one thing I'm hoping to see make it in by 1.0, it would be a truly interactive color curve instead of the highlights/midtones/shadows adjustments that it uses currently. I know I'm not alone in that wish, so hopefully it's in the pipeline.
We won't be doing a comparison of Lightroom and Aperture yet because we don't review beta products, but Lightroom builds on the current Adobe Camera Raw technology so there should be no surprises in the quality or color/contrast rendering. Support for the new Nikon D200 isn't in yet, but is said to be coming in the next beta release. There's no word yet on the pricing of Lightroom either; given the competition (Aperture, primarily), chances are it's going to be $500 or under.
So without further ado, head on over to to the download page and give it a whirl for yourself. Feel free to weigh in with your assessment of Lightroom in our discussion thread.


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SIMPSONVILLE, Ky. (Sept. 19, 2011) – Welcomed by less-than-ideal weather conditions that allowed for just one round of play Monday afternoon at the Cardinal Club Golf Course, the ETSU women's golf team opened its 2011-12 season and finished tied for eighth on the team leaderboard following first round play at the Wild Eggs Cardinal Cup.
The event, which is hosted by the University of Louisville, was originally scheduled for two rounds on Monday and a third round of action on Tuesday. However, the rainy conditions left the tournament rescheduled for one round on each of the two days. The Buccaneers finished the day at 311, 11 strokes back of second place East Carolina and 15 strokes back of first place North Carolina State.
"It was a wet day today with tough conditions, and we didn't play very smart," said ETSU head coach Stefanie Shelton. "But we hung in there and got our first competitive tournament round behind us with valuable lessons to take to the course tomorrow."
The Bucs were led by sophomore Sian Evans (Gillingham, England), who fired a 4-over-par 76 and finished tied for 14th on the individual leaderboard. Evans is just four strokes back of three players who share the tournament lead at even-par 72.
Meanwhile, other ETSU results included a tie for 23rd by senior Mayte Vizcarrondo (Cadiz, Spain), while junior transfer Chloe Garner (Somerset West, South Africa) finished tied for 30th.
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L. Neil Smith's
Number 295, October 31, 2004
The Nightmare After Halloween
The Sad Evolution of Sexual Harassment
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A $60 million lawsuit filed against FOX News and Bill O'Reilly guarantees that the topic of sexual harassment will be batted around by media. The complaint hinges on alleged "phone sex" between O'Reilly and his former associate producer Andrea Mackris. Of the many awkward questions raised by the accusations, one looms large. Even assuming tasteless remarks occurred, how could anyone demand $60 million dollars for conversations on which they could have hung up?
The astronomically high sum demanded, in and of itself, suggests the issue sexual harassment is out of control. The issue has evolved dramatically in the last three decades and now seems to blatantly favor and, perhaps, encourage accusations.
Sexual harassment laws and policies originated in society's sense of fair play. The term entered social debate through Lin Farley's book, "Sexual Shakedown: The Sexual Harassment of Women on the Job," published in 1978. Farley chronicled wrenching stories of sex discrimination that literally destroyed women's careers. It was impossible to leave the book without feeling that something in society was badly wrong; something needed to be changed.
The question was "how."
Businesses are notoriously vulnerable to campaigns of bad publicity, especially concerning the sexual abuse of women. Yet gender feminists immediately and single-mindedly pushed for government agencies to impose de facto law into the workplace through using court precedents and established agencies.
The book "Sexual Harassment of Working Women" (1979) by gender feminist Catharine MacKinnon defined sexual harassment as the legal issue it is today. Namely, as a form of discrimination on the same level as racism for which legal sanctions already existed. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 already prohibited an employer from discriminating on the basis of "race, color, religion, sex, or national origin." It was merely a practical matter of extending that prohibition to cover women.
Initially, sexual harassment suits revolved around quid pro quo situations: for example, sleep with me or you are fired. In 1986, however, Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson legally established the idea of a "hostile environment."
A hostile work environment exists when co-workers or employers engage in unwanted sexual behavior, including comments, which seriously impair an employee's job performance and comfort. This legal concept increased an employer's liability and diminished a complainant's burden of proof. Suits that would have been tossed out of court prior to Meritor now had legal merit.
In 1991, the ground again shifted to favor complainants through three events: Anita Hill's accusations against Clarence Thomas who was then being considered for the Supreme Court; and, the court cases Ellison v. Brady and Robinson v. Jacksonville Shipyards.
The much-televised Hill accusations introduced the issue of sexual harassment into America's living rooms. The National Association of Working Women, which had been receiving about 200 calls a week concerning harassment, began receiving 200 calls a day.
Ellison v. Brady introduced the "reasonable woman" standard into law. Conduct was no longer analyzed from the perspective of a "reasonable person" but of a "reasonable woman." In practical terms, this meant cases would be analyzed from the perspective of the complainant and not the defendant.
Robinson v. Jacksonville Shipyard established that nude pin-ups in a lockerapart from any other considerationconstituted sexual harassment even if the complainant was not targeted. This is the juncture at which jokes spoken at a water cooler became the province of courts.
Thus, as Prof. Ellen Frankel Paul of Bowling Green State University states in her essay "Bared Buttocks and Federal Cases," sexual harassment shifted from the "objectively injurious" to the "merely subjectively offensive."
As that shift occurred, court awards to "victims" rose astronomically.
Barnes v. Train (1974) is commonly viewed as the first sexual harassment case in America even though the term was not used and the first court's dismissed the case. Barnes, an employee of the Equal Opportunities Division of the Environmental Protection claimed that her job was eliminated for refusing to have sex with her employer. Barnes ultimately received $18,000 for back pay and lost promotions even though her abuse was grievous by almost anyone's standard.
Today, Mackris is asking for $60 million. No threat of violence is alleged. No physical contact occurred. Neither promise of promotion nor threat of dismissal seems to have happened. Mackris did not complain to FOX or, apparently, to anyone else before going to the attorney who filed her suit. A comparison of the two figures$18,000 and $60 million is an indication of how far the issue has drifted from its roots.
Happily, a backlash appears to be underway. For example, in June the Supreme Court rendered a decision on Pennsylvania State Police v. Suders. The Court ruled: it is a valid defense for employers to demonstrate that a complainant failed to use whatever reasonable system existed for the reporting of sexual harassment.
The ruling is a step toward sanity. Another step would be for government to cease regulating speech in the workplace. As long as conversation (with the exception threats) to be matters for the court, then abuse is inevitable. The politically correct approach to sexual harassment means that those who claim victimhood are almost automatically believed. This presumption offers lopsided power to those who even hint at an accusation.
Sexual harassment must be rolled back for the same reason it arose as an issue: fairness.
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Extract from The Derby Mercury, 23 February 1870
I should also admit that I have done considerably more research into the background of the families involved in what I considered to be the most likely of the three marriages. As is so often the case in many of these research projects, I had a gut feeling that the Smith-Hoult marriage was the one celebrated in my carte de visite wedding portrait, and that the surroundings might well be the residence of the bride's family, Upper Blakenhall Farm. It seemed sensible, therefore, to concentrate efforts in this direction.
Further investigation of Upper Blakenhall and the Smith and Hoult families, using The Derby Mercury newspaper, census records, trade directories and other sources revealed a detailed picture of the family structure and their movements. All seemed to fit well with what we had determined from the wedding portrait and the two associated farmyard photographs. Nigel had been following the story as it unfolded, so when he said that he might be able to make a visit to Barton-under-Needwood, I jumped at the chance of getting some groundwork done. Besides looking around the village for buildings that had been around in William J. Farmer's time, I felt that Upper Blakenhall Farm had showed the most promise of being the location of the wedding portrait.
However, I am well aware of how tricky this sort of thing can be. Not everyone has the same passion for genealogical, family and local history research as we do, and landowners are understandably sometimes a little hesitant about nosey incursions into their privacy. A couple of years ago when I was cycling around this part of Staffordshire, I rode past the entrance to the farm near Alrewas where my own ancestors had lived in the late 18th Century. I wasn't bold enough to walk up the driveway and introduce myself to the current owners, and therefore missed a great opportunity to obtain some first hand knowledge of the farm and perhaps some pictures.
(1) Entrace to Upper Blakenhall Farm, 18 April 2008
Image © and courtesy of Nigel Aspdin
Nigel, on the other hand, is less daunted by such hurdles and introduced himself to the current owners of Upper Blakenhall Farm after heading up this driveway. After he had explained the purpose of his enquiries they were very helpful and cooperative indeed, and showed Nigel around the exterior of the house and farm buildings.
(2) Southern and eastern aspects of main house, Upper Blakenhall Farm, 18 April 2008
Image © and courtesy of Nigel Aspdin
This is a photograph of the easterly aspect of their nicely preserved three-storey farm house. Nigel's bicycle leans against the wooden picket fence, in homage to ubiquitous early 20th Century Derby photographer Frank Scarratt, whose bicycle also appeared in many of his published postcard views.
(3) Composite image of farm buildings, Upper Blakenhall Farm, 18 April 2008
Image © and courtesy of Nigel Aspdin
The next image, a composite of two of Nigel's photographs taken in the same farm yard, but in a roughly north-easterly direction, show the farm buildings which form the north and eastern boundaries of the farm yard. The position of the photographer in each photo, together with approximate view angles, are indicated on the enlarged satellite image shown below. The farm outbuildings, while showing signs of having been extensively altered since their original construction, are still in a roughly similar style to how they must have appeared in the mid- to late nineteenth century. There were no immediate signs of two characteristic features which had been noticed on the original group of photographs by W.J. Farmer, i.e. a large double wooden door (in the horse and dog photographs) and a low cellar window (in the wedding portrait). The wooden doors are all much narrower, and although some significant alterations have clearly taken place, I couldn't see any obvious gaps where double wooden doors could have fitted.
Main farm buildings at Upper Blakenhall Farm
showing viewing positions & angles of photographs (1) to (4)
Enlarged Satellite Image © and courtesy of GoogleMaps
However, Nigel was then shown around the side of the house, where things started to get much more exciting.
(4) Southern aspect of main house, Upper Blakenhall Farm, 18 April 2008
Image © and courtesy of Nigel Aspdin
This view of the south-facing wall of the main house is from the south-west, as opposed to the south-east view shown above (2), and the other side of a brick wall which connects the house with a farm building to the south. Nigel's attention was immediately drawn to the window placed low down in the wall. Although clearly not exactly the same one as shown in the wedding portrait, and not adjacent to a door, it is similar and suggests the existence within the house of a room with a floor significantly lower than the current ground level, possibly a cellar.
Detail of image (4) with outline of replaced brickwork
A careful look at the brickwork within this wall reveals some extensive replacement brickwork, possibly in several stages, as outlined in the detailed image above.
(5) Western wall of farm outbuilding immediately to south of main house, Upper Blakenhall Farm, 18 April 2008
Image © and courtesy of Nigel Aspdin
Another shot taken from approximately the same location, but of an eastern wall of the outbuilding immediately to the south of the main house, includes a promising looking large stable door, but it is clearly not the double door from our old photographs.
(6) Portion of the yard immediately to south of main house, also shown in image (2), Upper Blakenhall Farm, 18 April 2008
Image © and courtesy of Nigel Aspdin
A more detailed view of the northern end of the eastern wall of the same building, just visible at the left hand edge of image (2) shows a large door with similar long hinges and a very similar latch to those in the horse photograph.
A closer comparison suggests that they can't be the same door - the top hinge is of a slightly different design, and the latch is longer - but both appear to be of a very similar style.
With all of this, I was starting to get a very strong feeling that we had found the location of the photographs. In the next two articles in this series, I will (a) investigate how the wedding group might fit with the Smith and Hoult families, and (b) try to fit the three old photographs into the recent photographs of Upper Blakenhall Farm.


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NBC Sports Group's Premier League coverage continues this week with five games on NBCSN and one on NBC. In a schedule change, the Southampton-Sunderland match featuring Sunderland striker and U.S. Men's National Team star Jozy Altidore has been moved into the Saturday 10 a.m. ET slot on NBCSN.
Altidore played all 90 minutes of Sunderland's 1-0 loss to Fulham last Saturday. Just three days earlier, his second-half hat trick propelled the U.S. team to a 4-3 come-from-behind win over Bosnia and Herzegovina in an international friendly.
The four additional games in the Saturday 10 a.m. time slot will be available on Premier League Extra Time, a bonus television package available to MVPDs at no extra cost for customers who receive NBC Sports Network.
Two matches will be telecast in Spanish by mun2 this week.
Lead play-by-play voice Arlo White joins former Premier League star and four-time league champion Lee Dixon to call Aston Villa-Liverpool Saturday at 12:30 p.m. on NBC. White and Graeme Le Saux, the former Premier League star who played in 36 international matches for England, will call the Manchester United-Chelsea match at 3 p.m. on Monday.
All matches will be preceded and followed by "Premier League Live" pre- and post-match shows from the NBC Sports Group International Broadcast Center in Stamford, Conn. Rebecca Lowe hosts "Premier League Live" alongside former U.S. National Team midfielder Kyle Martino and former English footballer Robbie Mustoe.
All Premier League games will be streamed on NBC Sports Live Extra, NBC Sports Group's live streaming product for desktops, mobile devices and tablets. Games airing on NBC Sports Network will be live streamed via "TV Everywhere," the media industry's effort to make quality content available to MVPD customers both in and out of the home and on multiple platforms.
To date, AT&T U-verse, Bright House Networks, Cablevision's Optimum, Comcast's Xfinity TV, Cox, DIRECTV, Mediacom, Suddenlink, and Time Warner Cable have opted to carry the additional Premier League matches via the Premier League Extra Time package, and AT&T U-verse, Cablevision's Optimum, Charter, Comcast's Xfinity TV, Cox, DIRECTV, DISH, Suddenlink and Verizon FiOS will make all Premier League games available through TV Everywhere. Additionally, more than 100 NCTC partners have either signed-on to the Premier League Extra Time package or have opted-in via TV Everywhere, including Blue Ridge Communications, Buckeye CableSystem, CenturyLink Prism, and RCN. In some cases, the Premier League Extra Time package will be available in select markets.


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Growing up in a military family allowed me to see a fair bit of the world -- and required me to learn to adapt to different cultures and customs every time we moved. Then I read (or heard?) the phrase "...the things are also people" in a SF story.
Even though I travel a lot less with my own family, the wanderlust has never completely gone away -- or the curiousity about cultures and customs strange and wonderful, and I've written about people (or things that are also people) dealing with unusual cultural situations ever since.
So shoulder your backpack, tuck your blaster into your belt or your dagger in your boot, and join me in the journey!


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U20 World Junior Championships Game Day: Day Eight 1-2-13
To the brink...
Russia 4 vs. Switzerland 3 (SO)
Nikita Kucherov, Russia, 2-1-3, +1. 0 PIM, 3 SOG
Tournament totals: 5 GP, 5-2-7, +4, 2 PIM
Nikita Nesterov, Russia, 0-1-1, E, 0 PIM, 4 SOG
Tournament totals: 5 GP, 0-3-3, +2, 2 PIM
Artem Sergeev, Russia, 0-0-0, E, 0 PIM, 0 SOG
Tournament totals: 5 GP, 0-1-1, +1, 0 PIM
Andrey Vasilevskiy, Russia, Shootout Win, 41/44, 2.77 GAA, .932 sv%
Tournament totals: 3 GP, 3-0-0, 1 SO, 1.54 GAA, .958 sv%
Tanner Richard, Switzerland, 0-0-0, E, 0 PIM, 3 SOG
Tournament totals: 5 GP, 0-4-4, +1, 2 PIM
Nikita Kucherov scored a power play goal with 1:39 left in regulation to force overtime and then scored the shootout winner for Russia in their 4-3 win over Switzerland. Andrey Vasilevskiy stopped 4 of 5 in the shootout to seal the win. Nikita Kucherov gets credit for 2 goals, statistically, because shootout winners are counted in Europe. Nikita Nesterov also had a power play helper in the match. Russia moves on to the Semifinal Match against Sweden on Thursday. Switzerland will play Czech Republic in the 5th Place Match on Friday. Switzerland has still not lost in regulation in the tournament, despite only winning once in the Round Robin against Latvia.
Update: Nikita Kucherov (pictured) was named Yahoo Sports' Buzzing the Crease's first star of the day for his effort against the Swiss. Andrey Vasilveskiy earned honorable mention.
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Now that the long hot summer is over, the Cape is coming into what many consider its best time of year.
This year's Cranberry Harvest Festival will be held in October at the Coonamessett River Bogs. Come to the Palmer House to enjoy our cranberry nut muffins and cranberry sorbet. Not to mention our oatmeal cranberry raisin cookies for an afternoon snack.
Early fall or the shoulder season, is known for sunny days and comfortably crisp nights. It's also cranberry harvesting time.
Cranberries attain their peak flavor and color and are ripe for picking from mid-September through the first week of November. Picturesque bogs brimming with the deep ruby-red berries dot the landscape against a backdrop of blue skies and fall foliage.
The cranberry is one of only three native fruits including the blueberry and Concord grape, commercially grown in North America. Massachusetts ranks as the second biggest cranberry producer behind Wisconsin. Despite unusual flooding in early spring and drought conditions throughout much of the summer, experts predict a bumper crop in the state this year. The US Department of Agriculture has reported that a crop of 1.95 million barrels to be harvested this fall, but weather conditions including the recent rain and heat wave can affect the output. Growers say that they don't know what the crop is going to be until it is delivered.
Native American tribes of the area were the first to use the wild berry as a food, medicine and fabric dye. They called it sassamanash and ibimi ( meaning bitter berry). They introduced the Pilgrims to the multiple benefits of the fruit. The Pilgrims also found it to be a valuable bartering tool. The European settlers named the fruit the cranberry after the sandhill cranes commonly spotted around bogs at the time. American whalers and mariners brought cranberries on their voyages to ward off scurvy.
Commercial cranberry harvesting began in Harwich in 1847.
The Cape Cod Cranberry Growers' association was formed in 1888 and prides itself as being one of the oldest farming organizations in the US. The cranberry provided a needed source of income to many families during the economically depressed decades after the Civil War.
There are about 1,000 acres of bogs sprinkled throughout the Cape.
Cranberries grow on long-running vines in sandy bogs originally made by glacial deposits. A bog is a fragile ecosystem affected by climate and environmental conditions. Typically growers do not have to replant since an unmanaged cranberry vine can survive indefinitely. Some vines in Massachusetts are more than 150 years old.
In the beginning growers handpicked cranberries, then used wooden scoops to lift the berries off their vines. By the late 1800s machines were invented to make the job less labor intensive.
Two methods are used for gathering cranberries: wet and dry harvesting. Today, ninety-five percent of cranberries are wet-harvested in Massachusetts.


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The Quinnipiac (KWIHN'-ih-pee-ak) University poll was released Monday.
It shows former Comptroller Bill Thompson in second place with 25 percent. City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is third, with 18 percent.
To avoid an Oct. 1 runoff, a candidate needs more than 40 percent in Tuesday's primary.
A Sept. 3 Quinnipiac poll showed de Blasio with 43 percent, Thompson with 20 percent and Quinn with 18 percent.
The latest poll was conducted from Friday through Sunday.
It surveyed 782 likely Democratic primary voters. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.


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Half a century ago, a lot of illustrators found themselves in the same situation. It must have felt a bit like watching a slow-motion train wreck.
The problem being, you're on the train. The train is your career.
This is the story of three artists who didn't need a button to remind them of the law of survival. I'll call them...
Tom Sawyer had come to New York in the '50s. Tom dreamed of becoming the next Milton Caniff (Below: Tom with his idol, Milton Caniff).
Instead he quickly found himself ensconced in a room full of kindred spirits; eager young men (teenagers actually) like himself, churning out comic book pages assembly-line style for what would one day become the Marvel Comics empire.
The page rates were at the bottom of the illustration industry barrel. But in a few short years Tom's talent and ambition carried him to the top of the pay scale. At the preeminent comic strip advertising studio of the day, Johnstone and Cushing, Tom made ten times the page rate his early comic art efforts had brought in.
From there Tom moved into what was clearly emerging as a lucrative and growing market for illustrators in the 1960s: storyboarding for tv commercials.
Tom told me, "that was around 1968, just before I began shooting (directing/producing) commercials, and while I'm not certain about what the others were getting, I believe it was about $50 - $60 per frame. I'd started around there, but I just kept raising my prices (mostly at first because they were almost invariably all-nighters), and since my boards usually sold the concept to the clients, I met little resistance." In short order, Tom was the highest paid storyboard artist in New York at $100 a frame.
(To put things in perspective, 20 years later, when I began storyboarding professionally in the late 1980s, I was getting $65 a frame.)
Other artists who had previous made it big in "finished art" illustration also migrated to storyboard and layout art. Jack Hearne, for instance...
... whose son, John, told me, "I remember J. Walter Thompson being a main contributor to his portfolio... he did a whole bunch of storyboards for Chrysler in the 70's and 80's, with the introduction of the "K-Car." I actually remember those, and have a few under my bed in an old portfolio."
And Harry Borgman, one of the most adaptive illustrators I've ever met so embraced the new opportunities in creating concept art for television production that he actually wrote books on the subject and travelled to exotic locales to both draw and teach storyboarding.
"Around the late 70's," Harry told me, "Illustration assignments were becoming scarce. I found myself doing more and more storyboard assignments.""
"Doing storyboards enabled me to start working almost the day I arrived in Paris. The French like the "American Style" of storyboards. We do them fast and loose, the French artists always had a tendency to overwork their stuff. Also the French artists did not want to work nights or weekends, so I had it made over there."
"Many illustrators did not want to dirty their hands doing storyboards, but it sure was a great way to make a living. I've done thousands of frames... and I never really tired of doing them. Its a lot like painting watercolors."
But wait -- the story of adaptation to changing market conditions has a "Part 2." Let's look at...
Rather than allow their careers to get 'royally flushed' down the toilet because technological change was causing a lack of illustration assignments, these three Freds (and one Len) all embraced change, discovering lucrative and creatively rewarding outlets to sustain the quality of life they'd grown accustomed to.
Fred Ludekens was both a renowned mid-century illustrator and a founding faculty member of the Famous Artists School.
But after the market for illustration became dramatically diminished, Ludekens became co-creative director of one of the most prestigious advertising agencies in the world, Foote, Cone and Belding (FCB).
Asked during an interview what essential training must the illustrator bring to the job, Ludekens replied:
"Assuming he has talent, likes to draw and paint, the most important thing for him to have is a knowledge of the business he is in. Most illustrators know very little about business or writing. They just like to make pictures. This isn't enough. They should know what the picture is specifically required to do and why. They must be interested in the why and make an all-out effort to make the picture work. This is what they are being paid to do."
Ludekens was speaking about a different time and place, but I find it sage advice for any illustrator contemplating his role in today's changing graphic art landscape. Food for thought.
Fred ("Fritz") Siebel had a very successful career as an illustrator during the '40s and '50s... ... but he too fell victim to the decline in illustration assignments.
Siebel's widow, Gretchen, wrote to me and described what happened next:
"As photography began to replace illustration in editorial and advertising art, Fritz expanded to other design mediums. In 1960, he founded a graphic and package design company, Frederick Siebel Associates. He applied his talents to package design for products ranging from Captain Morgan Rum to Canada Dry Ginger Ale. His company was later known as Siebel Marketing Company. The firm had a large studio and design staff, as well as copywriters and event marketers, and received many awards and distinctions in the product design field."
Siebel, incidentally, didn't give up illustrating. In addition to his new role as the head of a design and marketing company, Fritz Siebel illustrated quite a few children's books, including one of my childhood favourites, "A Fly went By" and the popular "Amelia Bedelia" series.
J. Frederick Smith was a very prominent illustrator during the '50s but by 1956 he found his interest turning to the photography that preceded his execution of an illustration. Smith would set up elaborate shoots with models in costumes and surrounded by props. In an article in Illustration magazine #31, Smith is quoted as saying, "My work did not have a photographic look but I was approaching my work more like a photographer."
Smith continues, "In 1956, changes were being made. TV was much in evidence, and within a short time people were watching soap operas and sit-coms, and the magazines were printing less and less fiction. The handwriting was on the wall, TV was here to stay. Also, I was changing. I realized that after taking my preliminary photos, doing the illustration was sometimes anti-climactic. I was enjoying the new medium of the camera."
Finally, Len Steckler; who was another of the prestigious Charles Cooper studio artists we talk about so often. Steckler's illustrations appeared in all the leading magazines of the day such as Collier's, Good Housekeeping, The Ladies' Home Journal, and The Saturday Evening Post. He was a member of the Society of Illustrators in New York.
While painting, he often relied on his photograph of the model for further reference, and magazine editors started to buy these photographs. Over time Steckler phased out illustration, and in the 60's and 70's, he became famous for his fashion and beauty photography.
(Below, Len Steckler, who formerly illustrated stories for The Post, ensured his continued employment by switching to photography and shot this 1965 cover for the magazine)
Today we illustrators once again find ourselves at a juncture where our profession is being marginalized by changing technology. Its impossible to predict how things will pan out in the years ahead... but its becoming increasingly clear that there's no going back. The stories presented here today of Tom, Jack and Harry and of the three Freds and one Len - illustrators who adapted to the technological change of their time - may not provide the answer you're looking for... but these are stories worth some serious consideration. Confronted by the inevitability of change, will you adapt or... ?
* Last night I spoke for two hours plus at The Nook. We had a full house - wow! - I was humbled that so many wonderful, attentive people would come out to hear stories of the artists of the "Last Golden Age of Illustration". To those people - many thanks and thanks to Julia and all the other great folks at The Nook for hosting my lecture! For those of you who missed it, we managed to record the whole thing ( even though we didn't realize we were doing so - haha! ) If you'd like to have a look at me talking and talking and talking ... here's the link our ustream video recording.


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More like a metal stake in the...well, not the side.
That's not conclusive proof of anti-Catholicism, but doesn't it seem suspicious?
If we, as Catholics, find the atmosphere here is not to our liking ... guess what? We need to find another place to read and post. We're guests here. Complaining about the board moderation is stupid. If we don't like it then we should either leave or adjust our own thinking. He who pays the bills makes the rules.
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When the thread started, I had no intention of suggesting anti-Catholicism in the moderation of oc.net, but now I'm starting to wonder a little bit. It seems that there are occasions when the moderators will say just about anything (please see the bottom of page 1, where I quoted posts from both ozgeorge and PetertheAleut) and then when questioned, come back with "Oh, I was talking to lubeltri. He's was already in trouble, so that justifies everything we said about his 'My Church thinks highly of your Church' comment."
I couldn't do that myself either. That's partly why I became a Catholic. The Catholic Church teaches officially that the EO and OO have grace in their sacraments and are not "graceless heretics." You cannot be an obedient Catholic and call them that.
...And what if Orthodox Christians have a problem with it?
While I find your perspective refreshingly straight-forward and in touch with reality, I would like to comment that while it may seem useless or "stupid" (as you said) to complain about board moderation, I find the process very helpful. If we here at OC.net do not periodically examine ourselves and our process of moderation, we become more likely to be stale or counter-productive or overbearing. Conversations like these, even if they don't amount to any change, do serve at least that one useful purpose: self-examination, a cornerstone of Christian life.
If we, as Catholics, find the atmosphere here is not to our liking ... guess what? We need to find another place to read and post. We're guests here. Complaining about the board moderation is stupid. If we don't like it then we should either leave or adjust our own thinking. He who pays the bills makes the rules.
I guess I would say in my defense that obviously my faith is very personal to me and the Catholic Church is my mother. The Church is a metaphysical part of my being. Often it is hard to step out of myself and comment on things in a detached way. I suppose I failed at that. However, I swear that proselytization was not my intention, however it looked. If I wanted to proselytize, I would have come up with something with a little more meat than "the Catholic Church thinks very highly of Orthodoxy."
Yes Carole is correct and I agree this is a Orthodox Forum and it's primary function is to serve those of the Orthodox Faith, so logic would dictate that the majority of the material here will have a Orthodox spin or leaning.
I guess I would say in my defense that obviously my faith is very personal to me and the Catholic Church is my mother. The Church is a metaphysical part of my being. Often it is hard to step out of myself and comment on things in a detached way. I suppose I failed at that.
Aren't you glad now, lubeltri, that I didn't approve the post you made where you had a hissy fit and said you were not going to post here until you period of moderation was over? I knew you wouldn't stick to it! Not exactly a man of our word, are we? So why should I believe you now?
Well, considering that this thread is largely about me,
Several of my posts haven't even made it here.
It may surprise them to know how little time Orthodox Christians actually spend thinking about Catholicism.
No. Few Catholics that I know of define themselves as non-EO. On the other hand, I know of many EO (often ex-Catholics or ex-Protestants) in person and online who at least partially define themselves by their antipathy to Catholicism. It's not surprising. Look at Canada for an analogy. The USA is so much bigger and more visible and consequential (for better or worse), and many Canadians can't help but have some antipathy and define themselves as definitely-not American. It's human nature. Just as Canadians always raise the alarm about becoming Americanized, for centuries now the EO have been arguing over becoming Latinized. Some of these arguments have been catalysts for EO schisms which still persist.I have seen plenty of this in EO circles, especially among converts. Since the Catholic Church is so much bigger than the EO churches, obviously the ex-Catholic EO are going to be more visible. The global Catholic Church, being the much bigger and far more visible half of the formerly undivided Church, and having millions of Eastern Catholics under it, understandably causes some antipathy in the little-regarded EO churches, most of whose members are concentrated in Eastern Europe. I can still vividly recall the ugly reactions (among both laity and hierarchy) to John Paul II's visit to Greece a few years ago. Can you imagine the Patriarchs of Moscow or Constantinople getting a reaction like that anywhere in the Catholic world?Witness also the cottage industry of EO books attacking Catholic beliefs and the very heated arguments among EO leaders and theologians over ecumenism. It's a huge controversy.
Offline, you mean. Netodox are another story.
I know of many EO (often ex-Catholics or ex-Protestants) in person and online who at least partially define themselves by their antipathy to Catholicism.
Are you both letting this develop into a twosome of a personal nature ?
Oh please tell us more about Roman Catholicism and how wicked and uncharitable the Orthodox are because their ecclesiology rejects the Branch Theory. We're all dying to know....
I didn't make any judgments, bud (especially harsh ones like "wicked")---just stating realities, however you want to interpret them.
lubeltri,I think you have, in this thread, succeeded in showing just how patient the moderators and administrators of the forums are. Were someone to engage in such impolite behaviour (particularly after repeated requests/reminders to abide by the rules) in my home or on my message boards they would have found themselves being asked to leave.Please, rethink your statements and your behaviour. At this point you are not only making yourself look short-tempered and hostile but your actions and words reflect on the Catholic Church. Surely you do not intend to shame your Mother by showing such a lack of common courtesy?
lubeltri,I have disapproved your latest post because it quotes from the private forum in the public forum. Please observe our forum rules and try again.
You might notice that I no longer have that post and cannot try again. Once I send it off for approval, it's gone.
(compounded by George acting like he is my priest---see example above)
So you see, this is not so much a "punishment" as a medicine- kinda like the Orthodox view of harmatia and it's correction.
I was referring to this.-Yes, you are moderator. But you could certainly moderate yourself a bit and refrain from the condescending, mocking, sarcastic and baiting comments you sometimes toss out, that's all. I've been offended by them from time to time, and I'm not in a state right now to take them in stride. So I must be off.
It's only your hissy fit post which wasn't approved.
I'm not baiting you lubeltri, I am responding to your posts. It seems as though any time I question your opinion of anything or your version of facts, I'm "baiting" or "being condescending" or "mocking". What do you want from a forum? To be able to state your opinion without it being questioned?I do seem to bring out the worst in you, don't I? See for example the thread: http://www.orthodoxchristianity.net/forum/index.php/topic,12949.0.html Perhaps we just have a personal antipathy for each other- whether conscious or not, but believe me, I have on several occassions gone in to bat for you and tried to defend you from having to be moderated (both publically and privately with other moderators), so I can honestly say that even if I do feel antipathy towards you, I sincerely make the effort not to let it interfere with my responsibilities as a moderator.
I addressed the issue of Catholic guests on an Orthodox forum specifically because the moderators of the board are being accused of "anti-Catholicism" and this thread is in the Orthodox-Catholic Discussion forum.
I can't help but feeling that there is some hypocrisy here, considering the many-page rant at the CAF (and the crowing over the conversions EO posters there had accomplished) in a thread elsewhere in this forum. I saw the CAF Eastern forum before the deluge---it wasn't pretty.
Aren't you glad now, lubeltri, that I didn't approve the post you made where you had a hissy fit and said you were not going to post here until you period of moderation was over?
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As 13 more rockets slammed into Southern Israel overnight Wednesday into Thursday morning from Gaza, a children's day-camp suffered a direct hit.
The rocket penetrated the apartment building in which housed the children's day-camp but miraculously failed to explode saving the children's lives.
This was one of 3 rockets which scored direct hits in Sderot populated areas overnight. One struck a student's residence, another struck a house while one fell in the street outside an apartment building causing damage to cars and causing a electrical power outage.
The rockets come amongst rising tensions in the area on the backdrop of the abduction and murder of the three Israeli teens on June 12 and the abduction and murder of the Jerusalem Arab teen, which has been called a revenge act, early yesterday morning.
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TOKYO -- Japan's central-bank chief predicted victory in his battle to root out the deflation that has long sapped economic vitality in the world's third-largest economy, but expressed impatience with the government's pace in cutting red tape and encouraging businesses to invest more.
"Implementation is key, and implementation should be swift," Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. "The major work to be done is by the government and the private sector."
Kuroda's comments mark an important shift in tone more than a year after he was tapped by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to engineer a newly aggressive monetary policy. The resulting "bazooka" of stimulus actions, including the purchase of trillions of yen in government bonds and other assets, has fueled Japan's longest economic growth streak in nearly four years and a steady stream of positive inflation readings.
Despite signs of progress, Kuroda warned in the interview that the longer-term triumph could be relatively hollow if Abe doesn't step up his campaign for deeper, structural changes that go far beyond monetary policy. Unless the Abe administration follows through soon, "the real growth rate may be disappointing," Kuroda said. "That is not good for the economy, not good for the society."
In response to the prod for more action, Abe said in a separate interview with the Journal that he already has moved aggressively to shake up entrenched sectors of Japan. Additional proposals will be unveiled in late June.
"We have implemented complete liberalization of the retail electricity market" and scrapped a 40-year-old subsidy to cut rice planting, Abe said. "Many of these were areas where reform was believed not possible, but we've made them happen."
Abe added: "Structural reforms are a never-ending theme for the Abe administration."
Kuroda also signaled concern that a sustained rise in the value of the yen could undermine gains already made. While previous Bank of Japan governors have traditionally avoided openly discussing exchange rates, Kuroda in the interview said investors shouldn't expect the yen to rise further, even as it flirts with its highest levels in months. "I don't think it's reasonable to expect the yen to appreciate against the dollar," Kuroda said.
Kuroda's comments were a strong sign that he plans to tackle broader issues that traditionally haven't been part of the Bank of Japan's turf, even if that means taking a more aggressive tone than Abe. The prime minister put Kuroda, a financial-policy veteran and longtime critic of the central bank, in charge of the Bank of Japan in March 2013.
Read the full article at WSJ.com.
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