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Department of Health and Human Services
Public Health Service
September 19th, 2013
Michele Boisvert, President
Homeolab USA Inc.
3025 boul de l'Assomption Blvd
Montreal, QC H1N 2H2 Canada
Dear Ms. Boisvert:
This letter is to advise you that the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently reviewed your firm's labeling and marketing information for the drug product, "Kids Relief Earache." Based on our review, the product is in violation of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act). As described in more detail below, this product is misbranded under sections 502 and 503 [21 U.S.C. §§ 352 and 353] and in violation of section 301 of the FD&C Act [21 U.S.C. § 331].
The label, website, and other labeling demonstrate the intended uses of your product including, but not limited, to the following:
- The product name, "Kids Relief Earache"
- "Ferrum phosphoricum 30X . . . . inflammation and fever"
- "Belladonna 30X . . . . throbbing pain and inflammation
- "Pyrogenium 30X . . . . infection and fever"
- "Relieve mild to severe ear pain"
- "Soothe throbbing pain & pressure"
- "Reduce Inflammation
Based on these claims, your product is a drug as defined by section 201(g)(1)(B) and (C) of the FD&C Act [21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(1)(B) and (C)], because it is intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease in man, and/or intended to affect the structure or any function of the body.
Although marketed to consumers as an over-the-counter (OTC) drug, Kids Relief Earache is a prescription drug under section 503(b)(1) of the FD&C Act [21 U.S.C. § 353(b)(1)]. Section 503(b)(1) of the FD&C Act [21 U.S.C. 353 (b)(1)] identifies criteria for determining the prescription status of a product. The product listed above is a prescription drug within the meaning of section 503(b)(1) of the FD&C Act because it is intended to treat diseases that require diagnosis and treatment by a physician or is intended to provide treatment for symptoms usually caused by an underlying disease process that requires diagnosis and treatment by a physician. Ear pain (earache) is not a currently recognized OTC indication in any final monograph or in any approved OTC new drug application.[1] OTC treatment is inappropriate for ear pain because consumers cannot distinguish its symptoms from those of more serious disorders of the ear or adjacent tissues which are not amenable to OTC treatment and which can lead to serious injury if not accurately diagnosed and treated by a licensed healthcare professional.
Because this product is subject to 503(b)(1) of the FD&C Act, the product is misbranded under section 503(b)(4) of the FD&C Act [21 U.S.C. § 353(b)(4)] in that the label fails to bear the symbol, "Rx only."[2]
Kids Relief Earache is also misbranded within the meaning of section 502(f)(1) of the FD&C Act [21 U.S.C. § 352 (f)(1)] in that its labeling fails to bear adequate directions for use as that term is defined in 21 C.F.R. § 201.5. The indication for which the product listed above is labeled and marketed, i.e., treatment of ear pain or inflammation, is not appropriate for OTC use. If an indication requires the supervision of a practitioner licensed to prescribe drugs, adequate directions for use cannot be written for an OTC drug product for that indication.
Furthermore, the drug is misbranded within the meaning of section 502(a) of the FD&C Act [21 U.S.C. 352 (a)] in that its labeling is false or misleading because it represents the product as suitable for use by consumers to treat a condition which the Agency has found not appropriate for OTC drug treatment, and because it encourages OTC treatment for ear pain, but fails to distinguish among conditions that manifest with ear pain and that can lead to serious injury if not accurately diagnosed and treated by a licensed physician.
Your marketing of this misbranded product violates sections 301(a) of the FD&C Act [21 U.S.C. § 331(a)].
We recognize that your product is labeled as a homeopathic drug with active ingredients measured in homeopathic strengths. The definition of "drug" in section 201(g)(1) of the FD&C Act [21 U.S.C. § 321(g)(1)] includes articles recognized in the official Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States (HPUS), or any supplement to it. Homeopathic drugs are subject to the same regulatory requirements as other drugs; nothing in the FD&C Act exempts homeopathic drugs from any of the requirements related to adulteration, labeling, misbranding, or approval. We acknowledge that many homeopathic drugs are manufactured and distributed without FDA approval under enforcement policies set out in the Agency's Compliance Policy Guide entitled "Conditions Under Which Homeopathic Drugs May be Marketed (CPG 7132.15)" (the CPG). As its title suggests, the CPG identifies specific conditions under which homeopathic drugs may ordinarily be marketed. Thus, in order to fall under the enforcement policies set forth in the CPG, a homeopathic product must meet the conditions set forth in the CPG. One of those conditions is compliance with section 503(b) of the FD&C Act. Under the CPG, only homeopathic products intended solely for self-limiting disease conditions amenable to self-diagnosis (of symptoms) and treatment may be marketed over-the-counter (OTC). Homeopathic products offered for conditions not amenable to OTC use must be marketed as prescription products.
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The violations cited in this letter are not intended to be an all-inclusive statement of violations that exist in connection with your product. You are responsible for investigating and determining the causes of the violations identified above and for preventing their recurrence or the occurrence of other violations. It is your responsibility to assure that your firm complies with all requirements of federal law and FDA regulations.
You should take prompt action to correct the violations cited in this letter. Failure to promptly correct these violations may result in legal action without further notice, including, without limitation, seizure, and injunction. Other federal agencies may take this Warning Letter into account when considering the award of contracts.
Within fifteen working days of receipt of this letter, please notify this office in writing of the specific steps that you have taken to correct violations. Include an explanation of each step being taken to prevent the recurrence of violations, as well as copies of related documentation. If you cannot complete corrective action within fifteen working days, state the reason for the delay and the time within which you will complete the correction. Your response should be sent to:
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
10903 New Hampshire Avenue, WO51
Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002
Thomas J. Cosgrove
Director, Office of Unapproved Drugs and Labeling Compliance
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
[1] The question of whether a product intended to treat ear pain should be available by prescription only or OTC is governed by § 503(b) of the FD&C Act, to which all homeopathic drug products are subject. Accordingly, the Agency's conclusion that treatment or relief of ear pain is not an appropriate OTC indication is applicable to both homeopathic and non-homeopathic drugs marketed for that indication.
[2] The Agency's guidance, "Conditions Under Which Homeopathic Drugs May be Marketed (CPG 7132.15)," states that, in accordance with § 503(b)(1) of the FD&C Act, homeopathic drug products offered for conditions that require diagnosis or treatment by a licensed practitioner must bear the prescription legend, "Caution: Federal law prohibits dispensing without prescription." This guidance was issued by the Agency in 1988. In 1997, Congress enacted the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act (FDAMA); section 126 of FDAMA amended § 503(b)(4) of the FD&C Act to require that the label of a prescription drug must bear, at a minimum, the symbol "Rx only."
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For the backstory on what's been going on around here, please read the two posts immediately below this one.
So, me again. Yeah, I'm still here. Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. Speaking of lines lifted from old Timex watch commercials, I made the mistake of having the battery replaced in my old Timex watch the other day, and now the little window that told me the day of the week and month doesn't work. I might be able to fix it if I hadn't lost the insanely complicated directions ten years ago.
Anyway, the upshot is that I am no longer tethered to your puny Earthling concepts of time, which explains, at least in part, why I have let six months slide by since my last update. Long story short, I'm still undergoing chemotherapy in Columbus, once a week for two weeks, a week off, and then lather, rinse, and try to find a vein that still works.
Actually doing the chemo is the easy part; the real problems begin later that day, and follow a set pattern every week. Right after chemo, I often have problems walking and sometimes fall asleep from the anti-nausea drugs as Kathy drives us home. At some point that evening, however, the IV steroids they give me kick in, and I am often wide awake (albeit in an unpleasant trance-like state) until at least the afternoon of Day 2. Day 3 I'm in a bad mood because I'm exhausted and I can't walk or see very well. But over the weekend I start to feel somewhat better, just in time to start the whole cycle again.
Something I read last year described being in chemotherapy as "Feeling a profound sense of unwellness," which is right on the money. You feel like you've been poisoned (which, of course, you have), but it's hard to put your finger on exactly what feels so wrong.
In between the slings and arrows, I watch bad (and occasionally good) TV, usually with a lap full of cats jockeying for position, and read news on my elderly Thinkpad and books on my trusty Nook. P.G. Wodehouse never fails to cheer me up, and a while back I finally got around to reading The Master and Margarita: 50th-Anniversary Edition (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Mikhail Bulgakov, which I first noticed when I worked in a bookstore in the 1970s but had never read. It's a wonderful book for all sorts of reasons, and the recent 50th Anniversary edition is generally agreed to be the best translation. It also has very helpful explanatory notes. Look, it features an enormous black cat named Behemoth who walks on his hind legs, guzzles vodka and smokes cigars. 'Nuff said.
Nothing would have made me happier, of course, than to be able to continue writing my columns, but all this cancer and chemotherapy stuff comes with a ding to my cognitive acuity and stamina that makes that impossible.
As to our financial state, I am profoundly grateful to everyone who has contributed over the past year to our ability to stay afloat in a bad situation. Your contributions, and the kind notes that come with them, have been an enormous boost to our morale in a very trying time.
As might be expected, our situation remains precarious. To that end, I'll take the liberty of repeating my pitch from last time: The Word Detective website had been supporting itself for years through subscriptions and donations, along with some revenue from ads. With my diagnosis and the financial reversals of last year, that income suddenly played a much larger role in our household budget. Unfortunately, the fact that I am no longer updating the site has reduced that small income at the worst possible time. All of which brings me to ask for your continued support via our page at www.word-detective.com/subscribe. Contributions via any of the PayPal links on that page will be gratefully accepted; the easiest option is the "One-time Contribution" link on the page, which lets you fill in any amount, and you can also designate that amount as a continuing monthly donation. The "Awesome Sustainer Subscription" option a bit above it on the page automatically sends $5 per month via PayPal, and the "Super-Awesome Sustainer Subscription" sends $10 per month. Sustaining monthly contributions of any amount make an enormous difference, and many thanks to readers for continuing theirs. But whatever you can contribute will be deeply appreciated. And if PayPal isn't your cup of tea, checks can be sent to Evan Morris, PO Box 1, Millersport, OH 43046. Please make checks payable to Evan Morris. (Not to "The Word Detective." My bank lacks imagination.) I should emphasize, however, that the Word Detective mailing list is a dead parrot, not even pining for the fjords; thus you will not receive any Word Detective columns by email. Of course, there are, as I mentioned in my note in 2016, more than 1,500 full-text columns available for free on this site, which should keep any sane person busy for a year or two.
Again, thank you for your continuing support, for your good wishes, and for just continuing to read and enjoy the site.
Evan Morris


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Untitled from Fake Name on Vimeo.
I don't think I have ever looked at my UI and said, 'Ok, now it's done.' Since the last time I made a UI post, I have made some changes. The moat visible change was floating combat text. For the longest time I used Blizzard's floating combat text to keep track of incoming and outgoing damage and heals. And it does a reasonable job for most classes and when I play my shadow priest, I still use it, but for a tank that is using every single GCD to do something and is getting spammed with heals and is taking damage all the time, it could get really really cluttered. I tried to use SCT but the initial configuration wasn't what I wanted and after messing with it for quite a while, I still hadn't gotten it right. After that I tried a mod called Parrot. Right out of the box Parrot was almost perfect and with minimal messing around, I got it to show everything just how I wanted. The big changes I made away from the initial setup were adjusting the scrolling speed so that it cleared off my screen quickly and I turned off all of the healing. Making incoming and outgoing damage scroll quickly meant that it wasn't cluttering up my screen at all but it was still easily discernable if I wanted to keep an eye on something. The other change I made was to have any resists or immunities register the same way that crits do. So when a tclap gets resisted, the "Resist" message pops up bigger than the normal scrolling text and it 'sticks' on the screen for a moment to make sure I don't miss it. It makes keeping debuffs on a mob a lot easier for me.
I also use a mod called ClassTimer to keep track of the duration on things like tclap, sunder and demo shout. The window for that is right next to the scrolling combat text so it is very easy to keep track of whether a debuff lands or not because it will either have the duration refreshed in the ClassTimer window or it will so "Resist" in big letters right next to that window. ClassTimer also keeps track of self buffs in a window I put a little more out of the way. Since the shouts have a much longer duration than my debuffs I don't feel like I need that info to be as front and center.
For things like the shouts I could just look at my buff bar, but in the middle of the fight when I have hots and temporary buffs coming and going constantly, it can take some time to find my shout and check the time on it which is why I like to be able to keep track of it separately from all my other buffs.
Right at my feet I have an action bar that contains the most immediate cooldowns – revenge, shield block, shield slam, bloodrage and taunt. Down towards the bottom of my screen I have another bar with other cooldowns that I want to keep track of but which aren't as crucial as those 5. Right below the action bar on top I have another bar for trinkets and consumables so I can keep track of their availability.
Below those 2 bars is my swing timer and GCD spark, courtesy of a mod called Quartz. I really like having those two things because they allow me to be a lot more deliberate in my button mashing. Knowing when the GCD is going to turn over allows me to push my devastate button only once and at the right time instead of spamming it constantly. The swing timer does the same thing for my heroic strikes.
Directly beneath is my target of target frame. If I want to check my HP/Rage I rarely look at my character frame on top, I almost always get that info from the target of target frame.
Below the target of target frame is Omen but since the video is from AV, Omen doesn't show up. There is a setting somewhere that lets you make the new Omen look like the old Omen which in my opinion is more aesthetically pleasing and I only have it showing 4 bars because as a tank, I don't need to know where every person in the raid is on threat, I only need to know if someone is getting close to me. That means that my Omen window is pretty small.
Underneath Omen is another action bar with longer/less important cooldowns on it. I also have an action bar for switching weapons and my 'shoot bow/shoot gun/throw' macro tucked down there.
To the right of that cluster is my raid frame – Grid. Grid can do an awful lot of stuff and is really nice for healing classes but I have it running in a pretty minimal mode. Each player in the raid has their own square with their name on it and which are colored by class. As their health goes down the box with their name on it gets smaller. If there is a red square in the upper left hand corner, that means they are being targeted by a mob – or in the case of AV, an enemy player – which helps me to catch who is pulling aggro. I also have a blue square show up in the bottom left corner if someone is below 30% mana so I can watch to see if the healers are running low on mana.
To the right of Grid is my minimap which I have moved and made square with a mod called SimpleMiniMap. You can see some add-on buttons attached to the minimap and I can move them anywhere on the screen I want with an addon called DetachedMiniButtons.
One of the buttons there is for an addon called GrimReaper. It used to be a part of the X-Perl package but now it is standalone and it is really quite nice. It basically records a combat log for everyone in the raid. It isn't always perfectly accurate but it is usually pretty close. Its great for finding out why people died because you can look through their combat log and see what hit them at what time, what heals they received, what buffs or debuffs they had, etc.
Above my minimap is my tooltip window for which I use an addon called TinyTips. TinyTips, like Grid, can do a whole bunch of interesting things but I really just use it to move the position of the tooltips because they would otherwise show up on top of my minimap.
Above that are my Deadly Boss Mods timers. They are obviously pretty important for raiding. Some people like BigWigs instead of DBM, I think it's a toss up though and just happen to use DBM because that is what my first raiding guild used.
Above that is my buff window and above that is my debuff window except that I don't have any debuffs in the video so you are just going to have to trust me that it is there. I use
Buffalo to work with my buffs. There is a new and improved version called Buffalo2 but I tried it and couldn't figure it out within 3 minutes so I said 'screw it; I'm going to use the old one which is already set up just how I want it'. I use TrinityBars for my action bars instead of TrinityBars2 for the exact same reason.
In the top right corner I have my MT windows for which I have a mod called MainAssist. My guild doesn't normally have MT windows but I personally can't raid without them so I found a mod that would let me set up my own windows. To the left of the MT windows is where the enemy cast bar shows up. There are a lot of spells that need to be interrupted or reflected or stance danced, etc. and I have found that it makes life a lot easier to have a super huge impossible to miss enemy cast bar.
On the bottom left are my two chat windows. The one on top has the tank channel and any whispers I get and any other custom channels I join and the window below has guild chat, raid chat and general chat. I use Prat to handle my chat windows and like Grid, it can do an awful lot of stuff but I use it to just make the windows a little cleaner.
The unit frames are done by a mod called Pitbull. My favorite part about Pitbull is that it has a healing monitor. In the video there is only one druid healing me and he is only using hots so you can't see it in action. The way it works is that it takes not of anyone in the raid casting a heal on anyone else and based on the rank of the heal it will estimate how much health it will restore and tacks that onto my health bar as a green bar. Basically, it lets me know how much healing to expect. So if I dip low all of a sudden I can check my health bar and if there is a lot of green then I know I have a bunch of heals that will land in the very near future and I don't have to worry. If I dip and I don't see green, then I know I have to pop a cooldown. If I am not tanking currently tanking something then I can keep an eye on the current tank's HP and incoming heals through the target of target frame and Intervene if the tank dips.
I think that covers just about everything going on in my UI. Let me know if I missed anything or if anyone has questions.


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Trifluoperazine Hydrochloride Information
TRIFLUOPERAZINE (trye floo oh PER a zeen) is used to treat schizophrenia. This medicine may also be used for the short-term treatment of anxiety.
This medicine may be used for other purposes; ask your health care provider or pharmacist if you have questions.
They need to know if you have any of these conditions: -blood disorders or disease -dementia -head injury or coma -liver disease -Parkinson's disease -uncontrollable movement disorder -an unusual or allergic reaction to trifluoperazine, other medicines foods, dyes, or preservatives -pregnant or trying to get pregnant -breast-feeding
Take this medicine by mouth with a glass of water. Follow the directions on the prescription label. Take your doses at regular intervals. Do not take your medicine more often than directed. Do not stop taking except on the advice of your doctor or health care professional. Talk to your pediatrician regarding the use of this medicine in children. While this medicine may be prescribed for children as young as 6 years of age for selected conditions, precautions do apply.
Overdosage: If you think you have taken too much of this medicine contact a poison control center or emergency room at once. NOTE: This medicine is only for you. Do not share this medicine with others.
If you miss a dose, take it as soon as you can. If it is almost time for your next dose, take only that dose. Do not take double or extra doses.
Do not take this medicine with any of the following medications: -amoxapine -certain antibiotics like gatifloxacin, grepafloxacin, sparfloxacin -cisapride -clozapine -droperidol -ephedrine -kaolin; pectin -levomethadyl -medicines for mental depression -medicines to control irregular heart rhythms -pimozide -pindolol -propranolol -risperidone -trimethobenzamide -ziprasidone This medicine may also interact with the following medications: -barbiturates, like phenobarbital -diuretics -guanethidine -local and general anesthetics -phenytoin -warfarin
This list may not describe all possible interactions. Give your health care provider a list of all the medicines, herbs, non-prescription drugs, or dietary supplements you use. Also tell them if you smoke, drink alcohol, or use illegal drugs. Some items may interact with your medicine.
Visit your doctor or health care professional for regular checks on your progress. You may get drowsy, dizzy, or have blurred vision. Do not drive, use machinery, or do anything that needs mental alertness until you know how this medicine affects you. Do not stand or sit up quickly, especially if you are an older patient. This reduces the risk of dizzy or fainting spells. Alcohol can increase possible dizziness or drowsiness. Avoid alcoholic drinks. This medicine can reduce the response of your body to heat or cold. Dress warm in cold weather and stay hydrated in hot weather. If possible, avoid extreme temperatures like saunas, hot tubs, very hot or cold showers, or activities that can cause dehydration such as vigorous exercise. This medicine can make you more sensitive to the sun. Keep out of the sun. If you cannot avoid being in the sun, wear protective clothing and use sunscreen. Do not use sun lamps or tanning beds/booths. Your mouth may get dry. Chewing sugarless gum or sucking hard candy, and drinking plenty of water may help. Contact your doctor if the problem does not go away or is severe.
Side effects that you should report to your doctor or health care professional as soon as possible: -abnormal production of milk in females -allergic reactions like skin rash, itching or hives, swelling of the face, lips, or tongue -blurred vision -breast enlargement in both males and females -breathing problems -chest pain, fast or irregular heartbeat -confusion, restlessness -dark yellow or brown urine -dizziness or fainting spells -drooling, shaking -fever, chills, sore throat -involuntary or uncontrollable movements of the eyes, mouth, head, arms, and legs -seizures -stomach area pain -unusual bleeding or bruising -unusually weak or tired -yellowing of the eyes or skin Side effects that usually do not require medical attention (report to your doctor or health care professional if they continue or are bothersome): -difficulty passing urine -difficulty sleeping -headache -sexual dysfunction
This list may not describe all possible side effects. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
Keep out of the reach of children. Store at room temperature between 15 and 30 degrees C (59 and 86 degrees F). Throw away any unused medicine after the expiration date.
NOTE: This sheet is a summary. It may not cover all possible information. If you have questions about this medicine, talk to your doctor, pharmacist, or health care provider.
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Sober Minded
from R.C. Sproul Jr. Dec 08, 2010 Category: Articles
All of us, I presume, change our minds from time to time. We know that we err, and we know that we grow in grace. At least part of that growth happens when we no longer believe the errors we once believed. Sometimes we add new information to what we believe. Sometimes we jettison old information. And sometimes we do both. For instance, decades ago I used to believe that the universe is many millions of years old. I now believe that it is less than ten thousand years old. That is progress.
Paul commands that elders be sober-minded. I suspect that many of us give precious little thought to this command. Too many of us dismiss all of Paul's qualifications. However, even if we try to apply them we often slide right over this one. We may assume "sober-minded" means the same thing as "not given to much wine." We may assume that we don't want elders who are given to whoopee cushions, joy buzzers and oversized clown shoes.
To be sober-minded, however, is to treat truth seriously and to have a healthy doubt as to our own understanding of truth. It is all too easy to get confused here. Many churches have their fair share of "theology wonks." These are usually young men who have a passion for theology. They read substantial books, and they engage in substantial conversations. You'll usually find them at the church picnic smoking a pipe with a small cadre of acolytes sitting around them as they share their wisdom. They are contemplating the tug and pull of Nestorianism and Eutychianism. They are wondering out loud if maybe the hyper-preterists have it right, that Jesus may not be coming back again. They are expositing the proper procedure for stoning rebellious children.
A sober-minded person should think through the challenges of the incarnation. A sober-minded person should know the claims of all sorts of heretics, including hyper-preterists. A sober-minded person ought to contemplate the law of God. But there are two things a sober-minded person doesn't do. He doesn't practice experimental theology right in front of people, and he certainly doesn't veer from this bedrock position to that one, dragging his sheep behind him. Indeed if he finds himself questioning some fundamentals, a sober-minded man will grow frightened rather than excited, will grow more careful rather than more reckless, and will encourage the faithful to look away, not to draw near. If a man, for instance, suddenly "gets" covenant theology and now believes in baptizing covenant children, he does not now take up this holy cause with the same zeal with which he defended the Baptist view just weeks before. When he gives in to the biblical weight of Calvinism, a sober-minded man doesn't crusade for it just as he once crusaded against it. A sober-minded man instead thinks—"Wow. I once was so passionate about what I now know is error. Perhaps I ought not to lay hands on myself and become webmaster of www.don't-listen-to-old-me-listen-to-new-me.com."
One need not be the theology wonk to fail here. Neither does one need to be or aspire to be an elder to heed the call to sobriety of mind. Those who follow theology wonks are likewise not sober-minded. They are instead drinking a dangerous brew. If you are following someone who gives you intellectual whiplash, you would be wise to get off that bus. If your local guru is telling you about all the exciting things he saw on the other side of the Tiber, walk away. He leads sheep to slaughter, not to green pastures. It makes no difference whether it be sensual or intellectual delights. Only fools heed the call of the seductress. Her paths lead to death. Wisdom, on the other hand, is sober and steady. Heed her.


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Its new euthanasia law just might spark a much-needed conversation in the death-squeamish U.S.
It's an idea that, in the death-squeamish U.S., is probably too disturbing for the edgiest TV hospital drama, let alone real life and real legislation. Last week, the Belgian Parliament passed a law allowing terminally ill children to request aid in dying. Adults there have been able to do that since 2002, and a few other European countries have similar measures. But last Thursday's action, which is expected to be signed into law by King Philippe, will make Belgium the first to extend the right to minors faced with "constant and unbearable suffering."
International headlines ensued, including some rather aggrieved ones in the U.S. on the order of "Belgium on Verge of OK to Kill Sick Children." Commentators chalked up the law to cold European secularism, even trotting out comparisons to Kinder-Euthanasie in Nazi Germany, an initiative that systematically killed severely disabled children.
But amid the consternation, several details were overlooked. For starters, Belgians are overwhelmingly in favor of the new law. Despite opposition from religious groups and a coalition of physicians, polls indicate that 75% of the public supports it. And while the legislation is being called historic in that it's the first of its kind to cover children of any age who can prove a "capacity for discernment," it's not exactly unprecedented. For more than a decade, the Netherlands has allowed terminally ill children older than 12 to request euthanasia in special circumstances.
Contrary to paranoid visions, children in Belgium won't be able to ask for life-ending medication by merely hitting a nurse's call button. They must be suffering from pain that doctors have deemed truly unmanageable. They must get approval from their parents and their medical team, and they must be evaluated by psychologists. They must make the request several times and demonstrate that they understand what they're asking for. And, of course, they must be close to death anyway.
The Netherlands has a similarly careful process, which might explain why in the 12 years since its children's euthanasia law was passed, only five children have received aid in dying. In all but the rarest cases, pain and suffering were managed through palliative care.
So while Belgium's new rule carries symbolic importance, it's unlikely to have much impact on when and how sick children die. And though the slippery-slope crowd will claim that the mere existence of such laws contributes to a laissez-faire attitude that could lead to death for the sake of convenience or financial reasons, the evidence has never borne out such concerns.
Data from Oregon — where medically assisted death for the terminally ill (but not for children) has been available since 1998 — have consistently shown that far more patients obtain lethal prescriptions than use them, though patients often report having greater peace of mind knowing the pills are there if they need them. Nor are Oregon pharmacies doing a brisk business in life-ending medications. Last year, 122 patients filled such prescriptions; only 71 took them.
Those numbers suggest that the "right to die" is less about its actual exercise than the abstract potential it represents. At the same time, there's a consensus in the U.S. that some patients should be allowed gentler exits than the brutal malingering that may constitute "dying naturally." A Gallup poll conducted in May found that 70% of respondents would allow physicians to end a terminally ill patient's life "by some painless means."
Still, only four states (Oregon, Washington, Vermont, Montana) have granted doctors some ability to aid patients in dying. Despite the fact that it's practically become a truism that Americans afford our pets more dignity in dying than we're able to give our loved ones, we remain a culture whose denial of death can have a devastating effect on the quality of the end of our lives. We might even be inching toward a place where we can talk about this subject with more honesty and less hyperbole.
In that sense, though Belgium's new law is apt to be implemented in only a small fraction of cases in that country, it may play an outsized role in starting important conversations here and elsewhere. And it's really time those talks got underway.


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The Tennessee Highway Patrol will conduct two driver license roadside safety checkpoints in February in Roane County.
The THP will have a checkpoint from 5 to 6 p.m. Feb. 4 on Hwy. 58 near the bridge.
The second checkpoint will be from 9 to 10 p.m. Feb. 18 at Hwy. 70 and Poland Hollow Road.
Recognizing the danger presented to the public by unqualified drivers, troopers will concentrate their efforts on vehicles operated by drivers who would violate Tennessee driver license laws.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol will be conducting a driver license roadside safety checkpoint from 8 to 10 p.m. Jan. 28 on Hwy. 27 at the Roane/Rhea County line.
Recognizing the danger presented to the public by unqualified drivers, troopers will concentrate their efforts on vehicles being operated by drivers who would violate the driver license laws of Tennessee.
Miles Ledbetter Jr. might have done better in the election had he fought as hard as officers alleged he did on Jan. 6.
Officers with the Roane County Sheriff's Office went to his home to arrest him on two outstanding warrants for harassment.
Ledbetter, who ran for Roane County executive last year, did not go quietly. The arrest report said he broke away from one officer and then punched another in the nose.
At least four Roane County residents have run afoul of TennCare laws since November, according to the Tennessee Office of the Inspector General.
The latest was Bradley Allen Price.
The Inspector General's office said Friday that Price, 34, was charged with TennCare fraud for doctor shopping in Knox County.
He was also charged with obtaining possession of a controlled substance by fraud.
A strong chemical smell tends to be an obvious sign of meth activity.
Deputies detected the smell at a home on River Road last Tuesday.
"We talked to the people there and saw signs and evidence that meth was being cooked and being used," Roane County Sheriff Jack Stockton said. "We took four people into custody and actually found the components of the lab where they had recently been cooking."
A 60-year-old Rockwood woman who was injured in a house fire a few weeks ago died on Christmas Eve.
Firefighters rescued Inez Newman from a home on Trinity Avenue in Rockwood on Dec. 12.
Rockwood Fire Chief Mike Wertz said on Thursday he was uncertain about the cause of her death.
He said in initial fire reports that Newman suffered burns and heavy smoke inhalation during the fire.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol will conduct sobriety roadside safety checkpoints from 9 to 10 p.m. Jan. 1 on U.S. Hwy. 70 at Poland Hollow Road in Roane County.
Recognizing the danger presented to the public by intoxicated drivers, troopers will concentrate their efforts on vehicles being operated by intoxicated drivers.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol has found these sobriety checkpoints to be an effective means of enforcing DUI laws of Tennessee while ensuring the protection of all motorists.
The Tennessee Highway Patrol will conduct sobriety roadside safety checkpoints during the week of Dec. 26 on U.S. Hwy. 70 at Poland Hollow Road in Roane County.
Impaired driving is a serious crime that kills more than 16,000 people and injures 305,000 others every year in the United States.
Troopers will evaluate drivers for signs of alcohol or drug impairment. They will target those who operate a vehicle while impaired and take corrective actions for other violations observed while ensuring the protection of all motorists.
A man sought help from authorities on Dec. 15 after his son reportedly poured gas on the house and threatened to burn it down.
Deputies with the Roane County Sheriff's Office responded to the home on 1678 Old Harriman Hwy.
Dispatch told the Blair Volunteer Fire Department to be on standby "in case it goes bad." The fire department was later told they could stand down.
Michael Allen Brown, 34, was arrested and charged with domestic assault, criminal attempt and vandalism.
A man is suspected of stealing a jar containing money donated to Operation REACH from 518 Liquor and Wine in Rockwood.
Operation REACH is a local charity that gives needy children the opportunity to buy Christmas presents. Police said the jar contained at least $40.
Authorities have identified the suspect thanks to surveillance video and a damning piece of evidence that was left behind — a job application for the store.
The application had the man's name, driver's license number, date of birth and address.
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Greenhouse Gases
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- Water Vapor
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What are greenhouse gases?
Many chemical compounds present in Earth's atmosphere behave as 'greenhouse gases'. These are gases which allow direct sunlight (relative shortwave energy) to reach the Earth's surface unimpeded. As the shortwave energy (that in the visible and ultraviolet portion of the spectra) heats the surface, longer-wave (infrared) energy (heat) is reradiated to the atmosphere. Greenhouse gases absorb this energy, thereby allowing less heat to escape back to space, and 'trapping' it in the lower atmosphere. Many greenhouse gases occur naturally in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and nitrous oxide, while others are synthetic. Those that are man-made include the chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and Perfluorocarbons (PFCs), as well as sulfur hexafluoride (SF6). Atmospheric concentrations of both the natural and man-made gases have been rising over the last few centuries due to the industrial revolution. As the global population has increased and our reliance on fossil fuels (such as coal, oil and natural gas) has been firmly solidified, so emissions of these gases have risen. While gases such as carbon dioxide occur naturally in the atmosphere, through our interference with the carbon cycle (through burning forest lands, or mining and burning coal), we artificially move carbon from solid storage to its gaseous state, thereby increasing atmospheric concentrations.
Water Vapor
Water Vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere, which is why it is addressed here first. However, changes in its concentration is also considered to be a result of climate feedbacks related to the warming of the atmosphere rather than a direct result of industrialization. The feedback loop in which water is involved is critically important to projecting future climate change, but as yet is still fairly poorly measured and understood.
As the temperature of the atmosphere rises, more water is evaporated from ground storage (rivers, oceans, reservoirs, soil). Because the air is warmer, the absolute humidity can be higher (in essence, the air is able to 'hold' more water when it's warmer), leading to more water vapor in the atmosphere. As a greenhouse gas, the higher concentration of water vapor is then able to absorb more thermal IR energy radiated from the Earth, thus further warming the atmosphere. The warmer atmosphere can then hold more water vapor and so on and so on. This is referred to as a 'positive feedback loop'. However, huge scientific uncertainty exists in defining the extent and importance of this feedback loop. As water vapor increases in the atmosphere, more of it will eventually also condense into clouds, which are more able to reflect incoming solar radiation (thus allowing less energy to reach the Earth's surface and heat it up). The future monitoring of atmospheric processes involving water vapor will be critical to fully understand the feedbacks in the climate system leading to global climate change. As yet, though the basics of the hydrological cycle are fairly well understood, we have very little comprehension of the complexity of the feedback loops. Also, while we have good atmospheric measurements of other key greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane, we have poor measurements of global water vapor, so it is not certain by how much atmospheric concentrations have risen in recent decades or centuries, though satellite measurements, combined with balloon data and some in-situ ground measurements indicate generally positive trends in global water vapor.
Carbon Dioxide
The natural production and absorption of carbon dioxide (CO2) is achieved through the terrestrial biosphere and the ocean. However, humankind has altered the natural carbon cycle by burning coal, oil, natural gas and wood and since the industrial revolution began in the mid 1700s, each of these activities has increased in scale and distribution. Carbon dioxide was the first greenhouse gas demonstrated to be increasing in atmospheric concentration with the first conclusive measurements being made in the last half of the 20th century. Prior to the industrial revolution, concentrations were fairly stable at 280ppm. Today, they are around 370ppm, an increase of well over 30 percent. The atmospheric concentration has a marked seasonal oscillation that is mostly due to the greater extent of landmass in the northern hemisphere and its vegetation. A greater drawdown of CO2 occurs in the northern hemisphere spring and summer as plants convert CO2 to plant material through photosynthesis. It is then released again in the fall and winter as the plants decompose.
Methane (CH4) is an extremely effective absorber of radiation, though its atmospheric concentration is less than CO2 and its lifetime in the atmosphere is brief (10-12 years), compared to some other greenhouse gases (such as CO2, N2O, CFCs). Methane has both natural and anthropogenic sources. It is released as part of the biological processes in low oxygen environments, such as in swamplands or in rice production (at the roots of the plants). Over the last 50 years, human activities such as growing rice, raising cattle, using natural gas and mining coal have added to the atmospheric concentration of methane. Direct atmospheric measurement of atmospheric methane has been possible since the late 1970s and its concentration rose from 1.52 ppmv in 1978 by around 1 percent per year to 1990, since when there has been little sustained increase. The current atmospheric concentration is approximately 1.77 ppmv, and there is no scientific consensus on why methane has not risen much since around 1990.
Tropospheric Ozone
Ultraviolet radiation and oxygen interact to form ozone in the stratosphere. Existing in a broad band, commonly called the 'ozone layer', a small fraction of this ozone naturally descends to the surface of the Earth. However, during the 20th century, this tropospheric ozone has been supplemented by ozone created by human processes. The exhaust emissions from automobiles and pollution from factories (as well as burning vegetation) leads to greater concentrations of carbon and nitrogen molecules in the lower atmosphere which, when it they are acted on by sunlight, produce ozone. Consequently, ozone has higher concentrations in and around cities than in sparsely populated areas, though there is some transport of ozone downwind of major urban areas. Ozone is an important contributor to photochemical smog. Though the lifetime of ozone is short, and is therefore not well-mixed through the atmosphere, there is a general band of higher ozone concentration during northern hemisphere spring and summer between 30°N and 50°N resulting from the higher urbanization and industrial activity in this band. Concentrations of ozone have risen by around 30 percent since the pre-industrial era, and is now considered by the IPCC to be the third most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and methane. An additional complication of ozone is that it also interacts with and is modulated by concentrations of methane.
Nitrous Oxide
Concentrations of nitrous oxide also began to rise at the beginning of the industrial revolution and is understood to be produced by microbial processes in soil and water, including those reactions which occur in fertilizer containing nitrogen. Increasing use of these fertilizers has been made over the last century. Global concentration for N2O in 1998 was 314 ppb, and in addition to agricultural sources for the gas, some industrial processes (fossil fuel-fired power plants, nylon production, nitric acid production and vehicle emissions) also contribute to its atmospheric load.
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) have no natural source, but were entirely synthesized for such diverse uses as refrigerants, aerosol propellants and cleaning solvents. Their creation was in 1928 and since then concentrations of CFCs in the atmosphere have been rising. Due to the discovery that they are able to destroy stratospheric ozone, a global effort to halt their production was undertaken and was extremely successful. So much so that levels of the major CFCs are now remaining level or declining. However, their long atmospheric lifetimes determine that some concentration of the CFCs will remain in the atmosphere for over 100 years. Since they are also greenhouse gas, along with such other long-lived synthesized gases as CF4 (carbon tetrafluoride), SF6 (sulfur hexafluoride), they are of concern. Another set of synthesized compounds called HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons) are also greenhouse gases, though they are less stable in the atmosphere and therefore have a shorter lifetime and less of an impact as a greenhouse gas.
Carbon Monoxide and other reactive gases
Carbon monoxide (CO) is not considered a direct greenhouse gas, mostly because it does not absorb terrestrial thermal IR energy strongly enough. However, CO is able to modulate the production of methane and tropospheric ozone. The Northern Hemisphere contains about twice as much CO as the Southern Hemisphere because as much as half of the global burden of CO is derived from human activity, which is predominantly located in the northern hemisphere. Due to the spatial variability of CO, it is difficult to ascertain global concentrations, however, it appears as though they were generally increasing until the late 1980s, and have since begun to decline somewhat. One possible explanation is the reduction in vehicle emissions of CO since greater use of catalytic converters has been made.
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) also have a small direct impact as greenhouse gases, as well being involved in chemical processes which modulate ozone production. VOCs include non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHC), and oxygenated NMHCs (eg. alcohols and organic acids), and their largest source is natural emissions from vegetation. However, there are some anthropogenic sources such as vehicle emissions, fuel production and biomass burning. Though measurement of VOCs is extremely difficult, it is expected that most anthropogenic emissions of these compounds have increased in recent decades.


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Blue sky, warm sunshine, and gentle breezes are on almost every Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College Thunder player's wish list right now. It's not really news to anyone living in northern Minnesota, but the late, lingering winter has been one of the biggest factors of the 2013 spring season for the Thunder softball and baseball teams.
While both teams have been practicing inside the campus gym since mid-winter and both have played a few early season games inside domes in the Twin Cities, the players are ready to get outside.
"Dealing with the uncertainty of the weather and having to re-schedule outdoor games is tough on a team," said Thunder Baseball head coach Cal Barr. "It's getting hard to be inside the gym for so long; we finally got outside on March 27 to field some fly balls in the parking lot."
Despite the slow-to-arrive spring weather, the Thunder baseball team remains eager to start playing games outdoors and see what they can do on the diamond. The current roster of 16 players includes five former members of the Polar League: pitchers Joe Broneak and Colton Godbout of Carlton, outfielder Andrew Knight of Barnum, catcher Jordan Myles of Floodwood, and pitcher Daniel Wilson of Silver Bay.
"I'm looking forward to playing games at the college level and learning from Coach Barr," said Thunder freshman Daniel Wilson. "I hope to grow as a player and work toward continuing to play baseball in the future. College pitching is a lot different than high school, it is quite an adjustment. There are good players in our league, so we need to work hard to play well and smart, and cut down on things like defensive errors."
"Everyone here has a very positive attitude and we get along great," said Thunder freshman Colton Godbout. "The coaching is terrific, I know the coaching is preparing me for our season and for playing four years of college baseball. This is a great place to come if you want to learn about baseball, and especially to learn how to pitch. We are progressing as a team, we can hardly wait to get outside and see what we can do."
The Thunder baseball team has five returning players on the roster, led by Duluth Denfeld alums Tony Klaas and Travis Magdzas. Carlton alum Joe Broneak also returns. Magdzas has already signed his letter of intent and scholarship offer to play Division II baseball at the University of Minnesota-Crookston after his two years with the Thunder.
"It's nice to have a good core group returning from last year," said Thunder sophomore Joe Broneak. "Second-year guys like Tony Klaas are stepping up and filling roles where they might not be as comfortable as in their usual position. We have some new pitchers, and I'm ready for one more year of baseball. Being cooped up inside has been tough, I'm looking forward to getting outside."
"This is year two of our Thunder baseball program," said Barr. "We have a good number of players, and we're trying to find their roles, where they belong, what are their strengths. It's always a fun process to work with young players, young men, and help them develop as athletes and being well-rounded individuals."
The Thunder were scheduled to play several outdoor games at the end of March and early April, but the game schedule has been undergoing constant change due to weather and lack of playable fields. Check the college website at http://www.fdltcc.edu for updates.
Thunder softball
The Thunder softball team began a new era this season with new head coach Laura Sylvester taking over for program founder and five-year head coach Kerry Rodd who retired after last season. Sylvester, an AlBrook and UMD graduate, has been keeping the team busy practicing inside the campus gym. Sylvester notched her first win as head coach with a 5-4 victory over Anoka-Ramsey Community College on March 21 as part of the Minnesota Classic Tournament in Rosemount.
Sylvester's coaching style is about enthusiasm and helping student-athletes grow. She is excited about her team's potential, even with the tough start with the weather situation and lack of time to prepare for seeing opponent's live pitching outside of a batting cage.
"We have a lot of versatility on our team, players that have experience in many fielding positions," said Sylvester. "I am excited to go to battle with the group that we have, everyone is in it for the team and supports one another. It will be good to continue on with outdoor games after getting a quick taste of games when we played inside the Irish Dome in Rosemount." The team finished 1-5 in the six games played at the Minnesota Classic.
"We have a very fun, hard-working group of athletes, and it will be a very fun season," said Sylvester. "They are willing to work together and put in the reps and realize that we are still early in our season. It was a great trip with our team to the Irish Dome, it gave everyone a chance to play and see that it is going to be a lot of fun, especially when the sun starts shining and we get outside. I think our new players learned quickly that the game is very fun and fast paced at the college level, especially when you get out of the gym."
The Thunder roster includes five sophomores and six freshmen. Returning starters include catcher Dayna Elmer of Cromwell-Wright, pitcher Denise Rodd of Cloquet, and shortstop Savannah Hanson of Esko. Carlton grad and pitcher April Broneak will see an expanded role this year, and transfer student Natasha Dragecevich of Moose Lake will play in the infield. Newcomers expected to contribute right away include Alana Groth of Carlton, Melinda Nelson of Proctor, and Shania Paulson of Cloquet. Other area players on the roster are Sarah Sample of McGregor, Shelby Halvorson of Moose Lake, and Brittany Mullen of AlBrook.
The Thunder finished 8-22 overall last season and 7-13 in the Minnesota College Athletic Conference Northern Division. According to Coach Sylvester, team keys on offense will be quick bats and being aggressive at the plate to score runs. Pitching consistency and letting the defense take care of business will be number one for keeping pitchers fresh and avoiding long innings in the field. Limiting errors with smart infield defense and playing inning to inning will also be a focus. As for the outfield, having seasoned players that can cover ground will be a benefit for the Thunder this season.
"We have some strong, quick players who love the game and are willing to do whatever it takes to win," said Sylvester. "Our new players have a lot of experience and can be leaders as freshmen. We'll work hard at sticking together as a team and keeping focused on each task at hand. With a relatively small roster, we need to stay healthy."
Sylvester is being helped this season by assistant coaches Holly Nelson, a former Thunder softball player, and Heidi Willeck, an AlBrook graduate and current UMD student.
The Thunder softball schedule has also been adjusted by the weather and playing field conditions. For schedule updates, visit the college website at http://www.fdltcc.edu.


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Leonardo DiCaprio got hauled away in handcuffs yesterday on the NYC set of The Wolf of Wall Street. His fictional arrest was captured on camera under the watchful eye of director Martin Scorsese. So far during production, we've seen Leo make out with multiple actresses, play tennis, and sip drinks on a yacht — just another day in the office for Mr. DiCaprio.
Leo will have to juggle two projects in the coming weeks as he preps to switch gears into promotional mode for Django Unchained. He costars with Jamie Foxx and Kerry Washington in the Christmas release and shares the December cover of Vibe with the pair. Leo revealed his struggle with connecting to his Django Unchained character: "For me, the initial thing, obviously, was playing someone so disreputable and horrible whose ideas I obviously couldn't connect with on any level. I think it took me to places I didn't even imagine. I remember our first read, and it was hard for me to wrap my head around it. My initial response was, 'Do we need to go this far? Are we going too far?'"


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Students give PSU high marks in national survey
Tuesday, January 8, 2013 2:00 AM
Pittsburg, KS
Ninety percent of first-year students at Pittsburg State University rate their experience as "good" or "excellent" and 89 percent of seniors would choose PSU again.
These figures are among the findings in the 2012 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE), an annual survey of students at hundreds of colleges and universities nationwide. Results from NSSE are aimed at providing prospective students with insights into how they might learn and develop at a particular college or university.
Pittsburg State received high marks in a number of categories. According to responses by 372 PSU students:
73 percent of first-year students believe PSU places substantial emphasis on academics.
83 percent of first-year students say their professors are available, helpful and sympathetic.
91 percent of seniors discuss career plans with faculty.
79 percent of first-year students report that their peers are friendly, supportive and give them a sense of belonging.
80 percent of first-year students say PSU provides substantial support for their academic success.
Patricia Lindley, PSU's director of assessment, said the report "speaks to PSU as a quality learning community.
"The NSSE results give us affirmation that PSU is an excellent learning community," Lindley said. "Students are highly satisfied with their experience at Pitt State."
The report, "Promoting Student Learning and Institutional Improvement: Lessons from NSSE at 13 -- Annual Results 2012," details information from a 2012 survey of 285,000 first-year students and seniors attending 546 U.S. colleges and universities. NSSE's annual survey is an attempt to provide diagnostic, comparative information about the prevalence of effective educational practices at participating bachelor's degree-granting colleges and universities.
For more information, including full survey results, visit http://nsse.iub.edu.


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the game that opens the movie, both of Tony's major quarterbacks, the
great Jack "Cap" Rooney (Dennis Quaid) and, uh, someone else are wiped
out of the game, and very green Willie Beamen (Jamie Foxx) takes over.
And even though the Sharks lose this game (after nearly half an hour of
screen time), Willie turns out to be a terrific player, even if he's a
major showboat.
He continues to quarterback, and the
Sharks go from losing winning, while Willie goes from a guy on the
bench to one of the hottest superstars in football history, but the
acclaim quickly goes to his head, and he begins behaving like
suddenly-famous characters always do in movies. Also, he ignores Tony's
carefully-developed playbook, and invents his own plays in the huddle
-- most of which are intended to showcase Willie.
Various subplots churn, most of which deal in some way with the quarrel
between Tony and Christina, whose mother (Ann-Margret) is always
around, but uninterested in football. Tony continues to clash with
Willie, who doesn't understand the concept of team playing, but the
coach persists because he knows the kid is a good player and can't be
written off yet. Tony is paternalistic, in the best way, toward his
players, particularly with Cap; they have a genuinely warm relationship
-- and actors Pacino and Quaid play their scenes together with a
touching warmth. They're among the best scenes in the movie and among
the few where something other than football is the main subject.
Finally, as in almost all sports movies, it comes down to the Last Big
Game -- will the Sharks win the championship or not? Will Tony's
methods win out? Will Willie shape up and join the team? Will Cap
return to the game? This is the corniest aspect of this movie, which is
pretty corny under the surface all along. But then, there's very little
about "Any Given Sunday" that's original, at least in the broad
strokes; there are interesting and novel details here and there, and
some pretty vivid characters. But there's nothing new here.
Stone goes for broke in almost every way possible. The game sequences
are exciting and lively, and there sure are a lot of them, but only
rarely do we get any sense of the power of a 250-body slamming into a
runner. In some scenes, this works better in a home theater system than
it did in the theater: the sound seems more immediate and crisp, and
all the speakers get their share of action. But still the action seems
remote -- interesting but without impact.
Pacino is always at his best these days in roles that require extreme
reactions, especially when he can shout from time to time. He has
several outstanding scenes here, the best in his pep talk before the
climactic game.
Dennis Quaid has had a tendency to be a showoff as an actor, sometimes
so much so that he brings the movie down around him, as with "Great
Balls of Fire." But here, he's excellent.
Cameron Diaz does her best to make her character believable, but it's
an uphill battle even much better actresses might not win. We see her
brittleness and vulnerability, but she cannot persuade us that this
woman is so greedy that she's willing to destroy what her father built.
Jamie Foxx makes us believe in Willie's transition from a utility
player who's just getting by into a hotshot all-star, and in what this
does to his personality, but it's harder to believe in the transition
from this strutting popinjay into a solid team player. The rest of the
large cast is entertaining, particularly James Woods and Matthew
Modine, but Jim Brown and Lawrence Taylor are fine, too. The score by
Robbie Robertson and others includes a lot of songs, and works well in
the context. The Panavision photography by Salvatore Totino is sweeping
and expansive; the stadiums seem gigantic, and the action on the
gridiron intense and exciting -- much of the time. In the final
analysis, this is just not the ultimate football movie, no matter how
much Oliver Stone wanted it to be. The DVD is even less ultimate than
the movie; which ran 162 minutes. This "Special Edition Director's Cut"
runs 157.


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Emergency personnel were called to the scene of an accident on KY 150 just after 10 p.m. Saturday night. The accident was determined by Kentucky State Police Trooper Christopher Saunders to be a hit-and-run. It happened near the Washington/Nelson County line at Fredericktown Park. According to Saunders' report, Erin Karr, 21, of Bardstown, was driving a white 1990 Pontiac Grand Prix. She was traveling east when an unknown vehicle pulled out into the center of the road and stopped. Karr struck the vehicle in the rear end, and her vehicle went over an embankment, coming to rest near a softball field. The unknown vehicle left the scene. Karr was taken to Flaget Hospital in Bardstown and was treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Saunders was assisted by Trooper Jonathan Houk, as well as Washington County Fire, EMS, and rescue squad members. The investigation continues.
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Provides only what you need: and that's everything. The XENON DELUXE is a luxury trolley case. It doesn't seek the limelight, but it does get itself noticed - by everyone. Its appearance is elegant, but not arrogant. The best description would be: true class. What do we expect of it? Everything. What can it do? More. Hence the added attribute "Deluxe". The deluxe look derives from the trolley's matt finish polycarbonate shell - scratch-resistant, impact-resistant and superior in every situation. The elegant colours lend it good looks that speak equally of style, elegance and wanderlust. Just as the word "luxury" promises.
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There are times when I seriously don't know what to blog about.
Mostly because my entire day revolves around my family.
Alex & (especially) Kameron take up 90% of my time.
That other 10% goes into showering, journal writing, eating, and sometimes exercising.
But all I think about while in the shower or while eating is what else I need to get done FOR them.
And while yes, this can be exhausting to my brain at times...it's become my new normal.
And surprisingly, you know what? I'm not nearly as bitter as I "should" be.
To most of society what I do day in and day out is boring, redundant, and unimportant.
And I think that's why I sometimes hesitate to blog anymore since it's not "cool" to hang out with a 5 month old all day. (And sometimes at night when he decides to party at 3am.)
I feel like I had way more "interesting" things to blog about before pregnancy and Kam's birth.
So I would open up a new blog post, write a sentence, then delete it and shut my laptop.
I felt like people didn't care about what I was about to share.
But as I watch my sweet baby sleep in his crib via the amazing invention of a video monitor, I've decided I don't care.
This blog is mine.
People can read it if they want.
Or they don't have to...and that's ok.
But if a blog is about writing things that are important to you...then sure, a lot of my future blog posts will be about my doings as a wife and mother.
Because that is my new normal.
I felt like when people would describe me pre marriage and pre motherhood they would say words like: dancer, piano player, friend, hard worker, listener, smart, singer.
And not that I'm not those things anymore.
But I've added wife and mother.
And those are my 2 most important describing words.
So I'm throwing caution to the wind and from here on out I am going to blog about whatever I feel like...and not worry about whether it's cool, interesting, trendy, or thought provoking.
I'm only going to worry about whether it's important to me and something that I want to share with others.
I can't lie though...living your day while watching a baby try and figure out this world...it's pretty great.
My testimony of God and the creation has grown leaps and bounds since being pregnant, going through childbirth, and taking care of Kameron.
And for that...I will be forever grateful.
So I shall leave you with some awesomeness:
1. Kameron loves grass. And it may be one of the funniest things to watch him try to grasp one, single blade.
2. Alex sometimes will sing along to One Direction or Lady Gaga...it's amazing. Ask him to do it the next time you see him.
3. My stretch marks are now a soft shade of purple instead of blaring, dark, bruise purple. Progress, people!!


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I ended up going with the 13" base MBA last month after my old MacBook finally kicked. Originally I was going to go with the 11" because of the advantage of portability. However, the two major factors that pushed me to the 13" were the battery life and memory. I tend to run multiple applications at all times (including Accordance) and 2GB of memory is just not sufficient for a proper operating experience. While the extra screen space and faster processor are a nice bonus, it's really the battery and memory that made the difference. I've only had the computer for about a month now, but I'm loving it and have no regrets.
My 11" MBA has 4 GB of RAM, and I bought it from a physical Apple Store. You don't have to settle for 2 GB of RAM just because you want an 11" MBA. I currently have nine programs running on my MBA as I type this, and all is smooth sailing. Fans haven't kicked on once. I can usually get between four and five hours of battery life if I'm not connected to power, but fortunately, I usually am.


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It's been an amazing year of growth for Edmodo. We started the year off with just under 5 million users and today, we're pleased to share that we have officially crossed over the 15 million user mark!
To highlight this milestone, we want to share the following infographic which displays fun facts about Edmodo usage throughout the world.
As we continue to grow, our focus will always be on connecting learners with the people and resources they need to reach their full potential. Thank you to the entire Edmodo Community for your continued support and making Edmodo the place where learning happens.
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im 14 in 8th grade and emodo is alot funner tgne doing it on paper 🙂
Thank you Edmodo for making my classroom experience a lot easier and providing students with quick responses. It is truly amazing what you have done 🙂
Thank you, guys! Congratulations!
Congratulations! And what about Italy?
Incredible. Soon I am convinced that exceed 20 million. Sure! And I'm on Edmodo from the beginning from Spain. Go ahead !!!.Congratulation to great Edmodo Team.
Congratulations! I love the new features, it's as if you asked me exactly what I wanted and then created it just for me. Particularly pleased about the option to schedule posts and assignments to appear at a later date – my students are so excited about using Edmodo that I had trouble posting things ahead of time because they would do them before class! I love that Edmodo allows you to do everything in one place – a calendar, assignments, marks, notes, conversations, even podcasts – and it's so easy to use. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Edmodo is the BEST site you will ever visit in your ENTIRE life!!!!! I LOVE EDMODO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Has anyone tried to research and evaluate the both the negative and positive effects of using edmodo in regards to student performance? Kindly share your findings with me.
Edmodo is, in my opinion, one of the most important and essential attributes of, not only my education, but my daily life. It provides me with a calendar and a way to connect with my teachers when I'm absent and I don't want to have piles of make-up work. Edmodo also keeps me updated with important events which I would usually miss out on becuase I was not informed about that event.
We just wanted to stop by and thank Edmodo for everything that they're doing for parents, students, and of course teachers. Anything that can benefit and strengthen the relationship between educators and students is something we encourage greatly. And the fact that Edmodo brings that connection into the digital realm in such an easy-to-use way is even better!
Congrats on hitting the 15 million users mark!
Edmodo es una plataforma educativa, que ha venido a automatizar los procesos de enseñanza-Aprendizaje de una manera rápida, eficiente y segura. llevando la escuela más allá del aula.
Gracias por permitirnos trabajar en EDMODO.
Saludos Colegio de Bachilleres del Estado de Hidalgo.
Wow great job! I hope it'll grow much more in the future!
It is one of the greatest inventions in the past years!!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!
As Sonia said…Where is Italy? We are not a great number, but we are here too.
Edmodo is a wonderful place to meet students and teachers across the world!
Really great for learners and teachers of English
EDMODO is a perfect system for me. When I hand the homework or recieve the homework, its orperation is very convenient and easy.
EDMODO es excelente como medio de comunicaciòn con mis LUMNOS Y COMPAÑEROS DOCENTES.ES MUY CONVENIENTE PARA SUBIR Y CORREGIR LAS TAREAS ADEMAS LE SUBIS LOS MATERIALES CON ANTERIORIDAD Y VAN PREPARADOS PARA LA CLASE POSTERIOR…MUCHAS GRACIAS…
edmodo looks like it would benefit my classroom. need more instruction on how to do assignments, quizzes, and tests onto this website.
Looking forward to using it next school year
I can imagine students would be excited to participate in hw that requires some technology and interaction!
This looks like a great tool for teachers.
I'm impressed! Now I need to learn more about the site's features.
Love the site!
Good to know that we can elimante usage of paper.


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HEATH SPRINGS – It's not all the time you find a 12-year-old boy who would rather work instead of play video games and ride bikes, but Anthony Ledford is different.
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Ledford, a sixth-grader at Andrew Jackson Middle School, was recognized by Heath Springs Town Council on Nov. 19 for his work, mainly at the town fire department. He received a plaque for his volunteer work.
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Swimming Pool Blog
by Rob Cox, July 31, 2011
Extreme Pool Renovations
I was at a pool board meeting tonight for my community pool, and the topic came up of capital improvements. A motion was made to expand the current olympic sized rectangle into the shape of an "L", while moving the baby pool from it's present location. Major Renovation.
I'm also currently house hunting for a home with a pool, and several are in need of ~ a major renovation to be brought up to date. This has me thinking, what are the major types of major pool renovations? Given constraints of space and budget, what types of dreams could a pool owner give flight to?
This blog post will cover some of the more doable types of Extreme Pool Renovations.
1. Changing the Shape or Size of your pool.
This will involve a backhoe first, to dig behind the wall in the area that the pool will expand into. After excavation, the existing pool wall is cut with large saws and or hammers, and removed. For vinyl pools, the wall sections in that area are also removed, albeit a bit more delicately. Steel rebar is laid into the new area, tied together in a grid framework. This steel is tied into the wall, at the point where it was opened up. Then new gunite is shot into and over the steel grid. After curing for 30 days, the entire pool can be plastered and filled.
When the idea of giving our community pool a deeper shallow end came up, I steered the conversation away. It's a lot of work to dig a pool deeper, and of course the entire floor must be removed. But shallower, that can be easier to do. Many older pools in very bad shape may be extremely renovated by building a new pool inside of the shell of the old pool. Curves or new features can be added, as well as all new plumbing, lighting and even water features.
For vinyl liner pools, a concrete pool can be built inside of the shell, but not so effectively the other way around. That is, it can be difficult (not impossible) to install a liner into a concrete pool. A fiberglass pool shell can also be dropped inside the shell of an old pool, after a good bit of prep work is done.
2. Adding a Spa to your pool.
Ahh, who wouldn't want a spa attached to their pool? Remember the thrill as a child of jumping from the hot spa into the cool pool, and vice-versa? A built-in spa, connected to the same filter system, and sharing one heater (although a separate pump/filter/heater can be installed), really brings added value to your outside oasis.
There are pre-fabricated spas that you can essentially just plop onto the corner or side or end of your pool, after some considerable trenching, plumbing and wiring is done. These types are raised up above the pool deck by 6-12 inches and usually overflow into the pool.
Pre-fab spas work best for integrating with vinyl pools, and can be a fairly simple and cheap installation. Gunite pools (concrete pools), can have a spa added almost anywhere around the edge, but closer to the equipment pad will reduce costs for plumbing and electric runs. The spa can be raised up above the deck, or can be dug next to the pool wall, so that the pool and spa are on the same level. A popular method is to set the spa above the pool, with steps leading up to it, possibly on both sides, and overflowing into the pool.
3. Adding Water Features to your pool
Waterfalls, Cascades, Water Walls, and laminar deck or wall jets. Let your imagination loose! Would you like a cascading rock water feature, or colored jets of water pulsing to the beat of your integrated iPod? Lion faces, dolphins, planters or naked little boys, spouting into the pool? Perhaps a grotto style, rain effect, or maybe you want a classic wall of water, so clear that it looks like glass.
When installing water features, keep in mind the sound that it will make, too loud and you may find it annoying to carry on a conversation. A babbling brook is what most people have in mind, so make sure that it's adjustable. Water features can also help keep the pool cleaner, by creating surface agitation, which keeps floating debris moving around.
Many water features require additional pumps, but some smaller features do not. Most water features are using pool water, so that a separate source or containment is not needed. In terms of maintenance, rock cascades (where the water tumbles over rocks, rather than a overflowing waterfall), will need some attention to seal leaks that may occur over time.
4. Stone and Deck upgrades
Not uncommon in our area are flagstone decking. Out west, using a Kool Deck type surface, sprayed on top of broom finished concrete, is the norm. In recent years, interlocking pavers have allowed renovators to completely change the look of the deck, without the cost of milled stone. One of my favorite looks is a combination of exposed aggregate pool deck, with brick runners and coping, (or flagstone). Partial wooden decks; the contrast of stone and wood makes a nice effect.
Stone retaining walls are frequently used on one side of the pool, in some cases even if there is no earth to retain! Having a stone backdrop on one side of the pool adds a dramatic effect. Add some function to it, and you have a raised deck or spa on one side of the pool, to which many designers add a sheer descent waterfall, or other water features.
5. Pool Lighting upgrades
Well, OK, maybe not an "extreme" pool renovation, but while you're in there rootin' around, modern light effects can add a whole 'nuther dimension to your pool and spa experience. Vegas style lighting shows, choreographed with waer features, are now within reach of many pool owners.
Fiber optic lighting can run ribbons of light around your pool, LED color changing bulbs give a deep rich color to the water that a pool light lens cover could never probide. You can even light the floor of your pool with hundreds of tiny "stars", lighted tips of fiber optic strands, creating a starry night sky in your pool.
Pool lighting has become much more fanciful in the last 10 years. From soft glowing hues, to bright blues and pinks, we can not only light up the pool water, but the entire area, and also include fountains, and streams of water - which from a short distance, look like streams of light, which they are I suppose.
What would you do with your pool, if you had time, money and well; time and money. Leave your dreams below in the comment box!


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I wouldn't worry too much and base the calculations on the current temperature of the beer. If the beer has been warmed up before that and lost CO2 then it will also have reabsorbed the CO2 as it cooled down. One issue here is that as it absorbs CO2 from the headspace it would pull air into the airlock and thus lower the CO2 pressure in the head space. This will lead to less residual carbonation.
That is the part about Henry's Law that I'm not sure about. Since my chest freezer is holding CO2 in, let's assume that when the beer cools back down and when it sucks gas back through the airlock that it is all CO2 coming back in. The part I was wondering about is after the beer warms up and loses CO2, when it cools back to its original temperature does it pick up the same amount of CO2 that it lost, or is it a lower amount because the beer was originally sitting in a supersaturated state? Since the CO2 partial pressure is the same before and after in this example, I suppose Henry's Law says that it would eventually take up the same amount of CO2.
I guess another way of looking at it is, say I have two beers that have just finished fermenting. One I leave undisturbed and the other I use a wine whip and degas as much CO2 out of it that I can. If I let them both sit under the same amount of CO2 headspace pressure, do they eventually end up with the same amount of dissolved CO2, or does the undisturbed one hold more because it started from a supersaturated state?
In physics, Henry's law is one of the gas laws formulated by William Henry in 1803. It states: "At a constant temperature, the amount of a given gas that dissolves in a given type and volume of liquid is directly proportional to the partial pressure of that gas in equilibrium with that liquid."