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Regarding "Abortion restrictions continue to gain ground" (April 12): The issue of abortion won't go away, because it is inherently an unresolved civil rights issue — the civil rights of the unborn.
Those of us who have stood up for the rights and the dignity of women, African-Americans, immigrants, Native Americans and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community also should recognize the need to respect the rights and dignity of the unborn.
Women must have the right to control their bodies and to make their own reproductive choices, but there remains an imbalance between the rights of the mother and the rights of her unborn daughter or son.
Our unborn daughters and sons cannot speak for themselves; it is up to our compassionate, progressive society to speak up for their dignity and rights.
This must be accomplished while remaining fully committed to women's autonomy over their bodies.
The actions on the part of state legislatures appear to be working to strike a closer balance on abortion rights.
Abortion proponents label themselves "pro-choice," rather than "pro-abortion." This acknowledges that even among those most committed to women's rights to choose, there is discomfort with abortion itself; that abortion should be legal, but rare.
Yes/no questions of abortion legality divide Americans pretty evenly. Unfortunately, this obscures the common ground that many or most can agree on: Abortion should be rare.
We need a balanced approach, respecting the rights of the mother while recognizing the dignity and rights of her unborn children to reduce the incidence of unwanted pregnancies and abortion.
Civil rights will continue to be an issue until all disenfranchised, including the unborn, have been granted dignity, respect and rights.
If we avoid the most polarizing legal/illegal questions of abortion, we will find some common ground to work together to make abortion more rare.
Thomas Luna
It's time to take action against toxic chemicals
On April 11, I went to the State House to speak with my representative about why it's important to keep Maine's children safe from toxic chemicals in everyday products. Chemicals like BPA (soup cans), parabens (kids' shampoo) and phthalates (soft plastic toys and shower curtains) have no place in our products, especially those marketed to children.
Maine has passed legislation that has identified 49 priority chemicals linked to incidences of cancer, reproductive issues and hormone disruption, but no action has been taken to reduce these chemicals in our children's products. We need to make sure we are taking action on these chemicals of highest concern.
Fortunately, Sen. Seth Goodall has introduced L.D. 1181, which would make sure that action is finally taken on these 49 priority chemicals. It's time our legislators put the health of our children ahead of the chemical industry's interests by passing L.D. 1181.
When I sat in on the public hearing in Augusta, I saw dozens of Maine parents, doctors and scientists testifying on the importance of this bill. I hope that my legislators will support this legislation.
Parents deserve to know that the products in our homes are safe for our children, and businesses should know that the products they stock are safe for their customers and their customers' families.
Sarah Austin
Many lovers of music want classical in the mix
This letter is a strong second to John Hartley's letter "WBach is back and the airways are rejoicing" (April 22).
I am one of the ones who sent blasphemous outrage into cyberspace when the station's sudden disappearance blindsided us last year. My wrath was aimed at what I considered corporate malassumption of Maine's cultural values and market potential.
As a devotee of Roy Acuff and The Carter Family as well as Bach, Haydn and Mozart, it annoyed me that, apparently, the industry considered that those of all stripes who liked classical music were irrelevant to the business of running a radio station in the 21st century.
It's with a huge sigh of relief to once again have good music in the car, the workshop, the kitchen sink. Thank you, WBach!
Peter Rand
Cape Elizabeth
Legislature can still act to ban ammo magazines
In a last-minute squeaker, L.D. 997, banning high-capacity ammo magazines of more than 10 rounds will go to the full Legislature with a recommendation that it ought not to pass. But that doesn't have to be the last word.
Now it's up to the Maine Senate and the House to show the recent abject failure of a national Congress how to pass this much-needed legislation. Current high-capacity magazine ownership is "grandfathered," so I fail to see any excuses.
I'm sure I'm not alone when I say I hope our legislators show the country that here in Maine, we have the guts to stand up to big money interests; have the understanding that this has absolutely nothing to do with Second Amendment rights, and that we're ready to show the rest of America we're willing to do something to curb the senseless and tragic loss, particularly of our children.
Massacring 20 6- and 7-year-old children in less than five minutes could not have happened without a high-capacity magazine. That's one indisputable fact, no matter how they try and spin it.
Bill Thomas
Afghanistan, Iraq wars haven't changed anything
It's time to get completely out of Iraq and Afghanistan and to stay out of Syria.
These are civil wars and these people have been killing each other for thousands of years.
We try to help them, and what do they do? They blow us up with suicide bombers. The recent killing of the people trying to deliver books to the school in Afghanistan illustrates this.
Please let there be no more American blood shed for people who certainly don't deserve our efforts to help them.
Ed Reagan
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Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research
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Onderstepoort j. vet. res. vol.81 no.2 Pretoria Fev. 2014
Preliminary investigation on presence of peste des petits ruminants in Dakawa, Mvomero district, Morogoro region, Tanzania
Tebogo KgotleleI; Christopher J. KasangaI; Lughano J.M. KusilukaII; Gerald MisinzoI
IDepartment of Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
IIDepartment of Veterinary Medicine and Public Health, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is an acute viral disease of small ruminants characterised by the sudden onset of depression, fever, oculonasal discharges, sores in the mouth, foul-smelling diarrhoea and death. For many years, in Africa, the disease was mainly confined to West and Central Africa but it has now spread southwards to previously PPR-free countries including Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola. The disease was first reported in Tanzania in 2008 when it was confined to the Northern Zone districts bordering Kenya. Presence of the disease has also been confirmed in southern Tanzania especially Mtwara region. Recently, a suspected outbreak of PPR in Dakawa area, Mvomero district, Morogoro region was reported. Clinical samples (lungs, intestines, lymph nodes, whole blood and sera) from suspected goats (n = 8) and sheep (n = 1) were submitted to Sokoine University of Agriculture for analysis. Molecular diagnosis by amplification of the nucleoprotein gene and the fusion gene of PPR virus (PPRV) using PPRV specific primers was done. Five goats and the sheep were positive for PPRV after performing RT-PCR. To our knowledge, this is the first report confirming the presence of PPR in the Mvomero district of the Morogoro region, Tanzania. Hence, more efforts should be put in place to prevent the spread of PPR in Tanzania.
Peste des petits ruminants (PPR) is a highly infectious disease of small domestic ruminants and small wild ruminants, such as antelopes, impala and gazelles (Muse et al. 2012a). The disease is currently considered one of the main transboundary animal diseases that constitute a threat to small ruminant production in many developing countries (Banyard et al. 2010). The disease is caused by the peste des petits virus (PPRV), a member of the genus Morbillivirus of the Paramyxoviridae family (Kwiatek et al. 2010). The PPR virus can be transmitted when animals sneeze or cough, therefore the virus is found in discharge from the eyes, nose and mouth of infected animals and affected animals that do not show signs of the disease (Roeder et al. 1999). Contact and movement of animals from affected to unaffected areas play an important role in transmitting the disease, especially where a communal grazing system is practiced. As a result, PPR is on the list of economically important animal diseases whose occurrence has to be reported to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) (FAO-EMPRES 2009).
Peste des petits ruminants was first described in West Africa in the 1940s (Khan et al. 2008). But with the advent of specific diagnostic tests, the geographical distribution of the disease was found to have expanded in the late 1980s and mid-1990s (FAO-EMPRES 2009). Currently, PPR is present in Central, East and West Africa, Asia, and the Near and Middle East (Geerts 2009). It is believed that the development of trade relations, transport, tourism and migration of wild animals susceptible to PPR have contributed to the spread of the disease beyond the boundaries of West Africa (Kaukarbayevich 2009). In Tanzania, PPR was first reported in 2008 in the Northern Zone districts bordering Kenya (Karimuribo et al. 2011). The disease was later introduced into southern Tanzania in 2009 through newly purchased goats from a livestock market located about 700 km away on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam City (Muse et al. 2012a). There is no official confirmation of one of the possible routes of PPR transmission from the northern parts to the southern parts of Tanzania.
The objective of this study was to confirm whether suspected cases seen in goats and sheep in Mvomero district, Morogoro region were caused by PPRV and establish one of the possible routes of transmission of PPR from northern to southern Tanzania. Because of the geographical position of Morogoro, it is the centre of the regional roads network to the coast, Dar es Salaam, Dodoma and Iringa.
Material and methods
Study area
The study was carried out in Dakawa, Mvomero district in Morogoro region. Morogoro region is located on the eastern side of Tanzania Mainland. The area was purposively targeted following reports of suspected PPR outbreak.
Clinical samples (lungs, intestines, lymph nodes, whole blood and sera) from eight goats and one sheep were submitted to Sokoine University of Agriculture for analysis.
Sample preparation and laboratory analysis
Buffy coat was prepared from whole blood using Histopaque®-1077 (Sigma-Alderich, St. Louis), transferred into a sterile microfuge tube and stored at -80 °C until RNA extraction. Tissues from the same animal were pooled together and homogenised in F-12 Nutrient Mixture (Ham) 1X (Invitrogen, New York) to make a 10% tissue suspension. The tissue suspension was then centrifuged at room temperature and stored at -80 °C until RNA extraction. Viral RNA was recovered from buffy coat, sera and homogenised tissue samples using QIAamp Viral RNA Mini extraction kit (Qiagen, Hilden, Germany) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Extracted RNA was amplified in a 25 µL reaction using AgPath-ID One-Step RT-PCR kit (Applied Biosystems, Courtaboeuf, France) using PPRV-specific primers: NP3 (5'-TCTCGGAAATCGCCTCACAGACTG-3') and NP4 (5'-CCTCCTCCTGGTCCTCCAGAATCT-3') from Couacy-Hymann et al. (2002), PPRV-F-f (5'- GAGACTGAGTTTGTGACCTACAAGC-3') and PPRV-F-r (5'-ATCACAGTGTTAAAGCCTGTAGAGG-3') from Forsyth and Barrett (1995). Amplification was carried out in GeneAmp PCR System 9700 (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, USA) followed by electrophoresis on 1.5% agarose gel. The DNA was visualised by ultraviolet fluorescence with positive samples showing 351 bp bands for NP3/NP4 and 322 bp bands for PPRV-F-f/PPRV-F-r primers.
Results and discussion
Clinical signs observed were nasal discharges, diarrhoea and oral ulcers, as shown in Figure 1. These observations are consistent with previous reports from Muse et al. (2012a, 2012b) done on PPR in Tanzania.
Post mortem showed enlarged and congested lymph nodes associated with the gastrointestinal and/or respiratory tract, as shown in Figure 2. These findings have been reported by Roeder et al. (1999), Centre For Food Security And Public Health (CFSPH) (2008), OIE (2008) and Chauhan et al. (2009).
Virus presence was confirmed in tissue samples using reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction using PPRV-specific primers targeting nucleoprotein and fusion protein genes. Six out of the nine animals were positive for fusion protein while only four animals were positive for nucleoprotein. Nucleoprotein gene transcripts are more abundant in infected tissues compared to transcripts of the fusion gene required for viral attachment and transmission on epithelial tissues, thus the ability of primers to detect the virus is affected by the stage of infection and time of sample collection (Luka et al. 2012).
This study confirms for the first time the presence of PPR in the Morogoro region in Tanzania. Since vaccination against PPR has never been carried out, this is a result of natural transmission of the virus under field conditions. Given the position of the Morogoro region, more studies need to be carried out in order to put in place effective control and prevention measures to contain the possible spread of the disease to other regions of Tanzania.
The authors would like to thank Mr Kochuchu and farmers in Dakawa for their cooperation, contributions and time. This study was supported by a grant from the Wellcome Trust to the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance (SACIDS), Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, Tanzania.
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationship(s) that may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this article.
Authors' contributions
T.K. (Sokoine University of Agriculture) was responsible for project design, prepared the samples and performed most of the experiments. C.J.K. (Sokoine University of Agriculture), L.J.M.K. (Sokoine University of Agriculture) and G.M. (Sokoine University of Agriculture) provided mentoring and technical assistance, and carried out project design and interpretation of results.
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Couacy-Hymann, E., Roger, F., Hurard, C., Guillou, J.P., Libeau, G. & Diallo, A., 2002, 'Rapid and sensitive detection of peste des petits ruminants virus by a polymerase chain reaction assay', Journal of Virological Methods 100, 17-25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0166-0934(01)00386-X [ Links ]
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Geerts, S., 2009, 'Goat plague or peste des petits ruminants (PPR)', EAZWV Transmissible Disease Fact Sheet 25, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp. [ Links ]
Karimuribo, E.D., Loomu, P.M., Mellau, L.S.B. & Swai, E.S., 2011, 'Retrospective study on sero-epidemiology of peste des petits ruminants before its official confirmation in northern Tanzania in 2008', Research Opinions in Animal & Veterinary Sciences 1(3), 184-187. [ Links ]
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Khan, M.A., Hussain, S.N., Bahadar, S., Ali, A. & Shah, I.A., 2008, 'An outbreak of peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in goats in district Chitral, N.W.F.P., Pakistan', Journal of Agricultural and Biological Science 3(2), 19-22. [ Links ]
Kwiatek, O. et al., 2010, 'Quantitative one-step real-time RT-PCR for the fast detection of the four genotypes of PPRV', Journal of Virological Methods 165, 168-177. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jviromet.2010.01.014 [ Links ]
Luka, P.D., Ayebazibwe, C., Shamaki, D., Mwiine, F.N. & Erume, J., 2012, 'Sample type is vital for diagnosing infection with peste des petits ruminants virus by reverse transcription PCR', Journal of Veterinary Science 13(3), 323-325. http://dx.doi.org/10.4142/jvs.2012.13.3.323 [ Links ]
Muse, E.A. et al., 2012a, 'Epidemiological investigation into the introduction and factors for spread of Peste des Petits Ruminants, southern Tanzania', Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research 79(2), 49-54. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/ojvr.v79i2.457 [ Links ]
Muse, E.A., Matondo, R.B., Karimuribo, E.D., Misinzo, G., Albano, M.O. & Gitao, G.C., 2012b, 'Clinico-pathological findings of the 2011 outbreak of peste des petits ruminants (PPR) in Tandahimba district, southern Tanzania', Research Opinions in Animal and Veterinary Sciences 2(4), 256-262. [ Links ]
OIE, 2008, Manual of diagnostic tests and vaccines for terrestrial animals, viewed 22 May 2012, from http://www.oie.int/fileadmin/Home/eng/Health_standards/tahm/2.07.11_PPR.pdf,pp. 1036-1046, World Organization for Animal Health, Paris. [ Links ]
Roeder, P.L., Obi, T.U., Taylor, W. & Diallo, A., 1999, Recognizing peste des petits ruminants: A field manual, Food and Agriculture Organization Emergency Prevention System (FAO-EMPRES) (Livestock) Animal Health Service, Rome. [ Links ]
Tebogo Kgotlele
PO Box 3019, Chuo Kikuu
Morogoro, Tanzania
Note: Proceedings of the 2nd One Health Conference in Africa. Jointly organised by the Southern African Centre for Infectious Disease Surveillance and the Tanzania National Institute for Medical Research, held at the Snow Crest Hotel in Arusha, Tanzania from 16th to 19th April 2013: http://www.sacids.org/kms/frontend/index.php?m=119.

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Incident at Vinnie Van Go-Go's in Savannah went viral on the /r/justiceserved subreddit.
SAVANNAH, Ga. — A man has been arrested after a sexual battery at Vinnie Van Go-Go's was caught on camera.
The incident occurred around 11 p.m. June 30. The video shows the suspect, Ryan Cherwinski, 31, of Palm Bay, Florida, walking past a female server while reaching out with his left hand to grope her.
The server then grabbed the offender by the shirt collar and slammed him into a nearby wall.
When police arrived, the woman told them what happened, which was confirmed by the surveillance footage, police spokeswoman Bianca Johnson said.
Cherwinski was taken into custody at the scene and charged with sexual battery.
The video went to the front page of on Reddit on Monday after the post received 50,000 upvotes in the /r/justiceserved subreddit.


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Last season, the Knicks were 1-1 against the Kings. The 14-15 Knicks come into tonights game looking to push their winning streak to 7 games. Sacramento has struggled badly this season and enters the game with a 10-18 record. Despite that and the fact that New York blew out Sacramento earlier this season, I expect the Kings to give good effort tonight at Madison Square Garden. They do not play any defense but on any given night they can score the ball with anyone. It should be a great one tonight.Here is what to watch for:
- Tyreke versus the Lin King. Say what you will about Tyreke Evans but this cannot be denied. He is long, he is athletic and he can defend when he wants to. In his 6 starts with the Knicks, Lin has not matched up with a long 6'6 defender like Evans. I am interested to see what adjustments the Knick point guard makes tonight. Granted, Evans could day dream on defense all game and put in 0 effort but at Madison Square Garden that is unlikely. I think Evans is going to come out tonight and play hard. If Lin is unable to get to and finish at the rim consistently, it will be interesting to see how he adjusts. Tonight may be a game in which Lin only scores 12-14 points but has 12-14 assists. I have a feeling Lin will take on more of a distributing role tonight but I'm also a human being and I have been wrong about Lin before.
- Amar'e Stoudemire may struggle tonight. Chuck Hayes has played limited minutes as of late but the Kings may dust him off to match up with Stoudemire tonight. As a member of the Rockets last season, Hayes was able to give Stoudemire problems. Using his 6'6 frame, Hayes was able to get underneath Stoudemire and bother his jump shot. Last night in Toronto, the Knicks star struggled with his explosiveness and had 7 shots blocked. That shouldn't be an issue with Hayes but what it says is that Stoudemire has yet to find his legs. He seemed to be re-gaining some of his lower body explosiveness but then the horrible tragedy with his brother caused him to sit out a week. His legs looked stale last night and Stoudemire failed to get rolling offensively.
- Watch out for Jimmer. Two nights ago in Minnesota, the former BYU star hit 3/5 from downtown and contributed 13 points. As much as the Knicks have improved defensively, they are still a poor defensive team defending the 3 ball. The Knicks rank 26th in the NBA in opponent 3 point percentage. I really hate Jimmer Fredette. I thought he was annoying in college and I don't think he has an NBA game. Worst case, he is out of the league in 3 years. Best case, he's JJ Redick. The one thing he CAN do is shoot the 3 ball. The Knicks have had some poor games defending the perimeter this year and still allow mediocre players to kill them from time to time. I think Jimmer may have a chance to splash some 3's tonight. The Kings shot 52.9% from outside the arc against the Bulls last night. On any given night they can get hot. Knicks can't let that happen tonight.
- Chandler > Cousins. In a battle of quality centers, I expect Tyson Chandler to shut down DeMarcus Cousins. Chandler has held Dwight Howard and Andrew Bynum to 11 points total in two games this season. Earlier in the year when the Knicks and Kings met in
cowtownSac-town, Chandler held Cousins to 9 points on 2/10 shooting. The Knicks big money center has been nothing short of spectacular this year and I expect him to keep that trend going tonight.
- Knicks should score some points tonight. Earlier in the year, they blew out the Kings 114-92. The Kings rank 26th in defensive efficiency. Tonight should be a victory for New York. I think Sacramento will give a good effort but the Knicks should still win. I want to see Lin and STAT continue to work on the pick and roll. I think Lin and Chandler will connect on pick and rolls. Lets see how the Knicks shoot from the perimeter tonight. Despite the recent successes of Linsanity, the Knicks still rank 26th in the league in 3 point shooting at 30.4% from the field.
- Lin played 43 minutes last night. I expect him to have a little bit of fatigue but we will see what happens.
- If you live under a rock and haven't seen Sports Illustrated's new swimsuit issue, please do yourself a favor and check it out. Or just watch this.


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Walk-In care is available for non-emergency care. No appointments are necessary to be seen by one of our Walk-In healthcare providers. Holiday hours are advertised. You can contact our walk-in office at 607-786-1801.
Convenient Location:
Located on Main Street in Endicott. Plenty of parking with easy access to our office. Our facility is equipped with ramps to provide easy access for our patients in wheelchairs or with disabilities.
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I've missed a couple of editions of the huge "Waiter, There's Something In..." event, and to be quite frank, I almost let this one go by, too, out of sheer lack of attentiveness. On Friday, I finally noticed Jeanne of Cook Sister had chosen stuffed vegetables for this month's theme. In the end I had to scramble a bit to find something I wanted to try out, and stumbled upon this recipe at Epicurious.
I know, right? It was just a bit fiddly for me, so I decided to fiddle some more. For one thing, my eggs were large; my tomatoes weren't. Out went the romaine pesto (although in retrospect it would probably have worked very well there), in came separation of yolks and whites. One of the whites I mixed with goat cheese, parmesan, and crumbled bacon (I thought pancetta might be too flimsy, and besides I had some bacon I needed to dispose of). Then I just spooned a bit of the white mixture into the carved-out tomatoes, carefully poured a yolk into each, and topped with some more cheese paste. Sprinkle with some extra parmesan and into the oven.
The amount of cheese mixture given would probably fill three or four tomatoes of this size - I mixed in the extra white and another whole egg and made a frittata.
Egg, Goat Cheese & Bacon-Stuffed Tomatoes
inspired by Gourmet Sept 2006, serves 2
2 eggs
2 large tomatoes
80 g soft goat cheese
30 g + 1 tbsp freshly grated parmesan
4 rashers bacon
1 tbsp chopped basil
salt & pepper
Fry the bacon until crisp, drain on paper towels. When cooled a bit, crumble into largeish pieces.
Separate the eggs, discarding one of the whites (or putting it aside for something else) and gently sliding each yolk into a bowl of cold water. Take the remaining white and whisk it with goat cheese and pepper until well blended. Stir in parmesan, basil and bacon, check taste to see if it needs salt.
Cut the top off each tomato and remove pulp & seeds with a spoon. Spoon some of the cheese mixture into each tomato "bowl," leaving room for the yolk in the middle, then carefully pour the yolks in and top with more of the cheesy stuff, trying not to break the yolks while you do so. Sprinkle with the rest of the parmesan and bake at 200°C (400°F) for about 15 minutes.


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Extreme summer temperatures are here and pose a health risk for senior citizens. Heat safety kits for seniors might help in a time of need.
Extreme summer temperatures are here and pose a health risk for senior citizens. Heat safety kits for seniors might help in a time of need.
Senior citizens, defined as anyone 65 years of age or older, face an increased risk of dehydration, heat exhaustion and heat stroke for various reasons. Threats from extreme temperatures are possible during a day of gardening, running errands, lounging at home or even if there is a power outage, which can also lead to falls resulting in fractures and broken bones.
Heat safety kits should include: a 16 ounce water bottle, copies of prescriptions and health cards, phone numbers of providers, sun screen, snap towels that activate with water and have a cooling effect when in contact with skin, misting fans, identification bracelets, a prepaid cell phone or a life alert system.
These kits differ from other types of emergency kits, such as hurricane or first aid kits, because the focus is placed on staying hydrated, cool and being able to get help if needed.
Visiting Angels, a Greenville-based company that provides non-medical home care services such as private duty caregivers to tend to the needs of seniors in Eastern North Carolina, encourages seniors and their family members, friends and caregivers to prepare heat safety kits to help decrease the risk of heat related illnesses.
�Forty percent of deaths from heat-related causes are among seniors,� said Peter Siessel, owner and operator of Visiting Angels. �Seniors don�t typically consume the proper amount of water each day and their body does not retain the water as well.�
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Although the price of gold fell near a six-month low on Tuesday, holding just above $1,600 an ounce, "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer continued to recommend investors have a position in the precious metal.
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indignation 1832 Sheffield styleTuesday, June 11th, 2013 | tags: 1832, burial, cultural curiosities, read it, religion, Sheffield, Yorkshire |
A 1832 letter to a Royal commission investigating the Church of England's revenues:
It is a matter of the deepest regret and surprise that no steps are taking by the Dissenters in England, at this critical juncture, to assert their principles and claim their just rights, when it is generally understood that his Majesty's ministers, or at least the majority of them, will concede nothing to us which they can possibly avoid; and that they intend to bring forward, next session, their plan of church reform, the tendency of which will be decidedly unfavourable to our interests, and will consolidate the political power and influence of one dominant sect.…
If, then, we owed Earl Grey and his colleagues any debt of gratitude, for doing us an act of justice before they took office, in getting the Test Laws repealed, we have now paid it; and it is time to look to our own interests, in which are involved the best interests of the country.
We are required to submit to the domination of a corrupt state church; to be governed by bishops; to see £3,5000,000 at the least (but more likely £5,00,000) annually expended in the maintenance of a clergy, of whom a vast majority do not preach the gospel; to see the cure of souls bought and sold in open market; to have the Universities closed against us, and all the iniquities of those degraded places continued; to be taxed, tithed, and rated to the support of a system which we abjure; to be compelled to submit to objectionable rites and ceremonies at marriage, baptism, and burial; – in one word, to be left out of the social compact, and degraded.…
We have hitherto demanded too little; and, consequently, we have been refused everything worth caring about. The bill for relieving places of worship from the poor rates, which was the fruit of the labours of the last session of Parliament, is no boon to us. It applies to churches in the establishment more than to ourselves, and I doubt much whether it will save the Dissenters £50 a year. I fear we have even misled the Government itself by asking for trifles, when we ought to have been contending for great principles. What signifies a small church-rate, when we should be contending against a corrupt state church? What is the trifling amount of procreates levied upon a very few of our chapels, in comparison of millions of pounds annually expended on a secular and dominant clergy? – and all this is done in a country burdened with a debt which grinds all! The real points at issue between the Government and us are very few, and may soon be stated. They are chiefly as follow, viz: –
1st. A total disconnection between church and state, leaving the details consequent thereupon to be dealt with by Parliament.
2nd.The repeal of the Act of Charles II., which enables bishops to sit in the House of Lords.
3rd. The repeal of all laws, which grant compulsory powers to raise money for the support of any church whatever.
4th. The reformation of the Universities, the repeal of all religious tests, and a grant of equal rights in them.
5th. A reformation of the laws relating to marriage and registration with equal rights in places of public burial.
No Government whatever could long resist any of these just and reasonable requirements, if perseveringly demanded; and it is well known that several members of the present administration would gladly and promptly grant all of them.… Our political power is far more justly estimated by our opponents than by ourselves, and few of the members of Parliament would venture to be indifferent or opposed to our wishes. Lord Durham knows us well, and his advice is particularly applicable to us: 'The power rests with yourselves, now, to instruct your representatives as to the measures which you, the respectability and intelligence of the country, have set your hearts on, and they will inevitably be carried.'
I am, Sir,
Your very obedient servant,
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Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I am 6 months post radioactive seed implantation, and doing very well. Is there any increased risk from anal stimulation/dildo play because of the procedure?
Neha Vapiwala , MD, Senior Editor of OncoLink and Chief Resident in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
There actually is a potential risk of normal tissue damage during activities involving anal penetration for some time after prostate brachytherapy. There are two main issues here: ongoing radioactivity and chronic rectal irritation.
Depending on the isotope that was used for your brachytherapy treatment, you may or may not still be radioactive. For example, if you were implanted with Palladium-103 seeds, then you would no longer be radioactive, as the half-life is only 17 days and thus the radioactivity is nearly gone by about 4 months. On the other hand, if you were implanted with Iodine-125 seeds, the half-life is 60 days, and so it would take about 14 months before the activity is gone. This means that the prostate (and nearby rectum) is still giving off radioactivity even 6 months after your procedure. This means that anything entering the rectum would be exposed to some dose of radiation, and this can pose theoretical risks to your partner.
The other issue is trauma to the rectal mucosa from anal penetration, as this tissue may still be quite swollen and sensitive from the implants as it reacts to the ongoing radiation from the seeds. During the time period of radioactivity, the rectal tissue is relatively more fragile and prone to injury and slower to heal. So, even if you aren't having any rectal symptoms or problems right now, prolonged and vigorous anal stimulation can potentially injure the rectal tissue and cause rectal pain, bleeding, and infection.
So to be on the safe side, it would probably be best to minimize any potential rectal trauma until about a year has passed, both for your safety as well as that of your partner.


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Yes, please indeed. Anything is better than nothing from you.plytho wrote:Half a reads list please.Mark_Cangila wrote:That flavor text is gruesome as hell. I am in the process of writing a full reads list. I can post a half reads list if you guys want.
Yeah, Vicarin would be so useful around here right nowplytho wrote:Ugh, sucks that we lost our most powerful townie first.
I can't think of much, since clearly the kill hasn't been blocked, so only the rolecop (I'm not sure if that's useful info) or town powers could have been, but it can't hurt to do this. I agree with the rest of your points being worthwhile.plytho wrote:One more thing to do is check if he crumbed his N1 target. Not sure if that info could be useful.
I assume you're referring to moody being scum here? Has SDK's or freezeblade's flip had any impact on this read?BoomFrog wrote:Well, I think my opinion is obvious haha. I can't believe FreezeBlade actually soft claimed on D1.
Vote Moody
Wam's posts today have pinged me somewhat. His challenge on BoomFrog's vote is weird, especially given his subsequent explanation. It sounds like a bit of a weird cop out to me.


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Welkcome to the top: Joey Schmidt and the
Schmidt Family
Dienhart, Paul. "Welkcome to the top: Joey Schmidt and the Schmidt Family." Co-op Country News, 6 February 1978.
Joey Schmidt entertains, with his sister Jolinda on tambourine, as part of the Schmidt Family Band. The young North Dakotan is good enough an accordionist to merit a guest appearance on nation-wide television.
There are several signs outside of Strasburg, North Dakota, which inform the motorist that this is the hometown of Lawrence Welk. Welk occasionally returns to Strasburg. It was there, on a visit this summer, that his relatives told him about a fantastic 18-year-old accordionist from a town 25 miles away, Napoleon, N.D. They promised to have Joey Schmidt send him a tape.
Some time later, at 10:30 on a Sunday night the telephone rang at Ray Schmidt home in Napoleon. Kids had been calling all day and Ray was a bit curt when he answered the phone. A voice asked for Joey. "Doggone that voice sounded familiar," Ray recalls. He told the caller that Joey was in Bismarck. "O.K. father, this is Lawrence Welk calling," said the voice. Ray said: "I took a chair, pulled it out and sat down."
In the correspondence which followed, Welk arranged for Joey to come to Los Angeles in November to tape a show for a January air date. His letters included such heady encouragement as: "You have already developed an exceptionally fine technique—and if you continue this way, you might very well become one of America's best accordionists."
So about the time the blizzards of early November were hitting North Dakota, Joey was jetting west for a stay at a Welk property, the Champagne Towers. "The apartment building was 17 stories high," said Joey, "about the size of the capitol at Bismarck. I stayed on the 7th floor and my apartment rented for $1,500 a month. It had two balconies on it. You could get out on a balcony, look straight down and things look really small. I stayed there for five days for nothing."
He also visited Welk's Country Club in Escondido, a complex including two golf courses and a fountain with water shooting out of a giant champagne glass.
But it was the studio at CBS which impressed Joey the most. "You've got to have an identification card just to set foot in it," he said. "I just walked in with Lawrence Welk. He said, 'He's with me', and it was OK."
"Everyone in that band is nice. Nobody walks around with their nose in the air. You walk by them and they all say, 'Hi Joey,' just like you're one of them. That one day, it seemed like I'd been there all my life."
Three professional musicians were waiting to play with Joey.
They asked the keys of the polka and waltz. After a half hour
of practice they had both pieces down.
"By the time the real show came on, it seemed so automatic and so normal," Joey recalled. "There were probably 200 people watching, and I've played for more than that back here."
Weekdays find Joey helping out the co-op in Napoleon, N.D., managed by his father Ray.
The Welk show is a major topic of conversation at the Farmers Union Oil Company where Joey helps out. His father, Ray, manages the co-op. It's a friendly establishment, sort of an old-time general store with propane heaters replacing the pickle barrel.
On a given morning you will find a visiting character like Joe Gross, Joey's 75-year-old grandfather. Joe, a fine accordion player in his day, comes in looking for "four men with strong backs and weak minds." He works full-time as a plumber and needs a little help on a project. Nobody admits to fitting that description, and after gabbing at the counter awhile, Joe goes on his way.
Joey tends the till and is learning about keeping accounts—skills that may help get him a job in a music store. He pumps gas, jokes with the customers and takes good-natured abuse from co-workers who accuse him of not having his heart in his work. He readily admits that he doesn't.
Joe Gross taught three sons and his daughter, Helen, Joey's mother, how to play the accordion. When Helen married Ray, also an accordion player, they formed their own band. Now it's the Schmidt Family Band. Joey is on accordion, trumpet, saxophone or drums; Ray on accordion, Helen on piano; and Joey's younger sisters Ellene and Jolinda play drums, clarinet and sax.
"When I was little," Joey recalled, "I used to listen to my mom and dad practice. I'd bring out kettles or jars and use them as drums. I'd try to play with them."
By the time he was four he had his own small accordion. With his mother as a strict instructor, he practiced a half hour each day. By age six he could read music. By age seven he won $25 in a talent contest. By age nine he appeared on a North Dakota television show.
"I always wanted to play like my daddy when I was little," Joey said. "Then, once I got to the point where I could, I looked up to my uncles."
Whenever possible, Ray likes to team one of his brothers-in-law with Joey. "I can't keep up with Joey, but when them two get together, it'll make your stomach tickle."
"One uncle from Montana would always play for me when he came home," Joey said. "I'd try to learn the things he was doing. That's the kind of thing that kept me going. Pretty soon it turned the other way. He'd come and I'd play for him. That's when I finally realized the people I was looking at were looking at me. When you get to that point you start thinking, 'Now I've done what I've wanted to and I can quit.' That's how I feel now. Around here I don't have anybody to compete with. And that's a good feeling. But if I had a few guys around here who were better than I was, I'd work harder and I'd improve."
Except for six lessons from an accordion teacher in Bismarck, Joey's instruction in music has come from his own parents or from his own efforts. Much of the music he plays comes from listening to other musicians, recognizing the key and remembering the notes. The next day he can work through the song and teach the harmony lines to his sisters. The Schmidt Family Band does all its numbers in three-part harmony.
"What I really need now is a professional teacher," Joey said. "There aren't any teachers like that in North Dakota. I suppose you almost have to go to California. Lawrence Welk said he could have me out again to play with his accordionist, Myron Floren. He said, 'Between him and me, we could make you one of the best around.' Some break like that is what I'd probably need."
"But I don't care what happens just so I can play something with Myron Floren sometime. To be able to stand beside him and play with him…It's like a basketball player playing with Jabbar. He's the best, you know. It'd just be a great feeling to be able to play with him."
Unfortunately, when Joey was in California, Floren was on tour in Texas.
"He was in Fargo one time and they interviewed him on television," Joey said. "They asked if there were still younger accordionists coming up. He said, 'Oh, yes. In fact there's a guy from Napoleon who's going to be out doing a guest appearance. His name's Joey Schmidt.' He said that. It's really neat having someone like that talk about you."
More than anything, says Joey, he wants to be a professional musician. In the meantime, he works at the station and served as artistic coordinator of the Schmidt Family Band. Father Ray handles the business end. And business is good, with bookings nearly every Friday and Saturday of the year. Not bad for a band which seldom travels more than 150 miles from its home base.
Friday, the day before the Lawrence Welk show, the band played at a hospital party in Bismarck. Ray squeezed the van into a space by the side door of the auditorium and the family quickly uploaded the instruments to set up for the 9 p.m. show.
They swung into their theme, "Let's Have a Party." It grabbed the attention of the audience and Joey smoothly interjected a welcoming introduction. On stage, wearing a yellow ruffled shirt and with the big Cordovox accordion strapped across his shoulders, Joey is a pro. He's confident and in charge. He seems years older than the gas pumper back home.
The band knows over 200 numbers. The repertoire includes top 40, country and rock as well as polkas and waltzes. "If someone asks for something, we at least know something similar," Joey said.
The sets go like clockwork. The band changes styles and the children change instruments with such ease that it's hard to guess that the changes are all spontaneous decisions by band director Joey.
All evening the band has alternated sets with a flamboyant rock group. For the last Schmidt Family set, Ray stepped down and Helen gamely banged away on the piano while Joey showed the rockers how it's done. On tunes like Chuck Berry's "Johnny Be Good," Joey's flying fingers make one wonder whether Berry intended the riffs for electric guitar or accordion.
There was no gig Saturday. That night was reserved for TV viewing. A half hour into the Lawrence Welk show, Joey appeared in living color on the screen in the Schmidt family living room. He was introduced by Lawrence himself and said hello to his parents, his sisters and all his friends in North Dakota.
Jolinda, Ray, Helen and Joey gather to watch Lawrence Welk introduce a familiar face.
"The Happy Yodeler Polka," a difficult piece Joey learned off a Myron Floren record, came to its rollicking conclusion, and Lawrence requested a waltz to dance to. Helen had lobbied for "The North Dakota Waltz" composed by her brother, but Joey didn't think it was hard enough. He played a waltz written by a first cousin of Lawrence Welk.
Joey watched seriously and intently with his head resting on
his fist. Then his part is over and a commercial for Geritol comes
on the screen. Joey sprung out of his chair. "Is that all?"
he asked with a laugh. The excitement started a few minutes later.


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A litigant may not base a claim of ineffective assistance of appellate counsel on the fact that his or her appellate counsel failed to brief or raise an issue on appeal which had not been properly preserved for appeal in the manner required in Kansas.
Appeal from the Sedgwick District Court; PAUL W. CLARK, judge. Opinion filed July 27, 2001. Affirmed.
Kiehl Rathbun, of Wichita, for the appellant.
Boyd K. Isherwood, assistant district attorney, Nola Foulston, district attorney, and Carla J. Stovall, attorney general, for the appellee.
Before RULON, C.J., LEWIS, J., and STEPHEN D. HILL, District Judge, assigned.
LEWIS, J.: In 1995, petitioner Billy Littlejohn, Jr., was convicted of aggravated kidnapping, aggravated battery, and criminal possession of a firearm. The convictions were affirmed on direct appeal. See State v. Littlejohn, case No. 74,935, unpublished opinion filed April 18, 1997. He was represented by counsel at trial and on direct appeal. He filed the instant K.S.A. 60-1507 motion, claiming he received ineffective assistance of appellate counsel. The trial court denied his motion, and this appeal follows.
We affirm.
Most of the facts of the petitioner's convictions are irrelevant to this appeal. What is relevant is that prior to trial, he filed a motion to suppress physical evidence, a knife and a handgun, taken from his jacket during a warrantless search of his residence. The trial court denied the motion. Defense counsel, at trial, did not object to the introduction of the evidence which formed the basis of the motion to suppress.
On appeal, the petitioner's appellate counsel did not brief the suppression issue. In the current 60-1507 motion, petitioner argues that the brief filed by his appellate counsel did not meet constitutional standards for effective assistance of counsel and that he did not have effective assistance of counsel on his appeal. The parties agreed at the trial court level that no evidentiary hearing was necessary.
The trial court denied the petitioner's motion, finding the suppression issue was not preserved for appeal and that his appellate counsel had no obligation to brief that issue or to raise it as an issue on appeal.
We agree with the trial court.
When a trial court considers a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel, it must apply the two-prong test of Strickland v. Washington, 466 U.S. 668, 80 L. Ed. 2d 674, 104 S. Ct. 2052 (1984). First, a petitioner must show that the representation fell below an objective standard of reasonableness, and second, the petitioner must show that unprofessional errors were sufficient to undermine confidence in the result of the proceeding. Graham v. State, 263 Kan. 742, 755, 952 P.2d 1266 (1998). Counsel is strongly presumed to have exercised reasonable professional judgment in making all significant decisions. An appellate court must apply the same test when considering a claim of ineffectiveness of appellate counsel. Baker v. State, 243 Kan. 1, 7, 755 P.2d 493 (1988). Both prongs of the inquiry are mixed questions of fact and law and must be reviewed de novo. State v. Orr, 262 Kan. 312, 321, 940 P.2d 42 (1997).
The issue which the petitioner insists his counsel should have briefed was obviously and totally without merit. The Supreme Court and this court have said repeatedly that where a pretrial motion to suppress has been denied, the moving party must object to the introduction of the evidence at trial in order to preserve the issue for appeal. Where there was no contemporaneous objection at trial, the Kansas appellate courts have uniformly refused to consider the issue. Examples of cases which apply that rule are State v. Jones, 267 Kan. 627, 637, 984 P.2d 132 (1999), and State v. Cellier, 263 Kan. 54, Syl. ¶ 2, 948 P.2d 616 (1997).
In Baker v. State, the Supreme Court addressed a claim that appellate counsel was ineffective in failing to raise an issue. The court rejected that claim and stated that appellate counsel has no professional duty to raise all colorable issues, even if requested by the client to argue a particular issue. Rather, experienced counsel must determine the central issues and winnow out the weaker arguments.
We see no reason why appellate counsel should be required to raise and brief issues on appeal which have not been preserved for appeal and which are totally without merit on appeal. The interests of the sound administration of justice require that counsel use good professional judgment and raise only those issues on appeal which have been properly preserved for appeal.
We hold that a litigant may not base a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel on the fact that his or her appellate counsel failed to brief or raise an issue on appeal which had not been preserved for appeal in the manner required in Kansas.
Accordingly, we affirm the trial court's decision to the effect that the petitioner's appellate counsel was not ineffective for refusing to raise a suppression issue which had not been preserved for appeal.


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Oz MPs 'could be breathalysed'
Major blow for New South Wales politicos
New South Wales MPs "could be breathalysed before voting" following a series of incidents which have led to suspicions that the state's politicos are sometimes less sober than their jobs demand.
According to the BBC, the idea gained much favour earlier this week when National Party MP Andrew Fraser - who'd earlier enjoyed the NSW Farmers Federation Christmas piss-up - got involved in some heated parliamentary verbals with Labour MP John Aquilinagot. When fellow National Party member Katrina Hodgkinson tried to intervene, Fraser "shoved her away" - an act which subsequently led to his resignation from the front bench.
While NSW National Party leader Andrew Stoner insisted to the Sydney Morning Herald that "he did not know if his colleague was drunk", Oz's Daily Telegraph ran the front page headline "Breath test this mob", backed by an editorial demanding: "If our politicians are drunk on the job, we've a right to know."
The proposed clamp-down has now attracted support from several MPs. NSW Greens MP John Kaye told the Telegraph: "Honestly, if you are going to have breathalysers for people driving cranes you should have breathalysers for people writing laws."
Speaker Richard Torbay also backed the tests, providing they were voluntary. He told the paper: "I think it is important to establish high standards that the community expects."
The Rail, Bus and Tram Union quickly weighed into the debate, saying MPs "should undergo the same tests as its members". Secretary Nick Lewocki explained: "All rail workers are subjected to random drug and alcohol tests, an infringement on their personal lives that they are told is necessary due to the safety-critical nature of their work. But driving the state is every bit as safety-critical, and decisions our politicians make on issues as diverse as health, education and transport policy do affect public lives."
Aficionados of drunken Oz MPs will recall the case of NSW police minister Matt Brown who walked the plank after just three days in the job, having ill-advisedly danced to techno music in "very brief" underwear at a late-night bash at his Parliament House office. ®


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Paracetamol is no better than a placebo for people suffering lower back pain, a study claims.
Doctors should now look at whether the painkillers should be the first choice treatment for people with the hugely debilitating condition, scientists behind the research said.
The Australian study of more than 1,500 patients found those given the common painkiller recovered no more quickly than others given a useless substitute.
Dr Christopher Williams, of the George Institute for Global Health at the University of Sydney, who led the research, said: "Simple analgesics such as paracetamol might not be of primary importance in the management of acute lower back pain.
"The results suggest we need to reconsider the universal recommendation to provide paracetamol as a first-line treatment for low-back pain, although understanding why paracetamol works for other pain states but not low-back pain would help direct future treatments."
The Paracetamol for Low-Back Pain Study (PACE) studied 1,652 people with acute low-back pain at 235 care centres in Sydney, Australia.
They randomly received one of three treatments, up to four weeks of paracetamol in regular doses, paracetamol as they needed it or a placebo.
They all also received "advice and reassurance" and follow-up assistance for three months.
All three groups returned similar figures for recovery time, the study found, with the placebo group having a median recovery time of 16 days, a day faster than the other two groups.
Dr Williams also suggested that given his team's results, it was worth looking at whether advice and reassurance for sufferers was a more effective form of treatment than drugs.
The research, funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia and GlaxoSmithKline, was welcomed by other scientists who called for more research to be carried out.
Writing in the Lancet, Bart Koes and Wendy Enthoven from the Erasmus University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, said: "Although the findings from this high-quality trial are clear, the content of guidelines should not be changed on the basis of a single trial; more robust and consistent evidence, including verification of the results in other populations, is needed.
"Furthermore, efforts to establish if prescription of other simple analgesics has additional benefit to advice and reassurance of the favourable prognosis for acute low-back pain are very welcome."
Professor Sallie Lamb, director of the Oxford Clinical Trials Unit, said: "This study may cause us to reconsider the way we treat patients here with acute low back pain."


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Chef Brian Kevorkian of Grill 23 in Boston teaches us how to dry age our own tomahawk steak topped with a delicious Bordelaise Sauce.
Brooklyn's Cook Space founder Michelle Mannix has taught 100s of amateurs how to cook. Here are her top tips for becoming better in the kitchen.
Chef Ryan Beaudoin of Ocean House in Watch Hill, Rhode Island shows us a super simple way to prepare clams and chorizo with a savory beer broth.
Grilled vegetables are the perfect addition to any BBQ. Chef John Doherty of Blackbarn in NYC shows us this super simple way to make the best grilled asparagus, zucchini, and more.
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These bars are packed with nutrients and protein to energize you all day!
You probably already have all the ingredients in your pantry to whip up these easy-to-make treats that are doggone delicious.
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Fresh herbs can make a big difference in home cooking. Here's how to prune your plants while still keeping your herbs healthy.
Tom Coughlan of Brooklyn's Cook Space shows us how to make this super simple chicken dish that will be the hero of your next busy weeknight dinner.
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We have made this rule due to recent events in the clan. It is to maintain the good atmosphere as well as a fair and undisrupted gameplay for visitors, members and admins. Please read, understand and follow this rule to the best of your ability. If you do not - as it says - you could get yourself demoted. Thank you.
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Fred / A VC:
How Yahoo! Can Get Out Of The Microsoft Bear Hug — Let me start this post by saying that I don't think Microsoft will achieve its goal of obtaining some sort of balance and scale in the search market with an acquisition of Yahoo! If you look at the share of search that Google …
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Speaking the Truth: Yahoo!'s Main Liability is People and Execution
Jason Mick / DailyTech: Google Plans To Fight Microsoft-Yahoo "Monopoly"
Jeremy Kirk / IDG News Service: Ballmer Refutes Google's Talk of Antitrust
Ionut Alex Chitu / Google Operating System: Could Google Save Yahoo from Microsoft?
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: It's Really a Choice Between the Lesser of Two 'Don't Be Evils'
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Google's Statement on Microsoft's Proposed Yahoo Acquisition
Chloe Albanesius / AppScout: Ballmer: Combined Microsoft-Yahoo Needed to Battle Google
Romeo Wahed / Download Squad: Google doesn't like Microsoft's bid for Yahoo
Colin Barr / Daily Briefing: How Yahoo could escape Microsoft
Nicholas Carlson / Valleywag: How Jerry Yang can escape Ballmer's sweaty embrace
Andrew / Changing Way: Yahoo, Not Acquired Yet
Wall Street Journal:
Google Reaches Out to Yahoo — Google CEO Eric Schmidt offered Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang help in any effort to thwart Microsoft's unsolicited $44.6 billion bid. Though regulatory concerns make a bid by Google unlikely, it could play a role in bids by others.
Discussion: HipMojo.com, Tech Trader Daily, Googling Google, John Battelle's Searchblog and VC Cafe
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Does MSFT Already Own Over 50% of Yahoo!'s Stock?
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John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog: YAHOO: TAKE THE DATA — The WSJ is reporting that Google CEO …
New York Times:
Google Works to Torpedo Microsoft Bid for Yahoo — Standing between a marriage of Microsoft and Yahoo may be the technology behemoth that has continually outsmarted them: Google. — In an unusually aggressive effort to prevent Microsoft from moving forward with its $44.6 billion hostile bid for Yahoo …
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Leslie Poston / Profy.Com: Google Makes Bid For Yahoo Rescue
Sramana Mitra / Sramana Mitra on Strategy: Is Google Scared?
Clint Boulton / eWeek: Ballmer Details Ways Yahoo Deal Would Challenge Google
Dana Blankenhorn / Open Source: Did Microsoft really think before making its Yahoo play?
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Google's Blank Check Strategy to Thwart Microsoft's Yahoo! Bid Will Backfire
Dana Gardner / Dana Gardner's BriefingsDirect: Microsoft-Yahoo! combination could yield an Orwellian Web world
Andrew Goodman / Traffick: Internet Freedom Fighters: Remember Us?
Shelly Palmer / MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer Video: Google - Microsoft - Yahoo - WGA - AMPTP - ESPN
Marshall Sponder / WebMetricsGuru: Thoughts about Microsoft Yahoo
Henry Blodget / Silicon Alley Insider: News Corp Says "No Yahoo Bid," Ex-Pres Rosensweig's Crazy Plan
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk: 'Titans': The (Microsoft-Yahoo!) Opera
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: Can Google Save Yahoo By Taking Over Search?
Verne Kopytoff / The Technology Chronicles: Google offers to help Yahoo
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch: No Super Bowl For Yahoo: Top Brass Weigh Their Limited Options
Cynthia Brumfield / IP Democracy:
Google Uses Oldest Trick in Book to Counter Microsoft — For a company that only recently came up to speed in Washington, Google is playing by the rules spelled out in the unofficial big company lobbying handbook. The search giant has launched a swift and seemingly all-out effort …
Discussion: The Digital Home, David Galbraith, Guardian Unlimited and Tech Check with Jim Goldman
Don Reisinger / The Digital Home: Instead of complaining, Google should make bid for Yahoo
Jack Schofield / Guardian Unlimited: Hello, Google, can you spell hypocrisy?
Jim Goldman / Tech Check with Jim Goldman: Search: Arrogance + Google
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Yahoo Considering Google Alliance, Hitler's Pills — Looks like the Microsoft purchase of Yahoo is going to shake the intartubes no matter what happens at the end. Now Reuters is saying that Yahoo management really "is considering revisiting talks it held with Google several months ago …
Discussion: PalmAddicts, Neowin.net and Paul Kedrosky's …
Emil Protalinski / Neowin.net: Yahoo may join Google instead of Microsoft
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
What you all are missing about Google
What you all are missing about Google
Discussion: Bits and Screenwerk
Saul Hansell / Bits: How Google Could Keep Yahoo From Microsoft
Greg Sterling / Screenwerk: Micro-Hoo a Threat to 'Openness'?
Eric Auchard / Reuters:
Yahoo may consider Google alliance, source says
Yahoo may consider Google alliance, source says
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Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Google, Yahoo! and the Folly of the Asian Search Card Argument
Julio Franco / TechSpot News: Yahoo may consider Google alliance
Ernst-Jan Pfauth / The Next Web: So what's the latest on Microsoft and Yahoo?
Beth Blecherman / Techmamas: Micro-Yah-Go continues...
Michael Krigsman / IT Project Failures:
Microsoft-Yahoo: Google ethics and the "monopoly pissing match"
Microsoft-Yahoo: Google ethics and the "monopoly pissing match"
Discussion: broadstuff and Google
Alan Patrick / broadstuff: PLUCKING THE LOG FROM YOUR NEIGHBOUR'S EYE....
Mike Nash / Windows Vista Team Blog:
Announcing the RTM of Windows Vista SP1 — Hi, Mike Nash here from the Windows Product Management group at Microsoft. Today we are excited to announce that we have released Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista to manufacturing (RTM) for our first set of languages (English, French, Spanish, German and Japanese).
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Peter Galli / eWeek: Windows Vista SP1 RTMs, with a Catch
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: No Vista SP1 bits for users until mid-March
Travis Hudson / Today @ PC World: Vista SP1 is Complete, Update Available in March
Joe Wilcox / Microsoft Watch: What's Good About Vista SP1?
Brandon Hill / DailyTech: Vista Service Pack 1 Hits RTM, Available in March
Chloe Albanesius / AppScout: Microsoft Talks Vista SP1, Consumer Version of Surface
Brad Linder / Download Squad: Windows Vista SP1 released to manufacturers
Doug Caverly / WebProNews: Windows Vista SP1 Nearly Here
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear: Vista SP1 RTM starts today, downloadable mid-March
Scott Gilbertson / Compiler: Microsoft's First Windows Vista Upgrade Due 'Mid-March' (UPDATED)
Michael Santo / Alice Hill's Real Tech News: Windows Vista SP1 Releases to Manufacturing — Now for Another Six Week Wait
Nick Mokey / Digital Trends: Vista SP1 Officially Heads Down the Pipe
Saptarshi Purkayastha / Sunny Talks Tech: Windows Vista SP1 RTM'd
Josh Phillips / Windows Connected: Windows Server 2008 & Windows Vista SP1 - RTM
Robert Nelson / Gadgetell: Microsoft announces RTM for Windows Vista SP1
Tom Warren / Neowin.net: Windows Server 2008 & Windows Vista SP1 RTM Today
Media Alert: Microsoft Releases Windows Vista Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 to Manufacturing — Client and server operating systems help provide customers with increased efficiency, performance and security. — What: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released to manufacturing today …
Discussion: All about Microsoft, Gizmodo, Hardware 2.0, CyberNet, TechBlog and The Tech Report
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft: Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista SP1 are soup
Wilson Rothman / Gizmodo: Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 Released To Manufacturing
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / Hardware 2.0: Windows Vista SP1 goes RTM
Ryan / CyberNet: Vista SP1 Download in March
Cyril Kowaliski / The Tech Report: Vista Service Pack 1 hits manufacturing, coming in March
George Ou:
Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 RTM today
Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1 RTM today
Discussion: CNET News.com, Electronista, eWeek, InfoWorld, The Register and Engadget
Jason Brooks / eWeek: Windows Server 2008 Is Microsoft's Leanest, Meanest Yet
Paul Krill / InfoWorld: Microsoft set to ship Windows Server 2008
Dawn Kawamoto / CNET News.com:
Yang e-mail reaches out to Yahoo employees — Wonder what Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang and the company's nonexecutive chairman, Roy Bostock, said to the troops on Friday, after Microsoft launched its unsolicited $44.6 billion bid? — Here's the text of the e-mail they sent to employees …
Discussion: HipMojo.com, paidContent.org and Gadgetell
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan / HipMojo.com: Yahoo!'s Fight Against Microsoft for Independence is Awfully …
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org: Yahoo Management To Yahoos: No Decision Yet; Many Options; Yada Yada
Todd Bishop / Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog:
CFO: Microsoft likely to go into debt for Yahoo deal — Microsoft has historically been renowned for its huge cash holdings, and its ability to avoid going into debt, but the company will probably need to borrow for the first time to help cover the cash portion of its giant Yahoo bid.
Discussion: Search Engine Watch Blog, CrunchGear, paidContent.org, eWeek and Technology Live
Doug Aamoth / CrunchGear: Google sending a drink down the bar to Yahoo?
Joseph Weisenthal / paidContent.org: Microsoft Strategic Update: Execs: Yahoo Offer Generous; Will Take On Debt
Michelle Kessler / Technology Live: You ponder Microhoo, Yahoogle
Nathalie Thomas / Scotsman:
Microsoft to face rivals in Yahoo battle — GLOBAL giants including Apple and Rupert Murdoch's News Corp are believed to be considering rival bids for the internet company Yahoo, which has received a $44.6bn (£22.6bn) offer from Microsoft. — The conglomerate InterActiveCorp …
Discussion: MacRumors, 9 to 5 Mac, Ubergizmo and Macsimum News
Chauncey Dupree / 9 to 5 Mac: Apple to save Yahoo! from Microsoft?
Dennis Sellers / Macsimum News: Apple considering buying Yahoo?
Paul Miller / Engadget:
EA bets PS3 will best Xbox 360 sales in 2008 — Hold onto your lunch, we're looking at quite the turnaround in fortunes for the PS3 if EA's sales predictions for 2008 hold true. With a hot new SKU on the shelves, an unlikely Halo killer, strong market share in Europe and that profitability milestone crossed …
MG Siegler / ParisLemon:
PS3 Projected To Overtake Xbox 360, Lose to Wii in 2008
PS3 Projected To Overtake Xbox 360, Lose to Wii in 2008
Discussion: Valleywag
Joshua Topolsky / Engadget:
The Xbox 360 Elite laptop: Ben Heck strikes again
The Xbox 360 Elite laptop: Ben Heck strikes again
Mark Wilson / Gizmodo: Xbox 360 Elite Laptop
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab: Ben Heckendorn's XBox 360 Elite Laptop
Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku: Xbox 360 Elite Turned into Halo 3 Laptop
Ian C Rogers / Yodel Anecdotal:
Music for the masses — Last year, shortly after I assumed the role of Yahoo! Music's General Manager, we started saying publicly that we were "de-emphasizing" our premium music offering, Yahoo! Music Unlimited. The fact of the matter is that building a great premium music service takes …
Discussion: Digital Daily, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, CyberNet, Yahoo! Finance, FoxyTunes Blog and Mashable!
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: Rhapsody in YHOO — Yahoo took some time off from fretting …
Alex / FoxyTunes Blog: FoxyTunes joins Yahoo!
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!: Yahoo Kills Yahoo Music Unlimited, Signs Deal With Rhapsody
Caroline McCarthy / CNET News.com: Yahoo axes music service, strikes deal with Rhapsody
Business Wire:
Kodak Revolutionizes Image Capture with New High-Resolution CMOS Image Sensor — Industry's First 1.4 Micron, 5 Megapixel, High-ISO CMOS Sensor Combines Two New KODAK Technologies for Better Pictures from a Smaller Sensor — ROCHESTER, N.Y.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) …
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Stefan Constantinescu / IntoMobile: Kodak creates quarter inch 5 megapixel CMOS image sensor for mobiles
New Kodak Chips Could Improve Cell Phone Cameras
New Kodak Chips Could Improve Cell Phone Cameras
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Devin Coldewey / CrunchGear: Kodak is shrinking its cameraphone sensors
Brian Stelter / New York Times:
ESPN to Offer Sports Events on the Web Free to Some — ESPN, the dominant channel for sports programming, will announce this week that Web users on college campuses and military bases — anyone in the .edu or .mil domain — will be able to access live programming on its Web site, ESPN360, without charge.
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Google Android - a sneak preview — What's in it for developers? — Google invited developers to its London office for one of three workshops - the others being in Munich and Tel Aviv to spread the word and teach developers how to write for their new OS.
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Goowy acquired by AOL! — We have been working closely in partnership with AOL since early 2007. During this time, we've had an opportunity to see AOL grow and evolve as a company. For this reason, among others, we're thrilled to announce that AOL has acquired Goowy.
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Shirley MacLaine is playing Coco Chanel in a Lifetime movie airing Saturday, and in a new interview, the actress reveals her admiration for the legendary designer. "She was tough and she never backed down," MacLaine says. "She never married. She was rude, hurtful. Many men were in love with her — though I don't know why, because she was impossible. She was 73 when she got so popular, and she was always reinventing herself. I like that." As for MacLaine's personal style, she claims: "I like senior-forgiving sloppy pants. I still wear sweat suits. I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai. I am so grateful that I now have a small hunk of Chanel wardrobe from the film that will go anywhere." There are a few other gems from this interview, click the picture for more! [LA Times]On being a Chanel fan:
"I started wearing her clothes — but they were knock-offs — when I was in my 20s and 30s because they worked for daytime or nighttime. I had knock-offs of everything she made and wore them everywhere. Audrey Hepburn turned me on to Chanel, and she told me that I should play Coco too."
On Karl Lagerfeld, whom she has never met:
"He wanted me to come to Paris for a fitting, but I am sorry. No. If he takes off his sunglasses and the gloves, maybe I'll go to Paris."


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The battery-based inverter buyer's guide has a comprehensive list of inverters, and discusses how each specification affects system design. Here we detail the basic inverter sizing steps to select an inverter that has the capacity required to power to your AC loads.
The primary inverter specifications to consider for sizing are the inverter's continuous output rating and its surge capability. Inverter sizing is also affected by whether the application is off-grid or grid-tied with battery backup.
For off-grid sizing, we simply sum the wattage of all AC appliances that might run simultaneously (the base load). Then we consider any appliances that might surge and add the cumulative surge watts to our base load to estimate the surge capacity requirement. Here is a simple example scenario. (You can either measure these individual appliances' power with a watt-meter, use their nameplate ratings, or contact the manufacturers.)
In this case, a 2,500 W inverter capable of surging to 50 A or greater at 120 VAC is needed (6,095 W ÷ 120 V = 50.8 A). It is unlikely that all loads will be on and surging at the same time, so some folks may be less conservative in their surge estimates, especially if they can easily provide some load management—for example, not running the washing machine while using the microwave. With a household of more than one, this gets harder to control.
Battery-Based Grid-Tied Inverter
We need to consider the inverter's two operating modes: when the grid is connected, and when there is a utility outage. When the grid is available, these inverters will be limited to processing the PV array's power, so the inverter needs to be large enough to pass the available array wattage.
Let's say we have a 4.5 kW PV array. This array rating is at standard test conditions (STC), and actual output will likely be lower due to higher module temperatures and system inefficiencies. If that full power is available (say during cool, clear weather), it is desirable to have an inverter large enough to process all of it. Otherwise, a portion of the available power will be lost. We'd need an inverter with a minimum continuous output rating of 4,500 W.
When the grid is down, these battery-based grid-tied inverters will switch into off-grid mode to power only a critical load subpanel—which does not normally include all of a home's loads. Let's assume that the critical load subpanel has the same load profile as our off-grid system. An inverter with a 4,500 W continuous output rating will meet our critical base load requirement of 2,495 W. As long as the 4,500-watt inverter has a surge rating of about 50 A or greater, we are covered.


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December 05, 2001
LOS ANGELES — Economists with the UCLA Anderson Forecast expect a swift economic rebound from the effects of the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks for the New York/New Jersey area and minimal effect on the extended U. S. outlook. Christopher Thornberg, author of "Disaster Economics: An update on the economic effect of WTC attacks" asserts that there will be a sharp economic "bounce" rather than a prolonged "bust."
Using current available data and theoretical estimates based on the effects of prior disasters, a report issued by the UCLA Anderson Forecast provides detailed analysis of both the local direct damage and the fear and uncertainty created for consumers nationwide. Findings support the economists' assertion that while the attacks caused an immediate decline, they have not substantially worsened the recession already well underway in the U.S. economy.
"Some have claimed that this event actually pushed the U.S. into a recession, and point to massive layoffs in the airline and hospitality industries and the overall decline in consumer confidence as evidence. Yet while such talk creates good headlines, the direct evidence points to something different, " said Thornberg, senior economist with the Forecast.
The response of financial markets to the trauma of a major disaster is fundamentally different from the forces driving the spiraling significant shift of a real recessionary downturn, resulting in rounds of reduced demand and employment layoffs, Thornberg explains. Recessions are defined as "substantial unwanted idleness in the factors of production." They are triggered by dramatic adjustments of system imbalances without the necessary time to accommodate and absorb the displacement, which leads to slow or negative growth over a protracted period.
Disasters tend to cause a short, steep descent followed by a quick upturn in the next quarter and even a possible short-term boost to levels above what would normally be expected, probably due to opportunity associated with the rebuilding process, Thornberg writes. Thus, business that is immediately lost is soon regained, because purchases of goods and services are largely postponed and not canceled.
An examination of the results of the roughly equal dollars of destruction from hurricane Andrew in Florida and the Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles replicates this characteristic pattern. The two types of costs associated with any disaster are the primary damage to physical assets with missed consumption and the more difficult to calculate secondary disturbance of normal business operations. Since both the Florida and California examples indicate disasters do not bring on recessions, because their secondary costs did not continue beyond the following quarter, a full recovery can be expected in the 4th quarter of this year for greater metropolitan New York.
The attack on the World Trade Center is unique in both scope and style and certainly sets a record for lives lost, which accounts for approximately half of the projected primary costs. The toll of this disaster fell more heavily on people, rather than property relative to the previous natural disasters, Thornberg said. The loss of life from the bombing in Oklahoma City, while on a much smaller overall scale, is still proportionate to the losses in the New York region as a percentage of population. Indicators from Oklahoma City point to perhaps a less significant economic fallout than expected for New York.
Thornberg said the current recession was caused by a considerable decline in fixed non-residential investment in the U.S. after many years of heavy investment without profit from the Internet rush of the late 1990s. There are two additional imbalances in the economy at the same time as the investment imbalance, and either vulnerability could allow the terrorist attacks to affect the national economy. They are the trade deficit due to the influx of foreign capital and consumer security concerns.
If the attacks of September 11 provoked a rush to remove foreign assets from U.S. markets or deep drops in consumption, it would certainly worsen existing financial woes. However, foreign investors do not seem to have lost confidence in the U.S. markets, and October sales growth has made up for the majority of the shortfall in September, Thornberg said.
In addition, it has been suggested that the attacks could play a role in the recession through the layoffs in the travel and tourism industries, which were most directly influenced by the event. However, a close examination reveals these results may be in line with what could be expected from only recession-related causes.
For the complete report, "Disaster Economics: An update on the economic effect of the WTC attacks," please call (310) 206-7707.