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Phillip Abrary, president and chief executive officer of Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc., shares how his five-year-old company has found success using a struvite recovery process.
How does your background help you in operating a company that appears to be in the wastewater treatment/nutrient recovery field?I studied biology at the University of British Columbia and achieved a bachelor of science degree before pursuing my Chartered Accountant designation.
I was the founder and acting president of RTM Norden Inc., an international business and technology consulting firm, focused on the manufacturing sector throughout North America and Europe. I counseled companies in the pulp and paper (PNP) industry, which provided a deep understanding of the financial, operational and technological realities of this capital intensive and highly regulated industry. For example, PNP companies must treat their wastewater and meet strict discharge limits.
When vetting the Ostara technology, I called on my experience with PNP enterprises to understand the challenges and opportunities of commercializing what would prove once again to be a capital intensive, highly regulated industry responsible for treating wastewater.
Do you have a passion for the environment or environmental issues?In searching for a company to buy or a technology to commercialize, I considered many different options, some of which were more lucrative but less ethical. I do believe in triple-bottom-line accounting, and this technology and its product, Crystal Green, have demonstrated and quantified economic, environmental, and social benefits. To me, this is the essence of a modern environmentalism — commercial success that creates momentum across industrial sectors and an ascending benchmark for true sustainability.
How did you, Jones, McHugh, and Britton came together to start Ostara? As the founder and acting president of RTM Norden, I worked with Ted Jones who was our director of technology. We were introduced to Joe McHugh through a business associate. As a former attorney licensed in the State of Illinois, Joe was interested in the initial exploration of new business opportunities and offered his corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions experience. We had a common goal; we were seeking an opportunity that required some nurturing and development, and one that had a viable market.
After considerable evaluation of a number of opportunities, we optioned the University of British Columbia's (UBC) nutrient recovery technology for six months, which allowed us to conduct a market study. We contracted a market study consultant, who in turn hired Ahren Britton to provide technical counsel on the study. Ahren was working with the City of Vancouver and already was a professional engineer with a master's degree in applied science from UBC. Ahren had achieved his master's by conducting the first pilot for UBC's nutrient recovery technology in Penticton, British Columbia, and is credited as the co-inventor of the technology, along with Don Mavinic, Ph.D.
Eventually, Ahren left Vancouver to dedicate his time to the market study project. He then joined Ted and me at the point where we were working with the University-Industry Liaison Office to commercialize UBC's nutrient recovery technology, and form Ostara in 2005
Where does the company name come from?As always, picking a company name is a challenging process. Many names were proposed for the company, including the typical list of acronym-inspired and jargony tech names. However, "Ostara" — the Germanic goddess fertility — stood out for its reference to fertility, rebirth, and cycle of life.
In June 2009, Clean Water Services (CWS), a water resource management utility in Oregon, opened the first commercial facility in the United States that incorporated Ostara's Pearl® Nutrient Recovery Process.
CWS serves more than 527,000 residents of urban Washington County west of Portland and treats 64 million gallons of wastewater per day (mgd) on average. The wastewater treatment plants operated by CWS discharge to the Tualatin River Watershed; hence effective treatment is crucial to ensure its protection and to safeguard the area's economic and environmental vitality.
CWS employed the process at its Durham Advanced Wastewater Treatment
Facility to help meet tight phosphorus discharge regulations (the effluent phosphorus concentration limit of 0.1 mg/l applies during summer months). The facility provides wastewater treatment for the cities of Beaverton, Tigard, Sherwood, Tualatin, Durham, and King City, and portions of Clackamas and Multnomah Counties, treating a total average flow of 20 mgd.
As is common with biological phosphorus removal facilities, phosphorus and ammonia become heavily concentrated in the sludge handling process where it can form struvite (magnesium ammonium phosphate). Struvite has a consistency similar to concrete and coats pipes and valves, causing blockages much like cholesterol does to an artery. The result is plant inefficiencies, risk of process failure, and costly maintenance. Further, the return of the phosphorus and ammonia back to the main treatment plant increases the nutrient load it has to treat, increasing both capital and operational treatment costs.
Previously, CWS used biological phosphorus removal and aluminum sulphate dosing to remove phosphorus from the water discharged to the river. Alum dosing is a significant expense at treatment facilities.
With the new process removing 20 percent of the phosphorus load to the plant, the biological phosphorus removal became more stable and efficient, resulting in a 23 percent reduction in alum use. While not required by the permit, the Durham facility maintains biological phosphorus removal even during the winter to capture phosphorus and produce additional fertilizer, which is marketed under the brand name, Crystal Green®.
The Pearl Nutrient Recovery Process is based on a proprietary fluidized bed reactor in which magnesium is added to sludge dewatering liquor to precipitate struvite under a controlled chemical reaction. The reactor uses both its unique geometry and upflow velocity to segregate prill (fertilizer pellets) sizes to suit various applications.
Pearl reactors employ a tapered design in which the diameter increases in stages.
The larger prills accumulate in the bottom section where upflow velocity is the greatest due to the smaller diameter of the reactor. The magnesium, ammonia, and phosphorus concentrations are the highest in this zone, resulting in the precipitation of struvite on suspended prills. In the next stage, the velocity is reduced and medium-sized prills accumulate. These prills have more surface area and longer contact time with the reactor liquids so they scavenge unreacted magnesium, ammonia, and phosphorus.
In the largest top section, the velocity is further reduced and fine prills are present. The fine prills have even greater surface area and detention time to capture residual reactants. The process design is focused on precipitating struvite on existing prills rather than on new particle creation, although some new seed nuclei are created. The process is similar to an oyster making a pearl, adding layer upon layer of material on an existing nucleus, resulting in prills which are extremely pure, monolithic struvite crystals.
The prills are retained in the process until they have grown to the desired size and are then removed, dried, classified and bagged – ready to be sold as fertilizer.
Since the facility became operational, the process has reduced centrate (concentrated nutrient recycle stream) phosphorus concentration by an average of 85 percent and ammonia by 15 percent. However, the ongoing optimization of the process has resulted in recent performance that surpasses the average. For example in December 2009, the removals were 89 percent and 20 percent respectively. Removing these nutrient loads has eased the pressure on treatment processes in the main plant, making the whole plant more robust and providing increased flexibility in plant operations. This has consequently reduced the costs associated with alum dosing, and reduced the amount of chemical sludge generated, decreasing dewatering and disposal costs.
Through the course of one year of operations, 300 tons of struvite have been generated, representing 76,000 pounds of phosphorus and 34,000 pounds of ammonia recovered from the system. The amount of dry tons of biosolids trucked out of the plant was also reduced by approximately 12 percent.
— Written with the assistance of Rob Baur, senior operations analyst, Clean Water Services
Was struvite scale or nutrient recovery the driving factor for technology development?The issue of struvite scale for wastewater treatment plants and nutrient recovery – which is becoming increasingly important for wastewater treatment plants – drove Ostara's technology development.
However, until recently, most industrial, commercial, and academic nutrient applications focused on nutrient removal rather than recovery. For example, the UBC Civil Engineering Department has been a leading institution in the field of biological nutrient removal for wastewater treatment plants for decades. A series of independent events changed this when researchers at UBC's Environmental Studies Department were asked by BC Hydro to develop a fertilizer to rehabilitate areas around hydroelectric dams. Around the same time, officials from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans were buying fertilizer abroad to add to rivers to repair salmon habitats. The nutrients in the fertilizer released slowly in the water and mimicked the nutrients available to salmon fry from the decomposing mature salmon, which die naturally after returning to spawn.
Struvite precipitation already existed in Japan, but the product realized from the process was very low quality and not practical as a commercial product. Researchers in UBC's Civil Engineering Department bested this practice by developing a proprietary fluidized bed reactor pilot that recovered struvite and formed crystalline pellets or "prills" through a controlled chemical process. The ability to form very hard, perfectly formed prills of different sizes as part of the process was key to recovering nutrients in a meaningful way.
This research pilot demonstrated that the struvite scale challenge faced by wastewater treatment plants could be solved with the added benefit of creating a slowly dissolving commercial-ready fertilizer. Armed with the knowledge of the BC Hydro fertilizer and Fisheries initiatives, researchers tested the new fertilizer product in salmon fry habitat rehabilitation, which yielded positive results.
Ostara licensed the technology in 2005 and conducted the initial full-scale pilot (scaled up from the laboratory by a factor of 100) for the City of Edmonton, which demonstrated the struvite removal and the resulting nutrient recovery. The technology invented at UBC and commercialized by Ostara, is now called Pearl®, and the fertilizer byproduct of the system is now called Crystal Green®. And using Crystal Green to rehabilitate the salmon population in BC streams continues to be an application ensuring the highest beneficial reuse of nutrients.
What is your company's strength?A recent newspaper article stated that all clean techs are two companies in one. I don't know if that is true for all, but it is certainly true for us and I believe this is our strength. In the early stage of our development, many local funders stated that we would not be successful based on our "two-company" status. In spite of, or perhaps as a result of, these early cautionary messages, we structured the company in a way that would allow both companies to thrive independently, while creating synergies between the two business units.
We recruited top performers in water technologies, fertilizer, and related fields, attracted top-tier board members including environmental advocate and attorney Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and created alliances with key members of the greater eco-community including Audubon International and William McDonough, co-founder of the Cradle to Cradle® eco-effective design paradigm.
What is the scope of your operations?Ostara has one full-scale demonstration facility in Edmonton, Alberta, and three commercial-scale facilities in Oregon, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. Ostara also has facilities currently in the design phase for the Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District in Wisconsin and at the Thames Water's Slough Sewage Works in London, UK.
We have conducted 22 pilots to successfully demonstrate the technology, prove treatment performance, and create product from the piloting facility's own centrate. We have conducted pilots in North America, the Middle East, Europe, and China.
Do you manage the company in a sustainable way? If so, please explain. What environmental regulations does your company have to comply with?We do not have environmental regulations per se; however, every member of our company strives to "walk the talk." Some are avid cyclists and ride into work everyday. We work with local suppliers at our launches, eschew packaging where possible, and use 100 percent post-consumer paper for many applications.
What is your company's greatest challenge?Because municipal procurement processes and cycles are long and they involve economic, community, technical and regulatory decision makers, the contracting process can be as long as 18 months.
That said, we launched two facilities in 2010, have two major projects in the design phase, and a partnership agreement in place in the Netherlands. Longer timelines have allowed us to fully develop our fertilizer distribution network and create synergies between our business units around the implementation of each new facility. For example, our York facility in Pennsylvania produces Crystal Green for a York fertilizer company, which then uses the nutrients on turf and athletic fields in the York area.
How green is the Pearl Nutrient Recovery Process?The Pearl process uses very low amounts of energy to dry the fertilizer and requires little other energy to operate. It eliminates the chemicals used to maintain pipes and valves that would otherwise clog with struvite. Each wastewater facility with a Pearl solution trucks and disposes of fewer biosolids. Finally, the Pearl process makes the wastewater treatment plant run more efficiently overall, ensuring the entire facility is more energy efficient.
The byproduct of the process ─ Crystal Green ─ is green from three perspectives:
What is the output of a Pearl Nutrient Recovery Process plant? The minimum size of plant for our process is a population equivalent of 100,000. For example, the town could be 100,000 or it could be 90,000 with a factory that has a population equivalent of 10,000. The plant begins recovering nutrients as soon as the Pearl process is operational, and the system can produce and harvest Crystal Green within a few days. A good benchmark is approximately 1,000 tons [of Crystal Green] for every 1,000,000 population equivalent.
Of the two business models you offer, which is more popular? Currently, the capital purchase model is the more popular. The Oregon and Virginia plants used a traditional capital sale model, with Ostara delivering an equipment-based scope and process guarantee.
The Pennsylvania facility employs an innovative service-based model, in which Ostara designed, built, financed, and owns the asset, then charges monthly "treatment fees" providing agreed process performance standards are delivered. The monthly fee is less than the costs the City of York had been incurring in dealing with the nutrient issues that Pearl solves, providing immediate operational savings with minimal contractual risk.
How does the program work if a municipality doesn't have the resources to sell and market Crystal Green? Ostara always assumes responsibility for marketing and selling [the product] regardless of the nature of the project contract.
Who is buying Crystal Green? Ostara currently has blender/distributor relationships in the turf, nursery, and specialty agriculture industries, and sells to companies in Oregon, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Florida.
Some regulatory agencies are concerned about nutrients from fertilizer products reaching waterways via stormwater runoff. Have you done any testing on this with your product?Yes, following is a summary of research related to Crystal Green solubility:
In additional research, the independent laboratory analysis found that Crystal Green has far fewer contaminants than agricultural phosphorus fertilizers. For example, no cadmium or arsenic (two heavy metals that are commonly found in traditional agricultural phosphorous fertilizers) was detected. More research is ongoing over the 2010-2011 growing season at Cornell University, University of Florida, and University of Wisconsin.
Why is this process something Environmental Protection/Water & Wastewater News readers should spend money on?Using Ostara's technology, wastewater systems recover phosphorus from sewage sludge that would otherwise be wasted — either incinerated or dumped on landfills, both with negative environmental consequences. The fertilizer produced from Ostara's technology, Crystal Green®, is in slow release form, which virtually eliminates runoff and ensures that all nutrients remain in the soil where they are applied, and do not end up in adjacent waterways, polluting the environment. Crystal Green is the only slow release fertilizer made from a renewable source of phosphorus – wastewater.
Who are your competitors?There are other companies that have pilot-scale or one-off installations of struvite precipitation technology, but there are no companies actively engaged in, and capable of, producing a high-grade fertilizer product such as Crystal Green. The Ostara process is unique in the recovery of nutrients from waste in a way that reduces operating costs, increases plant capacity, complies with environmental regulations, and produces high-quality environmentally friendly fertilizer that generates revenue for the customer —multiple benefits stemming from a single technology.
How far has Ostara come from 2005 when you helped to start the company?The company began with a small pilot, three inches in the narrowest part of the reactor, and now we have four full-scale facilities, with two more in the design phase. We sell our fertilizer product in Canada, the United States and Europe. We have two distinct business units and they are both commercially successful in just five years.
Where do you see your company in the next five years?Ideally, we would like to see the Pearl technology as the de-facto standard in wastewater treatment plants in North America, Europe, and Asia. Our goal is that Crystal Green is the standard nutrient choice whenever the environment is at stake. Finally, we would like to ensure that knowledge of our nutrient recovery technology and renewal fertilizer empowers water and fertilizer professionals, community leaders, and environmental advocates to further support Ostara as a global cleantech leader.
About the Author
Phillip Abrary is president, chief executive officer, and director of Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies Inc., which is headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia.


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The 45-foot catamaran, Energy, broke free of its mooring in the wee hours of Sept. 30. Todd Tholke says in court documents that he spotted the boat about 3:30 a.m. when it drifted onto the rocks at Treasure Island and towed it to safety. Then he got a lawyer, invoked maritime salvage law, and demanded a fee.
But Noah Hagey, who is representing the Energy Team, says there are some discrepancies in Tholke's account of how he "rescued" the boat.
"Our investigation has revealed that there are a number of serious problems with the allegations," Hagey said. "We intend to bring them to the court's attention this week."
Some armchair sailors have speculated that Tholke cut the boat loose. Others have suggested that the French team didn't properly secure the boat to the mooring.
Neither of those is true. The real problem is that the underwater area around Piers 30-32 is littered with chunks of concrete and iron bars. At low tide, the mooring line apparently got hooked on one of them.
When the tide came back up, the flotation ball attempted to push to the surface, but was held down. Eventually the strain snapped the line.
Now, about the security guard who was supposed to be watching the boats …
Christina Olague is leading a charmed life in the District Five supervisors' race.
First she turned her back on Mayor Ed Lee and voted to reinstate Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi. Although that solidified her progressive credentials, there was a backlash from Lee supporters, and progressives griped that she was only likely to split support with Julian Davis, who received an odd, very tepid, endorsement from the Bay Guardian.
But now Davis is imploding. After SF Weekly found a woman who accused Davis of unwanted sexual advances six years ago, rather than answering the charges, the Weekly says Davis sent a letter to the woman threatening legal action.
That was such a sleazy move that the Weekly reports that Supervisors David Campos and John Avalos withdrew their endorsements for Davis – which clears the way for Olague.
Meanwhile, jilted Olague supporters are trying to decide whom to support. The obvious choice is London Breed, whose handlers really wish she hadn't gone all F-bomb in an interview.
Others suggest Thea Selby, who has a surprisingly large war chest.
"Which one is she?" you ask.
Stopped in at SB40, the casual hamburger and beer place on the Embarcadero, just north of the ballpark. Our server happened to be manager Hardy Barles. I asked him if he was excited to have tons of Giants fans stopping by before the game.
Although he said most of them are fine, "you wouldn't believe how many people walk out on their checks," he said. The worst are the families, with small children, who send the kids to the bathroom and tell them to sneak around the corner and meet Mom and Dad on the street.
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The Garden Route has a maritime Mediterranean climate with hot summers and mild winters with chilly nights. The area experiences the most rainfall in South Africa, but this seldom hinders travellers from enjoying the beauty of the region. The western half of the Garden Route, within the Western Cape, has a similar climate to Cape Town, with most rain falling in the winter months (June to August).
Towards the east, in the Eastern Cape and approaching Port Elizabeth, rain tends to fall predominantly during the summer months (December to February). The fact that the route winds along the coast ensures that the weather can be rather unpredictable and rain is always a possibility.
Average temperatures from December to March (summer and early spring) are about 75ºF (24ºC) to 86ºF (30ºC), while the average winter temperature is 64ºF (18ºC). As these averages suggest, the Garden Route is seldom uncomfortably hot or cold.
The Garden Route is stunning in any weather, making it a year-round destination, but as some of the main attractions are beaches and hikes the best time to visit is in late spring, summer and early autumn (anytime between October and March) when with any luck there should be sunshine and the water will be warm enough for swimming. Travellers should bear in mind that the main resorts become extremely crowded over the Christmas period.
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PHOENIX on Gemini South Reveals Clues about the Origin of Fluorine
PHOENIX was used to sample multiple stellar atmospheres and has revealed tantalizing clues that neutrino interaction during the supernovae explosion of massive stars is involved in the genesis of fluorine. PHOENIX uses a Gemini supplied 1024 x 1024 InSb Aladdin II array.
Despite our awareness of fluorine's unique properties, its astrophysical origin is not well understood. Like most heavy elements, fluorine is a product of nuclear reactions in the hot cores of stars during various phases of their evolution. Furthermore, fluorine is not easy to observe in the universe, and very few spectroscopic measurements of fluorine in stars exist. Until the recent Gemini work reported here, only a meager set of data for a few stars in our own Milky Way was available.
A spectroscopic program conducted at Gemini South, located on Cerro Pachón, Chile, has changed this picture. Katia Cunha (Observatório Nacional, Brazil) led a PHOENIX team of researchers on Gemini South to measure the abundance of fluorine in our own galaxy's satellite, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), and in the massive galactic globular cluster Centauri. The team studied fluorine in its most accessible form, hydrofluoric acid (HF), which is detectable through vibration-rotation transitions falling in the near infrared close to the wavelength of 2.3 microns (main figure and Figure 1). These Gemini observations provide unique insight on how fluorine behaves as a function of the abundance of the other elements, specifically metals, helping to identify how fluorine is made.
To better understand how the abundance of fluorine depends on metallicity and stellar populations, Cunha and her collaborators compared their Gemini measurements with known K and M type stars of our own Milky Way. The total sample of stars with fluorine abundance determinations contains 23 red giant stars across three stellar populations including the solar neighborhood, Centauri and the LMC. It is to be noted that the abundance of fluorine, like that of other elements, does not only depend on the yield from nucleosynthesis processes. Star formation history and element dispersal mechanisms can also play important roles.
Nine red giants stars in the LMC and two in Centauri were observed with PHOENIX. The behavior of the fluorine abundance as a function of oxygen (Figure 2) and iron (Figure 3) show definite trends. The figures clearly reveal that the ratio of fluorine to oxygen [F/O] decreases from the near-solar metallicity galactic stars, to lower metallicity LMC giants and Arcturus ( Bootis). Oxygen is produced in the supernova explosions of stars with masses greater than ~8-10 Msun (SN II). In contrast, iron is mostly from lower mass stars supernovae (SNI).
The main mechanisms for producing fluorine in stars are: (1) neutrino-induced spallation of a proton from Neon-20, referred to as the neutrino process; (2) synthesis from helium capture by Nitrogen-14 during asymtoptic giant branch (AGB) thermal pulses; and (3) production of Fluorine-19 in the cores of massive Wolf-Rayet (W-R) stars. Because the Centauri stars show depletion of fluorine instead of enrichment, the authors easily discard the AGB stars as an important cradle of fluorine. For Wolf-Rayet stars to be major providers of fluorine, they need to undergo, more substantial mass loss than currently accepted.
Although a W-R source cannot be excluded at this stage, the best bet is the neutrino process of spallation in supernovae of massive stars (SN II). Models of neutrino nucleosynthesis predict that the [F/O] ratio declines steadily as oxygen declines. This is shown very clearly in Figure 4.
The Centauri red giants stand out from this prediction and trend. We know that Centauri had 3 or 4 major isolated episodes of star formation, which ended several billions years ago, giving the cluster its wide range of metal abundance. In contrast, the Milky and the LMC are undergoing continuous star formation.
Taking into account the different star-formation histories, the authors conclude that the dependence of [F/O] on A(O) - as measured in Galactic LMC and Centauri red giant stars is best explained by the chemical evolution models using the known neutrino spallation present in massive supernovae, and that these explosions must be the principal source of fluorine-19.
For more details, see the paper "Fluorine Abundances in the Large Magellanic Cloud and Centauri: Evidence for Neutrino Nucleosynthesis," by Katia Cunha (Observatório Nacional, Brazil), Verne V. Smith (University of Texas, El Paso), David L. Lambert (University of Texas at Austin), and Kenneth H. Hinkle (NOAO), The Astronomical Journal, September 2003.
The PHOENIX spectrometer (Hinkle et al. 1998, Proc. SPIE, 3354, 164) was built by NOAO.


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YORK, PA – The nationally ranked York College women's basketball team rode another outstanding defensive performance to remain unbeaten after a 67-41 victory over Franklin & Marshall College on Monday.
The Spartans improve to 7-0 overall with the non-conference win. York is ranked 12th in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll and 14th in the d3hoops.com Poll. The Diplomats fall to 3-4 overall as Franklin & Marshall has lost four straight after their 3-0 start. The Spartans' 7-0 start is the best in school history, surpassing the 2007-08 squad for the longest win streak to start a season.
The game had a decidedly offensive tone early on in the contest. The Diplomats owned an 8-7 lead just 3:34 into the game. That's when the Spartans locked down the Dips and used a 13-0 run to take a 20-8 lead at the 11:38 mark.
Unfortunately for York, the Spartans then went ice cold from the field. York would go 0-for-12 from the floor including 0-for-2 from three and 0-for-2 from the free throw line while they turned the ball over four times over a 7:53 stretch. That enabled the Diplomats to cut the Spartan lead to 20-17.
The Spartan offense found it's groove over the final 3:45 of the half as junior Brittany Hicks (Dover, Pa./York Catholic) hit a jumper to halt the drought. That started an 11-0 spurt to close the half, pushing York's lead to 31-17. Senior Loreta Tonuzi (Hazlet, N.J./Raritan) put a cap on the run with a three-pointer with two seconds prior to the halftime horn.
The Spartans continued to take the play to the Diplomats to start the second half as York began the second stanza with a 16-3 run as they pushed the lead to 27 points with over 12 minutes left in the game. York's lead would not fall below 18 points the rest of the way.
Hicks was fantastic again as the Spartan forward led all scorers with as season-high 24 points on 7-of-13 shooting from the floor including 2-for-3 from distance. Hicks was also 8-for-9 from the free throw line. She narrowly missed her sixth double-double of the year with nine rebounds in her 34 minutes of action. Not only was Hicks the Spartans' best offensive player but she hounded the Diplomats' preseason All-American Alexa Barbush into 6-for-18 shooting from the floor as she was held to 13 points, five points below her season average of 18.
Junior Kelsey Murphy (Olney, Md./Good Counsel) was the other Spartan in double figures as she poured in a season-high 14 points including a season-high four three point field goals. Junior Aja Wallpher (Ellicott City, Md./Seton Keough) had an outstanding floor game as she had eight assists, zero turnovers, seven steals, four points and four rebounds in her 35 minutes of work. Sophomore Kailee Knight (Crofton, Md./South River) just missed a double-double with a career-high nine points while she pulled in 11 rebounds. Junior Kristen Haley (Silver Spring, Md./Georgetown Visitation) also pulled in 11 rebounds for York.
Emma Lisle played well for the Diplomats as she notched 12 points and 16 rebounds for the double-double. Lisle was 6-for-11 from the floor while she also blocked a pair of shots in 33 minutes of action. Barbush added three rebounds, three assists, and two steals to her 13 points, as she was the second Diplomat in double figures.
The Diplomats outrebounded York 45-42 however the Spartans had a 17-10 edge in second chance points.
The Green and White struggled from the floor as they shot just 28.3% for the game. Despite their low overall shooting percentage, York converted a season-high 47.1% from three. Their eight three-pointers made were a season-high. The Spartans were also very good from the free throw line as they attempted a season-high 33 free throws while the also made a season-high 25, good for a 75.8% mark.
The Diplomats were held 20 points below their season average while their 28.6% shooting percentage was just under eight percentage points below their average. The Diplomats went just 2-for-8 from three while they were 7-of-9 from the free throw line.
York did a fantastic job of taking care of the ball as they committed a season-low eight turnovers, one game after having a season-high 26 at St. Mary's. The Spartans forced 22 Diplomat turnovers, which York turned into 23 points.
The Spartans close out the fall portion of their schedule on Saturday when they travel to Wesley College to face the Wolverines in a Capital Athletic Conference contest. Game time is set for 1:00 pm in Dover, Delaware.
Audio Highlights Courtesy of Darrell Henry, the Voice of the Spartans
Kelsey Murphy photo courtesy of Theresa Dark - Athletic Communications Student Photographer


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Feb. 27, 2006
PHILADELPHIA, PA - Three members of the women's etam placed within the top 16 at this weekend's IFA's in Philadelphia.
Each squad split the glory, with one top finisher from each squad. The honored Bulldogs were Isadora Botwinick in epee, Erin Frey in sabre, and Diana Schawlowski in foil. Frey was also nominated for a leadership award.
The Bulldogs look next to March 5th's NCAA Regionals competition.
Report by Lauren Wiznia '09, Yale Sports Publicity


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One of my 2013 predictions — coming soon! — is that rifles will trail knives as murder weapons of choice in the coming year as they have in the most recent five-year period for which statistics are available. Magical thinking underlies the calls for gun control in the wake of the slaughter of the innocents at the Sandy Hook school, but a relentless logic is at work in this anecdote of modern life in the Britain formerly known as Great:
A disabled caravanner who kept a penknife in his glove compartment to use on picnics has blasted the authorities after being dragged through court for possessing an offensive weapon.
Rodney Knowles, 61, walks with the aid of a stick and had used the Swiss Army knife to cut up fruit on picnics with his wife.
Knowles yesterday admitted possessing an offensive weapon at Torquay Magistrates Court. He was given a conditional discharge.
But speaking after the hearing, he said: 'It's a stupid law. Now I have a criminal record.'
Prosecutor Philip Sewell told the court that Knowles was stopped by police when he left a pub on February 24.
He was arrested for suspected drink-driving but a breath test showed he was under the legal limit, the court was told.
But Knowles was charged with possession of the knife, which was found in its pouch in the car glove compartment.
Mr Sewell told the court: 'He told officers that he had the knife for caravanning. He is not working and had no malicious reason for carrying the blade'
Defence solicitor Jolyon Tuck said Knowles, who is a carer for his wife, had used the knife to cut up fruit on picnics with his wife.
'He accepts it was in his car and the law is very clear,' he said. He admits possession of it and he had no good reason for having it.'
Chairman of the bench Robert Horne ordered forfeiture of the knife and £40 costs to be paid.
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The Northside High first-year volleyball coach said that leading the Monarchs has been fun.
�It�s better than I thought it would be,� Schulz said. �I love every second of it.�
Schulz particularly likes the improvement in the preseason by her team, which will play in the inaugural Onslow County Jamboree today at the Jacksonville Commons Recreation Center.
She said the Monarchs have showed improvement throughout summer workouts and preseason practice, which has made the players more confident as they prepare for their season opener Tuesday at White Oak.
�We�ve improved so much since the beginning of summer,� said Schulz, a 2004 graduate of Northside who played volleyball for the Monarchs. �Our serving has improved and our passing has improved. We�ve had some stronger attackers and they keep getting better. They can see they are getting better.�
But Schulz doesn�t want Northside to stop. She wants the Monarchs to continue to take steps in the right direction and she feels the Onslow County Jamboree will help the team do just that.
Northside plays its first match today at 11:20 a.m. against East Central 2-A Conference foe Dixon, which moved into the league from the Coastal Plains 1-A Conference following statewide realignment.
Last year, Dixon went 12-8 overall and advanced to the second round of the NCHSAA 1-A playoffs.
No scores will be kept during these hour-long scrimmages and no winner for the entire event � which features varsity and JV teams � will be decided, Swansboro coach and jamboree organizer Kim Miller said.
Nonetheless, Schulz wants to see her Monarchs compete hard and work to improve.
�We need to learn from our mistakes. We play three different teams and so we have three different chances to see all our mistakes we make,� Schulz said. �I would say communication is one of the biggest things we need to improve on, and every team can improve on their passing. We will have plenty of chances to improve.�
Miller is also looking for improvement from her Pirates, who went 9-10 and made the state 2-A playoffs last year before moving up to 3-A this year.
Swansboro opens today�s play at 9 a.m. against Richlands, which like the Pirates also jumped from the ECC to the Coastal 3-A Conference.
The Pirates tip off the season Tuesday at Croatan.
�We scrimmaged (on Wednesday night) against East Duplin, South Lenoir and Wallace-Rose Hill,� Miller said. �We want to improve on what we did. We look to get more chemistry and fine-tune our lineups and rotations. We will evaluate each player and see what they can offer the team.�
Jacksonville second-year coach Melinda Rakes said her team has been trying to come together after the Cardinals graduated their �high percentage scorers� from last year�s team that went 11-12 and advanced to the second round of the state 3-A playoffs.
Jacksonville opens the season Tuesday at home against Ashley.
�We got some stumbling blocks for sure. We have things we need to work on,� Rakes said. �I�m hoping to improve our passing by facing some better servers. We need to improve our passing and gel more as a team.�
Rakes also wants her squad to play hard today. That shouldn�t be a problem, given the Cardinals open the jamboree at 9 a.m. against rival White Oak, which went 14-8 last year and made the state playoffs.
�It�s going to be fun,� Rakes said. �I think the girls will play harder because it is White Oak. We will be missing our starting middle hitter and starting libero�, but this will give us some looks at other girls in the middle and at other defensive players.�
Southwest is also in the field. The Stallions went 17-5 last year and advanced to the third round of the 1-A playoffs. Southwest is now 2-A.
Onslow County Jamboree
At Jacksonville Commons Rec Center
Admission: free
Court 1
Swansboro vs. Richlands, 9 a.m.
Jacksonville vs. Lejeune, 10:10 a.m.
Northside vs. Dixon, 11:20 a.m.
Lunch break 12:20-1:20
Southwest vs. Lejeune, 1:20 p.m.
Swansboro vs. Dixon, 2:30 p.m.
Richlands vs. Dixon, 3:40 p.m.
Court 2
White Oak vs. Jacksonville, 9 a.m.
White Oak vs. Southwest, 10:10 a.m.
Lejeune vs. White Oak, 11:20 a.m.
Lunch break 12:20-1:20
Swansboro vs. Northside, 1:20 p.m.
Richlands vs. Southwest, 2:30 p.m.
Jacksonville vs. Northside, 3:40 p.m.
Aug. 24
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Admission: adults $5, students $3, free 6 and under
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Sanderson vs. Southwest, 8 a.m.
Swansboro vs. Dixon, 9 a.m.
Sanderson vs. Dixon, 10 a.m.
Lejeune vs. Jacksonville, 11 a.m.
Lejeune vs. Croatan, noon
Jacksonville vs. East Duplin, 1 p.m.
At Swansboro HS
Croatan vs. Jacksonville, 8 a.m.
Lejeune vs. East Duplin, 9 a.m.
Croatan vs. East Duplin, 10 a.m.
Southwest vs. Swansboro, 11 a.m.
Sanderson vs. Swansboro, noon
Southwest vs. Dixon, 1 p.m.
Tournament play starts at 3 p.m.


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CHICAGO – Days after the announcement of sanctions against Penn State, at what seems like an epochal moment in Big Ten history, the most persistent topic of discussion at the conference's Media Days event was not the appalling crimes that led to the penalties, nor the institutional cover-up. Instead, the conversation shifted to "intraconference recruiting."
In other words, the poaching of Penn State players.
With the start of preseason practices only a week away, any Nittany Lion player is eligible to transfer to a new school and would be allowed to play immediately. Permission-to-contact rules have been suspended, as have off-campus and telephone recruiting rules. Calls are being made – many calls. Hundreds of calls.
Coaches from each Big Ten program fielded the same question from the assembled press, usually phrased in the same way: "Do you have a problem with schools being able to solicit players from Penn State?"
Their answers were measured and unpracticed, usually preceded by a guarded pause, often full of qualifiers.
"I have a problem with that," Ohio State's Urban Meyer said. "I just … I have a problem with that."
When pressed to expand on that answer, Meyer said, "As a player, a young man has a right to play wherever he wants. We have to keep that in mind. However, when he's part of a team, you're getting into a situation that we're not quite very familiar with. And we're not going to get very familiar with it."
From Wisconsin's Bret Bielema: "I'm not casting doubt on anybody or questioning anything. But we made a decision that we would not actively pursue any Penn State players."
Nebraska's Bo Pelini threaded the same thin needle as Bielema, drawing a distinction between active recruitment and … well, whatever the alternative might be. Something presumably less intrusive and generally less offensive.
"We're not actively pursuing any Penn State players," Pelini said. "We're concentrating on our football team, the guys in our program. Now that isn't to say that if there is a young man from Penn State who definitely wanted to transfer and was for sure going to leave and Nebraska was someplace he was considering, that we wouldn't take a look at him to see if it made sense for our program."
Not every coach took the same don't-make-the-first-move approach. New Illinois coach Tim Beckman, for example, dispatched as many as eight assistants to State College.
"But we did not go on campus," Beckman said. "We went to two establishments outside campus and called some individuals, and if they wanted to come by, it was their opportunity to come by."
Purdue coach Danny Hope didn't exactly sound like a wait-and-see recruiter, either: "As long as we're compliant, we're going to exercise every opportunity we can to enhance our own football team."
Iowa's Kirk Ferentz, now the Big Ten's longest-tenured coach, offered this: "Probably the best path for anyone is to make sure they are in compliance. And I'm still fuzzy with a lot of things there. Then the other thing I think is just handle it whatever way you feel is appropriate. I think a lot of people are taking a lot of different approaches to it. I'm really comfortable with the direction we're taking right now and we'll continue to do so."
Penn State linebacker Michael Mauti is not entirely comfortable with the direction that every school has taken.
"There's been coaches hounding our players, man – like 10-12 calls a day," Mauti told reporters Thursday. " 'Come out and visit, come out, come here.' On our campus, outside of our apartments, outside of our classrooms. To me, it just doesn't seem right. Even some coaches from this conference."
New Penn State coach Bill O'Brien is at the center of this recruiting storm, attempting to retain his players and engage the alumni base despite facing a four-year bowl ban and massive scholarship reduction.
"The sanctions are what they are," O'Brien said. "It's time to get up and get going, which we started Monday at 10 a.m."
O'Brien opened his Media Days remarks with a calculated reminder of where he has been in his coaching career, most notably as an assistant with the New England Patriots.
"This is a little bit different media day than the last one I was at," he said. "At the Super Bowl."
The NFL connection clearly is going to be a major selling point for O'Brien with future recruits and current players who require re-recruitment.
At times, in fact, he seemed to be a Bill Belichick clone. Twice he responded to reporters with a flat one-word, "No." Another question received a simple, "Right now, no." A two-part question about intra-conference transfers drew this response: "Nothing surprises me, so the answer to the first question is 'no.' And the other, I have no thought on that."
But when asked about the challenge of holding his team together, O'Brien was detailed and expansive.
"The measure of a man is how you overcome adversity," he said. "I talked to [the players] about how, without a shadow of a doubt, they're going to be able to play six or seven bowl games per year in front of 108,000 screaming fans at Beaver Stadium – and I expect it to be 108,000 fans in Beaver Stadium. I talked to them about this staff and our ability to develop these guys for the National Football League. I told them this staff isn't going anywhere and we're committed to the 2012 football team."
That same day, perhaps at the same moment, junior running back Silas Redd was meeting with USC coach Lane Kiffin. And Beckman's assistants evidently were lurking, somewhere. And phones were ringing, always.
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany met with conference coaches to offer guidance, if not complete clarity.
"Our presidents were clear and unanimous that they want these [Penn State] students to have the opportunity to go where they want to go and with no exceptions, including Big Ten exceptions," Delany said. "What I said to our coaches this morning … you know, I get it. This is what the rules are. And I expect you to operate in a way that makes sense not just under the rules, but sense to you as adults and grownups."
But many of the grownups still apparently need an assist from compliance officers.
"It's like NFL free agency," O'Brien said. "Without the rules."
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For the next two weeks, we're hosting our own Summer Food Fights on FOOD52 -- come play along! Big prizes await.
Today: We go face to face with Serious Eats for the ultimate three-layer cake -- Clananafouti Swamp Monkey vs Sir Plumple. Bellyaches ensue.
Have you ever heard of a cherpumple? The idea is nutty: first, you bake a cherry pie, a pumpkin pie, and an apple pie. (Hence the name.) Then...you bake each pie into a cake -- traditionally a chocolate cake, a spice cake, and a yellow cake, respectively.
What? I'll show you: First, you drizzle cake batter into your prepared pan. Then, firmly grasping your fully-baked pie, you flip it into the cake pan and cover it with the remaining batter. Contrary to expectations, it bakes up perfectly, without ruining the pie, into a perfectly smooth cake...with a secret inside.
Do this three times, stack the results, and you get a monstrosity of baked goodness that we can only describe as...Olympian. Which is why we challenged our friends at Serious Eats, who we decided were most likely to take on a ridiculous baking project, to a Cherpumple-Off!
The ChallengeTo bake the craziest, most imaginative, most delicious cherpumple-inspired confection. To make things interesting, we took on a sweet cherpumple and Serious Eats signed up for a savory one.
The Results: FOOD52I baked our three pies at home, then transported them to the test kitchen for layer baking and stacking -- I knew I couldn't do it all in a day. The pies? I kept it in-house with contest-winning Cherry Clafouti, Amanda's Raspberry Swamp Pie, and the Banana Cream Pie from the New York Times Cookbook (I swapped in a meringue topping from the book for the cream).
My strategy was to wow the audience with wildly different pies that each had difficult elements: fragile meringue, creamy, oozing raspberry pie, and delicate clafouti custard.
And the difficulty continued with the chosen cakes: the banana meringue was paired with Monkey(Ginger)Bread, because I knew I wanted to incorporate a yeasted sweet bread. The clafouti went inside a Milles Crepes layered with whipped cream (I used the batter in this recipe for Crepes with Lemon Curd & Blueberry Compote) in keeping with the French theme. And to keep a layer classic, the raspberry pie was embedded into Tender Yellow Cake, which you can see above in the cake layer how-to.
Kenzi and I taking a deep breath before cake assembly
As you can see, assembling the layers was no cake walk -- the crepes slipped and slided, and the banana cream was partially oozing through the monkeybread. (Have you ever tried turning a meringue-topped pie upside down?)
But once we iced the contraption -- which, by the way, weighed at least fifteen pounds -- with Nancy Silverton's Genius Whipped Cream, it looked positively svelte:
We'll show you the inside when we get to scoring. For now, on to Serious Eats.
The Results: Serious EatsIn a move that still has us reeling, the SE team, led by Chief Creative Officer J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, made a Thanksgiving-themed savory cherpumple for their entry. The mind boggles.
They kept it simple: sweet potato pie, green bean casserole pie, and chicken pot pie, all in double crusts of pie dough. (For those of you keeping track at home: that's a pound and a half of butter just in the pies.)
The pairings? Sweet potatoes matched up with jalapeno cornbread, green bean casserole went inside a sage-sausage stuffing, and the chicken pot pie became a Turducken layer, embedded in a duck-turkey meatloaf. (Slow clap for that one, Serious Eats.)
Kenji encountered some of the same crumbling issues we did when it came to assembly, but again, icing solves all problems. Or, in their case, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and fried garlic.
The final result was impressive to behold. (I will confess that I gasped audibly.) But what about the inside?
The BreakdownIn the end, the competition got closer than anyone could have expected. We invented the following rubric for cherpumple success -- the winner is the one with the most points out of 50:
5 for nameF52: 5 "Clananafouti Swamp Monkey": In the spirit of "cherpumple" itself, it both tells you what you're dealing with in the cake, and is just really fun to say. SE: 3"Sir Plumple": SE took the meta-route -- Thanksgiving, with its pardoned White House turkeys, is a holiday that can't help but be anthropomorphized -- but points off for no portmanteau.
Tally: FOOD52 5, Serious Eats 3
5 for sliceabilityF52: 1The cake buckled about 30 seconds after the first slice was pulled out, with the Raspberry Swamp Pie leaking and the Milles Crepes oozing whipped cream. Soon after, the cake did an impressive imitation of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, slowly slumping sideways until the top layer reached the baking sheet.
SE: 4The cake held up to numerous slices, both thick and thin, while staying whole and upright! But when it had reached the halfway point, small bits of the cornbread and stuffing layers began to detach from their inner crusts like shingles on an old house.
Tally: FOOD52 6, Serious Eats 7
5 for appearanceF52: 4 With a rustic (but maybe too rustic) whipped cream outside and a monkeybread top that begged to be picked at, the cherpumple looked like a hatbox (kind of). Or an oatmeal cream pie with a foot of cream filling (kind of).
SE: 4With piped-on mashed potatoes flourishing the top and bottom of the cake, fried garlic paving its outsides, and a slick of cranberry sauce garnished with chives in the shape of the Serious Eats logo on top, the cake looked adorably like an elaborate throw pillow. But one point off for structural problems -- under the weight of its Turducken top layer, the top-heavy cake started to bulge in the middle from the heaviness as soon as it was assembled.
Tally: FOOD52 10, Serious Eats 11
10 for originalityF52: 9The cake ran the gamut of both pie styles -- with a double crust, a meringue top, and a clafouti -- and cake styles -- with a regular yellow cake, a yeasted sweet bread, and a crepes cake. (You'd think they were trying to make it hard on themselves or something.) The pairs of cakes and pies themselves were complementary without being expected, but hey, is clafouti really a pie?SE: 7 Points for executing a Turducken layer (a meme within a meme!), but while the idea of a Thanksgiving-themed Cherpumple itself was original, once that was decided the rest was pretty expected.
Tally: FOOD2 19, Serious Eats 18
25 for flavorF52: 20 The cherpumple had an all-star pedigree: the Raspberry Swamp Pie, Ginger Monkeybread, Cherry Clafouti, and Tender Yellow Cake were all FOOD52 contest winners in the past, and they worked as well as a dream team as they did on their own. However, though the Banana Meringue Pie was impressive (how do you flip that into a cake pan?), it was a bit overambitious -- baked inside the yeasted bread, the meringue became gooey and tough on top and the graham crust got soggy. And the Mille Crepes was a whipped cream bomb, with little flavor aside from the clafouti inside. Post-collapse, the cake almost worked better than it did upright -- hand-picking bites from among the wreckage, with a little bit of cream here and a little bit of gingerbread there, was a delight.
SE: 23Here's the thing about Thanksgiving: everything goes well with everything. Taken as a whole, the flavors were harmonious and familiar. Of course you'd want a bite of stuffing at the same time as a bite of green beans. But taken separately, the cornbread was a bit one-note, with the jalapeno dominating, and the sweet potatoes were underseasoned, neither sweet not savory. And some of ours tasters complained about the fried garlic being overwhelming (though to be fair, others loved it).
Final Tally: FOOD52 39, Serious Eats 41
The Winner: Serious Eats!
Congratulations to our friends at Serious Eats! The points were close, but we knew we were goners when we saw (and tasted til our bellies ached) their Sir Plumple. As you can see from my and Kenzi's expressions as Kenji cuts into the cake, we weren't even mad -- just impressed and in awe. It takes a special kind of crazy to make a twenty-pound cake that takes a full two days to finish. It turns out that both Kenji and I have what it takes to do so, but Serious Eats won this round.
Til the next time, and the next intricate baked good, we're signing out!
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- Country's diabetes rate among highest globally
The report, " Diabetes in the United Arab Emirates: Crisis or Opportunity?," estimates that 32 percent of the country's adult population, including both UAE nationals and expatriates, may have diabetes or prediabetes by 2020 at a cost of $8.52 billion 1 (USD) (AED 31.27 billion 2) over the next decade if current trends continue.
"These new estimates highlight the urgent need for further action to stem the oncoming tidal wave of diabetes-related illness and related costs in the United Arab Emirates," said Simon Stevens, executive vice president, UnitedHealth Group, and president of its Global Health division. "The good news is that curbing this epidemic is possible, since type 2 diabetes is largely preventable. The way forward begins with building on some of the innovative ideas now being tested in the UAE and bringing them to scale, informed by interventions and programs that have been shown to work in other countries facing similar challenges."
Currently in the UAE, it is estimated that the vast majority of cases of prediabetes and about 35 percent of cases of diabetes remain undiagnosed, representing lost opportunities to avoid the costs and complications of a largely preventable disease. If left uncontrolled, type 2 diabetes can lead to severe complications, such as heart and kidney disease, nerve damage, blindness and limb amputation. Medical costs due to diabetes and prediabetes in the UAE may rise to an annual $1.04 billion (AED 5.14 billion) by 2020, representing a 58 percent increase from an estimated $657 million (AED 2.41 billion) in 2010, according to the report.
Worldwide, the prevalence of diabetes and prediabetes has increased dramatically over the past two decades on a parallel track with the global increase in obesity. More than 285 million people around the globe have diabetes. Without intervention that figure is expected to climb to 438 million people within 20 years. 3
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According to some estimates, the UAE's type 2 diabetes rate is among the top five countries in the world. In the UAE, about 13 percent of the population between 20 and 79 years of age has diabetes – more than double the global average of 6.4 percent. 4
Being overweight or obese is one of the primary risk factors for type 2 diabetes. According to the World Health Organization, about 73 percent of adult women and 66 percent of men in the UAE are overweight or obese, placing the country in the top five worldwide in terms of obesity.
"The epidemic of type 2 diabetes and its warning sign, prediabetes, are sweeping across the globe imposing severe health consequences and straining the financial resources of health care systems everywhere," said Mr. Stevens. "As an innovative and technologically advanced country, the UAE is well positioned to make diabetes prevention a top priority and serve as an example to other countries in the region, and around the world."
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Diabetes in the United Arab Emirates: Crisis or Opportunity? offers three solutions that, over the next decade, could help prevent, delay onset of, or control the disease:
- Screening and Diagnosis: There is an opportunity to reduce the number of people who would develop prediabetes or diabetes by offering straightforward screening tests to people with known risk factors (overweight, inactivity, hypertension, abnormal blood lipid levels, cardiovascular disease, family history and belonging to a high-risk ethnic population). This is an important first step toward health, building on the important initiatives now taking place in some Emirates.
- Intervention and Prevention: Enabling and encouraging people to make better lifestyle decisions about diet and exercise directly address the principal risk factors of obesity and inactivity.5 Intervention studies of people with prediabetes in China, Finland, India, Sweden and the United States have uniformly shown reductions in the progression to type 2 diabetes.
- Disease Management and Control: People with type 2 diabetes who actively manage their condition can more readily avoid the devastating complications related to the disease. This entails careful monitoring of blood sugar levels, taking any prescribed medications as instructed, maintaining weight loss, and increasing the use of self-care measures such as daily foot inspection, and regular eye and dental examinations.
The best hope of turning the tide on the evolving diabetes crisis in the UAE is by establishing community-based initiatives in collaboration with government public health agencies, nonprofit organizations and the private sector that can help to build public awareness about diabetes and its risk factors and modernize health care systems' ability to use sophisticated data analytics, new technology, and innovative care models that engage consumers in new ways.
UnitedHealth Group is widely recognized as a pioneer in developing innovative new care models for preventing and treating diabetes, in partnership with patients, health professionals, community organizations and governments. FORTUNE magazine independently ranked UnitedHealth Group No. 1 in its industry for innovation in 2010. The company was also recognized by The Wall Street Journal's 2010 Technology Innovation Awards. Visit www.unitedhealthgroup.com for more information.
About UnitedHealth Group
UnitedHealth Group is a diversified health and well-being company dedicated to helping people live healthier lives and making health care work better. With headquarters in Minnetonka, Minn., UnitedHealth Group offers a broad spectrum of products and services through six operating businesses: UnitedHealthcare Employer & Individual, UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement, UnitedHealthcare Community & State, OptumHealth, Ingenix and Prescription Solutions. Through its family of businesses, UnitedHealth Group serves more than 75 million people worldwide. Visit www.unitedhealthgroup.com for more information.
1 Unless otherwise stated, the monetary value is in 2010 constant U.S. dollars.
2 USD1.00=AED3.6724, Bloomberg, as of December 1, 2010
3 International Diabetes Federation. IDF Diabetes Atlas. 4th ed. Brussels, Belgium: International Diabetes Federation, 2009.
4 International Diabetes Federation. IDF Diabetes Atlas. 4th ed. Brussels, Belgium: International Diabetes Federation, 2009. Prevalence data is for both types 1 and 2 diabetes. According to the IDF Diabetes Atlas, "For most low income countries few people with type 1 diabetes survive long in adulthood so [data for adults] is close to 0%. In higher income countries around 5% to 10% have type 1 diabetes and the rest type 2 diabetes."
5 Gillies CL, Abrams KR, Lambert PC, et al. Pharmacological and lifestyle interventions to prevent or delay type 2 diabetes in people with impaired glucose tolerance: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ 2007;334:299.


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To use the IDE to configure security for a web service and/or a web service operation, perform the following steps.
Create or open your web service.
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When creating an application using the wizards in NetBeans IDE and running on GlassFish, the Java EE Version defaults to Java EE 5. This results in an application compliant with JSR-109, Implementing Enterprise Web Services, which can be read at http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=109. If you select a value other than the default, for example, J2EE 1.4, the application that is created is not JSR-109 compliant, which means that the application is not JAX-WS, but is JAX-RPC.
In the Projects window, expand the Web Services node.
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The WSIT Configuration file that is used when the web service is deployed can be viewed by expanding the Web Pages->WEB-INF elements of the application in the tree, and then double-clicking the wsit-package.service.xml file to open it in the editor. The full contents of an example service-side WSIT configuration file can be viewed at Service-Side WSIT Configuration Files.
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After he was elected the head of Right Cause — a Russian political party "once openly anti-Kremlin, but more recently the party has been led by loyal personalities" — Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov said he probably wouldn't publicly call bad-ass Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin out publicly.
"Let's ask an honest question: Do we have a multiparty system? Of course not," Mr. Prokhorov said, defining his goal as creating a party that could be part of such a system in Russia.
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In related and/or unrelated news, little progress was reported after Friday's player/owner discussions, so an NBA lockout is looking more and more likely.
Tycoon to lead Right Cause party [The Voice of Russia]
Billionaire Owner of New Jersey Nets Takes Helm of Party in Russia [New York Times]
Russian Billionaire Announces Plan for Political Party [New York Times]


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