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Statistics report puts spotlight on pregnancy and heart health
Complications during pregnancy are widespread, becoming more common and often overlooked as warning signs about a woman's heart health.
Which is why for the first time, in an effort to guide clinicians and empower women, the authors of a widely used reference on the facts and figures surrounding cardiovascular diseases are including information on adverse pregnancy outcomes.
Pregnancy has been termed a window into the future of a woman's cardiovascular health, said Dr. Sadiya S. Khan, an assistant professor of medicine and preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago. "It's nature's stress test. And it is such an important time period for both mom and child."
Khan served on the writing committee for the American Heart Association's statistical update published Wednesday in its journal Circulation. The annually revised work, compiled in conjunction with the National Institutes of Health, summarizes the latest, most significant data on heart disease, stroke and related conditions.
Adding a chapter on pregnancy complications puts that issue "front and center," said Dr. Salim Virani, chair of the report's writing committee and a professor of cardiology and cardiovascular research at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. The goal is to gain valuable years in the fight against heart disease in women and their children—and to help women work with their health care team to make sure they're getting the treatment they need.
Khan said that in young women with no apparent signs of heart disease, pregnancy is a "unique and natural time" to unmask hidden risk for heart disease. "During pregnancy, your weight changes. Your blood pressure may change. Your glucose levels may change. And so the combined cardiometabolic stress test of pregnancy can be really informative and guide interventions to reduce risk for heart disease."
Complications such as preeclampsia (a pregnancy-related condition defined by high blood pressure and organ damage), gestational diabetes (diabetes that arises during pregnancy), gestational hypertension (high blood pressure that arises during pregnancy), and preterm and underweight babies can be warning signs for later heart disease, strokes and heart failure.
"You can identify these high-risk women early on," Virani said. "Then you have opportunities to work on their risk factors, whether they are seen by a primary care clinician or by their OB-GYN."
Among the statistics highlighted in the new chapter:
- Rates of blood pressure-related complications in pregnancy almost doubled in the U.S. between 1993 and 2014, from 528.9 per 10,000 births in hospitals to 912.4.
- The frequency of gestational diabetes hit 6% in 2016, up 0.4% from four years earlier.
- Cardiovascular deaths are the most common cause of maternal deaths—at 26.5%.
- Black women face a risk of dying during or soon after pregnancy that's 2.5 times greater than white women and three times greater than Hispanic women.
Overall, 10% to 20% of women will have some kind of health issue during pregnancy. And the problems don't end once the pregnancy does. According to studies cited in the guide:
- High blood pressure that develops during pregnancy was associated with a 67% higher risk of later cardiovascular disease.
- Preeclampsia was associated with a 75% higher risk of later death from cardiovascular disease.
- The odds of cardiovascular disease in women who had gestational diabetes was 68% higher compared with those who did not.
Paying attention to such issues could make a difference in the health of huge numbers of women, Virani said.
In practical terms, pregnancy offers a chance to reach women while they are sure to be in contact with a clinician, he said. For clinicians, it's a potential teachable moment for explaining a woman's risk for future problems and "why it is important for you to take care of yourself with good lifestyle going forward."
The information is not just for medical experts, Khan said. "One of the reasons that we were so interested in bringing this data to the statistical update was to enhance awareness and help to empower women in regards to their own health—prior to pregnancy, during pregnancy, and immediately following pregnancy."
Many women see an OB-GYN for most of their medical care, and messages about heart health can get lost in the transition when that phase of their lives ends, she and Virani said. So women should make sure information about pregnancy complications is shared among their doctors.
"It doesn't have to be the clinician who always brings it up," Virani said. A woman can say, "I had high blood pressure during pregnancy. Sure, my blood pressure has come down—but what should I do now so my risk of developing high blood pressure or cardiovascular disease in the future goes down?"
Khan said the new chapter serves an important role in raising awareness at a time when fewer women are aware that heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women in America. "I do think that that is a really important part of really connecting with women and identifying these risk factors and finding a way to change future cardiovascular health for women and for their children."
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Miami City Ballet dancers Callie Manning and Neil Marshall in "Episodes." Photo by Gio Alma |
For Lourdes Lopez, becoming the artistic director of Miami City Ballet in 2012 was a homecoming. Though she spent her professional dance life at the New York City Ballet, she emigrated from Cuba to Miami at a young age. Miami is where Lopez first fell in love with dance, and Miami is where dance has led her.
"I think it's a very interesting time for Miami City Ballet right now, because it's a very interesting time for Miami," Lopez says, the sun shining through her office window. On the wall hangs a painting of a young Lopez with her mentor, choreographer George Balanchine. A signature reads: "To my dear Mona Lisa Lourdes, with love, Leonardo Balanchine."
Lopez met Balanchine when she was studying at the School of American Ballet as a young teenager. "At the end of the year, we would do these graduating performances, and he came in to watch the workshop rehearsal," she says. So began a professional relationship that would inform both the type of dancer and the type of teacher she would become.
"Mr. Balanchine believed that ballet was akin to a religion. He always made us feel that we were great—not that we were great dancers, but as dancers we were already gifted, that we were already special," she says.
As a female artistic director, Lopez is, in fact, special. Of the 20 largest ballet companies in America, only two are led by women. "I'm a very lucky case," Lopez says. "But I don't wake up in the mornings and think, 'I'm one of the few female artistic directors.' I wake up thinking, 'What am I going to do for this company?'"
Lopez put the company first when she began as artistic director in September 2012, nine months ahead of schedule. She'd been tapped to replace company founder Edward Villella at the end of the 2012-13 season. When Villella unexpectedly resigned September 4, Lopez found herself moving to Florida without her family and months early. "I couldn't think. I had to hit the ground running," she says.
A scene from "Don Quixote."
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The 2013-14 season—which will come to the Kravis Center—is the first conceived and executed with Lopez at the helm. Each program is a pastiche of recent and contemporary works, ranging from ballet standards like Balanchine's "Serenade" to reinterpretations of Broadway classics including West Side Story and Don Quixote. The season reflects Lopez's commitment to the company's established repertory and a desire to introduce new pieces to the dancers and the community. When it comes down to it, however, it's not about Lopez, her dancers or the community—it's about the discipline.
"Balanchine very much believed you left your ego at the door when you went into the theater," she says. "You were not there for yourself. It wasn't about you, and it wasn't about him; it was about the art form."
- For more information, call 305-929-7000 or visit miamicityballet.org.
Miami City Ballet's 2013-14 Season at the Kravis Center
- "Program I: First Ventures," November 15-17, Featuring "Ballo Della Regina" and "Serenade" by Balanchine and "Polyphonia" by Wheeldon.
- George Balanchine's "The Nutcracker," December 27-30.
- " Program II: See the Music," January 31 to February 2, Featuring "Concerto Barocco" by Balanchine, "Jardi Tancat" by Duato, "Chutes and Ladders" by Peck and "Symphonic Dances" by Ratmansky.
- "Program III: Triple Threat," February 28 to March 2, Featuring "Episodes" and "Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux" by Balanchine and "West Side Story Suite" by Robbins.
- "Program IV: Don Quixote," March 28-30.


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I left this post for quite some time, but after a New Year's Blog-Off Challenge on Facebook, I thought I'd wrap it up and post it. It's about how back in August 2013, Jenn and I headed to Burning Man.
We left on August 23 and got to Chicago on the 24th. We met with a friend of Jenn's and did a bit of a tour of Chicago before getting back on and—in a roomette sleeper—finished the journey to Reno. We met some nice people along the way, particularly at meals when we were seated with two strangers.
The train ran pretty much on-time and we arrived in Reno around 9 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time on Monday the 26th. There were quite a few other people heading to Burning Man on the train and most of them headed off quickly. We chatted with a couple stragglers and one of the guys had a friend in Reno who was going to pick him up. We asked if we could hitch a ride with him if he had space. He arrived with a gigantic van and transported Forrest, Jenn, and myself to the Save-Mart where we hung out for some time.
We bought provisions and met other people going to Burning Man—many from the U.S., but a small group from Italy. We dawdled around a bit and had pretty okay pizza from Pizza Baron before getting a cab ride to the airport—somewhat ironically to the airport "exit" and baggage claim area where the Burner Express bus was to pick us up. The process was relatively smooth and quick: we checked in, got tags for our wrists and for our bags, waited a bit, put our bags on a trailer, and boarded a bus.
The air conditioning wasn't working so well and I felt a bit frustrated at the slow rate we made it to Gerlach. A couple times the traffic stopped completely and we got out of the bus. When we arrived at Gerlach, things were a bit less organized. The gist was that everyone on the bus was to exit, then Burning Man staff would check that we had proof of tickets (and they could confirm will-call and provide a hard ticket right there) before boarding the bus to Black Rock City. One person said we'd have time to buy a bit of water, but as we walked over, someone called out to get on the bus. We got on then had to get off again because it was not our bus. Eventually things got straightened out and we got on the same bus we arrived by (our bus was one of a few that had the ability to close the air-conditioning intake vents on the bottom of the bus; otherwise we'd be on a school bus.)
The great feature of the Burner Express bus was revealed when we turned away from the gate line into a special lane, passing several miles of cars 10 lanes wide. Random (the greeter) checked our tickets and we were on our way into the city. We arrived just before sunset and, oddly enough, the very same bus was our shuttle. We got our stuff loaded back onto it and headed down GDP street toward the 10:00 crossroad. The driver was willing to stop at each 0:15 street, so we got off at 7:45, walked 30 yards and arrived at our camp: Mama Kabuke's Big Tent at It Still Stings Camp at 7:45 and Holy.
It was great to see my friends from last year—Mama Kabuke, Jordi, Devon, Uncle Brett, and T who primarily set up the camp along with a bunch of fellow campers from last year. Jenn (now Vadra) and I (now Zhust) got the tent set up quick before it got too dark and started unpacking. We didn't stay up too late—we hadn't acclimated much from Eastern time, so by 10 p.m. we were experiencing 1 a.m. tiredness and went to bed.
We got up and had some breakfast and got settled in with the camp. This year two of our fellow campers were getting married on Thursday, and they brought a fair number of people for that but only one of them really liked being at Burning Man. We also had an inordinate number of freeloaders making for a stressful time trying to keep up with their consumption and messiness. We also had a genuine "sparkle pony"—a girl who brought only her physical beauty, nary lifting a finger to perform any tasks and frequently leaving half-eaten food and drink.
Vadra and I got out over the week to see the art and visit some random camps. For the most part, I felt like it was a year of "duties and obligations": I was tasked with setting up the lights on Connie the Baby Blue Whale (the camp's art car) we had as well as to install and test the blowhole device I made for her. I felt pretty spent by Thursday and really wanted to take a day off by then but couldn't and had a rough day.
Vadra was selected to participate in Spencer Tunick's photograph at dawn, so we got up around 4:15 a.m. and biked out into the cold early morning. We arrived at the staging area by the temple but all the slots had been filled. She was quite disappointed, having missed a previous opportunity in Buffalo a few years back.
But we made the best of it and got a chance to visit The Man. They were only letting 50 or so people into the UFO base at a time so there was a line, but it moved quickly. There were zoetrope inside that were beautifully designed but the animations were rather bland black-and-white line-art. Dawn was upon us, so we left and watched the sunrise through the hazy smoke from the forest fires in California.
Vadra surprised me for my birthday: she secretly made Instax pictures of a bunch of people in camp holding a whiteboard to spell out "Happy Birthday". It was very sweet of her and I was quite moved by it, especially after spending days feeling under-appreciated.
After the wedding, many members of the wedding party left, relieving some of the burden (although there were still a lot of freeloaders.)
It was an interesting experiment, really. We brought a camp that provided abundant resources. But in trying to embrace the principles of Burning Man, "radical inclusion" led us to attract consumers of our abundance. It gets to be an interesting puzzle, really: if you offer abundance, you'll attract people who will consume, but if you hoard, you'll expend much more energy doing so than if you simply shared.
I have been wrestling with capitalism versus communism for quite some time. Communism fails by people offering less than "their ability" and claiming more than "their needs". The way we are seeing capitalism fail is in failing to find a balance in moderation: either you are earning too little and constantly toiling, or you are earning too much and have no means to share your wealth. On the train, we met a woman named Amber who said she saw something about bacteria being freeloaders: in some colonies, they need to produce a particular protein to float, but some bacteria figure out they don't need to expend the energy; eventually the whole colony collapses.
But I recently read a blog post by Burning Man founder Larry Harvey that talks about commerce and community. I think it helps define when commerce (née capitalism) is most effective and when community (née communism) is most effective. In the article, Harvey quotes an article written by Zay Thompson, the Burning Man regional contact in Kansas. Thompson brilliantly lays out an analogy in the form of his large extended family getting together to compete in a soccer game:
If my Dad stumbles and falls, I don't run over him in my rush to score on his team. My love for him and the value of human life causes me to suspend the game, help him up, and check to see if he's alright. Likewise, I don't continue to view my family as mere competition after the game is over.
In the case of our camp, it seems the balance between commerce and community was skewed. It felt like the desire to achieve enrichment by helping out was somehow suppressed. When a task needed doing, I felt an urge to not help because I felt that was the spirit of our community. It wasn't until these months later that I can even begin to articulate that, but I do recall that experience: when something needed doing, it was defiant to stand up and act rather than it being common and beneficial.
On Sunday we had a most unusual bit of excitement. Chris returned with a report of a DPW official stating that a huge thunderstorm cell was headed for Black Rock City and would arrive shortly before noon on Monday and the city would be shut down to all traffic. The report also recommended that anyone able to leave should do so before Monday. (By the way, the DPW is the "Department of Public Works", a not-governmentally-affiliated group who maintain the Burning Man infrastructure.)
I suspected it was an incorrect report—ordinarily this happens from "telephone game" failures, but this was unique in that it was reported nearly intact to the radio station. And again, Burning Man is susceptible to urban legends, but I thought immune to mass-media misinformation until now.
Many of our campmates were concerned. A couple new friends from Canada had an early flight on Tuesday and opted to leave on Sunday afternoon. Vadra was very concerned but I had instinctive confidence in the inaccuracy of the report. To calm her fears, we walked to the Emergency Services tent that were a mere 30 yards down the road. They had heard nothing of such a storm but cautiously refused to deny the report outright. Rivka pulled out her iPad and checked the weather on their private wireless Internet: partly cloudy with a chance of 0.01 inches of precipitation for Monday. Vadra was not entirely reassured but I persevered, gambling I was correct.
I know that humans are susceptible to visceral dangers more than statistically likely dangers. Even I was not brimming with confidence save for my tenacious rational side.
We stayed—and continued embellishing the tales. By Monday morning, we were expecting the caldera that formed nearby to erupt by noon, and that a raging storm would pin people down and lightning-rape everyone. I advised others that it was likely an attempt by DPW to hurry exodus, and I encouraged other camps to hurry along the freeloaders in their own camps.
Monday came and a front was indeed approaching, cooling the air and changing the wind direction slightly. I held fast, though, and we left by the Burner Express bus at 11:45 with no issues. During the morning, two drops of rain hit me, and none even left evidence on the parched lakebed. It took us 90 minutes or so to get to Gerlach and no rain arrived. I saw nothing on the weather radar once we got Internet back at the hotel room. (The Burner Express bus, by the way, dropped us off at the airport around 3 p.m. and we got to the hotel before dinner.)
Later, I contacted Jordi and Mama about the storm but none materialized. I started a thread on ePlaya that sparked some interesting theories: indeed, nearby areas received some downpours that, had such a downpour arrived at Burning Man, it would have shut down the event for 24 hours or so—and with no proper sanitation either. I suspect the nearby mountains cause vast changes in weather over just a few miles, and I believe that is what "protects" the Black Rock Desert. (For another example of localized weather, see "lake-effect snow".) But I could have been mistaken and we may have been stuck for 24 hours or longer. Who knows.
We stayed overnight in Reno then got on the Amtrak and headed back to Chicago to visit Jenn's friend there for a couple days. It was nice to visit the city more in-depth. We returned to the Amtrak for our overnight trip back to Rochester, arriving pretty much on-time on September 8.


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And, so, with that done, Bejar wanted to shift Destroyer's direction again. "I think I wanted to work in a way that was different to the way we made [This Night]. I knew I wanted to try my hand at composition, instead of trying to whip up a murky rock 'n' roll noise." Even though he'd "never really arranged anything before," Bejar set out composing Your Blues as a set of stripped-down songs. Whilst, initially, he was inspired by the idea of making a grand orchestral disc, soon logistical realities killed such dreaming. "To actually bring in musicians and feed them charts, that would've demanded a lot of [recording] know-how we didn't have, and a lot of money that we didn't have." So, Bejar first played his collection of songs on acoustic guitar, and then arranged around that base. Rather than commanding string-sections and horn sections, he took his scores and charts and played the orchestral accompaniment entirely on synthesizers, using those ersatz faux-horns type presets that no one ever uses. In such, he's made a synthesized pseudo-opulent orchestral record on par with English duo the Montgolfier Brothers, in terms of making twee synth tones sound lush. Still, Bejar's not sure how people are gonna accept such a sound. "Some of it might be seen as sounding in really poor taste, those really hokey fake-trumpet sounds. This 'old-world dramatic' feel we were going for, I think a lot of people in the world of American indie-rock could reject that," he forwards. Even more so, indie-rock fans could easily be scared off by the record's lack of anything remotely rockin'; it ditches the sprawling psychedelia of the last disc, its pared-down palette featuring many synth presets, but no electric guitars, no bass, and no drums. "The one thing we knew for sure going into it was there wasn't going to be any electric guitars, and there wasn't going to be any rhythm section, although we did break down and added some MIDI drums at one point. But, for the most part, for rhythm, all you hear is tambourines and shakers, maybe a handclap or two. And the bass is always absent," Bejar offers. "As well as making an orchestral record, I wanted to make something that was quite minimal, and a good way of doing that is to eliminate any idea of the rock 'n' roll rhythm section whatsoever." He continues: "When I first pictured the album happening, I was kind of aiming for a more stark, severe record. I really wanted to try and do something that was borderline unlistenable, but the songs that I brought to the plate were too melodious to do that." The starkness of Your Blues actually harkens back to Destroyer's early days. Before Bejar and his intermittent "band" went on to author albums of lurid glam strut (1999's Thief), Bowie-esque over-the-top anthemicism (2001's Streethawk: A Seduction), and tangled-up drug-rock (2002's This Night), Destroyer was pretty much a solo songwriter's vehicle, with his 1996 debut We Will Build Them a Golden Bridge and its 1998 follow-up City of Daughters setting Bejar's surrealist lyricism largely to just an acoustic guitar. For the songsmith, Your Blues was also a way to find more flexibility for his occasional live performances. After This Night, Bejar had to employ the band from the record whenever he played, but, with Your Blues' sparse sound, he figures both band and just a couple pairs of hands can offer some sort of translation in the live realm. Of course, the caveat is that Bejar rarely plays live, and has long been on record for his lack of interest in indulging in any sort of "touring." "Back in the mid-'90s when I first started doing it, I would play the occasional show, and it'd be a disaster," he recalls. "It'd be really noisy, on purpose. But, at the beginning, Destroyer was mostly a recording affair, and it wasn't until after the second record came out that it seemed like it'd be a good idea to actually assemble a band that could practice and play shows if the opportunity came up." In particular, Bejar has deliberately kept local audiences from getting too friendly with him. Rarely granting interviews for Canadian publications, and trying to make his live appearances in his Vancouver, B.C. hometown rare, it seems like he's pretty happy in obscurity. Whilst he details the shows he has played of recent like those in the States with The Clientele and Smog you get the feeling that Bejar's more happy about all the shows he didn't. "I've never been super at-home with performance in general; it just seems a bit problematic," he states. In reply to the simple inquisition of "why?", he responds: "Why is it that I don't want to get up on stage and have a bunch of people look at me? I don't know, to me it just seems like a strange thing for someone to want to do." Bejar's feeling particularly sensitive about this because, at the time of this conversation, he's about to head out for his most extensive dose of touring yet. Meaning, he's feeling nervous, anxious, and very much pessimistic about his forthcoming on-the-road action. "If we could play the West Coast, and then the East Coast, with maybe one or two shows in between, that'd be ideal," he sighs. "But, to try and cover the whole continent on our own, that means playing a whole bunch of those potentially demoralizing events. You have to get from point A to point B somehow, and that usually means stopping off in a town where no one's heard of you, or where there's just no one there, period." Anthony Carew [Wednesday, May 5, 2004]


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You can have the utmost experience in something and still have room for improvement, that's just how it is.
Over the course of these last few weeks I have felt like I have improved dramatically in every aspect of my classes here. The difference with this semester compared to others was that this time around I took two classes, which meant a lot more work but also a lot more improvement on my part…and I clearly see it.
As for my morning class, The Ins and Outs of Fashion Merchandising, I got my "decade" project back and I got an A! I was so happy when I saw my grade, receiving A's in these classes is such an achievement for me and is what I work for over these months. Like I said, although I may have gotten an A, there is still room for improvement. One of my weaknesses is definitely presenting and talking in front of a class. However, this past week I showcased a "Fall Trends" PowerPoint presentation and I just felt so comfortable presenting it. My professor noted how comfortable I looked presenting and it made me feel really good.
In my fabric styling class, we presented our second project this week and it could not have been better! Well, other than the fact that I finished one of the boards two seconds before I had to present! Overall the boards came out really great though. I'm so anxious to see my grade!
If you go back to this post, you can see my first project from this class and compare them. The difference is noticeable! Just remember to try your hardest in everything you do at FIT because if you really want something, you'll achieve it sooner or later! It worked out that way for me!
By the way, I'm considering taking In-Store Marketing and Retail Event Planning next semester, has anyone ever taken that class, if so, how was it?
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Best of Home, Volume 2: Cougar Ridge
In the second installment of our "Best of Home" series, photographer, writer and editor Colin Wiseman takes us to Washington State's gloomy, fern-filled Whatcom County for a signature Pacific Northwest ride.
Envy has never been easier for mountain bikers—from magazines to social media, it's almost impossible to escape imagery that fuels daydreams and sparks excursions.
But mountain biking isn't built on vacations: It's built on the trails out the back door, the ones you can ride over and over and never stop smiling. To celebrate these backyard beauties, we asked photographers, athletes and industry advocates from around the world to highlight their favorite close-to-home trails—why they love them, and what keeps them coming back lap after lap. This is Volume 2.
Cougar Ridge
Location: Sudden Valley, Washington
Distance: 2 miles
Descent: 1,010 feet
Climb: 206 feet
Whether you approach it from the new Rufus Creek climbing trail out of Sudden Valley or Galbraith Mountain's trail network, the north-facing Cougar Ridge feels isolated and raw. Pockets of old-growth cedar mix with stands of moss-draped big-leaf maple, the ground a riot of a hundred shades of green, as the trail hugs a rocky fin on a high line through classic Pacific Northwest temperate rainforest.
I first rode Cougar seven or eight years ago, when it was still off-grid and unsanctioned. That changed after a nearly 9,000-acre county land reconveyance put Cougar Ridge within the bounds of the newly created Lookout Mountain Forest Preserve and after the local trail advocacy group, the Whatcom Mountain Bike Coalition, successfully fought to bring it into the legal fold. It was the realization of hundreds of hours of hard work by this strong and diplomatic organization, whose members are doing the heavy lifting as biking booms in Bellingham.
Although the sanctioned status led to a few spicy-yet-unsustainable trail features being smoothed out, Cougar still stands as a long and diverse descent. It begins with sweeping, raw and moderately steep turns, punctuated by rock moves through often-foggy conifers, before opening up along a few strips of cliffside conglomerate rock that keeps you on your toes (go too far right, and it's a good 50-foot fall). The entire trail stays shady and damp, with tacky dirt into the heat of summer, and on winter or late spring rides you'll sometimes find a thin snow cover over the upper reaches.
Indeed, Cougar is a signature PNW ride, and one that also represents the potential future expansion of the Whatcom County trail network beyond Bellingham's city limits.
Photographs were taken on ancestral lands of the Coast Salish, Stillaguamish and Nuxwsa'7aq (Nooksack) Peoples.
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Anyone having a mental health crisis in the United States can dial 988 for help. But in five states, there's also a new pilot hotline that is specifically designed to try to help farmers and ranchers.
LINDA EMANUEL: I've often said it's a life that we love and hate at the same time.
SIMON: Linda Emanuel helps run her family's three-generation farm in Nebraska, and she says life on the farm can be uniquely demanding and as unpredictable as bad weather.
EMANUEL: It is defeating when you pour your life's blood, your time, your treasure into this life and something comes about either slowly or a major event, major flooding. Right now, we're experiencing an extreme drought, and you have no control over that.
SIMON: We're joined now by Tara Haskins of AgriSafe, a nonprofit group that helped launch the new hotline. Thank you so much for being with us.
TARA HASKINS: Oh, thank you so much.
SIMON: Linda Emanuel is a farmer and also a colleague of yours. What sort of things have people been bringing up when they call?
HASKINS: We get reports of all different types of issues that they're talking about on the line, things such as risk of losing the farm, high cost of things like fertilizer, gas, the cost of getting water to their farm, disasters, financial crunches due to market fluctuations. Even the challenges of running a family farm - those communications between one another can be pretty stressful sometimes.
SIMON: Well, help us understand that. I was very moved when Linda Emanuel talks about one month it's flooding, the next it's drought - forces over which we don't really, and certainly individual farmers, don't have any control.
HASKINS: Sure. And they live that life every day. You know, people working in agriculture have been suffering for a long time now. We know that agriculture is one of the top five occupations with some of the highest rates of death by suicide. And for this group of individuals where they have some of the greatest need for mental health services, we've got significant shortages in our nation, in our rural areas. And that's where these individuals live. That's where they produce, and that's where they raise their families.
SIMON: How does it help to have people on the other end who answer the calls who, I guess, know what to listen for, not just in terms of desperation maybe in somebody's voice and circumstances, but the whole distinct business of agriculture and farming?
HASKINS: These individuals need to connect with someone. And so when they hear those things in the call, it makes for that strong connection. I mean, it stands to reason that in order for you to empathize fully, you have to have some appreciation of what that lived experience is. And it builds confidence with the person on the other end.
SIMON: And how do you do that?
HASKINS: Well, our helpline call staff not only have an initial 300 hours of training, but they also do our farm response training, which is a very deep dive into the mental health factors that are impacting agriculture. And in addition to that training, they are also dedicated to doing ongoing quarterly professional training in additional agricultural topics that can impact mental health and well-being.
SIMON: Well, help us understand how somebody who knows farming can be particularly helpful on the other end of a call.
HASKINS: Well, one good example that I use all the time is that, you know, you can't tell a farmer or rancher to take two weeks off if they're under a lot of stress because those two weeks can make a big difference in the ability for them to run their farms. And these are individuals that are doing the bulk of the work. And so when they're away from the farm for any length of time, it really puts them in financial stress. And so that's a huge barrier for people to seek services or to seek help.
SIMON: What do you say to somebody who calls up and says, this drought is going to ruin us?
HASKINS: The key, important thing and what I think our call center does so well is they listen. Much of the stress that we endure, we feel isolated and alone. And so having someone on the other end that can do that is really important. The second thing is if someone is open to having resources or connections with potential resources that could help them with their issues, we have those available for them as well.
SIMON: I gather this program is now in five states - Pennsylvania, Texas, Missouri, Virginia and Wyoming. It could be useful in other states, too? You'd like to expand?
HASKINS: Absolutely. It is our goal that the AgriStress help line would be available across the nation because we believe that all farmers across the nation deserve this type of service - not only them, but their families as well.
SIMON: Tara Haskins runs mental health programming for the nonprofit AgriSafe. We also heard from Linda Emanuel, a community health director with AgriSafe. The hotline number for farmers and ranchers in Pennsylvania, Texas, Missouri, Virginia and Wyoming is 833-897-2474. Tara Haskins, thanks so much.
HASKINS: Thank you so much, Scott.
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Updated January 24, 2010 URL is http://our.tentativetimes.net/city/index.html
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Index for Nostalgia e-zine NOSTALGIA and SMALL TOWNS |
Wisconsin's RUBE GOLDBERG CONTEST, 2007, high school students. | Wells County Creative Arts Council's Lamp Decorating Contest and the CAC chair decorating contest |
Bluffton Polar Bear Dip Plunging into the New Year at the old Psi Ote ice-covered pond! | An Ellenberger Auction |
Divine Luncheon of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood | New Harmony, Indiana, a must-visit town |
Flushed With Pride Our Bluffton sewage plant open house and spectacular Christmas lights display | The annual James Dean car show |
WOW!! Indiana's Historic Radio Museum | including the novelty radios and accessories there |
Ed Lepold's Pearls and Gold Dust kustom Merc and Ginny and Alfred Gregory's Mercillac, The Crisco Kid or Praise the Lowered |
Humane Society woes, Friends of the Shelter triumph! Arnold's Drive-In |
Gene Stratton-Porter's Limberlost Swamp and Geneva, Indiana | Fairmount, Indiana |
Suzanne Miller's Remarkable Salad | Fine Dining at the RittenHouse |
Bill Weinhardt's many Ham Radio columns |
and the Wells County Amateur Radio Club with our 1999 Ham Radio Field Day |
The Dutch Mill Fire with Bud Deihl's photos
Our Bummies1950s drive-in |
A poem by Phil Ziegler on the great 1950s. |
Bluffton High School Alumni | Southern Wells Alumni |
Murray Indiana; it's da bomb! | |
Melinda Gerber obituary | Herman Zepps |
Historic Apron Show by the Creative Arts Council | Boys and Girls Club Winchester Gun Show by Dale Krinn |
Druelinger family reunion typo corrected | Life in a small German city
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Comments on Nostalgia pages
The city pages and the nostalgia pages have joined forces in Nostalgia, an e-magazine here. After all, living in small towns is nostalgic, for we have the life that all the city folk fondly remember. You can learn a great deal about Bluffton or see drive-in restaurants and car shows. Visit an auction or see a huge Winchester gun collection. Take side trips to James Dean's Fairmount Indiana, Gene Stratton-Porter's Geneva Indiana or the former Indiana Historical Radio Museum that was once in Ligonier. Enjoy.
For more small town atmosphere, visit Fairmount Indiana, boyhood home of James Dean, or find out about Gene Stratton-Porter and her Limberlost Swamp, in Adams County, Indiana. Also see the new pages on the Indiana Historic Radio Museum in Ligonier, Indiana.
Arnold's 50s Drive-In Restaurant in Decatur, Indiana rocks and rolls! Arnold's Drive-In raised $1,800 for Lydia Murray's liver transplant! This is a darling restaurant with perky people, inside and outside dining and a most unusual neon sign. There is a new 70-seat 1960s room in the back of the restaurant now.
Wow, this is unique. A never-to-be-repeated benefit, a show of the most complete Winchester collection ever, along with Dale Krinn's Civil War and Native American memorabilia. Did you know they used to use a buffalo bladder for a canteen? Worked very well. Live and learn, at Our Tentative Times journey through Dale Krinn's Gun Show
After you read all my pages, visit the Official Bluffton Indiana website
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So I thought I'd pull a little trick from Wonderland and celebrate in more "Un-birthday" style. I didn't want any fanfare. No party. No hoop-la. No big deal.
Maybe if I did it that way, well, it wouldn't seem so monumental.
Originally, my husband and I had planned a trip to Cancun to this amazing resort. But then after a trip to Disney and the beach, I opted not to go all out with the big birthday trip, save some cash and go next year. So, in my mind, it would be business as usual.... normal day.... normal mommy routine.
But the dear Lord above, some fellow party bloggers and my sweet family had a few different ideas.....
It all started first thing, early on my birthday morning. I went to my computer..... the very same one that the previous day I had spent hours thinking my hard drive had crashed.... and what do you know??? It booted as usual..... everything was there..... and I CANNOT TELL YOU what a great start to the day that was!! My life, my work, everything my kids have done for the last 6 years..... it was all saved. Hallalujeh!!!
Next thing..... my daughter, knowing how upset I was over the weekend at myself for hastily throwing away a t-shirt, (months ago I might add), that all my kids wore when they were little, came in and said, "Mom, close your eyes. I have a present for you." And guess what?? There it was!! She had found it high on a shelf in her closet. That old, torn, magic marker-colored-on t-shirt that Jonathan brought Madison back from a bear hunting trip in Canada. I never knew how much that little thing meant to me until I thought I had gotten rid of it. Thank you, Macy! You made my day!
Next comes all the sweet Facebook messages and then the emails.... I got another great surprise when two bloggers in the party business found my fairy party and both said they'd like to feature it on their blogs. How wonderful.... birthday gift number 3!
And then my nephews (who are staying with us this week), my kids, me and Jonathan went out for a rousing night of bowling, beer and pizza (the beer -- only for me and Jonathan, of course!) It was actually supposed to be a romantic dinner for two, but when the boys came to stay, we turned it into a kid-friendly celebration. And I must say, not being the athletic one in the family, 40 was treating me right last night on those lanes. Yes, the 40 year old Mo-Jo even got me a few strikes and spares! It was a lot of fun, and probably an even better way to spend the night than a stuffy, old restaurant.
They were so thoughtful to get me a cake, lots of cards they had made, some balloons (which they made sure to show me said "Aged to Perfection" -- Ha!), and best of all, the boots I've been wanting all year stuffed full of chocolate and the t-shirts I wanted from our beach trip but wouldn't spend the money to buy.
And then, just when I think the day is done, Jonathan surprises me with a small little wrapped box on my pillow when I came to bed. And what a surprise it was!
A beautiful three-tiered diamond necklace, symbolic of our three amazing kids. I was stunned. Boots AND diamonds.... my goodness.... 40 Ain't So Bad After All!
You went all out.... even when I begged you not to. I love you!
And to my sweet, too-good-to-be-true children....
Mommy loves you and thanks you, too!


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Profiling ASP.NET vNext using dotMemory and dotTrace
With ASP.NET vNext (working title), Microsoft is making some bold moves towards opening up development and deployment options for building applications. For starters, we no longer have to install the full .NET framework on our servers: ASP.NET vNext lets us deploy our own version of .NET on an app-by-app basis. Next, the project model is being migrated to being just a project.json file describing dependencies and some optional configuration, much like we write apps in NodeJS.
ASP.NET vNext is still in an early preview, but it never hurts to explore and test-drive what's going to be the next generation of .NET. And when writing code for it, we may want to inspect performance and memory of our applications to verify we don't have any issues there. And what better tools than dotMemory and dotTrace to do that?
Setting the correct CLR type
Before we start profiling, it is important to know that profiling currently only works when the Desktop CLR is active. The new Core CLR does not (yet?) expose the same profiler hooks.
Checking if the correct CLR is active can be done from the command line using the kvm list command.
Make sure that the active CLR (marked with an *) shows the svr50 runtime. If it's svrc50 that means we're on the Core CLR and have to switch to the Desktop CLR using the kvm set <pick the correct version from the above list> command.
Attaching to an already running ASP.NET vNext process
After starting dotMemory or dotTrace, hit Attach To Process on the toolbar. This will give us a list of all running processes on our local computer. Both profilers can also attach to processes running on remote machines. From this list, find the klr.exe process. When running multiple ASP.NET vNext applications on our machine, it will be a bit tricky to find the correct one.
We can provide additional options and even make use of the profiler API in our ASP.NET vNext applications. Hitting Run will attach the profiler which will behave identical to profiling "classic" .NET applications. For example in dotMemory, we can see the memory usage (unmanaged and managed heaps) in real-time:
In dotTrace we can see the subsystems used by our code and drill down to the function or thread level.
Starting an ASP.NET vNext process with profiling enabled
When attaching to an already running process, some options will be unavailable. For example, dotMemory will be unable to collect memory traffic for an already running application. It will be impossible to pick a more detailed profiling mode for dotTrace, such as Tracing or Line-by-Line profiling. For these options to be available, we have to launch the process with profiling enabled from the start.
Running ASP.NET vNext applications is done using the k run or k web commands. These are aliases for the active runtime which is located under %USERPROFILE%\.kre\packages\<seleced runtime>\. From dotMemory and dotTrace, we can use the Profile | Standalone Application menu and enter the startup details for our ASP,NET vNext application.
Here's what we have to specify:
- Application: the ASP.NET vNext runtime to use. This will depend on which runtimes we have installed on or system but will look like %USERPROFILE%\.kre\packages\<seleced runtime>\bin\K.cmd.
- Arguments: the arguments we would typically pass to the k command. If we start our application with k web, then web would be the argument to specify here.
- Working directory is the path where our application and its project.json file are located.
Using this approach, we can now set all additional profiler options. dotMemory allows collecting memory traffic while dotTrace will let us perform Line-by-Line profiling and specify the measure used. Run will launch the application and lets us capture a snapshot we can investigate later.
Give it a try! Even with a new CLR in town we still have to care about memory and performance of our applications. Here are some resources to get started with dotMemory and dotTrace:
- ASP.NET vNext information and tutorials at www.asp.net/vnext
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WTTC Says Unvaccinated Travellers Should Not Be Discriminated Against
London, United Kingdom, January 14, 2021 / TRAVELINDEX / Comprehensive testing will allow free and safe movement for all. Gloria Guevara, WTTC President & CEO, said: "WTTC wholeheartedly supports the testing on departure of all travellers to ensure passengers can prove they are COVID-19 free and thus avoid the spread.
• Read all the latest WTTC News and Press Releases here.
"It will take a significant amount of time to vaccinate the global population, particularly those in less advanced countries, or in different age groups, therefore we should not discriminate against those who wish to travel but have not been vaccinated.
"Only a tiny percentage of people around the world have so far received the vaccine, whereas there are vast numbers who have not, but who could be tested, show a negative result, and travel safely.
"The common sense approach is to allow the free movement of people who can prove a negative test result, rather than reserve travelling or jobs for a small minority who have been vaccinated.
"Furthermore, the most vulnerable groups should be prioritised, a blanket vaccination requirement would simply discriminate against non-vulnerable groups, such as Generation X, Z and Millennials, who should be able to travel with proof of a negative COVID test.
"WTTC has long been calling for an internationally recognised rapid and cost-effective testing regime at departure points worldwide. This would avoid exporting the virus and aid the restoration of international travel."


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To tell the truth, I didn't intend to write another book so soon. Not that this is by way of an apology: I am too evangelical about the food I like eating (and cooking) not to want to present the recipes from the new series of Nigella Bites to you, taking advantage of the extra wittering space a book allows. But I've wanted, too, to borrow from the other medium, so this book is slightly different from my previous two: there are more pictures and the chapters inevitably take their shape and content from each programme in the TV series.
In truth, there isn't a conflict. I've always felt that food is nothing if taken out of the context in which it's eaten, and the programmes – and consequently these chapters – are arranged according to the sort of cooking we might want to do, depending on our life, our timetable and our mood. But, please: these are suggestions only, not inflexible command. Life is not so rigidly constructed, and I might well want to cook something for a weekday dinner that I've earmarked here for a Sunday lunch, and presume you might, too.
There are more pictures and the chapters inevitably take their shape and content from each programme in the TV series.
Anyway, even if themes, the focus of these chapters, are varied, what remains constant, and so what links them, is taste. I don't mean taste in a food-snobbish, status sense (please, I am just not interested) but the tendency towards certain techniques (for me, that means easy ones) and certain ingredients. Restaurant chefs rely, to a greater or lesser extent, on innovation and novelty; what's more, they are generally less constrained by ordinary domestic concerns of budget or storage space. They can buy a bottle of some special liqueur for one particular recipe; we are unlikely to.
So, you might well find that certain ingredients crop up repeatedly. In the same way, when a little bit of stock is needed, I'm not going to instruct you to start boiling up bones left, right and centre, just for the purist sake of it, but rather suggest you use the shop-bought stock-concentrate I use myself. The point is, this is the way we cook at home. And for all that this is, frankly, the book of the television series, I am neither a chef nor a performer: none of the recipes here has been specially constructed for broadcast or publication purposes: this is the food I cook, the food I eat.
At the end of each chapter, I've left a page or two for notes. I wanted to do this for a variety of reasons. It's hardly, in fact, a novel practice: the idea first came to me after riffling through the old, battered books belonging to my grandmothers and my friends' mothers; I found I learnt as much from reading their scribbled comments and amendments; it's what made the food come alive for me.
Besides, it seemed to me that a book linked to a television series might be used, be read, in a particular way. True, there is slightly more in the book than in the series (where recipes had to be lost because of constraints of broadcast time I've resisted dropping them from the published version), but it seemed to me that while watching the programmes, some of you might want to jot things down in the book that accompanies them.
But most of all, this idea came to me out of the various book signings I've done. Occasionally, people apologise for not coming and buying a new book but rather bringing their own, already stained and dog-eared copies. Believe me, there's no need to apologise: I can't tell you how much this means to me. And the sort of cookery book that's splattered and scribbled over is the only sort of cookery book I want to write. I'm not interested in barking instructions: this isn't meant to be a monologue. As I've said before, I want to be there in the kitchen with you; my words are merely my side of the conversation I imagine we might have. The pages for notes, then, are there for you to make your own response.


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High School Baseball Team Forfeits Championship Game Because Opposing Team Has a Female Player
An Arizona high school baseball team forfeited its chance at a state championship — and its reason for doing so has people talking.
Our Lady of Sorrows Academy in Phoenix refused to face off with rival Mesa Preparatory Academy because Mesa has a girl on its team.
Mesa's headmaster Robert Wagner said the trouble started when Our Lady of Sorrows learned 15-year-old Paige Sultzbach would play second base for Mesa's squad in the championship game.
"They wouldn't play the game as long as we had a girl on the team who was on the field. It violates their policy about boys playing against girls," Wagner said. "It's just unfortunate that our kids who are excited about playing don't have the opportunity."
An official at Our Lady of Sorrows said it had no choice. "Teaching our boys to treat ladies with deference, we choose not to place them in an athletic competition where proper boundaries can only be respected with difficulty … Our school aims to instill in our boys a profound respect for women and girls," the unnamed official said.
But Paige's mother, Pamela, doesn't buy it. "This is not a contact sport, it shouldn't be an issue," she said. "It wasn't that they were afraid they were going to hurt or injure her, it's that (they believe) that a girl's place is not on a field."
The story calls to mind another incident in New York where a boy was tossed from a girls' field hockey team because he's considered too good. That 13-year-old is appealing the decision.


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In a talk moderated by guest curator Susan Miller and Senior Curator of Art René de Guzman, Daniel Clowes and Chris Ware will be speaking at OMCA's James Moore Theater on Friday, July 27, 2012 from 7-8:30pm. Seating will be limited and is expected to fill up quickly. Come early to see the Modern Cartoonist: The Art of Daniel Clowes exhibiton at the OMCA which closes in just a few weeks on August 12.
Tickets for the panel discussion are included with Museum admission. Seating in OMCA's James Moore Theater is limited, and is available on a first-come, first served basis the day of the event. The Museum encourages you to come early to stand in line. Doors open at 6:30 pm.
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After the talk until about 10pm, Clowes and Ware will be signing their books in the OMCA bookstore along with Alvin Buenaventura signing The Art of Daniel Clowes: Modern Cartoonist, a monograph that accompanies the exhibition that's currently up at the museum. FYI: We hear that due to the expected turnout the OMCA bookstore will be limiting autographs to books bought in the store that night . The good news is that the OMCA bookstore will also be giving away (yes, free) a special unique promo book that is a "reverse preview" of Ware's upcoming Building Stories, to each customer purchasing one of the cartoonist's books that night, while supplies last. (btw, the BS preview is incredible and will not be included actual book in this format.)
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December 19, 2012: On December 7th China conducted another test of its truck mounted DF-31A ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile). This was the second such test in the last four months and indicates that the DF-31A has matured after two decades of being questionable. Seventeen years ago China put the DF-31 into service, sort of. This was China's first solid fuel ICBM (and had a range of over 8,000 kilometers) and was roughly equivalent to the U.S. 30 ton Minuteman I (which entered service in 1962 with a range of 9,900 kilometers). The DF-31 weighs about 41 tons, 20 meters (62 feet) long, and 2.25 meters (7 feet) in diameter. It was designed for use on submarines, land silos, and mobile launchers. The truck mounted ones halt at those "parking lots in the middle of nowhere," visible in satellite pictures of Qinghai province, and fire from positions the missile guidance system has already been programmed with. The DF-31 has been shown stored in a TEL (transporter, erector, launcher) vehicle. Driving these vehicles along special highways in remote areas provides more protection from counterattacks rather than using a reinforced silo. The improved DF-31A has multiple (up to 5) warheads and more range (up to 12,000 kilometers, which could cover most of the United States).
The DF-31 has been in development for over twenty years and only had its first successful launch twelve years ago. It's now believed to have a reliable and accurate guidance system, as well as a third stage that carries multiple 50 kiloton nuclear warheads. Only about a dozen DF-31s are in service, plus about a dozen DF-31As. Many of these appear to be aimed at European Russia.
Last July the new DF-41 ICBM with multiple warheads was tested. China can apparently put 3-10 warheads in the DF-41 final stage. The DF-41 has not been displayed publicly but thanks to most Chinese having cell phones, and many knowing how to send photos to foreign web sites without getting arrested, there are photos of the DF-41 available. The DF-41 appears to have had a lot of development problems because few have been built and fewer (less than a dozen) put into service. The DF-41 is the only Chinese ICBM that can reach all of the United States.
Three years ago China announced that its nuclear armed ballistic missiles were not aimed at anyone. Like most countries, China has long refused to say who its nuclear armed missiles are aimed at. Most of those missiles only have enough range to hit Russia or India, or other nearby nations. For a long time most were very definitely aimed at Russia, which had rocky relations with China from the 1960s to the 1990s. But after the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, the new and much smaller Russia became friendlier with the wealthier (more capitalist but still run by communists) China. Relations between China and India also warmed up and then went into a deep freeze during the past decade.
China is believed to have over 400 nuclear warheads, most of them installed on ballistic missiles. Only a few dozen of these missiles can reach the United States. These include the older (and about to be retired) DF-5, plus the newer DF-31A and DF-41. For the last two decades China has had about two dozen DF-5 ICBMs, their only missiles that can reach the United States. Few of these are believed to be operational because of reliability and maintenance problems. The U.S. has since installed 18 ICBM interceptor missile systems in Alaska. These are to deal with North Korean missiles but could also destroy most Chinese missiles headed for the United States. Thus it makes sense for China to simply say that it is not aiming any of its missiles at anyone. Modern guidance systems can be quickly (in less than an hour) programmed for a new target, so it doesn't really matter that, normally, the missiles have no target information in them. The DF-5s, moreover, are liquid fueled and the considerable activity required to ready them for launch can be detected by spy satellites.
The DF-5s are to be replaced by solid fuel DF-41s. These missiles can be moved, erected, and launched from a special truck. With a 15,000 kilometer range they can reach all of the United States. The third stage contains 3-10 warheads, each with an explosive yield of at least 100 KT. The DF-41s appear similar to the American 36 ton Minuteman III (a 1960s design that has been much upgraded since then).
India is of growing concern to China but there are shorter range ballistic missiles, like the DF-21, to deal with that threat. The Chinese introduced the DF-21 in 1999, and now has over a hundred in service. Many have non-nuclear warheads. This missile has a range of over 1,800 kilometers and can haul a 300 kiloton nuclear warhead. It's a two stage, 15 ton, solid fuel rocket. Launched from Tibet, the DF-21 can reach most major targets in India.
Then there is a submarine launched missile the JL (Julang) 2 SLBM (Sea Launched Ballistic Missile). This missile has had a lot of problems as have the SSBNs (ballistic missile carrying nuclear subs) that carried them. The 42 ton JL-2 has a range of 8,000 kilometers and would enable China to aim missiles at any target in the United States from a 094 class SSBN cruising off Hawaii or Alaska. Each 094 boat can carry twelve of these missiles, which are naval versions of the existing land based 42 ton DF-31 ICBM. The JL-2 was supposed to have entered service three years ago but kept failing test launches. No Chinese SSBN has ever gone on a combat cruise because these boats have been very unreliable.
About two thirds of Chinese nuclear warheads are believed to be in missile warheads, most of them DF-21s. Normally, these warheads are stored separately and mated to the missiles only for actual use or the occasional training exercise.
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(CAPE TOWN) – Dear Student Leaders at the University of California – Berkeley
It was with great joy that I learned of your recent 16-4 vote in support of divesting your university's money from companies that enable and profit from the injustice of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and violation of Palestinian human rights. Principled stands like this, supported by a fast growing number of US civil society organizations and people of conscience, including prominent Jewish groups, are essential for a better world in the making, and it is always an inspiration when young people lead the way and speak truth to power.
I am writing to tell you that, despite what detractors may allege, you are doing the right thing. You are doing the moral thing. You are doing that which is incumbent on you as humans who believe that all people have dignity and rights, and that all those being denied their dignity and rights deserve the solidarity of their fellow human beings. I have been to the Ocupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid. I have witnessed the humiliation of Palestinian men, women, and children made to wait hours at Israeli military checkpoints routinely when trying to make the most basic of trips to visit relatives or attend school or college, and this humiliation is familiar to me and the many black South Africans who were corralled and regularly insulted by the security forces of the Apartheid government.
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. Students played a leading role in that struggle, and I write this letter with a special indebtedness to your school, Berkeley, for its pioneering role in advocating equality in South Africa and promoting corporate ethical and social responsibility to end complicity in Apartheid. I visited your campus in the 1980's and was touched to find students sitting out in the baking sunshine to demonstrate for the University's disvestment in companies supporting the South African regime.
The same issue of equality is what motivates the divestment movement of today, which tries to end Israel's 43 year long occupation and the unequal treatment of the Palestinian people by the Israeli government ruling over them. The abuses they face are real, and no person should be offended by principled, morally consistent, non-violent acts to oppose them. It is no more wrong to call out Israel in particular for its abuses than it was to call out the Apartheid regime in particular for its abuses.
To those who wrongly accuse you of unfairness or harm done to them by this call for divestment, I suggest, with humility, that the harm suffered from being confronted with opinions that challenge one's own pales in comparison to the harm done by living a life under occupation and daily denial of basic rights and dignity. It is not with rancor that we criticize the Israeli government, but with hope, a hope that a better future can be made for both Israelis and Palestinians, a future in which both the violence of the occupier and the resulting violent resistance of the occupied come to an end, and where one people need not rule over another, engendering suffering, humiliation, and retaliation. True peace must be anchored in justice and an unwavering commitment to universal rights for all humans, regardless of ethnicity, religion, gender, national origin or any other identity attribute. You, students, are helping to pave that path to a just peace. I heartily endorse your divestment vote and encourage you to stand firm on the side of what is right.
God bless you richly,
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Mother Earth Brewing Becomes First Brewery to Attain LEED® Gold Certification
Today, Mother Earth Brewing of Kinston, NC announced that they have become the first brewery in the United States to be awarded LEED® Gold certification status from the United States Green Building Council. The award comes after over three years of renovations and carbon footprint reduction work by the brewery.
LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is a voluntary, consensus-based, market-driven program sponsored by the US Green Building Council (USGBC) that provides third-party verification of green buildings. The program provides three different certification levels (Platinum, Gold and Silver) which are attained by earning a certain number of "points" by completing eco-friendly projects designed to:
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The program is voluntary, allowing those who wish to take a leadership role in the green building initiative to gain third party recognition. Though the USGBC does not formally track certified projects by categories such as "breweries," they informed Mother Earth that it was the first brewery to achieve certification higher than Silver based on their research.
Mother Earth Brewing founders Stephen Hill and Trent Mooring were committed to environmental sustainability from the very inception of the brewery in 2008. Throughout the development and construction process, they both continued to spend time finding ways to make Mother Earth a green facility. That focus led to the installation of solar panels, recyclable carpet, eco-friendly tile, and insulation made of blue jeans. Eco-flush toilets save hundreds of gallons of water each year, and run on rain water collected in a cistern. The brewery also recycles everything from spent grain (feed for cattle) and the bags the grain comes in (converted to stylish shopping bags by local artisans) to the old wooden bourbon barrels the brewery uses for aging (converted to building materials and art pieces displayed throughout the facility).
"It was critical to educate myself on a multitude of eco-friendly products, and select those that best met our objectives, limiting our environmental impact, and demanding efficiency," Mooring said.
The renovation of the brewery building has also spurred more downtown development in Kinston, which has since seen more renovations on downtown buildings that have brought along a new live music venue and two new restaurants slated to open this year.
"Revitalizing a downtown building and neighborhood isn't just a great act of sustainability, it's also a great way to foster economic growth in a local economy. We hope that we can continue to be an anchor for the downtown renaissance happening in our town," added co-founder Stephen Hill.
Mother Earth Brewing was founded by Stephen Hill and Trent Mooring four years ago. Soon after, they added Brewmaster, Josh D. Brewer to the team and within months, an old downtown building was repurposed into a brewery. Mother Earth Brewing began to bottle and keg their beer in October of 2009. Today, just over three years after production of their first batch of beer, Mother Earth Brewing counts on a team of fourteen people to keep up with production. Mother Earth Brewing enjoys over 2,500 accounts, and can be found in bars, restaurants, supermarkets and specialty stores across North Carolina, Georgia, and Washington, DC.
Mother Earth Brewery is a 40 barrel craft brewery that bottles and kegs beer for sale in its Kinston, NC Tap Room, and for distribution in bars, restaurants and retail locations throughout North Carolina, Georgia, and Washington, DC. The brewery and Taproom are located at 311 North Herritage Street Kinston, NC 28501. More information can be found at www.motherearthbrewing.com. For more information about USGBC and LEED®, please visit www.usgbc.org/leed.