text:
CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WIVB) – Authorities believe oxygen tanks inside a home in Cheektowaga may have helped spark a double fatal fire early Tuesday morning.
The home on Furlong Road was so badly damaged, it's almost too dangerous for investigators to go inside. But they're looking at oxygen as a possible aggravating factor.
Cleveland Hill Fire Chief Joe Lewis said, "There was a very heavy fire load when we showed up. The building is structurally destroyed. The first floor is burnt through, the second floor is sagging, and actually some floor joists are missing from the fire."
PHOTO GALLERY | Pictures taken at the scene capture the intensity of the deadly blaze
It's the second case in three weeks where oxygen tanks may have or did fuel a fatal fire.
Earlier this month, 76-year-old Nelsonia Voight died in a fire that consumed her mobile home in Clarence. Erie County Sheriff's Deputy Scott Kuhlmey says during that fire, "several small oxygen cylinders that did void."
Erie County Deputy Fire Coordinator Tiger Schmittendorf said, "If you've ever tried to, say, start a charcoal fire in your grill, or maybe a campfire and the fire's not really going, it's smoldering a little bit, really there's no open flame, what do most folks do? They blow on the fire."
Schmittendorf says oxygen tanks have the same effect, but on a much larger and more dangerous scale. Unlike the air we breathe and the kind firefighters carry – which is 21 percent oxygen – these tanks contain 100 percent oxygen.
"It's not just combustible, it's actually flammable," he explained. "Literally, this can pretty much become a projectile, and blow off similar to a rocket. It's a very real concern."
Schmittendorf says people who use oxygen should always keep it at least six feet away from any open flame or electric heat source, never smoke, and equip their homes with working smoke detectors. Adult caregivers should have and know how to use fire extinguishers.
He said, "But really, they have to be concerned first and foremost for their safety and the safety of the person they're taking care of, and we want them to simply get out and stay out."
The Cleveland Hill Fire Chief says the two victims in Tuesday morning's fire were burned beyond recognition. Autopsies will be done to identify them.
Neighbors said an unmarried couple in their 60s lived in the home.


text:
flup dup
a person who is to stupid to understand anything
he is a real flup dup
Read Also:
- pixsy
when a individual looks hot in pictures but not in real life. dude, her instagram pic was straight fire, but turns out she wasn't, she was straight pixsy.
- ahisha
an awesome gal. who loves the beach. she's acting like an ahisha
- kapopler
its a word that can be use in anyway as a scapegoat out of a conversation and situation . "um… um… kapopler!! "
- litty-lit
when someone or something has exceeded all expectations and all know power levels of lit. litty-lit i've never seen anything like this…..my reality and expectations are forever changed. i've been exposed to the legendary forms of turn up litty-lit. litty-lit means someone or something has exceeded all expectations and all know power levels of lit.
- fairhurst
fairhursts are usually outwardly flamers with poorly maintained beards who struggle with the concept of life. dude here comes a fairhurst just look at his scruffy beard, mincing walk and simple smile a fairhurst is a bearded bimbo often struggling to get through life without forgetting his/her name or their address. they attempt to be […]

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Cleaning Service/ Janitorial Service Business in Orange County
There are two types of businesses that clean professionally,
Commercial Cleaning. Typically used to clean large office buildings and retail space during the night. These types of jobs are bid by the square foot of area to be cleaned.
There is a Chicago based national association of people in this business. The offer a magazine, access to janitorial suppliers at a discounted rate, an annual convention, and certification of your skills as a manager or executive. It might be important to have some sort of training certification if you bid on jobs. They offer internet classes on a range of topics. Building Service Contractors Association International http://www.bscai.org/
Home Cleaning Offering maid service can be lucrative. The challenge in this business is to reach out to customers and assure them that your employees are trustworthy. Your other challenge will be finding employees who are willing to do the job and have a clean criminal background. You can run the business out of your garage, and inventory costs ar low. Most households already own the equipment you need to get started: vacuum, mops, brooms…
Vacation Home Cleaning. A growing number of people are renting out their homes in Orange County to as vacation rentals. They need to have them perfectly clean, stocked with coffee, fresh towels… They usually add cleaning onto the cost of renting the home. The most popular home rental service is www.vrbo.com and HomeAway.com. One way to do some inexpensive marketing would be to go to their community forum, and search for cleaning service and Housekeeping. You will see some people posting "looking for a cleaning service" and if you sign up for an account, you can post too. You could also contact the owners directly from their listings, but that would be considered spam.
Cleaning Franchises
One way to gain customers is to buy a well recognized franchise, and they have become the "Hot" franchise lately because of the low overhead costs and franchisors have been advertising so there is now national brand recognition. In the past few years you have probably noticed a lot of cars with cleaning company logos on their doors, and a lot of advertising in your mail box if you live in certain zip codes. Customers are more likely to call a number from a company they know while in the past they would ask their neighbors if they know a good cleaning lady.
But be carful. Recently the FTC has noted that there have been problems with people not getting what they paid for when purchasing a cleaning franchise. Read this before you proceed any further: http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/invest/inv15.shtm
Since it does not take a lot of capital or specialized expertise to get into this business their have been a lot of companies popping up to sell franchise packages. Remember that it could always be less costly to buy an existing franchise than to start a new franchise with a company. And there is nothing to stop you from starting your own service. Your main cost will be marketing in the area you choose. Franchises offer a regional advertising campaign that dilutes the cost of advertising among all the franchisees, training, proprietary software for running your business, and management advice. Below are just a few franchise options.
Maid Brigade seems to be a newer franchise to our area so there may still be some territories available. Start up cost from $60,000-$150,000, and a discount of up to 45% on some costs for military veterans. http://maidbrigadefranchise.com/our-story.html
Maid Pro This is an up and coming company. The say they are an inexpensive alternative to the other franchisors with a franchise fee of only $8,000. They say they can do this because they do not have any sub-franchisees. They kind-of implied that some of the other companies work like a multi-level marketing scheme where by you pay people up the latter commissions. Also they keep advertising costs down by focusing on the internet. They have a 6.5% of gross sales royalty and a 1% of gross sales advertising charge. They also can wrap your car in Maid Pro advertising and do print advertising. They also make a point that they do not force you to buy supplies from them. If you can get them cheaper locally, that's okay. They way they explain it it's more like letting you do your own thing with the benefits of a large company as opposed to buying a manager's job. http://www.maidprofranchise.com/
One of the most successful franchisors in our area is a company called Molly Maid. http://www.mollymaid.com/cleaning-franchise.aspx Franchisors pay around $60,000 for a territory and are given exclusive rights to Molly Maid cleaning accounts in that territory. If a homeowner does not know who to call for cleaning services they will initially call a well known name like this one.
Merry Maids is a franchisor owned by a company that franchises a lot of low capital home service opportunities called Service Master. http://www.merrymaids.com/88/franchises . They do not provide start-up cost information on their website. I think this is the company with the pink cars.
ServPro http://www.servpro.com/FranchiseOpportunities This is a specialized cleaning company. This company goes in after disaster strikes. Perhaps smoke damage from a fire or more likely a broken pipe that floods a home. The interesting thing about this business is that they work fast and bill insurance companies. Thus they can charge a bit of a premium over the hourly rate for general cleaning. [They will not like the way this is explained.] Home owners don't really care about the cost because the insurance company is picking up the bill. And insurance companies want the job done fast before mold issues start to grow. This is more than just cleaning; there may be some drywall removal and other light construction work. One thing is for sure, this company has done a great job with marketing. After a flood, a lot of home owners automatically know they should call ServPro.
Maid to Perfection http://www.maidtoperfection.com/ This company does both commercial and residential cleaning services. Their franchise fee is only $15,000 and the royalty is 7% of gross sales. As with the other companies, they have a professional training program. They have just started expanding into Southern California yet, so there may be open territories available.
Service Master Clean They only charge $9,000 to get started and $5,000 of that goes to your initial marketing. Their website for franchise opportunities is here: http://www.ownafranchise.com/types/commclean.html
© 2011 OCBusinessStartUp.com


text: On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 12:53 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:> > I'm not sure allowing that type of override a good idea tho .. I don't> > think it's considered a usable clock when the rating goes to zero.> > Override as the root user -> your foot, no? The whole override stuff is> there for the case that the clocksource selection picked a broken clock> and you want to force the system into a semi-working state. Ideally the> whole override would go away, but that is probably wishful thinking..I would agree if the system doesn't crash as a result, if it just startsto operate funny then that's maybe acceptable. If you keep the changerating function, you could potentially remove the unregister path..Daniel


text:
The recently concluded synod of bishops has confirmed that the Roman Catholic Church will not halt the progress made during the Second Vatican Council, which changed the way the church regards itself and the world around it.
As a rabbi, I had been particularly concerned that the Vatican might be retreating from one of the historic achievements of Vatican II--"Nostra Aetate," which repudiated the ancient charge of deicide against the Jews, and thus created the basis for a new and positive relationship between Catholics and Jews.
My fears have been aroused by recent guidelines issued by the Vatican's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, which appeared to introduce a note of religious triumphalism, suggesting that non-Christians are denied the means of salvation. The guidelines also gave scant attention to the Holocaust, and ignored the religious significance to Jews of the rebirth of the state of Israel.
It was gratifying, then, to read that the bishops had voiced confidence in the results of Vatican II and had voted to promote wider knowledge and understanding of its teachings.


text:
Recent reviews
- All reviews
- Positive
- Neutral
- Negative
Providing easy access to the airport and popular destinations in the area, Residence Inn Seattle University District is perfect for weekend getaways and extended business trips. Take advantage of our convenient location near Seattle Children's Hospital, Woodland Park Zoo and Green Lake. After exploring the area, make yourself at home in our all-suite hotel. Take care of your business obligations using our ergonomic workstations and free Wi-Fi, then cook a delicious meal in your suite's fully equipped kitchen. For those that don't feel like cooking, we offer a free breakfast buffet in the morning, and delectable meals for lunch and dinner from our restaurant and sports bar, Tavern 12 Seattle. After you've fueled up, work on your exercise goals using the cardio equipment and free weights at our fitness center, or enjoy an invigorating swim in our indoor pool. Whether you're meeting with potential clients, or simply exploring the local hotspots, feel right at home at Residence Inn Seattle University District.


text: "Grover, Andrew" <email@example.com> writes:> [do we want to move this to linux-power?]I'm happy to as long as I'm cc'd.[...]IMHO the pm interface should be split up as following: (1) Battery status, power status, UPS status polling. It should be possible for lots of processes to do this simultaneously. [That does not prohibit a single process querying the kernel and all the others querying it.] (2) Funky events happening to the physical machine, like a button being pressed, the case being closed, etc. [Should this include battery low warnings, power status changes? I don't know.] (3) Sending the machine to sleep, turning it off. It should be possible to do this from userspace ;-)Am I missing anything? Of course (1) and (2) could be combined into asingle daemon.ATM the area is fraught with incompatibility. There are a ridiculousnumber of power management systems - one per architecture almost. Eachhas a different kernel-userspace interface. Every UPS has its owninterface too (?) ;-)> There should be only one PM policy agent on the system. Why?As far as I see it, only some people need polling capabilities -i.e. those on battery or UPS. Why should they be subjected to thebloat etc. And those on battery might want multiple policies as Alanpointed out.[...]-- http://www.penguinpowered.com/~vii-To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" inthe body of a message to email@example.com majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlPlease read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/


text: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 3:09 AM, Ryo ONODERA <ryo_on%yk.rim.or.jp@localhost> wrote: > (2) Create multiple packages from one pkgsrc package directory > For example, pkgsrc/fonts/harfbuzz has icu option and theoretically > non-icu part and icu part can be separate package, but splitting > only icu part from harfbuzz is difficult in configure/build stage. > In rpm (Red Hat package manager) case, "build once and multiple packages is > created" is realized with custom do-install target. > "build once" means reduce of build time. See for example MULTI_PACKAGES in OpenBSD ports. Maybe this could be ported over somehow? > (6) Porting Chromium web browser to NetBSD > I have not tested build of Chromium (open source edition of Google Chrome), > and I have a few experience about Google Chrome. > Chromium may be useful web browser for NetBSD. There used to be a wip/chromium package. I built it once but it crashed on startup. > (11) Improve NetBSD/evbearm support > As you know, NetBSD/evbearm has some problems. > http://gnats.netbsd.org/48130 , for Kirkwood > http://gnats.netbsd.org/48193 and http://gnats.netbsd.org/48215 for pkg_add I feel that evbarm is one of the more important ports in the mind of many people. For example, the Raspberry Pi has many fans. It makes me sad that NetBSD on the Raspberry Pi is so slow and unstable. --Benny.


text:
CPI Corp, owner and operator of Sears Portrait Studios and PictureMe Portrait Studios® in Wal-Mart, is the leading portrait studio operator in North America with over 60 years of portrait photography expertise. We offer photographic services in over three thousand locations in the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada and Mexico.
While our customers have come to rely on our extraordinary photography to document their family's milestones, we continue to attract new moms and family members of all ages, with an incredible range of portrait choices, contemporary products, and exemplary customer service.
From jobs in photography, sales and management in the field, to the jobs in Marketing, Finance, Manufacturing and IT at the corporate office in St. Louis, MO, our employees have a single focus - creating lifetime memories. We encourage ambition, creativity, solidarity, and courage in all of our employees, resulting in an entrepreneurial mindset, innovation and a wherewithal to confront challenges in a changing marketplace. Don't delay in joining a growing company that continues to lead the way!!!
For career opportunities at the corporate office Click Here
For career opportunities at Sears Portrait Studios Click Here
For career opportunities at PictureMe Portrait Studios® Click Here
For career opportunities at Kiddie Kandids Portrait Studios Click Here


text:
Headlines scream it. Talk show guests dissect it. Water-cooler chat spills over with it. Don Henley's little ditty "Dirty Laundry" sings about it.
The high-ranking politician we admire for his crime fighting skill get's caught off the clock with his hand in the cookie jar. The professional athlete with the perfect wife, kids, life and career slips up – and we all hear about it. And those "reality shows", isn't what truly makes them irresistible the hope we might catch a celebrity looking foolish, or worse?
It's all about the "fall from grace."
As a kid growing up in Queens I loved going to the Saturday matinee at the local movie theater. Movies yes, and lots of cartoons. And many featured the slick, oddly handsome mustached villan. Of course, in the end, the evil plot would fail, good would triumph, and the bad guy would sulk away rubbing his hands muttering "Curses! Foiled again."
It's a common trait in humans that we enjoy, even gloat when someone who seems flawless falls flat or is publicly shamed. In her article "Our Pleasure in Others' Misfortune", Christie Aschwanden explores "Schadenfreude", the German word which translates to "harm-joy".
Though clearly not an emotion we freely admit to, psychology professor Richard H. Smith of the University of Kentucky feels that this darker aspect of ourselves stems from a need to figure out where we fit in the social order. We determine who we are by measuring ourselves against our peers. As a matter of fact, studies have shown similar behavior in other species such as dogs and monkeys.
It's usefulness (if you want to call it that) is it's adaptive function. The unspoken: "How am I doing?"
Schadenfreude illustrates how folks love to place others on a pedestal, only to have them knocked down. But we can't be the ones to uncover the flaw. A characteristic of this emotion is that despite the fact that on some level we wish our beloved, esteemed idol to fail, we are removed from direct involvement in the process. We watch from a bemused distance, feeling suddenly superior.
When another is perceived as holding a higher social status than our own, we can feel even greater pleasure when they transgress.
The higher they climb, the harder they fall.
Consider how vegetarians are sometimes perceived by hamburger munchers, or rather, how omnivores feel they are being viewed by the abstainers. Dr. Smith writes: "Vegetarians need not say a word; their very existence, from the meat eater's point of view, is a moral irritant." He adds that if we should happen to catch a veggie-lover devouring a steak we secretly rejoice: "We are not as inferior as we were led to believe, now we can assume the contrasting position of moral superiority."
Interesting stuff indeed. All part of the mix of being human.
In the final analysis, Dr. Smith suggests that we acknowledge this dark side of the self. It's usefulness can be to simply remind us that we are all flawed, all fallible. We recognize the feeling of "harm-joy" and then release it. Not so much for the good of the other, as for our own well-being.
As the Dalai Lama has said: "If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
Peace – Judi England, RN, LMT, Kripalu Yoga Instructor – email@example.com – 2/17/2014


text:
Bradburys at Warren,IL. mid 1800's
I am hoping to find information on the Bradburys at Warren,IL.in the mid 1800's Ella Bradbury-William F.Bradbury. Family origins were in Levant/Bangor,Maine earlier. Ella Married Samuel Wadleigh at Warren & registered the marriage at the Henderson co. courthouse at Oquawka,IL.& across the river from Burlington,Iowa where Samuel had a business and settled with his new bride.
Thank you !


text:
Fresh As Tesco
Create: 02/20/2017 - 13:17
A 4 KG carton of honey mandarin oranges I bought from them are still juicy today, some 20 days later. In comparison, a box I received as a gift around the same time were already dried up and some oranges are rotting.
Amazing that the Tesco ones stayed so fresh, juicy and tasty so many days after purchase. It was labelled as Fujian Yongchun Honey Mandarin imported from China by Kaishen Trading. Was cheap too. Cant remember the price but hope co-shopper Johnny can remember.


text:
Specializing in bed bug extermination, All Bed Bugs Begone has been providing affordable relief to homes throughout Arizona since 2009. We are the premier provider of chemical-free extermination services, providing safe, single-service exterminations that require little preparation beforehand.
Our services are up to 60% less expensive than other companies due to our efficiency. We are committed to customer service and assist you in ways that other companies overlook, like moving furniture and rehanging blinds. We definitely bring the heat when it comes to battling bed bugs — your home is heated up to 185°, which is far above the 122° limit at which bed bugs perish.
What sets us apart from our competition is that we don't use any chemical ingredients you need to worry about causing long-lasting odors, harm to people and animals, or any other worries. The bed bug heat treatment is a 100% green operation that we can guarantee will work. We are so confident in the heat treatment that we provide a 30-day warranty.
If you would like to speak with us, contact us at our Phoenix location at (480) 710-3961 or our Mesa location at (480) 659-9011.
"All Bed Bugs Begone helped me with my bed bug problem. By the time the treatment was over, all of my bed bugs were gone. I thank the whole team for their outstanding service."
Contact Us Today For Help!


text:
A man is in jail for an armed robbery.
Topeka Police say it all started just after 9 o'clock Saturday night at this gas station on southeast California.
A clerk had called police saying a man went into the store with a knife and demanded money.
The clerk said the man then ran away.
Less than a half hour later, police saw a man matching the suspect's description on southeast Morrison.
The man was then arrested.
His name has not been released.


text:
A Fatal Vanity
( Originally Published 1902 )
ANNIE McLEAN, a young woman of remarkable beauty, twenty-two years of age, lived in the city of Paterson, N. J. Her picture was sent to Buffalo to represent America in a design for the Pan-American exhibition. When she learned that her picture had not been accepted, she became despondent, dressed herself in her finest clothing and committed suicide by drinking carbolic acid. Poor little moth she was ! So silly to fly into the flame and be burned. What Annie McLean did the more swiftly and rudely many a young woman, and young man as well, does more gradually and politely, but just as surely sacrifices body and soul on the altar of Vanity. The pride of form or feature, of wealth or station, of birth or attainment, of robes and plumes, and jewels, the overweening desire for the notice and admiration of others, the giving up of the life to the empty vanities of earth, hurt the health and spoil the soul.


text:
PORTLAND – Another marine business is looking to lease space at the Maine State Pier.
City Economic Development Director Greg Mitchell could not provide details about the business or lease, since it was subject to ongoing negotiations.
"It's a new business to Portland," Mitchell said.
Mitchell said the business is looking to lease 10,000 square feet of space, with an option to expand. The business would not affect Ready Seafood Co., which currently leases space on the city-owned pier.
The Housing and Community Committee will meet on Wednesday in closed session to discuss the proposal.


text:
The Travails and Antics of Africa's "Big Men" - How Power Has Corrupted African Leaders
By Wafula Okumu
The Perspective
Atlanta, Georgia
April 11, 2002
Lord John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton is famous for cautioning that power has a tendency to corrupt the wielder, particularly one who aspires to be a great man. This precept propounded in the 19th Century has been obsequiously proven to be more than true in the late 20th and early 21st Centuries Africa. Some of the contemporary testimonies to Lord Acton's exposé are Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Charles Taylor of Liberia, Daniel arap Moi of Kenya, Frederick Chiluba of Zambia, and Robert Gueï of Cote d'Ivoire. These "Big Men" have shown that power is both sweet and addictive.
When he took power in 1986, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said he considered the idea of a Head of State clinging to office for "15 or more" years ill-advised. Although it is now 16 years since Museveni made this statement he is still comfortably lolling in office and has just embarked on his 17th year as Uganda's Head of State. In last year's filthy elections that he won by 69 per cent of the votes cast, Museveni took a high moral ground by claiming that had his votes not been stolen he could have garnered more than 75 per cent. However, his supporters were contented with 69 per cent, which they interpreted as a resounding endorsement for Museveni to rule for life.
In his usual idiosyncratic meddling way and new role as Africa's peacemaker, elder statesman and continental unifier, Col. Muammar Gadhafi, while attending Museveni's inauguration, urged him to be a perpetual leader. While addressing a national conference of Museveni's ruling National Resistance Movement on May 11, 2001, he urged Ugandans to allow Museveni to rule for "as long as possible." "Revolutionary leaders should not have expiry dates, like tinned drinks. My brother Museveni was born a revolutionary. He should continue for as long as he has the ability to do so," Gadhafi said. Despite this enormous pressure to rule forever, Museveni had the gall to promise, yet again, that he would not contest again after his new mandate expires. Determining the truth of this statement might not need the services of a clairvoyant.
Museveni is a member of a club of African leaders inebriated with power. Other club members are Mugabe, Moi, Taylor, Chiluba (who has now lost membership), Nujoma, and Muluzi, to just name a few. A number of things distinguish these power-hungry African leaders - the first one is that they are hanging on to power after their "sell-by" date. Second, they are deft in manipulating the constitution and electoral laws to ensure that they continue being embarrassments and drags on their countries. Third, they refer to same "book of excuses" not to exit the political stage after the curtain has come down on their poorly scripted and performed political melodrama. Fourth, one of the flimsy excuses they are using is that "there is no one capable of taking over" the mismanagement of their country's affairs - read this as a failure to groom their successors - and that they have not completed their tasks of building (or more aptly destroying) their nations - read this as being intoxicated with power. Fifth, they have systematically dismantled all institutions or sought to destroy all opposition that might interfere with their patrimonial system. And finally, they are all contemporary and perfect displays of Lord Acton's dictum: that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
While Moi and Mugabe are relics of Africa's "Big Men" who dominated the continent in the 1970s and 1980s there have also been Johnnies-come-lately. Such a Johnnie-come-lately to a club of African "Big Men" is Cote d'Ivoire's General Robert Gueï who lasted in power for barely a year. When General Gueï took power after the country's only coup d'etat on Christmas Eve of 1999, he promised to stay only long enough to "sweep the house clean" of corruption and organize fair elections. But after tasting the sweetness of power, Gueï reneged on his promises by using force and ethnically divisive politics to hold on to power, raising communal tensions to the most dangerous level in years and dividing the once-cohesive military. His resolve to hang on to power seems to have been made after two army revolts and an assassination attempt.
While in public he tried so hard to mimic Ivory Coast's founder and national icon, Felix Houphouet-Boigny's speech, dress and mannerisms to the point of being ridiculous, in private, he first gave the impression that whoever is talking to him is correct and has his say but seemed to be deaf to what he was being told as the conversation progressed. The responses he made at the end left those who just spent time talking to him with no doubt that he had not been paying attention to what was being said. A Yacouba from the west of the country, Gueï reinforced the stereotype about his ethnic group, which is said to never say "yes" or "no" when an important decision is to be made; by responding in crucial meetings with "we'll see" after everyone else has spoken. This explains why despite warnings from other African countries such as Nigeria and South Africa, as well as the United States and France, that manipulation of electoral process to ensure his victory in the Oct. 22, 2000, presidential elections could lead to political violence and international isolation, Gueï went ahead and attempted to steal the elections in broad daylight.
A French-trained officer, Gueï was an undistinguished colonel until 1990, when Houphouet-Boigny promoted him to the army chief after a failed coup attempt in 1990. However, he was fired by Houphouet-Boigny's successor, Henri Konan Bedie, in 1995 when he refused to send troops into the streets to suppress opposition protests. When in December 1999 the enlisted military men overthrow Bedie over unpaid wages they invited Gueï to take power and he agreed. While pretending that he had no personal ambitions, Gueï did not waste time in launching his quest for unbridled power by first assuming the defense docket and then declaring his candidacy for the presidency. But before making known his ambition to be the next Houphouet-Boigny (which was "civilized" from the African name "Hufa Bwanyi"), Gueï embarked on a diabolical plan to rig the elections and stay in power by taking a number of measures. He named loyalists to key posts in the military and his personal lawyer, Tia Kone, to head the Supreme Court, which later disqualified Alassane Dramane Ouattara and 13 other candidates from running for the presidency. He then unleashed soldiers on his opponents, raided newspapers, beat up and arrested journalists, and closed an independent radio station.
In the days leading to the elections, Gueï seemed not only paranoid but became more erratic in his rule. He seemed to be particularly weary of Alassane Ouattara, a former prime minister and a Muslim from the northern part of the country who had been denied his right to run for the presidency on the pretext that he had Burkinabe parentage. When his residency was attacked on September 18, Gueï accused Ouattara of having manipulated members of the presidential guard into carrying out the attack, and warned him of dire consequences. Indeed on September 21, troops loyal to Gueï ransacked the home of the Security Minister and the No. 2 officer in the ruling junta, Gen. Lassana Palenfo. A day later, Gueï fired Palenfo; Gen. Abdoulaye Coulibaly, the third-ranking member of the junta; and Justice Minister Maitre N'gattta Essy - all known to be close to Ouattara.
Guei was too crude in the methods he used to hang on to power. When the preliminary results showed him trailing the main opposition leader, Laurent Gbagbo, by 11 points, he unleashed the soldiers on the offices of the National Electoral Commission and halted the vote-counting with a claim that "massive fraud organized by certain political parties" had been committed. Gbagbo reacted by calling on his supporters "to stand up against the impostor" who was stealing their democratic decision. Thousands of Ivorians took to the streets - marching, setting up roadblocks, burning tires and shouting "Gueï, thief!" amid sounds of gunfire.
General Gueï then dissolved the Electoral Commission on the ground that its incompetence had led to "confusion" in the counting of ballots - making its conclusions worthless. After firing the Commission Chairman, Honoré Guié, a mid-ranking electoral official, Daniel Bamba Cheik, released the "right" election results: 53 percent for General Gueï and 48 percent for Mr. Gbagbo! This announcement was later followed by General Gueï's victory speech in which he declared himself the new president and thanked Ivoirians for their "maturity and solidarity," and for fulfilling their "civic duty, the results of which have made this humble person the first president of the second Republic." Almost a week later Gbagbo also declared himself "the first President of Ivory Coast's second republic" after the Ivorians had run Gueï out of power with burning barricades, sticks, stones, and bricks.
There are a number of reasons as to why African "Big Men" try to hang on to power needlessly. Among these is a theory that African leaders are hostages of their sycophants. In having patron-client relations with their followers the presidents act as dispensers of favors, mainly in form of public properties and offices which are in turn used to accumulate wealth or share the "national cake" with members of their ethnic groups. In what has developed into a symbiotic relationship, the "Big Man" becomes dependent on his sycophants to assure him that the mistakes he is making are in the national interest and the sycophants, on their part, come to heavily rely on their patron for their survival - which commonly involves looting public coffers and properties. This relationship in the short and long runs mature into a sycophantic system that makes it hard for the "Big Man" to extricate himself from his clients.
This is clearly illustrated in the case of Kenya where Moi has basically been begging his sycophants to let him retire. Speaking on arrival from South Africa in June 1999, Moi said: "I am ready to retire even now if I am assured somebody will take care of the interest of all Kenyans and unite the country." He added: "I am a human being and I would like to retire." He reiterated this in December the same year, when he said: "Three years from now, I will retire from active politics." However one of his lackeys, Sharif Nassir, has openly warned him that: "It is not for him (Moi) to decide whether or not he will continue ruling." It is people like Nassir, with a stake in Moi's government, who "have the last word on the issue. If Moi remains adamant that he does not want to run, he will be upsetting many of his supporters who have stood by him throughout his political career." With a deprecating sense of wisecracks Nassir has rationalized his coterie's selfish interests by saying that Moi must stay in power until he dies: "How can one cook food, taking the trouble to make it delicious, only to leave to other people to eat?"
Another theory is that "Big Men" have a fear of being punished for the ills they have wrought on their countries and of losing the perquisites and prestige that the occupier of the highest office in the land enjoys at the expense of other citizens. There is no doubt that Africa's "Big Men" are now shuddering on the thought of being out of power when they see what is happening to one of their former club member - former Zambian President Fredrick Chiluba. When Frederick JT Chiluba was swept to power by the anti-Kaunda euphoria in 1991, he was heard to remark to close aides: "Power is sweet." After enjoying "sweet power" for 10 years, this former bus conductor and trade union leader decided that he wanted to keep it longer than what the Constitution stipulates and against the wishes of his countrymen. Indeed when Chiluba came to power he had not only pledged to abide by democratic principles in his rule but was also widely hailed as one of a new breed of democratically-elected leaders in a continent rife with autocratic rule. But as soon as he settled in his office, Chiluba reverted to the old bad habits that characterize African leaders: abuse and misuse of public office, cronyism and sycophancy, and vindictiveness. The much-touted "new-style African leader" was an instant disappointment.
The tell-tale signs of his bad rule were sent during his first year in power when he sacked independent-minded politicians from his cabinet and replaced them with "yes" men and women who gained instant distinctions for their corrupt practices. The perverse and unbridled corruption that was to become a hallmark of Chiluba's presidency led one Zambian journalist to comment: "Kaunda's men were pickpockets, but Chiluba's lot are thieves." This observation was confirmed by a parliament probe carried in 2001 that found out that most of the assets of Zambia Consolidated Copper Mines (ZCCM) and several other companies had simply vanished into thin air, while other valuable state properties had been sold for peanuts.
Chiluba was also renowned for his narcissistic tendencies and vindictiveness that bordered on a "Napoleonic Complex." Overly conscious of his diminutive stature, Chiluba wore platform shoes and was a "natty" dresser, with a fondness for expensive and monogrammed clothes. His shirts, socks and ties with matching breast-pocket handkerchief are imprinted with the initials of his first names FTJ - Frederick Titus Jacob. While his suits spoke of affluence, millions of his fellow Zambians sloughed in abject poverty. In one of the many ironies that characterized his rule, Chiluba had his suits tailored by top class designers in France and Italy while Zambians could barely avoid second-hand clothes called Salaula. In discarding his original man-of-the-people look of open shirts, polo-necked sweaters and blue jeans, Chiluba must have filled all the closets in the presidential mansion as few people, even his closest aides, remember ever seeing him in the same suit, shirt, tie, shoes or socks twice. It is not quite clear whether the MMD women cadres who used to sing at state functions were glorifying or mocking Chiluba when they sang: "Iyi ni boma yama suti; ma safari suit yanaenda na Kaunda" (This is a government of western suits; Safari suits went with Kaunda).
Former President Kaunda has lived to regret his denigration of Chiluba, when he was spearheading the opposition to his rule, as a "midget." Kaunda was not only accused but also imprisoned for conspiring to overthrow Chiluba in 1997. This was just one in a litany of politically-inspired court cases that Kaunda was subjected to, with the most infamous being the attempt to strip him of his citizenship. In a spiteful and malicious scheme to humiliate a man who was more popular and respected than him, Chiluba not only changed the Constitution to disqualify Kaunda from running for the presidency because his parents were born in Malawi but also enacted laws to strip him of his retirement package for remaining active in politics. It did not matter that Kaunda was Zambia's independence leader who had been president for 27 years! Although a perfervid born-again Christian, his treatment of his rivals and divorce in September 2001 of wife, Vera, to whom he had been married for 33 years, has left many questioning his religious devotion.
In a déjà vu ruling, a Zambian judge on March 4 this year ordered former President Frederick Chiluba to be stripped of all state benefits. Among the retirement benefits he had to part with were the Mercedes and a number of other vehicles, the keys to a government-owned house in the fashionable district of Kabulonga, security guards and his domestic staff. Judge Nyangulu also ordered that Chiluba's salary be cut off, as well as his entitlement to free fuel and free phone calls. The ruling was based on one of the many laws Chiluba had enacted to specifically target Kaunda - that past presidents are not entitled to any state benefits if they stay involved in active politics. If this doesn't sound like poetic justice then I don't know what to call it!
But Chiluba's troubles are far from being over. In retaliation, he is threatening that if Mwanawasa does not protect him from further humiliation he will tell the Zambians how the elections that brought him to power were rigged! Smelling blood, opposition politicians are now calling for his presidential immunity to be lifted by parliament so that he can be questioned about allegations of corruption relating to his 10 years in office and to be prosecuted for illegal use of state resources since he left office. This clamor to strip Chiluba of his immunity as an ex-President, in order to answer allegations of corruption, has been emboldened by his ex-wife's claim of more than $2.5 billion - equivalent to more than three-quarters of the country's Gross Domestic Product - as part of a divorce settlement. Vera Chiluba is also seeking a share of the couple's concrete assets, which she says include six houses and a farm with over 400 cows, sheep and goats. She is adamant that she can prove the existence of all this wealth, which she says her husband accumulated in the 10 years he was in office. The country is waiting for June, when the case will come up for hearing, with bated breath.
Chiluba came very close to a three-peat on April 30, 2001, when Zambia's ruling Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD) amended its own constitution to give him a go-ahead to stand for an unconstitutional third term. This "victory" had been preceded by a campaign of intimidation in which the party branches in the provinces were forced to declare their intention to nominate Chiluba for another term that was unconstitutional. If this move had not been vehemently opposed by, among others, National Vice-President Christon Tembo, the party's Vice-President Godfrey Miyanda and nine other Cabinet Ministers, Chiluba would have gone into history records as the OAU's last chairman.
The gallant way in which the Zambians stood up in defense of their fledgling democracy, despite being on the receiving end of violence, is a key contribution to the future of democracy in Africa. This is not the first time the Zambians have led Africa on the path towards a democratic society. We all recall in 1991 when President Kenneth Kaunda, after 27 years in power, peacefully relinquished power after his defeat in country's first multiparty elections since independence to become the first African head of state to do so. Indeed Liberians, Kenyans, Malawians, Ugandans and other Africans should learn from the Ivorians and Zambians that it is possible to stand up against power hungry leaders who have no respect for the Constitutions they have sworn to uphold.
Unfortunately, as Professor Samwiri Karugire once remarked, Africans only "read history to pass exams, not to learn from it." Take the case of Kenyans, who after almost a quarter a Century of untold misery wrought on them by Moi's erratic rule appear numbed by their suffering that they seem not to have learned from the Zambian experience of check-mating Moi's monarchical tendencies. Exactly one week after Mugabe was re-elected in the controversial and internationally condemned polls, Moi skillfully presided over a merger of the ruling party, KANU, and one of the opposition parties, National Development Party, in which he was "elected" the powerful chairman of the "New KANU." Moi, who is constitutionally disbarred from running for another term, has now more or less crowned himself a monarch. Under the new arrangement, he will be able to call party elections, determine who runs on the party ticket, and fire whoever is elected the country's president on the party ticket. This means if the next president is elected on a KANU ticket he (the party is openly anti-women) will answer to Moi. Although this poses a serious constitutional problem it is most unlikely that the courts can rule against Moi since the judges are his appointees and, going by precedent, are known to always rule in his favor.
Indeed Zambia has offered a number of useful lessons for Africa. One of them is that the multiparty euphoria that griped the continent in 1990s has not cured one-party dictatorships that have simply reinvented themselves in different forms. Another lesson is that democracy cannot take root in a situation where democratic institutions are either infirm or easy to dismantle. Unless Africans strengthen democratic institutions and instill a democratic culture there will always be dangers from those deft enough to take advantage of the weak institutions and popular political ignorance to usurp democracy.
Africa must find a way of checking the insatiable appetite for power by its leaders. Leaders like Kenya's Moi are learning wrong lessons from the travails facing Chiluba in Zambia by changing tact instead of seeing sense and honorably retiring from politics. Others like Malawi's Muluzi seem to be bending ears to those urging them to go for unconstitutional terms. However the chances are high that Muluzi might go the Chiluba way. None of Africa's "Big Men," save for Museveni to some extent, has done wonders for his country since coming to power. It is a great pity that they want, through a ruse, to thwart the aspirations of the vast majority of their people for change. It will be interesting to see what method each will use to remain in power indefinitely.
Probably the best and biggest lesson from Zambia is for Africa's "Big Men" - that whoever goes up comes down and while he is up there he should not spit on those below him.
© The Perspective
P.O. Box 450493
Atlanta, GA 31145
Website: www.theperspective.org
E-mail: email@example.com


text:
Missouri Land Records
This entry was originally written by Marsha Hoffman Rising CG, FUGA, FASG, and Pamela Boyer Porter, CGRS, CGL for Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources.
Missouri is a Public Domain State.
Land in Missouri was granted by the three nations of France, Spain, and the United States. The original papers, as well as microfilmed copies, of the Spanish and French land grants are retained by the Missouri State Archives. Recording by the United States government of clear land titles granted by the Spanish and French governments actually began in St. Louis on 16 September 1805. An index to the land grants was published privately by Betty Harvey Williams in 1977 as Index to French and Spanish Land Grants Recorded in Registers of Land Titles in Missouri, Books A, B, C, D, E. The St. Louis Genealogical Society published Index to the Minutes of the first and second Board of Land Commissioners, Missouri, 1805–1812 and 1832–1835 (1981; reprint, St. Louis: St. Louis Genealogical Society, 1998). The original minutes are housed in the Missouri State Archives.
Two good printed sources that describe the attempts to settle the early land conflicts are Missouri Land Claims (1835; reprint, New Orleans: Polyanthos, 1976) and Walter Lowrie, Early Settlers of Missouri as Taken From Land Claims in the Missouri Territory (1834; reprint, Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1986). The former publication, beginning in 1812, is the 1832 report from the Commissioner of the General Land Office (GLO) to the 24th Congress. The latter publication contains records compiled and indexed from the American State Papers.
The United States began granting land in Missouri from its Land Offices in 1818. For a brief history of locations and land policies in Missouri, see "Missouri's Public Domain: United States Land Sales, 1819–1922," Archives Information Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 3 (July 1980), produced by the Office of the Missouri Secretary of State. An Index of Purchasers of U.S. Land Sales in Missouri, 1818–1846 (vols. 1-3) and Springfield Land Office Abstracts, 1835–1846, can be obtained from the Ozarks Genealogical Society, P.O. Box 3945, Springfield, MO 65808. The original records of the United States Land Sales have been microfilmed on seventeen rolls and are located in Record Groupi5 at the Missouri State Archives. A complete name index is on each roll. They are available for purchase at $15 per reel.
If the researcher knows the land description of the property of interest, copies of the original land patents granted by the United States government can be obtained from United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States Land Office. A search of the Bureau of Land Management General Land Office Records online database can provide the information needed to order land entry files from NARA.
The Missouri State Archives also holds other land records of interest to the genealogical researcher: an alphabetical index to War of 1812 military lands of north Missouri; the Savannah Land Grant Pre-emption Grants from 1845 through 1857 (indexed); the Platte Purchase records (with an index available at the archives); the Land Office Reports, microfilmed copies of American State Papers, volumes 1 through 8; and the United States General Land Office Reports, 1828–59. Other records of interest, which are indexed, include the township school lands, seminary lands, saline lands, and swamp lands, all of which were patented by the state.
Each county has a recorder of deeds. Here the researcher can expect to find the direct and indirect index to deeds, a transcript of deeds, warranty deeds, administrator's deeds, quit claim deeds, sheriff's deed records, index to mortgages, mortgages, school fund mortgage records, chattel mortgages, deeds of trust, patent records, plat books, the index to marriage records, marriage records, applications for marriage licenses, records of certificates of marriage, records of marriage of persons of color (from 1865 to the twentieth century in separate registers), and military discharge papers. Note that in Missouri, all marriage records are held by the recorder of deeds (see Missouri Vital Records).


text:
Me and Sylvia (April 4, 2002)
What was venerated as style was nothing more than an imperfection or flaw that revealed the guilty hand.
— Orhan Pamuk (view other epigraphs)
Archives index
Subscribe to RSS
This page renders best in Firefox (or Safari, or Chrome)
Posts about Upanishads
READIN started out as a place for me
to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly)
how to design a web site.
There has been some mission drift
here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of
the main things I write about here are
reading books,
listening to (and playing) music, and
watching the movies. Also I write about the
work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.
The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.
See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.
READIN has been visited approximately 204,588 times since October, 2007.
Brahma fue el primero de los Devas, el hacedor del Universo, el preservador del mundo. El reveló el Conocimiento de Brahma, la fundación de todo conocimiento, a su hijo mayor Atharva.
In keeping with the Bible readings, I'm going to follow the Upanishads in Spanish, prophetic tone seems to come through a little better. But I think I'll try keeping a journal of it in English.
From him comes Agni (fire), the sun being the fuel; from the moon (Soma) comes rain (Parganya); from the earth herbs; and man gives seed unto the woman. Thus many beings are begotten from the Person (purusha).
This testament ("upanishad" is, if I understand correctly, a Sanskrit term with the meaning of looking up to, as to a teacher -- and just now "testament" seems like a good term for Upanishads though I think it is a bit shorter than NT) also seems to bear quite directly on recent musings on self and reality.
"Toma este Upanishad como el arco y coloca en él la flecha afilada de la devoción. Si así lo haces, tu mente permanecerá sujeta y darás en el blanco, que es el Indestructible."
posted evening of June 9th, 2014: Respond➳ More posts about The Bible
Naciketas replied to Yama: "All these things you're talking about are ephemeral, O Death; they will only last until tomorrow, for their power is born of the senses. Even the longest life is but fleeting. So keep your horses, your festivals, and answer my question."
Death's reply is divided into 5 sections.
posted evening of June 11th, 2014: Respond➳ More posts about Readings
The teaching is the bow, devotion is the arrow. Brahma is the target.
The "universal person" appears to be synonymous with "Brahma" and to denote the consciousness which is reality, the universal one-ness. Meditation is the path to becoming the universal person, as an arrow becomes one with its target.
Mundaka Upanishad contains the parable of the two birds, which is my point of entry to this reading.
Two birds, inseparable friends, perch in the same tree. One eats the sweet fruit, the other watches but does not take a bite.The man is sitting in the same tree, and is suffering; he is confused by his own impotence. But when he sees the Lord and understands the Lord's glory, his heart is filled with happiness and his suffering vanishes.When the seer sees the glorious Maker and Lord of this world, and recognizes Him as the Person whose wellspring is Brahma, that man becomes wise, for he has drawn back the veil of good and evil and attained the supreme unity. He is free of desire, for in him resonates the breath which arises from all being. Who understands all this becomes truly wise, no longer a charlatan.
The man is sitting in the same tree, and is suffering; he is confused by his own impotence. But when he sees the Lord and understands the Lord's glory, his heart is filled with happiness and his suffering vanishes.
When the seer sees the glorious Maker and Lord of this world, and recognizes Him as the Person whose wellspring is Brahma, that man becomes wise, for he has drawn back the veil of good and evil and attained the supreme unity. He is free of desire, for in him resonates the breath which arises from all being. Who understands all this becomes truly wise, no longer a charlatan.
posted morning of June 14th, 2014: Respond
Drop me a line! or, sign my Guestbook. •Check out Ellen's writing at Patch.com.
Jeremy Osner on A couple of Sufi links (2 responses)
Cat and Girl
Scenes from a Multiverse
Our Valued Customers
Dinosaur Comix
Partially Clips
Questionable Content
The Comics Curmudgeon
A Softer World
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Hark! A Vagrant
Axe Cop
Ménage à 3
Scary Go Round
Tom Gauld
Ong's End
Hyperbole and a half
Calamities of Nature
Scott McCloud
Krazy Kat
More Krazy Kat
The Illingworth Collection
Kate Beaton
Stripper's Guide
ASIFA—Hollywood Animation Archive
Crooked Timber
Making Light
Sweet Juniper
Before You Listen
Uncle Eddie's Theory Corner!
Legal Theory
Crescat Sentia
This Modern World
Alas, A Blog!
Patrick Farley
Ted Rall
Lore Sjöberg
very small array
Matt Madden
John & Belle Have a Blog
In Medias Res
Easily Distracted
Big Monkey, Helpy Chalk
The Millions
Is there no sin in it?
The Great Whatsit
Orbis Quintus
Conversational Reading
A History of New York
Lands Far Away...
Hermano Cerdo
Wood S Lot
Language Log
The Mad Latinist
Talking Points Memo
Daily Dish
The Washington Note
Bull Moose
Bradford Plumer
Obsidian Wings
Lawyers, Guns & Money
Unqualified Offerings
Matthew Yglesias
If I Ran the Zoo
The Edge of the American West
The Smirking Chimp
Jon Swift
The Right Christians
Real Live Preacher
Street Prophets
Brad Delong
Paul Krugman
John Quiggin
Brad Setser
Temple of Tabs
Sugar in the Gourd
Bulbous Bouffant
Michael Taft's Pre-War Blues Lyrics Concordance
Red Hot Jazz
Robyn Hitchcock Archive
Harry's Blues Lyrics
ABC Notation Reference
The Fiddler's Companion
Fiddle Hangout
The Mudcat Café
The Chicago Homer
Bibliotheca Augustana
The Perseus Library
Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum
The Thousand and One Nights
Decameron Web
Martial -- a poem a day
La Vita Nuova
Turning the Pages
Obras completas de Cervantes
The Nietzsche Channel
The Myth of Zen in the art of archery
Project Gutenberg
Distributed Library Project
Sacred Text Archive
International Children's Digital Library
The Kafka Project
The Books of Bokonon
Child Ballads
Pre-War Blues Lyrics Concordance
The Unbound Bible
A dictionary of Borges
Contemporary Turkish Literature
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
On Bullshit
Das erste dadaistische Manifest
Truth and Psychology in Beyond Good and Evil
Translation and the Oulipo
The Economics of Pound's Canto XLV
How Serfdom Saved the Women's Movement
The Silent Intermediary
The Economic Organization of a P.O.W. Camp
Without A Doubt
Look Who's Modern Now
On Trial
Complete Poems of Goethe
The Waste Land
Readings by Pound
Fleurs du Mal
Obras completas de Garcia Lorca
Obras de Neruda
Our Man in Honduras
The Wal-Mart Effect
The Motorcycle Gangs: Losers and Outsiders
Lee Valley
Garrett Wade
Wood Carvers' Supply
Woodturners' Catalog
Knight Toolworks
Dan's Whetstone
Tony's Antique Tools
Period Homes
Stanley parts and service
S & H Hardware
Bedrock Stone
Structural Stone
Benjamin Seaton's tool chest
Bombé Chest
Fine Woodworking
Old WW Machines
Resources for Period Woodworkers
Patrick's Blood and Gore
Carving World
Central Jersey Woodworking Association
The American Woods
Chinese Joinery
Carving Bench
Sharpening Handsaws
The Code Project
Joel on Software
Linux X-Ref
Multithreaded Programming with POSIX Threads
Network Programming with Sockets
South Orange Journal
Rosner Writes
Maplewood Online
Two Towns
Village Government
NJ Transit
My Dad's Site
Malcolm Lucard
Gabriel Solis
Ed Russell
Blog About Town
Biofeedback Insititute of Los Angeles
Pageturners, Ink
Better than the Rest(aurant)
Dispatches from the Prairie
Blythe's Spirit
The Modesto Kid
Otto Sell
Sybil Archibald
Teddy Bear in a Suitcase
SOM Mural Project
A Thought for Today


text:
- Musical is defined as something related to music, or someone with an ear or fondness for music.
- When the bells of a church sound like beautiful music, this is an example of when they would be described as musical.
- A person who is a good singer is an example of someone who is musical.
- The definition of a musical is a play where the characters sing and dance.
The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway is an example of a musical.
- of or for the creation, production, or performance of music
- having the nature of music; melodious or harmonious
- fond of, sensitive to, or skilled in music
- set to music; accompanied by music
Origin of musicalMiddle English from Medieval Latin musicalis from Classical Latin musica
- a theatrical or film production, often elaborately costumed and staged, with dialogue developing the story line and an integrated musical score featuring songs and dances in a popular idiomin full, variously, musical comedy, musical play, ormusical drama
- Archaic musicale
- Of, relating to, or capable of producing music: a musical instrument.
- Characteristic of or resembling music; melodious: a musical speaking voice.
- Set to or accompanied by music: a musical revue.
- Devoted to or skilled in music.
- a. A play or movie that contains musical numbers.b. A musical comedy.
- Archaic A musicale.
Related Forms:
- mu′si·cal·ly
(comparative more musical, superlative most musical)
(plural musicals)
Middle English, from Old French, from Latin musicalis, from Ancient Greek μουσικός (mousikos), from μουσική (mousiki, "music").


text:
Tune in for a nightly mix that spans the centuries.
- Host:
- Nimet Habachy
Tune in for a nightly mix that spans the centuries.
Tune in for a nightly mix that spans the centuries.
This week From the Top takes you to Hodgson Concert Hall at the University of Georgia in Athens. Here, a young New York guitarist evokes the palace of Alhambra and an outstanding piano trio from Minnesota plays the music of Smetana. Later in the program, a teenage cellist beautifully performs Maurice Ravel's "Kaddish."
Performance Today, hosted by Fred Child, features live concerts from concert halls around the globe and from the American Public Media studios, as well as interviews, news and features.
This week on Classics for Kids host Naomi Lewin explores the life of composer Igor Stravinsky. The Russian composer made his name writing music for ballets.
Annie Bergen is the midday host on WQXR.
Today at 1 pm: Bryn Terfel is Wotan, Lord of the Gods. Susan Bullock is Brünnhilde, while Simon O'Neill and Eva-Maria Westbroek are Siegmund and Sieglinde. Sarah Connolly is Fricka.
Clayelle Dalferes hosts weekend afternoons on WQXR.
David Garland is the former host on Saturday and Sunday evenings on WQXR.
The new film "Gravity" takes place in orbit above the earth. Its score by Steven Price plays an important role in establishing the out-of-this-world location and the drama of astronauts lost in space.
On this edition of All Ears, Terrance McKnight explores composers who have veered outside of the styles for which they are best known.


text:
Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. was named Utility of the Year by the New York Solar Energy Industries Association, a trade group meeting today in Albany for a conference and vendors' exhibit.
The association cited Central Hudson for voluntarily extending its solar net-metering program — which lets individual generators sell excess power back to the utility — and for support of solar initiatives in the Hudson Valley.
"Interest in the use of solar energy systems in the Mid-Hudson Valley is steady, and our program benefits both the environment and supports New York state's commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions," said Central Hudson President Carl E. Meyer.
According to the utility, 155 customers have installed net-metered solar systems, with 41 systems awaiting installation.
Poughkeepsie-based Central Hudson serves Albany, Greene and Columbia counties.


text:
GUYS!! If you love cranberry bread, or maybe you've never even tried it, or heck, maybe you've even tried it and hated it before…you've gotta try this recipe! There's no other bread better than mama's bread right?! We've been eating this for I can't tell you how long, probably my whole life, and nothing compares! Thanks Mom! <3
I'll share the recipe down below too, but here's a few steps.
Get all of your ingredients together.
When the recipe calls for chopped cranberries like this one does, you definitely need a food processor for this!
My Electrolux food processor did all that in seriously like 3 pulses! It's awesome!!
Then just keep on following the directions of the recipe! The recipe I'm posting does have some tweaks from the recipe that's on the current package of Ocean Spray cranberries just so you are aware. They changed the amount of things and well, it's just wrong. Follow this oldie recipe. :)
And then your batter is ready to put in the pan and ready to bake!
And once it's done you have some delicious bread to eat and serve! I love to eat this one with some butter. Cream cheese is great too!
- 1 cup Ocean Spray fresh or frozen cranberries - coarsely chopped
- ½ cup chopped nuts
- 1 TB grated orange peel
- 2 C all-purpose flour
- 1 C sugar
- 1½ tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp salt
- ½ tsp baking soda
- 2 TB shortening (or butter)
- ¾ C orange juice
- 1 egg, well beaten
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- Generously grease and lightly flour 9x5x3 inch loaf pan.
- Prepare cranberries, nuts, and orange peel.
- Set aside.
- In a bowl mix together flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and soda.
- Cut in shortening or butter.
- Stir in orange juice, egg, and orange peel mixing just to moisten.
- Fold in cranberries and nuts.
- Spoon into prepared pan.
- Bake 60 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Cool on a rack 15 minutes.
- Remove from pan, cool completely.
- Wrap and store overnight.
- Makes 1 loaf.
Let me know if you try this!! I know you'll love it!
You can always find all Electrolux appliances at Amazon and the official Electrolux website. And you can also follow Electrolux on social media on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. We love social media! :)
I'd like to thank Electrolux for sponsoring this post. All thoughts, reviews, and musings are always my own. :)


text:
Vargas only arrived at the San Paolo in January but the Chile international has struggled to break into the Partenopei first team and it has been claimed that Udinese have offered to take the winger on loan in exchange for Luis Muriel, who will return to the Friuli from Lecce this summer.
However, Larini insists that there is no truth in the story, telling Tuttomercatoweb.com: "I have just heard about this for the first time and I can say that it is a journalistic invention because we do not take young players on loan from other squads - and I do not think we will this time either."
Vargas had been considered one of the brightest young talents in the game when Napoli paid a reported €13.6 million to sign him from Universidad de Chile during the last transfer window.
To date, though, the 22-year-old Santiago native has made just four Serie A appearances for the Partenopei and coach Walter Mazzarri has already been moved to ask the club's fans to give the player more time to prove his worth.
How do you stay up to date with football when on the move? With http://m.goal.com – your best source for mobile coverage of the beautiful game.


text:
Permit Forms & Applications
A permit shall be required for any division of land, including lot splits and plat amendments, grading, construction, reconstruction, or any land development or building activity.
Applications for permits shall be processed as described in Title 10: Zoning, Chapter 14: Administration of the City of Victor's Municipal Code. Some applications require a Property Development Plan, as noted in Article 14. Requirements for a Property Development Plan can be found in Article 13: Property Development Plan and Resource Protection.
Note: As of 12-17-2015, a Pre-Application Conference is required for ALL development projects in order to discuss the procedures, standards, and required supporting materials needed to evaluate and approve your project. On a case-by-case basis Pre-Application Conferences for small scale projects may take place via phone. Complex projects typically require an in-person Pre-Application Conference. View the Pre-Application Conference request form here. There is no fee associated for a Pre-Application Conference.
2018 Public Hearing and Application Deadline Schedule


text:
Michael Cerveris appears in the following:
Guest Picks: Michael Cerveris, Judy Kuhn, and Beth Malone
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
"Fun Home" Brings Alison Bechdel's Graphic Novel Onstage
Thursday, May 07, 2015
Michael Cerveris's "An Idea of South"
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Michael Cerveris tells about his performance "An Idea of South," a genre-defying recital/cabaret/hootenanny of songs ranging from the Carter Family and Johnny Mercer to Vic Chestnutt and Samuel Barber. "An Idea of South" is part of Lincoln Center's "American Songbook" series, and Michael Cerveris is performing it on Saturday, January 21, at 8:30 pm and 10:30 pm.
Katrina's Nine Lives
Monday, February 28, 2011
Dan Baum went to New Orleans to cover Hurricane Katrina, but he ended up writing about the colorful people and the outsized culture of the city. The story became a book and now it's a musical with songs by composer Paul Sanchez. They both join us to talk about the strange journey of the piece called "Nine Lives." Plus: stage and TV actor Michael Cerveris is helping to produce the upcoming musical. He joins us with a live performance.


text:
Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Institute Governing Board Methodology Committee
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act gave the Comptroller General of the United States responsibility for appointing up to 15 members to the Methodology Committee of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research (PCOR) Institute. In addition, the Directors of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Institutes of Health, or their designees, are members of the committee. Committee members must meet the qualifications listed in the Act [Section 6301 and Section 10602, Public Law 111-148]. A Federal Register notice providing information about acceptance of letters of nomination and resumes will be issued in September 2010.
For more information, contact Mary Giffin of GAO's Health Care team at 202-512-7114 or Chuck Young in GAO's Office of Public Affairs at (202) 512-4800.


text:
Abi - posted on 04/08/2009 ( 9 moms have responded )
Our family was chosen to be Ambassadors for our March of Dimes March for Babies here in Waco, Texas, USA. Before we were asked to do this, I didn't even know what the March of Dimes has done, does, and is planning on doing for future babies. This is an amazing organization that we've all benefited from in some way! My daughter Anya would not be alive without the surfactant she was given...which the research for was funded by the March of Dimes.
Go to marchforbabies.org and join your local event. Our local March for Babies is on April 25. Our family team is "Angel Kisses for Anya". We're walking to honor her, www.marchforbabies.org/ambassadoranya.
My new profile picture is the t-shirt design I created for our team.


text:
I don't like chocolate cake. I mean it's O.K., but my mother taught me very well (perhaps too well), that if you are going to give something a name involving the word chocolate, it better darn well actually taste like chocolate. And this is my eternal problem with chocolate cake. It's dark, it can be rich with the right ganache or mousse filling, but is the cake itself that chocolatey? Do you feel like a cake is merely a transformation of pure chocolate into fluffy cake form? Maybe I just haven't tried enough chocolate cakes before, but I have yet to find a plain cake that actually tastes like a chocolate bar.
My husband, however, loves chocolate cake. I created for him a gluten free cake recipe that even he could make back then, when the man would stress out over making a simple casserole dinner for himself – and for the 5 minutes it took to cook in the microwave (we really have come a long way since then, haven't we?), it was pretty darned awesome. I think he made that "cake" once a week, haha. You see, for a while during grad school (almost 2 yrs), we were stuck living 1000 miles apart from each other, and it totally sucked. Our wedding festivities and honeymoon were a welcome month-long reprieve during the middle of this time apart, after which we had to go back to the infrequent once every couple of month trips to see each other until we were both ready to defend. Talk about stress-inducing, to be brand new newlyweds and not even be able to spend time with each other during most of our newlywed phase. We've both decided to never ever be in that situation again.
Actually, being here in Switzerland is really our first time living together in our own place since we've been married – maybe that's another contributing reason to why this whole experience has been so magically surreal for us over the past year. Or, maybe it's the landscape. Every day I look out over the lake struck in awe at the fact that I live in such a fantastically beautiful place. And then the sun starts to set and the colors come alive, as if on fire…
I think over our time living together en Suisse, my husband has transformed his taste for chocolate a bit though, and has come over to my side – the dark, rich and intense side of chocolate. Maybe that's because he pretty much eats anything I make 😉
You see, when it comes to chocolate desserts, I tend to be attracted to those things where the chocolate flavor is exploding in your mouth with each bite. Flourless torte, soufflé, tapioca pudding, risotto, or my parents' chocolate pudding cake, which is almost like a fondant in the way the molten chocolate envelops the cake, letting it soak up the deliciously dark syrupy pudding. Oh man is that stuff awesome, and then the chocolate literally is oozing out from all sides (remind me to make that for y'all sometime). But anyways, if I'm going to make a dessert where chocolate is the main subject instead of just a little punctuation, then I like my desserts rich. Intense. So that there is no mistaking it is the chocolate who is making the statement. What can I say? My mother is a superb teacher
The days since I have eaten a brownie can be counted in years. I think it was my 2nd year in grad school that I had last made them, trying out a recipe on the back of a packaged gluten free mix, sadly disappointed to find that they came out more like cake than brownies. Were they chocolately? Well they were chocolate in color at least, but the flavor was sorely lacking. In fact, they tasted exactly like every chocolate cake I have ever been let down by. There was nothing "brownie" about them besides the name on the package, and I hate to say it, but it ruined my desire for making gluten free brownies for a long time.
And then last week, for some reason I decided I needed to give brownies another go and end my multiple year-long hiatus from this humble baked dessert. I would make them from scratch this time though, and I went to my favorite cookbook (i.e. the internet and my blogroll) and found this gluten free brownie recipe by Karina of the Gluten Free Goddess. It looked perfectly fudgey. Afterall, there was only 1/4 cup of flour in the recipe!
The first time, I made them *almost* exactly according to the directions. The brownies rocked. Exactly what I wanted for my chocolate fix. The 2nd time, I played a bit. The 3rd time, which will be later this week, I will have converted them to completely grain free, essentially flourless (I don't really count a nut-meal as flour). I have no issues with grains and as long as the grains are gluten free, neither does my husband. But I just wanted to know if taking out that flour component and replacing it with something else could make them richer. Denser. Chocolate-ier (I know that's not a real word, but "more chocolatey" didn't flow as well and "chocolatier" was already taken by a different definition).
Teaser – I think my adaptions worked
Stay tuned!


text:
The Muse Falls Silent
I have a novel due out this year, called The Nero Protocol. It's probably my best work yet. It's a novel about the value and meaning of life. It's a book about what it means to live and love, in a world where those things have become less important.
It might also be my last novel in the LGBTQ space, as things stand right now. I haven't written a word in weeks, and haven't seriously worked on anything since before Christmas. This is my longest break so far. I feel demotivated in a way I haven't felt before, and it goes beyond the normal wax and wane of my life caused by lapses of depression, a condition with which I've struggled all my life.
I want to explain to you what exactly has gone wrong, why my mental voice has fallen silent. I want you to understand the struggles I've been going through, living between a rock and a hard place for so long. It feels important that I do so, that I don't simply vanish into the ether until such time as I feel ready to put pen to paper again (if I ever do).
When I came to LGBTQ writing professionally, I carried a flame of hope in my heart, both for my community of LGBTQ people, and for my future as a budding writer. I'd been writing for many years before then, giving away my works for free on the Internet. I'd written another novel and thought that maybe – just maybe – this one was good enough to sell. That book was Written In The Stars. I commissioned art for the cover and let me tell you, I was so proud when I held the finished product in my hands. I felt like the world had fallen at my feet, that I could literally do anything that I wanted. My readership was tiny, but I was learning how to run a business with no prior experience. Every day felt like a new adventure. The rejection letters that came from publishing houses were only a minor blip in the road. I wasn't good enough yet – but I would be, with time and practice. I applied myself each and every day, filling all my spare time with writing and writing-related activities. There was little time for much else, besides the odd video game and a little reading.
The proudest moment of my writing career came when Wings of Destruction was picked up by Less Than Three Press. I felt like I was walking on air. That moment goes down as one of my greatest hits, one of the top 10 moments of my entire life. I started to see some sales, though writing has never made me more than pocket money. I simply don't write mainstream romances. Contemporary fiction tends to bore me – I've always had a love-hate relationship with this world and would rather escape from it than immerse myself deeper into it, hence my love of science fiction and fantasy. But I was happy. I was fulfilled. I'd crossed something off my bucket list and it felt amazing.
But something else was happening, too. We won the fight for gay marriage. To me it was a huge relief, even though I knew there was still work to be done. After all, I wasn't out at work as bisexual – I'm a private person. Nobody knew about my writing career. From comments I'd gleaned, it was clear that being out and proud and a writer of LGBTQ novels with love scenes might be a bit controversial, so I left it at home. For all intents and purposes, everybody working with me figured me to be a straight person – I present myself to the world as female, and the love of my life is a man, after all. Secrets are heavy – even more so when you cannot take credit for your accomplishments without outing yourself. But I figured it was a small price to pay to keep politics, drama and bullshit out of the work environment.
The Internet, however, was becoming a different beast. Some loud, angry voices were demanding to be heard – those who felt gay marriage wasn't enough, those who felt women's rights were still lagging, and those who felt trans rights had been left behind in the march for LGBTQ equality. I listened a lot during these times. I'm the first to admit I knew nothing about trans issues until I looked into them. A friend of mine came out as trans, and I supported her in her transition. I even came to understand things about myself – that I've never really felt comfortable in women's spaces, and that I feel as though I live between worlds, still a woman, but very much interested and invested in things considered masculine. These days I'm loath to apply a label to that, for many reasons.
The angry voices seemed to grow, and with it a tendency to "shut down" the voices of people who disagreed. One bad joke or sentence out of turn could derail someone's entire career – regardless of the intent behind it. There was a slew of people labeling the smallest things as "problematic" and "sexist" and "racist". I hated all of this, but I kept my mouth shut. I've never wanted to rock the boat and the same applied here. "Keep your head down", I told myself. "Just keep writing and this outrage fad will blow over like bad weather".
Only it didn't. It got worse. Trump got elected and I had to mute half of my Twitter feed – not because I liked the idea of Trump as President, because I didn't – but because the collective rage was so loud and so overpowering that moderate voices were now getting trampled. Suddenly, not wanting to punch people for racist beliefs was akin to believing in them yourself. The smallest "microaggression" could lead to a dogpiling so intense no sane person could handle the amount of hatred and abuse that came for speaking out of turn.
I never thought the people who wanted to save the world would become instigators of violence and despair.
It's an impossible environment in which to create stories. Never have I felt so stifled in a writing world which is trying to demand we only write about our own experiences and that we hire "sensitivity readers" to make sure what we write doesn't offend anyone (might as well publish a book with blank pages, then). In a million years I never realized that the thing I'd fear the most could come from the left-liberal side of the political spectrum – one I've believed in all my life. The authoritarianism on display now, the "with us or against us" collectivism of those who want to dominate the conversation is something I cannot abide by. Worse still, I feel like the people in my life that I thought were friends have started to buy into this bullshit. Words like "problematic", "microaggression", "privilege" and such – nothing more than untested social theories – have become accepted as truths without any pushback. The media and corporations are using identity politics to market and clickbait – after all, people seem to click like nothing else on stories of oppression and marginalization, and everyone seems to have bought into fake statistics like the gender pay gap (look it up, you'll see the numbers were rigged to include women who *choose* to stay at home or work part time in order to be caregivers).
I don't feel like I belong in my own community any more, and it's heartbreaking. I felt like LGBTQ used to be about love and celebrating that love. Now it's about highlighting how many people hate us and trying to shame anybody who steps outside of the realm of collective thought. I reject that singularity of thought, even if it means I must sit on a beach alone the rest of my days.
Neither do I feel like I belong in "normal" society. There will always be this secret standing in the way between myself and everyone I meet. Recently, I let a manager at my company know about my book career. He thought it was the coolest thing ever, and the LGBTQ thing wasn't a dealbreaker for him. So maybe there is hope, but it's a hope that will be squashed if we march into the "normie" world with pitchforks and start burning shit to demand the world plays by our rules. Change will come, but it takes time, and it seems like too many people have ran out of patience.
So here I am, caught between a rock and hard place. Writing used to be the place where I belonged when living the life of a chameleon was too much to bear. It was the place I could share all those ugly little human failings I encountered and destroy them over and over again with the healing power of love. Now it's become the source of a pain so intense I've cut back on my internet usage and retreated into video games full time for an escape from my escape.
Until I feel like I can breathe again, I'm taking a break from writing. I'll still post the occasional thing on Twitter, but I'm dialing back my social media usage as well. I don't know if I'll be back – only time will tell. Maybe I'll try my hand at general fiction, and pop up under a different name somewhere – or maybe the pen has written its final word. I don't want that to happen, but I don't call the shots – inspiration does.
Farewell for now, then. May peace and love fill your lives.
-Victoria Zagar


text:
The High Court in Belfast has ruled that Derry City Council must use the British colonial name 'Londonderry' for the city.
Justice Weatherup ruled that the city remains known as Londonderry regardless of the local 1984 decision to drop the artificial suffix 'London' from the city council's name.
The council had sought a declaration about the legal position of the city's name in April 2004.
The judge said just because the council name had changed did not mean the name specified by Royal Charter granted by King James in 1613 could be altered.
He said the name could only be changed through legislation or by Royal prerogative.
Justice Weatherup's ruling was welcomed by unionists in Derry, with DUP MP Gregory Campbell saying nationalists should now put the issue behind them.
"For 23 years it has made us the subject not only of division but of derision," he said.
But nationalists said the ruling did not change the council's determination to change the name of the city to Derry.
Sinn Féin councillor Kevin Campbell said a council decision that the name be changed remained in place.
"We will be insisting that the city goes down whatever is the next avenue to address the issue," he said.
"This politicisation of the name has led to a plethora of names being used including the Maiden city, the Walled city and even Stroke city.
"This has caused confusion in terms of marketing the city as a viable brand in terms of tourism or attracting inward investment."
Derry City Council described the ruling as important. A spokeswoman said it provided the clarity needed for any future decisions or actions.
"This was always the council's position. The judgment will be examined in full and presented to Derry City Council for further consideration and discussion," she said.
Thousands of people are expected to attend the 35th annual commemoration march in Derry tomorrow of the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre.
The march, which starts in Derry's Creggan at 2.30am, will retrace the steps of the original demonstration, ending with a rally at Free Derry Corner.
In advance of the event, the new museum of Free Derry was opened in the city this weekend by former Guantanamo Bay inmate Moazzam Begg and Derry mayor Helen Quigley.
Housing a permanent exhibition detailing events in Derry from the October 5 1968 civil rights march through to Bloody Sunday, it attracted huge interest when it opened on a temporary basis last year.
Among the exhibits are a jacket ripped by bullet holes, a belt nicked by a fatal shot and clothing used to stem blood from dying Bloody Sunday victims.
Exhibits from the Battle of the Bogside in 1969 include a garage receipt for #65 in payment for petrol to be used for petrol bombs at the height of the battle.
Project manager Adrian Kerr said it was the culmination of 10 years' work by the Bloody Sunday Trust.
"It means that now we can tell the entire story whereas before we only had room for the Bloody Sunday exhibits," he said.


text: On Sat, 2009-01-10 at 19:44 -0800, Jose Luis Marchetti wrote:> I would like to open/read/write/close a regular file from my device> driver.No, you probably wouldn't :) Generally, this is recommended againstbecause there are many better ways to do it:* Create an interface and have userspace set the parameter (ethtool,ifconfig - the latter can already set MAC addresses)* Create entries in sysfs and have uevents cause various activities,including having the response being some file gets loaded (firmware).Since it looks like you just want to set the MAC address, I suggestlooking at how this is already done, then rely upon users using ifconfigcorrectly to set the desired address. There should be no reason to havea kernel-side network driver reading from a file.[NOTE: If you're doing embedded development and you don't have an EEPROMon your board, and you're asking this because someone told you to findthe cheapest and nastiest solution in software, then look at passing inthe desired MAC via the firmware, as many embedded boards already do. ]Jon.


text:
Data protection regulation warned against19/08/14Government
Europe: Evidence-based policy making in Europe is at risk from changes to a data protection regulation being considered by the European Union, according to an open letter signed by almost 30 leading scientists.
The letter is the latest instalment of a string of calls for changes to regulatory amendments proposed by the European Parliament's Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs in October 2013 and adopted by the European Parliament into a draft regulation in data protection earlier this year to be scrapped.
The letter warns of "dire consequences" for European research if the changes are approved and states that the amendments, designed to protect people's personal data, could prevent "vital economic and social research."
It adds that the use of personal data underpins "vitally important" discoveries, such as the link between smoking in pregnancy and child birth weight, and the benefits of breastfeeding.
"Restricting the use of personal data for these and many other types of study would limit our ability to ensure European policy making is informed by the most robust evidence base," the authors state.
Among the signatories are leaders of national research councils and foundations in 13 European countries, including Paul Boyle, president of Science Europe and chief executive of the Economic and Social Research Council.


text:
March 29, 2012
Does Body Mass Index Affect Post-Surgical Complications And Survival In Esophageal Adenocarcinoma?
Moffitt Cancer Center researchers find that BMI does not play a role in surgical complications or in survival
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Fla., have found - contrary to previous studies linking inferior outcomes in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies to higher body mass index (BMI) - that in their study of BMI and negative outcomes, there was no such link. They concluded that BMI was not associated with either surgical complications or esophageal cancer patient survival."The incidence of esophageal cancer in North America is rising," said study co-author Kenneth L. Meredith, M.D., assistant member at Moffitt and chief of the Esophagogastric Oncology Section. "Corresponding to that rise, there has been a dramatic rise in overweight and obese people as defined by the World Health Organization's guidelines indicating those having a BMI of 25 to 29.9 as being overweight and those who are obese as having a BMI of over 30."
According to the researchers, the increase in obesity and the increase in esophageal cancer has been linked, as has obesity been similarly linked with other kinds of cancers. Obesity is recognized as a risk factor for esophageal cancer. What remains in question, however, is whether a high BMI affects post-surgical complications and overall survival among esophageal cancer patients who have been treated with chemotherapy, radiation and surgery.
"The correlation of obesity with surgical risks and postoperative survival is more important given the rise in obesity rates, yet more clarity on potential correlation is needed," said Meredith. "The literature shows mixed study results."
In their paper, the authors cited a number of studies that correlated lower BMI with better outcomes for a variety of cancers as well as studies that found no prognostic significance correlating higher BMI with poorer outcomes.
Because of the prevailing belief that patients with a high BMI tend to have more surgical complications as compared to normal weight patients, the Moffitt researchers examined esophageal cancer patient data on BMI for links to surgical risk and postoperative survival, especially for those patients with high BMI.
Their study included 303 esophageal cancer patients treated with chemotherapy, radiation and surgery who were stratified by their BMI to include those with BMIs less than 25 to greater than 35. The only demographic differences were in gender, with a higher proportion of males in the BMI 25 to 30 group.
"Our study demonstrated no significant differences in overall survival or disease-free survival in relation to BMI for patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma who underwent surgery after prior treatment with chemotherapy and radiation," said Meredith. "Additionally, there were no differences in perioperative complications or mortality associated with BMI. In short, our data failed to demonstrate a link between BMI and surgical outcome."
On the Net:


text:
Home > Testimonials
Visa Vietnam on Arrival, Testimonials
ITI-HOLIDAY Germany is constantly striving to offer best service to its customers and this extends far beyond the processing of your application for a Visa on Arrival Vietnam. What other customers are thinking about our Visa Vietnam on Arrival, you can read here. Unfortunately you will not find here many statments of our customers, but who remembers after two weeks of vacation about a 7,- EURO service and will lose many words about it. Each web page which offers more than 200 testimonials about Visa Vietnam on Arrival and it's exclusively positive feedback, employs probably an employee who writes those good ratings.
|Schell A. / Switzerland
|Visa on Arrival Vietnam,
|Thank you very much for the great service!
|Let us and others know your testimonials about the services of ITI-HOLIDAY Germany.
Here you have the chance to tell us and other users your opinion.
|Click here for the feedback form. continue


text:
+91 - 7022306925 | Email Us
Press Release
CommercialOfficeBangalore.Com Listings Site India to Rent Office Space in Bangalore.
Elegant Office Space for Rent in Adugodi
4000 sq ft Fully Furnished Plug & Play Office Space available with 40 Work Stations, Reception, 2 Cabins, 2 Discussion Room, 1 Conference Room, Server Room, Pantry, Cafeteria Space, Centralized AC, Covered Car Parks, Ample Power, 100 % DG back up & 24/7 Security, etc. Commercial Office Bangalore provides Plug & Play Office Spaces and Warm shells in different dimensions through out Bangalore.
Property Details
Locality : Adugodi
Zone : Bangalore South
Build Up Area : 4,000Sq.Ft
Basic Amenities
DG Back-up
Security /Fire Alarm
Reserved Parking
UPS Back UP
Fitness Centre / GYM
Food Court
Building Security
Elegant Office Space for Rent in Adugodi