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Acupuncture for Gastroparesis
Author: Dr. Kristie
Gastroparesis is a condition that affects almost five million Americans – many of whom are diabetic. It's a disease of the digestive tract characterized by slow gastric motility – meaning the stomach doesn't empty food as rapidly as it should. This can lead to a variety of unpleasant gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal distention, and weight loss. Unfortunately, treatment for gastroparesis typically involves medications such as Reglan which can have serious side effects – including an irreversible movement disorder. Is there a drug-free natural treatment for gastroparesis that works?
Acupuncture for Gastroparesis: Does It Improve Slow Gastric Motility?
Acupuncture has been successfully used to treat some digestive disorders, so it's not surprising that it could offer benefits to people who suffer from slow gastric motility or gastroparesis. There has been little research looking at acupuncture for gastroparesis, although several studies are in the works.
Acupuncture for Gastroparesis: What Does the Research Show?
One small study published in the Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 2004 looked at the effects of acupuncture on the symptoms of gastroparesis in thirty-five diabetics. One group received only acupuncture, a second group received a gastroparesis medication called domperidone, and a third group received no treatment.
The results were encouraging. The group who received acupuncture experienced more gastroparesis relief than either of the other two groups. Even though domperidone is one of the more effective medications for treating gastroparesis, in this small study, acupuncture outperformed it. Domperidone is used in other countries to treat gastropareis, but isn't approved for use in this country yet.
Other Natural Treatments for Gastroparesis
People with slow gastric motility may get some symptom relief by eating smaller, more frequent meals and by choosing liquid and pureed foods that are more easily emptied by the stomach. Reducing fiber and fat in the diet can also provide some gastroparesis relief. For diabetics getting blood sugars under control helps in many cases.
Acupuncture for Gastroparesis: The Bottom Line
Acupuncture shows promise as a natural treatment for gastroparesis – at least according to small studies. Larger studies are underway and should provide more definite answers. People who aren't getting gastroparesis relief after modifying their diet should discuss this treatment option with their doctor since it's safer than many of the current treatments for slow gastric motility. It could safely offer some relief for this frustrating condition.


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Grandpa's 1955 410.(The last tractor they bought new)! Pulling the stone boat while picking stones. Still have the tractor.
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Check out Rene's miniatures used for a custom Road Warrior game played in February!
THE ROAD WARRIOR...on a game table!
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I asked Rene to mention his gallery on this forum but I could not wait for his post. )


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Crew members greet their loved ones after disembarking from the aircraft carrier Illustrious in Portsmouth, England. The ships returns with a crew of 650 after a five-month deployment to Southeast Asia delivering aid to victims of Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
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Lily Richards, 8, reaches up into the snowfall as she waits for her bus in Dover, Pa.
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Phil Jackson, left, former Lakers' head coach, and actor John Lithgow take in the game as mascot Joe Bruin poses behind them at Pauley Pavilion in Los Angeles, where the UCLA Bruins played the No. 1-ranked Arizona Wildcats in an NCAA basketball game.
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Jose Zapien looks past his attorney Patrick Lake, left, as he was sentenced to life in prison plus 95 years for a double homicide in 2006. He was also was convicted of attempted murder in 12 other counts.
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Craftsmen pour molten bronze into molds to create the SAG statuette at the American Fine Arts Foundry in Burbank. The 16-inch tall bronze Actor statuette weighing 12 pounds is created in the lost-wax casting process using about 750 pounds of bronze to create an order of 50 statuettes that will be handed out at the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards later this month.
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The IU Opera Theatre is presenting a creatively staged, dramatically involving and gorgeously sung production of George Frederic Handel's Julius Caesar . Handel's Caesar is the Roman Emperor and conqueror of Egypt.
Designer Robert O'Hearn has placed the drama in costumes and settings that echo the movie version of Frank Herbert's Dune. However, it is definitely an Egyptian Dune. The set filled with pyramids. Some are plain and some have eyes. There are giant walls of polished granite, gossamer curtains and fairy tale cascades of flower petals. On the backdrop there are shadow projections of a giant cat and of a massive sphinx.
Guest director Stefano Vizioli has plenty of interesting action. There is some that is simply appropriate and efficient stage business and a great deal that helps to further the drama and our insights into the characters. The IU production proves that Handel operas aren't unwieldy static affairs that simply offer opportunities for fancily ornamented arias. In fact one of the hallmarks of the opera is the growth and change of the principals.
Saturday evening's cast offered the fine singing of Brandon Mayberry, initially simply a resolute and commanding Caesar, and later a man who could be touched by love and moved by compassion. Mayberry ably seconded by Chris Gobles. Rebecca Ball was Egypt's Queen Cleopatra. In her singing and acting Ball aptly showed a woman who at first is the bitchiest of queens and sisters but gradually grows to a fuller and more mature person. Michael Mentzel sang well and was quite the cut-up as Cleopatra's confidant.
Andrew Darling played the Egyptian General Achilla. Darling carried off the role of a man who is by turns merely dutiful, then lustful and finally supportive of the right. Achilla's King was Cleopatra's brother the scheming Ptolomy. Nathan Baer sang well and was hateful in a rainbow of ways.
Everyone that I've mentioned from IU's Julius Caesar sang very well. But for me the two standouts, even above these were Hannah Penn and the much put upon Cornelia and Michael Match as her son Sesto. Penn has a lovely mezzo voice that is true, full and wonderfully warm and expressive. Michael Match is the only counter-tenor in either cast of this year's production. The other parts that Handel wrote for counter tenors or castrati's are taken an octave down by regular male voices.
A male singer who works in a woman's range is not part of our serious contemporary dramatic conventions. An early solo vengeance aria by a man singing soprano seemed initially laughable, but Match's artistry and the range of his voice won me over. His duet with Penn at the end of the first act was a miracle of harmonic richness and dynamic give and take.
Conductor David Effron led the production with an emphasis on pace, rhythm and energy that didn't slight any of the voluptuous beauty of the vocal or instrumental portions.
The IU Opera Theatre's production of Handel's Julius Caesar plays this Friday and Saturday nights. This is a hallmark production that in coming years people will be talking about and looking back to fondly.


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I have come to hate the south
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We moved here a year ago and I hate it. All these people talk about how nice and hospitable everyone in the south is. Have you ever lived here or had to work down here? Seriously Saying god bless after you do things a thousand times worse than anyone back home would ever dream of doing does not make you any less horrible. Telling someone after there family member was killed that they should have known better than to own a bar because god hates bars is not useful or needed during their time of grief. The backyard BBQs and get togethers with friends. I call BS on those too! I tried to have a few it turned out to be a bunch of people that show up eat your food and trash talk you the whole time but they say things like bless your heart and dear things so that some how makes it ok.
I am sorry the whole south may not be like this but in the past year I have yet to see anything that resembles this kinder more polite south that everyone seems to talk about. Where is it because honestly all I see is rude people that hide behind saying god bless to be a thousand times worse than anyone I have ever meet in my entire life.
Sorry rant over. I just about had it when an entire room of people blamed my nephews murder on him working on a bar and how godless that is but thought it was ok to say this because they said bless your heart after.
Who are you hanging out with?!? LOL It's time to find a new crowd. I've lived in the south my whole life and I've never come across that. Sorry that happened to you.
This & get some new friends. Assholes are everywhere, it's not a regional thing. There are plenty of good people in the south.
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Where on earth are you??
I love the south. I wouldn't live anywhere else! I've been to many place and the south is the friendliest place around. And, I've never heard anyone say anything about God and bars. But, we do say "God doesn't like ugly" if our children aren't behaving.
My dh is from Muscle Shoals. I guess that's west of you.
Quoting Anonymous:
Northern Alabama is the best place in the south:-).
East Limestone baby!!!
Where the hell do you live?
I am very, very sorry people have been incosiderate for you loss.
We southerners are definately a culture all in our own.
I'd say we invented passive agressiveness.
God Bless your dear, sweet heart.


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DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/8qn5cl/eu5_spinal) has announced the addition of the "EU5 Spinal Surgery Market Outlook to 2020" report to their offering.
The report provides value, in millions of US dollars, and volume (in units) and average price data (in US dollars), within market categories - Spinal Fusion, Vertebral Compression Fracture Repair Devices and Spinal Non-Fusion.
The report also provides company shares and distribution shares data for each of these market categories, and global corporate-level profiles of the key market participants, pipeline products, and news and deals related to the Spinal Surgery market wherever available.
- Market size for Spinal Surgery market categories.
- Annualized market revenues (USD million), volume (units) and average selling price ($) data for each of the market categories. Data is provided from 2005 to 2012 and forecast to 2020.
- 2012 company shares and distribution shares data for each of the market categories.
- Global corporate-level profiles of key companies operating within the EU5 Spinal Surgery market.
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- Develop business strategies by identifying the key market segments poised for strong growth in the future.
- Develop market-entry and market expansion strategies.
- Design competition strategies by identifying who-stands-where in the market.
- Develop investment strategies by identifying the key market segments expected to register strong growth in the near future.
- What are the key distribution channels and what's the most preferred mode of product distribution? Identify, understand and capitalize.
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2 Introduction
3 Spinal Surgery Market, EU5
3.1 Revenue ($m), 2005-2020
3.2 Category Comparison by Revenue ($m), 2005-2020
3.3 Revenue ($m), 2005-2012
3.4 Revenue ($m), 2012-2020
3.5 Volume (Units), 2005-2020
3.6 Volume (Units), 2005-2012
3.7 Volume (Units), 2012-2020
3.8 Company Share by Revenue ($m), 2011-2012
4 Spinal Surgery Market, France
5 Spinal Surgery Market, Germany
6 Spinal Surgery Market, Italy
7 Spinal Surgery Market, Spain
8 Spinal Surgery Market, United Kingdom
9 Overview of Key Companies in EU5 Spinal Surgery Market
10 Spinal Surgery Market Pipeline Products
11 Financial Deals Landscape
12 Recent Developments
13 Appendix
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- B. Braun Melsungen
- Biomet
- DePuy
- Globus Medical
- Medtronic
- NuVasive
- Orthofix International
- Pioneer Surgical Technology
- Stryker
- Zimmer
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Written by: Dr. Dushka H. Saiyid - Posted on: May 20, 2014 | Comments | 中国 (Chinese)
Google Translation: اُردو | 中文
The future lies with integrative medicine, which focuses on healing and has a holistic approach to it, combining the mind, spirit and the body rather than dealing with the symptoms of the disease. Its defining principles are that the patient and practitioner are partners in the healing process, and takes into consideration both mind, body and spirit. It is not the same as alternative medicine, but strives to combine the more scientific alternative medicine with conventional medicine in order to facilitate the body's healing response. What distinguishes integrative from traditional medicine is that the former focuses on diagnostics while the traditional medicine treats the symptoms only.
The American Association of Integrative Medicine was founded in the 1990s, and the Pakistan equivalent has been founded this year in 2014. Dr. Mobashir Bhatti, a California based doctor is the moving spirit behind it, and its current President. As head of the Pakistan Association of Integrative Medicine or PAIMNET, Dr. Bhatti is aiming to train 1000 doctors in holistic and ethical medicine. He will give Continued Medical Education (CME) abroad as an incentive to the 100 tehsil doctors that he plans to train, each one of who has 250 doctors working under him. PAIMNET plans to establish an online network of doctors, so that a doctor unable to treat a patient in a rural area can consult a board of doctors and, under their guidance, treat the patient. He also plans to establish Evaluation Centers in the main cities of Pakistan, with doctors trained to evaluate whether the patients can be treated within Pakistan or will have to go abroad.
Dr. Mobashir Bhatti is also introducing gene and stem cell therapy to Pakistan with the help of two Chinese doctors with expertise in these fields. Dr. Bhatti hopes to open an American Pakistan China Medical Research Center, using American technology with Chinese experience. One of the doctors who is expected to come to Pakistan to treat patients is Dr. Li Dinggang, who trained at the Johns Hopkins University in the US. He treats patients with the gene therapy drug called Gendicine, manufactured in Shenzhen by a Chinese company with the name of SiBiono. It works through activating the p53 gene, which suppresses the cancerous tumor. It is injected into the tumor, and a virus carries the p53 gene into the cancer cells. Once the p53 gene is reactivated, the cancer cells die and the tumor shrinks.
(l-r) Dr. Yu Deng Wei and Dr. Li Dingang
Dr. Peng Zhaohui founded the company SiBonio, when he returned from the University of California in San Diego. Countering the western criticism that the testing of the drug has not been comprehensive enough, he says that when the drug was approved in 2003, it had only been tested on just over a hundred patients, and not over a long-term period either, because of its short-term effectiveness. Now, he argues, over 4,500 cases have been tested over a six-year period. It is also argued that Dr. Peng's research has not been transparent enough, and he has not published in English medical journals, and restricted himself to Chinese medical journals. However, foreigners are arriving at the Haidian Hospital in Beijing in droves, especially as the cancer treatment at Haidian costs a fraction of what it costs in the US. Such is the demand that the hospital is opening a 50 bed international center.
If Dr. Li has treated over 1000 patients with gene therapy, Dr. Yu Deng Wei has treated over 10,000 patients with stem cell therapy. He successfully cured his father, who is in his 90s, of Parkinson's disease and who is now able to lead an almost normal life.
While critics in the West continue to raise doubts about the thoroughness of the clinical testing of Gendicine, which failed to get the approval of the FDA in the US, China has speeded up its research in biotech. In 2006 it raised its spending on biotech research from 1.3% of its GDP to 2.5%. As a result China is attracting not just American cancer patients but also American researchers.
If Dr. Mobashir Bhatti manages to spread integrative medicine in Pakistan through his project for training of doctors, and introduces cutting edge treatment for cancer through gene and stem cell therapy with the help of Chinese doctors, Pakistan could be at the cusp of a revolution in the field of health. The government, both at the federal and provincial level should seize this opportunity to transform the dismal state of healthcare in the country.
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"Language is itself the collective art of expression, a summary of thousands upon thousands of individual intuitions" ( Sapir 1921 , 246). When exploring rhetoric in relation to language we usually have in mind the nature and functions of the communication systems used by humans in different times and in different parts of the world. Some of the first important theoreticians of language were in fact rhetoricians, as well as philosophers. A major point of departure in exploring rhetoric is the rhetorical role played by language as a conceptualizing and persuasive tool, as a means of communication and as a bearer of values ( Dumarsais 1825 ; Fontanier 1968 ; Perelman & Olbrechts-Tyteca 1969 ; Groupe µ 1976 ; Barthes 1988 ). Rhetoric has always been difficult to define, since the term has multiple denotations and connotations. Dictionary definitions most often describe rhetoric as the effective use of language to persuade or as the study of the elements of style and structure in writing or speaking. Typical definitions clearly point to a dualistic nature of rhetoric as understood for much of the past 2,500 years: "rhetoric is the process of using language to organize experience and communicate it to others. It is also the study of how people use language to organize and communicate experience. The word denotes, as I use it, both a distinctive human activity and the 'science' ... log in or subscribe to read full text
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The surreal_ep2_serverlinux.zip file you have requested: Modifications / Surreal / Surreal Episode 2 Linux Server - 6.04mb is not available. Perhaps try browsing all files for the game Battlefield 2 and upload any files you want to share or are missing. This is the only information we could locate:
After all the promos and the teasers, Surreal II finally released v2.0 of their mod. There is pluntly of new maps and new vehicles to choose from / use. Be sure to check the readme below for all the information. Here is the Linux Server files.
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I have been a long time lurker and I am finally ready to start my summer project of building a hexacopter. I'm actually hoping it doesn't take all summer, I'd like to take to take it to the NC coast and fly. I just ordered some G10 to build the frame and aluminium tubes for the arms from McMaster. I was looking to order the APM2 but it says there is a 12 week wait for shipping! Is that correct or just worst case and the magical number is really 2 weeks? I have read so much about it I would prefer to use it.
I'm looking for suggestions on motors, batteries and ESCs. Without knowing the weight I have a rough goal of getting 15-20minutes of flight time. I do plan on having 2 batteries on board. I'm pretty set on getting Turnigy 9x either when it comes back in stock at HK or through Ebay. Having built a RC 14yrs ago with my dad I imagine this project will be a challenge but not one I can't conquer.
Thanks for any and all advice, I appreciate it.
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|Courtesy of @JFraz14
In '12, the 26-year old busted onto the Major League scene out of virtually nowhere to finish third in National League Rookie of the Year voting. Along the way he managed to save a man from choking to death, belted a home run without using his hands, earned his first trip to the postseason, and recently capped it all off by getting married -- which may come as sad news to some single females around the city of Cincinnati. Nonetheless, it's been a really good calendar year for the former Little League World Series star.
On Friday, Frazier officially tied the knot with longtime girlfriend Jacquelyn Verdon, who attended Rutgers University as a student-athlete just as Todd did. The two are said to have grown up within 20 miles from each other in New Jersey.
Teammate Brandon Phillips and former MLBer Harold Reynolds were on hand to help celebrate the couple's special day.
Here's a couple of pictures that surfaced from the wedding on Twitter:
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Project Update
Disclosure Framework—Entity's Decision Process
Last updated on November 10, 2017. Please refer to the Current Technical Plan for information about the expected release dates of exposure documents and final standards.
(Updated sections are indicated with an asterisk *)
The staff has prepared this summary of Board decisions for information purposes only. Those Board decisions are tentative and do not change current accounting. Official positions of the FASB are determined only after extensive due process and deliberations.
Project Objective and Overview
Field Study
Due Process Documents
*Decisions Reached at Last Meeting
*Tentative Board Decisions Reached to Date
*Next Steps
Board/Other Public Meeting Dates
Background Information
Contact Information
Project Objective and OverviewThe objective and primary focus of the Disclosure Framework project is to improve the effectiveness of disclosures in notes to financial statements by clearly communicating the information that is most important to users of each entity's financial statements. (Although reducing the volume of the notes to financial statements is not the primary focus, the Board hopes that a sharper focus on important information will result in reduced volume in most cases.)
The objective of improving effectiveness will require development of a framework that promotes consistent decisions about disclosure requirements by the Board and the appropriate exercise of discretion by reporting entities. To achieve this objective, the Disclosure Framework project comprises two components: the Board's Decision Process and the Entity's Decision Process.
The Entity's Decision Process is intended to promote the use of discretion by reporting entities when evaluating the requirements as set forth by the Board.
Currently, four sets of disclosure requirements are being reviewed as part of the Disclosure Framework project. Each review will include (1) an evaluation of existing disclosure requirements within the Topic after applying the concepts in the Board's decision process and (2) consideration of ways to promote the appropriate use of discretion specifically within the Topic. The Board's decision process and the entity's decision process are being used together to modify the disclosure Sections in the following Topics:
- Fair Value Measurement (Section 820-10-50)
- Defined Benefit Plans (Section 715-20-50)
- Income Taxes (Section 40-10-50)
- Inventory (Section 330-10-50)
The FASB staff has developed a "Q&A: FASB's Disclosure Framework Project" fact sheet, which can be viewed here.
Field StudyThe FASB conducted a field study that tested the ability of public and private companies and not-for-profit organizations to exercise discretion over which disclosures they provide in notes to financial statements. The FASB staff presented the results of this field study and next steps based on the field study findings at the April 4, 2014 Board meeting.
Due Process DocumentsOn September 24, 2015, the Board issued a proposed Accounting Standards Update, Notes to Financial Statements (Topic 235): Assessing Whether Disclosures Are Material. The due date for comment letters was December 8, 2015.
- Download the proposed Update, Notes to Financial Statements (Topic 235): Assessing Whether Disclosures Are Material. The due date for comment letters was December 8, 2015.
- Read the comment letters on the proposed Update
- Read the comment letter summary on the proposed Update
- Read the press release on the proposed Update
- Read the FASB In Focus which summarizes the proposed Update
- Download the proposed FASB Concepts Statement, Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting—Chapter 3: Qualitative Characteristics of Useful Financial Information. The due date for comment letters was December 8, 2015.
- Read the comment letters on the proposed amendments to the Conceptual Framework
- Read the comment letter summary on the proposed amendments to the Conceptual Framework
- Read the press release on the proposed amendments to the Conceptual Framework
- Read the FASB In Focus, which summarizes the proposed amendments to the Conceptual Framework
- Download the Invitation to Comment, Disclosure Framework
- Read the comment letters on the Invitation to Comment
- Read the comment letter summary on the Invitation to Comment
- Read the news release introducing the Invitation to Comment
- Read the FASB In Focus, which summarizes the Invitation to Comment
- Listen now or download the Disclosure Framework Project in CFA Institute Webinar, led by the FASB's Ron Lott
- Listen now or Download In Focus: The FASB Disclosure Framework Project Webcast
*Decisions Reached at the Last Meeting (November 10, 2017)The Board decided to:
- Amend the current definition of materiality in Chapter 3, Qualitative Characteristics of Useful Financial Information, of FASB Concepts Statement No. 8, Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting, with language similar to that of the definition in FASB Concepts Statement No. 2, Qualitative Characteristics of Accounting Information (superseded).
- Remove the reference to materiality as a legal concept in Concepts Statement 8 and in Topic 235, Notes to Financial Statements.
*Tentative Board Decisions Reached to Date (as of November 10, 2017)Tentative Board Decisions Reached to Date
Next StepsThe staff will draft Chapter 3 and Chapter 8, Notes to Financial Statements, of Concepts Statement 8. Also, the Board will continue to redeliberate materiality in the context of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification®.
*Board/Other Public Meeting DatesOn December 1, 2014, the FASB held a forum to discuss financial disclosures at Pace University in New York City.
Read the media meeting recap from the forum discussion on financial disclosures
Download and listen to the audio replay of the forum
The Board meeting minutes are provided for the information and convenience of constituents who want to follow the Board's deliberations. All of the conclusions reported are tentative and may be changed at future Board meetings. Decisions become final only after a formal written ballot to issue a final standard.
|*November 8, 2017
|Board Meeting—Entity's Decision Process
|December 14, 2016
|Board Meeting—Entity's Decision Process
|March 2, 2016
|Board Meeting—Entity's Decision Process
|July 29, 2015
|Board Meeting—Entity's Decision Process
|April 22, 2015
|Board Meeting—Entity's Decision Process
|February 18, 2015
|Board Meeting—Flexible Disclosure Requirements
|May 28, 2014
|Board Meeting—Interim Disclosures
|April 4, 2014
|Board Meeting—Field Study Results and Next Steps
|June 19, 2013
|Board Meeting—Forward-Looking Disclosure Information, Decision Questions, and Changes to the Technical Plan
|February 13, 2013
|Board Meeting—Comment Letter Summary and Analysis of Comments and Possible Next Steps
|April 25, 2012
|Board Meeting —Interim Disclosures and Cost Consequence
|August 24, 2011
|Board Meeting—Decision Process for Disclosures about Line Items
|August 18, 2010
|Board Meeting—Objectives, Principles, and Criteria for Use in Setting Standards for Required Disclosures of Financial Information
July 8, 2009
Board Meeting—Agenda Announcement
Background InformationOn July 8, 2009, the FASB chairman announced (press release) the addition of a new agenda project aimed at establishing an overarching framework intended to make financial statement disclosures more effective, coordinated, and less redundant. The project was added in response to requests and recommendations received from several constituents, including the Investors Technical Advisory Committee (ITAC) and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Advisory Committee on Improvements to Financial Reporting (Recommendations 1.2 and 1.3).
The staffs of the Board and the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) have cooperated in the development of the ideas discussed in the Invitation to Comment and a similar discussion paper issued by EFRAG.
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11.2. Production of hormonal contraceptives
The Committee reviewed preliminary proposals on the production and quality assurance of hormonal contraceptives. Documents had been drafted both because of increasing pressures on several developing countries to manufacture both oral and injectable hormonal contraceptives and because WHO's Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction was concerned about the quality of certain formulations known to it. The Committee urged that the development of such proposals should take full account of all existing WHO documentation on the quality assurance of pharmaceutical products, and in particular of the revised guidelines on good manufacturing practices (3). The Committee was concerned to avoid any suggestion that the basic principles of quality assurance and good manufacturing practice were not applicable to all pharmaceutical products. It stressed that a proliferation of guidelines dealing with different categories of pharmaceutical products should be avoided. However, to the extent that the manufacture and control of hormonal contraceptives presented particular difficulties, these could be addressed in supplementary guidelines.
Recognizing the substantial manufacturing and analytical problems associated with highly potent, low-dosage combination hormonal contraceptives, the Committee recommended that local manufacture of such products should be discouraged in the absence of well established local programmes of drug regulation and quality assurance. Special care is also required to protect workers and the environment from exposure to hormonal contraceptive agents. The Committee further recommended that national drug authorities should be encouraged to carry out post-marketing surveillance to monitor the continuing safety and effectiveness of hormonal contraceptives.


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The British dropped anchor at the mouth of the Connecticut River and in the wee hours of April 8th, 136 British officers, sailors and marines, made their way up river on smaller heavily armed boats to Essex to destroy the town's shipping, specifically the privateer ships. They came ashore at the foot of Main Street. Homes and businesses in town were spared, but, 27 ships in EssexHarbour were burned and destroyed. Follow the route that the British took on the river and learn more about this fascinating event on a narrated river cruise aboard RiverQuest. The cruise will last for approximately one hour and 45 minutes. The cost is $40pp. Please book on-line.


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On Christmas Eve, on the small island in western Ireland where Deborah Tall lived for a year in 1977, people spruced up their houses for Christmas, even painting the walls at the last minute so that they were wet and couldn't be touched when people went visiting at nightfall with gifts of whiskey and cake.
In Czechoslovakia, the night before Christmas is spent fasting. A child who does not touch food all day is promised that he or she will see the golden pig (reminiscent of the golden boar which Freya, the Scandinavian Queen of Heaven rides through the night skies, and of the boar's head served at medieval English midwinter feasts).
French children go from house to house on Christmas Eve singing carols and giving good wishes. They are rewarded with food: bacon, eggs, flour, sweets, dried fruit, cakes, etc. In Burgundy, this round of visits is called the cornette, after the wafer made from cornmeal which is given as a reward. In Touraine, the treat is a guillauneu, a long cake split at both ends.
Cubans call Christmas Eve, Noche Buena, "Good Night." Families gather for a feast which features roast pig.
Ban Breathnach, Sarah, Simple Abundance, Warner Books 1995
Bright, Marilyn, The Christmas Cookbook, Appletree Press, Harper Collins 1993
Lang, Jenifer Harvey, editor, Larousse Gastronomique, Crown 1984
Spicer, Dorothy Gladys, The Book of Festivals, The Womans Press 1937
Deborah Tall, Island of the White Cow, Atheneum 1986
Christmas Day
If Christmas day be bright and clear
Therell be two winters in the year.
Those who are born on Christmas day cannot see spirits.
If Christmas day be bright and clear
Therell be two winters in the year.
Those who are born on Christmas day cannot see spirits.
The birth of the Persian hero and sun-god Mithra was celebrated on December 25th. The myth tells that he sprang up full-grown from a rock, armed with a knife and carrying a torch. Shepherds watched his miraculous appearance and hurried to greet him with their first fruits and their flocks and their harvests. His cult spread throughout Roman lands during the 2nd century. In 274, the Emperor Aurelian declared December 25th the Birthday of Sol Invictus (the Unconquerable Sun) in Rome.
Of course, the metaphor of the birth of the sun worked equally well for Christians celebrating the birth of the Son of God, who brings Light to the world. Biblical scholars speculate that Christ was actually born in the fall after the harvest or in the spring after the birth of the new animals, both the most likely times for taxation. The British scientist Colin Humphreys believes Christ was born between April 13 and April 27, the week of Passover in 5 BCE, when a great comet appeared.
The birth of Christ was celebrated in the early church on January 6th (on the same date, Kore gave birth to the year god Aeon). However, in the 4th century, it was moved to December 25th. Biblical scholar Brent Walters says that the Pope authorized the change at the request of Cyril of Jerusalem who was concerned about the pilgrims who flocked to Jerusalem to celebrate Christs birth, then turned around and headed to Bethlehem to attend special ceremonies there on the same day. By moving the date of Christ's birth forward to December 25th, they had more time to make the trip to Bethlehem by January 6th. Of course, not everyone was pleased by this change. The Christians of dessa accused the church in Rome of idolatry and sun worship."
Whatever day Christmas falls on is lucky for the whole year (unlike Holy Innocent's Day, see December 28).
Welsh churches held a carol service called Plygain between 3 am and 6 am on Christmas morning. The name is derived from the Latin pulli cantio (cock crow). The churches were decorated with candles. After a brief session of prayers, people spent the remainder of the time singing plygain carols. It seems possible this was originally a ritual designed to comfort people during the darkest hours before the sun was born, or to help welcome the newly-emerging sun.
Christmas dinner is one of those grand seasonal feasts for which each culture has its own set of traditional dishes. In France, the big meal, called the revillon (meaning the beginning of a new watch) is served immediately after Midnight Mass. It often begins with oysters and champagne. Roast turkey with chestnuts is the usual dish but in former times, each region had its own specialty: a daube (beef in red wine) in Armagnac, sauerkraut and goose liver in Alsace, aligot in Auvergne, black pudding (blood sausage) in Nivernais and goose in southwestern France. In the southeast, a large meal was eaten before Mass consisting of cauliflower and salt cod with raito (or perhaps snails), grey mullet with olives, or omelette with artichokes and fresh pasta.
The Poles eat foods containing poppy seeds. The English serve plum pudding. Romans eat eels. In Bologna, it's tortellini stuffed with minced group pork, turkey, sausage, cheese and nutmeg, followed by desserts of nocciata (walnuts and honey, cut into triangles), cassata flavored with Ricotta cheese and chocolate, and torrone, made with almonds. In northern Germany the traditional dish is Blue carp; the color comes from hot vinegar poured over it before cooking, served with sour cream, horseradish and apples.
The Germans used to serve blue carp, a fish that had been specially fattened for Christmas from August onwards, turned blue by pouring hot vinegar over it before cooking and served with sour cream, horseradish and apples. Now the main dish is more likely to be goose, turkey, venison, wild boar or a roast. However, apples, walnuts and almonds are always served.
The Swedes for centuries have feasted on marinated ling, served in a white sauce with butter, potatoes, mustard and black pepper. The Danes like roast goose stuffed with apples and prunes and garnished with red cabbage, caramelized potatoes and cranberry sauce. Dessert consists of rice porridge or rice with almonds and cherry compote. The Norwegians serve roast pork chops and sauerkraut (flavored with cumin). The Finns cook a ham in a rye-flour pastry case. In all the Scandinavian countries, Christmas is the occasion for a sumptuous smorgasbord.
Most countries also have a traditional Christmas cake. In France, it's buche de noel, a cake of dough rolled up and frosted with buttercream to look like a log. In England it's a fruitcake, sometimes soaked in alcohol, and then spread with apricot jam, almond paste and frosting. In Germany, it's stollen which contains crystallized fruit. In Alsace, it's bireweck (a cake which includes nuts and dried and candied fruit) served with compotes and gingerbread, traditionally eaten before Midnight Mass. In Brittany, it's a star-shaped fouace.
In France, the dinner concludes with the traditional Thirteen Desserts. Each one must be tasted to bring good luck in the coming year. According to Larousse Gastronomique, the number thirteen commemorates the thirteen participants at the Last Supper (this seems a bit far-fetched and out-of-season as well). The desserts are: pompe a l'huile (a fruit pastry), raisins, quince paste, marzipan sweets, nougat, fougasse (a rich cake), crystallized (candied) citrons, walnuts and hazelnuts, winter pears, Brignoles plums, dried figs, almonds and dates.
Kightly, Charles, The Perpetual Almanack of Folklore, Thames & Hudson 1987
Lang, Jenifer Harvey, Larousse Gastronomique, Crown 1984


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Berlin (Oct. 10)
Mystery continued to surround the fate today of Dr. Otto Hirsch, president of the executive of the Reichsvertretung, central representative Jewish body, who was arrested here yesterday by the Gestapo in connection with a special Yom Kippur message issued by the Reichsvertretung to the Jews of Germany.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency was today refused information about the fate of Dr. Hirsch, by the Gestapo. The secret police declined to divulge where he is being held.
All copies of the Yom Kippur message, signed by Dr. Hirsch and Chief Rabbi Dr. Leo Baeck, president of the Reichsvertretung, were ordered confiscated today by the Gestapo.
It is believed that the wrath of the Gestapo was provoked especially by the following paragraph appearing in the message:
"We stand before the Lord. With the same strength with which we have acknowledged our sins, the sins of individuals and the sins of the community, we declare with a feeling of abhorrence that the lies directed against us, and the calumnies spread against our religion and its Testament, are repudiated by us root and branch."
This message was to have been read in all synagogues on the Jewish Day of Atonement, last Monday. But the Gestapo sent out telegraphic orders prohibiting the reading of the message. Dr. Leo Baeck was arrested, and was released after having been detained by the secret police for 24 hours until after the holiday. Dr. Hirsch, who was not in Berlin on Yom Kippur, was arrested yesterday on his return.


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John Tenbusch, president and CEO of Linear, comments: "We're proud to be a full-service supplier to the automotive industry, and receiving our TS 16949 certification shows our continued commitment to our customers to provide the highest quality molds, including prototype and bridge tooling, molded parts and 3D printed components to meet their requirements for excellence."
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New Official – Judy Habecker
by Al Myers
I just received word from the USAWA Official's Director Joe Garcia that Judy Habecker has passed the USAWA Rules Exam and is now a Level 1 Test Qualified USAWA Official. I just placed Judy's name on our ever growing list of officials. I now feel sorry for the lifters in Habeckers Gym, because with Judy in the chair there won't be any "shoddy" lifts passed. When I was sitting by Judy at our past USAWA Nationals (I was the announcer and she was the scorekeeper), it was obvious to me that Judy had a keen sense of the rules. She ALWAYS KNEW what the infraction was when a lift wasn't passed. A few times she felt that certain shouldn't have been passed! (and a couple of times it was when her husband Denny was lifting! haha). Like I said already, I now feel sorry for the lifters in Habeckers Gym! I know Judy will make a great judge, and all I can say is IT IS ABOUT TIME she became an USAWA official! There has been some confusion in the past with the thinking you must be a competitive lifter to be an official. This is just not true. There is NOTHING in our rules or bylaws saying this must be the case. I'm not inferring that Judy is not a competitive lifter either – she often makes a least one appearance to the platform every year. She has USAWA records dating back to 2001, and is the holder of 30 USAWA Records. She is most proud of her 304 pound 12″ base deadlift done at the 2005 Gold Cup in Hawaii.
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In many states, a two or four year degree is a mandatory qualification for those who want to be accountants or CPA's. It also isn't unusual for accounting majors to pursue an MBA in order to further their chances at getting a good management position. As such, accounting majors often pursue higher education after their two year degree, or even after their Bachelor's degree. It is worth mentioning that it isn't unusual for accountants who have a higher level of education to earn over 100,000 per year if they choose the right area of work.
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John Spivey has no scar -- not even a tiny one -- to show that he had recent surgery to treat chronic acid reflux.
But the proof is in his pocket.
He no longer keeps antacids handy to relieve the heartburn that has dogged him for as long as he can remember.
"I had Rolaids in my pockets, by the bed, in the glove box, my boat, my fishing tackle box and my golf bag," said Spivey, 74. "I guess I was a Rolaids junkie."
The habit ended abruptly when the North Richland Hills, Texas, man underwent an incisionless surgery to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease.
The procedure, called a transoral incisionless fundoplication, is performed through the patient's mouth. There's no cutting of the abdomen or laparoscopic punctures, as with more conventional methods.
Instead Dr. Robert Sewell, a Southlake laparoscopic surgeon, inserted an FDA-approved tubular device down the esophagus and into the stomach. From there, he reconstructed the valve that prevents stomach acid from backing up into the esophagus.
While the incisionless approach is new, the surgery mimics one that has been around for 50 years, Sewell said.
Patients who have the incisionless surgery experience little pain, recover quickly and see almost immediate results.
Spivey said the pain was no worse than a hangnail. He had only a slight sore throat and followed a liquid diet for several days before moving on to soft foods.
"By the fourth night, it was like it never happened," he said.
Karen Courtney of Colleyville, who was Sewell's first patient to undergo the surgery, said the quick recovery made it appealing after years of coping with a raspy voice and indigestion. Five days after surgery, she was back at work as a fitness instructor.
"I don't think I would have done it laparoscopically because I would have lost more time at work," she said. "I would have just sucked it up and kept living with this."
That's what many of the 19 million people in the United States who have reflux disease end up doing. They rely on medicine to relieve the burning, indigestion, regurgitation and choking that often keeps them awake at night.
For many people, that works. But others get tired of taking daily medications, which can lose their effectiveness over time, Sewell said.
The drugs are really just a Band-Aid, he said. While they stop acid from being produced in the stomach, they don't address the underlying problem.
"The problem with reflux isn't having too much acid," Sewell said. "The problem is acid is in the wrong place."
Spivey said that for years he assumed he would just have to live with the burning pain that kept him awake at night.
"It got to where I couldn't even eat breakfast without reacting to the sausage and eggs," he said. "Whenever we went out, I had to make sure I had a stash of Rolaids."
Concerned that the chronic acid reflux would lead to more serious health problems such as esophageal cancer, he decided to have surgery.
But surgery is not for everyone; those with significant hiatal hernias are often not good candidates.
While some insurance companies pay for the procedure, it's still viewed as experimental and coverage is limited. In Courtney's case, the surgery was not covered, but the overnight hospitalization and other costs were.
Natural orifice surgery -- procedures performed through the mouth and other openings -- is so new that it has raised concerns about effectiveness and safety.
But the American Society of General Surgeons has endorsed the procedure for reflux disease, saying the results from clinical trials are comparable to results from more traditional procedures.
"It's on the early edge of the curve," said Sewell, a previous president of the surgeons group. "But in a few years I think we'll see more and more surgeries being done without the need for any incision."
In tests worldwide, the surgery has been shown to be safe, with 80 percent of patients reporting an improvement in their quality of life.
Next on the medical horizon: bariatric surgery done through the mouth. Other natural orifice surgeries are also being explored, including gallbladder and appendix removal.
Spivey said that if he had known how easy it was to fix his heartburn, he would have had the surgery a lot sooner.
"It's like a new life," he said. "Everything is back to like it should be."
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Travelzoo.com sent me this deal concerning Traditions at the Glen Resort near Binghamton, NY:
- An indulgent retreat in upstate New York at Traditions at the Glen Resort near Binghamton at nearly 60% off
- $149 for 1 night in a Traditional room (reg. $165); upgrade to a Homestead suite for $30 more (reg. $195)
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The Brewski Report Reviews Samual Adams' Octoberfest
File Date: 9.22.2010
File Name: My Lost Vacation
The Beer: Sam Adams Octoberfest
Type: Marzen/Oktoberfest
Serving: Draft
Stats: 5.3% ABV
Brewer: Boston Beer Co. (Samuel Adams)
Web Site: www.samueladams.com
State/Country of Origin: MA, USA
Brewer Info: Jim Koch founded The Boston Beer Company in 1984 because he believed that Americans deserved better beer. Today, we're a team of about 350 people, and we all share a common passion for bringing great Samuel Adams® beers to beer lovers everywhere. We've worked hard for the many successes we've enjoyed over the years. The Boston Beer Company has been cited as one of the best companies to work for by Boston Magazine, one of the Best Entry-Level Jobs by The Princeton Review, and our beers have won more awards than any beer in history.
Brewer Brand Hype: Brewed with five varieties of malted barley for a big, rich flavor. The first thing you notice when pouring a glass of this seasonal beer is the color. Samuel Adams® Octoberfest has a rich, deep reddish amber hue which itself is reflective of the season. Samuel Adams Octoberfest masterfully blends together five roasts of malt to create a delicious harmony of sweet flavors including caramel and toffee. The malt is complimented by the elegant bitterness imparted by the Bavarian Noble hops. Samuel Adams Octoberfest provides a wonderful transition from the lighter beers of summer to the heartier brews of winter.
Label: Draft beer served at the bar.
The Brewski Review: I took a week off for vacation tin the hopes of getting a good start on remodeling two more rooms in my house. As I noted in an earlier e-mail, I've been cleaning out our 'office' for a while and I was dissapointed that it wasn't completed BEFORE my vacation started. The last thing I wanted to do was waste time moving stuff on my vacation (which, by the way, is rare for me to take a whole week's vacation.) So, it took two days to finish moving material out of the office and get the room sealed up – rosin paper on the floor and plastic over the doorways (sans the doors which were removed to strip the paint). And then, I tried to plug my wireless router back in and reconnect our computers. That's were I lost two more days. So, four of my 9 total days were spent cleaning and trying to figure out how to set up the computer. Then, I purchased a few trees I needed to get into the ground before winter so I set about doing that. This took two days. So, my plans to work on my house and repair my SUV (the front sway bar links broke and the sway bar shifted over and tore a hole in my front passenger side CV Boot). I just pushed my timeline out until spring on both. I figure if my front axle locks up on me….oh well. And, it's too late into the season to start tearing plaster off my walls. I won't be able to run the wiring and insulate before it freezes so I better wait. The good news? I've got all winter to work on other stuff. Oh yeah, the beer. It was a decent octoberfest beer. Holding out for something better. Would drink it again though.
Drinkability: Probably.
Appearance: Medium to dark brown. Minimal head (dirty glass?)
The Buds: Malty with a bitter finish.
TBR Cap Rating: 3.75 out of 5


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It's funny how I spent so much of 2012 hoping time would speed up. Now we are coming to the end of the year and I am wanting the days to move slower. Little One has her first surgery, her lip repair, at the very start of 2013. I know it sounds crazy to most people that I am dreading surgery, but I am. Of course, I know it is the best for her. And, of course, I am beyond grateful that we can provide our daughter with the very best medical care we can find. But, it is so hard to know the grin I adore I only get a few more weeks to enjoy…even though I know her new smile will be just as beautiful.
I wanted photos of our family just as we are right now. Before surgery. Not posed. Everyone in just our normal clothes. No bribery to get kids to smile at the camera. Just us. Being us. I did buy new spatulas. I did set up the kitchen table for baking instead of the small counter. I did make a cute space for cookie eating. I did require the boys to wear shirts.
With 5 kids we aren't usually all in the same room at the same time baking and crafting, so it was fun to do this together…to be captured all together in so many pictures.
A rare treasure for this mom!
Ann of Ann Bennett Photography came and spent a few hours with my crazy clan.
Just us. Having fun together.
Rootbeer….not drinking a beer in my family pics! 🙂
Oh my goodness, I LOVE MY FAMILY!!
Ann will be offering these types of session in 2013….I think she might be overwhelmed by the number of families that will be lining up to spend the day with her! Thanks Ann!


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My 38 yr old handsome, gay brother got married this past weekend and I am VERY happy for him!!
I just wanted to share some positive news. My younger brother who I am super close with just tied the knot with his partner of 13 years in Manhattan at the Supreme Court last Thursday and then he had a beautiful, expensive wedding reception for 62 people at the Borgata Hotel/Casino in Atlantic City, NJ this past Saturday!! It was a blast!!! I am really, really happy for him and so glad that he had the opportunity to get married, although the state they reside in (Texas) does not recognize gay marriages at this time! But that's okay because at the Federal level it is acknowledged across the board and plus all of our family lives on the East Coast, so it was much easier for us to attend his fabulous wedding back home!!! Congratulations to Andrew and Erik (my new brother-in-law), may they share a lifetime of happiness together!! ;-)
P.S. - Haters of gay marriage need not reply.......please!!
Congrat to them ! May they live a long,happy,healthy life together :)
Awwwww!!! If its ok with him post a pic! (totally understand if its not though) Love wedding pictures.
Congratulations to them. I wish them a lifetime of happiness and success!
YAY! Congratulations to your brother! I'd love it if you could post a picture, I love weddings!


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Duo Coffee Steeper
Written by Katie on December 1, 2016. Permalink
More coffee paraphernalia for your consideration… The Duo Coffee Steeper features two chambers to produce the the richness of immersion brewing but with a cleaner taste. Your hot water and coffee steeps in the upper chamber, then once your brew reaches the right strength, you twist the silicone center to let it flow through 2 stainless steel filters into the lower carafe. Twist it again and you've locked the chamber for pouring from the spout. Pretty easy, and relatively compact- it may even be a good option to bring with you on your travels, if you're picky about your coffee.
Purchase Information:Price: $99.00
Available from: A+R Store


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Now Shipping: Digital Publishing Suite, Professional Edition
Today, I'm excited to announce that the Professional Edition of Digital Publishing Suite is now available. Following the availability of Enterprise Edition, which shipped last March, Professional Edition is now available as a ready-to-deploy tablet publishing solution that allows publishers to quickly publish content to the iPad, BlackBerry PlayBook or a host of Android devices. Because Digital Publishing Suite integrates tightly with the new Folio Producer tools publishers can use the existing skills of their design staff to cost-efficiently produce this tablet publishing content.
The Professional Edition of Digital Publishing Suite includes services and viewer technology to get publishers up and publishing quickly on tablet devices. Publishers can create interactivity natively in InDesign CS5.0 or CS5.5 with the Folio Producer tools, then transfer those layouts through the new Folio Builder panel to the hosted services of Digital Publishing Suite. These services include:
- Folio Producer Service (newly released with the Professional Edition, also available to Enterprise customers) – after a designer uploads layouts from InDesign, the Folio Producer Service allows production staff to organize layouts via drag-and-drop in the cloud, add metadata, share content with others, and publish a final .folio file.
- Distribution Service – host final .folio files and deliver them across a variety of devices, including on iPad, Android and BlackBerry PlayBook
- eCommerce Service – enables publishers to support single-issue, multiple-issue, or subscription-based in-application purchases directly from within readers' Content Viewer for iPad. In-app purchase for Android and PlayBook will be available by Q3 2011.
- Analytics Service – delivers insight into content performance via prebuilt dashboards, including .folio files purchased & downloaded, top content & ads and application installs
- Viewer Builder Service – allows publishers to create a publisher branded instance of Content Viewer, without restriction on number or file size of apps created.
Major publishers are excited about using Professional Edition to publish now to tablet devices. "We needed a method of creating apps that would seamlessly integrate with our current workflows here at Backpacker, and Adobe Digital Publishing Suite was a natural evolution," said Anthony Cerretani, deputy editor, digital director, Backpacker Magazine. "Fairly quickly, we were able to take our Adobe InDesign CS5 base of knowledge and run with it, working off the strengths of our design, edit, and digital teams without skipping a beat. The intuitive nature of the tools was a huge plus for us. We didn't want to reinvent the wheel when working with apps. Our goal was to extend the core service and mission of Backpacker into an exciting new medium. With Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, we didn't have to outsource anything; we did it all in-house. That makes us nimble in a digital environment that evolves daily. We've already launched one app, www.backpacker.com/survivalschool, using the Adobe tools and we're on track for launching a number of others, the next focusing on our annual Editors' Choice Awards. So we're already on the move and going digital, thanks to Adobe."
Reader's Digest, the world's largest paid circulation magazine, is also using Digital Publishing Suite to engage its readers across a variety of tablet platforms. Learn more about how Reader's Digest is using Digital Publishing Suite in the video below.
In addition, a variety of business publishers like the US Marine Corps, EMI Music, Credit Suisse and Mercedes-Benz are now using Digital Publishing Suite to engage their audiences with interactive publishing content. Read more in my earlier blog post about business publishers.
Professional Edition pricing includes a platform fee plus a service fee. Today, we've also updated the pricing (for Professional and Enterprise Editions) to include Gold Support now included as part of the platform fee. More information about Professional Edition, including detailed pricing, is available using the links below. As mentioned, Enterprise Edition shipped previously in March and is also available for publishers that need integration with backend publishing systems. To purchase Enterprise Edition or Professional Edition, please contact a Digital Publishing Suite partner or email firstname.lastname@example.com
Learn more
- View updated features and pricing on Adobe.com
- See how Reader's Digest is using Digital Publishing Suite at Adobe TV
- Contact sales for a consultation at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Crayola Marker Airbrush Set
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Turn Crayola markers into spray-on designs! Attach a Crayola markers, pump it up and spray to create cool airbrush effects. Works great on both paper and fabrics. Pack contains 1 airbrush set, 8 broadline markers, 4 bright fabric markers, stencil sheets and 20 sheets of blank paper.
Create airbrush art with the Crayola Marker Airbrush set. Twelve included markers–eight for paper and four for fabric–are pressurized by an airbrush machine to spray ink, giving kids a fun new way to use markers. The set can also be expanded with Windows markers (sold separately) that allow kids to decorate glass. Also, the four included stencil sheets are great for creating precise designs and inspiring young artists.
The Crayola Marker Airbrush set gives kids a whole new way to use markers: by spraying them! The spray nozzle delivers ink through pressure, giving young artists a fun way to express their creativity. Kids can move the nozzle closer to the paper for a darker, more defined line, or pull it back to create a fuzzier look.
Four included stencil sheets give kids a great way to create more polished designs and to be inspired about their creations. The stencils include everything from a water template with jellyfish, sharks, and crabs, to a space theme with rockets, planets, and stars.
Each stencil also has a patterned edge, so kids can add fancy borders to their designs.
The Marker Airbrush is simple for kids to use: just push the marker into the spray nozzle, pump the handle to build pressure, and pull the trigger to spray. Since it operates using pressure, the Marker Airbrush doesn't require any batteries or cords.
While the Marker Airbrush process is not mess-free (our testers ended up with dots of ink on their hands from the spray),the set is designed for easy cleanup. The nonfabric markers are washable, and the spray nozzle can be wiped with a paper towel or rinsed. Ink does not flow through the pressure tube.
The Marker Airbrush does not have a wide spray, but our testers still recommend a washable, nonfabric surface under the paper for those times when spraying runs outside the edges, or the ink bleeds through the paper.
Make your own t-shirt creations with the four included permanent markers. The brightly colored permanent markers can be sprayed on fabric and sealed by either ironing or drying in a clothes dryer for 30 minutes. Adult supervision is required to seal the fabric.
T-shirts are not included.
The Marker Airbrush set works with any broad line Crayola marker, including regular, washable, Pip-Squeaks, Crystal Effects, Window, and Bright Fabric markers. The Crayola Windows markers (sold separately) can be used to decorate glass.
Marker airbrush unit, 4 color markers, 8 washable markers, 20 sheets of paper, 4 stencils, and instructions.
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"Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; / Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift."
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"Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? / Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon."
"And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar: / And he shall pluck away his crop with his feathers, and cast it beside the altar on the east part, by the place of the ashes: / And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD."
"Man does not bring to God's altar the stuff of nature in itself, in its initial structure, but something he has made and molded out of nature for the nourishment and the inspiration of men."
"Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god"
"ALTAR, n. The place whereupon the priest formerly raveled out the small intestine of the sacrificial victim for purposes of divination and cooked its flesh for the gods. The word is now seldom used, except with reference to the sacrifice of their liberty and peace by a male and a female tool.
They stood before the altar and supplied The fire themselves in which their fat was fried. In vain the sacrifice! --no god will claim An offering burnt with an unholy flame. --M.P. Nopput"


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Obituaries of residents from the District, Maryland and Northern Virginia.
David W. Raymond, 68, who retired in 1996 as vice president and general counsel of Sears Merchandise Group and vice president of law of Sears, Roebuck and Co., both in Chicago, died June 21 at a hospital in Falls Church, Va. The cause was chronic lymphocytic leukemia, said a son-in-law, Padrick Weber.
Mr. Raymond, a resident of McLean, Va., was born in Boston. He joined Sears in 1970 as a government-affairs lawyer in Washington. After he retired, he moved to McLean and was of counsel to the Winston & Strawn law firm in the District. He created grant and scholarship programs at his alma mater, Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.
M. Dantes Doyle, 74, a National Security Agency analyst in the early 1960s who did clerical work for medical offices and agencies in the 1980s, died June 23 at a hospital in Silver Spring, Md. The cause was cardiac arrest, said a son, Bill Doyle.
Mrs. Doyle, a resident of Laurel, Md., was born Mary Dantes Male in Somerset, Pa. In the 1980s, she did clerical work for the National Institutes of Health, what is now Laurel Regional Hospital and the old Great Oaks Center, a state-run mental-health center in Silver Spring. She volunteered at Meals on Wheels for 20 years.
Joseph P. O'Neill, 79, a Foreign Service officer whose posts included Vietnam during the war, Tehran during a brief embassy takeover by Iranian students in 1979, as well as Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, the Philippines, India, Bermuda and Equatorial Guinea, died June 27 at the home of a son in Chantilly, Va. The cause was a stroke, said his son, Patrick F. O'Neill.
Mr. O'Neill, who lived in Fairfax County, was born in New York City. He served 35 years in the State Department — at various points, he was a consular officer, a political officer and a manager — before retiring in 1996. He then continued working as a staff officer in Belarus, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan.
Charles Dorian, 92 a retired Coast Guard captain and official with the telecommunications company Comsat, died June 20 at his home in Seattle. The cause was leukemia, said a son, John Dorian.
Capt. Dorian was born in Quincy, Mass. He was a 33-year resident of the District before moving to Seattle in 1992. He was commissioned a Coast Guard officer in 1942, and he retired in 1972 after having served simultaneously in the Coast Guard and the U.S. Transportation Department as deputy director of its office of telecommunications. Until 1982, he was Comsat's director of international relations.
Alexander H. Flax, 93, a former assistant secretary of the Air Force who served as president of the Institute for Defense Analyses think tank from 1969 to 1982, died June 30 at a hospital in the District. The cause was pneumonia, said a daughter, Laurel Flax.
Dr. Flax, a resident of Potomac, Md., was born in Brooklyn. Among his early jobs, he was vice president of the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory in Buffalo and assistant secretary of the Air Force for research and development. From 1984 to 1992, he held the title of home secretary of the National Academy of Engineering. He also continued a long career as an aerospace and defense consultant. His memberships included the Cosmos Club.
Roy Carlson, 93, who spent about 25 years in the Foreign Service mostly as an economics officer before retiring in 1978 as a deputy on the Board of Examiners, died June 27 at a hospital in Bethesda. The cause was coronary artery disease, said a son, William Carlson.
Mr. Carlson, a resident of Chevy Chase, Md., was born in Chicago. His State Department assignments included East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Pakistan and Stuttgart, West Germany, where he was deputy principal officer and chief of the economic section. He also worked on cotton policy and textile agreements in the Office of International Commodities and went on loan in the late 1960s to the Transportation Department to work on transportation aid to developing countries.
Elizabeth Cooley, 85, a homemaker who was a part-time nurse in the Washington area from the 1950s to the 1970s, died June 11 at a hospital in Fairfax County. The cause was respiratory failure and pneumonia, said a daughter, Suzanne Cooley.
Mrs. Cooley, a resident of Centreville, Va., was born Elizabeth Fisher in Superior, Neb. Her nursing work took her to Chestnut Lodge psychiatric hospital in Rockville, Sibley Memorial Hospital in the District and nursing homes in the region. She also did private-duty care.
James H. Haynie, 77, who retired in 1996 as a senior procurement and contract specialist at the U.S. Transportation Department, died June 30 at a nursing home in Silver Spring, Md. The cause was complications from diabetes, said a daughter, Tina Jones.
Mr. Haynie was a native Washingtonian and performed with Marvin Gaye in an all-male a cappella group when both attended Randall Junior High School in the District, his family said. At the DOT, where he spent more than 35 years, he played a role in the development of a prototype for a crash-test dummy, his family said. A resident of Silver Spring, he was an election judge in Montgomery County and a member of Bethlehem Church of God Holiness in the District and a past member of an organization called Blacks in Government.
Elaine Wollman, 77, a homemaker in Silver Spring, Md., from 1959 to 2012, died June 24 at a hospital in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. The cause was complications from a stroke, said a daughter, Lori Kellogg.
Mrs. Wollman was born Elaine Cymbol in Brooklyn. She moved to Palm Beach Gardens in 2012.
Carol P. Uhlendorf, 90, a National Institutes of Health biologist who was also a longtime civic leader and onetime mayor of the Montgomery County town of Washington Grove, died June 9 at a rehabilitation facility at Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg, Md. She had a heart attack, said her daughter, Susan Uhlendorf.
Ms. Uhlendorf was born Carol Peruchi in Pontiac, Mich., and worked at NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 1960 to 1986. In Washington Grove, she served on the Town Council and was mayor from 1993 to 1997. She led efforts to renovate the town's historic town hall and was instrumental in developing a recycling program in Washington Grove and throughout the county.
— From staff reports


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The Fifty Shades of Grey Phenomenon
When the Fifty Shades of Grey book came out it caused a sensation and, at the time, became the fastest book to sell a million copies. I believe it has now, at the time of writing, sold One Hundred Million copies. For anyone who doesn't already know, Fifty Shades of Grey follows the erotic relationship between a newly graduated girl and a billionaire business guy. After seeing and hearing all the hype surrounding these books I felt I wanted to see what all the fuss was about and so I duly ordered myself a copy.
Not all that long ago women were literally given away in marriage and became the property of their husbands. The man was deemed to be the head of the household and women had little or no say, they were expected to 'know their place'. Domestic violence was not deemed to be a criminal offence, my own mother had a pretty rough life at the hands of my father.
In my lifetime women have become more liberated and learned to stand up for themselves in achieving goals within their own right. I include myself in this. I have watched as women fought for equal rights in the workplace. I have seen how women have been able to renegotiate a place of equality within their relationships. As a woman myself I have felt immensely proud of the progress women have made in overcoming the sexist views of men and indeed society. I then read Fifty Shades …..
It seems to be mainly women who raved over the book at the time it was published. As a liberated woman living within a society of other liberated women, I find that really surprising. When I hear comments to the effect that Monsieur Grey is a 'real man' I wince.
I am not a prude or inhibited about sex, it can be wonderful and I like it, but I do have a very real concern about the type of sadistic sex described throughout the book and the assumed fascination in sadistic sex as the high level of sales seems to indicate. Whatever two consenting adults get up to in the bedroom is usually considered by them to be normal. We all see life through our own unique filter and see our own behaviour as normal .. as 'how it should be'. Within my consulting room I hear so many differing accounts of what is considered to be normal that I have become unshockable. The thing I find disquieting about these books and now the film is women's apparent acceptance of being made sexually submissive to a dominant man through sado-masochism.
You may be thinking that the books and the film are only a bit of fun but if you take away the billionare's billions then all you have is an abusive and controlling man. The books suggest that because this guy is rich that gives him the right to power over others.
In my profession I have to deal with enough of the darker side of life. The line between eroticism and abuse is a very fine one and it's all too easy to step over it. With that in mind, the story that is played out in the books and is now brought to life in the film, is one that, if taken up by many men, will create a living hell for many women. The male character in this particular story is much in need of therapy in order to resolve his own abused childhood.
In my view the books, and now the film, are not helpful and may well put the cause of women back a generation, maybe even two.
For me, making love as an equal partner will always be better than the control exerted by S&M.
In the words of John Lennon "All you need is Love".
Be happy