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January 17, 2008
USA Superior Energy Holdings' Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) Testing Exhibits Increased Oil Production From Existing Well
USA Superior Energy Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: USSU) (FRANKFURT: F2S) is pleased to announce that it has witnessed a 200% plus increase in oil production from an existing oil well during recent testing. This is the result of a successful cyclic Nitrogen test of the Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technology developed by USA Superior.
This testing consisted of injecting a volume of Nitrogen into existing perforations in a well. Prior to this test, the well was producing a small volume of fluids consisting of 5% oil and 95% water. For the first three days after the test, the well pumped 100% oil before the nitrogen pressure depleted, representing a sizeable increase in the oil capable of being produced from the same well.These tests were conducted to measure and verify potential results USA Superior's research had shown could be expected when using the company's cyclical nitrogen injection EOR program. Cyclical nitrogen injection is where a gas (nitrogen) is injected into existing oil wells to re-pressurize the oil in formation. Within a brief period of time, this reenergized pressure diffuses about the well bore. It then allows the re-pressurized oil to produce back into the well bore. As oil production and pressure diminishes over a period of time, another cycle of nitrogen gas is injected into the well bore thereby re-pressurizing the remaining oil in the formation. These cycles of injection and oil production continue until no longer economic.
"We feel these results show the potential that a cyclic nitrogen injection program implemented across a field can produce," stated Randy Holifield, Field Supervisor of USA Superior Energy Holdings, Inc.
Third party engineering reports estimate that existing wells have only produced 5 to 10% of the oil in the ground from primary production with 90 to 95% of the remains to be produced through secondary and tertiary methods. USA Superior expects a cyclic nitrogen injection program, in addition to horizontal enhancements, to be able to produce an additional 15 to 30% of the oil still left in the ground.
USA Superior Energy Holdings, Inc. is a company with excellent potential focused on applying new technologies to oil and gas fields as well as other industries. USA Superior is composed of a team of experts in their field, highly qualified with over 200 man-years of oil and gas field experience; from finding to drilling, well completion to operations and production, to problem solving, seasoned with success. Environmentally concerned and responsible, responsive to project needs and specializing in special projects, USA Superior Energy's focus has been on developing and utilizing complimentary technologies; Nitrogen (N2) and cased hole horizontal drilling. USA Superior will seek to use these technologies independently or in combination to exploit business opportunities.
Nitrogen (N2) is used to force oil out of reservoirs. It can be applied to existing reservoirs and wellbores, thus minimizing the risk of finding oil and gas. Cased Hole Horizontal Drilling (CHHD) is a new emerging technology that can significantly increase the "communication" from the wellbore to the fluids in the reservoir. With the current price environment, many existing marginal wells can be rejuvenated into very profitable wells. The corporate website is www.usa-superior.com.
This news release contains "forward-looking statements," as that term is defined in Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Statements in this press release which are not purely historical are forward-looking statements and include any statements regarding beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions regarding the future. Actual results could differ from those projected in any forward-looking statements due to numerous factors. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this news release, and the company assumes no obligation to update the forward-looking statements, or to update the reasons why actual results could differ from those projected in the forward-looking statements. Although we believe that the beliefs, plans, expectations and intentions contained in this press release are reasonable, there can be no assurance that such beliefs, plans, expectations or intentions will prove to be accurate. Investors should consult all of the information set forth herein and should also refer to the risk factors disclosure outlined in our recent current reports on Form 8-K, our annual report on Form 10-KSB, our quarterly reports on Form 10-QSB and other periodic and current reports filed from time-to-time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Contact: First Financial News Scott Crompton 561-929-0439 Email Contact: Email Contact
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Art and Remembrance intermittently offers public programs on the art and story of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz, in the form of book talks and presentations, and–more broadly–on the intersection of art, memory, healing, and social justice.
In the last few years, Art and Remembrance has offered lectures and panel discussions on "The Perils of 'Othering'," "Art, Memory, and Healing," and "Arpilleras: Fabric Art of Memory and Protest." We have also offered workshops for teachers and art therapists on various forms of fabric story art. We have partnered in these programs with the Museum at Strathmore (North Bethesda, Maryland), Facing History and Ourselves (Boston, MA), the George Washington University Art Therapy Department (Alexandria, VA), and the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College of Law, American University (Washington, DC).

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The Walking Dead (2010)
Sheriff's deputy Rick Grimes awakens from a coma to find a post-apocalyptic world dominated by flesh-eating zombies. He sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.
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The Walking Dead - Season 8 Episode List
Episode 1 - MercyRelease Date: 2017-10-22
Rick and his group, along with the Kingdom and Hilltop, have banded together to bring the fight to Negan and the Saviors.
Episode 2 - The DamnedRelease Date: 2017-10-29
The plan involving Alexandrians, Kingdommers and Hilltoppers unfolds. As Rick continues to fight, he encounters a familiar face.
Episode 3 - MonstersRelease Date: 2017-11-05
Conflict with the Saviors leads to unintended consequences for the Hilltop, the Kingdom, and Alexandria; morality proves tricky in wartime.
Episode 4 - Some GuyRelease Date: 2017-11-12
A new weapon in the Savior arsenal proves to be a giant hurdle as fighting continues between Rick's forces and those of the Saviors.
Episode 5 - The Big Scary URelease Date: 2017-11-19
A close look at Negan and the lives of the Saviors during the conflict through a familiar set of eyes.
Episode 6 - The King, the Widow, and RickRelease Date: 2017-11-26
With things looking up for Rick and the group, an argument breaks out at the Hilltop; the consequences of the decision are life versus death.
Episode 7 - Time for AfterRelease Date: 2017-12-03
Negan has to enlist the help of his lieutenants in solving a huge issue facing the Sanctuary.
Episode 8 - How It's Gotta BeRelease Date: 2017-12-10
Every story and battle comes crashing together.
Episode 9 - HonorRelease Date: 2018-02-25
Rick faces new difficulties after a battle. Meanwhile, the fight continues in other communities as core members face hard decisions.
Episode 10 - The Lost and the PlunderersRelease Date: 2018-03-04
Groups unite their forces and converge on the Hilltop; Aaron and Enid search for allies; Simon takes matters into his own hands.


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Christian Scientist or Scientologist? They are 2 different religons. A lot of Hollywood people are Scientologist. Scientology is a religon invented by L. Ron Hubbard who also wrote a lot of science fiction books. The faith/science connection with this show sounds more like Scientology than Christian Science (Christian Science does not believe in medicine. I have a friend who's father almost died because he would not seek medical treatment due to being a CS. They believe prayer and God will heal them.)Originally Posted by Kaky
However, Scientology does not believe in psychology which was much in the news last spring when Tom Cruise attacked Brooke Sheilds about her post partum depression and told her that vitamins were all she needed.
Tom Cruise and John Travolta are 2 actors that are scientologists.
I don't now a lot about either religon, but Scientology sounds more like what you are talking about than Christian Scientist given the way Hollywood all jumps on the same bandwagon at times.
I did find this:
"...the aims of Scientology are: A civilization without insanity, without criminals and without war, where the able can prosper and honest beings can have rights, and where man is free to rise to greater heights...
A "utopian society" like what the film in the hatch mentioned along with the other experiments?


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I'm on the countdown for a little R & R with the hubby for a few weeks.
I mentioned yesterday that I won't be hosting the Link Party
for 2 weeks.
"Turning the Daunting Into the Do-able" will be back up and running on
Tuesday, May 8th.
In the mean time, I have NINE amazing women (with fabulous blogs)
who will be sharing with all of you!
Friday, April 20 – Alyssa from What's Cooking, Love?
Alyssa started her blog so she could log and keep track of her recipes,
and let me tell you… she has some great recipes! Alyssa is all about
cooking easy, good food, using shortcuts and time savers.
Monday, April 23 – Lori from Bleak 2 Unique
Lori is a southern gal who loves to find trashy treasures and make them new.
I got a sneak peak of the post she is sharing with you and it is GORGEOUS!!
Bethany is a high school literature teacher during the day and a
crafter by night. She has a whimsical "twist" to her projects
that I love and I know you will too. Bethany also has a great Etsy shop!
Thursday, April 26 – Christina from I Gotta Create!
She approaches every day life with new angles of possibility.
She is the Queen of re-cycling, re-using and re-purposing!
Kirsten is an amazing baker!
I have tried several of her recipes and they have been
a hit with my family and friends.
Her blog documents all that goes down in her kitchen!
Monday, April 30 – Shari from Turnstyle Vogue Design & Styling
Her furniture re-do's are beautiful and her crafts are unique!
She has an "earthy" style and is a no-nonsense kind of gal!
You won't see any bows or frills – just gorgeous down-to-earth talent.
Wednesday, May 2 – Andrea from The Cottage Market
Andrea's blog is just "plain ol' eye candy"!
I can never get enough of the colors!
She is an amazing blogger with a heart of gold.
This woman can take a stick and make it beautiful.
Andrea also has 1 and 2 Etsy shops.
Thursday, May 3 – Tracie from Project Queen
Tracie is my sweet step-daughter who I adore. She shares her recipes
and projects at Project Queen every other Thursday.
She is a busy Mom of 4 boys (yes, my adorable grandsons). Tracie shares
what works and doesn't work with all those boys in a crazy household!
Friday, May 4 – Emily from 52 Mantels
into her projects have a WOW factor that will brighten anyone's day.
She is married to a hunky man and has an adorable little girl.
She also hosts a great party on Thursdays!
I'm blessed and honored to have these ladies sharing on Project Queen during the next few weeks.
I hope that you make them feel welcomed during my absence and send
lots of COMMENTS their way!!!


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By Rita R. Robison
It's officially fall now, and the cold winter will be here soon.
Fall and winter can bring rainstorms, below freezing temperatures, and snow storms that put a strain on your home. Before the cold weather hits, make sure your home is prepared for winter.
Kiplinger's Personal Finance offers these steps, most of which you can do yourself, that will lower your utility bills and protect your investment during the cold weather. The steps include:
- Tune up your heating system.
- Caulk around windows and doors.
- Clean the gutters.
- Turn off exterior faucets.
- Reverse your ceiling fans, if they have a reverse switch, so that the clockwise motion will produce an updraft to push down heated air from the ceiling.
- Check your roof for damaged, loose, or missing shingles.
- Extend downspouts so that water runs at least 3 to 4 feet away from the foundation.
- Drain your lawn-irrigation system.
- Mulch leaves when you mow.
- Make sure your lawn mower gas tank is empty or add a stabilizer.
- Don't prune trees or shrubs until later winter.
- Test your sump pump.
- Have your chimney swept.
For details on these steps, see "Fall and Winter Home Maintenance Checklist."
For more information for boomer consumers, see my blog The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide.


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A Reason to Panic
It happened during the summer of 1990. Georgette needed to go to the grocery store, so she asked me to keep an eye on our four children while she was gone. At that time, Harry was nine, Anna was seven, Maria was six, and Laura was three.
Georgette was gone for about an hour and a half. When she returned home, I was in the den; I was sitting at my desk and reading a book. The following conversation took place:
Georgette: Hi.
Harry: Hi.
Georgette: How did everything go?
Harry: Okay.
Georgette: Where are the kids?
Harry: Oh, I don't know.
Georgette: What do you mean you don't know?
Harry: I'm not sure where they're at. I think Harry's outside. Anna and Maria are probably in their room playing, or they might be downstairs, and I think Laura's with them.
Georgette: When is the last time you saw them (anxiety in her voice)?
Harry: I don't know, maybe an hour ago. (By this point in the conversation, she was getting really worried.)
Georgette: I can't believe you haven't seen them for more than an hour. You were supposed to be keeping an eye on them.
As she turned and rushed toward the bedrooms, she said, "I'll never trust you again!" She then frantically searched the house for our children.
It turned out that everyone was fine. They were just playing, as I had suspected. Their guardian angels had done a good job of watching over them.
A similar set of circumstances took place when I was 12 years old. One day during the summer of 1969, my mom needed to go to the grocery store, so she put me in charge of watching my eight younger brothers and sisters. About an hour after my mom left, having forgotten that I was babysitting, I grabbed the canvas bag that I used to carry newspapers, and I left the house to walk six blocks to Stafford's Dairy. That's where I picked up my bundle of newspapers every day.
On my way to the dairy, while I was walking along the shoulder of Farmington Road, unbeknownst to me, my mom drove past me. She was on her way home, and I didn't see her car. I went about my business of picking up and delivering the newspapers.
When I returned home about an hour later, my mom blew up at me. She expressed shock and outrage over my irresponsible behavior. At that time, my brother Steve was two years old, and my sister Rosemary was less than a year old. I made the mistake of arguing with my mom and attempted to excuse my behavior. I told her that I had completely forgotten that I was babysitting, and that ultimately it didn't matter because everyone was okay.
She wasn't willing to listen to what I had to say and ended up grounding me. She then spoke the same exact words my wife said to me 21 years later: "I'll never trust you again!"
So here's my question for you: Do you think the Blessed Mother told St. Joseph that she would never trust him again when she found out that he had lost track of their 12-year-old son, Jesus?
There were three primary emotions that were triggered in my mom and in Georgette when they each realized that I had neglected their children: panic, fear, and anger. All those emotions were completely justified and would be triggered in any good mother who was in the same situation.
Here's what St. Luke had to say about the incident in which Mary and Joseph lost their child:
Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the Passover. And when he was 12 years old, they went up according to custom; and when the feast was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. His parents did not know it, but supposing him to be in the company they went a day's journey, and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintances; and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, seeking him. After three days they found him in the temple, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions; and all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. And when they saw him they were astonished; and his mother said to him, "Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, your father and I have been looking for you anxiously." And he said to them, "How is it that you sought me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?" And they did not understand the saying which he spoke to them. Luke 2:41-50.
It is believed that when Mary and Joseph began their journey to return to Nazareth, they followed the custom of splitting up, with Mary traveling with the women and Joseph traveling with the men. While they both assumed that their son was traveling with the other person, Jesus slipped away and stayed behind.
It took my mom and Georgette less than five minutes to find out that their children were okay. The Mother of God suffered for three days while she and her husband frantically searched for Jesus. If she experienced any anger, it would have been directed toward herself for allowing her son to escape from her watchful eyes.
She had no way of knowing whether her son was alive or dead. Simeon had warned her that a sword would pierce her heart. Herod had ordered that Jesus be captured and killed. Her suffering was so intense that she likely did not stop to rest, which meant no sleep for three days.
Did she look to heaven and say to God the Father, I'll never trust you again? The answer to that question is no. She had complete trust in Him, but her confusion and anguish had to be extreme. There were no drugs available, such as Xanax or Zoloft, to relieve her anxiety. No Amber Alerts could be pushed out to everyone's smartphone. All she could rely on was her faith in God.
The loss of the child Jesus in the Temple is the third of The Seven Sorrows of Mary. Maybe the Mother of God really does know something about suffering. She is someone we can trust to comfort us when we are suffering. All we have to do is reach out to her in daily prayer.
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What is the easiest way to change out my fuel pump? Car runs fine but if it is driven a good distance it needs to sit for an hour or so before it will restart. I am assuming it's because the fuel pump got hot and needs time to cool down. Is there a way to go through the trunk or back seat to change it out? I'm needing to do this asap so I would appreciate an anwser at your earliest convience.
have the same problem?
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David Browning, SOM Class of 1999, returned to campus in 2010 as part of the Program on Non-Profit Organization's (PONPO's) seminar series. Browning is a senior vice president at TechnoServe, where he directs the Coffee Initiative. In 2008, TechnoServe received a four year, $47 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to work with small-scale coffee farmers in East Africa, helping them to increase their incomes by improving the quality of their produce and linking them to potential buyers. Browning discussed the highlights of the project including challenges and opportunities for smallholder farmers.
According to Browning, a range of alternatives exist when addressing international development. While much traditional development work focuses on macro-level social infrastructure, such as improvements to healthcare or educational systems, TechnoServe focuses on facilitating economic market opportunities, providing business training for rural enterprises to increase their prospects for improving their standard of living. Increases in household income flow through a society's system, providing wealth via a tax base and consumer purchasing power to support ongoing investment in social infrastructure.
TechnoServe's consultative approach to development was born in response to some of the challenges inherent in philanthropic aid in the 1960s. In 1968, founder Ed Bullard noticed that providing aid often disempowered people and communities despite good intentions. He also recognized that without rigorous oversight, philanthropic gifts could end up being diverted to the black market rather than reaching the intended beneficiaries. Concerned about the corrosive effects that this type of corruption could have on civil society, he sought to provide business training rather than donated goods, enhancing farmer incomes and empowering individuals to realize their aspirations. Over the past 40 years, the organization has worked with farmers and entrepreneurs in Africa and Latin America, leveraging this philosophy as a cost-effective means of reducing poverty and creating positive ripple effects on entire communities.
The Coffee Initiative leverages the rich agricultural productivity of East Africa's highlands, helping growers to produce high quality beans which command a premium price in export markets. TechnoServe envisions sharing the lessons learned in such "best practice" agronomy with other projects in the highlands of Latin America and Asia. TechnoServe's ultimate aim is to move five million people in East Africa out of extreme poverty within ten years. Browning made a compelling argument that TechnoServe provides an important, market-driven solution to enable its clients to create opportunities for a more stable future.
Browning previously served as TechnoServe's Regional Director for Latin America and Vice President for Business Development. Prior to joining TechnoServe in 2003, Browning worked for McKinsey and Company, a management consulting firm. Before McKinsey, Browning held a range of managerial positions in the manufacturing, petroleum, and retail industries. In addition to his M.B.A. from Yale, Browning holds a bachelor's degree in Marketing and a master's degree in advanced finance from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
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Fish the spiders out of the tub of water and get a prize.
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Active. A lot of movement may be required.
2 to 6 players
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Spiders Paint Paperclips Tub of water Wood or plastic poles with magnets String Prizes
Attach a paper clip to plastic spiders and put them in a tub of water. This can be done by threading one end of the clip through a leg or the body. Make a fishing rod by attaching a magnet to a string and tying the string to a pole. Each child get a chance to fish out a spider. Paint colored dots on the spiders with certain colors tied to special prizes. For example, spiders with white dots might get to keep the spiders. Red dots win candy bars and a very special blue dot wins the grand prize.


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Amazingly, this perfume is not very sweet ! Floral freshness, slightly metallic and sharp as a razor blade, but still sufficiently feminine. In spite of that, the right man, extrovert and between 25 - 35 could make a lasting impression wearing it. I would have, around thirty, I am sure! Now I just admire the bottle with a sigh of resignation... ;-)
There are surprisingly few reviews on BN , but most of them are positive including the only review written by a man. He calls it 'very loud' and (yet) 'very, very pretty', I find it daringly elegant. Imagine a straight guy mimicking a well dressed garconne.


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Gizmo Finally Introduces A Browser-Based Phone And Ringing Links
Skype competitor Gizmo is rolling out a Flash version of its SIP phone client. GizmoCall works entirely in the browser, much like other Flash-based phones from Ribbit (which was acquired by BT), TringMe, and others. In fact, Gizmo's in-browser phone comes about a year too late. (But it still beat Skype). Like Skype, you pay really low rates for calls to regular phones, while PC calls… Read More
TringMe Develops Its Own Flash Phone
Here come the Flash phones. Most Web-based phone services require a separate application like Skype or Gizmo. Or, like Jajah, they use the Web primarily to initiate a call on a regular phone. But Flash-based Web phones are bringing VOIP calls directly to the browser. Last month we covered Russia's Flashphone. Now another SIP-based Flash phone is coming out of India's… Read More
Flashphone: Free Browser Based Calls From Russia With Love
New SIP-based VOIP calling service Flashphone from Russian company "Innovation Systems of Communication" offers browser based free calling. Flashphone is currently in beta and has some limitations (3 calls up to 3 minutes each per day), but upon launch is promising unlimited free calls to a range of countries and services. Where Flashphone is interesting is in its interface… Read More


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Not quite Cape Frontier, but very close...
As an inhabitant of Bloemfontein I have always been intrigued by the city's British origin and in particular the old British fort that later served as HQ for the Orange Free State Artillery Corps (OVSAC). I have been re-enacting the OVSAC for some time and have now decided that my next re-enactment impression would be a Royal Artillery NCO as they would have appeared in the fort in Bloemfontein from August 1848 to February 1854.
Background History
Bloemfontein was officially founded in 1846 by Major Henry Douglas Warden as a British outpost in the Transoranje region. On 3 February 1848 Sir Harry Smith, governor of the Cape Colony and high commissioner, declared the district between the Orange and the Vaal rivers, the Orange River Sovereignty with Warden appointed British Resident.
The Boers living in the area, who had trekked from the Cape to get away from British rule were not amused and therefore they called on Commandant-General Andries Pretorius of Blood River and Congela fame to assist them to regain their independence. In June 1848 Pretorius marched with a commando of around a thousand men to Bloemfontein and evicted Major Warden and his armed escourt from their small barracks in Bloemfontein.
In August 1848 Sir Harry Smith, marched on Bloemfontein to re-instate the British Resident. On 29 August Smith, with 500 British soldiers, 250 Griquas levies and three 6-pr guns at his disposal, scattered Pretorius's dwindled force of 300-750 Boers at Boomplaats, thereby clearing the way to Bloemfontein. To protect Bloemfontein from any possible future Boers attacks a stone fort was constructed on a low hill overlooking the town. The fort was named Queen's Fort and was defended by a detachment of Royal Artillery with some 6-pr field guns and later a few antique 9-pr naval guns mounted on siege carriages.
A few years later after colonial policy changed, the region was handed back to the Boers under the Bloemfontein Convention and it became the Orange Free State Republic (1854–1902). The Union Jack was lowered under gun salute and the occupying forces marched back to the Cape Colony leaving the Boers in possession of the fort and the four old 9-pr "Warden" guns.
View of Bloemfontein from the fort during the 1860s:
It seems gunners and NCOs preferred the undress shell jacket when on service in South Africa. I will thus go this route with a peaked cap. Does anyone have info on the shoulder straps and cuffs?
RA gunner at Congela, 1842:
The RA pattern waist belt and frog is well documented in Pierre Turner's excellent Soldiers' Accoutrements of the British Army 1750-1900. So also the canteen and haversack of the period.
The cartridge pouch seems to have been a white buff pouch with a crown ornament. Does anyone have details on these?
I could only find the attached drawing:
The black pouch with gun ornament only came into use in the early 1850s and would not have made it to the furthest British outpost in SA for some time.
The cap pouch was a white buff pouch carried on the waist belt.
Pattern 1842 percussion musket artillery carbine with socket bayonet.
Any further suggestions???


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1. Causes of vaginitis
2. Symptoms of the disease
3. Diagnosis and treatment of vaginitis
vaginitis - an inflammatory disease of the vaginal mucosa.
The disease is one of the first places among the gynecological inflammatory diseases.According to statistics from vaginitis faced every third woman.The number of women suffering from this disease is growing every year.This is attributed to an increase in the number of sexually transmitted infections, immunocompromised modern women, poor environment.
Where except inflammation affects the vaginal mucosa and the mucosa of vulva (external female genitalia), develops vulvovaginitis.
vaginitis often causes disruption of the normal functioning of the female reproductive system.He often contributes to the appearance of chronic pain, menstrual irregularities, development of female infertility.
There are many factors that provoke the development of vaginitis.There are the main causes of this disease.
1.Nerazborchivost in sexual intercourse and frequent change of sexual partners.In most cases, the pathogen enters the vagina vaginitis sexually.Most often this pathology causing organisms such as gonococci, mycoplasma, chlamydia, pale treponema, trichomonas, Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
2.Podavlennoe state of the natural microflora of the vagina.This may be associated with reduced immunity women taking antibiotics and hormones, frequent stress, poor environment.In such cases, the local immune system is not able to withstand the urogenital infection.Additionally, some microorganisms vaginal natural to the female body, in certain conditions, can themselves trigger the development of vaginitis.
3.Mehanicheskoe genital mutilation.Experts suggest that carrying out certain diagnostic and treatment methods for non-compliance with aseptic technique significantly increases the risk of developing the disease.These procedures include - abortion, probing or scraping the uterine cavity, gidrotubatsiya (study of tubal patency), installation and removal of an intrauterine device.
4.Change and hormonal disorders are women.Often vaginitis appear in pregnant women with endocrine disorders, hyperactivity ovarian menopause.
Symptoms depend on the type of pathogen, stage of its development.
There is an acute and chronic vaginitis vaginitis.
In acute vaginitis in women appear specific vaginal discharge.Their color, texture depend on the type of infection that caused the disease.If the disease pathogens Trichomonas steel, isolation has a greenish-yellow color and the foam structure.Gonorrheal vaginitis is characterized by purulent, thick white-yellow discharge.When coccal bacterial form of the disease in women appear whitish-yellow abundant whites.Discharge at acute Candida vaginitis have the form of loose white flakes.On the pathogen gardnerelly point clear, having an unpleasant fishy odor, discharge.
acute course of the disease is characterized by swelling, redness, tenderness in the vagina and vulva, abundant secretions.Patients often suffer from itching, burning sensation in the site of the lesion.The symptoms of vaginitis join pain in the lower abdomen, extending to the back and a burning sensation when urinating.The body temperature is usually normal in patients, a slight increase in its happens only with deep lesions of the vaginal walls.
Chronic vaginitis has less pronounced symptoms.The main symptoms of this form of vaginitis are vaginal discharge.Sometimes a woman complains of discomfort and itching of the vagina.Chronic vaginitis has a long duration and is characterized by frequent exacerbations.Relapses occur after exposure to cold, a viral infection, alcohol abuse during pregnancy.The symptoms of vaginitis in the recurrence period is almost the same as in the acute form of the disease.
For effective treatment of vaginitis need to install in the first place, the causative agent.Diagnosis of vaginitis doctor begins with a tour of the mucous membrane of the vagina and cervix.In appearance and nature of the mucous secretions may assume, the cause of the onset of disease.To make an accurate diagnosis, laboratory tests of smears from the vagina and cervix.In the inflammatory process indicates an increased number of white blood cells in the sample smear.
Another method of diagnosis of vaginitis is a measurement of the acidity of vaginal secretions.Acidity indicates trihomoniazny or bacterial vaginitis.
more sophisticated laboratory tests used to diagnose diseases that are sexually transmitted.At the same time it conducted a separate analysis for each infection.
«gold standard" in the diagnosis of trichomoniasis and bacterial vaginosis is a method of bacterial seeding.This is the most accurate method of diagnosis is quite expensive and requires about a week time.
vaginitis treatment involves the elimination of the causes that have contributed to its development.
Thus, when the bacterial disease prescribe antibiotics.Candida vaginitis treated with anti-fungal agents.
Drug therapy involves the use of oral medications and topical drugs (suppositories, gels, creams).
In addition, in the treatment and chronic and acute vaginitis used sit-warm baths with antiseptic solutions, infusions of medicinal plants.If you have a discharge, women are advised to conduct douching with special solutions.
Along with drug therapy patients received vitamin complexes, fortifying agents.vaginitis treatment usually complete the course of drugs that restore normal vaginal microflora.Usually such products contain lactic acid bacteria.
Treatment of chronic vaginitis requires a longer time than the treatment of acute forms of the disease.In addition to medical treatment, the chronic course of the disease have been successfully applied methods of physiotherapy, spa treatment.
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text: That's What They Say Rhetoric: postive, negative, or both? By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jul 28, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:08 Calling speech "rhetoric" nowadays is often viewed as an insult, rather than as a compliment. Especially in relation to politics, "rhetoric" is used almost exclusively as a negative term. On this week's edition of "That's What They Say," Professor of English at the University of Michigan, Anne Curzan, and host Rina Miller discuss the confusion with the word "rhetoric" in public discourse. According to Curzan, the historical definition of rhetoric is "the art of using language effectively in order to persuade others." Rhetoric is viewed today as positive in some circles. It's an art form for those who can speak well, and persuade others with conviction. However, more and more this former art has been viewed in a more negative light. "By the 17th century, we start to see some use where people are using 'rhetoric' to talk about sort of overblown speech, speech that is big words, but maybe not backed up...from there it gets more and more negative, and I think now you'll hear people use it to talk about words that seem empty to them. It's just rhetoric," explains Curzan. So when did "rhetoric" become so closely, and negatively tied with politics? Anne Curzan says: Nautical expressions in everyday speech By Rina Miller & Mercedes Mejia • Jul 14, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:17 When you give someone "leeway" or tell someone to "pipe down," you may not realize you're using the language of sailors. On this week's edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller and Professor of English at the University of Michigan Anne Curzan talk about all that sailing has given to the English language. The more obvious ones for example are: "taking the wind out someone's sails, being dead in the water, rocking the boat." But, did you know the term "to bail something out" is actually a nautical expression? Marked nouns: a hit at gender equality? By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jul 7, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:00 On this week's edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller and Professor of English at the University of Michigan Anne Curzan discuss the irksome "ess" added to the end of nouns to indicate a female in words like authoress, actress and governess. These "ess" words are ubiquitous in the English language. But do we really need them? And does the distinction in fact diminish the word's meaning? This practice in linguistics is called markedness. "Markedness is about an asymmetry in, for example, a pair of words where one is a more neutral term - the dominant term, and one is marked somehow - it's specialized," says Anne Curzan. Examples include authoress versus the unmarked author, or actor versus actress. In these examples, there's arguably no difference between the marked and neutral term beside the "ess" added to indicate the noun is female. However, as Curzan explains, history has had a pejoration of the marked word due to sexism in the past. 'A' vs. 'An' is rather simple, unless you're talking unicorns By Michigan Radio Newsroom & Austin Davis • Jun 16, 2013 Listen Listening... / 2:57 Do you say "a historical event," or "an historical event?" On this week's edition of "That's What They Say," Professor Anne Curzan of the University of Michigan and host Rina Miller discuss this confusing speech convention. As Professor Curzan points out, the inclination to use either "a" or "an" depends on the pronunciation of the "h" at the beginning of "historical." "Most American English speakers pronounce 'h,'" says Curzan. "We're not 'h-droppers.' In Britain a lot of the urban varieties of British English drop the 'h,' even in words like house you get ouse. But at the beginning of words in American English we tend to pronounce the 'h'… so we'll say a history." The issue when pronouncing historical, however, is that the stress has moved to the second syllable. This makes for a lighter-sounding "h," and can change the article of the word. "For speakers with a lightly pronounced 'h,' they will say 'an historical,'" says Curzan. "It may be seen as a more proper pronunciation." How many syllables are in the word 'interesting'? By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jun 9, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:01 It's very interesting to consider some people add an extra syllable to certain words when speaking. On this week's edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller and University of Michigan Professor Anne Curzan discuss how this difference in pronunciation is fairly new - linguistically speaking. The word "interesting" is pronounced today with either three or four syllables. Anne Curzan explains the four syllable pronunciation, which often annoys the three-syllable camp, is actually the more traditional pronunciation. "If you look in the online Oxford English Dictionary…it only has a four syllable pronunciation. If you look in modern standard dictionaries from the last ten years, they will show multiple pronunciations, three and four syllables," says Curzan. The process of losing a syllable is not rare in the English language. There's no quelling semantic change By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jun 2, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:00 Don't get too flattered if an admirer calls you unique. In today's spoken language unique doesn't mean one of a kind at all. On this week's edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller and University of Michigan Professor Anne Curzan discuss the semantic changes that strengthen or weaken the meaning of words. Anne Curzan points out the strength of unique has weakened over time so that one object can be more unique than another. "For most of its history in English unique has meant one of a kind, or having no peer...if you listen to actual usage, you'll hear people say that something is more unique than something else, or really unique…at this point for a lot of speakers, unique means unusual," says Curzan. The word unique is not unique in the weakening of its definition over time. Curzan explains that the word "quell" has also undergone significant semantic change. Dust kittens, woofinpoofs or frog hair? By Michigan Radio Newsroom • May 26, 2013 Listen Listening... / 2:44 On this week's edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller and University of Michigan Professor Anne Curzan revisit regional variations in spoken English and offer up even more fun and often puzzling expressions. "For people who are from parts of New York or New Jersey, they will stand on line rather than in line...and for the people who say that makes no sense, the answer is that prepositions don't always make sense and this is just regional variation," says Curzan. Another expression that may not make sense to most of us is: drinking a cabinet. "If you're from Rhode Island you can drink a cabinet…in Rhode Island, a cabinet is a milkshake," Curzan explains. Okay, so what to you call those balls of dust hiding underneath the bed? Dust bunnies or woofinpoofs? The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) has documented over 170 different variations for those balls of lint. And, some variations take on hilarious names. Unspoken grammar rules, and the fight against green squiggly lines By Michigan Radio Newsroom • May 19, 2013 Listen Listening... / 2:55 For most of us, the Microsoft Word spell checker is a godsend. It helps correct our failed attempt for spelling words like vinaigrette or renaissance. However, Word's grammar checker is a whole different story. Mostly because of that cursed green squiggly line under a word that signals we've made a grammar error. One of the most frequent and frustrating corrections involves the correct use of that or which. University of Michigan Professor of English Anne Curzan and host Rina Miller discuss these unspoken grammar rule snafus on this edition of "That's What They Say." "The grammar checker is trying to enforce a rule about that and which, which English speakers have never followed, as far as we can tell," says Curzan. The comma problem By Rina Miller • May 12, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:08 The comma may be a very small punctuation mark, but people often have very strong feelings about how it should, and should not be used. On this edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller and University of Michigan Professor Anne Curzan discuss the Oxford comma, semicolons and breaking rules. Listen to the full segment above. Graduate, then commence onward By Michigan Radio Newsroom • May 5, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:04 Where are you graduating from? Or are you just graduating? On this edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller and Professor Anne Curzan discuss the mishaps with the proper use of "graduation." There's been a good amount of change around the verb graduate, explains Curzan. "It used to be that the University was supposed to graduate you...in the nineteenth century we started to get that students could graduate from the university." Before you graduate from a university, or just graduate, you've got to matriculate. But what does matriculation actually mean? "Matriculation technically means, 'to enroll in or at,' and you'll often see it used that way, but there appears to be some confusion. People sometimes use matriculate to mean graduate," says Curzan. Redundancies in everyday speech By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Apr 21, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:04 If a gift is "inherently free," isn't it just free? On this edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller and Professor Anne Curzan discuss those often annoying redundancies in the English language. Other redundancies include the clunky "hot-water heater" in your basement, or perhaps that "plan going forward" that you've been anticipating. It's obvious that this trait in the English language just isn't logical, and Anne Curzan agrees. "They aren't logical, and I'm not going to sit here and make an argument that they are logical," explains Curzan. "But what I am going to say is that languages aren't always logical, that I think we sometimes think they should be completely logical. But human languages are sometimes logical, and sometimes not." So we know that our language is rife with illogical redundancies in both grammar and speech, but can these redundancies actually be helpful? Are you a 'pop' or 'soda' person? By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Apr 14, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:11 Maybe you're the type that likes both in conjunction, or perhaps not at all. On this edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller and Professor Anne Curzan talk about variations of speech based on region, called distinctive regionalisms, and how the lines between these colloquial regions aren't as blurred as you may think. Perhaps the most noticeable of these distinctive regionalisms, especially for Michiganders, regards the phrasing we use when referring to soft drinks. Here in the Midwest, a lot of people say "pop," explains Curzan. "A lot of the rest of the country says 'soda.' You're going to find that on the East Coast and on the West Coast." But distinctive regionalisms don't stop at fizzy beverages. Based on where you're from, telling time may even be different. According to Curzan, "New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware: we're the "quarter-of" speakers. The "quarter-till" speakers: West Virginia, western Virginia, North Carolina, parts of Georgia." When dealing with big meat and veggie filled sandwiches, "much of the U.S. calls that a sub," explains Curzan. "But in New England, it's a 'grinder.' In much of New York and New Jersey, it's a 'hoagie,' or a 'hero' in Pennsylvania." Amid all these different variations, a distinctive regionalism dictionary, if one exists, might be needed. Enormous ambiguity when using 'enormous' By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Apr 7, 2013 Listen Listening... / 2:54 In talking about size, should one use "enormity," or "enormous"? For most of us, these two words used to describe the large scope of a situation seem synonymous. On this edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller discusses with Professor Anne Curzan how these supposed synonyms differ in their meanings. So if "enormity" and "enormous" are not synonymous, can "enormity" still be used to describe a big problem? According to Curzan, "You can, if you use 'enormity' to describe a problem, and are making some sort of moral judgment about it. It's another thing if you're talking about a topic or a building, and you're talking about size without making a moral judgment." It comes down to the enormity of the moral implications of a situation, versus the enormousness, or the size or scope of the situation itself. The two words, however, have the same linguistic roots, and both definitions have remained similar throughout history. "Enormity" and "enormousness," says Curzan, go back to the same root in Latin, meaning "unusual." "And when both words come into English in about the 16th century, they refer to something outside the ordinary," Curzan explains. The modern distinction then comes from the current usage of the two words, right? No French needed to pronounce 'fiancée' By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Mar 31, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:06 We've all been there: You come across a word in a written text and realize, to your embarrassment, that you haven't a clue how to pronounce it. On this edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller and Professor Anne Curzan discuss why the pronunciations of those tricky little words cause us the most strife. What should you do when you come across one of these words? As Anne Curzan did when she encountered with the word "islet" during one of her lectures at the University of Michigan, just ask the audience. "So I get up to the word, and I think, 'Well I could just mumble it or something,' but then I think, 'Well that's not appropriate.' So then I turn to the class and I say, 'How do you all pronounce that word?' And they say, 'We don't.'" Why do we seldom use the word 'seldom?' By Mercedes Mejia • Mar 24, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:00 On this week's edition of "That's What They Say," we explore why the word seldom is fading from use. Host Rina Miller talks with Professor Anne Curzan of the University of Michigan. Language change is similar to fashion trends, says Curzan. And it seems the use of "almost never" is replacing the word seldom. "When you think about it, 'almost never' is not a very efficient replacement for 'seldom,' but it's what came into fashion, and 'seldom' is out of fashion and 'infrequently' had its moment of fashion," Curzan says. Analogy is another reason for language change. For example, Curzan says "oxen" will most likely change to "oxes" because other nouns take "s" and through analogy people will start to use "s" to make ox plural. Listen to the full interview above. Spelling bees just got a whole lot easier: simplified spelling By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Mar 17, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:04 On this week's edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller discusses our resistance to change the spelling of certain English-language words with Professor Anne Curzan of the University of Michigan. Curzan says that this resistance comes hand-in-hand with complacence. "In the end, people are quite attached to the spellings that they know. They've spent a lot of time learning those spellings, and we're used to the way they look," says Curzan. So when it's suggested that "have" drop the e to "hav," and that "dogs" be spelled phonetically, "dogz," our comfort level drops out of equilibrium. But is there a happy medium between maintaining our comfy spelling rules and making spelling in English simpler? According to Curzan, such conventions have already been successfully implemented. "Noah Webster, when he created his American Dictionary in the early 19th Century, he believed we should have an American language," explains Curzan, "and part of having an American language was having American spelling that would be different from British spelling." You're gonna wanna see this... By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Mar 10, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:00 This time on "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller and University of Michigan Professor Anne Curzan discuss the colloquial "gonna" and "wanna," and how these words are not just mispronunciations of their original verbs, but are developing their own distinct meanings. "If you think about the verb 'go' as a main verb, it has directionality to it. So I could say 'I'm going to swim,' which would imply some kind of direction," explains Curzan. "But if I say 'I'm gonna swim,' that means at some point in the future, I'm gonna swim." Curzan says that this evolution of the meaning of the verbs is due to the lack of definitive future-tense construction in the English language. "Interestingly in English, some people would say that we don't have future-tense because we only have one tense marker, which is 'ed' for the past-tense. To talk about the future, we use these little auxiliary verbs like 'will,' which also used to be a main verb. Now 'go' is becoming an auxiliary verb. So this is now one of the ways we talk about the future," Curzan says. One man's 'arse' is another man's 'ass': taboo words and profanities By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Mar 3, 2013 Listen Listening... / 2:54 Let's face it: profanities and taboo words are sometimes appropriate (and maybe even fun) to use. But does the same level of use apply to politicians or others constantly in the media spotlight? On this week's edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller discusses the convention of taboo words and profanities in everyday language with Professor Anne Curzan, specifically in response to John Boehner's recent remarks about the Senate. Quote from Boehner: "We have moved the bill in the House twice. We should not have to move a third bill, before the Senate gets off their ass and begins to do something." The word "ass" is usually not spoken in front of the public eye; it's taboo. Following Boehner's statement, however, this word is coming out of the woodwork, as Anne Curzan describes. "...you could sense that people were interested in what Boehner said, but also in how he said it. They were interested in that word." Is it more acceptable than other profanities used by past politicians? "When Vice President Joe Biden, and Vice President Dick Cheney both dropped 'f-bombs' in fairly public places, everybody referred to it as the 'f-word.' Nobody wanted to say the word, because that's a taboo word that we don't say," explains Curzan. Let the creation of 'sniglets' begin! By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Feb 24, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:06 With the amount of words used everyday for description and communication, it's difficult to believe that there are holes in our vocabulary where certain real events, actions or items cannot be described. On this edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller discusses these "lexical gaps" with Professor Anne Curzan of the University of Michigan. "It [lexical gap] is a space in the lexicon, in the vocabulary, where we don't have one word to describe something. So, for example, we don't have one word in English to talk about 'spicy-hot.' If you say 'The dish is hot,' people will say, 'Is it spicy-hot, or hot-hot, or temperature-hot?' Because 'hot' is ambiguous, we don't have a word that differentiates," says Curzan. Other such lexical gaps which cause confusion in every day language include the ambiguity behind what to call the first decade of the 21st century, or a male-lover. Sometimes, the only way to overcome this gap is to create a "sniglet," as Anne Curzan explains. "Rich Hall, who was a comedian on HBO's Not Necessarily the News, came up with the word 'sniglet,' which was a word that should be a word, and should be in the dictionary. And he came up with lots of 'sniglets' including 'musquirt,' which is the liquid in the mustard bottle that comes out before the mustard does." --Austin Davis, Michigan Radio Newsroom Politeness conventions By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Feb 17, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:00 We've all experienced it: we're out at a restaurant, or a grocery store, and after we're done with our meal or our shopping we give the clerk a cordial "thank you," only to receive a response of "no problem." On this edition of "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller talks politeness conventions with Professor Anne Curzan of the University of Michigan. "'No problem' as a response to 'thank you' seems to start in the mid-twentieth century," explains Curzan. "There are people who think that's rude...I think what we're seeing here is a change in politeness conventions, where people are trying to indicate that 'You weren't imposing on me, it was no problem.' Whereas if you say 'You're welcome,' there's actually an indication that 'It was an imposition, but I was happy to do it.'" In addition to the evolvement of politeness conventions, there have also been developments in what host Rina Miller calls "the language of courtesy," such as introductions like "Pleased to meet you," and "How do you do?" If you 'fizzle,' at least be smooth about it By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Feb 10, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:01 On this week's "That's What They Say," host Rina Miller speaks with Professor Anne Curzan from the University of Michigan about the "adorkable" slang of today's college students. One can surmise the meaning of "adorkable" as a combination of "adorable" and "dork." Curzan says that this process of blending words to fill another undefined meaning is fairly common. "It describes something that we didn't know we needed to describe until we had this word, and then suddenly it fills this need. This process of blending, where we take two words and "smush" them together, is pretty common in slang," says Curzan. Suddenly with this process of blending, any action suddenly has a definitive word to go with it, as Curzan explains. "This week, students taught me the word 'hangry' which they said is when you're so hungry that you get really cranky and angry." Stand by your gooma By Michigan Radio Newsroom & Michigan Radio Newsroom • Feb 3, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:09 On this week's "That's What They Say," Michigan Radio's Rina Miller and English Professor Anne Curzan discuss how the misinterpretation of older words and their meanings led to the modern pronunciations and definitions of words such as "woodchuck" and "bridegroom." "Linguists call that 'folk etymology,'" says Curzan. "Where speakers come up with an etymology on their own, and then what they think the etymology is affects the shape of the word." One such example is the word "bridegroom." "It was not always 'groom', it was actually in Old English a 'bridegoom', and 'goom', or 'gooma', was an Old English word for 'man.' So it was the 'bride's man,'" says Curzan. Curzan also discusses the mystery of the origin of popular sayings, such as "the whole nine yards" and "rule of thumb." Persnickety, and other pronunciation problems By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jan 27, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:02 This week on "That's What They Say" Michigan Radio's Rina Miller and English Professor Anne Curzan discuss certain words that give people problems with pronunciation. Everyone's favorite word when being detailed, "persnickety" was originally spelled and pronounced "pernickety." "'Pernickety' goes back to 1808, and by 1892 we have evidence of speakers putting in the 's' and saying 'persnickety,'" says Curzan. Other words that give people problems, such as "nuclear", are usually mispronounced through analogy of other words that sound similar. "Speakers are making 'nuclear' sound more like words such as 'particular', 'circular', 'vascular', 'molecular'. We have a lot of those 'cular' words, not a lot of words that end with 'clear,'" she says. -Austin Davis, Michigan Radio Newsroom Is 'actually' the new 'like?' By Michigan Radio Newsroom • Jan 20, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:01 This week on "That's What They Say," Michigan Radio's Rina Miller and English Professor Anne Curzan discuss the surging use of the word "actually" in recent years, and whether or not it has become the new "like." Now part of everyday speech, Anne Curzan says the word "actually" in fact came to the forefront of American speech only just in the past century. "It turns out the word 'actually' has more than doubled in usage over the 20th century." But in recent years, the spoken use of "actually" has become even more pronounced. "Between 1990 and today, so a little over 20 years, 'actually' has tippled its usage in spoken language, so it's no wonder that we're noticing it, and feeling like its everywhere," she says. That's What They Say: Towards and anyways By Rina Miller • Jan 9, 2013 Listen Listening... / 3:06 interview This time on "That's What They Say" Michigan Radio's Rina Miller and English Professor Anne Curzan discuss adding an 's' to words like 'anyway' and 'toward.' Miller says one of her pet peeves is adding an 's' to words like backward, forward and toward, but Curzan says it is okay to do so. "The toward/towards is mostly a British/American distinction. Brits will tend to use the 's', 'towards,' Americans no 's', 'toward.'" Curzan says. "But at this point we are seeing the British 'towards' in a lot of American writing." Yet a lot of people cringe at the word "anyways." Is that a word? Curzan says yes. "The word actually goes pretty far back in English, used slightly differently. Used in a way that someone might say, 'if he is in anyways involved,' it's more recently that people use anyways in a conjuctive role, to mean 'in any case,' and that's the one that no one likes," Curzan says. That's What They Say: Dialect Society chooses its words of the year By Rina Miller • Jan 6, 2013 For this week's edition of "That's What They Say," University of Michigan Professor Anne Curzan spoke with us from Boston, where she was attending the American Dialect Society's annual meeting, whose 200 members voted on their "Word of the Year." Rina Miller: So the winner is? The words of the holidays By Rina Miller • Dec 23, 2012 Listen Listening... / 2:52 That's What They Say interview for 12/23/12 This week on That's What They Say, Anne Curzan, English professor of the University of Michigan and Weekend Edition host Rina Miller discuss the origins of holiday words. Here are a few: Mistletoe used to be called "mistleton." "Ton" meant "twig" in old English. The "yule" in the word "yuletide" refers to Christmas or the months of December and January, and "tide" means "a period or extent of time." Therefore, "yuletide" means the "time of Christmas." And the "nog" in egg nog refers to strong ale. Curzan and Miller also discuss how to pronounce the word "poinsettia" and Curzan explains that Santa's reindeer named vixen is actually names after a female fox or a sexy woman. Fan-freaking-tastic By Rina Miller • Dec 16, 2012 Listen Listening... / 3:03 That's What They Say interview for 12/15/12 This week on That's What They Say, Anne Curzan, English professor of the University of Michigan and Weekend Edition host Rina Miller discuss the moving 'n' and infixing words. The moving 'n' is usually found in words like "a whole nother." Curzan says "nother" is a lot older than some may think. "You can find in English back in the 14th century in expressions like 'no nother' which would have meant 'no other'," Curzan says. But "a whole nother" isn't the only example of the moving 'n'. "For example an 'apron' used to be a 'napron'," Curzan says. "Napron is related to napkin. But if you say napron, you can reinterpret that as an napron, an apron." Curzan and Miller also discuss the idea of infixing with words like "fan-freaking-tastic" and "absa-freaking-lutely." There must be rules By Mercedes Mejia & Rina Miller • Dec 9, 2012 Listen Listening... / 3:00 The English language is constantly changing. How do English teachers keep up? Michigan Radio's Rina Miller recently got a letter from a listener, Bill, from Eaton Rapids who asks why there isn't a difference between researching English change and teaching language usage. "I think there is a difference," said Anne Curzan, a professor of English at the University of Michigan who specializes in linguistics. She believes teachers can teach the standard language usage and talk about language change with their students. "And I think maybe one way to help think about this, is I often talk about it as a repertoire, and the bigger the repertoire we have as speakers and writers, the more versatile we are. So what I'm trying to do is to make sure that students have in that repertoire the standard, formal written variety and perhaps the formal spoken variety so they can use it when they need to or want to. But if they have other varieties in there too, all the better," Curzan said. Listen to the full interview above to hear why it's okay to use ain't in writing. Also, Curzan explains how people in the 19th century "hated" the English passive progressive construction, "the house is being built," but now it is completely standard. An example of why people should not be too quick to judge a certain form, as it might become popular years from now. A lesson on retronyms By Mercedes Mejia & Rina Miller • Dec 2, 2012 Merriam Websters's definition of retronym is a term consisting of a noun and a modifier which specifies the original meaning of the noun. "Film camera" is a retronym. Every Sunday, Michigan Radio's Rina Miller talks with Anne Curzan a professor of English at the University of Michigan, specializing in linguistics. In many cases the retronym is formed in response to technological advances. "We now specify a land line because when you say phone people may assume it's a cell phone and we need to now, talking about a phone, say a land line," said Curzan. Pages« first ‹ previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 next › last »


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Cell phones are an invaluable technology that has fundamentally changed the way we communicate and get information. But as with anything good, too much of it can lead to problems. A growing body of research is highlighting the various drawbacks of overusing cell phones and other mobile devices, including—ironically—the fact that all this communication technology is actually pulling us farther apart and negatively affecting our interpersonal relationships.

One increasingly-talked-about downside to constantly being attached to a cell phone is phubbing, or "phone snubbing," a trend that is unfortunately on the rise. Phubbing is basically defined as looking at a cell phone rather than interacting with the person you are with, and research shows that it can damage your relationship with your romantic partner and may also harm your bond with your kids.

Overusing cell phones and cell phone addiction are the compulsive companions to phubbing, and like phubbing, they are increasingly becoming problems for more and more people. Being constantly attached to our cell phones is taking a toll, not just on our relationships but on our mental and emotional well-being, affecting our overall health.

For instance, cell phone use while driving has become a growing danger: Texting and cell phone use have been shown to dramatically increase the chances of motor vehicle accidents leading to injury and even death. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), about 660,000 drivers are using cell phones or other electronic devices while driving at any given moment in the day in the U.S., and in 2012, driver distraction led to 3,328 people being killed and 421,000 people being wounded in crashes.

Why Phubbing and Using Your Phone Too Much Makes You Less Connected

Doing this once in a while is unlikely to be harmful (after all, we all need to occasionally wait for an important email from work or answer a text from a friend about something urgent or timely). But the problem occurs when you check your texts and email every few minutes or several times an hour, and all these "just gonna check my messages" moments add up to a large amount of time spent on the phone. Before you know it or realize it, you might be using a good chunk of the time you're supposed to be spending with your partner or children focusing on your phone instead of on your family.

And considering how busy families are today, all the time we spend on phones is a heavy price to pay. "The more precious your time is, the more you need to be vigilant about how you spend it," says James A. Roberts, PhD, professor of marketing at Baylor University and the author of Too Much of a Good Thing: Are You Addicted to Your Cell Phone? His advice: We have to set spouse-to-spouse or parent-to-child time that's free of cell phones.

When you are with someone and he is constantly checking, scrolling, texting, or engaged with the cell phone in his hand, it can feel like you are not really fully with that person. "When you have a conversation, it sends a clear message that you are playing second fiddle," says Dr. Roberts.

Not only is this behavior rude, but it can damage the quality of that relationship. Dr. Roberts' study on phubbing, conducted at the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University, in Waco, Texas, found that nearly half the adults surveyed reported being phubbed by their partner, more than a third said that they felt depression as a result of this behavior, and almost a quarter said that it caused conflict in their relationships. "Relationships are the cornerstone of our happiness," says Dr. Roberts. "Phubbing makes us feel bad, but even worse, it leads to unhappiness and depression."

There's even an evolutionary explanation for why we feel so uncomfortable when we're with someone who's not fully there with us in that moment. "It's a violation of social conditioning," says David Greenfield, PhD, founder of The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction and an assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, in Farmington, Connecticut, "It's an uncomfortable feeling when behavior is not predictable. When someone is in a room with us and is on the phone, we feel like we are in an unsafe situation on a primitive level."

The Cost of Overusing Your Cell Phone and Phubbing

It takes away from other things. We have enough things that interfere with our family time—busy work schedules, homework, extracurricular activities. Research shows that many people often lose track of time when they're on their cell phones (understandable considering how many things we can do on these devices, from checking news and sports scores to seeing what friends are posting on social media sites, not to mention getting email and texts). When you spend time on the phone, you have that much less time to spend fully engaging and giving your attention to your spouse and kids.

It is addictive. Research shows that smartphones are powerful mind- and mood-altering devices that can be as addictive as, say, gambling.

It's contagious. When people are phubbed, they tend to pull out their own phones in response. "It's cellularitis—a socially transmitted disease," says Dr. Roberts. "When other people use their cell phones, we do it too in self-defense."

It's just plain rude. Phubbing and pulling out your cell phone at the dinner table or in the middle of a conversation is just bad cell phone etiquette. Unless there's an urgent matter you need to hear about, there is no reason to keep your phone at hand when you are with other people.

Kids will learn from your cell phone behavior. The other thing to consider when you're a parent who is constantly connected to her phone is the fact that kids learn by watching what we do. Even young children, more of whom are getting cell phones at younger ages, are likely to pick up on the way a parent might engage in phubbing and adopt that behavior.

It's changing the way we think. Cell phones have changed the way we interact with each other and have cut down the time we may spend being creative, says Dr. Greenfield. Constant screen use in kids is especially worrisome because all that screen time is changing the way they handle boredom and making it less likely that they'll find time to do activities that encourage them to exercise creativity and use their imagination.

The time you spend comes at a great cost. For every minute of time spent online, there is a cost: The negative impact of having less time for important things in your life such as sleep, leisure time, work, and family time, says Dr. Greenfield.

It's easy to lose track of time. How many of us have ever been on the phone, checking social media posts or scanning headlines or playing a fun game and then realized later that we'd spent much more time than we had planned? "In every lecture in which I've asked people in the room if they've ever lost track of time when online, eighty to ninety percent of the people admitted doing so," says Dr. Greenfield.

Your interaction with your spouse or child is not as good as you may think. We may picture ourselves as multitasking machines, doing a good job with everything all at the same time. But what we may not realize is that attention has limited capacity, says Dr. Greenfield. When you're with someone and you're on the phone at the same time, you are where the phone is—in the virtual world. "It's not quantity; it's quality," says Dr. Greenfield."If you're with your child for five hours but you are on the phone constantly during that time, it's not a really spending time with her." And kids agree: An annual survey conducted by the children's magazine Highlights found that 62 percent of kids aged 6 to 12 said their parents are distracted when trying to talk to them, with cell phone use being the top culprit. Think about how it feels to be ignored—it's certainly not a feeling you'd wish on your children, whether they're performing in a play or simply trying to get your attention.

Strategies to Try to Keep Phubbing in Check

Establish a rule in your house that there will be no using phones (or emailing or posting to social media, etc.) after a certain time at night.

Keep dinnertime free of cell phones, and use it as an opportunity to reconnect with each other and talk about your day.

Use an app to monitor how much your kids use their phones, and use it to track your own use.

Keep time with your spouse—like date night or catching up on the day before bed—free of cell phones.

If you feel like you're having a hard time not using the phone constantly, consider seeking help. Research shows that cell phone addiction is real, and if you feel that you don't have control, talk to a therapist who specializes in addiction counseling.


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The ten best anime voice actors helped give life to your favorite animated characters. Many of these individuals are American actors who provide English dubs, while others are original Japanese voice actors.
Steven Blum. Blum is an American anime voice actor known for voicing cool, edgy characters, such as Spike Spiegel from "Cowboy Bebop" and Mugen from "Samurai Champloo." Hey also voiced TOM, the robotic host of Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block.
Megumi Hayashibara. This Japanese voice actress took on the role of Rei Ayanami in "Neon Genesis Evangelion," Lina Inverse in "Slayers" and "Faye Valentine in "Cowboy Bebop." She is also a singer and lyricist, often lending her voice to anime theme songs.
Vic Mignogna. You can hear Vic Mignogna's vocal work in the English dubs of "Full Metal Panic!" and "D.N. Angel." However, he is most well-known for playing Edward Elric, the protagonist of "Full Metal Alchemist."
Justin Cook. This anime voice actor provided vocals for characters such as Yusuke Urameshi, the protagonist of "Yu Yu Hakusho," and Raditz, the first major antagonist of "Dragon Ball Z." He also served as a producer for numerous anime series.
Crispin Freeman. Alucard, the vicious protagonist of "Hellsing," got his sinister voice from this anime voice actor. Freeman also provided the voice of Zelgadis in the English version of "Slayers."
Tiffany Grant. If you want to hear his anime voice actress's work, check out the psychological thriller "Neon Genesis Evangelion." She lends her voice to Asuka Langley Soryu, a temperamental pilot.
Eric Vale. Vale voiced Trunks, the futuristic hero from "Dragon Ball Z," and Sanji, the violent cook in "One Piece." He was also the head writer for numerous anime titles, such as "Strike Witches" and "Initial D: Fourth Stage."
Ikue Ohtani. Ohtani is the Japanese voice actress who is famous for voicing Pikachu, the electric hero of the "Pokemon" series. She also voiced other minor characters throughout the show.
Yuri Lowenthal. Lowenthal may be best known for his role as Sasuke Uchiha, a major character in the "Naruto" series. In addition to anime voice acting, he also uses his vocal talent in various American animated series, such as "Ben 10."
Toshiyuki Morikawa. From Kimimaro in "Naruto" to "Eneru in "One Piece," this Japanese voice actor has undertaken a large number of vocal roles. He also provided the voice of Sephiroth in "Final Fantasy VII Advent Children."


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One special aspect of the Great Walk of Africa is that it is the only "boots on the ground" safari allowed in Tsavo National Park. It was just us: eight tourists, our guide (Alex), the walk's founder (Iain Allen), and four Samburu protectors versus the entire wild world of remote Kenya. Our one hundred mile walk took us for four days along the final section of the muddy-brown Tsavo River to where it joins the Athi River to become the wider, emerald-green Galana River for another six days' walking parallel to the 40-mile Yatta Escarpment to the park's east entrance.
Much of what is possible in that place is defined by the rivers. Animals from the nykaa (meaning "scrubland"—and the source of the name Tanganikya) make regular pilgrimages to the water slake their thirst.
The predators are well-aware of this and often linger in the salt bush and other greenery edging the river, hoping for good hunting.
When startled, then, the animals know to run away from the river. And, of course, the rivers are populated by all manner of water-based creatures—including crocodiles and hippos.
To make the journey even more wild, Iain Allen and his Samburu headman, Mohammed (who has led each of the 65 Great Walks since they started in 1997), established much of the route on the north side of the Galana River, where there was no vehicle traffic. At all. Just us.
Heaven, I believe, is to be so remote that you can hear the sound of your own heartbeat.
Just one thing: it meant fording the river twice a day, once to begin the day's hike, and then, at the end, to get back to camp!
In Africa, more so than here in my everyday world, things do lurk in the rivers. The way to ford the river, Iain taught us, was not to behave like a baboon. Baboons cross rivers by hopping from rock to rock. Hungry crocodiles know this, and are very adept at snatching them (and anyone acting like them—such as unwitting tourists) from midair. The crotchety, grumpy, feisty—and highly unpredictable—hippos, too, tend to turn on anyone who has the audacity to invade their territory. Actually, in all the Great Walks, hippos have posed the gravest dangers, and so we were all careful to obey when we encountered them.
So, in order to safely ford a river in Africa, Iain said, it's best to behave like an elephant.
It's darn near impossible to take down an elephant. Crocs know this, and so they don't even try. Hippos, too. (Or so we were told.) This meant that every day we bared our soles, put on our river shoes, bunched together, and galumphed across as one, massive, elephantine blob.
The good news: no one got eaten!
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THE Scottish Government will be given almost £4 million to help households and businesses affected by last weekend's flooding, it has been announced.
It is part of a £50m UK-wide fund announced by Chancellor George Osborne for those affected by the recent weather.
Communities in the Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Tayside and Moray were among those hardest hit by Storm Desmond.
Scottish Secretary David Mundell confirmed Scotland would receive £3.94m, under the terms of the Barnett Formula.
About 600 people were evacuated from their homes in Hawick as the River Teviot burst its banks on Saturday, with Peebles, Selkirk, Coldstream, Jedburgh and Kelso also hit.
The Met Office said that about 100mm of rain fell in the area throughout Friday and Saturday.
In Dumfries, businesses were flooded when the River Nith flowed on to the Whitesands. The effects of the storm were also felt in Newcastleton, Langholm, Annandale and Eskdale, along with Bridge of Allan and Aberfoyle.
Hawick provost Stuart Marshall said that the clean-up operation in the Borders town is likely to take several months.
He welcomed the new funding, which he said should go towards helping local families and businesses and improving temporary flood defences.
Hawick has been earmarked for a major flood prevention scheme – but estimates suggest the £30m project will not be in place for up to six years.
Mr Marshall said: "There has been extensive damage and many people have not yet been able to return to their homes.
"To make matters worse, many of the householders have been unable to insure their homes after a major flood in 2005."
He added that the town has 9,000 sandbags at the ready if the deluge returns.
A Scottish Government spokesman said: "Ministers have triggered the Bellwin Scheme, which offers emergency financial assistance to councils, and it is up to individual councils to make a claim.
"Hundreds of homes across Scotland have already benefited from stronger flooding protection through the annual provision the Scottish Government has made available of £42m for investment for flooding in the local authority finance settlement."


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Even the higher end homes began to be made with these carpeted staircases and the need for the craftsmen became less and less. Cost began to win out over craftsmanship, and the savings was passed on to the homeowner.
Adding a hardwood staircase may be slightly more expensive than a carpeted staircase, but the value it adds to a home is almost priceless. If redesigning an existing home, do not hesitate to consider an upgrade for the stairs, if new construction then there really is no other choice than a well made decorative staircase.
However as home restoration and redesign has picked up as a hobby and a way to make a living, there has been a return to the love of hardwood flooring and staircases. Many a home designer has pulled back old worn out carpet to find beautiful wood floors. These discoveries have begun a trend to have the decorative hardwood staircases restored instead of again being covered with carpet.


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Reviewed By Walter K (Cathedral City, CA) Reviewed for a 2006 Jeep Grand Cherokee —1/2/2010 4:44 PM
The Hitch Step is truly a nice step. The step surface is a non slip surface and the step is made from aluminun so it is very light but strong. The only modification I made was to file out the slot where the hitch pin goes through because the step did not slide into my receiver as far as it should and was not tight. After I was done I spray painted the outside surface and the edge black to match our 2006 Grand Cherokee and it looks great. Good work. Keep it up. Walter British Columbia, Canada


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"I always feel like somebody's watching me… " (Rockwell)
Hey Folks,
I often get questions about what should and shouldn't get shredded…
Actually, I get that question on a daily basis!
It's funny that sometimes customers will come in for shredding down at our facility and actually make the excuse that the stuff they are shredding isn't even that important – However they still want to watch and make sure it all gets shredded.
And for sure, not everything that is or should be shredded is just old tax returns, utility bills, bank statements, and cancelled checks.
We see a lot of old business cards, holiday cards, and the mailing addresses ripped off of old magazines.
Perhaps this is where customers get the notion that the stuff they are shredding isn't all that important.
First of all, I don't judge what my customers do and don't deem important enough to shred.
I for one shred everything. I even had a customer that brought in multiple boxes of old Playboys for shredding… Go Figure!
Second of all, there's a very good reason to make sure everything that has your name plus any sort of contact information should be properly destroyed…
That reason is called Social Engineering.
You may or may not have heard of social engineering.
… But is goes something like this:
Let's say you throw away a bunch of old copies of Business Week or your subscription to the Wall Street Journal.
And let's say that this old magazine or newspaper has your name and address – Sometimes they'll even have your phone number listed.
Now, let's say some Jerk finds your old magazine or newspaper, with your contact information, and decides to give you a friendly reminder call…
Maybe he'll say that your subscription is about to expire and if you would like to provide your credit card information he can continue sending your subscription without interruption.
Maybe he'll be so cunning as to ask if you want to extend the subscription for another year for only 50% more. Or maybe he'll even throw in the free football phone!
And on top of everything, there's a good chance you'll hastily pull out your credit card and provide him exactly everything he needs in order to make the charge.
If this Jerk is smart, and you're lucky, he'll only make a small charge on your credit card so you won't even know you've been scammed.
If you're unlucky, he'll run up your credit card so there will be no doubt you're the victim of I.D. Fraud.
Or perhaps, he will just put a small charge on your card and then sell the information to someone in Nigeria who will max it out.
Don't think these Jerks exist?
… Here's one…
His name is Kevin Mitnick and apparently his biggest problem is "Staying Legal." Here's the full article.
This guy spent 5 years in the hoosegow for calling up employees of various large companies such as Novell, Motorola, and Nokia and using his "schmoozing" skills "to get source code and other sensitive information."
To good news is that this guy uses his infamous reputation to make a living as a consultant, speaker, and author (sarcastic tone).
Here's the deal…
This guy was able to talk his way into some pretty sensitive information from people who really should have known better.
I guarantee there are loads of just as sophisticated people out there trying to pry you from your hard earned money. All they have to do is get enough contact information, with just enough relevant personal information, in order to sound believable… and then it's just a matter of making enough phone calls.
Just this year I had someone from a cell phone company call me to settle a small bill (about $35) that supposedly was overdue. I told them to send me a bill. They wouldn't until I confirmed some more personal information. I refused and they got upset and eventually hung up – never to call back.
So indeed, these jerks are out there (it's not always a "he"; in my "phone company call," it was a "she").
But there are some precautions you can take. In a recent blog, I listed 10 Identity Fraud Prevention Tips…
Tip "Two" specifically discusses how not to fall victim to Social Engineering.
Another good tip is to shred anything that may contain your personal information… even if at first glance it may seem silly or paranoid.
In the end, I won't think any less of you for bringing in as much as you see fit to ensure you remain free from I.D. Fraud.
Actually… Welcome to my world of Paper Shredding Paranoia!
Until next time…
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by Ron Joseph
January, 2003
Curing time for polyurethane coated floors
Q. We've just installed new oak flooring that has been coated, in situ, with a non-water based polyurethane finish (not stained). Our contractor recommended that no furniture be placed on it for four days after the final coat, and were surprised at his recommendation that no carpets (Oriental wool carpets) be placed on it for four weeks. Are these times reasonable?
A.Thanks for your email. Frankly, I too am surprised at the four week recommendation. Basically, you want to wait until all the solvents have evaporated from the coating. The acutal time for full drying and cure changes on a case-by-case basis. However, you can speed this up by blowing air over the floor using one or more fans. Test for full hardness and scratch resistance in a corner or somewhere on the floor that is not easily visible to others. Without being there myself to perform the test, I can only suggest that once the solvents have evaporated and the coating has achieved its full cure, you can safely replace the carpets and furniture. One week is better than four days, but I doubt that you need to wait four weeks.
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