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Commentary by Floyd Bayne ** WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW **
OK, yet one more example of Eric Cantor counting on uninformed, lazy voters to stay in office. You know, the voters who don't pay any attention to politics until a few weeks before an election and then they just watch TV or read the newspaper to see how they should vote. Cantor is counting on the fact that most Americans memories can't seem to go back any further than last week's episode of American Idol or Hunny Boo-Boo.
I just heard another of Cantor's radio ads. This one starts out telling us that "Obama just attacked Cantor, because Cantor is trying to stop his agenda." Uh huh. It then tells us how Cantor has been working sooo hard to stop spending and cut taxes, blah, blah, blah. Well, if he has been doing that then he really sucks at it, but that is not the point here.
I want to ask those who still defend Cantor if they remember as far back as February of this year, a mere 2 1/2 months ago? Allow me to refresh your memory. Just read the two articles I have linked here. Then tell me how allowing Obama an unlimited spending ceiling is "fighting" Obama's agenda. I can't wait to see how you defend this one.
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Chesapeake Bay ospreys serve as sentinels for pollution
Monitoring the buildup of chemical compounds in ospreys helps scientists track toxics in our waterways.
For almost two decades, state and federal partners have worked to rebuild Poplar Island in the Maryland waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Once home to a sawmill, a general store and a schoolhouse, the island succumbed to sea level rise, shrinking to a fraction of its size by 1996. Rebuilt using sand and sediment dredged up from the bottom of the Bay and hand-planted with native marsh grass, the island has become a refuge for 175 species of shorebirds, songbirds, waterfowl and raptors.
Eastern bluebirds, black ducks and snowy egrets are among the birds that nest on Poplar Island, but it is the osprey whose presence stands out. Their sprawling nests can be found on wooden platforms, abandoned barges and Bay-side rip-rap. Plentiful food and nesting space mean Poplar's osprey population is healthy, and can give researchers like Rebecca Lazarus an idea of what the birds should look like under the best environmental circumstances.
Working with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), Lazarus is studying contaminant exposure in osprey around the Bay. Because the birds sit at the top of the food chain, their health is an indicator of environmental problems. Tracking the buildup of chemical compounds in the eggs and blood of birds that Lazarus calls a "sentinel species" can tell us what toxics are present in our rivers and streams.
Lazarus started her season of research when ospreys returned to the Bay in mid-March. The University of Maryland doctoral candidate and USGS employee visited nests, counted eggs and watched the ospreys grow.
Once the chicks hatched, Lazarus used motion-activated game cameras to monitor their diets. The birds on Poplar eat almost exclusively striped bass and menhaden, reminding us that the management of these two fisheries has a big impact on the balance of the Bay ecosystem.
As the chicks grew, Lazarus tagged each one of them with a metal band. She measured their weight and culmen length, and took samples of blood to test for chemical contaminants.
The last large-scale study of contaminant exposure in osprey was conducted close to a decade ago, and found elevated concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls (or PCBs) and flame retardants in egg samples from the Anacostia and middle Potomac rivers. Lazarus hopes her updated research will show us what contaminants persist in the watershed, posing potential threats to wildlife and human health.
The birds on Poplar are healthy and serve as a benchmark against which Lazarus can compare those that nest in more polluted parts of the Bay. Ospreys experienced such a strong population boom after the United States banned the insecticide DDT and other contaminants that they are now nesting along urbanized waterways where dense development, wastewater treatment plants and the flow of pharmaceuticals and other new toxics into our water have concern about their potential to thrive.
By monitoring the link between clean water, contaminant-free fish and healthy osprey, Lazarus has taken a holistic approach to her research. Once published, her findings could help state and federal agencies develop plans to mitigate pollution or prioritize contaminants of concern. And they will help improve the environmental quality, ecosystem integrity and sustainability of the Bay.
To view more photos, visit the Chesapeake Bay Program Flickr page.
Images by Steve Droter and Olivier Giron.
Captions by Catherine Krikstan.

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Pain Medicines for Pets: Know the Risks
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Your 9-year-old German Shepherd is limping, and you think that arthritis may be setting in. A trip to the veterinarian proves that you're right—it's osteoarthritis, a degeneration of the cartilage and bone that affects joints. The veterinarian prescribes a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID).
NSAIDs are a class of drugs extensively used in both human and veterinary medicine for their anti-fever, anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving properties, and they are the most commonly prescribed pain relievers for animals. Inflammation—the body's response to irritation or injury—is characterized by redness, warmth, swelling, and pain. NSAIDs work by blocking the production of chemicals produced by the body that play a role in inflammation.
"Scientists consider NSAIDs the cornerstone of osteoarthritis therapy in dogs," says Melanie McLean, D.V.M., a veterinarian at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Some NSAIDS are also used to manage pain after surgery in both dogs and cats. No NSAID has been approved for long-term use in cats.
NSAIDs carry risks as well as benefits, however, and all dogs and cats should undergo a thorough physical examination by a veterinarian—including a discussion of the pet's medical history— before beginning NSAID therapy. McLean notes that it's also important that you talk to your veterinarian about possible side effects, including those that could signal danger.
Risks and Side Effects
NSAIDS are associated with gastrointestinal ulcers/perforations, kidney, and liver toxicity (damage done by exposure to medications or chemicals) and must be used cautiously in animals with pre-existing kidney or liver problems.
Because most liver-associated toxicities occur during the first three weeks, it's especially important to closely monitor the results of blood tests during the early stages of long-term NSAID treatment in dogs. Also, before starting long-term treatment with NSAIDs in dogs, blood tests should be conducted to establish baseline data and then repeated on a regular basis. McLean recommends that you talk with your veterinarian about how often this blood work should be done.
Some of the most common side effects of NSAIDS in animals reported to FDA are:
- vomiting
- decreased to no appetite
- decreased activity level
- diarrhea
While your animal is taking NSAIDs, continuously monitor the pet for these side effects as well as looking for blood in the feces, tar-like stools, yellowing of the whites of the eyes, or yellowing of the gums. If you see these, call your veterinarian immediately, McLean says. Other reported side effects include stomach and intestinal ulcers, intestinal perforation (a hole in the wall of the intestine), kidney failure, liver failure and death.
Giving two NSAIDs at the same time, or giving an NSAID with a steroid, such as prednisone, can significantly increase the risk and severity of side effects, especially gastrointestinal toxicity.
Risks associated with NSAIDs are detailed on the package inserts and the client information sheets that accompany all FDA-approved veterinary oral NSAIDs.
Are OTC Meds for People Safe for Pets?
McLean says that it's not unusual for pet owners to want to give their animals NSAIDs or acetaminophen (Tylenol and other brands, which are not NSAIDs) straight from their own medicine cabinets. "Many people don't realize that a medicine that's safe for people may not be safe for dogs or cats, or that a dose that is safe for people may not be safe for their pets," she notes.
In fact, some over-the-counter (OTC) human pain relievers can be toxic, or even deadly, in pets. McLean suggests that you check with your veterinarian first if you want to give your animal OTC human drugs.
"You should always check with your veterinarian first before giving your animal any kind of medication, prescription or over-the-counter," she notes. Similarly, pet owners should not assume that a medicine that is safe for one animal is necessarily safe for another.
Communication with your veterinarian is essential. Before giving your animal an NSAID:
- Make sure you know what the medication is being prescribed for, how much to give and how long to give it.
- Discuss possible side effects and symptoms, especially those that require an immediate call to the vet.
- Tell your veterinarian if the pet has a history of gastrointestinal problems, such as stomach ulcers, or surgery on the stomach or intestines.
- Tell your veterinarian if your pet is on any other medications or supplements.
This article appears on FDA's Consumer Updates page5, which features the latest on all FDA-regulated products.
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The Harvard University Committee on General Scholarships (CGS) administers various university-wide scholarship funds both for US and international students. The CGS website listed below will take you through a series of steps to see if you meet the selection criteria for any of the scholarships that are available. (The Lehman, Starr, and Thayer Scholarships are awarded by GSD staff and/or faculty, and therefore students do not apply for them.)
Please review the list of scholarships at http://www.scholarship.harvard.edu. All students should check both the US section and the international section of the CGS webpage.
If you find you qualify for one or more scholarships, you will need to indicate your interest on the appropriate section of the internal financial aid application. All of these awards are based partly on need. When asked to show supporting documentation, you should provide some evidence of proof that you qualify for that particular award. For example, a copy of your passport can be used as proof for an award based on citizenship. Please review the internal financial aid application for instructions on the submission of supporting materials.
If you do not find an award you are eligible for on the CGS website above, you can skip the CGS portion of the internal financial aid application. Please remember that students from across Harvard University are eligible for these awards and competition may increase based on the selection criteria.


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This is the category for Somalia, a country in Africa. Latest storiesRefresh this list to see the latest articles.
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This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
- African Union Mission to Somalia (7 articles)
- Al-Shabaab (29 articles)
- Mogadishu (33 articles)
- Somaliland (5 articles)
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The following 134 pages are in this category, out of 134 total.
- African Union peacekeepers come under attack in Mogadishu
- Aid ship sailing to Somalia hijacked; aid supply threatened
- Al-Shabaab and AU peacekeepers clash in Somalia
- American captain freed from Somali pirates
- Armed gunmen attack cruise ship off Somali coast
- At least fifteen killed after suicide bombing in Somali hotel
- At least fourteen dead after rebel clashes in Somalia
- At least seventeen dead after clashes in Somalia
- At least twelve die in Mogadishu attacks
- AU peacekeepers killed in Somalia, Islamists vow more attacks
- Families appeal to Spain's government to negotiate with Somali pirates
- Fifteen killed in Mogadishu, Somalia suicide bombing
- Fifteen killed in Somalia bombing
- Fight Continues, 100 dead in Somalia
- Fire destroys central market in Somaliland's capital
- First Somali president Aden Abdulle Osman Daar dies
- Forces capture Somali pirates who mistakenly attacked naval ship
- Fourteen dead in two attacks in Somalia
- Panama-flagged ship hijacked off Somali coast by pirates
- Pirate attack on Norwegian ship foiled by NATO forces
- Pirate attacks bring UN aid to Somalia to a halt
- Pirates capture Saudi oil tanker
- Pirates hijack Thai merchant ship off Somali coast
- Pirates kill four American hostages
- Pirates seize cargo ship in Indian Ocean
- Pirates seize tourist yacht near Seychelles, troops deployed
- Prime Minister Ghedi of Somalia resigns
- Private guard kills Somali pirate in Gulf of Aden
- Saudi Arabia resumes livestock trade with Somalia
- Seychelles sentences Somali pirates to ten years in prison
- Shelling in Somalia's capital kills twenty
- Ship sunk by Indian navy was a fishing boat, says owner
- Somali "Anti-Terrorism Alliance" gets US funds; so do "Blackhawk Down" warlords
- Somali al-Shabaab group seizes three towns
- Somali hospital hit by shells after continued unrest
- Somali interior minister killed by bomb attack in own home
- Somali Islamists halt peace talks with government
- Somali man attempts failed attack on controversial cartoonist
- Somali minister killed by car bomb
- Somali opposition group al-Shabaab to block WFP food aid
- Somali parliament rejects president's dismissal of prime minister
- Somali piracy: Kenyan navy kills three, Chinese ship hijacked, British couple freed
- Somali pirates agree to release Egyptian ship with fertiliser cargo and 28 crew
- Somali pirates attack US-flagged ship, vessel evades capture
- Somali pirates capture two ships
- Somali pirates demand $2 million ransom for US captain held hostage
- Somali pirates hijack Indonesian tugboat and Turkish container ship
- Somali pirates launch attack on oil tanker
- Somali pirates now hold 134 Filipino seafarers hostage
- Somali pirates release Greek ship, 19 sailors
- Somali pirates release Greek-owned ship
- Somali pirates release tanker after receiving millions of dollars in ransom
- Somali pirates seize Greek freighter, 25 crew in the Gulf of Aden
- Somali pirates seize Greek-owned tanker
- Somali pirates seize tanker off coast of Madagascar
- Somali pirates seize two European tankers, Seychelles yacht
- Somali pirates threaten to kill British hostages in days
- Somali radio stations stopped from playing music by Islamist militants
- Somali tensions rise as Ethiopia sends in troops
- Somalia - Peace deal signed to unite government and Islamists
- Somalia food hijackers make new demands
- Somalia in danger of famine
- Somalian pirates capture military ship, weapons, tanks
- Somalians protest against deployment of African Union troops
- Strongest earthquake in 40 years hits Southeast Asia
- Survey: Denmark, Finland are world's least and Myanmar, Somalia are world's most corrupt countries
- Tanker seized by Somali pirates; Russian warship en route
- Teen charged over 'bomb attempt' at US Christmas celebration
- Three aid workers released by Somali gunmen
- Tsunami deaths mount to more than 120,000
- Two French journalists kidnapped by Somali gunmen
- Two Kenyans kidnapped by gunmen in Somalia now released
- Two Kenyans kidnapped in Somalia by gunmen
- Two UN contract workers kidnapped in Somalia
- U.N. pulls out of southern Somalia
- U.S. air strikes on Somalia confirmed
- U.S. tugboat latest victim of Somali pirates
- Ukrainian ship MV Faina with cargo of tanks freed by pirates
- UN Security Council approves African Union peace keepers for Somalia
- UNHCR: Somalia violence killed 258 civilians last month; tens of thousands displaced
- United Nations passes Declaration on human cloning
- United Nations requests US$700 million in aid for East Africa to avoid famine
- United States judges block third version of President Trump's travel ban
- United States Navy ordered to Somalian coast
- United States warns of suicide attacks in Kenya and Ethiopia
- Up to one-half of Somali food aid diverted from needy
- US crew retakes ship hijacked by pirates; captain held hostage
- US indicts eleven alleged pirates from Somalia
- US, UK embassies in Yemen close due to al-Qaeda threat


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A piece of irony
I find myself lately having to resist the compulsion to correct those around me when I hear the term ignorant used in the wrong, ever-persisting way. Example:
"What a loser: he just tripped himself playing soccer!"
"Uggh, jerk, don't make fun of him! You're ignorant."
(sometimes pronounced "ignert" in my local area)
Anyone else happen to run into this problem as frequently as I do?
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One of the entries in the OED for "ignorant" is "5. dial. and colloq. Ill-mannered, uncouth."
Joke's on you. "Ignert" is a colloquial form, frequently pronounced that way to invoke the dialect, as goofy pointed out.
i.e. In an "ironic" twist, if you point out someone using/pronouncing "ignorant" wrong, you'll end up looking "ignert."
That's ignorant.
"No. That's ignorant... you're ignorant." - South Park's Michael Jackson.
I get this often as well. While many seem to be correcting you for this, I personally find it to be incorrect to say ignorant in that way; you are not unaware of anything. If ignorant can mean uncouth, then you are the wrong one, but, for the most part, I think that you are, in fact, correct.
Sometimes i feel like i'm the only one that notices this. "Ignernt" is not a synonym for rude. People need to learn that.
Merriam-Webster Online defines 'ignorant' as: "lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified." Which sounds pretty close to the usage of the word in your soccer example. The word may be being over-used; this happens. But it's just slang.
I think 'ignorant' is a vogue word, to use Garner's appellation. It, like 'random' and 'radical,' will pass. It is not "ever-persisting." Resist the "compulsion to correct." People will think you random.
Really? I would think it more likely that they would believe me to be a "radical" grammar enthusiast.
They might believe that. Or they might think you a noodge.
Seriously, there are few situations, other than parent-child or student-teacher or editor-writer, where correcting another persons grammar is welcomed. (Not that it's especially welcomed in these.) If you have understood the speaker then the grammatical gaffe has not been deleterious. If the speaker's grammar is so bad as to hinder comprehension, the polite action would be to ask for clarification, not to torch his car. (I speak metaphorically, of course. You brought up the "radical" thing.)
The purpose of language is communication. Interruptive nit-pickery hampers that.
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Today, a coalition of more than 175 artists, actors, athletes, elected officials and advocates, brought together by hip-hop pioneer Russell Simmons and Dr. Boyce Watkins, presented an open letter to President Obama, urging him to double down on his efforts to change the United States' criminal justice policy from that of a punitive, suppression-based model to one that favors evidence-based prevention and rehabilitation. According to Department of Justice data, the U.S. leads the world in the incarceration of its own citizens, both on a per capita basis and in terms of total prison population. More than 500,000 of the 2.3 million people behind bars in the U.S. are incarcerated for nothing more than a nonviolent drug offense.
"It is critical that we change both the way we think about drug laws in this country and how we generate positive solutions that leave a lasting impact on rebuilding our communities," said Russell Simmons. "We need to break the school to prison pipeline, support and educate our younger generations and provide them with a path that doesn't leave them disenfranchised with limited options."
A coalition of more than 175 concerned activists, humanitarians and celebrities have endorsed the letter, including: Russell Simmons, Dr. Boyce Watkins, Sir Richard Branson, Will Smith, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Scarlett Johansson, Ron Howard, Jennifer Hudson, Demi Moore, Eva Longoria, Michael Moore, Mark Wahlberg, Harry Belafonte, Jada Pinkett Smith, Cameron Diaz, Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Chris Rock, Russell Brand, John Legend, DJ Pauly D, Mike Tyson, Rick Ross, Jon Hamm, Natalie Maines, Ludacris, to name a few. The coalition suggests that the President continue to take a number of reformative actions, including extending the Fair Sentencing Act to all inmates who were sentenced under the 100-to-1 crack/powder disparity, supporting the principles of the Justice Safety Valve Act of 2013 (which allows judges to set aside mandatory minimum sentences when they deem appropriate), and supporting the Youth PROMISE Act.
"So called 'tough on crime' policies have failed our nation and its families, while 'smart on crime' policies work," said NAACP President & CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous. "When we know that drug treatment is seven times more effective than incarceration for drug addicts, basic human decency demands our nation makes the switch. The fate of hundreds of people and the children who need them home and sober hang in the balance. Great progress is being made in states from New York to Georgia with strong bipartisan support. The time has come for all of us to do all that we can. The future of our families, states, and nation demand it."
Misguided drug laws and draconian sentencing requirements have produced profoundly unequal outcomes for communities of color. Although rates of drug use and selling are comparable across racial and ethnic lines, blacks and Latinos are far more likely to be criminalized for drug law violations than whites. 2.7 million children are growing up in U.S. households in which one or more parents are incarcerated. Two-thirds of these parents are incarcerated for nonviolent offenses. One in nine black children has an incarcerated parent, compared to one in 28 Latino children and one in 57 white children.
Dr. Boyce Watkins added: "The letter is intended to be a respectful appeal to the Obama Administration asking that we develop productive pathways to supporting families that have been harmed by the War on Drugs. Countless numbers of children have been waiting decades for their parents to come home, and America is made safer if we break the cycle of mass incarceration. Time is of the essence, for with each passing year that we allow injustice to prevail, our nation loses another piece of its soul. We must carefully examine the impact of the War on Drugs and the millions of living, breathing Americans who've been affected. It is, quite simply, the right thing to do."
The coalition hopes their letter will not only spark more meaningful conversations about the War on Drugs in the White House, but also encourage the public to be more actively engaged on these pressing issues.
To read the full letter to President Obama and to view the complete list of supporters, please visit www.naacp.org/EndWarOnDrugs


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Azure Data Lake Store and Azure Data Lake Analytics integration with Azure Data Factory
Published date: November 18, 2015
Our newly released public preview services, Azure Data Lake Store and Azure Data Lake Analytics, make big-data processing and analytics simpler, dynamically scalable, and more accessible. You can now use Azure Data Factory to create data pipelines to move data from a variety of sources into Data Lake Store and vice versa. You can also run queries with Data Lake Analytics.These activities can be easily incorporated as processing steps in a Data Factory pipeline—tying your big data workloads together in one place for scheduling, management, and monitoring.To try Data Factory and start building pipelines, please visit the Learning path for Azure Data Factory page. If you have feature requests or want to provide feedback about Data Factory, please visit the Azure Data Factory forum.


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Fear of giving birth can lead to post-natal depression
Although the problem is believed to affect up to one in ten women, the true figure may be much higher, with a lack confidence in maternity care providers, warn scientists.
Most women feel a little anxious about giving birth, especially for the first time, but for some childbirth can be intensely frightening and traumatic - a phenomenon known as tokophobia.
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Hide AdRather than looking forward to the arrival of their baby, they have a morbid fear of pregnancy and the birth process.
Labour wards can feel like 'torture chambers' and they feel their only option is to have a Caesarean section.
But Professor Lee Roosevelt, of the University of Michigan, said while some fear in expectant mothers is normal and helpful in planning and asking questions, excessive fear can lead to complications during pregnancy and birth.
Her researchers polled 22 women who took part in three small, diverse focus groups and were pregnant or had recently given birth.
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Prof Roosevelt, who is also a midwife, said: "Women who have significant fear of childbirth are more likely to have C-sections, longer labours and to need induction or augmentation. They are more likely to have postpartum depression."
Tokophobia is not well recognised by doctors and midwives and is caused by various factors including a fear of pain, past experience of a difficult childbirth, depression and even sexual trauma.
Women are not only more afraid than previously thought, but their fears extend far beyond common worries about pain or birth complications, she said.
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Hide AdOne of the greatest fears is being abandoned by the clinician. They worry their clinicians won't treat them respectfully or listen to their concerns, or won't attend the actual birth.
Co-author Prof Lisa Kane Low said: "The results say a lot about how we do maternity care in this country."
Women also reported being worried they would be expected to bear the brunt of decision-making responsibility, or their decisions would not be respected.
Prof Roosevelt said: "I knew as a clinician and midwife, myself, that the relationship I have with my patients is so essential, but I didn't really realise how key it was to women's fears."
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Hide AdProf Kane Low says a better way for clinicians to address fears is to pose open-ended questions about how women regard their pregnancy and childbirth, rather than asking specific questions about common fears.
She said: "Women want to be in a discussion with their provider about their fears. They don't want to be patted on the back and told, 'Oh, that's normal, you're having a baby.'"
The researchers hope to develop a survey tool to accurately assess a woman's fear of childbirth and examine how it affects the physiology of pregnant women.
The study was published in the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing


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I'm working on market trends. I have daily prices for 33 assets from different markets. I was wondering if there is a way to cancel the effects of different opening/closing times.
I have been told that a moving average over four days would be enough; I think a weekly moving average should improve many thing. As I observe a 50-day moving average to observe market trends, I don't really see the point in doing this first moving average.
Is there any literature about this topic? Are there simple solutions to cancel the effects of markets desynchronization?


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Each day, you're supposed to get a certain number of servings of grains, vegetables, fats, etc. You know, the food pyramid.
However, instead of going to all the trouble to prepare three meals with several courses each and every day, I'd like to just have the same thing to eat, all the time. I'm hoping this isn't considered sacrilege for this site!
What I'm describing is an Überfood, as it has a near-perfect balance of all of the daily intake requirements. They make it for cats, dogs, and other mammals, so I'm sure it's possible for us primates. Like cats and dogs, I'd of course have the occasional treat, but it would always be above-and-beyond and not part of my daily nutrients.
What considerations should I put into making an Überfood? Ideally, it would be shelf-stable and not need refridgeration. Texture and taste are less important.
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A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
Since 1951, the census has gathered information on what point in the education system
individuals reached:
did they leave school as soon as was legal, without qualifications?
did they get GCSEs?
and did they go to university and get a degree?
In general, this information covers everyone of working age, so it has to be
seen as an 'average' of decisions to stay on at school or leave taken during
the forty or fifty years prior to the census.
Unfortunately, the variation in what was reported by different censuses means
none of our measures can be presented for every census, and also that the
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Map 12 takes children to the Prairie, where they can add a hawk, mole, bison, antelope and prairie dog to their pets. Map 12 includes lessons 56-60, where children build their subtraction skills with a variety of counting strategies to subtract from 10, including using the cover up method and a number line. Children also learn the days of the week and how to read digital and analogue clocks. The concept of area, position and movement are also introduced. Measurement concepts are extended as children learn everyday language to determine whether objects are near, far, nearer or further.
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Sammy Fain was born as Samuel Feinberg in New York City on June 17,1902. His family soon moved to Sullivan County in New York State, where his father was a cantor. While still in school, Fain taught himself to play the piano and began composing popular songs. He sent some of these to publishers, but all were rejected. After completing high school, Fain returned to New York City to continue to pursue songwriting.
His first job was as a stockroom boy for Mills Music Publishing and one day his boss caught Fain playing some of his own songs in the audition room. His boss gave him a job as a song plugger, at which he became adept and later worked for several different publishers in the same capacity. During that period, he met singer Artie Dunn, and they formed a singing team that was popular in vaudeville and on radio.
Fain continued to compose songs, and in 1925 he had one published for the first time. The title was "Nobody Knows What a Red-Headed Mama Can Do," with lyrics by Irving Mills and Al Dubin. Around that time, Fain met lyricist Irving Kahal, with whom he worked until Kahal's death in 1942. Their first song, on which Francis Wheeler also collaborated on the words, was "Let a Smile Be Your Umbrella" in 1927. Other early songs by Fain and Kahal were "I Left My Sugar Standing in the Rain" and "Wedding Bells are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine." In 1930, Paramount Pictures signed them to write a song for the Maurice Chevalier movie The Big Pond. They traveled to Los Angeles, composed "You Brought a New Kind of Love To Me" (written with Pierre Norinan), and adopted that city as their base of operations. For the remainder of their partnership, they worked for several movie studios. They did not write entire scores, but mainly focused on providing one or two songs for many films. Some of their better-remembered movie tunes include: "When I Take My Sugar to Tea" (from the 1931 Marx Brothers movie Monkey Business), "By a Waterfall" (from Footlight Parade (1933)), and the title song from Easy to Love (1934).
The duo also wrote for Broadway, with their greatest successes being Everybody's Welcome (1931), HelIzapoppin (1938), and George White's Sandals of 1939. A 1938 Broadway flop titled Right This Way, included two of Fain and Kahal's best songs: "I Can Dream, Can't I?" and "I"ll Be Seeing You." The former was a hit for Tommy Dorsey in 1938 and an even bigger hit for the Andrews Sisters in 1950. The latter did not become popular until 1944, two years after Kahal's death, when both Bing Crosby and Tommy Dorsey recorded it.
Following Kahal's death, Fain worked with numerous composers. In 1945 he worked with Ralph Freed on "The Worry Song," which was interpolated into the Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne score for the movie Anchors Aweigh. That is the song to which Gene Kelly danced with the animated Jerry the Mouse. In 1949 Fain and Hilliard wrote "Dear Hearts and Gentle People,"' which was popularized via recordings by Bing Crosby and Dinah Shore. Fain wrote a Broadway musical with E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, but Flahooley opened in 1951 to negative reviews. Set in a toy factory, the show parodied the rabid anti-communist sentiment and witch hunts that pervaded 1950s America through a fantastic storyline that was nearly impossible to follow. The cast included the Bill Baird Marionettes, Yma Sumac and Barbara Cook. Despite the score, which included "Here's to Your Illusions," audiences stayed away.
Fain collaborated on the scores to two early 1950's Wait Disney animated features. With Hilliard he wrote the music for Alice in Wonderland (1951), which included "I'm Late" and "Very Good Advice." Sammy Cahn teamed with him on Peter Pan (1953), which featured "Your Mother and Mine" and "Second Star to the Right." That same year Fain and Paul Francis Webster composed the score of the Doris Day movie Calamity Jane, for which they won the Academy Award for Best Song for "Secret Love." The following year they wrote the score for another Doris Day movie, Lucky He, which included "I Speak to the Stars." In 1955, they won another Academy Award for Best Song for the title tune to "Love Is a Many Splendored Thing", which was a hit for The Four Aces. Other movie songs from the team included the title song sung by Pat Boone from 1957's April Love, and "A Certain Smile" from the 1958 movie of the same name, sung by Johnny Mathis.
Throughout the 1960's and 1970's, Fain continued to write for the movies, his last effort being the 1977 Disney animated feature The Rescuers. Sammy Fain died of a heart attack on December 6, 1989 in Los Angeles, California.
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"The internet could do more to change the level of political engagement than all the breast-beating of introspective politicians and commentators. A 21st century political revolution is now only a few mouse clicks away."
Ian Duncan Smith. Thanks Sasa.
Bloggers will rescue the right
Beat the metropolitan elite with the tactics of US conservatives Iain Duncan Smith
Saturday February 19, 2005
The Guardian
For decades the national conversation in most western countries has been directed by a few talking heads. Newspapers play important roles but all the evidence suggests that broadcasters have possessed the greatest potential to frame public debate. British politicians have known that communicating their message depends upon getting the nod from a small number of powerful figures in the broadcast media.
The editor of BBC1's six o'clock news bulletin can make a minister's day by putting his department's latest announcement at the front of the bulletin. Hearing Huw Edwards say something positive about that afternoon's policy launch will even put a smile on Alastair Campbell's face.
But all of this looks set to change because of the blogosphere. Blogging is a geeky expression for how people use online logs, or diaries, to share their opinions. If a weblog is interesting and informed enough it can reach millions of people at zero cost. Karl Rove, the man George Bush described as the architect of his re-election, recently said that the dominance of America's mainstream media is coming to an end. And Rove credits the Davids of the blogosphere for the humbling of the old media Goliaths. After decades of centralisation, Rove believes that the national conversation is being democratised.
Mr Knowledgeable (and it is usually a Mr) of Smallville, Wyoming can, via his PC, transmit thoughts across the world. Mainstream TV can no longer say what it wants without fear of correction. Online diaries, written by teachers, soldiers and numerous other people with real knowledge of subjects, are fact-checking ill-informed broadcasters. The bloggers have already toppled two of American TV's biggest names.
In the last few days Eason Jordan, the chief news director of CNN, resigned after a previously unknown blogger – Rony Abovitz – drew attention to remarks made by Jordan at the Davos World Economic Forum. Abovitz reported that Jordan had accused US soldiers in Iraq of deliberately targeting journalists. Mainstream reporters chose to ignore these remarks. But Abovitz's message was picked up by hundreds of other websites, and Jordan's fate was sealed.
Easongate, as it has inevitably become known, is an echo of last autumn's Rathergate scandal. Dan Rather, the anchor of CBS's evening news, was as big as TV stars come. Rather had fronted an attack on George Bush's Vietnam-era military service record – based on forged documents. The forgery was exposed when bloggers focused on a superscripted "th" after a date in one of the documents. Experts confirmed that typewriters of the period could not have produced such lettering. Rather apologised and CBS is now desperately searching for someone else in whom viewers might put their trust.
This is just one of the ways in which the internet has strengthened the American right. Last year's Bush-Cheney campaign used information technology to build the largest ever volunteer political army. Visitors to GeorgeWBush.com were invited to join email lists that offered regular information on everything from gun ownership to school prayer. The Bush campaign collected 7.5 million email addresses and amassed 1.4 million volunteers.
You would also expect this electronic revolution to be good for the Democrats, but the American left's relationship with the internet has been disastrous. The internet has sunk a knife into Bill Clinton's moderate Democratic party. Mainstream business people were Clinton's principal funders, simultaneously approving and driving his centrism. But the Democrats' new paymasters are the 600,000 computer users who, in 2004, supported Howard Dean's bid for his party's presidential nomination. Dean energised an unrepresentative group of voters with a stridently anti-war message. Electronic money powered Dean's campaign, and all of the other contenders for the Democratic crown soon pandered to his base.
The Democrats' problem has only worsened since. The dailykos.com site of a Democratic consultant gets 500,000 hits a day. That site's memorial to four American contractors murdered in Iraq was "screw them". Hatefulness also pours out of the popular websites of Michael Moore and MoveOn.org. The conservative blogosphere has dubbed the Democrats' IT base its MooreOn tendency.
Although it was a Googler who discovered that Tony Blair's second Iraq dossier had lifted extensive material from a PhD student's research, Britain hasn't yet had much experience of electronic campaigning.
But the blogosphere will become a force in Britain, and it could ignite many new forces of conservatism. The internet's automatic level playing field gives conservatives opportunities that mainstream media have often denied them.
An online community of bloggers performs the same function as yesteryear's town meetings. Through the tradition of town hall meetings, officials were held to account by local people. Blogger communities are going to be much more powerful. They will draw together not only local people but patients who have waited and waited for NHS care. They will organise parents of disabled children who oppose Labour's closure of special-needs schools and evangelical Christians who see their beliefs caricatured by ignorant commentators.
All this should put the fear of God into the metropolitan elites. For years there have been widening gaps between the governing class and the governed and between the publicly funded broadcasters and the broadcasted to.
Until now voters, viewers and service users have not had easy mechanisms by which to expose officialdom's errors and inefficiencies. But, because of the internet, the masses beyond the metropolitan fringe will soon be on the move. They will expose the lazy journalists who reduce every important public policy issue to how it affects opinion-poll ratings.
Tired of being spoon-fed their politics, British voters will soon be calling virtual town hall meetings, and they will take a serious look at the messenger as well as the message. It's going to be very rough.
Karl Rove is right. The internet could do more to change the level of political engagement than all the breast-beating of introspective politicians and commentators. A 21st century political revolution is now only a few mouse clicks away.
· Iain Duncan Smith MP is chairman of the Centre for Social Justice; he was leader of the Conservative party from 2001 to 2003


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Psychology is a rich and diverse field allowing individuals interested in a psychology career to specialize in a specific area. There are many different areas of psychology, including biological psychology, clinical psychology, cognitive psychology, comparative psychology, developmental psychology, educational psychology, industrial psychology, personality psychology, professional psychology, positive psychology, and social psychology. Education requirements for these fields will vary, as will their potential salaries.
Biological psychology focuses on the study of how biology affects behavior. This research may include studying physiological mechanisms that dictate behaviors. Someone in this field may work in a laboratory with rats, for example, trying to determine how genetic factors impact memory.
The purpose of clinical psychology is to help individuals with underlying mental illnesses that have psychological components. While most clinical psychologists engage in therapy with patients, some also work in research or teach within the field. Therapies used by a clinical psychologist are dictated by different psychological theories. As we understand more about human behavior, there has been a push to merge the major components of the many theories to achieve a more comprehensive therapeutic model.
Cognitive psychology studies the cognitive processes that beget mental activity. Areas of research in this field include trying to understand human reasoning, problem solving, and memory formation.
Comparative psychology is the study of behavior of animals other than humans. The study of animal behavior can be an important component to understanding the evolution of human behavior.
Developmental psychology focuses on how the human mind develops over the course of a lifetime. This field's goal is to understand how individuals come to understand the world around them and how this understanding evolves with age. These researchers typically focus on times during the life cycle when rapid changes are occurring, such as infancy, puberty, and old age.
A psychology career in educational psychology would include studying how individuals learn in educational environments. The purpose of this study is to determine how effective educational interventions are. Individuals training to become teachers are often required to take classes in educational psychology. The psychology career of a school psychologist is a related field that aims to understand and treat students with developmental delays affecting learning.
Industrial and organizational psychologists (I-O psychologists) are hired by large companies looking to evaluate the performance of their employees. Ultimately, the goal is to improve worker productivity while also keeping employees happy. A related subfield, personnel psychology, uses similar principles to select employees.
Individuals interested in personality psychology will study the patterns that lie within human thought and behavior. Essentially, they study the components that make up one's personality.
Social psychology is a psychology career focused on learning how individuals relate to each other when influenced by the urge to conform, the power of persuasion, and the impact of one's personal beliefs.
Individuals who consider themselves to be professional psychologists are typically those who have earned doctorates in the field and provide individual psychological assessments. Typically, this psychology career also includes providing therapy to individuals or groups.
Lastly, positive psychology is focused on the study of factors that impact happiness. The ultimate goal of this field is to improve one's mental health. This psychology career is relatively new and still under scrutiny, but it is believed to be efficacious. This may be particularly true for individuals with eating disorders.
Psychology Career Educational Requirements
For the most part, a doctorate in psychology is required to practice in any one of these areas. The most notable exception to this is the field of I-O psychology, where only a master's degree is required to work. Training for a psychology career takes years. After completing a bachelor's degree, some continue on to obtain master's degrees. For individuals who are interested in pursuing a PsyD degree, obtaining this master's degree might be a perquisite for admissions.
Doctoral degrees in psychology can take six years to complete, following which clinical internships may be required to obtain a job and gain state licensure.
This lengthy education process is balanced by a reasonably high salary in some fields. With work experience, some individuals in a psychology career will make over $100,000 per year. Even at the master's level, an I-O psychologist can earn over $70,000 per year. Job growth in this field is thought to be better than average, and thus, job security should not be a large concern for those looking to enter the field.
Because human behavior is so diverse and distinct, the field of psychology must mirror this. Individuals interested in a psychology career have many options to practice the craft.
Areas of Psychology
Like many fields within the healthcare profession, psychology has splintered into many different areas of specialty. This allows patients to see a professional practicing in a specific niche and allows an individual with a psychology career to focus on an area of interest.
The American Psychological Association (APA) recognizes more than fifty specialty divisions of psychology. Some of the most well known areas of psychology include education, military psychology, general psychology, behavioral psychology, and clinical psychology. These topics are discussed in some detail below.
The other APA recognized divisions are:
Experimental Psychology
Evaluation, Measurement, and Statistics
Developmental Psychology
Personality and Social Psychology
Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI)
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
Consulting Psychology
Industrial and Organizational Psychology (I-O Psychology)
School Psychology
Society of Counseling Psychology
Psychologists in Public Service
Adult Development and Aging
Applied Experimental and Engineering Psychology
Rehabilitation Psychology
Society for Consumer Psychology
Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology
Behavior Analysis
History of Psychology
Community Psychology
Psychopharmacology and Substance Abuse
Psychological Hypnosis
State, Provincial, and Territorial Psychological Association Affairs
Humanistic Psychology
Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Environmental, Population, and Conservation Psychology
Psychology of Women
Psychology of Religion
Child and Family Policy and Practice
Health Psychology
Clinical Neuropsychology
American Psychology-Law Society
Psychologists in Independent Practice
Family Psychology
Psychological Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Issues
Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues
Media Psychology
Exercise and Sport Psychology
Peace Psychology Division
Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy
Addiction Psychology
Psychological Study of Men and Masculinity
International Psychology
Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Pediatric Psychology
Advancement of Pharmacotherapy
Trauma Psychology
Education psychology is the field in which individuals with an interest in research and teaching typically end up. These psychologists are tasked with teaching and training future psychologists. They may also have research laboratories at colleges or universities dedicated to improving our understanding of psychology.
Military psychologists not only provide mental health services to our armed forces but also perform research in this area. Military psychologists may also consult with Congressional committees or advise senior military personnel. This is an area that is now getting quite a bit of media attention as more individuals who have been deployed battle post-traumatic stress disorder.
General psychologists, as the name implies, work to combine the many disciplines of psychology into one cohesive area of psychology. While these individuals are not specialists, they are trained in many different areas and can appeal to individuals who have a variety of mental health issues.
The division of behavioral psychology, which includes comparative psychology, is tasked with the study of the biology of behavior. These psychologists are interested in the science of learning, memory, motivation, emotions, and thinking. Behavioral psychologists with a focus in neuroscience are interested in how the brain regulates these things. Comparative psychology allows us to understand the evolution of behavior by studying animals.
Clinical psychology focuses on the clinical practice of psychology. This division of the APA includes members who are not only practitioners seeing patients but also individuals whose research impacts the clinical practice of psychology.
The many areas of psychology help ensure that individuals can find practitioners trained in their areas of need as well as allowing psychologists to specialize in areas of interest.
Advantages of a Psychology Career
For those who are interested in a psychology career, there are many advantages that they can look forward to. Psychologists can experience the fulfillment of the helping others, enjoy a high earning potential, can learn about people and how they think, and may have quite a bit of variety in their work.
Some people go into psychology wanting to help people, and a psychology career is an excellent means to find that fulfillment and satisfaction. Even at an otherwise routine appointment, there is an opportunity to help a person solely by listening. For some, this simple act can make an enormous difference, especially if they believe there is no one else willing to listen to their stories. There are some specialties or divisions of psychology where the act of helping is more overt, such as is the case for clinical psychology, but all psychologists have daily opportunities to feel fulfillment from helping their patients, including those in research settings.
One of the major advantages of a psychology career is the high earning potential. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual salary for psychologists in clinical, counseling, and school settings was $64,140 in 2008. Those earning the highest 10 percent in these divisions commanded salaries over $100,000. For individuals practicing in the I-O division, even higher salaries are available. The median income for these psychologists was $77,010 in 2008, and the highest 10 percent of earners had salaries close to $150,000.
Individuals who go into the field of psychology typically have a natural curiosity about human behavior in addition to a desire to help others. It can be very exciting to learn about different people and the things that make those people different from each other. Treating individuals with mental illnesses can be intriguing from an intellectual standpoint.
While psychologists may see the same patient multiple times, they will continuously see new and different patients as well. As some patients graduate from therapy and move on, new patients with new concerns will arrive. Additionally, new mental illnesses are still being defined and diagnosed. The potential exists for a practitioner to see new patients with new disorders on a regular basis.
There are several advantages to a psychology career, including the ability to help others, the high earning potential, the opportunity to learn about human behavior, and the variety inherent in the work. If these things seem of interest, psychology may be an appropriate career choice.
Disadvantages of a Psychology Career
Like any job, individuals in psychology careers can identify disadvantages within the work. Some psychologists have described some problems of the job as being emotionally draining, dealing with difficult patients, needing to work long hours, and having insurance and billing issues.
Listening to other people's problems day in and day out can be an emotionally draining process. This can be especially true for psychologists who have a natural desire to want to help their patients. For the psychologist who empathizes especially well with a patient or patients, this can mean lingering thoughts about those patients even after work has officially come to an end for the day. It can be difficult to leave these concerns at the office, but thinking about them endlessly can be emotionally draining.
In addition to worrying about patients, psychologists can also be confronted with difficult patients. Difficult patients may demand the psychologist's attention more so than is normal or necessary, calling on the psychologist after hours or requesting additional appointments. Some patients can project feelings onto a psychologist that strain the overall relationship and make treatment more challenging. The psychologist must take care to avoid falling into the trap of interacting with these patients in a nonprofessional manner and projecting feelings of their own back onto the patient. When the therapist-patient relationship becomes truly dysfunctional, the psychologist must have the foresight to suggest an alternate therapist for the patient.
While some psychologists work traditional hours, many work long hours including nights and weekends. This is especially true for individuals in private practice who cater to patients who require more flexible appointment times. Psychologists who work in facilities that operate twenty-four hours a day may also experience working nights and weekends by virtue of taking on shift work.
Like many healthcare professionals, insurance and billing issues have dominated the psychology field as well. For individuals in private practice, the paperwork created by this task can be daunting and may, ultimately, require the hiring of a specialist to handle insurance claims. Not all patients will have health insurance, some who have insurance may have policies that do not cover mental health professional fees, and some may have insurance that covers only some services for certain periods of time. Keeping track of these differences can be exhausting and can ultimately take away from the hours a psychologist has available to actually see and treat patients. This kind of paperwork is often cited as the biggest disadvantage to a career in psychology.
When considering a field like psychology, it is important to think about the advantages and disadvantages. While any job will have disadvantages, one must evaluate these and come to a decision as to whether the interest in and advantages of the field outweigh the disadvantages. For a psychology career, the main things to consider are the long hours, insurance and billing issues, difficulty of certain patients, and the fact that the work can be emotionally draining.


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Pediatricians and public health researchers know they have to be on the lookout for lead exposure from paint chips and contaminated drinking water. A new report suggests food — particularly baby food — could be a problem, too.
The Environmental Defense Fund, in an analysis of 11 years of federal data, found detectable levels of lead in 20 percent of 2,164 baby food samples. The toxic metal was most commonly found in fruit juices such as grape and apple, root vegetables such as sweet potatoes and carrots, and cookies such as teething biscuits.
The organization's primary focus was on the baby foods because of how detrimental lead can be to child development.
"Lead can have a number of effects on children and it's especially harmful during critical windows of development," said Dr. Aparna Bole, pediatrician at University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, who was not involved with the report. "The largest burden that we often think about is neurocognitive that can occur even at low levels of lead exposure."
Lead can cause problems with attention and behavior, cognitive development, the cardiovascular system and immune system, Bole said.
The samples studied were not identified by brand, and the levels of lead are thought to be relatively low. Still, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, no safe blood lead level in children has been identified.
In a draft report released earlier this year, the Environmental Protection Agency estimated that over 5 percent of children consume more than 6 micrograms per day of lead — the maximum daily intake level set by the Food and Drug Administration in 1993 — in their diet.
This surprised Tom Neltner, Environmental Defense Fund's chemicals policy director, who has spent 20 years researching and working to reduce lead exposures. His further analysis of the EPA report was that food is the major source of lead exposure in two-thirds of toddlers.
This spurred the organization to examine data from the FDA's Total Diet Study for specific sources of exposure for kids.
In the resulting report, released Thursday, Neltner found that the baby food versions of apple juice, grape juice and carrots had detectable lead more often than the regular versions. Researchers could determine how frequently contamination occurred, but not at what levels.
Percentage Of Food Samples Containing Lead | ||
Baby | Regular | |
Grape juice | 89% | 68% |
Apple juice | 55% | 25% |
Carrots | 44% | 14% |
According to the FDA, lead makes its way into food through contaminated soil, but Neltner suspects that processing may also play a role.
"I can't explain it other than I assume baby food is processed more," Neltner said.
The Environmental Defense Fund report notes that more research on the sources of contamination is needed.
FDA has set guidance levels of 100 parts per billion (ppb) for candy and dried fruit and 50 ppb for fruit juices. The allowable level for lead in bottled water is 5 ppb.
Concern over fruit juices flared up in 2012 when Consumer Reports found that 1 in 4 samples of apple and grape juices had lead levels higher than the FDA's bottled-water limit of 5 ppb.
"The FDA is continuing to work with industry to further limit the amount of lead in foods to the greatest extent feasible, especially in foods frequently consumed by children," read an agency statement in response to the report. "The agency is in the process of reevaluating the analytical methods it uses for determining when it should take action with respect to measured levels of lead in particular foods, including those consumed by infants and toddlers."
Neltner said he's glad the FDA is working on the issue but wants them to "get it done. Move quicker."
The Environmental Defense Fund isn't recommending that parents avoid certain foods or brands for their children but does advise that they consult their pediatrician about all means of lead exposure.
"In many American communities, the most significant route of lead exposure is from paint and soil," Bole said. "Avoiding all sources of exposure of lead poisoning is incredibly important … but the last thing I would want is for a parent to restrict their child's diet or limit their intake of healthy food groups."
She added that pediatricians recommend limiting or eliminating fruit juices from children's diets, anyway, for nutritional reasons. "There are good reasons to limit juice other than this particular report," Bole said.
But she said she wouldn't want parents to avoid root vegetables altogether. "The benefits of those nutritious foods far outweigh any risk," she said, especially in the context of where kids are most exposed to lead.
In response to a request for comment, Gerber said that samples of its baby foods and juices "consistently fall well within the available guidance levels and meet our own strict standards." And samples of Gerber juices were all below the EPA standard for drinking water.
"We know parents may be concerned about a recent report on lead in foods and want to reassure them that Gerber foods and juices are safe," the statement read.
The Environmental Defense Fund report was ultimately directed at the food industry and FDA in the hopes of getting limits and standards updated.
But lead in paint and drinking water shouldn't fall by the wayside, Neltner said. "You've got to deal with this issue on multiple fronts."
This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation.


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Therefore, when I am introduced to a website that connects me with thousands of master artists from around the world and gives me the ability to select from more than 30,000 handmade works of art, then I can relax knowing that I'll be able to find just the right piece from NOVICA.
One of the leading fair trade artisan websites, NOVICA.com works with National Geographic to give talented artisans around the world a place to express their artistic talents and provide access to the world market.
By offering thousands of limited edition and one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry, clothing, unique gifts, and home decor, you'll not only find items that are each stunning in their own way, but you'll be helping others by making your purchase.
NOVICA has already succeeded in helping change the lives of tens of thousands of people in developing nations, a number that I find both inspiring and extremely impressive. So while you may just think that the handbags or sculptures are lovely, NOVICA has provided a way for the artisans who created them to earn personal recognition and receive real-world prices for their work.
Now that just makes all of their great pieces even a little more beautiful, doesn't it?
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I purchased these beautiful Blown Glass Tumblers for myself and couldn't be happier with how gorgeous they are in person!
When it comes to shopping for a unique gift that is unusual, real-world as well as beautiful to behold, NOVICA has a huge selection that is sure to provide plenty of options. But, of course, the fact that by shopping there you can help make a difference in improving lives and preserving traditional crafts worldwide just means that you (or your recipient) can be even a little more satisfied with your purchase.
Plus, thanks to their generosity, one person will be able to browse all of the handcrafted works of art to choose their favorite or pick up a wonderful belated gift for Mom, because...
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With its various companies, the WALTER GROUP is one of the major international players in the fields of transport and mobile space solutions with containers. It is clear that internal cost transparency and organisational efficiency were and still are important factors in achieving this leading position. Which brings us to the subject of Shared Services. And to you.
Because it is equally clear that we are looking for ambitious colleagues to provide performance-related services such as controlling, accounting, financial management, marketing, human resources, quality management, business law, etc. Of course, not just anyone. We are looking for like-minded people. People with very special character traits. Personalities like you:
- You are both a team player and a soloist. In other words, helpfulness and a combined effort are just as important skills for solving tricky challenges as making independent decisions.
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