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By Meg Gray, KF9 Nicaragua
I've driven over some pretty terrible roads over the last three months. It doesn't seem to matter if they're gravel, paved, dirt, or a mixture of the three. In Nicaragua every road has character and usually this "character" makes it harder to get to CEPRODEL's clients. Now besides being an inconvenience, why does this matter? It matters because bad roads are just one of many factors that contribute to high operating costs for a microfinance institution (MFI). High operating costs mean higher interest rates are necessary in order for the MFI to be sustainable.
I feel like the conversation about interest rates usually starts and stops with the word "usurious" or "unfair," when in reality it is much more complex than that. CEPRODEL charges 36% interest on loans to small businesses (rates are lower for some other types of loans) and yet I've talked to numerous clients who comment that they like working with CEPRODEL because their interest rates are so low. How could this be?
Bad roads make it harder for MFIs' to visit clients or for clients to visit MFI offices. But on this front, roads are just one reason that MFI's have such high operating costs. Here are just a few more:
-Populations are often very spread out. A small population spread thinly over a large area is much harder to reach. Even with centrally located offices, many clients still live quite a distance from the branch office. Many clients also have no way of visiting the branch and thus require more travel time from loan officers
-Very small loans are more labor intensive. Think of all the paperwork you had to do to get a loan for a house, a car, or tuition. An MFI's application process probably doesn't require quite as many signatures, but it is still a lot of time, manpower, and paperwork all for a very small loan. In other words the administrative cost of a loan is fixed no matter how small it is.
-Frequent repayments (often daily or weekly) are more labor intensive. The documentation of frequent repayments is also time consuming as is payment collection. For example, many CEPRODEL offices have loan officers that spend every afternoon walking or driving from business to business collecting repayments
Now, how are MFIs supposed to pay for all of this? Yes, they could keep seeking out grant money year after year, but I, for one, would like to see them become sustainable. The way for them to do that is to charge enough interest to cover their operating costs. While these rates may seem ridiculously high to us, MFI's are not forcing people to take out loans. MFIs are providing a service and that service is in demand even with 36%, interest because these services are valuable to their clients. In short, these interest rates are necessary if MFI are going to provide the kind of services they do.
As long as we have loan officers willing to drive 30 kilometers through the mud on a motorcycle to spend an hour (or more) going over paperwork with a client all for a loan of $250, then yes interest rates are going to seem high, but financial services will also be reaching groups of people who have never had these opportunities before. And more importantly, these new clients will have ongoing access to financial services since the interest rates they are being charged will allow for the long-term sustainability of the MFI.
Meg Gray is finishing up her last week at CEPRODEL, a Kiva Field Partner in Nicaragua. Make a loan to a CEPRODEL entrepreneur today!
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Was introduced to a new game today at the Indian restaurant where I eat the noon buffet on a regular basis: Kabaddi. The host at the restaurant did his best to explain the sport, which was on television. I told him he should write up a brochure, as he had to explain to several patrons what was going on.
I didn't get it all, but it seems like a combination of football, wrestling and tag. Here is a sample.
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What, money? I asked.
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An inexplicable epidemic in Central America, where more than 16,000 people — mostly sugarcane workers — have died from incurable chronic kidney disease. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports from Nicaragua.
CHICHIGALPA, Nicaragua – You won't see a road sign pointing to "La Isla de Viudas," or "The Island of Widows," as it's not the community's official name. It's a nickname born from a horrific body count.
In the past 10 years, it's believed that hundreds, if not thousands, of residents of Chichigalpa — mostly male sugarcane workers — have died from chronic kidney disease, or CKD. That in a city of nearly 60,000, roughly the size of Ames, Iowa.
The mysterious and hidden epidemic, first highlighted by the Center for Public Integrity, has claimed thousands more lives across Central America. In El Salvador and Nicaragua alone, the number of men dying from the excruciatingly painful disease has risen five-fold in the last two decades. High rates of CKD also have been found in rural villages in India and among the rice paddies of Sri Lanka.
Sacorro Mendez Flores, who lives in the "La Isla" district of Chichigalpa, remembers when her son first fell ill. Jorge Luis Silva didn't look sick at first, but inside he was dying. His kidneys struggled to filter waste from his body, to no avail. Five months ago, Flores buried him.
"The same thing happened to my husband," she said. "They both died the same."
Sacorro Mendez-Flores, surrounded by her grandchildren, holds a family photo. The resident of Chichigalpa, Nicaragua, lost both her son and husband to chronic kidney disease.
Researchers are searching for answers about why this disease is ravaging not only the bodies of its victims, but the communities they leave behind.
The illness spreads
More than 20 million Americans aged 20 and older have chronic kidney disease, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In developed countries like the U.S., CKD often goes hand in hand with obesity, diabetes and hypertension. With treatment, including dialysis and kidney transplants, many with the disease survive.
The CKD plaguing parts of Central America, however, is something scientists have never seen before.
"It affects people who don't have diabetes or hypertension, which are the usual risk factors for chronic kidney disease," said Sasha Chavkin, a CPI reporter who has covered the mysterious epidemic for several years. "No one can figure out what it is that's making all these people sick."
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Workers in Central American sugarcane fields are dying of chronic kidney disease at an astonishing rate and experts are unable to say why.
"It comes at great social, economic and humanitarian cost," said Dr. Daniel R. Brooks, an associate professor of epidemiology at the Boston University School of Health who is leading a research team looking for the cause of the epidemic. "These are working-age people who are being struck down, and whole communities are really hurt and devastated by this disease."
And with little or no access to the life-saving treatments available in the developed world, a CKD diagnosis is often tantamount to a death sentence.
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"Where we stand right now is that ultimately this disease is not treatable in this community," said Nate Raines, a researcher with the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine Global Health program, which is collaborating with two organizations in Nicaragua on research independent from the Boston University group. "What we need to do is find the cause. That's the only way to really help the health situation."
Many in Chichigalpa believe that the root of the disease lies in chemicals sprayed in the sugarcane fields while men are working, or seeping into the water supply. A spokesperson from the sugar industry says the chemicals used are standard fertilizer and are not used to excess.
Science, so far, points to a more complicated answer.
'Markers' of kidney damage found
The research team from the Boston University has linked the disease in Central America to strenuous labor, dehydration and environmental conditions in which chemicals may play a role. That theory was supported by the group's most recent study, which found "markers" of kidney damage in adolescents as young as 12 in affected communities.
Thousands of miles away, research in Sri Lanka's affected communities also indicates chemicals may play a key role in the illness devastating communities there.
As reported last month by the Center for Public Integrity, the country's health ministry and World Health Organization announced in June that a years-long study had identified chemicals thought to be an essential cause of the disease: cadmium and arsenic. Both are heavy metals found in fertilizers and pesticides that can cause an array of health effects, including the type of kidney damage ravaging communities in Sri Lanka and Nicaragua.
While most of those tested had lower levels of the toxic elements than officially designated as dangerous by the United Nations, researchers believe that long-term exposure, likely through the food chain, may explain the high incidence of CDK.
Why are thousands of sugarcane workers dying from chronic kidney disease each year? Sasha Chavkin, of The Center for Public Integrity, discusses the search for the cause of this mysterious epidemic.
The findings, due to be officially released in October, represent a potential breakthrough in the research about CDK worldwide, including the epidemic in Nicaragua.
Researchers in Central America have not pinpointed a chemical cause. But the new research on adolescents indicates the kidneys of those going into the fields may already be damaged, making the long days and repeated dehydration in the fields potentially deadly.
Some experts also suggest that sugarcane workers may also unwittingly be harming themselves as they struggle to stay hydrated while cutting up to 11 tons of cane a day by hand.
For a refreshing pick-me-up, they occasionally slice a stalk of cane, peeling back its "bark" and sticking it in their mouths, where it produces a sweet sugary liquid.
But investigators now wonder: Could that constant flow of sucrose, combined with 90-plus degree temperatures and severe daily dehydration, be a deadly cocktail that slowly brings on CKD?
"We believe high amounts of sugar solutions may not cause much kidney damage," said Dr. Richard Johnson, head of the division of renal disease and hypertension at the University of Colorado, Denver. "But under certain circumstances, such as dehydration, we're concerned the sugar may actually be toxic in causing damage to the kidneys."
The sugar link
Whether or not sugar consumption plays a direct role in causing the Central American form of CKD, activists say it is a thread that connects the disease to its northern cousin.
In the U.S., rampant sugar consumption – Americans eat an average of 22.2 teaspoons of sugar per day according to the American Heart Association—drives many of the diseases linked to CKD, including diabetes and hypertension.
And with recent steep increases in the price and demand for sugar, more people are working longer hours in the sugarcane fields of Central America. In 2011, the U.S. imported 330,000 metric tons of raw sugar from Central America, or nearly one-quarter of total raw sugar imports that year, according to the United States Department of Agriculture.
"Not only is the production of sugar killing people, but the consumption of it is killing people," said Jason Glaser of La Isla Foundation, a nonprofit group he founded to focus attention on the epidemic and fund research that he hopes will solve the mystery. "It's bad for you and it's bad for workers."
The sugar industry, however, rejects suggestions that it is causing the epidemic of CKD among workers at its mills and plantations.
"We are not responsible for it," said Mario Amador, a spokesman for the sugarcane industry. "We're working to find a solution."
He also blames the workers themselves, saying they drink too much alcohol. "It's part of our culture," Amador said. "It's part of the things we do in our country. Poor people do it a lot."
Amador also speculated that active volcanoes in the region could have contaminated the water supply. But he admits he does not know why so many have died from CKD.
No matter what the research finds, Central America is unlikely to curb its cane production anytime soon. The world market for sugar is strong, and the industry receives direct help from abroad.
The International Finance Corp., the private-sector arm of the World Bank, has provided loans of more than $100 million to promote production and biofuel in Nicaragua in recent years. Though the loans went to two plantations whose workers have been heavily affected by kidney disease, they were approved without formal consideration of the disease because the IFC did not find a link between the cane fields and CKD, according to the Associated Press.
After workers complained about the loans, the IFC helped to negotiate an $800,000 donation to sponsor the ongoing Boston University study, the Center for Public Integrity reported. The money was provided by Nicaragua Sugar Estates Limited, a major sugar producer in the west of the country, part of more than $4 million it has committed toward research and community development in recent years.
Waiting to die
But for many in Chichigalpa, the results of the research – whatever they may be – will come too late.
Like most of the men in this community, Maximiliano Lopez, spent years in the fields cutting sugarcane. He began at 5 a.m., when the air was cool, and continued to work as the sun beat down, sometimes logging 14 hours a day. Then he was informed he had CKD.
In his own words, Maximiliano Lopez describes an average day in the life of a sugarcane cutter and how he's coping with the chronic kidney disease that he expects will soon kill him.
Even after his diagnosis, which bans him from working in the fields or at the mill, the muscular 32-year-old said he used a friend's identification to return to cutting cane. Nicaragua is the second-poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, he explained, and many workers continue to work the harvest after being diagnosed with kidney disease because it is the only work they can find.
"A lot of people do it out of necessity," Lopez said. "They have a big family and they're the head of the household, so even if they're sick, you have to find work to support your family."
But, as Lopez and other cane workers eventually discovered, short-term survival may mean leaving behind the families that they labored so mightily to support.
"I began working there to earn a living and instead I earned death," he said. "I'm just waiting for the day to come."
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To be honest or not to be honest.. That is the question
A lot of people use the line "I'm not looking for anything serious." But what I have found out that 7 times out of 10 they are looking for something serious, what their looking for just isn't in you. I honestly think no one wants to be the person to say "yeah I'm looking to fall in love by spring. I want something serious!" You run the risk of running the person away and appearing to be desperate, thirsty and crazy. There really isn't a win with this. You have to stay cool even if you develop feelings. No one is really honest about what they want until it's too late. I have heard "I'm not looking for anything serious" then the same girl turned around and said "I love you" a couple weeks later. Fail. Boom! In the game where EVERYONE wants EVERYONE to be honest, NO ONE is completely honest. Pride, past pains, and uncertainty makes that honest shit hard to do. So what is the answer? There isn't one. Just know when you're not 100 from jump, you can't be mad at the other party when you don't see eye to eye.


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SA Orthopaedic Journal
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SA orthop. j. vol.10 n.1 Centurion Jan. 2011
What about the right to a good name?
Anton H van den Bout
Orthopaedic and Spinal Surgeon and Advocate to High Court of SA
With the explosion of negligence claims and the accompanied publication of the relative doctor's name, in addition to unproven facts and allegations of negligence, it is perhaps good to consider the doctor's right to a good name. This independent personality interest involves the law of defamation.
There is of course the right to freedom of speech and freedom of the press. The right to a good name has not specifically been protected by the Human Rights Chapter of our Constitution (except possibly by way of human dignity) but the right to freedom of the press is expressly mentioned in Section 15(1) of the Human Rights Chapter.
In practice, doctors experience vulnerability after getting in involved in negligence claims, or even harassment claims. What can they do to protect themselves against slander and what are the boundaries of such a battle?
The Law of Personality deals with these questions and sets benchmarks against which to measure one's own case. When a claim arises, the Medical Protection Society handles these claims with expertise, but is often found lacking sufficient backup for the defendant doctor's good name and honour.
One's standing in society determines one's good name orfama. The Orthopaedic Society, and for that matter any doctor, has for millennia, enjoyed a good standing in the community. The community thinks highly of doctors and specialists who have sacrificed years of training in difficult circumstances, often to the detriment of their own family.
The opinion of the community in general is a measure standard called the boni mores. Here the reasonable man emerges, normally balanced, right thinking, not hypercritical or oversensitive. This representative of the general community is the crucial adjudicator of whether some allegations are defamation or should be seen as defamatory.
For instance, abusive language alone, does not affect one's standing in society. In addition defamation of all the orthopaedic surgeons as a group does not prove that one's good name has been dragged through the mud. However, it is another matter if one's competence or vocational abilities are at risk.
It is therefore clear that defamation of one's good name needs to be intentional (animus injuriandi) and not a mistake or a jest. The reasonable bystander however, could regard it as a joke. Wrongful or intentional publication of words or professional behaviour has the tendency to undermine one's standing in society, one's good name or one's reputation - no publication, no diminished esteem.
Publication should be to at least one person, and that same person should be aware of the intentional infringement of one's right to his good name. Communication of one spouse to another should be unhampered and can therefore not constitute defamation. Attorney-client privilege is excluded as well.
If one can prove that defamatory words are uttered within hearing distance of outsiders, or that they are published in newspapers and magazines, then defamation takes place, as one can expect that others will read the publication.
There are grounds of justification to cast suspicion on a person's vocational capabilities or competence. The first one is that of privilege. In this case someone has the duty or an interest but then has the limitations to act within a certain scope or limit. Malice excludes protection of privilege.
The second ground of justification is that of judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding where statements are made by witnesses, or litigants giving evidence. These statements however should be relevant to the matter concerned.
The third ground of justification is the reporting of proceedings of court or parliament or public bodies. This reporting must be fair and substantially accurate or correct. The report must be true and impartial and must be in the public interest.
The fourth ground of justification is a fair comment where an opinion is given and not a factual remark is made. This comment however, should be honest and bona fide and without malice.
Defamation however is not constituted only by the person who makes the remarks, but also by the one who repeats the remarks, and the one who confirms or directs the attention to these remarks. For instance, in the case of newspapers, it is not only the writer of the article who is responsible but also the editor, the printer, the publisher and even the owner. There is primafacie wrongfulness of remarks like this, if the reasonable man of ordinary intelligence and development feels that such a publication undermines one's reputation or good name. This objective, reasonable-man test is crucial.
The fifth ground of justification is private defence. This should however be relevant and not exceed the reasonable, necessary comments.
The sixth ground of justification is provocation and compensation, for instance during a quarrel. This should however not be validated out of proportion.
The last ground of justification is consent similar to an initiation ritual where it is known to take place.
The remedy against defamation is the actio iniuriarum where the person who has been slandered can institute an action in court against that person who, with improper motives, made the defamatory remarks and then made them public. A claim can also be brought in the case where financial loss has been suffered because of this defamation.
Is it not time to stand together as doctors, and orthopaedic surgeons in particular, to stem the flow of the general tendency of lack of respect for medical professionalism? Is it not time to counteract against patients who or newspapers that, far too casually, make defamatory and public remarks concerning the above-mentioned professionals?
Is it not time to take a stance in public against the spirit of the times that defamation will not be tolerated by the Orthopaedic Society with regard to their members? Should the Medical Protection Society not be approached with the proposal that paying members not only have the right to a defence against claims, but also the right to be protected against any intentional infringement of their right to their good name? It they agree to the proposal, would it be a problem to tax their members for this specific service?
Defamation of our good name could potentially destroy our career and even our lives.
Let us attempt to prevent information regarding justified claims for negligent professional behaviour being published in the press, and let us institute a process in which any claim, misconduct or negligence be adjudicated by an appointed panel or by colleagues. Let us as a Society of Orthopaedic Surgeons stand together to enable us to compel lawyers who are jumping on the bandwagon of negligence, to first submit their claims to a private hearing like an pre-appointed ombudsman.
The current process of the Health Professional Council of South Africa is not suitable as it is insufficient and overloaded with all the health profession's complaints. Let us put pressure on the Medical Profession Society to settle claims earlier and not to protract cases over years, thus allowing the opportunity for them to be published in newspapers and magazines. Let us stand together on this subject before it is too late. Let us sit and address these issues now and be positive about the protection of each other's good names.
Let us for once show the world that it is a privilege to be an Orthopaedic Surgeon, as it is acquired by hard and dedicated work. But let us remind the world of our dignity as professional people, there to serve the community. Let us imprint in peoples' minds that defamation is not to be taken lightly, as appropriate steps will be taken. Let us show the world that we are proud to serve as medical specialists but that we are not there to be ridiculed and trampled on. The vocation of Orthopaedic Surgeon is a profession to be proud of and to be treasured by society as a whole.
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This playground honors Walter Bowne (1770-1846), a state senator and New York City mayor. Mr. Bowne's summer residence stood on this property until March, 1925, when fire destroyed the building. As mayor (1828-1832), Bowne is remembered for his strict policies aimed at preventing cholera epidemics. Following reports of an outbreak in a neighboring town during the summer of 1832, Bowne established a stringent quarantine policy regulating travel in and out of the metropolitan area. Bowne, like others of his time period, believed that cholera was spread through direct human contact. He required that all ships maintain a distance of at least 300 yards from municipal ports and that carriages remain at least 1.5 miles from the city limits. Bowne's well-meaning attempts to prevent a cholera outbreak failed, and hundreds of New Yorkers died of the disease. It was not until 1883 that the German physician Robert Koch discovered that cholera spreads through contaminated water or food. By that time, cholera epidemics had been largely contained by the construction of the Croton Aqueduct and the provision of clean water for consumption and bathing.
John Bowne, who was the first representative of the Bowne name in this area, settled in Flushing in 1631. As an early Dutch immigrant, John lived peacefully under the administration of Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant (1610-1672), who was a member of the Dutch Reformed Church. By the 1640s, however, the Dutch and English were vying for control of the region as well as control of religious practice. While the English promised religious toleration, Stuyvesant waged war on the Quakers. Following increased persecution during the 1650s, several Quakers drafted the "Flushing Remonstrance" (1657), a document calling for religious freedom. John Bowne provided the protesters with the use of his home for religious services. In 1662, Stuyvesant's administration arrested Bowne for harboring Quakers and deported him to Holland. Bowne was released in 1664 following a successful appeal of his case. He returned to his home in Flushing while Stuyvesant's proprietor, the Dutch East India Company, ordered the persecution of Quakers to cease. The "Flushing Remonstrance" is widely recognized as a precursor to the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.
Parks and the Board of Education jointly operate Bowne Playground, bounded by Union Street, Bowne Street, and Sanford Avenue. Located adjacent to P.S. 20 (Anna Silver School), the playground is comprised of a square section and a larger "L" shaped section. The City of New York acquired this land on September 9, 1943 and it opened on November 18, 1950 to supplement the recreational facilities of both the newly constructed P.S. 20 and the local community. The playground features a comfort station, spray shower, school maintained garden, handball and basketball courts, a softball diamond, and various play equipment. In September 1997, the property received a $56,000 renovation funded by Mayor Giuliani. The improvements included the replacement of fences and guide-rails along with routine site maintenance.
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The Euro 2012 Soccer Championship is finishing up the first round of matches. As I am currently teaching in Croatia, I am naturally following the home team as it negotiates its path to the finals.
Croatia is in Group C which also includes Ireland, Italy, and Spain, three-fifths of the PIIGS countries (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain). Italy and Spain are two soccer powerhouses, Spain won the last edition of the Euro Cup in 2008, and could possibly repeat.
Oh how things, have changed since that last tournament, which I also had the pleasure of witnessing from here. In June 2008, the average unemployment rate of Group C was about 9.25 percent, with Spains rate rising 2.3 percent in the three months ending in June 2008.
The grip of the housing bubble bursting in Ireland was beginning to accelerate unemployment there. Italy and Croatia were both experiencing reasonable, for them, unemployment rates.
Over the next four years, Spain, Ireland, and Croatia would see their unemployment rates more than double, with Spains currently about 24.5 percent.
Germany, in the meantime, has done remarkably well. So well, in fact OK maybe not that well, but the European bar for success has become increasingly low they are unwilling to loosen the purse strings for fear of raising inflation. So rather than lose themselves to fiscal imprudence they are willing to let other economies fail. Germany is through to the next round.
As is their next competitor Greece, the G in PIIGS. The symbolic implications of this match are too numerous to count. The fiscally responsible Teutonic powerhouse versus the profligate and enfeebled unemployment is roughly 23 percent Balkan economy. This is a no miss game. Imagine the headlines.
And what of Portugal, the P? The Portuguese made it through to the next round, and they play non-eurozone member the Czech Republic. Their unemployment rates: 15.5 percent in Portugal and less than half of that for the Czechs.
So the PI-GS (drop Ireland) have made it through. Meanwhile the well-to-do northern countries Denmark and the Netherlands are out. As are the transition economies of Poland and Russia. Ukraine and Sweden play in separate games Tuesday, but neither are likely to advance.
So Germany faces, with the exception of the Czechs, teams from countries where economic resentments are high. And Greece might even be thawing with the recent election of the center-right, pro-European New Democracy party, perhaps paving the way for more bailout money from its rival on the field Friday, Germany.
So the Croatian team heads home, and the certainty of the soccer pitch is replaced by the uncertainty of the European crisis, a dark cloud looming over the global economy.
And yet through all these dire economic warnings and predictions, Europeans turn their attention to TVs to watch their respective teams. For a few hours, bank failures, bailouts, unemployment rates, and political hubris are put aside to cheer or bemoan their fates on the pitch.
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Thursday, January 26, 2017
I just visited the site for the newspaper "La Prensa Grafica." I made a beeline to the short poll they have on the front page. I often go to it to see what the subject matter is. It is short and sweet and always about a new topic. I recommend taking the poll. You not only practice reading the questions, but you get practice reading the words and trying to translate them in your head. That develops marvelous skills. If you don't get the words, you can always look for clues in the articles or go find a dictionary. You can also use the internet to look up a word or phrase. Today, they focused on the words "espionaje" and "prontitud." You also get statistics in numerals, so you can practice the numbers in Spanish. You can practice saying the numbers and practice the percents. Visiting a newspaper's poll is a very fast way of keeping up your Spanish. Try to visit different ones in different papers today. It's a great way to stay informed on matters in Spanish.
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Monday, December 26, 2016
I meet very outgoing people that want to only learn how to speak Spanish to others. I am more of a bookish sort. I like to spend time learning Spanish from books, newspapers, or even the internet. I find that in order to speak Spanish, you need exposure to print material. If you learn a word and put it in a sentence, you can also use it in conversations. There are people that want to bypass the whole learning process and only speak colloquial Spanish. That is understandable. It takes time to sit and learn it. If you're an outgoing sort, you want to practice it more with outsiders. You want to be fluent in speaking Spanish. I once met someone that only wanted to practice conversations in Spanish. He also wanted to find an interpreter to go abroad with him for business. He didn't seem to have a whole lot of time to study Spanish. So there is the problem with time. I would say to practice patience when it comes to learning Spanish. Learning Spanish by yourself or listening to conversations on television will definitely help you get acclimated to Spanish. Practicing with another person or other people would solidify it. It takes time to learn. No matter if you bypass the studying process and go straight to conversations, you still need time to perfect it. You can loosen your tongue and practice speaking it. People may be patient to help you correct your mistakes. So you can learn to speak fluently in person with others. No matter which way you decide to tackle Spanish, it's the motivation that counts. Don't lose your interest in learning it. I hope you find the time in the New Year to practice Spanish or practice conversations. Happy learning!
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Saturday, November 26, 2016
Libraries and Conversations
If you don't know already, this blog is for people that are trying to learn Spanish alone. I call it solitary Spanish. I've thought of three other ideas to get you exposed to Spanish when it is difficult to do so. One idea is to start a Spanish library. Once I went into a store that had all music in Spanish. What if you could go to a store that carried items in Spanish? It would mean buying and collecting books in Spanish. It would be a great hobby and keep information at hand. Just make some room on your shelves for the items. Another idea is to write out conversations in Spanish on paper. Choose words and phrases that you need to practice. One example is a friend of mine that keeps getting "buenas noches" wrong. He keeps saying "buenos noches." I would encourage him to write out a conversation with the words in it and read the lines. It would be like practicing a script. Yet another idea is to choose a paragraph written in Spanish. Write the sentences out separately in sentence form and number the sentences. This gets you close enough to the paragraph to see how it is constructed. It helps you to see how the sentences are constructed too. You can practice the sentences separately. It will help you get more comfortable with the paragraph itself. Try it! You'll have the mechanics of Spanish down after working with a number of paragraphs in this way. I hope you like these ideas and use them when you are playing Spanish solitaire.
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Notes and Podcasts
I found a couple of sites that use podcasts to teach Spanish. So I thought I would share them with you. One of them is on the subject of the greeting "que tal." That you can listen to on the blog, myspanishnotes.blogspot.com The other podcasts are on the site notesinspanish.com You don't need books or paper. All you need is a listening ear. A couple, Ben and Marina, take you through the podcasts. They have intermediate to advanced listening levels. You can find this couple on youtube also. Just do a search for "Ben Curtis." If you feel like taking notes, no one can stop you. I would take notes when listening to new material. That way you have concrete matter with which to handle. You can take notes when listening to "noticias" (news) or to telenovelas. You can take notes while reading the "noticias" too. If you hear snatches of Spanish conversations you don't understand, take notes about them and ask people later about what it all means. An example is that of an online friend of mine. He kept hearing the word "donde" frequently and never knew what it meant. He found out from me that it means "where." I hope you like podcasts and news and learn Spanish from them. Jot down all your notes and study them later.
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Thursday, September 29, 2016
Word Bank
Want to create a word bank for Spanish words? All you need is a box such as a shoe box or other box, a pair of scissors, and paper. Collect words you have recently learned and write them on paper. Cut them up and put them in the box. You can inspect it monthly to see how many words you have learned. You can also cut up words you see in a newspaper. Keep two columns titled, "words I know" and "words I don't know." Choose words you know and write them on paper. You can make it an activity to learn the words you don't know and eventually add them to the word bank. Keep a tally of how many words you learn in a month. It will be exciting to see your progress each month. Saving words will become a natural habit, and you will be surprised at how much you can really learn.
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Friday, August 26, 2016
Sea of Words
A pagragraph is like a sea of words. It's a rectangular block of words that are mixed with regular words along with articles, prepositions, adverbs, pronouns, etc Imagine that you are diving into the paragraph looking for words. How many of them do you know? How many don't you know? Choose the words that are chunky, not the little ones that cement the other words in place. Choose a Spanish book or a newspaper. Look at a paragraph and pretend it's a sea and you're diving for words. It will be interesting to put them in columns titled, "Words I Know" and "Words I Don't Know." Take the words you don't know and go to the web and type in "Sentence Maker Spanish." When you get the page of the sentence maker, type in the words you don't know one at a time. Can you figure out what the word means from the sentence that is given? Use the other words in the sentence to give you clues. This is an interesting way to get close to words and paragraphs. It will help you pay attention to detail and to focus. Sentences are also like beads. The words are strung together in order. The way the writer puts the words together is creative and artistic. You can also create your own sentences with the new words you discover. Find a sea and dive in! You'll love discovering new words.
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Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Mystery Words
I try to go to places where I will find Spanish words I don't know. Today, I read passages from the Holy Bible in Spanish. There were a lot of words there that I didn't know. So everything was new to me. The words were like little mysteries I had to solve. What is this word? What does it mean? Also, there was the satisfaction of finding out and knowing what the words meant. I looked in the Book of Proverbs which is chock full of these mystery words. Two words I really liked were "colinas" and "sabiduria." Another place you can find new words in Spanish is in menus at restaurants. The meal itself is a mystery, because you don't yet know what the words mean. When you order the food, then you know what the words or phrases meant to say. You can also ask the waiter or waitress to explain the words in the menu. That is a great way to immerse yourself in the language. Mystery words, then, are something you can always look at when you are anywhere on the globe. I want to look at travel magazines in Spanish or any other magazines in Spanish. They would be chock full of new mystery words also. I hope I have piqued your interest in finding mystery words to solve. You get to be a detective and solve a whole lot of cases this way. Remember every new word is a mystery to solve.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Give Spanish A Listen
New Spanish listeners often think that Spanish is spoken too rapidly. Spanish speakers do speak quickly. It is difficult to hear the words individually within the spoken sentences. Here are some ways you can get used to listening to Spanish. It is not enough to read, write, or speak Spanish. One has to listen to it to get used to the speed. It takes time to get used to it. You can choose an article from a newspaper or write a paragraph in Spanish. Record yourself reading the article. Read it fast. Then read it slowly. Practice listening to what is being said. This will also give your tongue practice in pronouncing Spanish words. You will also learn the structure of the sentences and phrases. It will become more familiar to you. Another thing you can do is listen to dialogue in telenovelas. At first, you might think they are speaking too quickly. Later, you get used to the speed, and you can pick out words and phrases they are using. You can write down some of the sentences they speak and practice learning them on your own time. Listening to Spanish is just as important as reading and writing. It will develop your ability to have conversations in Spanish. So give Spanish a listen. You'll have a great time following Spanish in this way.
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Monday, May 23, 2016
Word List
Here's a site that lists one hundred or so Spanish words to learn. You can listen to what the word sounds like by pressing the loud speaker next to it. Try to practice some at a time if you feel there are too many words. It is good to have a core of about 100 words with which to work. Happy learning! http://www.spanishpod101.com/spanish-word-lists/#
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Friday, April 22, 2016
Chevere! A Mystery Solved
Have you ever heard of a Spanish word that you didn't know? This happened to me years ago when I watched the telenovela, "Cristal." I was watching telenovelas to improve my Spanish. Three of the characters, Zoraida, Inocencia, and Cristal were using the word, "chevere" a whole lot. I was curious about the word. I thought it meant "precious" or "expensive" based on the context of the sentence. I was really stumped. I began to ask around about the word and ran into dead ends. People kept telling me that it meant "cheese." I thought about the show and why would they be stating "cheese" all the time. So, that was a no go. Just the other day, I found this blog: email@example.com (Feb. 7, 2016 entry) The writer was talking about "chevere" on it. For me, the mystery was finally solved. I was so happy, because she is a linguist at heart, and I was able to get to the answer through her blog. Take a look at the blog entry for the answer. If you ever hear of a word that you don't know, don't give up. It is fun to interview people even though people may not know the answer. It is also challenging to look on the net or a dictionary for the word. The more words you know, the better! Happy word hunting!
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Just for the luls.
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As a Marine I understand some of your frustrations, and we ALL did field day and dealt with the bullshit but all in all I got to see a shitload of countries as an embassy guard (cuz I was motivated enough to strive for something I thought was interesting and worthwhile and other than a barracks) after being a a combat engineer for 2 years. I nailed a whole wide world of eastern European chicks, held down an embassy during a revolution and left with a letter of recommendation from an Ambassador thats helped out alot in my professional career. I got money for school and now I'm an engineer with one of the top 3 Aerospace companies in the world. And I did all that without being a buddy fucker Marine and I made friends that I will have for the rest of my life due to the Corps. Its like they said buddy "No one promised you a rose garden". You've also heard the following I'm sure…"The Marine Corps is what you make of it". You dont like where you're at? You wanna be high speed? If you're a grunt, try out for recon, try out for security forces. If youre a pogue try out for MSG duty. And if you're weak and cant make it, work out more, if you have a bad record and they wont take you, whose fault is that??
Dont get me wrong, there are a ton of pricks that with a shred of Administrative power, will try to fuck you over, Ive requested mast before and that didnt do shit. I get it, but if you think its better in the Army or Air Force then you're welcome to go and put on their gay ass colors.
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Language name: Yao: Liansan Guosan
ISO Language Name: Iu Mien [ium]
GRN Language Number: 6138
Language Scope: Dialect
Language State: Verified
ROD Dialect Code: 06138
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The Internet has made swapping family tree files a snap. In fact, at sites such as WorldConnect <worldconnect.rootsweb.com> and FamilySearch <www.familysearch.org>, it's possible to add several generations to your pedigree just by downloading a few GEDCOM files (the universal family tree file format). The downside of Internet genealogy is having to figure out which people in those GEDCOM files (if any) are actually related to you. Yes, the names may be the same, but names alone don't make a match.
Before entering that data directly into your master file, it's important to double-check it. But what's a genealogist to do with a file containing hundreds of names? Enter two new programs designed to deal with that problem.
GEN Matcher
This Windows-based program from Mud-Creek software quickly compares two files for matches, or searches one file for duplicates. It can compare GEDCOMs as well as files generated by Personal Ancestral File, The Master Genealogist, Legacy Family Tree and Family Tree Maker. This makes the program especially useful if, say, you want to compare your Family Tree Maker file to your cousin's Legacy file.
After you select two files for comparison, the program starts making matches. For each possible match, GENMatcher displays both files' data on that ancestor side by side. Thanks to color-coding (which you can customize), it's easy to see at a glance which items match up perfectly and which need further investigation — matches appear green, and nonmatches appear pale yellow.
If you're not confident about a match, click on the Family, Pedigree and Descendants tabs. These views provide details on an individual's spouse(s), children and ancestors, so you can make sure you have the right person.
Want to print the results of your comparison before adding the new data to your master file? Use the Reports feature (under the File menu) to create a summary. To read the report later, save it as a PDF, HTML, Rich Text Format (RTF) or graphic file.
GENMatcher's user-friendly interface and practical application make it an excellent choice for any genealogist. Not only is it simple to use, it's a real timesaver, particularly for people who do a lot of file sharing.
You can download GENMatcher for $29.95 at <mudcreek.ca/genmatcher.htm>; it costs $44.90 on CD-ROM. A free trial version also is available, though it will display only four matches between files and won't find duplicates within a single file.
Gen Merge
This program from Pleiades Software Development takes file matching a step further by comparing data from multiple GEDCOM files and then merging the data into a new GEDCOM file. (It also eliminates duplicates in a single file.) In minutes, GenMerge can process up to 200,000 individuals at a time. Although most full-fledged genealogy programs have a merge function, GenMerge goes a step further: It uses a record-linking method that compares not only an ancestor's personal data, but also his family's data, which helps to ensure accuracy. GenMerge even analyzes the people in your file with only a first or last name.
Unlike GENMatcher, GenMerge doesn't color-code results, so the data's harder to read at a glance. But the program does offer statistical reports with amazing depth. Before merging your GEDCOMs, GenMerge scours each file for duplicates and inconsistencies. It then generates a series of reports detailing the analysis. Because GenMerge doesn't change your original files, you can make necessary corrections, then run the program again, review the results and (if needed) make further changes. Once the files are clean, you can instruct the program to merge them. When it's done, GenMerge will generate the same set of reports, so you can see the additions to your "main" file — a copy of your master file — as well as high-scoring failures (people who look like they should merge, but have conflicting parent or grandparent data). If you find problems with your data, just fix the master file and try again.
GenMerge can save hours of time you'd otherwise spend poring over potential matches and manually updating files. Once you're happy with the GEDCOM created by GenMerge, you can make it your new master file. (I recommend keeping the old master file as a backup, just in case.)
GenMerge costs $30 as a download or $36 on CD-ROM from <www.genmerge.com>. You also can download a free, 10-day trial version. Although GenMerge is currently available only for PCs, Pleiades Software Development plans to release a Mac version soon.


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Any one know of any establishments in this area lived here for many years but still sruggling to find a brew outside of the chains
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Ed wrote:Cafe Davide - now called David's Brasserie at Trentham Estates is the best I have found round here after many years of searching.
The Lounge on Stone High Street is not too bad but variable.
Where in North Staffs are you based? Here in Cheadle there is Moshi Coffee which is a franchise started by a Cheadle resident using ex-Costa refurb machines and furniture. They are getting better. There is another Moshi inside DK Motorcycles in Newcastle!!
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To a medieval European, the word "Viking" inspires a lot of things. Expressions of fear, terror and abhorrence would fit in just nicely. The reason for this is in no way rocket science. The Vikings raided all over Europe, leaving destruction and havoc in their wake. If you are the adventurous type, then you would admire the Vikings. One way for you to idolise them is the slots game – Viking Fire – developed by Lightning Box Games. To behold the terror and fear of this game, just stick with me in this review.
About the Developer of Viking Fire Slots
Viking Fire is a slots game that was developed by Lightning Box games. This outfit started out as a group of experienced people in the gaming world interested in bringing a new perspective to the development of online slots games. They started out creating software for land-based casinos but have steadily moved to online slots game creation. Although this developer is based in faraway Australia, its influence can be clearly seen all over the world.
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Viking Fire is a slots game that has five reels, four rows and a total of forty fixed paylines. This means that you can't modify the number of paylines in this game. This is not bad since the more paylines you have, the more ways you can win in the game.
The reels spin between two tied wooden poles. In the background is a lush green field that spreads deep into the horizon. Leaning against the left-hand side of the reels is a Viking clad in normal Viking costume.
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(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) -- An international team led by UC Davis researchers has found that mothers in sub-Saharan Africa could successfully follow a protocol for flash-heating breastmilk to reduce transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) -- the virus that causes AIDS -- to their infants.
Flash-heating breastmilk is recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO) for HIV-infected mothers during times of increased transmission risk. The technique involves expressing breastmilk into a glass jar that is placed in a small pot of water and heated until the water boils.
Previous research from UC Davis and UC Berkeley showed that this process inactivates HIV in breastmilk, while retaining the milk's nutritional and infection-fighting properties. But whether or not women in poor countries would be willing and able to successfully use the technique had not been established.
Published in the May issue of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, the current study showed that women in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania -- a resource-poor urban area -- could follow the protocol consistently over an average of about 10 weeks, with some mothers utilizing the method up to a full year.
"More women with HIV than we anticipated were willing and able to flash heat their breastmilk and make it safe despite very limited resources," said Caroline Chantry, professor of pediatrics at UC Davis Children's Hospital and lead author of the study. "These findings show that the World Health Organization's recommendations are feasible in a real-world setting."
Even in the absence of HIV medications, HIV-positive mothers in resource-poor regions are advised to exclusively breastfeed their children for six months. When compared to partial breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding can reduce the chances of mother-to-child HIV transmission during the first months of life. Physicians believe this is because mixed feeds increase the likelihood of allergens or contaminants that compromise the epithelial lining of a baby's digestive tract, making it easier for HIV to pass through. But while longer-term breastfeeding substantially increases the likelihood of HIV transmission, early cessation of breastfeeding is associated with high morbidity and mortality in developing areas.
"It's a very high-risk period for diseases and deaths from gastrointestinal infections," Chantry said. "Flash heating can help women provide nutrient and antibody-rich breastmilk to their infants beyond 6 months of age and reduce the possibility of HIV transmission at the same time."
To find out if women would use the protocol, Chantry and her team enrolled 101 HIV-infected mothers and their infants in the study: 86 infants were still alive and participating in the study at 5 months of age when the infants were tested for HIV. Of these infants, 72 were HIV negative, and more than half of their mothers chose to flash heat their breastmilk.
Peer counselors provided the necessary equipment and then visited the mothers weekly to offer instructions on flash heating and observe how well they followed the protocol, which included washing their hands, cleaning utensils, bringing the milk to the correct temperature (typically 72.9° C) and then allowing it to cool before feeding it to children with a spoon or cup.
"These mothers succeeded in flash heating with only modest support from trained peer counselors rather than professional health-care providers," Chantry said. "This method is inexpensive in terms of costs and workforce and could be sustainable in resource-limited settings."
Untreated and flash-heated breastmilk samples were collected every two weeks for bacterial analysis. The flash-heated milk was found to be bacteriologically safe.
Chantry said that the study sets the stage for a clinical trial to determine whether flash heating improves infant-health outcomes and to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of health improvements in addition to averted HIV infections.
"Our focus is on improving both HIV-free 'thrival' as well as HIV-free survival," Chantry said. "WHO has also called for research on the feasibility of supporting and sustaining this practice on a large scale."
In addition to Chantry, study authors were Sera Young, Janet Peerson and Kathryn Dewey of UC Davis; Waverly Rennie, Monica Ngonyani, Clara Mashio and Margaret Nyambo of University Research Company, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Kiersten Israel-Ballard and Peggy Koniz-Booher of PATH, Seattle; Mecky Matee of Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; and Deborah Ash of Academy for Educational Development, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
"Feasibility of Using Flash-Heated Breastmilk as an Infant Feeding Option for HIV-Exposed, Uninfected Infants after 6 Months of Age in Urban Tanzania" was funded by the National Institutes of Health (grant number R01HD057602). Reporters can request a copy of the study by e-mailing email@example.com.
UC Davis Children's Hospital is the Sacramento region's only nationally ranked, comprehensive hospital for children, serving infants, children, adolescents and young adults with primary, subspecialty and critical care. It includes the Central Valley's only pediatric emergency department and level I pediatric trauma center, which offers the highest level of care for critically ill children. The 129-bed children's hospital includes the state-of-the-art 49-bed neonatal and 24-bed pediatric intensive care and pediatric cardiac intensive care units. With more than 120 physicians in 33 subspecialties, UC Davis Children's Hospital has more than 74,000 clinic and hospital visits and 13,000 emergency department visits each year. For more information, visit children.ucdavis.edu.


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Heroin killed a record 83 people in Suffolk County last year as more addicts turned to the drug amid a crackdown on prescription pill abuse, according to law enforcement officials and county records.
The number of people confirmed to have died from heroin-related overdoses across Long Island rose to 110 last year from 96 in 2011, despite a decline in Nassau, records of the county medical examiners show. Heroin claimed more lives even as the overall number of opiate overdose victims on Long Island fell to 338 in 2012 from 366 the previous year, records show.
Authorities attributed the increase in heroin deaths to a dwindling supply of pain pills sold on the streets and tighter restrictions at pharmacies.
"They've closed down the pharmacy access and cracked down on the bad doctors, but that demand goes somewhere, and right now that's to heroin dealers," said Jeffrey Reynolds, executive director of the Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence. "It's flowing to . . . [heroin dealers] in communities across Long Island and the city, because pills are so much harder to get."
Suffolk police agreed that heroin use is increasing.
"We're seeing an upward trend to heroin use," said Suffolk police Det. Lt. Bob Donohue, commanding officer of the community response bureau. "It's almost like a graduation from prescription pills. The cost of heroin is cheaper and it's easier for them to get their hands on."
In Nassau County, heroin-related overdose deaths fell to 27 last year from 32 in 2011, records show. Nassau County police said their emphasis on making drug arrests and educating people about the dangers of heroin and pain pill abuse helped contribute to the decline in overdose deaths. In Suffolk County, heroin-related overdose deaths rose from 64 in 2011 to 83 in 2012, the records show.
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The number of heroin-related arrests by Nassau County police surged to 427 last year from 228 in 2011, county records show. In Suffolk the number of heroin-related arrests rose to 1,266 last year from 1,051 in 2011.
At the root of the turn toward heroin is a sweeping effort by federal and local law enforcement agencies to deter prescription drug abuse. The effort was spurred by the Medford pharmacy murders of four people in June 2011 by David Laffer, who authorities said also stole large quantities of painkillers.
Another galvanizing event was the accidental fatal shooting of federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent John Capano on Dec. 31, 2011, by a retired Nassau County police officer while Capano was struggling with a suspect who had robbed a Seaford pharmacy of painkillers.
The battle to curb abuse of pills such as oxycodone and hydrocodone has included more pharmacist education, the establishment of a real-time state database to track prescriptions, and the arrests of pain doctors and dealers.
Law enforcement officials and drug treatment experts also say the actual number of heroin overdose victims may be higher on Long Island, since not all victims undergo toxicology tests and heroin is difficult to identify as a cause of death because it metabolizes very quickly.
"It's probably true that many go unreported or unrecognized depending on the circumstance in which someone died," said Joseph Smith, executive director of Long Beach Reach, a chemical dependency treatment center.
Suffolk police, federal Drug Enforcement Administration officials and drug treatment experts said Long Islanders who once used only pain pills are increasingly traveling to parts of Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx to purchase heroin. It is a fraction of the cost of prescription opioids such as OxyContin, which can cost anywhere from $20 to $80 per pill, depending on their strength.
By contrast, a 1-gram bag of Colombian heroin typically costs about $10, and dealers across the region have begun to split the bags in half and sell them for $7 apiece to meet increased demand, authorities said.
"It's the same high, and it's cheaper than the pills," said DEA spokeswoman Erin Mulvey. "This is a serious problem."
Among those who died from heroin overdoses in 2012 was Megan Roethel, 22, of Huntington, who began using the drug when it became too difficult to buy pain pills, said her mother, Susan Roethel.
"As soon as she couldn't afford them, she took heroin," said Roethel, founder of the drug awareness group The Fallen on Long Island. "It was much cheaper and it was much more available to her than the pills. Young people don't have the fear of heroin now that they used to."
2004: 32
2005: 51
2006: 41
2007: 34
2008: 42
2009: 47
2010: 37
2011: 64
2012: 83
2004: 24
2005: 38
2006: 37
2007: 27
2008: 46
2009: 38
2010: 23
2011: 32
2012: 27
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Yeah, I'm not a huge fan either.Remember, he was just sent down last year for awhile because he was struggling.
Any interest in Trevor Rosenthal? Cards are going to release him
Cardinals give a qo to Lynn. I wonder if he'd take it.
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Trade Bryce for what? How does that help us win a title in 2018 by getting rid of one of the best players in the game?
This plus he doesn't have a fifth bench player. Even tho Lind has been declined if he doesn't get a great offer I hope the Nats will get him and Kendrick back.
Where is all that money coming from?
Buster Olney is reporting teams that have contacted JD Martinez have said he is looking for 200 mill.
And I want a pony, similar odds of both
His agent is Scott Boras.
Remember when he thought he could get Stephen drew a huge deal?
Over how many years? I'll give him a 20 year, 200 million deal.
Why Feldman? Just start Cole and get the same performance at a fraction of the cost.If we're getting a pitcher, we need to trade for a top of the rotation guy.
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SACRAMENTO — State agencies that work with farmers and ranchers would get a boost under Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed budget.
The California Department of Food and Agriculture would receive an extra $20 million in cap-and-trade revenue for nitrogen and dairy digester research and development of renewable fuels, Secretary Karen Ross explained on the agency's website.
And the governor's $142.2 million funding increase for the University of California should help the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, although officials don't know yet exactly how the new money would be distributed.
"We're very pleased with the governor's proposed budget and encouraged by the show of support for the university," division vice president Barbara Allen-Diaz said in an email. "UC has always been supportive of UC Cooperative Extension as its representative in communities throughout California."
Allen-Diaz said her office is "committed to rebuilding" the extension and hiring more advisors.
Brown's budget includes other items of interest to farmers, including $1.8 million and 11 new positions at the State Water Resources Control Board to tackle illegal water diversions for marijuana cultivation, the California Cattlemen's Association noted in a newsletter.
For agriculture-related agencies, the budget proposal unveiled Jan. 9 marks a reversal of fortunes from two years ago, when the CDFA was grappling with about $33 million in cuts while the UC system was dipping into reserves to absorb a sudden $100 million hit.
Thanks in part to a voter-approved sales and income tax increase in 2012, the CDFA received a slight increase last year and the university enjoyed a $500 million infusion.
This year, Brown proposes general fund contributions of nearly $3 billion to the UC and $63.1 million for Food and Agriculture. The CDFA's general-fund budget would be virtually unchanged from last year after the department received as much as $99 million a few years ago.
However, revenue from the state's new cap-and-trade auction system would be set aside for efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture. This would include $12 million to help design and build dairy digester systems, $5 million to reduce nitrogen contamination in groundwater and $3 million to reduce fuel emissions, according to Ross' post on the CDFA's Planting Seeds blog.
The governor also proposes $100 million in cap-and-trade funds for the Sustainable Communities program, which includes farmland preservation, and $1 million for a food safety laboratory the CDFA and UC operate jointly, Ross noted. Also, $2 million in one-time funds would be used to maintain several CDFA facilities around the state, she explained.
California Department of Food and Agriculture: http://www.cdfa.ca.gov
University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources: http://ucanr.edu


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Let-Down Alert: Revlon Double Twist Mascara
So how can you get a decent application with this stuff? Well you can wipe off the excess product with a tissue, then very slowly and carefully apply it to your lashes, then take a separate lash comb to take away the clumps... but who has time for all those steps every single morning? It was so hard for me to get this on my lashes without depositing tons of product. After my best attempt, my lashes looked thick alright- but also incredibly weighed down. The curl was gone and they were just kind of there. Obviously thick, and not cute.
It's important to note that in a previous question of the week (which had gotten around 900 reponses) the vast majority of those who answered said the biggest flaw a mascara can have is being clumpy. So therefore- resist the urge to pickup this pretty red tube of mascara. If you're in the market for a nice drugstore mascara try L'oreal HIP, CoverGirl Volume Exact, or L'oreal Lash Out to name a few.
Thanks for stopping by the blog, and have a great day!