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When CARE: Community Alliance for Research and Engagement was launched several years ago, one of its first tasks was to collect data on the health of New Haven's residents, including the city's children.
CARE knew problems existed, but still, the results were sobering.
Many students in the public schools, even those in early grades, already had pronounced weight problems that, left unchecked, would likely carry over into adulthood and result in a lifetime of chronic disease. Specifically, half of the local fifth- and sixth-grade students in the public schools were either overweight or obese. The rate for their peers nationwide is about one in three.
And the troubling statistics didn't end there. The 2009 survey also revealed higher-than-average rates of hypertension, diabetes and asthma.
Local education officials note that children who are struggling with poor health generally don't perform as well in school. They are tired more often and can't sustain their attention for long periods of time. This health disparity, in turn, results in an educational disparity and, eventually, in an economic divide that some contend is growing ever wider.
"These issues of childhood obesity are really so profound," says Jeannette R. Ickovics, Ph.D., professor and director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences program and CARE's director. "When changes of this magnitude take hold in the population it is clear that there can't be just one cause, so there can't be just one solution."
A growing partnership
To address something as complex as childhood obesity, CARE has developed a range of in-school programs while it also conducts original research on health and academic performance. This partnership, in turn, is blurring the traditional town-gown boundaries and building the foundation for CARE's long-term goal: a healthier New Haven.
Part of the solution is to make healthier food available and accessible in the schools and in the communities where the children live, and such changes are being made. But other measures are just as crucial, including programs that promote physical activity and other healthy lifestyle habits. CARE, meanwhile, is working to strengthen existing and emerging programs already initiated by New Haven's District Wellness Committee.
"We're pushing schoolwide campaigns," explains Susan Peters, M.P.H. '97, M.S.N. '97, CARE's senior program director for school initiatives and co-chair of the committee. "There have always been a lot of isolated and fragmented interventions. They have less impact without the synergy and coordination of the entire school and teaching staff."
A cornerstone of this outreach is the Health Heroes program, which has already been implemented in several schools, with more expected to follow. The program can be tailored to address a health issue that is unique to a school and it can also be used to reinforce other social needs. One school, for example, has used a Health Heroes challenge to improve behaviors as part of its anti-bullying campaign, while other schools have used it to stress increasing physical activity and reducing the amount of time children spend immobile in front of televisions computers. Adults in the schools took notice. By popular demand, the program was expanded to include staff and families.
To date, more than 500 students, some 200 families and 60 staff members have completed at least one of the challenges posed by Health Heroes. For students who complete more than one, the possibility of a significant award, such as an iPod or bicycle, is offered.
While there is flexibility in the challenges offered by Health Heroes, they all share a common theme: developing healthier habits at a young age. Among the specific challenges students and others can accept are eating more fruits and vegetables, getting eight to 10 hours of sleep nightly, eating meals with family, drinking water instead of sugary beverages and engaging in at least 30 minutes of daily exercise.
Will Clark, chief operating officer for the New Haven Public Schools, says that CARE's involvement in the schools has made measurable progress and that he looks forward to continued successes.
"CARE has become a valuable partner," he says. "It offers that larger view and it brings additional expertise into the process of vetting, managing, monitoring and judging what everyone is doing, not just its own interventions."
Indeed, CARE's programs seek to build upon health-related efforts that were already part of the city's school system. Such policies are required by federal law, and a 2008 ranking by the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity found that New Haven's policies were the best in of all of Connecticut's 166 public school districts.
"New Haven deserves a lot of credit. The district made the commitment to change its food environment," says Marlene B. Schwartz, Ph.D. '96, the Rudd Center's deputy director. "Most importantly, New Haven removed all competitive foods, including a la carte items and vending machines. The only options are the school lunches that meet nutritional standards. But despite these huge changes, students in New Haven are still at extremely high risk for weight related health problems."
Healthier schools/better students
Why does all of this matter? Beyond the future health of students as they grow into adulthood, a pilot study by CARE researchers indicates that health and academic performance are closely linked.
CARE and its partners have found that students with healthier personal practices (the top three being no television in their bedroom, less fast food in their diet and maintaining a healthy weight) are more likely to perform better on the Connecticut Mastery Test, a key indicator of whether students are achieving the academic benchmarks for their age and grade. The jump in test scores is most pronounced among children in the top one-third of students, that is those who have nine or more healthy practices among the 14 measured. Those in the top one-third of students are 2.2 times more likely to achieve goal on reading, writing and mathematics compared to those in the lowest one-third of students.
To better understand the relationship between health and school performance, researchers are beginning to look closely at the implementation and effectiveness of the District Wellness Plan across the city's public schools. With a $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, body mass index and behaviors associated with being overweight in a cohort of fifth-grade students across 12 schools will be measured over five years.
In addition, the research team will collect behavioral information and school-related outcomes, such as test scores, grades and absenteeism and truancy rates. Schools were randomized to receive an array of interventions: three schools will implement focused physical activity interventions, three will implement focused nutritional interventions, three will implement both nutrition and physical activity interventions, and three will be delayed intervention schools but will have the opportunity to implement district-level changes that naturally occur. The study is structured to differentiate between the classroom environment and the school and to highlight variations between the focused interventions.
The findings will likely inform future decisions about how to promote health among schoolchildren and have implications for how New Haven spends its education dollars.
"Ultimately it comes down to limited resources and what you can spend your money on—better computers, specialty teachers or better food in the cafeteria," says Schwartz. "You have to have evidence that spending money in the cafeteria is going to pay off."
Curtailing obesity, promoting better health and improving academic performance are ambitious—and interrelated—goals, Ickovics notes. And it will take years of sustained effort to change the status quo, but the investment is worthwhile if it stems the tide of poor health in the city and better positions young people to succeed in the classroom and to compete in college and beyond.
"The strong cumulative effect of factors may explain why we have failed up to now in public health," says Ickovics. "It is changes in the classroom, the gym, the cafeteria, the playground, at home and in the community that suggest that more is better."
This story originally appeared in the Yale School of Public Health magazine. Click here to read more stories from that issue.
Contact Michael Greenwood [email protected] 203-737-5151


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UPDATE: The special offer outlined in this blog post has come to an end. Many thanks to everyone that participated in this book launch offer. Grok on!
After The Primal Blueprint was released in 2009 I started receiving recurring back-handed compliments along the lines of, "Wow – really comprehensive work Mark, great detail and excellent research. But…what exactly do I do now? The Primal Blueprint 21-Day Total Body Transformation [1] is the answer to that question. It's a practical, action-oriented guide for how to eat, exercise and live Primally – a step-by-step, "cut to the chase" resource to make a smooth and quick transition into a Primal lifestyle. In it I tell you exactly what to do every day for 21 days to take control of your health for the rest of your life.
I believe that this is the book that is going to take the Primal movement mainstream, and we in the Primal community must do everything possible to land this baby on the New York Times best-seller list [2] as soon as the book hits the street (now!). I need your help to do that, so I'm offering some fantastic free gifts [3] (including free books! see the 8 book offer below) for this urgent promotion that expires on Monday, October 24, 12 pm PST.
What's This New Book About?
The 21-Day Total Body Transformation [1] is all about making Primal living easy – distilling the philosophy of the Primal Blueprint (detailed in the 2009 hardcover volume) into 8 Key Concepts, 5 Action Items, and a lively 21-Day Challenge of daily endeavors in the areas of Diet, Exercise, and Lifestyle – with corresponding journal exercises.
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Who's It For? What's in It?
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I clarify and expand certain themes that have been covered in passing in other publications, such as the integral role of complementary lifestyle practices (excess artificial light and digital stimulation compromising weight loss efforts, anyone?), and covering the spectrum of choices from best to worst in each Primal food category in more detail than ever before. We'll dig into some fun new stuff like my favorite Primal tagline: Live Long, Drop Dead! (you know, healthy and fit till the very end, like hunter-gatherers), explore further why grains (and legumes for that matter) are bad and fat is good, and expand on exercise themes such as adding more daily movement to dial-in a Primal exercise program regardless of your fitness level.
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- Custom photos and detailed descriptions of foods to toss and Primal foods to enjoy.
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- Easy go-to breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes. You don't have to be a gourmet to eat Primally! You can do very well even if you have almost no time for meal prep.
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- Concise summaries of the Key Concepts so you can fully understand how and why to reprogram your genes in the direction of health, effortless weight management, and maximum longevity.
- An action-packed 21-Day Challenge, with extensive daily journal exercises that will provide long-term reference material.
What Do I Win for Helping Put This Book on the NYT Best-Seller List?
UPDATE: The special offer outlined in this blog post has come to an end. Many thanks to everyone that participated in this book launch offer. Grok on!
Order 1 Copy and You Get:
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- If you purchase 1-2 copies email your receipt to [email protected] [10]
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Let me reiterate, for 8 or more books, please email me the confirmation that your order has shipped (not your initial email receipt) to the appropriate email address above. Also, please include your shipping address so I know where to ship your free books. Please allow 30 days for the processing and shipping of your free books. I'm going to have a lot of books to sign!
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- Books purchased in physical locations (e.g. a brick-and-mortar Barnes & Noble) count, too. Just scan and email your receipt to the appropriate email address above, or fax it to 310-317-4424.
- Unfortunately, Kindle and other digital books don't count toward the NY Times best-seller list, nor this promotion. Sorry about that.
- I'll honor any of the new 21-Day book purchases made before today, October 18. Just follow the instructions above to get your freebies.
- The 8 book offer only applies to book orders placed in the United States. While international orders won't impact the New York Times best-seller list I'll extend the 1-2 and 3-7 book offers to anyone around the world.

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Reaping the harvest
Golden Predator to become royalties and streaming company Gold Bullion Royalty Corp
by Greg Klein
(Update: Effective February 22, 2013, Golden Predator Corp began trading as Americas Bullion Royalty Corp TSX:AMB.)
In a late afternoon announcement January 18, Golden Predator Corp TSX:GPD proposed a new name and strategy. Currently an advanced-stage exploration company moving towards production, Golden Predator plans to become Gold Bullion Royalty Corp, a company "focused entirely on royalty creation."
The company stated it "intends to build on its existing portfolio of 34 projects to increase revenue and provide lower risk exposure to shareholders through a variety of gold and silver projects in which it will retain a royalty, metal stream or other interest.
"The company plans to divest Golden Predator Canada Corp, which will continue to advance the Brewery Creek Project, as well as a number of other significant properties across the Yukon. This proposed segregation of its two main business components, by spin-out or other mechanism, is designed to maximize shareholder value by allowing the market to independently value two very different businesses."
How that will happen has yet to be determined. Pending tax and legal advice, the process could involve "a plan of arrangement, dividend or other suitable method" which would have shareholders owning both companies, which would be staffed independently. Golden Predator Canada Corp would apply for a TSX or TSXV listing.
The Gold Bullion portfolio already includes gross proceeds royalties on Midway Gold's TSXV:MDW Pan and Gold Rock deposits, a 4% GPR on Barrick Gold's TSX:ABX DTR property, a 1% GPR on a nearby Barrick property and a 2% NSR on Silver Predator's TSX:SPD Taylor Silver project.
The statement added, "The company controls a royalty package of 34 North America properties, most of which are owned by Gold Bullion Royalty Corp and under lease to a variety of companies including Evolving Gold [TSX:EVG], Orsa Ventures [TSXV:ORN], Columbus Gold [TSXV:CGT]," among others.
"The royalty portfolio also includes several deeded royalties covering projects of McEwen Mining [TSX:MUX], NV Gold [TSXV:NVX] and Silver Scott Mines [OTCPK:SILS]." While the royalty packages brought in $799,762 last year, the company expects royalty revenue to increase as its portfolio grows and projects advance.
The royalty portfolio is "unique in the mineral development industry due to its ability to receive the majority of projected revenues in-kind (gold bullion as opposed to cash)," the statement added.
Golden Predator Corp's stock opened January 18 at $0.345, a penny higher than its previous close. The shares then reached $0.35 before closing on $0.33. With 153 million shares outstanding, the company had a press time market cap of $50.49 million.


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New Prez, New Studies: New Era for Stem Cells?
Some declare victory for stem cell research; others say battle has just begun.
Jan. 26, 2009 -- As the dust settles from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval of the first-ever study of a treatment based on human embryonic stem cells, researchers are now assessing what this trial may mean for the years to come in stem cell research -- and how the politics of the past decade may have damaged their progress.
The study, for which California based Geron Corp. won FDA approval on Friday, will examine the potential of an embryonic stem cell treatment in fixing severe spinal cord injuries in humans.
For proponents of stem cell research, the double impact of the first-of-its-kind trial and an administration that appears open to exploiting the potential of embryonic stem cells is a promising sign that progress is finally on its way.
"I am in favor of anything that will bring us closer to a cure for diseases like Alzheimer's and diabetes," said former first lady Nancy Reagan in a statement issued Friday in response to news of the study. Reagan emerged as a prominent supporter of stem cell research after her husband, President Ronald Reagan, passed away in 2004 after a 10-year battle with Alzheimer's disease.
"I am very pleased to hear that human trials of embryonic stem cell therapy will begin soon and am very hopeful that it will be successful so that further trials can move forward," the statement reads.
And where proponents were hopeful, some stem cells researchers were ecstatic. One such researcher is Dr. Robert Lanza of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Lanza is also chief scientific officer for Advanced Cell Technology, which is planning its own FDA-approved study this summer which would test a technique using embryonic stem cells to prevent blindness.
"This is what we've all been waiting for," Lanza said. "It has been over a decade since embryonic stem cells were first discovered; this sends a message that we're ready at last to start helping people."
Still, others are more cautious in their appraisal. Dr. George Daley, immediate past president of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, paradoxically termed the approval "[a] huge first step, but only a tiny one."
And Lorraine Iacovitti, interim director of the Farber Institute for Neurosciences at Thomas Jefferson University Medical College, said much work remains in order to make up for lost time.
"It will of course require a significant infusion of new federal money into the field to attract back many researchers who were frightened away over the last eight years under President Bush," Iacovitti said. "Despite the difficulties during that period, much progress was made understanding which stem cells work, how they work and in what ways they can be modified to improve their therapeutic potential."
Did Obama Win Influence Approval?
Naomi Kleitman, director of the Extramural Research Program for the National Institutes of Health, told ABC News that Obama's presidential victory had nothing to do with the FDA approval of Geron's trial. But most researchers agree that the presence of the Obama administration is a welcome sign for a field of research that after a decade and a half of political roadblocks is finally beginning to hit its stride.
Embryonic stem cell research has been a field plagued by a dearth of federal funds since the mid-1990s, when President Bill Clinton made the first executive branch move to block federal funding for the creation of embryos for stem cell research. In August 2001, President George W. Bush strengthened the ban on federal funding dramatically by barring federal funds for research on all but a few existing embryonic stem cell lines.
What has traditionally made embryonic stem cells such a hot-button issue is the fact that, in order to obtain them, researchers must destroy human embryos -- a step that some say violates the sanctity of human life.
But Geron's research uses discarded embryos from in-vitro fertilization procedures, which in all likelihood would have been destroyed anyway.
Ruth Macklin, a professor of bioethics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, said that the influx of federal funds through the NIH will also come attached with rigorous ethical oversight, as it the case with other federally funded research.
"With a more favorable funding environment -- meaning, specifically, NIH funding -- stem cell research can proceed more expeditiously and more efficiently," Macklin said. "It will be more efficient since there will be no need to engage in elaborate ways to segregate stem cell research from federally funded research within research institutions, as has been the case under the Bush ban."
The Risks of First Steps
But with so much riding on the success of this first step, some wonder if the spinal cord trial puts the best foot forward. Even Lanza's optimism is tempered by the possibility that such a trial will go wrong, an outcome he said would be "a disaster." And Daley noted, "There is some controversy regarding whether spinal cord injury is the appropriate patient population to test the first embryonic stem cell products; some feel only patients with fatal diseases should be treated."
Thoru Pederson, professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, countered that "[researchers] have to start clinical evaluation somehow, after all."
But all agree that a setback at this point -- the death of an experimental subject or an unexpected negative side effect -- could do more to hurt the beleaguered field of research than even the eight-year stranglehold on federal funds. Bryon Petersen, associate professor in the department of pathology at the University of Florida, terms the trial a "hail Mary pass" that he feels may be destined for disaster.
"Pushing the envelope of medicine is what we do, but we have to be very cautious," he warned. "There are new therapies waiting to be discovered, but if this trial fails in a big way it will push the field 10 years back."


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Thanksgiving homecoming
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- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
The Labutis family had plenty to be thankful for this holiday season. Not only do they have lots of family and friends, but Army Specialist Kenneth Labutis was able to make a trip home to spend the holiday season with his family.
His wife, Tori, kept his homecoming a secret from their children. Friday, Nov. 29 was Kendal Labutis' fourth birthday. A party was planned at a local restaurant, and the stage was set for Spec. Labutis to carry in the cake as a surprise. Find the rest of this story in the December 5 edition of the Mount Vernon Optic-Herald.


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This story appears in the May 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine.
At the time of the Civil War, camera shutters were too slow to record movement sharply. Celebrated photographers such as Mathew Brady and Timothy O'Sullivan, encumbered by large glass negatives and bulky horse-drawn processing wagons, could neither maneuver the rough terrain nor record images in the midst of battle. So newspaper publishers hired amateur and professional illustrators to sketch the action for readers at home and abroad. Embedded with troops on both sides of the conflict, these "special artists," or "specials," were America's first pictorial war correspondents. They were young men (none were women) from diverse backgrounds—soldiers, engineers, lithographers and engravers, fine artists, and a few veteran illustrators—seeking income, experience, and adventure.
It was a cruel adventure. One special, James R. O'Neill, was killed while being held prisoner by Quantrill's Raiders, a band of Rebel guerrillas. Two other specials, C. E. F. Hillen and Theodore Davis, were wounded. Frank Vizetelly was nearly killed at Fredericksburg, Virginia, in December 1862, when a "South Carolinian had a portion of his head carried away, within four yards of myself, by a shell." Alfred Waud, while documenting the exploits of the Union Army in the summer of 1862, wrote to a friend: "No amount of money can pay a man for going through what we have had to suffer lately."
The English-born Waud and Theodore Davis were the only specials who remained on assignment without respite, covering the war from the opening salvos in April 1861 through the fall of the Confederacy four years later. Davis later described what it took to be a war artist: "Total disregard for personal safety and comfort; an owl-like propensity to sit up all night and a hawky style of vigilance during the day; capacity for going on short food; willingness to ride any number of miles horseback for just one sketch, which might have to be finished at night by no better light than that of a fire."
In spite of the remarkable courage these men displayed and the events they witnessed, their stories have gone unnoticed: Virginia native son and Union supporter D. H. Strother's terrifying assignment sketching the Confederate Army encampments outside Washington, D.C., which got him arrested as a spy; Theodore Davis's dangerously ill-conceived sojourn into Dixie in the summer of 1861 (he was detained and accused of spying); W. T. Crane's heroic coverage of Charleston, South Carolina, from within the Rebel city; Alfred Waud's detention by a company of Virginia cavalry (after he sketched a group portrait, they let him go); Frank Vizetelly's eyewitness chronicle of Jefferson Davis's final flight into exile.
Special artists worked fast, identifying a war scene's focal point, blocking out the composition in minutes, and fleshing it out later in camp. They took great pride in making their renderings as faithful as possible. Writing from the front lines in northern Virginia in the spring of 1862, Edwin Forbes noted that his sketches had been made "at considerable risk for the country is overrun with small gangs of sneaking Secessionists, who are as blood-thirsty as [Confederate Gen.] Albert Pike. For one day I got an escort of ten men and made some sketches in comparative safety … All who have seen them say they are very accurate. I need hardly assure you that I do my best to make them so, as fidelity to fact is, in my opinion, the first thing to be aimed at."
The artists dispatched their sketches from the battlefield by horse courier, train, or ship to the publisher's office, where a home artist copied the image onto blocks of wood. Engravers then carved different sections of the drawing, the most experienced of them working on detailed figures and complex compositions, and the apprentices taking on the simpler background tasks. Once the engraving was completed, it was electrotyped—copied onto metal plates in preparation for printing. The engravings could also be copied and sent overseas to foreign publishers for added revenue. Usually it took two to three weeks for the drawn image to appear in print, although important events or battles could be rushed into print in a matter of days.
Two pictorial weeklies dominated the national scene in 1861, both published in New York City: Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Harper's Weekly. Before immigrating to America, veteran English pressman Henry Carter—known by his pen name, Frank Leslie—had managed the engraving department at the Illustrated London News, the world's first and most prestigious pictorial weekly. Even before the war began, Leslie's, which debuted in 1855, routinely boasted print runs above 100,000, and special editions could top three times that number.
The journal claimed to be strictly neutral, and within months of President Lincoln's election in November 1860, Leslie sent William Waud, Alfred's younger brother, to Charleston to document the growing secessionist sentiment. Also English-born, William could claim neutral status and reasonably represent his publisher's desire "to produce a paper which shall be so entirely free from objectionable opinions or partizan views of national policy, that it can be circulated in every section of the Union and be received in every family as a truthful exponent of facts as they occur." William Waud's sketches predate the attack on Fort Sumter and offer a glimpse into the last days of the prewar South. He was sketching among the crowds watching from the seawall as Confederate guns fired on Fort Sumter.
In contrast to Frank Leslie, Fletcher Harper—publisher of Harper's Weekly and a scion of the renowned Harper Brothers literary publishing house—stood firmly with the Republican Party, President Lincoln, the abolitionists, and the Union. His views, his reporters, and his pictorial weekly, which had started in 1857, were decidedly not welcome in Secessia. Initially Harper's was more literary than journalistic, befitting the journal's erudite heritage. The war changed all that. By the beginning of the second year, Harper had hired top talent—including Alfred Waud, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Nast—giving the artists the resources to fill the journal's pages with compelling and persuasive war images.
Alfred Waud, the most prolific special, created many of the most memorable sketches of critical moments at Antietam and Gettysburg, where he was the first artist to arrive on the field. On July 21, 1861, he traveled to the Bull Run battlefield in the photographic wagon owned and driven by his friend Mathew Brady. Already known as a boon companion and crack artist, at Bull Run Waud took up arms against the Confederates. The next day, returning from the field, he pulled his pistol on a Union soldier attempting to commandeer his horse. Gen. George Meade often favored Waud with requests to sketch Rebel defenses, offering him special access. Waud enjoyed close relationships with numerous officers but also reveled in his life with the common soldier.
As the war progressed, no artist portrayed life in camp more intimately than Leslie'sEdwin Forbes, who often focused on human-interest and figure study. His sketches of soldiers relaxing, cooking, cleaning, reading, shaving, and engaging in sports and other daily activities record their shared existence and collective humanity.
Winslow Homer, born in Boston, Massachusetts, and destined for artistic stardom, created some of his most celebrated paintings from sketches he made as an illustrator at the front. During the Peninsular Campaign in Virginia—Gen. George B. McClellan's initial, unsuccessful assault on Richmond in the summer of 1862—Homer brought remarkable verve to his work but chafed at the restrictions of military life. In addition, according to his mother, he "suffered much, was without food 3 days at a time & all in camp either died or were carried away with typhoid fever … He came home so changed that his best friends did not know him."
Homer's Bavarian-born colleague, Thomas Nast, became America's most influential editorial cartoonist. Supporting the Lincoln Administration and Republican Party, he demonized the Rebels and advocated for emancipation, heaping derision on those in the North who opposed the war effort and sought negotiated peace with the Confederacy. By 1864, coverage of the Union victories by the special artists, along with Nast's acerbic illustrations, helped consolidate public support for the war effort and win Lincoln a second term. Senior officers on both sides came to value the military knowledge of the specials, offering them commissions and employing their skills as scouts to sketch fortifications.
The artists had no control over their work after it left the field. At the December 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg, Arthur Lumley, a Dublin-born Irishman working for theNew-York Illustrated News, sketched Union troops pillaging the town. Incensed, he wrote on the back of the drawing: "Friday Night in Fredericksburg. This night the city was in the wildest confusion sacked by the union troops = houses burned down furniture scattered in the streets = men pillaging in all directions = a fit scene for the French revolution and a discrace [sic] to the Union Arms." The journal never published the inflammatory image.
Both Harper and Leslie did their part to shape public opinion, censoring images considered too negative or graphic and altering drawings to make them more stirring or upbeat. Harper's editors, for instance, made Alfred Waud's drawing of a leg amputation at an Antietam field hospital look less gory to accommodate squeamish readers. Engravers freshened another Waud sketch of exhausted horses dragging artillery carts, giving them lifted heads and spirited tails and making them kick up clods of mud—an animated portrait of teamsters racing ammunition to the front.
Nonetheless, by depicting scenes as realistically as they could, Waud, Lumley, Henri Lovie, and others undermined the popular myth of the war as a romantic adventure. As citizens grew accustomed to the violent imagery, censorship eased.
Although the Confederacy had virtually no pictorial press, specials operating in southern theaters created hundreds of images. One outlet was the Illustrated London News. With Lincoln's election, the British took a keen interest in American affairs, and after the war started, debate over whether to recognize the Confederacy consumed politicians and the public. In May 1861 the veteran British war artist Frank Vizetelly arrived in America fresh from covering Giuseppe Garibaldi's campaign to liberate the Italian peninsula from Austrian rule. Vizetelly's initial impressions of the Union Army were favorable, and he reported back to London of patriotic fervor, high morale, and camp camaraderie.
That changed on July 21 at the Battle of Bull Run, a Union debacle. A week later Vizetelly contributed an unflattering sketch, "The Stampede From Bull Run," along with this blunt description: "At half-past five the Federal troops were in full retreat, pursued at different points by the black horse cavalry of Virginia. Retreat is a weak term to use when speaking of this disgraceful rout … The terror-stricken soldiers threw away their arms and accoutrements, herding along like a panic-stricken flock of sheep, with no order whatever in their flight … Wounded men were crushed under the wheels of the heavy, lumbering chariots that dashed down the road at full speed. Light buggies, containing members of Congress, were overturned or dashed to pieces in the horrible confusion of the panic."
Vizetelly, now banned from the Union lines, was determined to get to the Richmond front, and the following summer he simply assigned himself to the Confederate States Army. With the help of Confederate sympathizers and a freed slave, he crossed the Potomac below the capital and joined Lee's army along the Rapidan River. Taking up the Rebel cause, he wrote: "Surrounded as I am by the Southern people … I emphatically assert that the South can never be subjugated." Vizetelly loved the officers, the soldiers, the people, the land, and the cause of the Confederacy. For the first time in the war, the South had its own special artist, although he worked for a newspaper published in London.
Some northern artists advocated openly for black emancipation. In May 1866, a year after hostilities ended, Alfred Waud created an emotional and symbolic coda to the war with his portrayal of black troops mustering out in Little Rock, Arkansas. Many specials turned to sketching the American scene as soldiers dispersed and people returned to peaceful living.
Within a generation sketch artists were eclipsed by photographers using Kodaks. But even today, artists are still going to battlefronts—in Afghanistan, for instance—sent by the military and the media to interpret warfare in ways cameras cannot, capturing for the record the inner life of the soldier caught up in a larger drama.


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All named plaintiffs collectively moved for class certification. They now argue that the order denying their motion constituted a death knell. We disagree. The death knell has not yet sounded. The remaining plaintiffs' ability to pursue class certification has not been terminated. Because the denial order was without prejudice, the remaining plaintiffs are free to move for class certification again. (See Chambreau v. Coughlan (1968) 263 Cal.App.2d 712, 718 [] ["The term 'without prejudice,' in its general adaptation, means that there is no decision of the controversy on its merits, and leaves the whole subject in litigation as much open to another application as if no suit had ever been brought."].) The advisability of following such a course of action is left for plaintiffs and their lawyers to decide.Slip Opinion, at 29-31 (2012 Cal. App. LEXIS 993, 53-55).
The Court's holding not only provides an additional exception to the "death knell" doctrine, previously discussed here and here, it also seemingly provides an exception to the "rule against successive certification motions", enunciated over 20 years ago in Stephen v. Enterprise Rent-A-Car, 235 Cal. App. 3d 806 (1991). As explained in Stephen, California procedural law – unlike the Federal Rules – required an immediate appeal upon denial of certification specifically because successive motions are not permitted:
It is only in the absence of relevant state precedent that courts turn to federal law and rule 23 for guidance. [] State and federal courts parted company on the appealability issue 24 years ago in Daar v. Yellow Cab Co., supra, 67 Cal.2d 695. It follows from that split and the cases discussed above that state and federal law diverge on allowing successive motions to certify. CA(5)(5) Like federal policy, state policy favors prompt and early class determinations. ( Massey v. Bank of America (1976) 56 Cal. App. 3d 29, 32 [] [dismissal after a nearly five-year delay].) However, to follow federal policy on renewed motions after a death-knell denial is impractical, and state policy can be administered with enough flexibility to avoid inequity. Plaintiffs lacking adequate evidence on class issues may reasonably defer moving to certify or seek a continuance to gather evidence, and trial courts should avoid ruling on the merits until satisfied that a plaintiff has had a fair opportunity to present the case for certification. Also, the right of appeal and consequent limitation on bringing renewal motions applies only to death-knell rulings, where a plaintiff has a right to immediate appellate review to correct error. Appellate courts will be sensitive to claimed abuses of discretion when reviewing such orders.See Stephen, 235 Cal. App. 3d at 814.
Although the Aleman Court did not discuss the rule annunciated in Stephen in its opinion, Aleman's analysis does not necessarily conflict with Stephen's analysis. However, due to Stephen's sweeping discussion of the policy underpinning the basis for the rule, I likely would err on the side of caution by filing an immediate appeal if there were any doubt as to whether the trial court actually intended to entertain a second certification motion.


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Geneva has received a substantial, albeit limited, supply (500 doses) of the inactivated (injection-type) H1N1 Influenza vaccine. Click here for the official description of the vaccine from the CDC. You may also find more information at the CDC web site.
We are currently planning a general distribution for this coming Friday (as it happens, Friday the 13th). In the meantime, persons in the Geneva community who are (1) pregnant or who think that they might be pregnant, (2) who desire to have the vaccine, and (3) have at least verbal permission from their personal obstetrician may report to the infirmary anytime tomorrow (Thursday) between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. to receive the vaccine. All three of these criteria must be met.
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Welcome to the Allgäu Cheese Route. The route runs for approximately 150 km through the breathtaking countryside of the Alpine foothills, starting in the district of Oberstaufen before continuing to Schiedegg, Wangen and Isny. The route then runs to Lindau on Lake Constance and its numerous alpine dairies that are open to visitors and offer tours and cheese tasting sessions. Why not stop by and sample the wonderful food of Allgäu?
Nestling in the charming pre-Alpine countryside between Illertal and Lake Constance, the Allgäu Cheese Route will take you through a place of awe-inspiring beauty, full of traditional taverns (Wirtshäuern), Alpine dairies, traditional hay milk dairies, cheese dairies, breweries and distilleries which can be quite easily explored on foot, by bicycle or by car.
The countryside – a feast for the eyes
Footpaths and natural wonders as far as the eyes can see, among them the "Eistobel" nature park, an awe-inspiring ravine of waterfalls, the Nagelfluhkette Nature Park that creeps up into the Alps, the rare flowers and orchids that line the paths and the endless stream of romantic locations to stop in and relax. The Allgäu Alps, Kleinwalsertal and Bregenz Forest are just a stone's throw away and are ideal for mountaineers and climbing tours.
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Hundreds of years of cheese-making tradition go into the production of Allgäu Emmental, Allgäu mountain cheese, hard cheeses and soft cheeses. At a cheese-making demonstration or on a dairy tour, you can find out about how these cheeses and many others are made, what sets Allgäu cheese apart from other cheeses and even how the holes in the cheese are produced. The many traditional hay milk dairies along the route are also open to visitors and offer tours, as well as cheese to try and buy. The cheese school in Thalkirchdorf and Hiltensweiler are particular highlights and if you wish, you can even have a go at making cheese yourself under the guidance of a master cheesemaker. The large copper kettle and all the tools you need are of course provided.
The Allgäu: good for the soul
The Allgäu is a region as varied as its cuisine but Allgäu mountain cheese would be nothing without the region's unique light-brown cows. These animals, who are responsible for all the nutritious ingredients that go into a healthy and tasty cheese, stand on the mountain meadows all day long, grazing on fresh, succulent grass and aromatic meadow blossoms which become more diverse the higher up the mountains you go. The Allgäu Cheese Route is the best kept secret amongst gourmets and nature-lovers. Pay a visit, learn a little about Allgäu mountain cheese and enjoy the region's awe-inspiring nature all the while.
Length: approximately 150 km
Theme: speciality Allgäu cheeses and the West Allgäu countryside
Grünenbach: mountain cheese dairy (Bergkäserei)
Hopfen: alpine dairy
Isny: museums, library for preachers (Prädikatenbibliothek), towers,
Lindau: harbour, ecclesiastical buildings, Herrenhausen
Lindenberg: cheese dairy tours, cheese-making demonstration, moorland lake
Oberstaufen: adventure pool, Nagelfluhkette Nature Park, winter sports
Opfenbach: cheese-making dairy, schnapps distillery
Scheidegg: hydrotherapy health resort, alpine dairy
Wangen: museums, theatre, Ravensburg Gate
Weiler: brewery and cheese dairy tours
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(AP) — Illinois is ahead of some states but behind others on the path toward creating a health insurance exchange, a cornerstone of President Barack Obama's health care law.
Obama's home state plans to partner with the federal government to run a health insurance exchange beginning in 2014, the first year for coverage. State officials are completing their blueprint for that partnership.
That puts Illinois among a group of five states planning to join with Washington to run an exchange where consumers and small businesses can shop online for the best deals on health insurance. Sixteen other states, including California and New York, want to build their own exchanges, and many other states haven't decided. States now have until Dec. 14 to tell the federal government their plans.
So far, Gov. Pat Quinn has been unable to get Illinois lawmakers to pass legislation needed to build its own exchange. But Quinn adviser Michael Gelder said he's confident state lawmakers will pass the legislation now that Obama has been re-elected and the health law survived a Supreme Court challenge. The state-based exchange would replace the partnership.
"The president has won. The Affordable Care Act itself has ... survived two near-death experiences," said Gelder, the governor's senior health policy adviser. "We're now confident there will be the energy — hopefully from both Democrats and Republicans — to pass an exchange bill next spring and we'll have our exchange ready to function for 2015."
Quinn, a Democrat, has made access to health care a high priority throughout his career, Gelder said. Quinn supports Obama's health care legislation, which focuses on covering most of the uninsured and requires nearly every U.S. resident to have coverage. Illinois officials estimate about 800,000 uninsured residents would have coverage in 2014 because of the law, and that the figure will have eclipsed the 1 million mark by 2020.
The exchange will be like Travelocity for health insurance, a website where consumers will be able to find out whether they're eligible for new federal subsidies to help pay premiums, or whether they qualify for Medicaid. A call center would help consumers who don't have access to computers, or who have questions.
Looking ahead, Quinn and Illinois lawmakers must resolve disagreements on operating a state-based exchange. Consumer advocates want a governing board free of insurance industry members and insurers want a voice in oversight. There's also disagreement over whether the state should be able to actively negotiate with insurers on behalf of consumers, and be able to exclude health plans that don't offer a good deal.
Brian Imus of the nonpartisan Illinois Public Interest Research Group wants consumers and small business owners to have a big role in how the exchange will operate in Illinois, and he supports Illinois playing an active role in negotiating with insurers.
"I hope lawmakers remember the exchange is created to create more competition and make it easier for consumers to shop for the best health insurance," Imus said. "If the insurance companies are running the exchange it's going to be harder for that to happen."
Insurers may not be willing to compromise on the state's role and whether Illinois will be able to actively negotiate with insurers, said one insurance lobbyist.
"We absolutely believe that insurance is a state-based, state-regulated product and the people who know it best are our state regulators. What we will not compromise on is if the legislation allows the state to become an active purchaser of insurance," said Elena Butkus of Aetna Inc. Real competition would come only if the state plays a less active role, she said.


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Events Calendar
JASY Info Sessions
Volunteering at JASY Camp is open to Fisher Junior, Senior and Graduate Students and Alumni. Learn how you can both support and volunteer in this great summer opportunity.
Date: September 10, 2019 - September 10, 2019
Time: 9:30 p.m.
Location: Campus Center Mainstage
Hosted by the Office of Campus Ministry
WHAT: Jamaican Advantage thru Sports for Youth – JASY - a non-profit organization hosts Sports Camps for at-risk children, ages 10-15, living in poor inner-city Kingston communities. JASY utilizes sports training as a vehicle to improve self-esteem, physical well-being, teamwork, shared values and cross-cultural learning. Campers enjoy a program including football, swimming, Caribbean games and Olympic Village (arts and crafts.)
Over 2,000 children have attended JASY Camp programs. JASY is recognized by the Office of the Prime Minister for its positive impact on youth character development.
St. John Fisher College is the biennial Sponsor of JASY Camp – an intensive International Service-Learning opportunity. 140 Fisher students, alumni and faculty have served at JASY.
WHERE: The JASY Camp, located at the University of Technology, in Kingston Jamaica will offer athletic and recreational activities for 140 children utilizing various venues including the pool, football fields and gymnasium.
WHEN: We travel to Jamaica on Friday May 22 and return on Sunday May 31, 2020.
WHO: Volunteering at JASY Camp is open to Fisher Junior, Senior and Graduate Students and Alumni. For those interested in pursuing a career in education, recreation/leisure, social services, this Sports Camp offers the volunteer an opportunity to gain valuable experience, while serving at-risk children. You need not be skilled in a particular sport. A big heart is what it takes. Volunteers focus on each and every camper making them feel special and blessed.
Learn what other JASY Volunteers say and how you can both support and benefit from your participation in this program. Please join us for a JASY Volunteer Interest Briefing. Three sessions will at be held in the Campus Center Main Stage:
- 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, September 10
- 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 11
- 12:30 p.m. on Thursday September 12
Interested? Plan to attend one of these informational briefing and learn more about how you can make a difference in the lives of at-risk children.


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O's blast off against Yanks pitchers, tie for division lead
Baltimore beats N.Y. Yankees 10-6 on Thursday
Mark Reynolds hit two of Baltimore's season-high six home runs -- three in a wild eighth inning -- and the Orioles climbed back into a first-place tie with the Yankees in the AL East by defeating New York 10-6 Thursday night before a euphoric sellout crowd at Camden Yards.
Adam Jones' leadoff homer in the eighth off David Robertson (1-6) put Baltimore ahead 7-6 after the Yankees rallied from a five-run deficit in the top half. Matt Wieters followed with a single and Reynolds hit a drive into the left-field seats.
Chris Davis then slammed the first pitch from Derek Lowe over the right-field wall.
Wieters and Robert Andino also connected for the Orioles, who have won 10 of 13 -- a run that includes three of four over New York.
After trailing the Yankees by 10 games on July 18, the surging Orioles pulled even Tuesday, then dropped a game back on Wednesday before taking the opener of this important four-game series.
Reynolds, who also went deep in the sixth, has homered in three straight games and has eight long balls in his last seven, including two in each of the three wins against New York. With Reynolds leading the way, the Orioles hit six home runs in a game for the first time since Aug. 28, 2007, against Tampa Bay.
Baltimore has played several significant games in September in recent years, but this is the first time since 1997 that the Orioles have been in the hunt for a playoff berth. The fans reacted accordingly, cheering from the first pitch to the very end.
The Yankees always attract huge crowds, but this time an estimated 90 percent of those in attendance were cheering for the home team. The full house and the boisterous orange-clad fans conjured memories of a time long ago, when
Baltimore made two straight playoff appearances in 1996-97 prior to a run of 14 consecutive losing seasons.
New York trailed 6-1 in the eighth before mounting a comeback fueled by four walks. After Alex Rodriguez hit an RBI double and Curtis Granderson singled in a run, the Yankees put runners on second and third with two outs. The fans rose to their feet in anticipation after Pedro Strop prepared to throw a 1-2 pitch to Russell Martin, but Strop ultimately issued a walk to load the bases for pinch-hitter Chris Dickerson, who drew a four-pitch walk to make it 6-4.
Ichiro Suzuki followed with his third hit, a two-run single, before Darren O'Day (7-1) got the final out.
Orioles starter Jason Hammel gave up one run and six hits in five-plus innings in his first outing since going on the disabled list in mid-July. The right-hander took a line drive by Robinson Cano off his elbow in the fourth, but stayed in the game.
After Hammel warmed up the rowdy fans with a 1-2-3 first, three straight singles against David Phelps in the bottom half produced a run before Wieters hit an opposite-field, three-run drive to left for a 4-0 lead. It was his 19th home run of the season and the first since he connected off Phelps on Saturday.
New York got a run in the fourth on Cano's hit off Hammel's arm and an RBI single by Granderson. In the Baltimore half, Andino hit his career-high sixth home run to make it 5-1.
Reynolds made it 6-1 with a solo shot off Joba Chamberlain.


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Additive Manufacturing
Avio Aero is the ideal partner for additive manufacturing of hi-tech components for the aerospace, energy and racing sectors.
Process: Depositing successive layers of powder and then fusing them to form objects based on 3D models.
Lower material costs and wide range of alloys compared to subtractive manufacturing.
Suitable for materials that are difficult to cast.
Avio Aero has developed metal powders specifically for Laser Metal Deposition (LMD), Selective Laser Melting (SLM) and Electron Beam Melting (EBM).
These powders are optimized to deliver dependable, high quality products at an affordable price.
All powders are supplied with certificates of conformity.
TiAl alloy blades manufactured using EBM technology are a lower cost solution to casting issues such as expensive tooling and stock material management.
They offer unsurpassed mechanical properties and competitive rough parts costs.
Blades can be as long as 350 mm and can easily be machined to the required shape, using either conventional HS milling or EBM.
As the EBM process takes place a vacuum, the residual powder is not contaminated and can be reused. The machined item is free of contamination, so there is no risk of hard oxides forming in the casting, and machining is easier.
Blades can be processed in clusters depending on their size.
Avio Aero uses two different technologies:
EBM (Electron Beam Melting) uses an electron beam in the material melting process.
DMLM (Direct Metal Laser Melting) uses a laser beam to melt the material into the required form.
• AM can produce an object of virtually any shape
• Increasing object complexity does not increase production costs
• AM allows material to be added only where needed
• AM enables weight to be reduced by topological optimization
• Integration of multiple part numbers into a single part
...lighter means cheaper
• Lead Time reduction
• No vendor tooling
• WIP Optimization
• Mechanical properties superior to casting
• Significant scrap rate reduction compared to traditional casting


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What's Next For Washington and Robert Upshaw?Posted by Andrew Murawa on January 27th, 2015
The news broke mid-afternoon on Monday, suddenly and succinctly:
UW's Robert Upshaw has been dismissed from the program for a violation of team rules, head coach Lorenzo Romar announced on Monday.
— UW Men's Basketball (@UW_MBB) January 26, 2015
If you had told anybody with any knowledge of Robert Upshaw's career and his ups and downs not only at Washington, but at Fresno State previously, that such a tweet would be coming in the middle of this season, it would not exactly qualify as a shocker. But, here 19 games into a largely successful 2014-15 campaign, with Upshaw the nation's best shot-blocker, swatting away better than 17 percent of his opponents' two-point field goal attempts while he's on the floor, this qualifies as a surprise. The guy we knew as a troubled and troublesome 18- and 19-year-old? That guy was gone, right? Instead, we had a talented 20-year-old who, by all accounts, was putting in the hard work and making big strides on the court, a guy who had worked his way into first round consideration for next year's NBA Draft, a guy who had transformed the soft Huskies defense into a force to be reckoned with. And now, all that is gone, presumably like a puff of smoke.
So, let's not worry all that much about what happened: we can all read between the lines. But, what happens next? First, let's go to the team in a team sport: Where do Lorenzo Romar and the Huskies go from here? Well, with Jernard Jarreau sidelined following arthroscopic knee surgery and out at least until the middle of February (if not longer), that leaves the Huskies with Shawn Kemp, Jr. as the only proven frontcourt player. Junior seven-footer Gilles Dierickx has earned 13 minutes in the last six games (four points, five boards in that time) and will likely be forced into additional run. But really, this puts the Huskies behind even where they were last year at this time – basically a team with four wings surrounding a center. The good news is some combination of Nigel Williams-Goss, Andrew Andrews, Mike Anderson, Darin Johnson, Donaven Dorsey and Quevyn Winters is not a terrible batch of talent to draw from. And Kemp has been playing well. But there is absolutely no depth and no room for error.


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Chilly blasts: Winds of change shake Fifeville
ADDRESS: 217 Fifth Street SW
SIZE: 5000 fin. sq. ft., 400 unfin. sq. ft.
NEIGHBORHOOD: Fifeville
CURB APPEAL: 6 out of a possible 10
LISTED BY: Joan Esposito of Roy Wheeler Realty Co. 760-1028
When we knocked on the door of the first of the four rental units (in three buildings) that this week's offering comprises, the tenants took a long time to answer. And while there was undoubtedly some good reason they were busy, they didn't hear the knock, they had to turn off the stove it may be that they didn't answer right away because they knew that the knock they heard was probably signaling the end of life as they have known it in these houses in this neighborhood.
There's a cold wind blowing through Fifeville these days, and it's not the one brought in by the Canadian air mass so graphically explained on the Weather Channel. It's the cold wind of "positive urban renewal," more commonly known as gentrification, and nowhere is it more evident than in the two-square-block area around this collection of four buildings on a .17 acre lot where Dice Street meets Fifth.
The buildings offered in this parcel consist of an 1870s structure that's been divided into two apartments in the most rudimentary way. The old stairway is in tact, flimsily blocked at the bottom and top. The conversion was effected by construction of an exterior staircase to a new front door, addition of a basic kitchen and perhaps some partitioning to create a "living room" and two bedrooms from whatever was originally there.
Although we didn't go in, apparently the downstairs apartment is exactly the same (minus the stairwell).
Behind this original building stand a garage and two independent apartments, all built, according to the agent, in the '50s and redone in the '80s. The outbuilding units are also identical: two bedrooms, one bath, living room, and kitchen. These two units have gas heat, composite shingle roofs, more spacious kitchens, and good-size rooms, and they appear to be in better repair than the ones in the original house.
But it's what surrounds this property that really matters, because apparently the ground these places are built on is more valuable than they are: The empty lot next door, of identical size, is available for $300,000.
You read that right: $300,000 for a 0.12-acre lot one block off Main Street in Fifeville. Now it's true that the peculiar zoning of that lot allows for much more than the four apartments permitted at 217 Fifth. In fact, with the inclusion of one commercial enterprise such as a dry-cleaners or florist, that lot can become home to 16 units.
On the next lot up, six "Oak Grove Cottages" are nearing completion, and every one is spoken for at prices ranging from $139,900 to $209,900.
There are some old-timers in Charlottesville who claim that back in the '60s, North First Street, site today of several houses assessed at more than $500,000, was exactly the same sort of neighborhood as Dice and Fifth is now great old houses in bad repair, cut up into rental properties, of questionable safety after dark.
That's the reason it's easy to understand why the residents of the apartment were slow to respond to our knock. Investors with vision are flocking to Fifeville with their checkbooks in hand and their contractors' numbers on speed dial. City fathers say it's a good thing good for the tax base, good for the future of West Main and downtown.
The current residents can be forgiven when they don't answer right away. The sad thing is that whether they like it or not, they finally will have to open the door and let the future in.


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Australian Retail Magazine profiles Stock and Roll Shelving by Retail Handling Solutions
Falmouth, ME -- (SBWIRE) -- 03/21/2013 -- Australian Retail Magazine reports that Retail Handling Solutions addresses rotating dairy items for freshness with Shelf Stocking Carts. Rotating dairy items for freshness is a critical issue for grocery and convenience store retailers. Retail Handling Solutions has addressed this issue with the Stock and Roll. It is an elegantly simple, one-of-a-kind device that solves all common shelf stocking problems making the job faster, safer and easier in supermarkets, pharmacies, convenience stores or any other retail outlet where case-packed goods are displayed for sale on shelves.
- Presents case-packed goods at shelf height for faster, safer access
- Securely supports heavy loads and non-rigid packaging
- Rolls easily between staging areas and stocking locations
- Compact footprint and unmatched maneuverability
- Simplifies and speeds inventory freshness turning
- Ships fully assembled for use right out of the box
To view the benefits of Stock & Roll for perishable food products, such as dairy goods, go to: http://www.retailhandlingsolutions.com/video-stock-a-roll-dairy-mov-format.
Retail Handling Solutions (http://www.retailhandlingsolutions.com) is at the core of revolutionizing retail products handling. For nearly a century not much has changed in the way retailers' stock shelves. The process is time-consuming, labor intensive, and fraught with productivity road blocks and the potential for injury, product breakage, and customer inconvenience.
Retail operations require automation according to Brian McNamara, founder of Retail Handling Solutions, based in Falmouth, Maine. Many of the processes, including retail stocking, is time consuming, labor intensive, and fraught with productivity road blocks and the potential for injury and product breakage. With all the advances made in other areas of the store, this key operation function has been largely ignored.
About Southworth International Group
Southworth International Group is the parent of a family of companies whose mission is to make work faster, safer, and easier. Southworth's roots date back more than a century. For much of this history, the company has been developing and supplying equipment that provides the many benefits of the practical application of ergonomics in the manufacturing and warehousing industries. Its divisions are widely recognized for their innovative approach to application engineering, extensive product offerings, and adaptability to exact customer requirements including service both before and after sales.
In more recent years, it has extended its focus to include the opportunity rich repetitive handling requirements of many retail operations. Store goods are handled multiple times, often in awkward positions and almost all operations are done over and over again. Safety problems are clearly an issue and applications to improve productivity abound. Recognizing that retail store operations are significantly different from manufacturing and somewhat different from warehousing, Retail Handling Solutions was created to concentrate the practical application of ergonomics on the specific circumstances of the retail work environment. Limited space, high volumes, thin margins, packaging necessities, as well as consideration for in-store shoppers and merchandising frequently require a unique approach to optimizing the productivity and safety of these stock handling applications.
Retail Handling Solutions
Alison K. Shea
Market Development Manager
(207) 317-4222


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PawSox bounce Bisons
When a team is mired in an offensive slump, manufacturing runs and taking advantage of opponents' miscues is a must in order to win ball games. That's exactly what Pawtucket, the IL's worst offensive team, did Wednesday night. Josh Reddick's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the ninth inning gave Pawtucket a 3-2 walk-off win over the Bisons Wednesday night at McCoy Stadium.
The Mets have recalled Bisons RHP Lance Broadway to take the place of Oliver Perez, who is undergoing season-ending knee surgery. Broadway was 5-7 with 6.27ERA in 16 games and 14 starts with the Herd.


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Open ObjectRexx
The Programming Language Originally Known as REXX has migrated from being a mainframe scripting language to a full object-oriented language, Object Rexx, and has for some time now been open source: Open Object Rexx.
Object Rexx is a pure superset of Rexx, which latter, like Perl, started off as a scripting language whose only full-fledged data type is the character string. As Michael Cowlishaw, inventor of Rexx, told me in 1996:
"There's a lot of overlap [between Perl and Rexx]. Both languages are good, for example, for writing scripts for the Web. They are really quite different philosophies on how to design a language, both valid. Larry Wall's philosophy is to put anything into the language that anybody asks for ... My approach is the other way 'round, that is, don't put anything in unless it's really, really necessary, because then you end up with a really small language with few notations, and you make people happy for a different set of reasons."
Rexx originally appeared around 1979 on IBM mainframes running the VM operating system. It exhibits a line-oriented syntax:
foo = 1 + 2
where, as in TCL and some versions of Basic, variables spring into existence by being referenced or assigned. Statements are either assignments, or start with keywords, or failing both those, are interpreted as commands to the host environment.
That is, a line like
gnorf 1 2 3
(with gnorf not being found as a keyword or function and otherwise lacking the assignment operator =) is passed to the operating system as a command line whose result may later be obtained by the program.
Interesting Rexx features include queues, stacks, and content-addressable memory called "stem variables," wherein all the following
smith = "dink couple"
smith.john = "dentist"
smith.john.car = "1947 Hudson"
smith.mary = "U.S. senator"
smith.mary.car = "PT Cruiser"
are instantiations over all of which, in Object Rexx, one may iterate merely by knowing the stem ("smith").
Beyond that, Rexx exhibits expressions, keywords, and functions internal and external. Expressions work pretty much like you'd imagine from other modern languages. Keywords are idiosyncratic, some taking sub-keywords, and perform basic language tasks such as parsing the arguments to the interpreter invocation. Functions are, well, functions: many are internal to Rexx, some are external but more or less standard, and functions may be added ad infinitum by enterprising programmers via a call API, which allowed Rexx to become the dominant high-level language on the IBM VM operating system.
Rexx leapt from the mainframe and penetrated workstations and desktop computers via commercial implementations on the Amiga, OS/2, MS/DOS, Windows and AIX, while later open source implementations such as Regina brought Rexx to the rest of the world.
Enter Object Rexx
Object Rexx grandfathers in all of classic Rexx and extends the language by adding directives, classes, and member/method invocation. Directives, including declarations of classes, are introduced by double-colons. For instance,
::REQUIRES 'foo'
indicates to the interpreter that a file foo (with an appropriate extension which may vary from platform to platform) must be included before commencing interpretation.
::CLASS SomeClassName
introduces a class definition, and
::METHOD someMethod
introduces a method definition. Both ::CLASS and ::METHOD must appear after any procedural code in the file, including code that invokes the class and its methods. Invocation of the class is indicated textually by preceding the classname with a dot (.) and methods are indicated by tilde (~) as in
So far, so good, and unexceptional. The kicker, when comparing Object Rexx to, say, Java, is that class definitions are merely an extension of the underlying string data type. Thus classes may be added or redefined dynamically and algorithmically at runtime. This is more or less true nowadays of Perl objects, but Object Rexx got there first with incomparably better syntax than Perl will have until Perl 6 is complete, while Java is still not there and may never be, in view of the requirement for the Java compiler classes (not licensed for redistribution with an application) to be present in order to compile code.
One result of this ability to define classes on the fly is that Object Rexx is an easy-to-use scripting language suitable for (among any number of other uses) modeling new object-oriented languages.
Open Object Rexx downloadable documentation is extensive, elaborate and well written. If you don't know the language before you download, you will indeed know it after R'ing TFM.