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California Wave Energy Solved
The HUG California Canyon Wave Energy is a game changer. It promises to bring electricity created from ocean wave energy from the canyons of the shores of California at a very low cost.
Now enter a new use which is more profitable: the creation of electricity. Now it makes sense to spend over $25 million on the project because of a very lucrative return on investments: 19%/year in first year to 105%/year thereafter.
We have been waiting for a wave energy solution for the last 40 years. There have been a dozen approaches with a lot of activity in the last ten years, but there have been no resounding commercial successes. Most ideas are replicated from other ideas in the box.
This HUG Wave Energy System is "out of the box" and it will cause an Energy Revolution.
The formula for Kinetic Energy is
KE= ½ x A x V 3 x (.35) efficiency (A = area swept; Velocity)
Diameter of the Helical Turbine in the HUG is 1 m. The radius is 0.5 m: A = π r2 = π (0.5)2 = .785 m2
KE = ½ x .785 m2 x (5.42 m/sec)3 x .35 = 21.9 kW/turbine x 7 HUG units/system= .153 MW x 10 HUG Systems =1.53 MW. The lower summer waves are accommodated with a lower automatic door openings. The height of the slab wave is smaller during the summer: hence a lower velocity for a 1.5 m drop: 5.42 m/sec.
KE = ½ x .785 m2 x (9.9 m/sec)3 x .35 = 132.6 kW/turbine x 7 HUG units/system= .927 MW x 10 HUG Systems = 9.27 MW for a 5 m drop. The overall annual average is 6.25 MW.
- The overtopping technique which creates a high slab wave created by an artificial reef allows for more flexibility: the HUG can be located in more places facing the prevailing winds that may only have moderate wave action. Other overtopping wave energy systems have to be built where there are high waves, which may be too far away from the population. The HUG system creates slab waves from average wave action at the desired location.
- The HUG has very low cost of construction: an artificial reef, a reservoir and the light-weight HUG System
- On average, a competitive wave power plant can cost around $6-10 million to create one Megawatt of electricity. The average HUG Power Plant cost $25 million to produce 1.5 MW to 9.3 MW ($2.7 million/ Megawatt). The investment earns an average of $3 million/year for a Return on Investment of 12% in the first year. The operating cost is very low during its entire life-time of 30 years: $0.018/kWh. An annual offsetting green energy grant of $0.01/kWh will reduce this operating cost. The selling price exceeds $0.08/kWh. The comparative price in Hawaii exceeds $0.30/kWh. (The pay-back period is estimated to be one year in Hawaii.)
Say goodbye to diesel oil.
Budget Allowance: $25,000,000
- HUG System: 24% $5,900,000
- Dredging, Stonework & Concrete 31% 7,700,000*
- Engineering Planning and Design: 12% 3,115,000
- Contingency, Insurance, Legal costs: 8% 2,040,000
- Artificial Reef 6% 1,300,000
- O & M First Year: 5% 1,050,000
- Ten Year Refit 4% 835,000
- Loan Interest 2.5% 625,000
- Installation 2.5% 625,000
- Facilities 2.5% 625,000
- Mooring 2% 420,000
- Construction Management 2% 420,000
- Sub-sea pipeline 1% 200,000
Budget Allowance: $24,855,000
Say: $25,000,000
- On some more desirable locations, the civil works of $7.7 million can be reduced to $1 million to $2 million.
|INCOME: 49,275,000 kWh/year [x $0.079 (Quebec)] $3,893,000: ROI Quebec = 19% in first year (@90% utilization) ROI Hawaii = 105% in first year (@90% utilization)
ROI : $3,893,000 – (475,000/yr. Loan Interest) = $3,418,000/year
COMPARATIVE ELECTRICITY COST: 49,275,000 kWh/year [x $0.34(Hawaii)] $16,275,000:
The Following Year: O&M annual costs are 15%: $0.02/kWh:
less $0.01/kWh Carbon Tax Grant
70 Turbines x 90 kW/turbine = 6.25 MW average annually
Typically 30-60 kW per meter along the coasts: (30 kw/m x 200 m length of reef = 6 MW)
Total Costs of 6,250 kW or 49,275,000 kWh/year: $25,000,000 @ 90% utilization
6,250 kW x 7884 hours/year@ 90% utilization = 49,275,000 kWh/year
This amount of electricity will support 5000 households@ 10,000 kWh/home
The advantages of HUG Wave Power are obvious:
- Green: no emissions of harmful green house gases
- Renewable: there will always be waves and wave energy does not require any fuel like most other sources of energy.
- Enormous Energy Potential: the energy density is 30-100 KW per meter of wave length
- Reliable: not like solar or wind energy with no noise pollution and no oil spills or coal deaths.
- Area Efficiency: less than a half square mile of ocean produced 300 MW (the density of water is 800 times higher than air)
- Flexibility: they can be located along the shore where most populations exist and where there are prevailing winds.
- Ideal for Islands: that depend on expensive imported oil
- Predictable and Consistent: in areas of prevailing winds
- The HUG does not disrupt marine life. Any fish caught in the turbine will experience a twist but they will not be chopped up.
- The HUG can be located in more places that only have moderate wave action.
Wave power doesn't get much attention, but technologies for extracting energy from ocean motion could end up following the same growth curves that we have seen for wind and, more recently, solar power. A theme among wave power experts is that wave energy is where wind energy was three decades ago.
The closest concept to the HUG Wave Energy System is the Wave Dragon overtopping device as shown above. The difference is that the above system is built like a large heavy ship so as not to be jostled by strong waves. Their system does not use the physics of the slab wave and the principle of the vortex, which creates much higher velocity. Hence, in order to maximize the velocity of the waves, they are forced to place their system in the location of high waves, which may not be a convenient location.
The HUG can be located in places with average ocean waves close to populations:
There have been a lot of wasted efforts in solving wave energy problems because of wrong pathways: too big, too mechanical. There have been no real great commercial successes. This may be the real reason why big companies like GE have not entered into the fray.
- Besides providing electricity, the HUG Wave Energy System can produce hydrogen, which is less expensive than imported oil to the islands and is more environmentally sustainable. The secret of hydrogen electrolysis is the low cost of electricity, which must be kept under $0.05/kWh. The high cost of transmission of hydrogen can be eliminated by building hydrogen filling stations for automobiles and trucks right at the site of HUG Wave Energy System: the frontage on shore ranges up to 280 m.
- Besides providing electricity, the HUG Wave Energy System can provide fresh water from an electrolysis system that is activated by high pressure water: a Reverse Osmosis Desalination process. Typical operating costs will range from $2/Kgal of fresh water, because of the low price of electricity: $0.01/kWh
- Wherever there are surfers on any island or in any ocean going country, you can create electricity. Around the coasts of Northern Ireland and the west coast of Scotland, are some of the richest reserves of renewable energy in Europe, with the strongest winds and the largest waves.
- The HUG Artificial Reef will provide safe surfing on great slab waves over 200′ long close to population centers in a tourist area without the danger of sharp rock formations and urchins.
Hug Energy Inc. will grant to licensee an exclusive right to grant sub-licenses to a third party to be on terms and conditions that are substantially the same as those set forth in the agreement for the license, for which consideration is to be shared equally with Licensor.
What that really means is once the hydro industry has discovered the all the advantages of the HUG, this license will be in high demand. The licensee can cash in on all the sub-licensees from other hydro companies, in a big way: 2.5% of all their net sales, without any effort on their part.
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'We have bodies being formed to fit clothes, rather than clothes designed to fit bodies.'
On Tuesday morning in Paris, as the fashion elite were gathering at the Balenciaga show, 17-year-old model Ali Michael was heading home to the U.S. far earlier than anticipated.
Miss Michael was last season's model du jour, and she looks wraithlike, with a still-developing body and a 23-inch waist. But this season, after gaining five pounds, Miss Michael was told by casting directors for the runway shows that her legs were too plump, according to her mother, Mary Ann Michael, who travels with her daughter to appointments and shows. And so, after doing a string of major supermodel shows in September, Miss Michael snared only the Yohji Yamamoto show in Paris this time around. After walking the runway, her eyes blackened with corpse-like makeup, she said she was sad to be leaving but grateful to Mr. Yamamoto. "This show is special," she added.
Nobody here has been talking about last year's skinny-model cause celebre, when a few fashion-industry leaders in Milan and Madrid began talking about instituting body-mass-index requirements after the starvation deaths of several models. This year, the models are just as thin � if anything, they look thinner. This was particularly visible in Paris, which sets modes for clothes and fashion shows around the world.
"I think it's gotten worse," said Nina Garcia, fashion director at Elle magazine and a judge on cable television's "Project Runway," while we waited to see Balenciaga. "In the fashion industry, the models are getting thinner and thinner, yet as a culture, we're getting fatter and fatter."
The Paris runways this week have been as flamboyant as ever, and exceedingly thin models are a big part of the show. Jean-Paul Gaultier assured his continued reign as fashion's enfant terrible by creating a PETA nightmare of fur. Fashion's most famous bony models walked the runway draped in fur that was designed to shock: The heads of the foxes and other creatures went swinging down the catwalk � eyes, noses, ears, feet, tails and all. The show ended with wild laughter over the sound system � the huge wicked laugh of a madman.
Balenciaga designer Nicolas Ghesquiere opened his show with two demure little black dresses that would look awkward on anything but a rail-thin frame. They stood out from the body with exaggerated hips, hiding models' protruding collar bones with a look like armor. Dior went 1960s-Mrs.-Robinson with a finely tailored collection that will make people rush for a martini and cigarette � and the models, with heavily teased hair and wildly exaggerated eye makeup, were little more than highly stylized hangers for the clothes.
Several designers did grapple with modern concerns. Issey Miyake's show was an eerie ode to love in an apocalyptic age � he blended jeans, made on special looms that weave fabric to look spray-painted, with fine black suits, run through with understated platinum and gold thread.
Mr. Miyake is right: War, famine, drought and global warming trouble us; we need look no further than the spring flowers blooming in February in Paris to know that change is afoot.
Yet what of the 21st-century problem on his own runway? Mr. Miyake deserves credit for hiring several models of color, but he seemed nonplussed when I asked him about weight. He chose models who are "just suitable for our clothes," he repeated several times.
So we have bodies being formed to fit clothes, rather than clothes designed to fit bodies.
"If you look at the girls, they are not beautiful like models were 20 years ago," says Jimmy Pihet, spokesman for the Federation Francaise de la Couture, which oversees Paris fashion shows. "The girls are thin, they have strange faces. ... At first, you look at them and you're not sure if they're beautiful or disgusting."
This has come about as the fashion industry continues its attempt to seem different while moving in lockstep. Even Viktor & Rolf, who like to make fun of fashion and built slogans like "NO!" and "WOW!" into clothes in Tuesday's show, stop short of certain revolutions. Everywhere on the runways, it's apparent that the emaciated look is still "in."
Mr. Pihet says that France has had laws since 1990 requiring models who are under 18 to obtain health certificates from doctors, and that the Federation receives complaints that the laws are too strong. But he claims that models aren't role models for young girls � that actresses play that role.
This is a contested point. As any parent of an adolescent girl can tell you, fashion magazines become dog-eared as girls study them for beauty tips.
But it isn't fair to just blame a few designers. In the U.S., France and Italy, casting directors, fashion designers, show overseers and fashion magazines move en masse, and no one is using models who look like models did 20 years ago. In her day, the aptly named Twiggy seemed wildly thin � but she would look oversized on today's runways.
It's hard to imagine Miss Michael, a willowy, 5-foot-9-inch teenager, being told her legs are too fat. Last season, Miss Michael made herself sick keeping her weight down, said her mother. Miss Michael's reward was to be heralded as the next supermodel.
She opened Lanvin in Paris a year ago and walked the runways of Karl Lagerfeld, Christian Lacroix, Chanel, John Galliano, Dior, Rodarte and others. She appeared in Harper's Bazaar, Teen Vogue and W magazines and was personally congratulated by Vogue's Anna Wintour.
It's possible to become anesthetized to the models' looks. With heavy makeup, it's also easy to overlook how young many of them are. Miss Michael was "discovered" in Texas at 15.
Her mother, a stunning woman who was once a model herself, said her daughter's model friends have struggled to get thinner in recent months and that her daughter, worried about her health, chose not to starve herself.
"Our bags are packed," said Mrs. Michael sadly as she and her daughter prepared to fly home. Still, she said that she felt a sense of relief that her child was getting out of the fast lane of fashion, at least for now. "I have a really good, good daughter," she said.

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Asheville's Chamber of Commerce wants North Carolina lawmakers to revisit the issue of topless women in the downtown area in response to a series of protests.
The Asheville Citizen-Times reports Chamber President Kit Cramer said Wednesday she doesn't care who fixes the problem, as long as it gets done. She has asked Rules Committee chair Republican Sen. Tom Apodaca to handle the matter. Apodaca represents part of Buncombe County.
"It is past time for it to have been dealt with, frankly," Cramer said. "It is irritating that we have to address it at all, but apparently we do."
Cramer said downtown businesses have complained about the topless protests, as well as about trash, graffiti and cigarette butts.
James Leipold, a local business owner, said he was surprised the Chamber of Commerce is wading into a public policy issue. His wife, he said, believes she has a right to going topless.
"It made me wonder why the chamber is actively involved in limiting rights on a Constitutional issue," he said. "(Cramer) brought it up in the context of dog poop on the sidewalks and homeless people (panhandling), which was surprising to me."
Asheville Rep. Tim Moffitt wrote a bill last year that would send women to prison for going topless in public. The bill would have expanded North Carolina's indecent exposure law's definition of "private parts" to explicitly include the nipple.
Exposure determined to be for sexual gratification would be a felony, punishable by six months in prison.
Last February, the bill was sent back to a committee. At the time, Moffitt said he was confident the measure would come up for a vote, but it never did.
There have been three rallies dating back to 2011. Organizer Jeff Johnson of Huntsville, Ala., said his group thinks laws and social stigmas against women being topless in public are unfair.


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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — The most-anticipated U.S. economic report of the month has been released, but it didn't really offer the clarity traders were looking for after several rounds of disappointing numbers tied to the severe winter weather.
In March, 192,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate remained at 6.7%. Economists expected nonfarm payrolls to rise by 200,000, from 175,000 in February, and the unemployment rate to slip to 6.6% from 6.7%. But the Labor Department on Friday also said hiring in January and February was a combined 37,000 higher than initially estimated.
Here's how investors in stocks, gold, bonds, the dollar and oil scored the report, and what they expect to move markets next.
U.S. stocks: Reaction in the stock market was mostly positive, initially, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, -0.49% and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.59% climbing to intraday highs. But equities failed to sustain early optimism and turned broadly lower.
Anthony Valeri, Investment strategist at LPL Financial, said the report was "good but not great."
Looking ahead, "the real test for equity markets is the earnings in the second half of the year," he said. "The bar has been lowered significantly for the first-quarter earnings after the harsh winter and as long as we see a 2-3% revenue growth, companies will be given a free pass. But then markets need to see sustained revenue growth in the 3rd and 4th quarters to justify prices."
The Nasdaq Composite Index COMP, -0.80% had also opened higher then fell, leading the losses. It was recently down 2.2%, far outstripping the Dow's 0.5% loss. "This is a bloodbath for the Nasdaq," said Keith Springer, president of Springer Financial Advisors. "If a confirmation was needed that [there's a] rotation from small cap to large, we're getting it today."
Bonds: Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note US:10_YEAR declined as Treasury prices rose.
"The medium-term picture of the Fed removing accommodation and subsequently tightening has not changed dramatically, but may have been pushed back on the rate hike view as Yellen is supported by extra slack and by workers returning and finding jobs," said Richard Gilhooly, U.S. director of interest-rate strategy at TD Securities, in a note.
Currencies: The U.S. dollar DXY, -0.06% fell against the yen USDJPY, +0.14% with the fewer-than-expected U.S job additions prompting some traders to delay expectations for the first rate hike.
The report was "not so strong to stoke fears that the Fed will accelerate the normalization of policy," said Richard Franulovich, chief currency strategist for the northern hemisphere at Westpac Banking Corp.
Gold: Gold futures on Comex GCM24, -0.15% climbed back above $1,300 an ounce as the jobs data also fueled the view of a more dovish Federal Reserve.
Looking ahead, "gold will be volatile," said Chintan Karnani, chief market analyst at Insignia Consultants. "Any U.S. economic number below expectations or around expectations will result in gains for gold."
Oil: Oil futures on the New York Mercantile Exchange climbed as the employment data were "labeled a 'Goldilocks' number that was deemed strong enough to show the economic recovery is on track, but not so strong as to prompt a change in [Federal Reserve monetary] policy," said Tim Evans, an energy analyst at Citi Futures.
Prices for the May crude contract CLK24, -50.51% may soon test last month's lows around $97 a barrel, however, according to Casey Clark, senior trading advisor at Altavest. "With continued de-escalation [of tensions] in Crimea, look for hedge funds to drop out of their long speculative positions in May crude futures," he said.
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Emilia's Pizzeria in Berkeley Opens to the Public; Hours, Offerings Limited for Now
Early last month I had the pleasure of getting an early taste of Emilia's Pizzeria in Berkeley, California. If the pizza I had during that friends-and-family event is any indication of what it is now that Emilia's is in soft open mode, Berkeley residents are in for a treat. The refreshingly unpretentious non-Neapolitan pizzeria started operating in a limited capacity on Monday night. After the jump, Keith Freilich, Emilia's owner-pizzaman explains.
Emilia's Pizzeria
2995 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley CA 94705 (at Ashby Avenue; map); emiliaspizzeria.com
Getting There: By car, it's at the corner of Shattuck and Ashby avenues; closest BART stop is the Ashby Avenue Station
Pizza Style: Thin-crust, New York-coal-oven-esque
Oven Type: A very hot Wolf "Pizza Grande" gas-fired oven
The Skinny: Whether you're a whiny New Yorker looking for familiar-tasting pizza or someone who's never set foot in the Big Apple, the pizza at Emilia's is sure to shut you up and keep you stuffing your face
From an email message I received this morning:
Well, my plan has always been to do a very soft opening and gradually increase capacity and hours and offerings. Not only does it allow me to iron out the kinks while avoiding disasters (in theory), it also gives me the chance to meet the locals who will hopefully become regulars.
And I've already started. I had an almost-secret opening on Monday and did it again last night. Just dinner: slices and large pies, and only 3 kinds: regular, pepperoni, and sopressata. No credit cards yet and nobody to answer the phone yet. And I'm only making very small batches of dough for now—it's too painful to throw out a bunch of dough when you've made it by hand.
I might throw in a lunch tomorrow, depending on how many urgent things I can get done during the day today.
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Lemongrass Essential Oil - A potent, pungent oil extracted from the plant Cymbopogon citratse, it is uplifting, antibacterial and antiviral. It assists the digestive tract and stimulates gastric juices. Regulates the autonomous nervous system and is an analgesic for headaches and migraines (especially when caused by nerves or digestive disorders). Good for a massage and it promotes blood flow and eases muscle spasms, sprains and strains. Great for a post-training rubdown; improves muscle tone and disperses lactic acid. Relieves tension; beneficial for stress-related conditions. With its antimicrobial properties, it is an excellent room deodorizer. Lifts the spirit and helps sustain momentum for creativity. Fights depression, moodiness and negativity.
Moisturizer - A combination of oil and water that binds moisture to the skin. Because bacteria will grow where there is water, moisturizers require some kind of preservative. (A moisturizer without water is called a balm and has an oily feel.)
Natural - When Pharmacopia uses natural to describe its products, it means that the ingredients come from nature or are derived from natural ingredients (as opposed to synthesized or "nature-identical" ingredients). There is no legal standard in the cosmetic/beauty/body care industry for the use of the word 'natural' to describe a product or ingredient; Pharmacopia supports the development of an industry-wide definition. Having a standard will stop companies from the current practice of misleading customers with the term 'natural' when their products contain primarily artificial ingredients with a tiny percentage of truly natural ones. to read the full text of their article on the use of the word "natural."
Neroli (orange blossom) Essential Oil - Oil from the plant Citrus aurantium has a warm floral scent and increases vitality and suppleness in skin (especially damaged or mature skin). Helps alleviate anxiety, insomnia and depression. Slight sedative, it blends will with many other oils.
Orange Essential Oil - The oil from Citrus sinensis, renown for its vitamin content, is uplifting and refreshing, and combats fatigue, premenstrual tension and stress. Excellent for toning the stomach and aiding digestion, it is an antispasmodic and reinforces the immune system. It is a natural blood purifier. Rejuvenates the skin; good for eczema and dermatitis. Softens and strengthens the outer layers of the skin and stimulates circulation. Helpful for insomnia and depression (especially during menopause). Alleviates frustration; good for spontaneity.
Organic - A term used to describe products produced in ways that meet the guidelines of the Organic Foods Production Act. "Certified organic" means that the producer offers certain assurances that the products meet the standards for that industry. The principal guidelines for an item being labeled 'organic' is that it was produced using materials and practices that enhance the ecological balance of natural systems. Producers of organic products strive to minimize pollution from air, soil and water and maximize the health and productivity of plants, animals and people.
Peppermint Essential Oil - One of the most widely and commonly used essential oils, the strong minty scent of the oil from Menta piperita is cooling, refreshing and slightly stimulating, as well as detoxifying and helpful for digestion. Warming at first, then cooling and refreshing. Its anti-infection properties helps fight coughs, flu, colds, sore throats. Purifies and increases oxygen carrying quality of the blood. Great for concentration; prevents nervous exhaustion and overload. Sharpens the senses and focuses the mind.
Rosemary Essential Oil - Oil extracted from the plant Rosemarinus officinalil has a fresh, herbaceous scent and is great for clearing and energizing. It helps disinfect respiratory and sinus passages and increases circulation.
Shea Butter - Revered in Africa for its almost mystical skin-nourishing properties, it is cold pressed from the Karite nut of the Mangifolia tree, which is exclusive to Africa. The high content of fatty acids and vitamins A, E, and F make it a rich and powerful moisturizer. This ancient compound was even mentioned in Cleopatra's Egypt, with caravans carrying clay jars filled with the valuable treasure.
Surfactant - A foaming and cleansing agent. They use primarily decyl polyglucose (which is derived from corn and coconut oils) in combination with other plant-based cleansers. They are very mild and make suds that are rich and creamy. Decyl polyglucose is a fatty polyglycoside prepared by reacting cornstarch glucose with natural fatty alcohol. Sodium Laurel Sulfate or Sodium Laureth Sulfate are the most common surfactants found in personal care. There are many rumors that these ingredients cause cancer. Even though these rumors are unsubstantiated, they don't use them because they are cheap detergents that can be irritating to skin and eyes.
Tangerine Essential Oil - A light-spicy-sweet citrus oil from the plant Citrus reticulata that cheers and soothes. Also good for cramped muscles, stress and symptoms of premenstrual syndrome.
Therapeutic - Healing, curative; pertaining to discovering and applying remedies for diseases and conditions; restoring heath.
Pharmacopia removed all parabens from their products three years ago, and the old formulations are listed as "old formulation" - so keep an eye out for that. Old formulation products from Pharmacopia are no longer for sale.
Below are definitions of the ingredients that are listed as potentially hazardous. They hope this explains their usage of them. Benzoic Acid - An aromatic acid that comes from the resin (also called Benjamin Gum) of Asian laurel trees, or cranberries. It is commonly used to preserve foods and medicine. It is not linked to cancer and is not harmful when used topically.
Cinnamon - Anyone might be allergic to the cinnamon in their ginger bath salts, but most people aren't. If you are, opt for the citrus, rosemary, or lavender blends!
Citric Acid - An alpha hydroxy acid that is perfectly safe for use in body and face care in concentrations equal to or less than 10%. They use less than 1% in their citrus lotion. Citric acid comes from citrus fruit and acts as an anti-oxidant. It can help refresh skin and reduce the look of aging by promoting new skin growth and reducing free radicals.
Cocamidopropyl Betaine - is composed of fatty acids from the coconut. It is a surfactant (foaming agent) that is safe and mild, commonly used in washes for babies. It is not known to be a skin irritant, but recent studies show that some people may be allergic to it, which is why it is listed as potentially harmful. It is perfectly safe in most cases, especially in rinse-off products such as shampoo and body wash.
Guar Gum - An annual plant, probably native to India, grown for its seed which yields guar gum. Guar gum is used as a thickening agent. it as dangerous when it is aerosolized and inhaled in large doses but NOT when used topically.
Lecithin - A derivative of soy beans. It is only dangerous when aerosolized (inhaled). They use it as an emulsifier. It is perfectly safe when used topically.
Phenoxyethanol - is the aromatic ether alcohol used as part of their preservative line, in place of parabens.
Retinyl Palmitate - A natural form of vitamin A. It is an organic compound that is orange in color (carrots are full of it) and perfectly safe in low doses. Skin cells naturally convert retinal palmitate to retinoic acid, which adjusts cell metabolism toward a more youthful state, for skin elasticity, thickness, and plumpness.It is listed as dangerous when it is used in high concentrations, in products like acne treatments and anti-wrinkle creams. Pharmacopia products contain less than 1%.
Tocopherol Acetate - Any of several fat soluble oily, phenolic compounds containing anti-oxidant vitamin E. It provides a little bit of protection against ultra violet rays, and protects cell membranes. Some people might be allergic to Vitamin E. If you are one of those people, be careful when choosing a body lotion or cream.
Sorbic Acid - A crystalline compound found in the berries of mountain ash (or synthesized). It is used as a food preservative. Pharmacopia products contain less than ½ of 1%.Frequently Asked QuestioinsQ: What is aromatherapy?A: Aromatherapy is the use of essential oils to promote health and well-being of body, mind and spirit. When applied to the skin, these oils are absorbed to affect the physical body. When inhaled, the aromas affect moods and feelings.
Q: What are essential oils?A: Essential oils are concentrated substances distilled from plants that have been used for health and fragrance for centuries. Essential oils come in many grades. They use therapeutic grade oils, because they retain the most of the plant's healing qualities.
Many companies say their products are natural but they really aren't. How can you tell the difference?Read the labels. Ingredients are listed in descending order on the label. If all the natural ingredients are at the bottom of the list, chances are they make up only a small percent of the product. Look for the percent of natural ingredients on the label. All their products contain at least 99% natural ingredients and they say so on the label.
Q: Why aren't Pharmacopia products 100% organic?A: It is not possible to make a lotion or body wash with 100% certified organic ingredients. Water, a main ingredient, does not count toward the percentage of organic ingredients. Wildcrafted ingredients (like shea butter which is gathered in the wild) are not certified as organic and therefore, according to the California Organic Products Act of 2003 they cannot count it in the percentage of organic ingredients. There are many ingredients (like decyl polyglucose, a plant-based foaming agent) that are not available as organic.
Q: Why do you use preservatives in some of Pharmacopia products?A: Any non-refridgerated product containing water needs a preservative to prevent molds and bacteria from growing. Some companies use alcohol or grapefruit seed extract as preservatives. They don't want to use alcohol because of its drying aspects and their lab tests have determined that grapefruit seed extract is not an adequate preservative. They use a very small amount of food grade preservative (about 1/2%) in the products that require it.
Q: Where are Pharmacopia products from?A: They source ingredients from all over the world. The products are produced by several specialty manufacturers who follow their custom-formulas to produce small batches; most are located in northern California.
Q: Why can't I find Pharmacopia products at a store near me?A:They do not yet have sales representatives in all parts of the country; however, any store can order from us directly. If you like their products and what they are committed to, please support Pharmacopia by suggesting us to the buyers at your favorite store. You can also contact us and they'll send them a catalog and order form.
Q: What is natural and organic?A:Organic refers to the way agricultural products are grown and processed. Organic products are produced from non-gmo, non-synthetic natural ingredients that are grown without pesticides, chemical fertilizers, or sewage sludge. Certified organic means that a certifying agency (like USDA or European Ecocert) approved that the producer has grown and handled the ingredients according to strict procedures. This insures that the products are truly natural.
The term natural, on the other hand, has no regulations. These days, it is just a marketing term used with varying degrees of accuracy. They define natural to describe something that was grown in nature or was derived from something that grows in nature. No petroleum products, no synthetic ingredients, no synthetic fragrances or colors. Because there is no official standard for certified organic body care products in the US, they are in the process of certifying them to the European standard for organic body care. Look for a certified organic label on their body care products soon.
Pharmacopia wholeheartedly supports fair trade.They source Fair Trade certified, hand made grass baskets from a women's cooperative in the Philippines, and Shea Butter from a women's cooperative in South Africa. They believe that Fair Trade is an important social movement. It empowers farmers and farm workers to lift themselves out of poverty by investing in their farms and communities, protecting the environment, and developing the business skills necessary to compete in the global marketplace. Below is a list of principles which guide the Fair Trade movement.
Fair price: Democratically organized farmer groups receive a guaranteed minimum floor price and an additional premium for certified organic products. Farmer organizations are also eligible for pre-harvest credit. Fair labor conditions: Workers on Fair Trade farms enjoy freedom of association, safe working conditions, and living wages. Forced child labor is strictly prohibited.Direct trade: With Fair Trade, importers purchase from Fair Trade producer groups as directly as possible, eliminating unnecessary middlemen and empowering farmers to develop the business capacity necessary to compete in the global marketplace.Democratic and transparent organizations:Fair Trade farmers and farm workers decide democratically how to invest Fair Trade revenues.Community development: Fair Trade farmers and farm workers invest Fair Trade premiums in social and business development projects like scholarship programs, quality improvement trainings, and organic certification.Environmental sustainability: Harmful agrochemicals and GMOs are strictly prohibited in favor of environmentally sustainable farming methods that protect farmers' health and preserve valuable ecosystems for future generations.
Pharmacopia is one of the few luxurious and organic lines that is also vegan. That means they do not use animal products of any kind, including lanolin and beeswax. They are glad to be able to provide vegetarians and vegans with products that fit their lifestyle.
Pharmacopia's MissionPharmacopia is a lot more than natural and organic. Their wholistic approach to personal care promotes health and wellness inside and out. They are on a mission to provide their customers with authentic and indulgent products made from pure ingredients produced sustainably, locally and organically whenever possible. Their gentle infusions of herbs and oils and unique blends of antioxidants and essential oils are designed to keep skin healthy and radiant, naturally.
They make it their business to choose the healthiest ingredients because they believe that what you put on your body is as important to your health as what you put in your body. That's why you won't find synthetic colors, fillers, or fragrances in any of their products. No phthalates or parabens either. Instead, they pack their products full of plant-based, nourishing ingredients like organic shea butter and aloe vera. Better for you. Better for the earth. Pharmacopia's HistoryLisa Levin started Pharmacopia in her garden, literally, harvesting the abundant herbs and creating natural potions, fragrant soaks and healing creams. Her passion for natural products began with a concern for her health, when she was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, but grew into a dream to create natural body care that could be healthy at the same time as being beautiful and luxurious.
That was in 1999. Today, Pharmacopia is recognized as a pioneer of the natural and organic personal care category and is sold in top spas and boutiques internationally. Lisa developed the products according to ancient healing wisdom, promoting balance and comfort while delighting the senses. Pharmacopia's products are fabulously effective, luscious formulations using potent anti-oxidants and therapeutic plant extracts with no parabens, petro-chemicals, phthalates, sulfates, synthetic fragrances, or colors.
Pharmacopia has been featured in the pages of Oprah, Allure, Harpers Bazaar, Natural Health, Vogue and People, to name a few, and was chosen as one of the top natural body lotions by Town and Country Magazine. Along the way, Pharmacopia has amassed a following of fans and celebrities including Alicia Silverstone and Amy Smart. Your skin devours what you feed it. Feed it well.
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SANFORD — Literacy Volunteers of Greater Sanford (LVGS) raised $3,100 during its annual trivia night at the Sanford Town Club on Jan. 18. The amount is 50 percent more than the organization raised last year.
LVGS will use the money to support its mission of fostering and promoting literacy throughout the community.
A total of 110 people competing on 16 teams participated in the trivia tournament and answered questions about history, entertainment, local issues, geography and other topics.
Sanford Parks and Recreation Director Marcel Blouin emceed the event for the fourth year in a row. The Sanford-Springvale Rotary Club, Kennebunk Savings and Sanford Institution for Savings all sponsored the event.
"We are very grateful for such strong community support," LVGS Executive Director Ingrid Baily said in the organization's recent newsletter.
Below, you can test your smarts by trying to answer most of the questions that Blouin asked the teams on the night of the event. (Questions that had visuals or were set to music have been omitted.) The answers appear on Page A8 of this issue.
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Categories: Science, Literature, Local History, Geography, Music, General Knowledge, Current Events, Pop Culture, Sports, Food, TV, Animal Kingdom.
1. How many pints are in a quart?
2. How many feet are in a mile?
3. Which country is not in the top five for producing wind power, Germany or Canada?
4. What river flows through Sanford, Alfred and Kennebunk, ending at the ocean?
5. George Lucas, who created the "Star Wars" movies, recently did something with his company, Lucasfilm. What was it?
6. Which country produces more oil, Canada or the U. S.?
7. What 19th century Maine writer lived in a house in South Berwick village that is now a National Historic Landmark?
8. Which Space Shuttle was flown to Southern California and retired to a science center museum last summer?
9. Jeopardy style. Answer: Topeka. What's the question?
10. Jeopardy style. Des Moines. What's the question?
11. Jeopardy style. Answer: Alfred, Shapleigh, North Berwick, Wells, Kennebunk, Lebanon, Acton. What's the question?
12. Name one of the three Massachusetts towns that maintained electricity during the 1965 East Coast Blackout that ran from Ontario, Canada down to New Jersey.
13. What popular new movie is about a U.S. president? What number was he?
14. Which member of the "60 Minutes" team died in 2011?
15. How many medals did Michael Phelps win at the 2012 London Olympics? How many Olympic medals did he win in his career?
16. Who played the Young Indiana Jones in "Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade"?
17. Who won the men's singles championship at the 2012 U.S. Open?
18. What medal did the U.S. women's gymnastics team win at the 2012 London Olympics that they had not won since 1996?
19. What is the fastest animal or bird in the air?
20. Who wrote "Charlotte's Web," "Stuart Little" and "The Trumpet of the Swan"? What Maine town did he live in?
21. What is the largest herbaceous flowering plant?
22. What anniversary did Goodall Memorial Library celebrate in 2012?
23. What island had a major volcanic eruption in 2010 that affected that country and Europe?
24. What volcano erupted in southern Italy in 79 A.D. that buried Pompeii in ash?
25. What is the metric form of Fahrenheit for temperature?
26. What fruit did the ancient Egyptians view as a symbol of prosperity and ambition?
27. What town besides Sanford is Bauneg Beg Pond located in?
28. What is the oldest county in Maine?
29. What is Aroostook County's seat?
30. Name the group of islands off the coast of Southern Maine that is in New Hampshire waters as well.
31. What number is the current Maine legislature?
32. What is a message called on Twitter?
33. What does yeast do in baking?
34. How many novels has Stephen King written?
35. What company has nearly put video stores out of business?
36. Sanford recently became a city. Where does it rank in Maine municipalities?
1. What does the first initial J. stand for in J.R.R. Tolkien's name?
2. Where was Elvis Presley born?
3. What is Mary Todd Lincoln's hometown?
4. Give the first names of three members of the "Fab Five" women's gymnastics team at the 2012 Olympics.
5. What are the daughters' names in "Little Women," by Louisa May Alcott?


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Ageism and Retirement
Lynn McDonald
Retirement is a modest social institution that appeared in most industrialized nations near the start of the 20th century. The aim of retirement was to solve the societal dilemma of an increasingly aged labor force by moving older workers systematically out of their jobs so as to not cause them financial harm (Atchley, 1980, p. 264). Although retirement has been considered benign since its inception, the history of retirement indicates that it is one of the main progenitors of ageism in society today (Atchley, 1982, 1993; Haber & Gratton, 1994; McDonald, 2013; Walker, 1990). Retirement and its accompanying stereotypes have been used as a tool for the management of the size and composition of the labor force contingent on the dictums of current markets in any given historical era. Ever-changing ideologies about older adults that extend from negative to positive ageism have been utilized by business, government, the public, and the media to support whatever justification is required in a particular era, with little thought to the harm perpetrated on older adults. Unfortunately, society has subscribed to these justifications en masse, including older adults themselves. In this article the ageism embedded in retirement is examined to make what is implicit explicit to social work practitioners and policymakers in the field of aging.
Family Services
Katharine Briar-Lawson and Toni Naccarato
Over the decades, family services have been one of the overarching features of social work practice, education, and research. Efficacy studies help to reinforce the focus on serving individuals in the contexts of their families and to address intergenerational family systems. Families provide the bulk of services to their members but require tailored resources, effective services, and supports. The growing diversity in families compels more cross-cultural competence, responsive policies, and evidence-based practices. Family service practitioners must increasingly address the social exclusion of many families while integrating economic and employment supports with counseling, skill training, and other interventions.
Intellectual Disabilities
Leah Igdalsky
Social workers working with individuals with intellectual disabilities and their families require an understanding of the disabilities themselves as well as the larger context of disability in society. Individuals with disabilities face particular risks for poverty and poor healthcare, and it is essential for social workers to understand the complex web of social services available. Furthermore, social workers often work not only with the person with a disability but also with their caregiving families.
Stress Effects on Health
Paula S. Nurius and Charles P. Hoy-Ellis
Evolving understandings of stress have literally transformed how we think about health as contextualized within complex and multilevel transactions between individuals and their environment. We present core concepts of stress through the lens of life-course and life-span perspectives, emphasizing appraisal-based and biobehavioral models of stress response systems. We describe theories of allostatic load, embodiment, epigenetics, weathering processes, and accelerated aging that operationalize mechanisms through which stress affects health and contributes to health disparities. In addition to social determinant and life-span developmental perspectives on stress and health, we emphasize the value of health-promotive factors that can serve to buffer stress effects. Social work has important roles in targeting health-erosive stress from "neurons to neighborhoods".


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Global Lightning Protection Services A/S is a Danish consulting engineering firm with expertise in lightning protection and high-voltage engineering. Founded in 2005, our firm aims to develop lightning protection solutions for applications within the power, aerospace, and petrochemical industries. Using our large-scale testing facility, we are able to perform direct and indirect lightning testing and use our results to help industries develop components that last longer and offer greater protection. Our proposed solutions are designed to comply with the most up-to-date industry standards, along with ensuring a short time to market for our customers.
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The engineers at Global Lightning Protection Services are experienced users of COMSOL Multiphysics. This knowledge allows us to simulate magnetic and electric fields; the current distribution within complex materials and structures, inductances, and capacitances related to high-voltage engineering and lightning protection; and the prediction of lightning attachment points and lightning parameter distributions for complex structures. Stray current mitigation using sacrificial anodes and the cathodic protection of diverse metallic structures have also been solved with COMSOL Multiphysics. Multiphysics problems involving electrical and thermal phenomena as well as fluid flow have been treated over the years as well.
The engineers and physicists at GLPS help solve complex problems, applying a natural approach to understanding the physics, explaining the means for solving the problem to customers, and reporting and documenting the solution thoroughly.
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- Understanding and describing the physics
- Conceptual design
- Custom-designed lightning protection solutions
- Lightning protection of wind turbines
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Divide is a rural community in Silver Bow County, Montana, United States. It is administered as part of Butte, Montana. The community's name is based on its proximity to the Continental Divide. As a station on the Union Pacific Railroad, Divide served as a distribution and stock shipping point for ranchers in the Big Hole Valley.
Butte is a city and the county seat of Silver Bow County, Montana. In 1977, the city and county governments consolidated to form the sole entity of Butte-Silver Bow. Butte was one of the largest cities in the Rocky Mountains in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Silver Bow County (Butte and suburbs) had 24,000 people in 1890, and peaked at 100,000 in 1920. The population steadily declined with falling copper prices after World War I, eventually dropping to 34,000 in 1990 and stabilized. In 2013, the population remains at 34,200. In its heyday between the late 19th century and about 1920, it was one of the largest and most notorious copper boomtowns in the American West, home to hundreds of saloons and a famous red-light district. The documentary Butte, America, depicts its history as a copper producer and the issues of labor unionism, economic rise and decline, and environmental degradation that resulted from the activity.
The annual celebration of Butte's Irish heritage (since 1882) is the annual St. Patrick's Day festivities. In these modern times about 30,000 revelers converge on Butte's Historic Uptown District to enjoy the parade led by the Ancient Order of Hibernians and celebrate in bars such as Maloney's, the Silver Dollar Saloon, M&M Cigar Store, and The Irish Times Pub. Butte is one of the few cities in the United States where possession and consumption of open containers of alcoholic beverages are allowed on the street (although not in vehicles). A larger annual celebration is Evel Knievel Days, held on the last weekend of July. This event draws over 50,000 motor sport enthusiasts and fans of Evel Knievel from around the world.
Butte is perhaps becoming most renowned for the regional Montana Folk Festival held on the second weekend in July. In 2013, this event attracted 170,000 attendees for the three-day celebration of traditional music, art,dance and cuisine. This event began its run in Butte as the National Folk Festival from 2008 to 2010 and in 2011 made the transition to the largest free-of-admission music festival in Montana and, most likely, in the Pacific Northwest. Butte's Fourth of July Parade and Fireworks show is the largest in the state. In 2008 Barack Obama spent his last Fourth of July before his Presidency campaigning in Butte, taking in the parade with his family, and celebrating his daughter Malia Obama's 10th birthday.
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Fiction. Erotica. Translated from the French by an unattributed translator. THE IMAGE is one of the most acclaimed and famous erotic novels of all time. One of only five erotic novels credited with truly literary status by Susan Sontag (in her essay The Pornographic Imagination), it is a story of bondage, dominance, and submission in the tradition of The Story of O. The narrator, Jean, gets help from Claire in the domination of the subservient Anne in a series of sexually explicit scenarios.
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Apple Investigates China iPhone Death Allegations
Apple said Monday that it is investigating a case in which the family of a 23-year-old woman alleges that she was electrocuted by her iPhone.
Though details about the case remain sketchy, it has caught the imagination of social media users in China, who have been spreading word about the case and warning not to use devices while they are charging.
According to a report in China's official state-run Xinhua news agency, relatives of the woman in China's western Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region are alleging the woman died after trying to answer a call while her iPhone was charging. An officer with the local Public Security Bureau said Monday that an "elementary inspection" showed the woman, named Ma Ailun, was electrocuted.
"Her neck had an obvious electronic injury," he told China Real Time.
Beyond that, though, the official said that the case was still under investigation, and there were no more details available about whether her smartphone, the charger, or something else killed the woman.
In its statement, Apple said: "We are deeply saddened to learn of this tragic incident and offer our condolences to the Ma family. We will fully investigate and cooperate with authorities in this matter."
Official media quoted extensively from the microblog feed of a woman who they said was the sister of the victim, though her identity couldn't be confirmed by China Real Time. She said that her sister had purchased the phone in December. She didn't indicate whether the phone was Apple's newest iPhone or an earlier model, and thus far local media reports have had conflicting reports about which model the iPhone might be.
While the fact are still unclear, a number of online users in China focused on the type of charger she might have used. The China Consumers' Association in May warned about the dangers of a "flood" of uncertified power chargers on the market (in Chinese). In the release the association warned the chargers could turn a smartphone into a "pocket grenade" and cause explosions, electric shock, or fires in a variety of electronic devices.
"Don't talk such nonsense, it's a five volt current, it couldn't kill a cockroach," wrote one microblogger. "What is her house's surge protector doing?"
Another said using a phone while it is plugged in shouldn't be a problem "unless you're using a shoddy transformer. Even if you do that the possibility of this happening is low."
The case is the most recent in a string of public relations difficulties for Apple in China. In April the Communist Party mouthpiece the People's Daily put the Cupertino, Calif., company's app store on a list of websites being investigated for providing pornographic content in China. Earlier that same month, Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook issued an apology to its Chinese customers after the company's warranty policy came under attack in state media.
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John Carew's late leveller preserved West Ham's unbeaten away record as they twice came from behind to draw 2-2 with Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park.
Darren Ambrose followed up his first goal of the season in the midweek win at Brighton by putting the Eagles ahead on six minutes following woeful West Ham defending.
Julian Speroni's long punt forward was flicked on by Glenn Murray and Jonathan Williams unselfishly set up Ambrose to side-foot past Manuel Almunia from six-yards.
The visitors hit back immediately and Carlton Cole dragged a shot wide before Hammers skipper Kevin Nolan restored parity on 16 minutes.
George McCartney's left-wing cross was only partially cleared and Cole headed back across goal for Nolan to head home unmarked from close range for his third West Ham goal.
Nolan could have added to his tally but headed straight into the arms of Speroni moments before the interval and then blasted Henri Lansbury's cut-back wastefully over from the edge of the box.
Murray then squandered a glorious opportunity to put the home side back in front at the other end.
Talented teenager Wilfried Zaha dragged two West Ham defenders out wide and sent in a low cross that was flicked on by Williams but Murray bobbled his finish wide of Almunia's goal from six-yards.
Dougie Freedman's side began the second period strongly and Murray atoned for his late first-half miss by putting Palace back in front seven minutes after the restart.
Zaha was again involved as he flicked the ball square to striker Murray and the former Brighton man beat Almunia with a composed finish into the bottom right-hand corner from 15-yards for his third goal of the season.
Sam Allardyce sent on strikers Sam Baldock and Carew with just over 20 minutes to go and the latter levelled the contest for a second time 10 minutes before full-time.
McCartney sent in another left-wing cross and the towering Norwegian rose to cushion a header past Speroni from close range for his first West Ham goal since switching to Upton Park from Aston Villa in the summer.
Palace looked to take the lead for a third time and Paddy McCarthy headed down at the other end but Murray could only scoop over .
Eagles substitute Jermaine Easter then fired an ambitious 25-yard effort wide in the final minute as both sides were forced to settle for a point.
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Dear Doctor Please dont let my daddy die. It was perhaps the most profoundly sorrowful moment of my early medical career.
I was a young intern, recently minted as a medical school graduate, and cutting my teeth in the challenging setting of the intensive-care unit.
Late one evening, tragedy struck when a man in his 40s entered the emergency room due to sudden and severe chest pain. The tearing character of the pain bespoke a serious problem.
He was suffering an acute aortic dissection, involving a tear within the wall of the largest artery in the body.
Once the mans pain had been controlled, he was sent to the ICU for medical stabilization of his elevated blood pressure while a surgical team prepared for a possible intervention.
The location of his dissection was of the most serious type, and a conference was quickly convened with his wife and 8-year-old daughter to explain the circumstances of his care.
In a small ICU waiting room, the senior resident explained the dire circumstances while I attempted to console and give some hope to his young family. It was hard to hide the emotions evoked by the sense of impending doom reflected in the medical facts this man could possibly die tonight.
Upon a return to the mans ICU room as his family remained behind to wait, I reached into the pocket of my lab coat and found a note, torn from a pad of paper, written in the perfect penmanship of a third-grader: Dear Doctor Please dont let my daddy die. Words cannot explain my sorrow.
Within less than an hour the man suddenly went into a full cardiac arrest as the tear extended to one of his coronary arteries and he died. There was nothing that could be done to save him.
The man suffered from a relatively unusual genetic condition known as Marfan syndrome, which involves a defect in the connective tissues. Affected people tend to be very tall, with long thin arms and legs, a long narrow face and spider-like fingers. For the trained eye, the appearance is classic.
Marfan syndrome is associated with certain conditions affecting the skeletal system, eyes and lungs. But the relationship with a potentially life-threatening dilation of the aorta posing risk of acute aortic dissection is the most important.
This man was young, otherwise healthy, without physical complaints and as most of his gender and age-related peers, he probably did not seek routine preventive medical care. Yet his is one example of how a preventive medical visit may have saved his life.
An astute primary care physician could have diagnosed his condition and known to look for the commonly related problem with the aorta. Blood pressure control and monitoring may have preserved his life, as his daughter had asked.
Her message to me resounds in every preventive encounter I have as a primary-care physician as I hope it will for all of you who have not seen your doctor in a while.
Dr. Matthew A. Clark is a board-certified physician in internal medicine and pediatrics practicing at the Ute Mountain Ute Health Center in Towaoc.


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Often I find myself needing to add notes to a particular drawing to remind myself about something, it could be anything..like add a block, amend some text, etc, etc. basically these are the sorts of 'don't forget to' notes that we all write down and then lose - well I do anyways .
I have previously added a feature request for something like this and hopefully at some stage it might get added;
http://www.qcad.org/bugtracker/index.ph ... &closedto=
But for now I have come up with an idea that may also be useful for others .
1.In the snapshot below I have quite simply drawn a rectangle and hatched it with a solid fill (the colour will fill depending on what colour attributes are given to the layer you are working on - in my case a typical yellow note sticky).
2. Now all you have to do is add a title (Notes) and add a character (this will be your button) using the text editor in QCAD.
3. This notebook can be saved with your file you are working on and everytime you want to delete or update your notes all you have to do is 'double click' your character button and 'hey presto' you are in the QCAD text editor .
Hope it comes in useful
Tip - make a notebook for QCAD
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The Westcom Dispatch Center is a consolidated public safety dispatch facility that receives public safety related calls and dispatches police, fire and emergency medical services for the cities of Clive, Norwalk, Urbandale, Waukee and West Des Moines. Westcom is presently located in the City of West Des Moines public safety facility located at 8055 Mills Civic Parkway, West Des Moines, Iowa. The newly updated and expanded dispatch center moved to this building in March 2009.
Prior to January of 2001, West Des Moines, Clive, and Urbandale had separate and independent public safety dispatch centers staffed by respective city employees 24 hours every day. The consolidation of these separate dispatch centers into one allows for greatly improved communication between all of the public safety agencies by placing all three cities onto one trunked 800 MHz radio system. This merger allows the agencies to directly communicate with one another during large-scale incidents / accidents rather than attempting to communicate via the three separate radio systems which had previously been utilized. Other advantages of the centralized dispatch facility are:
- financial savings through the shared use of an existing radio / mobile computer system.
- increased savings and better information sharing by having all three cities on one police and fire computerized records management system.
- elimination of duplicated governmental services by consolidation and centralization of this function.
- opportunities and methods involving new technology can be pursued more economically by the cities sharing the cost rather than each paying for individual systems or applications.
It took roughly 18 months of planning, policy development, legal processes, and much discussion to prepare for Westcom coming on-line. The formal agreement between the three cities creating Westcom was signed by the respective mayors in August of 2000. Five months later in January of 2001, the city of Clive closed its communication center and moved its public safety dispatchers to Westcom. In March of 2001, Urbandale did the same to complete the incremental merger process.
In December 2012, Westcom began dispatching for the City of Norwalk. The Norwalk transition from the Warren County Sheriff's Office to Westcom Emergency Communications dispatch took roughly a year of planning.
In July 2015, City of Waukee joined Westcom, and Westcom began dispatching for the Waukee Police and Fire Departments.
The four communities share the related expenses for the dispatch center based upon a percentage breakdown of the total number of calls for service received by the center. Westcom is currently staffed by sixteen full-time dispatchers and four part-time call takers. The center is managed by three Dispatch Shift Supervisors, an Assistant Chief, and a Chief. The policy oversight body for Westcom is a committee made up of representatives of the cities and chaired by a city manager.
Please click on any of the following links to visit the individual websites of the cities that utilize the Westcom Dispatch Center.


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I wrote one post about Gurtogg Bloodboil and one about The Lurker Below. A vast majority of wow players – and I would imagine that a majority of the readers here – have never seen Gurtogg and probably won't ever see him (or at least not at level 70). But there are tons of people who have seen and will see Lurker. And that got me to thinking, would you guys rather read some tips and tricks that you can actually use in fights you actually do, or would you rather read about some BT and Hyjal fights that you may never see but are very cool nonetheless
claudioccm says:
hey, i really like to strategies on those hard to get bosses, but they are rather useless for me, since im back in the beginning of my career.
i have OTed kara, until prince, and im starting a new group as a MT. thats had been a huge difference. I usually look for info on bosses in bosskillers.com but i´d really like to read some strategies from the guys i read almost everyday, if you have some other strategies then the ones in bosskiller, :)
i´d also like to see some things about gruul´s lair, since it´s my next target.
it´s fun to read about ZA or BT, but it´s just sooo far from me yet.
thanx, great blog guys.
my armory, for gear info http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Sentinels&n=Gigeer
All of the above!
I do like to read up on both. I like reading up on encounters I'm currently looking at, also like hearing about some encounters I plan to get to in the future.
Well, we've cleared all of Kara but Nightbane and are hoping to down him this week, but we'll still be in Kara for another couple of months as we work on getting 10 more people prepped and geared. Not sure what strategies there are to discuss for the Kara fights that haven't been explained ad nauseum elsewhere, but I'd certainly welcome any fresh new ideas on the first raid available (and possibly the only raid many would-be raiders will ever get to see.) For me, personally, I'd like to see some info on the rest of the t4 raids – specifically HKM, Gruul and Magtheridon. There doesn't ever seem to be much mention of Mags, which surprises me considering he pretty much IS the whole raid. I'd think he'd be hit all the time.
Exekute says:
I really enjoy the SSC/TK encounters I'm into now. I know it's primarily the tank strat side of it, but occasionally I'm interested in thoughts of best party make up as well. Like, how many tanks/healers/DPS you recommend. I always like to know what each component is expected to do because I feel we're almost like the quarterback of the raid, and need to be aware of everything taking place to act and react accordingly.
Great stuff though, always checking in on this site at the office!
Also, with patch 2.4 opening up BT and MH, it might be good to start giving tanking tips and howtos for those bosses, and maybe an overview post for each zone to talk about progression, trash and the like.
It's going to be interesting!