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Ahhh, the Olympics-- a time when countries from all over the world come together to show off the best they have to offer.
But when Americans March into London's Olympic Park July 27th, they will be wearing outfits not made in the USA, but in China.
From the beret to the navy jacket to the tan buck shoes-- all of them are Chinese products. It's probably not the best time for this work to be outsourced.
American mogul Ralph Lauren designed the outfits but sent the work overseas. That is bad news for the 65,000 U.S. textile workers who have lost jobs as more than 100 mills have shut down here.
To be fair, they are not bad looking uniforms-- kind of like something a snobby French flight attendant might wear, but the Polo logo on the jacket is so obnoxiously big it looks like you could ride that horse home!
Of course, they are red, white and blue, but they have Congress seeing nothing but red.
"They should take all the uniforms," said Nevada Senator Harry Reid, "put them in a big pile and burn them and start all over again."
That's probably not the soundest financial plan, seeing as the women's outfits cost $1500 each and the men's, $1945.
But don't manufacturers claim to outsource work because they say it's "cheaper" overseas? Surely somebody in the USA could make a uniform for less than two grand.
Ralph Lauren is not talking, but the U.S. Olympic Committee said, "Unlike most Olympic teams around the world, the U.S. Olympic Team is privately funded and we're grateful for the support of our sponsors."
But that didn't convince House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, "They should be wearing uniforms made in America." House Speaker John Boehner was in rare agreement with Pelosi, saying, "You think they'd know better.
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A Spirit Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Houston early this morning after the airline says the flight was diverted because of a disruptive passenger.
The plane left Los Angeles last night and was supposed to land in Fort Lauderdale this morning.....instead the plane landed here in Houston....where passengers say they were left stranded for about 12 hours.
After being stranded in Houston for 12 hours...these passengers have finally made it to Fort Lauderdale...but they say Spirit Airlines robbed them of their good spirits.
Spirit Airlines flight NK-310 left Los Angeles Saturday night around 10:20.....scheduled to land in Fort Lauderdale Sunday morning around 6....but that never happened.
"It started around 10 in the evening we were 30 minutes late from LA to Fort Lauderdale and around 2 something in the morning and says we have to do an emergency landing due to a passenger and we have to veer to Houston so we did that. They took the guy off the plane and we stayed in our seats for another 1hr 45 minutes with nothing to eat or drink. We stayed an additional 25 minutes, the captain came out and said due to FAA regulations the plane cannot fly and we have to evacuate," said passenger Teresa Chaviano.
Passenger Teresa Chaviano was on that red-eye flight....and talked to me on her cell phone earlier this afternoon while she was trapped in Intercontinental's Terminal D with over a hundred other stranded passengers.
Now off the plane in Florida, she told reporters Spirit originally wanted to bus them up to Dallas.....a nearly 5-hour drive.
Earlier today, Teresa told me not only did the airline poorly handle their customers.....but they handled the unruly passenger in a very unprofessional way.
"He was a blind 89-year-old with Alzheimer's and by accident he touched his next door passenger and she went out of control and apparently was under the influence of alcohol," said Teresa.
KK:What would you like to say to Spirit Airlines right now?
Teresa:"Close their doors, this is not customer service, not humanity we pay to be treated like human beings."
KK:Let me ask you, will you ever fly Spirit Airlines again?
Teresa:"No never."
This headache comes just days after Spirit announced they would be offering non-stop low fare service between Houston and Dallas starting in September.
In an email to Fox 26, a spokeswoman for Spirit Airlines says "We understand that this has been an inconvenience for our customers, but the safety of our customers is always top priority. All customers are being given full refunds for this inconvenience."
After a 20-hour day.....they finally left Houston around 3:15 this afternoon....and arrived safely in Fort Lauderdale around 8:30 EST.
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This year there would be 499 candles on John Calvin's birthday cake—too many to dodge the college's restrictions on open flames. Still, several hundred college employees will gather for a party that, over the past 25 years, has grown into a Calvin tradition.
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Im looking into moving my family back into my moms home. In order to do that the house needs a major renovation . My mom has basically taken care of a home on her own for 35 years, needless to say, nothin has been fixed correctly or remodeled. Im doing this to hopefully finally have a home of my own and take care of my mom at same time. There is major work in just about every area. Complete kitchen remodel, whole 2nd floor renovation, the yard is a complete disaster and basement was flooded, to the point FEMA had to take everyone out in boats.
Do any of your shows ever come to the Boston area? Please help!
Not going to happen. You can apply on the DIY home page but the odds of getting on a show are lottery-like long. Nobody from DIY watches this board for potential homeowners.
Start figuring out a budget and shop around for a local contractor.
hopefully you know the high-water point in the basement. everything below that will need to be replaced... furnace, heater, maybe the electrical panel, certainly all outlets/switches etc. if it was finished, you have to replace finished surfaces at least a couple inches above the waterline, and who knows what the rest looks like until you strip that.
the rest has to be cleaned and sanitized before you put any of the new stuff in. you will need a dumpster, and a lot of that stuff is code-covered and needs permits, which usually means contractors.
if there is foundation damage from standing water or turgor pressure from wet soil outside, that comes before any of the pretty goes back in.
you need an on-site professional to eyeball what damages exist, so start calling around for estimates.
flooding (hoovers) and there's no two ways around it. if you are in a flood zone, federal flood insurance will be required if you are going to insure or finance anything.
sig: if this is a new economy, how come they still want my old-fashioned money?
Does your mother in fact have flood insurance? And is she in a flood zone?
Given that this is your mother's home and you're moving your family back into it, I think the first priority should be what's best for your mother. How old is she? Does she need handicapped accommodations?
She may not care about something like a complete kitchen remodel but may be more interested in accessibility accommodations.
If she's classified as low income, there may be some help through Melrose administration with HUD grants, especially for the critical areas such as safety and hygiene as a result of the flood.
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36th Meeting of the Ramsar
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Information paper by Austria, with support from other European countries, for consideration at SC 37:
Proposal for
Draft resolution X.x on The Frequency of Ordinary Meetings of the Conference of Parties (COP)
1. Backqround
1.1 Limits in capacity and budget at Secretariat and member state level.
1.2 Need for better implementation of the Convention in the regions and on national level.
1.3 If COP-resolutions are taken seriously, there is a need for more time to prepare them and to implement them properly at national and regional level.
2. Frequency of COP
2.1 Frequency of COPs shall be extended from 3 to 4 years.
2.2 Formal Reqional meetinqs shall take place between the COPs every 4 years, e.g. mid-way through the 4 year cycle, to review in particular regional implementation level
2.3 Standing Committee meetings continue to take place every year, providing a good opportunity for CPs to meeting on international level constantly.
3. Advantages
3.1 New frequency makes better use of capacity and budget in Secretariat and member states.
3.2 Raises importance of Standing Committee and regional representation of CPs. Adapts character of regional meetings to regional needs.
3.3 Enhances importance of National Ramsar Committees for implementation.
3.4 4-years COP - frequency relieves Secretariat and CPs from serious work burden in the year of the COP (National Reporting, drafting activities,...).
3.5 CPs receive every 2 years an opportunity to attend an international Ramsar meeting - instead of every 3 years as it is now.
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4.1 The convention text, Article 6, states that "COP meetings shall be convened on intervals of not more than three years unless the COP decides otherwise.." So a shift to a 4-year COP cycle could be made by adoption of a COP 10 resolution on this matter.
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with Tamoxifen
In a follow-up to their late-2003 study showing that the selective serotonin uptake inhibitor (SSRI) paroxetine can decrease the metabolism and efficacy of tamoxifen, researchers have now pinpointed genotypes that are linked with this effect, as well as other SSRIs that cause the same result.
Their findings, published in the January 5 Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI), come from 80 women newly diagnosed with breast cancer and starting tamoxifen treatment. Twenty-four in this group were also taking SSRIs—including paroxetine, fluoxetine, sertraline, citalopram, and venlafaxine.
Previous studies have shown that when tamoxifen is broken down, the resulting molecules are as much as 100 times more powerful at blocking estrogen receptors and thereby exerting a cancer-inhibitive effect. The keys to breaking it down, however, are enzymes in the cytochrome P (CYP) group, including CYP2D6, which can be blocked by some SSRIs.
After genotyping the women in this study, monitoring their medication history, and testing their blood for plasma levels of tamoxifen and its metabolites, the team found that nonfunctional polymorphisms in either one or both copies of CYP2D6 are associated with SSRI use and low tamoxifen activity. Compared with women with two functional copies of the gene, those with one nonfunctional copy showed a 45 percent lower plasma level of tamoxifen metabolites, and those with two nonfunctional copies had levels that were significantly lower.
The research team also found that the stronger the SSRI's inhibitive effect on CYP2D6, the lower the plasma level of tamoxifen metabolites, with paroxetine having the strongest effect in this regard.
"We've withheld clinical recommendations, because at this point we don't have outcome data," said lead author Dr. David A. Flockhart of Indiana University School of Medicine. In the article, however, he and the other authors state that "knowledge of a drug's ability to inhibit CYP2D6 enzyme activity may help clinicians to anticipate important drug interactions" and that genetic testing "may help identify a group of women who may experience greater benefit from tamoxifen and/or who might benefit more from one SSRI over another."
After 25 years on the market, tamoxifen is one of the most widely prescribed treatments for hormone receptor-positive breast cancer at all stages. According to the drug's manufacturer, the duration and penetration of its use equals more than 10 million patient years.
But tamoxifen doesn't work for everyone; just over one-third of women who have advanced tumors do not respond to it, and tumors eventually develop a resistance to it.
One of the side effects of tamoxifen is hot flashes, which occur two to three times more often among women who are taking the drug than among those who do not. SSRIs, which are most often prescribed as antidepressants, are also prescribed to help prevent these hot flashes, a trend that Dr. Flockhart says appears to be increasing.
"In this trial, the number of women taking SSRI antidepressants completely surprised us," he said. "We thought it would be closer to a tenth, but instead it was 28 percent of the group. The SSRIs are important to a lot of women who find the hot flashes really debilitating."
This research, which was funded in part by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences Pharmacogenetics Research Network, does not include outcomes of the genotype and SSRI use. However, the authors presented early data from another study at the 27th Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, in December 2004, that show an effect of the genotype on disease-free survival. A paper on this study is currently in review by JNCI, said Dr. Flockhart.
He also noted that the 80 women in the current study are part of a larger group of 300 expected to complete enrollment in the summer of 2005, and said that once the data are collected from the larger group, "we would be prepared to make clinical recommendations at that point."
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