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Today's resorts are splurging on amenities for parents and young children, offering kids' menus in gourmet restaurants, family events like bonfires and clambakes, even free access to baby gear. CHILD reveals where to find a slice of paradise.
First-Rate Family Services
A children's program and a few swimming pools are no longer enough to make a resort a top pick for families. Vying for your travel dollars, resorts are offering services virtually unheard of a few years ago, like automatic childproofing of guest rooms, fine dining for kids and parents, and complimentary use of child necessities such as stepstools and baby bathtubs. They're giving tennis lessons to toddlers, acrobat training to preschoolers, and facials to kindergartners.
How do we know all this? For six months, Child studied the family features at U.S. resorts that focus on warm-weather travel. We sent a questionnaire to 341 properties culled from a list of resorts from Smith Travel Research and our advisory board of travel experts to see what they offered. About 170 semi-finalists received a 129-question follow-up survey about the activities, staffing, and cost for kids' programs; the activities families can do together; the range of dining options; the range of water activities for young kids; safety issues like the presence of lifeguards and security patrols; room design and size; and value, such as lower rates on second rooms for large families.
In the end, our winners emerged because they offered a perfect package -- ideal locations, great programming, and first-rate accommodations. The 50 runners-up were so impressive, though, that we listed them at the end of this article.
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1. The Breakers, Palm Beach, FL
Few resorts are as opulent as The Breakers, with its Italian Renaissance-style architecture and magnificent landscaping. Yet the luxe design hasn't stopped the staff -- particularly general manager Trish Taylor, herself the mother of a 10-month-old -- from scheduling charming parent-and-child activities such as Friday night bonfires at the beach and weekend family kickball contests on the croquet lawn. A kids' camp, with groups for 3- to 5-year-olds and 6- to 12-year-olds, mixes indoor arts and crafts and outdoor fun like sandcastle building and scavenger hunts. Though parents are permitted (but not obligated) to stay, the camp assigns one counselor to every five kids.
At dinnertime, the most popular option with families is the Italian Restaurant, featuring brick-oven pizzas and fresh pastas. Servers deliver kids their entrees while adults enjoy appetizers. Then children can explore the attached 6,160-sq.-ft. Family Entertainment Center, which has blocks, train sets, tumbling mats, arts and crafts stations, a computer, and a small movie theater. All activities are supervised by the resort's staff. Says Taylor: "We created this space for parents whose kids eat dinner in a minute and a half and want to finish their meal at leisure, knowing their children are safe and having fun."
On 140 acres of oceanfront, the luxury resort offers 560 rooms and 38 suites, all nonsmoking and renovated within the last two to four years; a room with two double beds ranges from 360 to 400 sq. ft.; suites start at 500 sq. ft.
Family Features:
Year-round kids' camp all day and some evenings; private babysitting with screened sitters; playground; free use of bottle warmers, mini refrigerators, stepstools, strollers, infant bathtubs, and childproofing items
Parents' Perks:
Five-diamond restaurant; two championship golf courses; 20,000-sq.-ft. spa; three fitness centers; designer boutiques
- Boasts five swimming pools -- including a baby pool and a heated family pool, the most in our 10-best list; organized games such as ring toss and underwater checkers take place often, and lifeguards monitor all water activities
- Has a summer Junior Golf Academy for kids 6 and up and a Tennis Academy for kids 3 and up
- Commissioned Mort Walker, the creator of Beetle Bailey, to design mascots for the kids' camp; the result: parrots Lulu, Loco, and Louie
2. Winnetu Oceanside Resort, Martha's Vineyard, MA
The Winnetu Oceanside Resort aims to bring the simplicity and old-fashioned appeal of Martha's Vineyard to families. Preregistration isn't required for the kids' program, and parents can pick up and drop off their 3- to 12-year-olds anytime during operating hours. Counselors (one for every four to five kids) coordinate activities like treasure hunts, swimming, and group games, while the family program features remote-control boat races ? la Stuart Little and clambakes with magicians and s'mores.
This spring, owner Mark Snider is debuting another family component: The "Farmer for a Day" program will run every Saturday morning at the Farm Institute, which is across the street from the resort. Families will take a hayride to the farm to learn how to shear sheep, make goat cheese, and perhaps watch a live birth.
Six studios and 48 one- to four-bedroom suites with kitchenettes make up this nonsmoking property on 51 grassy acres overlooking Martha's Vineyard South Beach, three miles from Edgartown; studios are 265 sq. ft. (they fit two adults and one young child), and suites start at 450 sq. ft.
Family Features:
Free children's morning program during the summer; evening program for 3- to 12-year-olds three nights weekly from June to late September; private babysitting with screened sitters; two outdoor heated pools plus baby pool; dive-in movies (family films shown poolside); walking path to the beach
Parents' Perks:
Adventure & Wellness Center with personal trainers, state-of-the-art gym, and free Pilates and yoga classes, opening May 19
- Offers outdoor activities such as a peewee tennis club, life-size chess set, and playground
- Operates the Osprey family dining room, where parents can order gourmet food while kids enjoy a buffet; there's also an entertainment area with toys
- Drives guests around the property and local area in a 1929 Ford Model A Woody wagon, a 1931 Model A open-air bus, and a 1945 firetruck
3. Kingsmill Resort & Spa, Williamsburg, VA
On sunny days, an abundance of activities -- from soccer to swimming, craft-making to fishing -- engages 5- to 12-year-olds in Kingsmill Resort & Spa's Kids Kamp. But when the weather doesn't cooperate, the creativity of the camp's counselors -- one for every four kids -- really shines, says Kate Mearns, director of sports and spa. "Recently, we had each child make a building out of a big box and put them all together to form a city street for a movie set," recalls Mearns. "Then we invited the parents for a performance." Another forward-thinking activity that takes place indoors: a 90-minute evening spa camp for girls ages 5 to 12. The camp includes plush spa robes, nail-painting, and a mini footbath.
Three-floor condos in villa-like clusters along the banks of the James River feature 375-sq.-ft. guest rooms and one- to three-bedroom suites, starting at 820 sq. ft., with kitchens and laundry facilities; all 425 rooms were renovated in 2004 and offer a patio or balcony
Family Features:
Seasonal kids' camp all day; evening kids' programs; private babysitting with screened sitters; indoor and outdoor pools plus baby pool with fountain, all staffed by lifeguards; dive-in movies; playground; kids' menu at all eateries; free shuttles to Busch Gardens, Water Country, and Colonial Williamsburg, all nearby
Parents' Perks:
Championship golf courses; spa with "Sampler Massage," combining classic Swedish, hot stone, aromatherapy, and other techniques; fitness center with 30 cardio stations
- Features a marina with fishing equipment, kayaks, and paddle boats available to rent; a small, sandy beach along the marina is a perfect spot for picnics and shell-collecting
- Offers golf for families with kids as young as 5 on the nine-hole, par-3 Bray Link; at night, families can play with glow-in-the-dark balls
- Allows kids to roll dough for their own pizzas, either in the Kids' Evening Out program or at Regatta's restaurant, one of six on-site eateries
4. Loews Coronado Bay Resort & Spa, San Diego
Child ranked Loews the best hotel chain for families in 2003, and its Coronado Bay Resort & Spa offers all the brand's kid-friendly features and more in a relaxed beach setting. Last summer, Loews piloted parent-attended playgroups for children ages 6 to 18 months and 19 to 36 months at the resort before launching them chainwide. During the 45-minute sessions, toddlers spend "A Day at the Castle," hearing fairy tales and trying on dress-up clothes. Infant sessions focus on movement and creative play with baby toys.
For children ages 4 to 12, the resort offers 50-minute kickboxing and yoga classes at the on-site spa and a camp, with one counselor for every four kids, during the summer and on school holidays. Campers decorate and fly kites, swim, and learn origami. Family activities include a baking class with the resort's pastry chef, poolside workshops on creating healthy kids' drinks, and family bingo. All programs reflect the resort's philosophy about its young guests: "In traveling with my family, I've been struck by how many resorts aim to keep kids quiet and out of sight," says Kathleen Cochran, general manager. "Here, we want kids to be seen and heard."
Nestled on a private 15-acre peninsula bordered by the Pacific Ocean and San Diego Bay, 408 guest rooms (at 450 sq. ft. each) and 32 suites (starting at 700 sq. ft.) are nonsmoking and were renovated in 2005
Family Features:
Seasonal kids' camp all day and some evenings; private babysitting with screened sitters; private pedestrian underpass to the beach; families' and kids' heated pools; dive-in movies; toddler beds; childproofing upon request; free meals for children under age 5 at all restaurants; discounted second rooms
Parents' Perks:
One of the few spas in the country offering Watsu (water-based massage); farmers' market trips with the resort's head chef
- Offers innumerable family conveniences -- from for-keeps items like sunscreen and baby shampoo to loaner baby swings, cameras, toys, and rain gear -- at no charge through its kids' programs and Did-You-Forget? Closet
- Serves healthy, three-course meals for kids at its gourmet restaurant; nutritious options -- including a free appetizer of veggies and dipping sauces -- are offered at all on-site eateries
- Greets children with a welcome gift bag, which includes an inflatable beach ball, a rubber bracelet entitling them to free beverages during their vacation, an age-appropriate toy, and a scavenger hunt game
5. Colony Beach & Tennis Resort, Longboat Key, FL
Tennis is the name of the game at the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort. For 20 years, it has been introducing 3- to 6-year-olds to the sport through half-hour complimentary group sessions using smaller and lighter racquets. "Our professional instructors make sure the ball hits the kids' racquets," says president Katie Klauber Moulton. "Connecting with the ball is the fun part, not so much getting it over the net." Families can play free on any of the resort's 21 courts.
Even though tennis professionals practice on the courts and the resort has hosted national tournaments, the property still has a casual style. Says Moulton: "Kids don't have to cover up their swimsuits when they go inside, and guests often leave their racquets outside their front doors."
This suite-only property, situated on 18 acres of uncrowded beachfront off the coast of Sarasota, offers 208 one- to two- bedroom accommodations with kitchens plus 26 specialty suites, including beachhouses; suites start at 780 sq. ft. and all are nonsmoking
Family Features:
Year-round complimentary kids' camp all day and some evenings; private babysitting with screened sitters; 800 feet of private beach; heated outdoor pool staffed by lifeguards; on-site gourmet market
Parents' Perks:
Spa with treatments such as salt glow rub; organized morning power walks; restaurant with award-winning wine list
- Doesn't require preregistration for its camp, which is broken into groups for kids ages 3 to 6 and 7 to 12; it permits parents to drop off and pick up their children anytime during operating hours and has one counselor for every four campers
- Boasts a beachfront playground with a slide, walking bridge, and several climbing features
- Promotes family togetherness with sailing clinics, an Olympic challenge, and DeSoto's Gold Hunt for treasure on the beach
6. The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, FL
The flexible -- and ever-evolving -- family activities at The Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island in northeast Florida benefit from the resort's beachfront location and mystique. "This used to be a bustling harbor with pirate ships, and galleons sank off the coast," says hotel manager Steven Schaefer. So in addition to water sports like fly-fishing, kayaking, and family sailing as well as beach games such as horseshoe-toss and croquet, the resort plays up the pirate theme.
On many weekends, counselors (one for every six children) dress like pirates or their princess companions for sing-alongs and storytime by a bonfire. Costumed staff may roam the lobby and are usually available for tuck-ins that include a pirate story and a treasure chest of trinkets. The theme continues with pirate hayrides around the property, puppet shows, and, new this year, a real parrot mascot.
A majestic U-shaped building with 397 rooms (400 sq. ft. each) and 47 suites (starting at 1,073 sq. ft.) features ocean views from all rooms
Family Features:
Year-round kids' program for 5- to 12-year-olds with daytime and evening sessions; private babysitting with screened nannies; outdoor pool with shallow play area; childproofing kits; kid-size furniture; cribs with custom linens; playground
Parents' Perks:
Championship golf course; romantic chiminea (clay portable fireplace) bonfires for two with a gourmet food basket; sunrise tai chi on the beach; 32,500-sq.-ft. indoor/outdoor spa expected to open in December
- Schedules professional 8" by 10" family portraits taken on the beach; one photo is free
- Sets up a check-in desk in the lobby where kids learn about fun activities at the property and enjoy a cookie, which can be personalized with a child's name if requested in advance
- Gives families a five-mile boat ride to Cumberland Island National Seashore, where wild horses run free in the marshes
7. The Tyler Place Family Resort, Highgate Springs, VT
Picture summer camp with children and grown-ups each doing their own thing most of the time and you've grasped the concept for the all-inclusive Tyler Place Family Resort. Operated by the Tyler family since its inception in 1933, the resort automatically enrolls kids in camp with activities targeted to their ages. Toddlers, for instance, may look for radishes in the garden while preschoolers explore the meadow for feathers and pine cones. While their kids are in camp, parents can take painting classes, learn archery, practice yoga, and much more. Parents and children meet up after lunch for organized activities, such as nature walks and pontoon boat rides, or on-their-own family fun, such as mini golf and basketball.
At night, parents dine alone or as part of a group in the adults-only restaurant. While Tyler Place's structure of separate meals and activities doesn't work for every family, Tasney Tyler Otis, director of children's programs, says, "Parents who return year after year tell us the independence their kids have at the resort reminds them of their own childhood summers."
Set on 165 acres on Lake Champlain, the accommodations are charming, as long as you like rustic; 36 family suites and 30 family cottages, featuring two or more bedrooms, offer microwaves and refrigerators
Family Features:
Kids' camp in the mornings and evenings from late May to early September; private babysitting with screened sitters; indoor and outdoor pools, both staffed by lifeguards and featuring slides; craft studio
Parents' Perks:
After-dinner entertainment such as a jazz band and dancing; healthy buffet-style meals; champagne cruises
- Breaks down its camp for infants to 15-year-olds into nine age groups, the most in our survey, and hires only counselors who have completed at least two years of college; the ratio of counselors to kids ranges from one for every two infants to one for every 10 teens
- Has a table with snacks and toys in the lobby area to occupy children while their parents check in; during peak season, guests are generally required to arrive and check out on Saturdays
- Allows families to bring one of their children's friends, between ages 6 and 15, for free from September 2 to 9, provided the friend is in the same age group as one of the kids in the family
8. Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, Ojai, CA
Many of the activities at Ojai Valley Inn & Spa's camp for kids ages 5 to 12 draw on the traditions of the Chumash Indians, who flourished on the central California coast before the European settlers arrived. Counselors -- one for every five campers -- lead nature hikes to the Chumash Indian Hunt, where kids hear stories, sing, and create talking rain sticks and rock art.
The property also boasts an 800-acre Ranch & Stables, featuring a big red barn, an active silo, a petting farm, and 36 horses. Wranglers take kids on pony rides, emphasizing safety while teaching riding techniques. "Horses are haltered with a lead rope, and kids are educated in how to approach a horse," says Peter Bowen, director of revenue. All kids come home with a photo of themselves, framed with the name of the horse they rode, a bandanna, and a horseshoe.
On 220 acres surrounded by mountains, 19 buildings with courtyards, walkways, or fountains house 236 rooms (starting at 460 sq. ft.) and 72 suites (starting at 625 sq. ft.), all nonsmoking; in 2005, the resort, located 35 miles south of Santa Barbara, was restored to its original Spanish colonial style with red tiles, carved wood, and designer fabrics
Family Features:
Year-round kids' camp with daytime and evening sessions; private babysitting with screened sitters; outdoor heated pool and baby pool; playground; baby toiletries; family golf and tennis lessons; free use of bikes, including ones with training wheels
Parents' Perks:
Championship golf course; 31,000-sq.-ft. spa; art studio; gourmet restaurant; apothecary-blending lab where guests can create their own lotions expected to open by summer
- Serves as a retreat for many celebrity parents, like Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas
- Entertains family groups of 20 or more with a Western hoedown, including a chuck wagon barbecue dinner and dancing in the barn
- Gives kids a wooden nickel to exchange for old-fashioned candy in the property's general store
9. Four Seasons Lana'I, Manele Bay, HI
Overlooking a waterfall, the 1,800-sq.-ft. facility that houses the Four Seasons children's camp is stunning, with jungle murals, butterfly lights, and an outdoor play area. "We tied the program to Hawaii rather than offer a mainland experience that just happens to be in Hawaii," says Mark Hellrung, general manager. To that end, 5- to 12-year-old campers can take hula lessons, learn how the Hawaiian Islands were formed, make leis, play Hawaiian games, and build their own erupting volcano.
Preregistration isn't required for the camp, parents can drop off and pick up their kids anytime during operating hours, and there is one counselor for every six children.
This new resort, formerly the Manele Bay Hotel, boasts 215 guest rooms (starting at 576 sq. ft.) and 21 suites (starting at 1,056 sq. ft.), all nonsmoking; they're built on 30 acres of tropical gardens in Lana'i, 45 minutes from Maui via ferry
Family Features:
Year-round, complimentary kids' camp all day; white-sand beach; pool with dive-in movies, complimentary Evian spritzers and chilled towels; playground; toddler beds; free childproofing upon request; refrigerator, bike, and stroller rentals; kids' menus at all restaurants and free meals for children ages 4 and under; DVD players in all rooms
Parents' Perks:
Challenging golf course built on lava outcroppings; spa with treatments like Hawaiian Lomi Lomi massage; free scuba-diving introductory course
- Delivers, at no charge, milk and cookies to a child's room on the first night of his stay; kids also receive a bag with playing cards, bubbles, a note pad, and more at check-in
- Takes advantage of the natural habitat with activities such as searching for butterflies and feeding sea creatures with bamboo fishing poles
- Makes bathtime fun with sponges spelling out a child's name, child-size kimono robes and slippers, and kid-friendly toiletries
10. Club Med Sandpiper, Port St. Lucie, FL
The philosophy of Club Med Sandpiper is that the quality of a family's experience hinges on the staff. "Our international employees don't just work here, they live here," says John Vanderslice, president & CEO of Club Med America.
The staff is selected for a background in childcare and sports skills appropriate for the age-divided camp for kids 4 months to 13 years. Counselors -- one for every three infants and one for every eight to 12 school-age kids -- have to be at least 21 years old. At the end of a family's visit, the staff asks for feedback. Implemented suggestions include a tennis program for 3- to 7-year-olds and the flexibility of allowing parents to check their kids into and out of the camp anytime during operating hours.
Two- and three-story bungalows throughout the property on the St. Lucie River house 310 rooms and 27 suites, all nonsmoking; a room with two double beds averages 344 sq. ft., while a two-bedroom family suite is 720 sq. ft.
Family Features:
Year-round kids' camp with daytime and evening sessions; late-night group childcare; four swimming pools, all staffed by lifeguards; dive-in movies; playground; loaner strollers; Baby Welcome program with infant bathtubs, childproofing kits, and baby food; complimentary shuttle to nearby beach
Parents' Perks:
Deep-sea fishing; riverboat cruises; international buffet dining; golf course
- Offers a Circus School, where kids ages 4 and up can learn -- while safely harnessed -- to walk the tightrope and fly through the air on a trapeze
- Promotes cultural awareness for kids through a program allowing them to make masks, play instruments, and listen to international music
- Boasts a hip-hop dance program for kids ages 4 and up and a Happy Gym for toddlers
10. Nickelodeon Family Suites by Holiday Inn, Orlando
The Nickelodeon Family Suites by Holiday Inn offers many opportunities -- interactive teas, breakfasts, and meet-and-greets -- for resort guests to mingle with characters. But that may not be what kids remember most fondly. Two admission-worthy water parks that are free for all guests feature seven slides or flumes, a four-story interactive water tower, and a 400-gallon dump tank. Toddlers will enjoy a sandy area with a slide and a shaded play space with a splash zone. The parks are both staffed by lifeguards, and life jackets, offered at no charge, are required for kids less than 4' tall when using certain water slides.
On 26 acres a mile from Walt Disney World, this all-suite resort has semi-private Nickelodeon-character-themed kids' bedrooms that can only be accessed via the common living room; most of the 777 suites are 485 sq. ft., and all are nonsmoking and equipped with a refrigerator and microwave
Family Features:
Camp for kids 5 to 12 four evenings per week; two swimming pools, one with a shallow entry, both staffed by lifeguards; dive-in movies; playground; free meals for kids 12 and under at certain eateries
Parents' Perks:
Nick@Night Adult Lounge; lap pool; free shuttle buses to area theme parks
- Will host Nick Jr. month in September with activities and characters from TV shows for preschoolers; last year's programming included storytime with Joe and Blue from Blue's Clues and a Dora the Explorer fiesta with arts and crafts
- Offers spa treatments, such as hair-braiding and manicures, for kids as young as 2
- Schedules live shows nightly during which families compete against each other in Nick-style games; if desired -- and most kids are eager -- the child of the winning family gets slimed at the end of the show with much fanfare
The 50 Runners-Up
- Four Seasons, Hualalai
- Four Seasons, Maui
- Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa
- Hilton Hawaiian Village
- Hilton Waikoloa Village
- Hyatt Regency Maui Resort & Spa
- Sheraton Maui Resort
- Westin Maui Resort & Spa
New England & Mid-Atlantic
- The Greenbrier, White Sulphur Springs, VA
- The Hotel Hershey, Hershey, PA
- Lansdowne Resort, Leesburg, VA
- Point Sebago Resort, Casco, ME
- The Sagamore, Green Island, NY
- Sebasco Harbor Resort, Sebasco Estates, ME
- Amelia Island Plantation, FL
- Cheeca Lodge & Spa, Islamorada, FL
- Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa, FL
- Hawks Cay Resort, FL
- High Hampton Inn & Country Club, Cashiers, NC
- Hyatt Regency Coconut Point Resort and Spa, Bonita Springs, FL
- Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort & Spa, San Antonio, TX
- Kiawah Island Resort, Charleston, SC
- Loews Hard Rock Hotel, Orlando
- Loews Portofino Bay Hotel, Orlando
- Loews Royal Pacific Resort, Orlando
- Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate
- Pinehurst Golf & Spa Resort, NC
- The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds Plantation, GA
- The Ritz-Carlton South Beach, FL
- Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort, Destin, FL
- Sea Pines Resort, Hilton Head, SC
- South Seas Island Resort, Captiva Island, FL
- Trump International Sonesta Beach Resort, Key Biscayne, FL
- Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin, FL
- Wild Dunes Resort, Charleston, SC
- Disney's Grand Californian Hotel, Anaheim, CA
- Enchantment Resort, Sedona, AZ
- Four Seasons, Scottsdale, AZ
- Four Seasons Biltmore, Santa Barbara, CA
- Hyatt Grand Champions Resort & Spa, Indian Wells, CA
- Hyatt Regency Huntington Beach Resort & Spa, CA
- Hyatt Regency Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Gainey Ranch, AZ
- Hyatt Regency Tamaya Resort & Spa, Pueblo, NM
- La Quinta Resort & Club, CA
- Los Abrigados Resort & Spa, Sedona, AZ
- Montage Resort & Spa, Laguna Beach, CA
- Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort, Phoenix
- Pointe Hilton Tapatio Cliffs, Phoenix
- Pointe South Mountain Resort, Phoenix
- St. Regis Resort, Dana Point, CA
Our Advisory Panel of Travel Experts
Thank you to the following travel professionals for helping us develop the questions for Child's survey: Fran Falkin, editor of TinyTravelers.net; Eileen Ogintz, syndicated travel columnist and founder of takingthekids.com; Lydia Westbrook, research director of the American Hotel & Lodging Association Information Center; and Bari Ziegel, family travel specialist for Tara World Travel, West Port Washington, NY.
Copyright ? 2006. Reprinted with permission from the May 2006 issue of Child magazine.


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The Senate After Dark
Harry Reid blocks a vote to prevent airport delays and closures.
The U.S. Senate these days seems to conduct most of its business after dark, often after midnight, and no wonder. You wouldn't want voters to know what you were up to either if you were part of Majority Leader Harry Reid's national embarrassment.
Consider last week's fiasco involving the air-traffic control system. As part of the White House's Operation Wreak Havoc response to the sequester spending cuts, the Department of Transportation warned last week that 149 control towers at small, regional airports will close down. Local newspapers are running headlines about the imminent loss of flight service.
Next on the list could be furloughs at major airports that would mean flight delays for millions of travelers. The DOT helpfully warns that these delays could be "very painful for the flying public." The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) accounts for only 20% of the Transportation budget but under White House and Congressional sequester math somehow absorbs 60% of the cuts.
Many of the service cutbacks could have been easily avoided by a budget amendment last week sponsored by Republican Senator Jerry Moran of Kansas. He proposed replacing $50 million of FAA sequester cuts with savings from unspent balances, which are a kind of agency slush fund, and by reducing other low-priority spending. Great idea.
How did the vote turn out? There wasn't one. Majority Leader Reid blocked the amendment from ever getting to the Senate floor. Mr. Moran believes that public safety is compromised by these control-tower cuts, and he calls the Reid gambit "a very dangerous way to try to score political points."
Mr. Reid used the same tactics last week to block nearly a dozen other measures to soften the impact of the sequester. Mr. Moran also couldn't get a vote to restore funding for White House tours by cutting $2.5 million for new uniforms for airport screeners.
Republican Tom Coburn of Oklahoma sponsored seven amendments to save money—including one to provide funding to the National Park Service to keep open the likes of Yosemite and Yellowstone—by cutting programs that even Mr. Obama's budget calls low priorities. He also proposed freezing new hiring of "nonessential personnel" and to end conferences by the Department of Homeland Security. At least he got roll-call votes, but nearly every one was defeated by Democrats when Mr. Reid gave the order to his caucus.
Mr. Reid's blocking tactics were supported by President Obama, whose main political goal continues to be to impose as much sequester pain as possible on the public to force Republicans to raise taxes again.
So in the weeks ahead travelers will likely experience the frustration of flight delays, cancellations and closed airports. It won't happen by accident or out of fiscal necessity, but because Washington Democrats refuse to prioritize federal spending.


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Is it possible to apply Cauchy's residue theorem to a function which has an infinite number of isolated singularities within the contour of integration (say a semicircle whose radius goes to infinity), with known residues $r_n$, assuming that $$\sum_{n=1}^\infty r_n$$ converges?
In a strict sense, the residue theorem only applies to bounded closed contours. The hypotheses of the residue theorem cannot be fulfilled if the contour contains infinitely many singularities, since the union of the contour and its interior is compact, so the singularities must have an accumulation point, which would be a non-isolated singularity for which no residue can be defined.
In a looser sense, the residue theorem is sometimes applied to unbounded "contours", e.g. the real axis closed by a semi-circle "at infinity". To justify this rigorously, one defines a sequence of closed contours such that one part of the contour "goes to infinity" and its contribution to the integral can be shown to go to $0$, while the remainder of the contour either remains finite or grows such that the limit of its contribution is an improper integral, e.g. over the entire real axis.
Thus we are never actually dealing with infinite contours. If we have a sequence of contours that "goes to infinity" and the number of singularities it encloses also goes to infinity in the process, we can apply the finite version of the residue theorem to each contour in the sequence, and then the convergence of the integral to $\sum_n r_n$ enters into the convergence argument that has to be made anyway, and no special argument for applying the residue theorem to infinitely many singularities is required.
To summarize, you can apply the residue theorem to an "infinite contour" enclosing infinitely many singularities, as long as any of the actual contours in the sequence justifying this argument enclose only finitely many singularities; otherwise you have a non-isolated singularity to which the residue theorem doesn't apply.
Alternatively, you can think of contours that extend to infinity as closed contours on the Riemann sphere. Since the Riemann sphere is compact, infinitely many singularities necessarily have an accumulation point on it (which may be the point at infinity), so in this case there can only be finitely many singularities for the function to be meromorphic on and inside the contour.
Yes, the residue theorem does not presuppose that the number of poles is finite. It does, however, suppose that the number of poles is isolated (and hence countable); if this is not the case, then the function in question is not meromorphic, in which case the residue theorem cannot be applied.


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After reading When does the Pope speak ex cathedra? I became curious and searched for a list of statements, but couldn't find one.
Does such list exist and if not, why is this the case?
After reading When does the Pope speak ex cathedra? I became curious and searched for a list of statements, but couldn't find one.
Does such list exist and if not, why is this the case?
There is no canonical list of infallible statements made by the Pontiffs: while there are only a few instances where a Pontiff spoke infallibly ex cathedra (an extraordinary action), there are many times where he is speaking about things known to be infallible of the ordinary and universal Magisterium.
To the extraordinary sense—when a Pontiff speaks infallibly ex cathedra—there two officially recognized cases.
First about the Immaculate Conception by Pius IX:
And second about the Assumption of Mary by Pius XII:
But there may be other instances before Pius IX's pronouncement in 1854 about the Immaculate Conception, not officially mentioned as infallible ex cathedra pronouncements, that count: Wikipedia has one possible list. As Wikipedia notes, because of the scrutiny an ex cathedra statement would get, the Vatican has taken to clarifying when a statement made by the Holy Father is, in fact, is an infallible statement done ex cathedra, and it hasn't happened since Pius XII's pronouncement about the Assumption of Mary.
In the ordinary sense—when a Pontiff speaks about things that are known to be infallible by the ordinary and universal Magisterium—it gets a little tricky. Then Cardinal Ratzinger, prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (now Pope Benedict XVI) mentions in his Doctrinal Commentary on the Concluding Formula of the Professio Fidei about the case of euthanasia:
In a nutshell, the ordinary and universal Magisterium teaches us certain things are evil, and while there may be no mention of a new issue (because it hasn't come up before), the ordinary teachings of the Magisterium can still guide infallible teachings about the new issue without speaking infallibly ex cathedra.
And this happens pretty often: one of the main roles of the clergy, including the Holy Father, is to help guide and instruct based on the ordinary teachings of the Magisterium.
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from TAN Books.
It's got a pretty well sourced index. Mark Trapp speaks truth about the Marian Dogmas, there are four of 'em but only the last two are the products of papal statements, the other two were pronounced as result of ecumenical councils.
But, Bl. John Paul II spoke on an infallible teaching about women in the priesthood, that's pretty new so it may not have made the cut for the book. Also, infallibility is defined as the Pope in Communion with the Bishops. So, magisterial teachings are just as infallible as the Popes. Which is why you'll find a lot more stuff in that book than just papal decrees.


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Roasting isn't usually the first cooking method you think of for cauliflower but the results are quite delicious. The florets are cut into thick slices and tossed with extra-virgin olive oil and herbs. Wherever the flat surfaces come into contact with the hot roasting pan, a deep browning occurs that results in a sweet, nutty flavor.
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I've made this twice now and my kids (ages 17 & 19) keep begging me to make it again and again. I leave out the balsamic and just drizzle it on top when serving and the flavor just explodes in your mouth. Even my husband, who is a self-professed Cauliflower hater said it's a KEEPER!
Thanks for a great, simple and "bring the family back to the table" side dish!
I'm an experienced cook and followed the recipe exactly. I was disappointed that the cauliflower never got the golden top that I expected. So I cooked it a bit longer since it was still very "wet" but the moisture never evaporated as mentioned in the recipe. Most of Eating Well's recipes are really good, but this one bombed for me.


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Can one turn off a stove on Shabbat? I recently heard that Rav Tendler does in fact hold this and it was followed in the home of Rav Feinstein. The reasoning had something to do with gas being made up of seperate molocules. However, this does not seem to be followed by any other Rabbi.
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It would also seem to me that WAF's remark is correct and it must have been Yom Tov. If I am understanding the molecule aspect of the explanation correctly - it would seem that it's being distinguished from a solid stick of wood where it can only be taken in and out of a fire as a whole unit. Therefore, it would seem that the gas would still parallel a liquid.
In the Mishna Shabbat (Perek 2:4) we see that one is forbidden to pierce an egg-shell and fill it with oil so that it may drip and sustain a flame. The reasoning for this is understood to be that someone might come to remove some oil from the egg shell and cause the flame to burn out sooner.
If gas is a parallel to the liquid case in the Mishna then it would seem, that reducing the supply of gas by closing the valve and having the flame extinguish when the current supply of gas is burned through would be forbidden by the same logic.
See Igros Moshe OH 1:128 (last paragraph) where R. Moshe refuses to answer regarding the permissibility to turn off the gas on yom tov.


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What do you recommended for capturing VHS for archiving on a HDD? Will DV PAL codec do? H264 at high quality? (I'm PAL over here btw). I want to retain the quality, but at the same time I don't want 60GB per hour...
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DV has a something of a focus on simplicity, so it can be encoded with primitive microprocessors and decoded quickly in an NLE. In particular, it's intra-frame: a DV file is basically an array of still-image files. That's useful for professional editing; it means however DV can't achieve nearly as high compression ratios as more complicated formats with P- and even B-frames – space used to be not so much of an issue since magnetic tape fits quite astonishing amounts of data.
So DV isn't really a great format for archiving, it takes up not 60 but easily 10 GB per hour. And that for SD quality, albeit with very little compression artifacts.
h.264 is much more space-efficient, and its higher computional cost isn't much of an issue now everybody has a fast, at least duo-core processor at hand. You can easily get VHS-like–quality files down to about 1 GB/s with h.264.
It's pretty much the canonical format now. The main alternatives I'd suggest are free alternatives, mainly
This so far applies to pretty much any kind of video, not just VHS. All of these formats support PAL resolution; Theora doesn't have interlacing, but switching to progressive-scan prior to compression is no big deal and might in fact be a good idea anyway. Just make sure you use a good deinterlacing algorithm.
For archiving VHS I suggest using MPEG2 720x576 as the best format in terms of quality/space. DV is 12 GB per hour, but this is the best format for editing. H264 takes up much less space, but it is the delivery format, not for editing. MPEG2 is a compromise. In addition, you can burn them to DVD w/o reconverting.


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I have heard a few people say that one of the best ways to improve your coding ability is to read others code and understand it. My question, as a relatively new programmer, where do I go to find good source code examples that are not too far over my head?
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You can browse open source projects on repository sites like GitHub, Codeplex, Google Code, or BitBucket. You'll find projects of different complexity levels, so you should be able to find something that both interests you and doesn't go over your head too much at first.
Another option is Scott Hanselman's Weekly Source Code blog posts.
I recommend starting with an established, active project to lower the odds of starting to read code that hasn't been through use and scrutiny yet. Ideally, find something that interests you and that you can use. Using the app will help you understand the source code. Another benefit of choosing an open source project is that you may be able to contribute some fixes or features, which will help make reading through the code more interesting.
Staring at a bunch of someone else's code can be intimidating, so start with the
Very few people write good source code on their first try. Good source code is often produced by a series of revisions. Thus, if you can find source code that has been peer reviewed multiple times, and fixed multiple times, you're probably in a better location. Some open source projects (and some portions of those) are particularly well reviewed. Code coming from companies that have mandatory review cycles (e.g., Google but there are many others) may fit the bill.
That being said, I'm not sure your goal should be to find "great code". It should be to look at different styles of code (such as those written by your coworkers), and learn to identify the good and bad points about it. The more bad points you identify, the more you will strive to make your code better and know how.
In particular, I believe that a very good approach to get a sense of good code is to use the interactive debugger to trace through complex code, following the chains of invocations. For example, go to one of your company's main files, put a breakpoint, and start figuring things out from them.
After a few times you get disoriented by 100-line functions with ten level of indentations and dependencies on globals, and a few times that you breeze through well decomposed code, you'll improve your own programming.
Instead of finding great codes, Look into General Programming Books.
e.g. Code Complete, Writing solid code, Design Patterns (I am sure there are lots of other books around in another question and answer in this site)
Those books are describing the philosophy what considered as good code. Readability, performance, maintainability, bug-detection etc.
Which serves a even better resources and more efficient than trying to figure out what the author trying to achieve.
P.s. Good Software design is what you should be looking into as well. Which would be hard to recognize solely from observing codes, given the project is large enough.
I found that the code of the libraries that come with your programming language of choice are often a good start to see what's thought to be best practices and good coding style.
Though you don't want to start with places like sorting algorithms or complex container classes.
Another place for interesting insights in writing code is Project Euler (http://projecteuler.net/). Slight disadvantage there: You must solve the problem first to get access to the forum where others posted their solutions (interesting challenges for all levels of experience). But once done you'll find examples for nearly all major programming languages. And since you've solved the problem already, it will help you to understand other peoples code.Plus you get to see code of languages you don't know yet, but may find interesting.
I really enjoyed reading Beautiful Code. It has short, but very nice code examples with detailed explanations.


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This mushroom wine sauce on this chicken dish makes it is perfect for a fancy meal or an ordinary one.
Serves: 4 servings
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (about 4 ounces each)
- 1/4 cup fat-free egg substitute
- 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons unbleached flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
- Nonstick butter-flavored cooking spray
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons evaporated skim milk
- 1 teaspoon cornstarch
- 1/2 cup dry white wine, divided
- 2 teaspoons crushed fresh garlic
- 2 cups sliced fresh mushrooms
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- Rinse the chicken with cool water, and pat it dry with paper towels. Place the chicken pieces on a flat surface, and use a meat mallet to pound each piece to 1/4-inch thickness.
- Place the egg substitute in a shallow dish. Place the flour, salt, and pepper in another shallow dish, and stir to mix well. Dip each chicken piece first in the egg, and then in the flour mixture, turning to coat each side. Set aside.
- Coat a large nonstick skillet with nonstick butter-flavored cooking spray, and preheat over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and cook for about 3 minutes, or until nicely browned. Spray the top of the chicken lightly with the cooking spray, turn, and cook for 3 additional minutes, or until nicely browned and no longer pink inside. Transfer the chicken to a serving platter, and cover to keep warm.
- To make the sauce, place the evaporated milk and cornstarch in a jar with a tight-fitting lid, and shake to mix well. Set aside.
- Place 1/4 cup of the wine in the skillet, and cook over medium-high heat, stirring frequently, until most of the wine has evaporated. Add the garlic and mushrooms, and stir-fry for about 3 minutes, or until the mushrooms begin to brown and release their juices. Add the remaining 1/4 cup of wine, and cook, stirring frequently, until the wine is reduced by half.
- Reduce the heat under the skillet to medium, shake the evaporated milk mixture, and add it to the skillet. Cook, stirring constantly, until the mixture boils and thickens slightly. Pour the sauce over the chicken, and serve hot.
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I vividly remember Jan. 22, 1973. Richard M. Nixon had just been inaugurated for a second term. That thought depressed me. Lyndon Johnson, a virtual exile in Texas, died of a heart attack. And the news of a breakthrough in negotiations to end the Vietnam War commanded attention. It seemed we might get our POWs back.
I was in Washington, D.C., when the Roe vs. Wade ruling was handed down by the Supreme Court. I remember the weather that week being drizzly, cold, wet and dreary. The weather matched my mood. I was deeply confused and disoriented by the news. The New York Times and The Washington Post hailed the high court ruling, pronouncing it the end of the bitter controversy over abortion. I thought that was it, too. The court had spoken. Didn't we all have to obey?
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Tug-of-War Within GOP Over Gay Marriage
From Alaska to North Carolina, a significant number of prominent political figures in recent weeks have announced an about-face in support of same-sex marriage.
Only one was a Republican.
But more is going on behind the scenes in the Republican Party, where a movement is building to change GOP politicians' views on the issue. It's an effort that is meeting resistance among some conservative leaders as well as the party's core voters.
For now, there remains a marked disparity between the Democratic and Republican parties in embracing gay marriage—a trend that worries some GOP strategists and party leaders as they watch the rapid rise in public acceptance.
"On no issue in American life have attitudes changed so breathtakingly fast as on gay rights," said Whit Ayres, a veteran Republican pollster. "We have to be careful we aren't left behind."
During a week when the Supreme Court held two days of arguments on the rights of gay and lesbian couples to wed, five Democratic senators—four of them from predominately Republican states—announced they were shifting to support same-sex marriage.
Ohio Republican Sen. Rob Portman made his own high-profile move in that direction earlier this month, becoming the only Senate Republican to embrace the practice.
He still stands out as an exception, however. Of the 36 still-active Democrats in Congress who voted for the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which recognizes only heterosexual marriages, all but nine have since changed to support gay marriage. Just two of the 51 Republican backers of the bill who are still in Congress have had a similar turnabout.
Recent polling helps explain the gap. Overall support for same-sex marriage has surged above 50%, with far higher levels of backing among the young, moderates, women and college-educated Americans. But a December Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found that just 27% of Republicans said they approved of it.
And of the 38 states that have banned same-sex marriage in one way or another, 24 were carried by Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential contest.
Now, though, efforts to shift the balance within the GOP have begun. In February, former party Chairman Ken Mehlman gathered more than 130 signatures from top Republicans in support of overturning California's gay-marriage ban, which went before the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Mr. Mehlman also backs a group called Project Right Side, which is gathering data on shifting opinions on gay rights and working to educate Republican lawmakers on the issue.
The group has key allies in states such as Iowa, where an organization called Iowa Republicans for Freedom is trying to garner enough support to show that a pro-gay marriage GOP presidential candidate could win there in 2016.
One sign of the party's evolution came Thursday night, when 2012 presidential candidate and former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman said in a speech at the Reagan Library that all Republicans should demand marriage equality as a stance "consistent with the Republican Party's origins."
Meanwhile, Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski told a state newspaper this week that her views on gay marriage are "evolving" and that she is reviewing her position "very closely."
Last spring, GOP pollster Jan van Lohuizen sent a memo to fellow Republicans involved in the presidential campaign noting that support for same-sex marriage was growing "at an accelerated rate with no sign of slowing down."
He recommended the party modulate its views by toning down its overt opposition to gay marriage while emphasizing themes of fairness and freedom from government interference.
Mr. van Lohuizen said he is well aware of how sensitive the topic remains in conservative circles. "If Republicans dig in too deep on this, we are going to limit the growth of the party," he said. "But if candidates move too quickly, they will have problems with the party's base and could face difficulties in primaries."
For now, several potential 2016 presidential candidates on the GOP side are adopting what could become a familiar straddle, saying they believe marriage is between a man and a woman, but that the whole fight should be left to the states.
Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky made that case on "Fox News Sunday," saying he was fine if the federal government "tries to be neutral on the issue."
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Washington (CNN) -- The Obama re-election team raised more money last month than any campaign has brought in this election cycle, a Democratic source familiar with the fund-raising totals confirmed to CNN.
The campaign's September total is expected to exceed $150 million, the source said.
That would top the previous monthly record of $114 million for Obama, set in August.
Officials refused to comment on campaign fund-raising numbers as the donations are still being counted.
The fund-raising information was first reported by the Wall Street Journal earlier Thursday.
Making sure each campaign has plenty of cash is key as the critical final weeks of the campaign approach - especially with a vigorous and now escalating TV ad battle ongoing in at least eight swing states.
September started with the Democratic National Convention and a well-received speech by former president Bill Clinton resulting in a bounce in the president's poll numbers. That helped solidify support for the re-election effort.
Obama is jointly raising money with the Democratic National Committee just as Mitt Romney is doing so with the Republican National Committee.
For Obama, August reversed a trend of several months in which Republicans out-raised the Democrats on the presidential front.
Romney brought in $112 million in August.
For the first time in history neither major presidential nominee is accepting federal matching funds in the general election campaign, only intensifying the chase for dollars.
One advantage for the president has been his ability to attract more small donors who can repeatedly give while the Romney campaign has drawn more large dollar contributors. Obama's campaign earlier this week announced it raised money from more than 10 million individual donors.
Romney officials have not yet indicated what their September fund-raising totals. Both campaigns have until October 20 to report their tallies to the Federal Election Commission.


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Last week, Pentaho was a sponsor at The Strata Conference in San Francisco, California. Over the two-day conference our booth was constantly packed with attendees. As I chatted with these eager visitors, I was pleased to hear comments such as: "My boss has asked me to look into Pentaho," and "We currently have product X and we are looking into solutions that are easy to use and don't charge an arm and a leg for it." As I was demoing the Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition, one thing was clear … the line between business users and technical users is fading fast!
Everyone wants access to data, but not everyone has it. Technical users, the ETL and BI developers, spend all their time on working with data, integrating, cleansing, standardizing, and analyzing it, but the business users need their data in a different way. Data gives these business users power.
The days of traditional BI when IT was building standard reports and pushing it out to business users are over. Canned reports are too slow to arrive, too limited on the information they provide, and often are too far out from what the business needed in the first place.
Business users want the power and flexibility to work with their data, and to compare and contrast anything to everything. But they want an intuitive and easy way to work with their data, similar to the tools they are most familiar with such as Excel pivot tables. This became all very clear as I was demoing the Pentaho BI Suite Enterprise Edition. The reaction of people to Pentaho Analyzer was right on the money. Pentaho Analyzer has the same look and feel as Excel spreadsheets, with an easy drag and drop capability to pull business data (customers, sales, orders, payments, time, region, territory, etc.) up to the canvas and slice and dice it to the heart's desire. "Why not Excel?" one attendee asked me. The answer is simple….Because you can see the changes that your colleagues or IT staff make to data, immediately, without having to cross-check, guess, or ask about. Your Excel data is as good as it once was!
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WACO (January 10, 2013)--The Texas High School Baseball Coaches Association (THSBCA) will hold a convention beginning Thursday at the Waco Convention Center.
The convention is in its 42nd year.
The THSBCA was created to handle concerns of rule changes, coach-umpire relations, and other issues related to the sport.
They also are in charge of recognizing players and coaches through award programs.
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The Taymouth Hours (the British Library/University of Toronto Press) by Kathryn Smith, chair of NYU's Department of Art History, explores the origins and significance of a manuscript of the same name that was written and illustrated in late medieval England.
While the work is well-known to medievalists and art historians, the circumstances of its genesis have been a mystery. Smith's work, the first comprehensive study of the Taymouth Hours, traces the manuscript back to Philippa of Hainault, queen of Edward III, and Edward's sister, the 13-year-old Eleanor of Woodstock.
In her volume, Smith focuses on the relationships between the manuscript's copious marginal imagery, which includes a wealth of religious and secular stories, and the devotional texts these images border while placing the work within the historical, political, religious, and artistic contexts of early 14th-century England and northern Europe.
Smith's other works include Art, Identity, and Devotion in Fourteenth-Century England: Three Women and Their Books of Hours (2003), Tributes to Lucy Freeman Sandler: Studies in Illuminated Manuscripts (2007), co-edited with Carol Krinsky, a professor in NYU's Department of Art History, and numerous articles, essays, and reviews on medieval illuminated manuscripts and early Christian and medieval art.
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With Christmas just around the corner the Medical Center is giving you a chance to help those less fortunate through the annual Make the Season Bright event.
The ceremony is not just about giving back, it's about remembering lost loved ones.
"People can make donations and sponsor a light on our special tree and those donations are in honor of memory of a loved one," says Tony Whitty, Commonwealth Health Foundation.
As Cheri Hall decorates her family Christmas tree this year she is also donating lights to decorate another tree.
"I put these three on, ones for my daddy, the next year it was my sister, and the last one was for my boy,"says Hall.
The most recent light is to celebrate the life of her 18 year old son Bradley who died in 2008.
"Bradley was going to UK to be an engineer like his daddy and he was gone on a Christian Retreat with some of his friends and they were coming home and they were almost back to UK but they did not make it. They ended up in a car wreck,"says Hall.
Through her loss Cheri is able to give back.
"For a minimum donation of $10 they can sponsor one of the lights on the tree behind me, and that money goes directly to the free clinic,"says Whitty.
"Two people I know myself got their teeth fixed and repaired because people donated money with the tree light," says Hall.
"They helped me to be able to keep coming to the dentist,"says a patient at the Dental Clinic.
Cheri finds comfort in the light sponsored in Bradley's name.
"The light shine on the tree that represents someone they cared about they will be remembered and never forgotten,"says Hall.
The tree lighting ceremony at The Medical Center will start night tomorrow at 5:30.
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The Friends of the Caestecker Public Library is a group of dedicated volunteers and supporters who believe that the public library is a valuable asset which must be nourished and supported.
Since its formation in 1982, this organization has focused public attention on the library, raised money to provide materials and equipment not provided by the library budget, and supplied over 500 volunteer hours per year. Activities of the Friends include delivery of materials to the homebound, book repair, book sales, and running the library every Sunday afternoon. Funds raised by the Friends are used to purchase magazine and newspaper subscriptions for the library, pay for special programs and summer performers, and updating our collection.
In the fall of 2008 the Friends began their most ambitious project to date – raising funds to replace the library's aging, occasionally leaky roof. The "Raise the Roof" campaign officially kicked off at that year's Harvest Fest celebration. I'm happy to report that the new roof was finished and passed final inspection in July 2011.
Participation in the Friends ranges from paying annual dues to taking an active role in the organization's many projects. Won't you join us?
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- aerospace [3]
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- asset management [3]
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- management [21]
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- market modeling [7]
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Méthode de modélisation-simulation
- agent based modeling [72]
- discrete event modeling [44]
- multimethod modeling [22]
- system dynamics modeling [39]
Jobsite Logistic Simulation in Mechanized Tunneling M. Scheffer, T. Rahm, R. Duhme, M. Thewes, M. König, Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Winter Simulation Conference, 2014.
Projects in mechanized tunneling frequently do not reach their targeted production performance. Reasons are often related to an undersized or disturbed supply-chain management of the surface jobsite. Due to the sensitive interaction of production and logistic processes, planning and analyzing the supply-chain is a challenging task.» Lire plus
Generic Simulation Model to Optimize Production and Workforce Planning at an Automotive Suppplier Klaus Altendorfer, Thomas Felberbauer, Daniel Gruber, Alexander Hübl, Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference
This paper presents a comprehensive simulation project in the area of an automotive supplier. The company produces car styling serial and original accessory parts made from plastic for internal and external applications in passenger cars. For the foaming division, which is identified as the bottleneck, different personnel and qualification scenarios, set-up optimizations and lot-sizing strategies are compared with the current situation. Key performance measures reported are inventory, tardiness and service level. The changes in organizational costs (e.g. employee training, additional employees, etc.), due to the scenarios, are not considered and are traded off with the logistical potential by the company itself. Results of the simulation study indicate that a combination of an additional fitter during night shift, minor reductions of set-up times and reduced lot-sizes leads to an inventory reduction of ~10.6% and a service level improvement of ~8% compared to the current situation.» Lire plus
Utilising dynamic factory simulation to improve unit cost estimation and aid design decisions Stuart Jinks, Jim Scanlan, Philippa Reed (University of Southampton); Steve Wiseall (Rolls-Royce plc). Proceedings of the 2010 Winter Simulation Conference.
Utilising dynamic simulation methods to estimate manufacturing resources, can improve unit cost estimation and aid design decisions. This paper introduces a framework specification that combines Computer Aided Design (CAD), Computer Aided Process Planning (CAPP) and Discrete Event Simulation (DES) technologies.» Lire plus
IRS POST-FILING PROCESSES SIMULATION MODELING: A COMPARISON OF DES WITH ECONOMETRIC MICROSIMULATION IN TAX ADMINISTRATION Arnold Greenland, Erica Layne Morrison, David Connors, John L. Guyton, Michael Sebastiani, 2007 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC'07), Washington D.C., December 9-12, 2007
IRS Office of Research Headquarters measures and models taxpayer burden, defined as expenditures of time and money by taxpayers to comply with the federal tax system. In this research activity, IRS created two microsimulation models using econometric techniques to enable the Service to produce annual estimates of taxpayer compliance burden for individual and small business populations. Additionally, a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) model was developed to represent taxpayer activities and IRS administration in postfiling processes.» Lire plus
Modeling S-Class Car Seat Control with AnyLogic — Daimler-Chrysler Modeling Contest Alexei Filippov and Andrei Borshchev. Object-Oriented Modeling of Embedded Real-Time Systems (OMER-2), May 2001, Herrsching am Amersee, Germany, pp 46-50
In this paper we give an overview of the car seat model that was developed for Daimler-Chrysler modeling contest in year 2001 and was awarded the 1st prize. We outline the OO UML-RT based modeling approach that was used and the simulation tool AnyLogic that supports it, and discuss their main advantages with respect to automotive area.» Lire plus
Modeling General Motors and the North American Automobile Market Philip T. Keenan and Mark Paich. The 22nd International Conference of the System Dynamics Society, July 25 - 29, 2004, Oxford, England
This article discusses General Motors' North American Enterprise Model, a system dynamics model of the entire North American automobile market. The Enterprise Model takes a broad look across the corporation and its marketplace, combining internal activities such as engineering, manufacturing and marketing with external factors such as competition for consumer purchases in the new and used vehicle marketplaces. Eight groups of manufacturers compete monthly for a decade across eighteen vehicle segments, making segment-by-segment decisions about price, volume and investment.» Lire plus


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Staff Profile
Curtis Zeilenga
Curtis Zeilenga is in his first year as associate athletic trainer for his alma mater Azusa Pacific. Zeilenga is the point person of medical care and treatment for Cougar football and track & field.
Prior to returning to Azusa Pacific, Zeilenga spent five years at the University of Charleston (NCAA Division II) where he served the past three years as the head athletic trainer and coordinator of clinical services. In his role at Charleston, he was the site coordinator of the NCAA drug testing program, and he will continue in that capacity at Azusa Pacific. In addition, Zeilenga taught courses in the undergraduate ATEP program at Charleston.
Zeilenga received his bachelor's degree from Azusa Pacific in 2003 and completed his master's degree in kinesiology from Sonoma State in 2007. He was a graduate assistant athletic trainer for two years at Sonoma State, and he also spent one year at University of the Pacific (NCAA Div. I) along with one year as the head athletic trainer for the Stockton Lightning arena football team.
Zeilenga resides in San Dimas.


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El33t's Question of the Day: How have your gaming habits changed over the years?Written by: / / 24 Comments
Welcome to the latest Question of the Day!
If you have a Question of the Day that you would like to put to the community, mail it to oliver[@]el33tonline.com and we'll send it out, with credit of course!
We can't all play games for as many hours as we used to back when we when all we had to worry about was under an hour of school homework. As life becomes more complicated and your responsibilities grow, the amount of time available for enjoying a good game diminishes.
That doesn't mean that there's no time to play at all, but our gaming habits have to change to accommodate new lifestyles even if that means stealing five minutes to play a mobile game before annexing an hour in the evening to play on bigger screens.
How have your gaming habits changed over time and how have you managed to keep games as a part of your life?
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August Give-a-way!!!!!!!!!
CUTE Black
This month search for the letters WIN
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Giveaway will end on August 31st at 12:00am. Winner will be chosen at random by random.org. Winner will have 48 hours to contact us via e-mail to claim their prize. Must be 18 years or older to enter.
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Dover Pro Sport Boots are tough, yet lightweight. Our horse boots have fleece linings and are excellent for exercise or turnout. The fleece interior creates a comfortable, chafe-free surface against the horse's legs. Pair.
Centaur® PVC Jelly Glitter Bell Boots are fun and functional! These translucent bell boots in trendy, glittery pastels are made of strong, molded PVC with double closures for security and long wear.
Newmarket Travel Boots from Horseware® Ireland combine tough protection with style. Designed to coordinate with the Newmarket collection, these shipping boots have durable outers with scuff guards and soft, fleece linings. Let your horse travel in style!
The Old Mac's G2 Hoof Boot is solidly built and suitable for multiple uses. This boot includes a hoof suspension system for comfort and proper hoof functioning. Pair.
The Easyboot Transition is designed to absorb shock and support your horse's hoof. Depressions within the outsole structure are filled with the softer midsole material to create an integrated cushion. A soft-weave fabric and leather upper combine to make it lightweight yet tough. Strong hook-and-loop straps keep it secure while allowing multiple fit adjustments. Each.
The Woof Smart Fetlock Boot features Poron XRD material in the strike area for superior impact protection. Flexible until subjected to force, Poron XRD instantly forms a protective shield and then resumes its flexible state. This horse boot has breathable neoprene and a vented, flexible PU shell.
From Horseware® Ireland, Rambo® Grand Prix Travel Boots over stylish protection. Each shipping boot has a reinforced bottom panel, fleece lining and secure VELCRO® brand closures with elastic for an optimal fit.
Versatile, comfortable and durable, the Shires Reflective Neoprene Brushing Boot enhance your horse's visibility with reflective closure straps. These horse boots are made of neoprene with padded, molded synthetic strike pads and recessed stitching. Pair.
The ThinLine® Cobra Boot offers your horse all the support of a traditional sports medicine boot. Slim, flexible, thermo-regulating, this horse boot is made of high-tech, pliable and soft ThinLine material for impact protection and tendon support similar to that of a polo wrap. ThinLine's build-in heat ventilation properties help keep your horse's tendons cool.
EquiFit T-Boot XCEL™ Short Height Hind Boots with T-Foam™ are designed to support optimal hind end movement and offer incredible shock absorption. VELCRO® brand closures keep them secure. 7".
The RSL HindBoot™ from EquiFit® is designed to support peak performance. These shock-absorbing hind boots help create a more animated canter and help the horse follow through with the hind legs while jumping. The T-Foam™ liner allows for a perfect fit each time.
Attractive, durable and protective, the ThinLine® Sport Boot distributes shock and heat. This horse boot pairs a ThinLine lining with a soft vinyl leather-look outer and sturdy hook-and-loop closures. ThinLine material with antifungal and antimicrobial agents conforms to your horse's contours, then returns to its original shape for a perfect fit every time--even on multiple horses.
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Watch the official music video for Professor Green's 'Avalon' featuring Sierra Kusterbeck of VersaEmerge. You can find the song on his album At Your Inconvenience and in the new commercial for Relentless Energy Drink.
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Our friends in Cute Is What We Aim For will be playing a special show at Mohawk Place in Buffalo on September 21st. Click HERE to get tickets to the show featuring Shaant, Jeff, Fred and Tom.
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It's $5 Friday! Click HERE to pick up the Gym Class Heroes 'Headphone Heart' T-Shirt for $5 Today Only in The Fueled By Ramen Webstore.
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New York City! Come join us at The Studio At Webster Hall on Wednesday, September 12th for the first ever NYC show from the newest members of the Fueled By Ramen family, twenty | one | pilots. Click HERE for more information and tickets!
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VH1 featured Cobra Starship's 'You Make Me Feel...' video as their latest Pop Up Video. Watch the video above to get a behind-the-scenes look at what happened during the video shoot.
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Paramore met their fans at the NME Spotify Signing Tent at Reading Festival this past weekend. It seems that no other band caused quite as much pandemonium as Paramore. Watch the video above to see what went down when Paramore came to the tent to greet their fans.
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We're excited about the upcoming MTV VMAs where Fun. is nominated in the Best New Artist category. MTV Buzzworthy has been posting 'inspirational illustrations' of the nominees hit songs. Musician/Artist Sherri DuPree-Bemis of the band Eisley re-imagined 'We Are Young' by Fun. 'into a charmingly devilish, incredible inky affair.'
"The song is obviously about flawed people being able to get down and have a good time and embrace youth and youthful energy. It's about a kind of eternal moment. To me, a bunch of crazy, exuberant creatures having a sort of Halloween-esque party together, enjoying the thrill of the moment despite their numerous inadequacies, best expressed the vibe of Fun.'s song.
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twenty | one | pilots will be returning to Columbus, Ohio for another hometown show on October 19th. Additionally, they'll be releasing the first single 'Holding On To You' from the upcoming album Vessel on Septmber 11th. Click HERE to read more news and to see the tracklist for Vessel revealed!
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A Rocket To The Moon's single 'Whole Lotta You' is being added to radio stations across the country. Check below for the current list of stations playing the song now. If you live near any of the stations listed, please start requesting 'Whole Lotta You' and getting your friends to.
Email firstname.lastname@example.com with 'Whole Lotta You' in the subject line if you're requesting or if you heard the song played on other radio stations not listed below.
Palm Springs - Mix 100.5
Denver - Mix 100
Request Line: 303.631.1649
Fort Myers - 96.9 WINK FM
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Lexington - WCDA 106.3
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Atlantic City - SoJO 104.9
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First Trimester 2nd Trimester 3rd Trimester
276 days to go...
What's happening inside
In this color 3-D scan of the human brain, the green central structure is the hypothalamus. This controls emotions and body temperature, and releases chemicals that regulate the release of hormones from the pituitary gland (green circle at bottom).
Like many women, you may sometimes feel ruled by your hormones, and it helps to understand why they fluctuate.
The hormone build-up to ovulation starts right now in week one of your menstrual cycle. Your pituitary gland, which lies in the base of your brain, produces follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH). During your period, the level of FSH rises steadily, triggering the development of the follicles (around 15-20 each month) in each ovary. As well as containing each egg, the follicles produce estrogen.
The hormone estrogen circulates, affecting the pituitary gland and causing it to produce luteinizing hormone (LH)-this triggers ovulation (see This is Day 14 of your Menstrual Cycle). This week your estrogen levels are low and steady, but will rise dramatically later in your cycle.
Progesterone levels are low during your period, but start to rise several days afterward and stay high for the second part of the cycle. Under the influence of progesterone, the muscles in the cervix relax, easing open the cervical canal. Changes also affect the mucus, which becomes more fluid, so sperm find it easier to swim through. It is progesterone that enables the lining of the uterus to thicken in preparation for implantation of the fertilized egg.
The Lowdown
Fertility rites
Rooted in folklore, these fertility tips require a leap of faith and a good sense of humor!
Use the moon.
Exponents of "lunaception" believe that women whose menstrual cycle aligns with the lunar cycle-so they menstruate during the new moon and ovulate when the moon is full-have more chance of conceiving. It's based on the theory that women's cycles are influenced by natural light.
Dance around the Maypole.
Maypoles are thought to herald the arrival of spring and celebrate fertility.
Changes during the menstrual cycle
There are four hormones at work during the menstrual cycle: FSH (follicle-stimulating hormone) causes the egg follicles to start developing in the ovary; estrogen is produced by the developing egg and peaks just before ovulation; LH (luteinizing hormone) triggers ovulation; progesterone thickens the lining of the uterus.
As A Matter Of Fact
Men get PMS too!
Scientists have confirmed there's a male version of PMS-Irritable Male Syndrome. Mood swings, temper tantrums, and loss of libido in men were found to be caused by falling levels of testosterone due to stress.
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I have the following matlab function:
function y=par(x,s)
%parabolic density function with basis = 2s
ind=-s<x & x< s;
y(-s<x & x< s)=(3/(4*(s^3)))*(s*s-x(ind).*x(ind));
This function implements
$$y_s(x) = \begin{cases} \frac{3}{4s^3}(s^2-x^2) & \text{if } -s<x<s, \\ 0 & \text{otherwise.} \end{cases}$$
The area under the parabola is always one. I tested it with the following matlab procedure:
s = 0.5:0.1:100.5;
for i=1:length(s)
q = quad(@(x)par(x,s(i)),-s(i),s(i));
q is always 1 here.
btw. quad is a matlab function to evaluate the integral. Here it calculates $q = \int_{-s}^s y_s(x)\,dx$.
Can somebody explain to me why it is always one ?


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Is this true that the requirement to worship and to sacrifice to the Roman gods was put in by the Caesar only after Christianity emerged? I just encountered a statement that this requirement was put in by the Caesar as a response to Christians' being too aggressive (like they were attacking other temples and harassed the worshipers in them). Is this true? If yes, can you, please, provide some source.
Is this true that the requirement to sacrifice to the Roman gods was put in by the Caesar only after Christianity emerged?
Yes. It was Decius. But I cannot say if it was because Christians were being too aggressive. It could have been an attempt to gain public acceptance.
But the sacrifice test had been in use since long before Decius. For more details see this document by de Ste. Croix.
It must be kept in mind that in ancient Rome sacrifices were quite common for both personal and imperial purposes. Sacrifice contracts "negotiated" with the Gods were fairly elaborate and would run into pages (or rather scrolls/tablets). Some of these contracts required subjects/citizens to sacrifice regularly for the well being of the army (and later the Princeps --or Caesar).
However, there is a link between sacrifices and prosecution of Christians. See Pliny's letter to Trajan for an example. As Pliny's letter indicates, prosecution does not seem to have been driven by the state but by the people --someone had had to be accused before being tried. In practise however one cannot rule out accusations coming from powerful state officials who wanted public approval.
The letter also gives us some insight into the trial. The accused was asked to denounce Christ and confirm Roman religion by offering incense and food to the Emperor.
As de Ste. Croix outlines --such trials frequently involved sacrificing to the gods (and not necessarily in the emperor's name). But it was not warranted by law and seems to have had been a legal argument to strengthen the accusation.
Decius however made sacrifice mandatory with his edict of 250 A.D.


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The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: March 11, 2002
Living on Nerves and Feeling
What Is This Work About?
It's about struggling to survive,
About being a prisoner of one's body,
About confirming life in the face of death.
It's about knowing and not knowing.
About patients and doctors,
About public and private personae,
About anxiety, fear, and loss.
It's about the fight of one family
To save one person, and the struggle,
Courage, and spirit of one woman.
It's about hospitals and disease,
Conflict and uncertainty.
It's about family, strength, nurturing,
and love.
And it's about melancholia,
Fluctuations between chaos and calm,
Finding one's self again,
And getting back to life.
These works are dedicated
In loving memory
To my mother, Rosalyn Belloff.
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The Annual HK's Hospital Benefit Golf Tournament and activities will be held Friday through Sunday at the Lodge of Four Seasons on Horseshoe Bend Parkway.
There are still openings for golfers on Sunday with flights scheduled in the morning and afternoon.
Mizzou Head Football Coach Gary Pinkel has been named the honorary chair of this year's tournament.
All proceeds from the 36th Annual HK's Hospital Benefit Tournament will benefit Lake Regional Laboratory. The tournament will feature several closest-to-the-hole and hole-in-one prizes, as well as two putting contests.
For more information, visit HKsGolf.com.
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Is there a website that I can enter a file URL and an email address, and the website will download the file and send it directly to the email address?
I can set this up on a private server, but I'm hoping this already exists somewhere.
Edit: For example, my company blocks the website of one of the podcasts I listen to. I'd like to be able to submit the URL of the mp3 file and the service would download it then send it to me as an attachment.


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Osteoporosis Health Center
Teriparatide for Osteoporosis
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Teriparatide (Forteo) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat osteoporosis in men and women. It is given by daily injection.
How It Works
Teriparatide is a synthetic version of parathyroid hormone, which is the body's primary regulator of calcium and phosphate in the bones. Teriparatide stimulates bone growth and slows the rate of bone loss.
Why It Is Used
Teriparatide is used to treat severe osteoporosis in people at high risk for bone fractures. It can be used by both men and women. Teriparatide treatment is reserved for people with severe osteoporosis who are unable to take other medicines or for whom other medicines are not effective. The reasons why teriparatide is used after other treatments include its high cost, need for daily injections, and unknown long-term effects.
How Well It Works
Teriparatide increases bone density and decreases the risk of fractures.1
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
- Usually the benefits of the medicine are more important than any minor side effects.
- Side effects may go away after you take the medicine for a while.
- If side effects still bother you and you wonder if you should keep taking the medicine, call your doctor. He or she may be able to lower your dose or change your medicine. Do not suddenly quit taking your medicine unless your doctor tells you to.
Call 911 or other emergency services right away if you have:
- Trouble breathing.
- Swelling of your face, lips, tongue, or throat.
Call your doctor if you have:
- Hives.
- Fainting or a lightheaded feeling that does not go away.
- Nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea that does not go away.
Common side effects of this medicine include:
- Joint pain.
- Headache.
- Dizziness.
- Nausea.
- Stuffy or runny nose.
- Feeling of loss of strength or energy.
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
Teriparatide is very expensive and must be given by daily injections.
Long-term effects of taking teriparatide are not known, so experts recommend that this medicine is taken for no longer than 2 years. After you stop taking teriparatide, you will take another medicine such as alendronate, which is a bisphosphonate, to prevent bone loss.
Teriparatide is not recommended for young people whose bones have not stopped growing or who have had radiation therapy that involved the bones.
Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
Complete the new medication information form (PDF)(What is a PDF document?) to help you understand this medication.
Drugs for postmenopausal osteoporosis (2011). Treatment Guidelines From The Medical Letter, 9(111): 67-74.
ByHealthwise Staff
Primary Medical ReviewerKathleen Romito, MD - Family Medicine
Specialist Medical ReviewerCarla J. Herman, MD, MPH - Geriatric Medicine
Current as ofNovember 14, 2014
WebMD Medical Reference from Healthwise