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:: Human Biology
Summer 2014
@Leeward CC
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Natalia Schmidt
(808) 455-0521 (Ph)
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|Instructional Mode:
|07/07/2014 - 08/14/2014
|Course Requirements:
|Students will be contacted by their instructor by UH email before the first day of instruction. Students must check their UH email for course correspondence before the first day of instruction.
|Course Prerequisites:
|Course prerequisites:
ENG 21 and 22 with a C or better, or equivalent
|Course Description:
|Introduction to structure and
functions of cells, tissues, organs, and
systems of the human body. Topics
related to physical fitness, nutrition,
health, and disease. Not intended for
science majors.
|Text Book(s):
Michael D. Johnson, Human Biology, Concepts and Current Issues, 7e with cc
Available in LCC bookstore.
|Technical Requirements:
|The Internet allows students to take a course at home using a personal computer. Depending on the online course, students may be required to log in at a specific day and time or at anytime. Students taking an online course should always contact their instructor after registration or prior to the first day of class to get detailed information regarding the course.
Minimum Computer Hardware/Software Requirements:
PC with Windows 98, NT, 2000 or XP or a Macintosh II running System 9. Netscape Navigator 7.0 or higher, or Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher; a 56k modem connection (DSL or Roadrunner recommended); an e-mail client; word procession software (e.g. Microsoft Word/Works, Clarisworks, etc.); and basic internet skills (browsing, sending email, saving/sending files.
It is also required that you obtain a UH Email account. Please go to the following URL for more information: http://www.hawaii.edu/askus/563
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|Alternate Technology Access Plan: In registering for a Distance Education course (Cable or Web) the student is responsible for finding immediate alternate access to a computer with Internet connectivity or cable television should that student experience technical difficulties. Technical difficulties can include but are not limited to problems with a student's computer hardware/software; inoperability of a student's VCR or DVR; or lack of service by a student's Internet Service Provider (ISP) or Cable Provider. Technical issues do not constitute the extension of an assignment, project, quiz or exam deadline unless agreed upon by the instructor.
An Alternate Technology Access Plan will be made by the student prior to the start of the semester and should be implemented immediately upon encountering technical difficulties. The student is required to continue course work as a result of having an alternate plan of access while independently resolving any technical issues with hardware/software, VCR/DVD, ISP, or Cable Provider.
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TRENTON – Growing pains are welcome by those involved with roller derby, especially as the province is in the process of creating their first provincial team.
It's a new sport to many as it continues to see more and more women lace up a pair of skates and slap on elbow and knee pads. The province of Nova Scotia is looking to have their provincial team selected by September with the intention of competing in a national roller derby championship. The first national event is currently slated for the spring of 2015.
"The big achievement around here would be to build a strong team of 20 and take the title of number one in the Maritimes," said head coach Aaron Crocker. "Then we would work towards future Team Nova Scotias getting further in Canada. Quebec, Ontario and B.C. are where roller derby started in 2005 in Canada. That's where all the top players, coaches and that are. It's a like a David vs. Goliath scenario there."
Sunday in Trenton was the first tryout for the squad, with players from HRM, Cumberland County and Cape Breton in attendance. Crocker hopes to have three, with the second scheduled for August in Halifax. The location for the third has yet to be determined. From there 14 roster players and six alternates will be selected.
With this being the first time Nova Scotia formed a provincial roller derby team, it has come with some challenges according to Crocker. The main one is distance.
"Unlike Ontario and Quebec where everyone is centralized in big city centres, we have the distance," he said. "So, Cape Breton to Trenton is two hours and Trenton to Halifax is two hours. To have the people spread out around the province means there will be extra travelling, an added expense on top of what the players already have dedicated to their leagues and the sport."
Other challenges also include needing volunteers for events and space to hold practices, tryouts or bouts.
"Sponsorship will also be huge because of the travel and uniforms, which will all be coming up very soon," he said. "These girls already give 110 per cent to their leagues with donations, fundraising and all that. We're hoping that the people of Nova Scotia will back a Nova Scotia team."
Originally from Riverton, Crocker now lives in Moncton where he travels from to coach on a regular basis. He's only been involved in the sport for four years, but in that relatively short period of time he's had the opportunity to travel across the country with the sport.
Once he heard about the local league starting up, the Highland Derby Dolls, he also made sure he helped donate his time to his hometown group. It's that help that has likely made two of the Derby Dolls ready to be in the mix for tryouts.
"I immediately got in contact with Brenda (Jones) and the Derby Dolls," he said. "I started coming up here to coach and teach them the rules. I've been back and forth from town to Moncton a lot, but it's been great."
In that time he has also watched the sport grow. When he started there was one league in Nova Scotia, now there are five. In New Brunswick it has increased from three to six leagues, while P.E.I. has three teams and Newfoundland has four squads.
"It is the fastest growing sport in North America right now, people are signing up everyone that has an interest on getting involved."
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Aaron Crocker, head coach of Nova Scotia's provincial roller derby team, talks to players before a drill on Sunday afternoon at the Trenton Rink. Players from around the province were in attendance for the first tryout for the team.


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Kimberly Brown
Director and Instructor of Pharmacy Technician Program
Pharmacy technicians are assistants to pharmacists, working under the direct supervision of a pharmacist. Techs can work in a variety of settings including retail, hospital, home health, nursing homes, mail order, and Internet pharmacies. Starting pay can range from $7 to $9 in East Tennessee, with nationally certified techs making on average $2 more an hour than non-certified. Currently there is not a law mandating certification, however with the increasing roles and responsibilities of techs, certification is expected to be required in the near future.
The Walters State Pharmacy Tech program is a total of 23-credit hours. A technical certificate is earned from the college upon successful completion of the program's curriculum requirements. As one of the few formal training programs in the state, we offer a program that consists of both didactic and experiential coursework, ranging from processing prescriptions, interpreting med orders, extemporaneous compounding, legal and ethical issues, and making IV products. The program began in 1997 and has had over 150 graduates who have successfully passed the National Certification exam.
Technical Certificate in Pharmacy Technician Curriculum
Gainful Employment Disclosure
The Pharmacy Technician Program's mission is to be consistent with the mission of Walters State Community College. The college mission is to lead the community into the twenty-first century with comprehensive, quality education. The mission in the Pharmacy Technician Program is to fill the need for pharmacy technicians immediately and into the next century.
The program's mission is to provide comprehensive, quality training for the students which will lead to a technical certificate of completion. Training these technicians will increase the benefits to the local community by providing better and more complete health care through a mechanism of freeing the pharmacist to perform the counseling duties which have been mandated by OBRA 90. Therefore, the program remains consistent with the mission statement "The college's management system is designed to ensure the delivery of programs and services that meet the needs of the individuals, business and industry, and the community."
The Technician Program Director will collaborate with state governing bodies, with other schools, with pharmacy organizations, and the advisory committee to ensure that the program is soundly based in its protocols and course work. The program will adjust and change as needs arise to take full advantage of the local and state conditions; therefore, the department will remain consistent with the mission statement "For the service area, Walters State assesses and responds to changing community needs and provides opportunities for enhancing the quality of life throughout upper East Tennessee."
GOAL To prepare the program graduates to enter the field of the pharmacy profession as trained technicians capable of filling the needs for pharmacy technicians in the East Tennessee area immediately and into the next century.
To provide comprehensive, quality training for the students so that they will be able to demonstrate adequate knowledge to work in the retail and institutional pharmacy with minimal adaptation and to provide the student with adequate didactic work to prepare them to successfully complete the National Certification Pharmacy Technician Examination. (Cognitive Domain)
To provide the student with technical competency in pharmacy technology to the extent that the student will be able to perform the tasks generally associated with pharmacy technician duties. (Psychomotor Domain)
To provide the student with adequate skills in communication to successfully communicate with the sick and ambulatory patient and to successfully interact with coworkers so as to avoid problems and to solve problems when they occur and demonstrate judgment and decision-making as might be required of a pharmacy technician in the pharmacy setting. (Affective Domain)
Graduates of the program will be eligible to apply to take the national certification exam to become a certified pharmacy technician. However, individuals who have been convicted of crimes other than minor traffic violations could be ineligible for pharmacy technician certification in the state of Tennessee, even though they have successfully completed the Pharmacy Technician program. Pharmacy technicians may not practice unless under the direct supervision of a pharmacist.
Students applying to the program must meet the college's general admission requirements. Students should indicate Pharmacy Technician (PHAR) as their major and must complete the Pharmacy Technician Program Application. All requirements must be met as outlined in the program application prior to enrolling.
Once enrolled in the program, the student must complete the drug/alcohol consent and release form. A student must indicate on the consent and release form that they are drug free and will be willing to submit to a drug test at any time during the program if requested by the director or clinical affiliate. A positive drug test may result in grounds for immediate dismissal.
While in the program, students must comply with the college's policies and successfully meet program curriculum requirements.
Prior to the clinical training phase of the program, the student must obtain the following: a physical examination, laboratory tests, immunizations, and liability insurance, criminal background check (at the facilities request) all at the student's expense.
Program graduation requirements include the successful completion of the courses in the program with a minimum grade of "C" in each course.
Over 3 billion prescriptions are filled in the United States each year. Kimberly Brown, director of Walters State's Pharmacy Technician program, works hard to make sure prescriptions filled in this area are done right – by certified pharmacy technicians.
Certified pharmacy technicians who graduates from the program have a nearly 90 percent placement rate.
"With the skills you learn in this program, you can always find a job. New pharmacies are always being built," Brown said.
Brown said many students choose to be a pharmacy technician as a life-long career while others find the job opens doors to other health care careers. Graduates have decided to go on to pharmacy school, become a nurse or even enter pharmaceutical sales. Those career transitions also create new openings.
Walters State's Pharmacy Technician program is one of only seven in Tennessee accredited by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists.
The program lasts three semesters. The last semester involves no actual classes. Instead, students do clinical rotations and gain experience in retail and institutional settings. After completing degree requirements, students are eligible to sit for the national certification exam.
Brown said that what graduates do is determined by the setting. Working in a drugstore is much different than working in a hospital.
"Technicians always work under the pharmacist's supervision. In a retail setting, technicians process prescriptions, deal with insurance issues and usually do inventory management along with other responsibilities," Brown explained.
"In an institutional setting like a hospital, a technician might be making I.V. medications, preparing critical care medications and delivering those to the nurses station."
Brown makes sure students are qualified for either field.
"During the first semester we have an introductory class where students learn everything about the top 300 drugs, including prescription processing, pharmacy calculations and general compounding. In the next semester, students study in-depth pharmacology, including over-the-counter medicines, herbal emedies and I.V. compounding," she added.
For information on the Pharmacy Technician program, call Brown at 423. 318.2757.


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39 weeks +3 days having lots of pain and no help
I'm due on Saturday which is the 31st march. For the last wk Iv been in and out of hospital having contractions stopping and starting after hours of contractions every day I'm exhausted. Iv been losing my plug all wk the last time was Sunday. I'm now having contractions again. This is my third so I know what they feel like. ATM my belly goes very tight and I have excruciating pain in the bottom of my belly and my back. It's really bad and getting worse! But i have im having eru sharp pains in my vagina. The last few wks i cant walk my vagina feels like someone hit me with a bat. I haven't been timing them today but every other time I get my hopes up and time them tey get to 2 mins apart and 50 secs-1 min apart then stop. I have been walking a few Kms every day, having sex, drinking tea, baths, everything that I can do to keep them going and nothing helps. My ob has now gone away till next wk when I'll be 5 days over. I'm 2 cm as of last Monday.
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My question is I'm going see a different ob Moro and I want to be induced coz this is getting ridiculous. Will they do it?? I can't function like this.
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Hi Mummabear88,
I know this is a late response, but I only just now saw your question.
Please post back what the doctor said and how you are doing.
It sounds like you may be having prodromal labor. I know you mentioned that you're doing everything you can think of to keep things going but here's a page that discusses how to start labour naturally, so I hoping you will find something new to try.
There's another page on that site that discusses the different signs of labour. You may already know all of this, but it's worth a read in case there's something new you haven't heard of before.
Let us know how things are coming along. I had painful prodromal labour with my 3rd child, AND he was posterier which mean I had back labour too. However, once I did go into real labour, he came very quickly (all that prodromal labour paid off).
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3rd April 2012 01:00 AM #4
Dear Mummabear88,
I'm wondering if things may have got going more now for you and maybe you are in active labour or have had your baby already? Either way, we are thinking of you. I hope you experience what Kate commented on and when you are in active labour things progress quickly.
Thinking of you. Please let us know how you are (when you can!) and if we can help further in any way,


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Samsung Electronics has launched a 4- and 5-inch version of Galaxy S media players, which feature a 1GHz processor and the Android 2.2 Froyo platform with a possibility to upgrade to 2.3 Gingerbread.
The Galaxy S WiFi 4.0 and 5.0 come with video communications via VoIP services and video and music entertainment with multi-codec support.
The Galaxy S WiFi 4.0 will be first available in Russia and will be gradually rolled out in other countries. The Galaxy S WiFi 5.0 will be first available in Switzerland.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
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This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the strategies of key China-based major panel makers BOE, Tianma and IVO for attacking the different market segments through technology and pricing, and their relationship to local vendors Huawei, Lenovo, ZTE, Xiaomi and Coolpad.


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These cookies are seriously so quick and easy to make, but taste like you spent a lot of time on them. They are so fudgy and chewy- I have yet to meet a person who doesn't like them.
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This is the vanity mirror that provides 15X magnification to bring fine facial details into clear view. When you are within 6" of the mirror it produces distortion-free reflections of skin and hair that are 15X larger than normal, allowing you to apply cosmetics or groom without straining your eyes. Thirty-five LEDs around the rim of the mirror cast a clarity-enhancing white light that provides a truer reflection of skin and cosmetics. The dual-sided, 8 1/2"-diameter mirror also has a 1X magnification mirror that provides a true, full-face reflection. The mirror's 5"-diameter base enables unobtrusive set up on a counter, the mirror tilts 360�, and the LEDs last up to 5,000 hours. Chrome finish. Plugs into AC. 14 2/3" H x 10" W. (2 lbs.)
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I sent mine back
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from kansas city
This is not a good mirror if you want to view your whole face at once. It is better for extremely close work such as tweezing your eyeybrows but not good for applying eye makeup
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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The mirror portion is too small to get a good look at your face plus you have to get much closer than the 6" advertised to see clearly, then you're too close to use for make-up application. Sent it back.
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Love my new 15X lighted mirror
By New Eyes, Suzeq
from Clarksburg, West Virginia
I use my mirror as my new eyes to see things I could never see before. Until I got it I couldn't see to put on makeup or pluck the brow. I fell like a new women ! Excellent for removing things cought in the eye. I have bought so many other mirror's but coundn't see because they were to weak. This one I can see everything. This was a gift from my Brother, and I think him all the time for thinking of me in this way. Thanks Hammacher Schlemmer.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
difficult to see with 15X
By Trying to See
from Granite Bay, CA
Unlike the description saying you can be 6 inches away from the mirror, the mirror arrived with a note taped to it that you need to be at most 3-4 inches away, in order for your reflection to be focused. I found that you need to be 2-3 inches away at most which makes it impossible to use tweezers, etc because you can't fit them inbetween your face and the mirror. I will be returning the mirror tomorrow.
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from Reno, NV
I was disappointed that this mirror resulted in a very distorted image. I could not use it as intended for applying eye makeup.
Love the Magnification; couple of issues
By Blue Cat
from San Antonio, TX
There is no ligthing adjustment for day, evening/night or office lighting which is very helpful on my current mirror. My current mirror also has a plug that allows me to plug my hair dryer in and create a longer reach than from the wall plug or if there is no other nearby plug.
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By jeankn
from New Orleans, LA
As I have gotten older, it has become harder to see my face when applying makeup or tweezing. The 15X magnifying mirror works very well once you get adjusted to the distance your face should be from the mirror to get an undistorted reflection.
recommend this
By daniel
from south carolina
prompt delivery. high quality product.
Can't See My Chin
By Shergie
from Boston, MA
I can't see my chin with this mirror, so it is on its way back. (My daughter couldn't see her's either.) The curve is too sharp. It would work if my eyes are where my nose is. I have found a smaller 15X mirror does work, or a large 10X mirror.
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Gender and Poverty Reduction
Gender equality and women's empowerment is central to achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Yet, while there are some positive trends in gender equality, there are still many areas of concern. more
Gender and Democratic Governance
UNDP strives to ensure that women have a real voice in all governance institutions so that women can participate equally with men in public dialogue and decision-making.more
Gender and Environment and Energy
UNDP supports environment and energy policies that address the unique needs of both women and men, while also encouraging participation of women's networks in national, regional and global decision making on the environment and climate change.more
HIV, Human Rights and Sexual Diversity
UNDP supports countries to create an enabling human rights environment, promote gender equality, and address the HIV-related vulnerabilities and needs of women and girls.more
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New Zealand Joins Launch of Asian FTA negotiations
Rt Hon John Key
Prime Minister
21 November 2012 Media Statement
New Zealand joins launch of Asian FTA negotiations
Prime Minister John Key has joined other leaders from Asian countries to launch negotiations for a 16-nation regional free trade agreement.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) will include the 10 ASEAN states, together with Australia, China, India, Japan, Korea and New Zealand.
"The goal is an outcome that offers New Zealand businesses improved access to key markets across Asia, and robust trade and investment rules," says Mr Key.
RCEP also offers the opportunity for the first time to negotiate a free trade relationship with Japan, New Zealand's fourth-largest trading partner.
"New Zealand's participation in RCEP will complement our existing free trade agreements in Asia," says Mr Key.
"Along with our participation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, it also underlines the Government's commitment to ensuring New Zealand actively participates in the development of the trade and economic architecture of the Asia Pacific region.
"New Zealand will work closely with ASEAN and other partners to make the negotiations a success," says Mr Key.
RCEP negotiations are expected to start in 2013.
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New "Glee" Season 5 Trailer Premieres! [VIDEO]
A new trailer for the highly anticipated fifth season of "Glee" has been released.
Surprisingly, the promo video remains upbeat and vibrant despite how dark this past month has been for the cast and crew. Believe it or not, there is no sight or mention of Finn Hudson (the character once portrayed by the late Cory Monteith).
As previously reported, the first two episodes of the upcoming season will be a tribute to The Beatles. The third episode will write out Monteith's character out of the show. Ryan Murphy has not made it known how the character's exit will occur. After the third episode, the show will take an indefinite hiatus in an attempt to rewrite previously written storylines and keep the momentum of the show going without Finn.
The new season of "Glee" premieres on Thursday, September 26th.
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Room Policies
Housing Policy
Students are required to live in on-campus housing if they:
- have earned less than 88 semester hours
- are registered as full-time students
- are single and are not living with parents or guardians
- will not be 22 years of age by the end of Semester II
Seniors and part-time students may live off campus, but Anderson University reserves the right to require any student, regardless of class standing or number of hours enrolled, to live in university housing. Students living with parents or guardians must provide statements signed by a parent or guardian certifying their residency. Students living in off-campus housing must provide statements giving their place of residency, telephone number, local mailing address, and names of other persons living in the same residence.
Students who wish to be released from the Housing Policy may obtain an off-campus application in the Department of Student Life (Decker 206). The Campus Housing Committee will review the application and notify students of their decision. Decisions of the Campus Housing Committee are final.
Failure to abide by the Anderson University Housing Policy could result in disciplinary action. Questions about university housing should be addressed to the associate dean of students.
Room Assignments and Contracts
The Department of Student Life staff makes and coordinates room assignments and communicates move-in dates before each semester begins. Keys are obtained from the residence hall staff. Each resident is expected to complete a room contract and adhere to the conditions of residency. As a resident, you are expected to stay overnight in your own room. If residents change their status from full-time to part-time, they must have permission from the associate dean of students to continue living in the residence hall. Residents who have stopped attending classes may be asked to vacate their residence hall room unless the dean of students has given permission to stay.
View more information on Roommates Rights [PDF].
Change in Room or Hall
Requests for changes in rooms or halls are to be made to the RDs. No changes are to be made without prior approval. RDs may make room or hall changes when they deem it necessary. Students without roommates by the third week of the semester may be asked to consolidate or to pay the private room rate. Failure to get prior approval for a hall or room change will result in disciplinary action including a minimum fine of $50.
Check-In/Check-Out Procedures
Campus residence hall students are required to complete Room Inventory/Room Condition forms indicating all pre-existing conditions, damages, and irregularities in the residence hall rooms. Detailed completion of this form will either validate charges for room damage or protect students from being charged for room damage for which they are not responsible. This form is used to determine damage to the room and the corresponding charges, regardless of whether the occupants move out during the year or at the end of a semester. Failure to complete and file a form will indicate that there were no pre-existing damages (see "Damages" under Residence Hall Policies).
Students who withdraw or leave school during the school year must review the Room Inventory/Room Condition form with an RA or RD before leaving. Students changing rooms or moving to another residence hall must review the Room Inventory/Room Condition form with an RA or RD before leaving and complete a Room Inventory/Room Condition form for the new residence hall room. The RD will check the room after it is vacated. Failure to follow proper check-out procedures will result in an automatic $50 fine.
Proper check-out procedures will be posted and distributed to students. The following procedures are required for all final check-outs:
- sweep room and take all trash to the dumpster
- clean inside of drawers, desk tops, and window sills
- return all furniture to original places and secure properly
- remove all putty from walls and doors
- close and lock all windows
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The International Rice Research Institute's Library is responsible for maintaining the Rice Bibliography. Whereas the library catalogue contains a large collection of books and journals of interest to scientists researching rice or rice-related topics, the Rice Bibliography is a comprehensive bibliography of all books and articles directly pertaining to rice. It endeavours to include all articles and books relating to rice in the world, and is the world's largest and most complete source of scientific information about rice with almost 8,000 new references added each year. All articles pertaining to rice are sought out for the Rice Bibliography and IRRI Library acquires copies of the article whether or not it holds the particular serial in its collection.Over the years the Rice Bibliography has been mounted on a total of four software packages. The version on the screen before you contains references from 1970 onwards. Older references, a few going back to the mid-18th century, are available for searching at IRRI Library.
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i have bt4 booting from a usb stick (non-persistent). i used unetbootin to make it. In bt3, i was able to boot from usb and then write to that same usb under /mnt/sda. now for whatever reason the system automounts the usb stick read only as /media/cdrom0.
is there anyway i can change that and restore the old functionality? i was going to start messing with the udev rules but since im not all that familiar with it, i figured i'd ask here first.
on a side note, there are a number of form fields on this forum (for instance the title field when posting a new thread) where the background changes from white to black when the cursor is in it. well with the black text and on a black background, it makes it a pain... im using ff.


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|Function: Compile INPUT-FILE, producing a corresponding fasl file and returning its filename. :PRINT If true, a message per non-macroexpanded top level form is printed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT*. Top level forms that whose subforms are processed as top level forms (eg. EVAL-WHEN, MACROLET, PROGN) receive no such message, but their subforms do. As an extension to ANSI, if :PRINT is :top-level-forms, a message per top level form after macroexpansion is printed to *STANDARD-OUTPUT*. For example, compiling an IN-PACKAGE form will result in a message about a top level SETQ in addition to the message about the IN-PACKAGE form' itself. Both forms of reporting obey the SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*. :BLOCK-COMPILE Though COMPILE-FILE accepts an additional :BLOCK-COMPILE argument, it is not currently supported. (non-standard) :TRACE-FILE If given, internal data structures are dumped to the specified file, or if a value of T is given, to a file of *.trace type derived from the input file name. (non-standard) :EMIT-CFASL (Experimental). If true, outputs the toplevel compile-time effects of this file into a separate .cfasl file.
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Brazil's Atlantic forest rivals the Amazon with its eye-popping array of unique plants and animals, yet its proximity to Rio de Janeiro and other cities puts it at even greater risk. Now scientists are testing an approach to answer the question: Can a rain forest be brought back to life?
"It's always like this," says Adriano Chiarello. "You know they're here, but you can't see them." The Brazilian conservation biologist bends his neck backward like a yoga master to peer at a tree's uppermost branches a hundred feet above us. Somewhere in the leafy canopy, a female maned sloth and her eight-month-old infant are hidden from view. A steadily beeping radio signal from the mother's collar has brought Chiarello to the base of the tree, but even technology has its limits. The biologist must now spot the pair the old-fashioned way: with his eyes alone.
"If they don't move, we may never see them," Chiarello sighs. "And you know, they really are sloths. They spend hours sitting, sleeping, never moving. That's what they do 80 to 90 percent of the day: nothing."
He wipes his eyes, shakes his head, then returns to his craning yoga pose. "Wait…Maybe my insult has worked. Look there—right over your head. She's braced against a branch."
I follow Chiarello's pointed finger and spy the mother's dark brown face among the leaves. She buries her face under her arm and looks instantly like a large, furred coconut or bees' nest.
"Do you see that? How she can vanish?" Chiarello asks. "For their size, they are so well camouflaged. And…wow! Now she's moving!"
For Chiarello, such a sloth-on-the-move sighting is a peak experience, the ultimate biological moment that holds the promise of new insights.
The baby sloth, looking like a Teletubby wearing a curly lambskin coat, emerges from its mother's arms. It climbs over her and then playfully—lazily—slaps at its mother's face. The mother does nothing in return. "They never respond to their babies," whispers Chiarello, adding that mother sloths neither play nor get angry with their offspring. Instead, with all the speed of a desert tortoise, the mother reaches an arm out to a nearby branch and nibbles the leaves.
Chiarello's graduate students—at the Catholic University of Minas Gerais, where he's a professor—busily take notes. We all stretch our necks, craning this way and that, to keep the sloths in view as the pair move like sleepwalking high-wire artists along the branches to the freshest leaves. Astonishingly, given the mother's 15-pound (7-kilogram) build, she and her baby hang from the pencil-thin twigs like strange, half-animated fruits.
Chiarello's "main actress," as he fondly refers to the mother sloth, is the star in his study, funded in part by the National Geographic Society, of the endangered mammals of the São Lourenço Municipal Park, a small fragment of Brazil's Atlantic forest, or Mata Atlântica as the Brazilians call it. Like many mammals here, the maned sloth has lost huge tracts of its original habitat since the first Portuguese mariners stepped ashore in April 1500. At that time the Mata Atlântica is believed to have covered about 520,000 square miles (1.35 million square kilometers), making it about one-fifth the size of the present Amazon forest 500 miles (800 kilometers) to the northwest. The rain forest hugged the coastline from the country's snoutlike protuberance of what is today the state of Rio Grande do Norte to its border with Uruguay. In some places it extended inland for 300 miles (480 kilometers) or more, covering a range of habitats from coastal mangrove thickets to mountain massifs averaging 3,000 feet (900 meters) high, blanketed with broad-leaved evergreens and conifers.
Forebodingly, one of the first things the Portuguese seafarers did was to chop down a tree. They fashioned a cross from it and celebrated a Mass, claiming the land and its forest for their God and king. Over the next 500 years many more trees were felled, and the forest was transformed into cities, mines, and fields planted with sugarcane, coffee, cacao, and eucalyptus—all introduced species. Now, some 70 percent of Brazil's population lives in what was once the Atlantic forest, with most people concentrated in two of the three largest cities in South America, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Given that history of destruction, it's not surprising that today less than 7 percent of the Atlantic forest remains, much of it in isolated patches, some less than 6 acres (24 hectares) in size. It's as if someone broke apart a strand of pearls, then stepped on each bead. Indeed, among biological hotspots—the environmentally threatened regions of the world with the highest amount of endemism, meaning species found nowhere else on the planet—Conservation International ranks the Atlantic forest as one of the top five.
Yet within those fragments many of the Mata Atlântica's unique species, including some of the world's rarest plants, birds, and other animals, have managed to survive. Among them is the maned sloth. Like other mammals stranded here on forested islands amid a sea of agriculture and development, the sloth seems doomed to genetic inbreeding—if not eventual extinction.
"We think the sloths' genetic variation has already decreased," Chiarello says. "In the past this population was connected to those in southern Bahia and northern Rio de Janeiro. But they've been separated for at least 50 years." To determine the amount of inbreeding in the three groups, one of Chiarello's students, Paula Lara Ruiz, has launched a study of their genetic makeup.
"We may need to relocate some sloths to maintain their viability," Chiarello says. "Before we can do that, we need to know what trees they prefer, how much deep forest they need to survive."
But nailing down the particularities of sloths is only a small part of what Chiarello has in mind. Like other biologists tracking species in the Mata Atlântica, he has a far grander vision. Never mind that some of the land around the fragmented forest has the look of an abandoned bombing range, or a Sahara-in-the-making. Never mind that farmers continue to expand their eucalyptus and coffee plantations. Chiarello and a growing coterie of conservationists are determined to bring back the Mata Atlântica by reconnecting as many fragments as they can.
By linking islands of natural landscapes with corridors of vegetation, these scientists believe the Atlantic forest can be partly restored and many of its species saved from extinction. The corridors, in essence, could provide a safe passage from one island to the next, enabling isolated populations of animals and birds to meet and mix. It's an idea that has been around since the 1960s. Although there's no absolute proof that corridors ensure a species' survival, they are currently being tested around the world, with projects under way in the Netherlands, Australia, the United States, and many other countries. "It just makes intuitive sense that corridors are beneficial," says Hugh Safford, an ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service who has worked extensively in the Mata Atlântica."Any planting to restore a forest has to help."
In Brazil one goal is to develop a corridor that would link broken bits of forest along 500 miles (800 kilometers) of southeastern coastline, including both new forest and existing agriculture. Though native trees are preferable, just about any type of tree or shrub can be incorporated into a corridor. "Animals use the coffee and eucalyptus plantations to get from one fragment to another," says Chiarello's colleague and fellow mammalogist Marcelo Passamani. Conservationists want farmers and ranchers to maintain plantings they already have and to join these with replanted stands of native trees. But is it really possible to bring back a rain forest?
"Theoretically, it can be done," says ecologist Rejan R. Guedes-Bruni, coordinator of the Atlantic Forest Program at the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro. Every year since 1993, the Botanical Garden has overseen the planting of some 30,000 seedlings. "Of course, it's very difficult," she says. "But it is not too late to try this, and so we are doing it."
To get an idea of how much of the Atlantic forest has been destroyed, one has only to look at maps of the area. On many of them the forest is shown as dark splotches of green among the lighter greens and browns that depict agriculture, or the red swaths representing cities. In southeastern Brazil, along the coastline where the Mata Atlântica is most intact, maps typically show a broad stroke of deep green. But around the city of Rio de Janeiro and in the northern state of Bahia, the darker shade gives way to large patches of olive, sage, beige, and red. In many places on the maps, only specks of the richer green remain.
In one of those specks, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) from Rio, I join Marina Lapenta, a wildlife biologist with the Golden Lion Tamarin Association, as she and her assistant search for a group of radio-collared tamarins. The speck is named the Poço das Antas Biological Reserve and covers some 13,600 acres (5,500 hectares), about half forested. The rest will be, too, if the association has its way. Plans are afoot to connect the reserve to forested plots on nearby ranches via corridors that would nearly double the size of the tamarins' habitat here.
"All of this is secondary forest," Lapenta says, as we make our way through a tangle of vines, thorny palms, and spindly broad-leafed trees—the kind of trees and plants that sprout after an old-growth forest has been cut. Her assistant, Jadir Ramos, turns his radio antennas in a slow arc, homing in on the tamarins' signal. "They're coming this way," he says.
Right on cue, the air suddenly fills with the tamarins' high-pitched whistles, clucks, and warbles. They spy us and make a sharp alarm cry, then leap into the uppermost branches of a tree with such speed they look like flying cats. For a moment there is only a blur of red-orange, silky fur. Then curiosity gets the better of them, and they inch closer to peer down at us. "They'll get used to us," whispers Lapenta. "But they're nervous because another group is coming this way."
In the distance we hear the other group's whistles and clucks, and the tamarins turn to face the sound. Looking something like a miniature samurai warrior with his slightly Asian-tilted eyes and mane of sunset orange fur, the oldest male jumps into a neighboring palm, positioning himself to meet the challengers as they move closer. "This is a way for females to meet mates too," says Lapenta. "Sometimes a male and female go off to form a new group."
But neither love nor war is in the cards this morning. The oldest males from each group eye each other, then resume their feeding, picking out juicy bugs from beneath the fronds' fibers. The tamarins are so at home in this setting that I have to remind myself that all the animals busily hunting, chirping, and socializing shouldn't be here—or rather, they should be here, but they came so close to extinction 40 years ago that their presence today is akin to a miracle tale. By the 1960s only 150 individuals remained in the wild. The tamarins' forest had been reduced to shreds, and ranchers still actively captured and sold the surviving primates.
"Then 20 years ago this project started," says Denise Rambaldi, director of the Golden Lion Tamarin Association. "In 2001 we celebrated the thousandth birth of a tamarin in the wild."
Supported by more than 30 Brazilian and international organizations (including the National Geographic Society), researchers have used some of the most intensive, hands-on measures in conservation biology to achieve success. Tamarins were carefully bred in several zoos in the United States and Europe, taught to forage for wild foods, then relocated to the reserve and nearby ranches that offered protection. Poachers were actively pursued, and an environmental education program was introduced—with such success that locals today pridefully ask if you've seen "their" golden lion tamarins. Ranchers, too, were given financial incentives to protect the forest and tamarins on their lands. At the same time, conservationists began to reforest the reserve.
"It's not a manufactured, 'fake' forest," emphasizes Luiz Fernando Duarte de Moraes, a restoration ecologist with the Atlantic Forest Program at the Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro. Fernando leads me on a tour of a young forest corridor covering about ten acres (four hectares). "The forest grows naturally. We're just giving it a hand." He shows me the willowy sprout of a jacaranda tree. "This is not one we cultivated. It's actually a very rare species. But its seeds were here in the soil. It returned on its own." The tamarins are returning too. "They're already coming into these trees to hunt. So that shows they will use these corridors. Meter by meter, we're expanding their habitat," he says.
Indeed, the success of the Golden Lion Tamarin Association is one reason conservationists have turned to corridors as the method of choice for saving the Mata Atlântica's highly endangered species. "There's so much to save," says Marcelo Passamani. "Rare birds, rare plants, the tamarins, muriquis [woolly spider monkeys], wild dogs, jaguars, peccaries, and tapirs, even little rodents."
Until the 1980s few grasped how unique the forest was. "We ignored the urgency of studying the forest before then," says Guedes-Bruni. "Partly, we felt we could study it anytime, because most Brazilians live right next to the Mata Atlântica. And part of it was our attitude. People didn't call the forest mata. They called it mato-unproductive land that needed improvement."
Thus devalued, the forest was steadily eroded. Only after researchers began to inventory its remaining species in the 1980s did they realize that the Mata Atlântica came close to the Amazon in terms of endemism. And although today's Atlantic forest is only a small fraction of the size of the Amazon, it supports about two-thirds as many mammal species—269, while the Amazon has 427. This new awareness gave birth to a growing environmental movement. In the early 1990s, when about 8 percent of the forest remained, the Brazilian government finally issued a decree banning all further cutting of native species in the Atlantic forest.
"We have some good laws," says Rambaldi. "Ranchers must keep 20 percent of the forest on their lands, for instance. But no one enforces the laws. It's true that it's now rare to see clear-cutting, but people still take a few trees here, a few trees there. That's what's destroying the last of the Mata Atlântica—this nibbling."
Farmers typically burn their fields after harvesting their crops, and these fires also eat away at the forest—and the newly planted corridors. At Poço das Antas, a few miles from where we watched the tamarins feeding in the palms, a fire had been burning for more than a week, consuming trees and shrubs.
"It takes time to change peoples' attitudes," says Guedes-Bruni. "And we need to make big changes. The problem is, the forest is being destroyed faster than we can change."
Sometimes, however, changes do come, and in unlikely ways. In the state of Alagoas, in the northeastern part of the Mata Atlântica where barely 2 percent of the forest remains, the Serra Grande sugar company is the region's leading proponent of reforestation and conservation.
"I never expected to find a forest like this here," says Marcelo Tabarelli, an ecologist from Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife who is working with the company to increase the forest on its land. He and two of his students lead me along a boggy trail from a sunny sugarcane field into the twilight of a dense forest. "This forest has never been cut," he says. "You can tell from the size of the trees, the big liana vines, the number of bromeliads and orchids."
He stops beside one soaring tree with a girth easily ten feet (three meters) around. Bromeliads as big as truck tires splay from the tree's muscular branches, and lianas as fat as overfed pythons wind down from its sky-high crown. "I'm sure this tree is at least a thousand years old," he says. "It's remarkable to find a tree of this age anywhere in the Mata Atlântica, but especially here."
This was one of the first parts of Brazil to be settled, and most of the forest was turned into sugar plantations and cattle pastures long before a naturalist ever visited. "This is the rarest, most endangered part of the Mata Atlântica. It's like being on a scientific frontier. We're always discovering new species—frogs, bromeliads, trees, shrubs, an owl, even a bee," says Tabarelli.
Somehow, even as the land was changed from forest to an almost endless sea of sugarcane, this parcel—about 9,000 acres (3,600 hectares)—survived intact. "It's here because the sugar company needs water for its fields and generating electricity. And its managers know that forests are necessary for a healthy watershed," says Tabarelli. Altogether the company has some 27,170 acres (11,000 hectares) planted in sugarcane and another 22,230 acres (9,000 hectares) of forest.
Although the sugar company essentially saved the forest out of self-interest, it prides itself on what it has conserved. "There's forest here today because the company protected it," says José Bakker, the physical plant manager and company liaison with Tabarelli. "When I came here in 1986 the forest was like an empty house. There were a lot of trees but very few birds and mammals because of the poaching. I wanted to bring back its inhabitants." Working with conservation groups, Bakker reintroduced capybaras into some of the forested fragments and plans to bring in tapirs and peccaries.
For his part, Tabarelli is skeptical that corridors are the answer to saving the forest here. Often, he notes, corridors are simply too narrow to be of use to animals that live in the deepest regions of a forest. "We can't wait to find out if corridors—even though they're the newest paradigm for conservation here—will save species," says Tabarelli. "We're trying some. But I think our best shot is first to increase the overall size of the forests we have. Where you have good, dense forest, you have more species." Tabarelli hopes to do that by planting trees around the fragments' edges rather than connecting them with corridors. To that end, the sugar company (in alliance with conservation organizations) is planting 130 acres (57 hectares) of forest a year.
The tragedy of the Mata Atlântica is that so much of its biodiversity has already been lost. Indeed, four animal species known to have recently become extinct in Brazil all lived in the Atlantic forest. Because of the scale of loss, conservationists agree that the Mata Atlântica will never be fully restored—no matter how many corridors are planted or fragments enlarged. "What we can do is stop the destruction to save what remains," Tabarelli says. "And increase the forest where we can."
"Yes, maybe this can be done," says the ecologist Guedes-Bruni, who admits to being pessimistic about any larger plans to bring back the Mata Atlântica. "I would never tell my students I am doubtful, because they are full of hope, and they might make a big change."
For now the students and researchers like Tabarelli are intent on deciphering from the forested fragments how a "real rain forest"—one with trees a thousand years old and stretching miles instead of acres—works. In one medium size fragment above a recently harvested sugarcane field, we hike a short way beyond the forest's edge to meet two students who've tacked paper disks to several tree trunks. They've scented each disk with the odors that different orchid species use to attract male euglossine bees.
"That's how we found a new bee," says Evelise Locatelli. "It came to this scent." She opens a vial and wafts its malodorous brew toward my nose. I take a step back as a blend of mildew, stinky gym socks, and chlorine hits my nostrils. "My new bee loves it," she says, laughing as I wrinkle my nose. "Wait until you see him. He is beautiful!"
Locatelli touches more of the scent from the vial to the disk, and her newest discovery soon arrives. It zooms in straight toward the reeking disk; Locatelli's colleague captures it quickly in a butterfly net. She gently untangles this male, whose throbbing thorax is shaded cinnamon and green. "It's really his color and small size that told us he was something new," she says. "So now we want to know, where do these bees live? How far do they travel? Do they like only the big forest, or can they live in the small bits and corridors too? Many questions!"
They're the questions every researcher in the Mata Atlântica wants to answer for his or her favorite species. It's what they need to know as they set about restringing, pearl by pearl, the broken necklace of the Atlantic forest.
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Event Start Date & Time: April 23, 2013 07:00 PM
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The Agenda will be as follows: BLUFFDALE CITY COUNCIL REGULAR BUSINESS MEETING 7:00 P.M. 1. Roll Call, Invocation and Pledge.* 2. PUBLIC FORUM – (4 minute maximum per person to bring items not already on the agenda before the Council. Participants are encouraged to submit a written statement (1 copy) for items that are complex or that may require more than 4 minutes to present). 3. CONSENT AGENDA: 3.1 Approval of the March 12, 2013 meeting minutes. 3.2 Approval of the March 26, 2013 meeting minutes. 3.3 Approval of the April 9, 2013 meeting minutes. 3.4 Approval of a resolution for the "Consolidation of Polling Locations Plan" for the City of Bluffdale 2013 Municipal Elections. 3.5 Approval of a resolution for 2013 Arbor Day Proclamation. 3.6 Approval of a proclamation declaring April 2013 as Fair Housing Month in the City of Bluffdale. 4. Presentation of the Bluffdale City Police Department 1st Quarter Statistical Report – Chief Gary Hicken. 5. Report and update from the Bluffdale Arts Advisory Board, Laura Garner. 6. Consideration and vote on a resolution appointing members to the Bluffdale City Planning Commission – Mayor Timothy. 7. Consideration and vote on the Final Subdivision Plats B, F, G-1 and G-2 for Independence at the Point, Phase 1 located at approximately 15100 South Heritagecrest Way and 15000 South 850 West – 4 Independence, LLC, applicant – staff presenter – Grant Crowell. 8. Discussion regarding potential developments (a) north of 14400 South between Redwood Road and 2200 West and (b) a five acre parcel north of 14200 South west of Redwood Road - presenter, Ken Milne. 9. Discussion and information regarding the 2013-2014 Fiscal Year Budget – staff presenter – Rebecca Richins. 10. Mayor's Report. 11. City Manager's Report and Discussion. PLANNING SESSION 12. Please Note: The planning session is for identifying future items and other council discussion in accordance with Utah Code 52-4-201(2) (a). While the meeting may be open to the public, there will not be any opportunity for public input during the planning session. 13. Closed meeting pursuant to Utah Code § 52-4-205 (1) to discuss the character, professional competence, or health of an individual, collective bargaining, pending or imminent litigation, strategies to discuss real property acquisition, including any form of a water right or water shares, security issues, or any alleged criminal misconduct (if needed). 14. Adjournment. Dated this 18th day of April, 2013 I HEREBY CERTIFY THAT THE FOREGOING NOTICE AND AGENDA WAS FAXED TO THE SOUTH VALLEY JOURNAL, THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, AND THE DESERET MORNING NEWS; POSTED AT THE BLUFFDALE CITY HALL, BLUFFDALE CITY FIRE STATION, AND THE COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD AT THE BLUFFS APARTMENTS; EMAILED OR DELIVERED TO EACH MEMBER OF THE BLUFFDALE CITY COUNCIL; ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE AT WWW.BLUFFDALE.COM AND ON THE PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE WEBSITE, WWW.PMN.UTAH.GOV ______________________________ Teddie K. Bell, MMC City Recorder
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This fully updated edition of Sir Richard Branson's bestselling autobiography features his latest intrepid ventures in the areas of health, environment, media and, of course, exploration. Discover new details about Sir Richard's commitment to the future, through the Virgin Health Bank and its contribution to regenerative medicine, Virgin Fuels' pledge of 200 million to renewable energy projects, and his charitable body Virgin Unite. Sir Richard also discusses the earth-based launch of Virgin Media, and the progress toward the literal 'launch' of Virgin Galactic and a new era of commercial space travel. Featuring many new insights into his family life, "Losing My Virginity" is an amazing memoir, a definitive business guide and an inspirational story that reveals Sir Richard's unique philosophy on business, the Virgin brand and life.
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In this autobiography, Virgin Group founder Richard Branson says one of his prime business criteria is "fun." Fun made Branson a billionaire, and few business memoirs are one-billionth as fun as Branson's, nor as niftily written. Not only does it relate his side of near-death corporate experiences, it tells how the chairman literally cheated death by gun, shipwreck, and balloon crash.
Branson's empire--now encompassing interests in an airline, pop music, soda pop, e-commerce, and financial services--began when the dyslexic 16-year-old dropped out of school in 1968 to found the British magazine Student. His headmaster said, "I predict that you will either go to prison or become a millionaire." Briefly imprisoned for dodging customs selling records, Branson got his first million by releasing Tubular Bells, a maverick recording all the stuffy executives rejected. (1998's Tubular Bells III puts the series' sales over 20 million.)
Despite wild tales of Branson's wife-swapping and Keith Richards fleeing naked from Branson's studio at gunpoint with another man's woman, the most shocking parts of the memoir concern British Airways' James Bond-like "dirty tricks" campaign against Virgin Atlantic, resulting in the biggest award for damages in English history.
Though it's filled with famous names, witty quotes, and pulse-pounding accounts of lunatic balloon adventures, it is as a business thriller that the book really scores. His instinctive bet-the-ranch tactics could cost him all, or earn another billion. Either way, Branson will likely remain the most entertaining entrepreneur in Europe. --Tim AppeloFrom the Inside Flap:
"Oh, screw it, let's do it."
That's the philosophy that has allowed Richard Branson, in slightly more than twenty-five years, to spawn so many successful ventures. From the airline business (Virgin Atlantic Airways), to music (Virgin Records and V2), to cola (Virgin Cola), to retail (Virgin Megastores), and nearly a hundred others, ranging from financial services to bridal wear, Branson has a track record second to none.
Losing My Virginity is the unusual, frequently outrageous autobiography of one of the great business geniuses of our time. When Richard Branson started his first business, he and his friends decided that "since we're complete virgins at business, let's call it just that: Virgin." Since then, Branson has written his own "rules" for success, creating a group of companies with a global presence, but no central headquarters, no management hierarchy, and minimal bureaucracy.
Many of Richard Branson's companies--airlines, retailing, and cola are good examples--were started in the face of entrenched competition. The experts said, "Don't do it." But Branson found golden opportunities in markets in which customers have been ripped off or underserved, where confusion reigns, and the competition is complacent.
And in this stressed-out, overworked age, Richard Branson gives us a new model: a dynamic, hardworking, successful entrepreneur who lives life to the fullest. Family, friends, fun, and adventure are equally important as business in Branson's life. Losing My Virginity is a portrait of a productive, sane, balanced life, filled with rich and colorful stories:
Crash-landing his hot-air balloon in the Algerian desert, yet remaining determined to have another go at being the first to circle the globe
Signing the Sex Pistols, Janet Jackson, the Rolling Stones, Boy George, and Phil Collins
Fighting back when British Airways took on Virgin Atlantic and successfully suing this pillar of the British business establishment
Swimming two miles to safety during a violent storm off the coast of Mexico
Selling Virgin Records to save Virgin Atlantic
Staging a rescue flight into Baghdad before the start of the Gulf War . . .
And much more. Losing My Virginity is the ultimate tale of personal and business survival from a man who combines the business prowess of Bill Gates and the promotional instincts of P. T. Barnum.
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Rim Rock (Indian Wall) Picnic Area GPS Coordinates (across road from cabins)
Google Map our Illinois Cabins in the Shawnee Forest of Southern Illinois near Garden of the Gods
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We are located in Hardin County, Illinois 3.2 miles East of the little town of Karbers Ridge and 3.3 miles West of Hwy 1 on Karbers Ridge/Pounds Hollow blacktop. We are 370 miles from Chicago, 166 miles from St. Louis, 70 miles from Evansville, and 65 miles from Paducah. If you are using a trip maker system, input Karbers Ridge instead of our Elizabethtown mailing address. The trip maker systems do not recognize some of the roads that would make your trip shorter.
If you are arriving in Carbondale by Amtrak . After picking up your rental car at the station (ask how to get to 13 EAST). Take 13 East out of Carbondale approximately 50 miles to Hwy 1 (you will go through Marion (good Kroger store in Marion on left just E of 57 on 13) and Harrisburg - Harrisburg is a good place to get groceries. For alternative Hwy 34 route out of Harrisburg see green below "second route") Continue on Hwy 13 to Hwy 1. Hwy 1 is 23 miles East of Harrisburg on 13. At Hwy 13 and Hwy 1 take Hwy 1 South (right). Drive about 8.8 miles to Pounds Hollow Blacktop. There is a blue tourism sign just previous to the turnoff with our name as well as a brown forestry sign saying "Garden of the Gods" and Pounds Hollow". Turn right on Pounds Hollow blacktop. There is an old motel just at the turn off. Drive 3.3 miles. You will see Hills Cemetery on the left and Rim Rock Recreational Trail on the right. Drive past about 100 feet. We are the next driveway to the left. There is a mailbox on the right with our name and a big gate with an American flag and lots of wildlife depicted on the gate. Deer Run, Cougar Bluff and Bear's Den are to the left after you turn into our driveway and Eagle's Retreat and Coyote Hollow are to the right after you turn into the driveway. Follow the signs. Note: for groceries in Harrisburg take a left at the Junction of 13 and 45 North. Go 3 lights and you will see Kroger on the left. For Walmart Super Store take a right at the Junction of Hwy 13 and 45 South. Go through one light and you will see Walmart on the left. Get back on Hwy 13 East when you finish shopping and continue 23 miles to Hwy 1 as stated above.
If you are traveling from the North get on I 57. Continue on Hwy 57 to Marion**, Illinois. There is a great Kroger store in Marion just after you get on Hwy 13 on the left. At Marion take Hwy 13 East to Harrisburg. (Note Alternate: Aug, 2011 There will be some construction on 57 Hwy South of Benton. To avoid exit at Benton Exit 71. Take 34 South to Harrisburg ) In Harrisburg you have two good choices see above . If you want to go to Garden of the Gods before you come to our cabins take the Hwy 34 route out of Harrisburg. First route:
In Harrisburg get on Hwy 13 East*. Take Hwy 13 East 17 miles to Hwy 1. Take Hwy 1 South 8.3 miles to Pounds Hollow blacktop. (There is a blue state sign that says our name and brown forestry signs that says Garden of the Gods, Pounds Hollow). Turn right on Pounds Hollow blacktop. ** Go 3.3 miles. When you see Hill Cemetery on the left, start watching for our driveway. It is just around the curve on the LEFT. Amish wheels are on either side of the driveway and have reflectors on the spokes for better visibility at night. **Turn left into the driveway and make another immediate left up to cabins for Bear's Den, Cougar Bluff and Deer Run. Bear's Den is the first cabin and Cougar Bluff is the second cabin and Deer Run is the third cabin. Make an immediate right for Eagle's Retreat and Coyote Hollow. There are signs. *(Note: If you want to get groceries while driving through Harrisburg....after you get on 13 East go to the next light (Hwy 45) and turn left. Go about three blocks and you will see a Kroger on the left) For Walmart turn right at stoplight where 34 goes South. Walmart is just a few blocks at the edge of town on the left. Get back on 13 to follow directions to cabin.
Second route:
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on Hwy 34 through Harrisburg. Hwy 34 takes a right on Commercial Street off
13/34. Just at the South edge of Harrisburg take a left on 34 South.
Go approximately 15 miles. Make sure you stay on 34 at Mitchellville
Convenience Store. It turns left again. About one mile before our
turnoff you will see "The Gabe" bar and liquor store on the left. Go one
mile and watch for Harbison's Store
and Gas Station on right (good place to get deli/pizza/other supplies)
Turn left on Karber's Ridge/Pounds Hollow Blacktop across from Harbisons's
Store. Go about 9 miles to cabins. When you see watertower on
the left continue about 1/3 mile. On the right you will see our mailbox on
the left with the name "Dart". There are small cabin signs on the mailbox
and also a green sign on right. We have an American flag hanging from a
large decorator gate with animals and our name on the right. Turn
in.....then go left for Deer Run, Bear's Den and Cougar Bluff....right for
Eagle's Retreat and Coyote Hollow.
If you are traveling from the South (traveling through Nashville on 24) take 24 to Hwy 641 North (near Eddyville and Kuttawa). Take 641 North 18 miles to Marion, Kentucky. Take 91 North out of Marion, Kentucky to the Ohio River. You will be crossing the free auto ferry across the Ohio River to Cave-in-Rock, Illinois. IMPORTANT!!!!! FERRY ONLY RUNS FROM 6:00 A.M. TO 9:30 P.M. - IF YOU ARE LATER THAN THAT FOLLOW PARAGRAPH ABOVE) May have to wait depending on river traffic. Road turns into Hwy 1 North. Go approximately 10 miles on Hwy 1 North to Pounds Hollow Blacktop. Watch for blue tourist sign that says RIM ROCK'S DOGWOOD CABINS and brown forestry sign that says GARDEN OF GODS/POUNDS HOLLOW. There is an OLD motel at the turn off as well. Turn left on Pounds Hollow Blacktop. (On other end it is called Karbers Ridge Blacktop) Go 3.3 miles on blacktop. Watch for Hills Cemetery on left and Rim Rock Recreational Trail on right. Our driveway is a very short distance further on the left. Our mailbox is on the right and has our name in metal on the top and "Box 124" on the mailbox. Our driveway is to the left. There are small "reflective" signs hanging from mail box with our name for night arrival. When you turn left into the driveway you will make an immediate left OR right depending on which cabin you are staying in. Deer Run, Cougar Bluff and Bear's Den is to the left and Eagle's Retreat and Coyote Hollow are to the right.
If you are traveling from Indianapolis or Louisville, take I65 South to Louisville, Ky - get on I64 West. Continue on I64 to Illinois. Just inside the Illinois line take Hwy 1 South. Continue on 1 South through the junction of 1 and 13. 8.3 miles past the junction of 1 and 13 (you are still on 1) you will turn on Pounds Hollow blacktop. (There is a blue state sign that says our name and brown forestry signs that says Garden of the Gods, Pounds Hollow). Turn right on Pounds Hollow blacktop. ** Go 3.3 miles. When you see Hill Cemetery on the left, start watching for our driveway. It is just around the curve on the LEFT. Amish wheels are on either side of the driveway and have reflectors on the spokes for better visibility at night. Turn left into the driveway and make another immediate left or right to the appropriate cabin. See** (Groceries could be obtained in Carmi at South end of town on Hwy 1)
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It's 85 degrees and humid in Lakewood...
(Lakewood) - Looking to escape from the bitter cold? Relief is as near as your YMCA.
Monica Zayd is aquatics director at the Lakewood YMCA, where it's always 85 degrees by the swimming pool in the natatorium. In the sauna room the temperature can reach up to 170 degrees.
Zayd spends 8-to-10 hours a day in the warm natatorium and says it's like living on a tropical island.
It seems more folks are visiting the Lakewood YMCA to get away from the cold, says lifeguard Heather Wade, who explains she often forgets how cold it is outside, after spending 8 hours in the balmy atmosphere.
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Tornados Fall in Offensive Slugfest at Tusculum 55-42October 11, 2008
Greeneville, Tenn. – The Brevard College football team scored a season high 42 points on Saturday afternoon, but came up just short falling to the Tusculum Pioneers 55-42 in South Atlantic Conference football action at Pioneer Field in Greeneville, Tenn.
The loss drops Brevard to 1-5 overall and 0-3 in the conference, while Tusculum moves to 5-2 and 2-1 in the SAC with the win.
The two teams combined for almost 900 yards – BC 394 and Tusculum 479 – and 97 points for the game.
The Tornados were hurt by turnovers, as BC coughed up the ball five times which led to three Tusculum College scores.
Tusculum got on the board first scoring on their opening drive, as a quarterback Corey Russell connected with wide out Ryan Tallent for a 15 yard touchdown pass, capping off a 4-play, 83 yard drive. After Gareth Rowlands' point after attempt was good, the Pioneers 7-0 early.
The Tornados answered right back on their first offensive series, as BC drove down the field, going 45 yards on eight plays, finished off by a Donald Hudson one-yard touchdown run to put Brevard on the board. An extra point by Chase Henry knotted the score up at 7-7 with 8:56 to go in the first quarter.
Tusculum outscored the Tornados 21-0 over the rest of the first quarter, as Russell both ran and threw for a touchdown to put the Pioneers up 28-7 after one quarter of play.
In the second quarter, the two teams each crossed the goal line twice. The Tornados started the scoring in the second quarter as Hudson again reached the end zone on a two-yard run, capping off a 10-play 60 yard drive, to put the score at 28-14.
After Russell answered with a 31-yard touchdown run to put the Pioneers back on top by 21 points, BC responded as senior running back John Taylor punched the ball into the end zone from seven yards out with 7:34 to go in the half.
Tusculum then scored once more, as Russell again hooked up with Tallent, this time for a three-yard touchdown pass to put Tusculum up 42-21 heading into the halftime break.
In the third quarter the scoring slowed down, as the two teams combined for only 13 points. Brevard had seven of those points, as sophomore Trey Wilborn, who lined up at quarterback on Saturday afternoon, scrambled in from 20 yards out to try to cut into the Pioneer's lead. Wilborn's touchdown, his first off the season as he has lined up a free safety for most of the year, cut the Pioneer's lead to 48-28.
In the fourth quarter, Tusculum added an early touchdown by way of a Fred Jones 12-yard touchdown run, to pull ahead 55-28 with less than eight minutes to play.
BC did not give in though, as the Tornados stormed into the end zone two times in the final eight minutes of play, both by way of junior running back Desmond Wilson. Wilson ran in for a 12-yard score and then caught a three-yard touchdown pass from Wilborn late in the fourth to give the Tornados 42 points for the game, a season-high.
Offensively the Tornados had 394 yards, with 356 yards coming by way of the rushing game. Wilborn led the way, as the young quarterback had 116 yards on 14 carries and one touchdown. Junior fullback Xavier Johnson had 74 yards on 16 rushing attempts, while Wilson had 16 carries for 64 yards and two touchdowns on the game. Taylor, seeing action for the first time in nearly a month due to an injury, had 56 yards on nine carries and one score.
Tusculum was led by Russell, as the senior quarterback was 22-of-29 through the air for 328 yards and four touchdowns. The Pre-season Second Team All-SAC selection also rushed for a team-high 73 yards and two touchdowns. Tallent had two receiving touchdowns on the day, while running backs Fred Jones and Jamar Ferguson each had a running touchdown.
BC freshman Michael Gist led the Tornados on the defensive end, as the safety had a team-high eight tackles and the lone interception of the game. Senior linebacker Justin Jefferson, sophomore corner Shorick Johnson and freshman corner Chase Waldo all had five total tackles for the game.
Tusculum's Cameron Hamler led all players with a career-best 18 tackles, while senior Justin Scott recorded 14 total tackles for the contest.
The Tornados will again be on the road for a SAC football game next Saturday, October 18, when BC will travel to Mars Hill, N.C. to face off with the Mars Hill Lions. The game time is slated for a 1:30 p.m. kick-off. Tusculum will travel to Catawba College next Saturday, with that game scheduled for a 1:30 p.m. start.


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How to cut down on VA fraud in a single step
Once more, because it bears repeating: VA Secretary's Eric Shinseki's resignationlast week may have been politically necessary, but it won't fix the VA's health-care system or deliver medical care to veterans still in waiting lines. In fact, no one even knows the full scope of the problem yet, including the VA's new acting secretary. But we don't need to wait for a full accounting to address imminent needs and start implementing solutions that could keep this from happening again.
After a month of calls for him to step down, it was a report from the VA inspector general that triggered Shinseki's resignation. The IG report on the Phoenix VA hospital, where the current scandal started, confirmed that employees there used secret waiting lists to hide long delays for veterans seeking medical treatment. The IG found 1,700 veterans who went to the Phoenix VA for medical care were never given an appointment or scheduled to see a doctor. The veterans who did receive appointments waited an average of 115 days before being seen—more than three months longer than the VA's standard of 14 days.
But the IG's investigation didn't only deal with Phoenix; it found the same "scheduling schemes" there were "systemic" across the system. As bad as the findings in Phoenix were, the fact they have been identified has meant immediate attention for veterans there. It meant a high-profile effort to rush in resources and deliver medical care. But at the other VA hospitals across the country, those not under a spotlight, the extent of the damage hasn't yet been fully assessed.
The VA keeps track of wait times at its facilities and publishes them in annual performance reports. The performance reports are based on information gathered from the 971 medical facilities in the system. Local centers send their numbers up to be reviewed by VA leadership and compiled into a big-picture analysis of trends across the system. In other words, the official record of the VA's performance is based on the same kind of reporting that was just exposed as a fraud in Phoenix, and the big picture it purports to show may be nothing more than a mirage.
Revealing the real conditions for veterans in Phoenix took an IG team arriving on the ground to interview individual veterans. So far, the IG is conducting similar investigations at 42 other facilities across the country; the VA has its own teams auditing hospitals to determine whether they have been cooking the books and how long veterans are waiting for care. The 1,700 people languishing in Phoenix are likely only a fraction of the thousands or tens of thousands of veterans across the system who are still hidden on secret waiting lists that have not yet been discovered.
As the investigations and audits start to release their findings, we'll get a better sense of how many veterans are caught up in the scheduling schemes and need immediate medical attention. Getting to the truth in this case has required bypassing the normal reporting system, which is clearly compromised, and going out to interview veterans. But with 9 million veterans enrolled in the system, the VA clearly can't rely on individual interviews every time it needs basic facts about conditions in its own hospitals.
As many VA employees and observers have noted, an updated computer system—the VA uses software that's decades old—would cut down on false reports by giving leadership better oversight of the data system. Overhauling the VA's digital records system is necessary but it's a massive investment and it won't happen quickly. In the meantime, VA employees tell The Daily Beast, there are methods that can be used right now to look for irregularities in the current system that could help reveal other potential Phoenixes where veterans are waiting months for treatment.
One VA employee, who is familiar with the scheduling system and asked not to be named to protect his job, explained the available means to detect where wait times were being scammed. In the current scheduling system there are two different wait times listed for each patient, the source said: "There is a wait 1 time and a wait 2 time. The wait 1 is the time from the date the scheduler makes the appointment to the date of the patient's appointment." But it's the wait 2 time that gets reported and counts for the performance measures, according to the source. The wait 2 time "is the time between the patient's desired date, the day they select for their appointment, and the actual date when they see a doctor. The scheme they've been using is to not actually ask the veteran for their "desired date" and instead just assign them whatever date the hospital has available for an appointment."
What that means, the source said, is "the official reports, based on the wait 2, will never show that you have a three-month waiting time. But your wait 1 time would show the real delay—that it took three months from the day the veteran came and made their date with the clerk until they actually saw a doctor—even though your wait 2 time would show zero days, no wait at all."
"If they just ran a report that showed the difference between the two wait times for every clinic," according to the source, "they would be able to see who was being gamed."
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