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Science Selection August 2014 | Volume 122 | Issue 8
More Evidence for PBDEs as Neurotoxicants: Cohort Study Corroborates Earlier Findings
Kellyn S. Betts writes about environmental contaminants, hazards, and technology for solving environmental problems for publications including EHP and Environmental Science & Technology.
Citation: Betts KS. 2014. More evidence for PBDEs as neurotoxicants: cohort study corroborates earlier findings. Environ Health Perspect 122:A221; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.122-A221
News Topics: Children's Health, Flame Retardants, Laws, Regulation, and Policy, Neurologic Health, Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (PBDEs)
Published: 1 August 2014
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Prenatal Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether Exposures and Neurodevelopment in U.S. Children through 5 Years of Age: The HOME Study
Children from the Midwest involved in a prospective study are the third U.S. birth cohort to show strikingly consistent associations between prenatal exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants and impaired performance on neurodevelopment tests later in childhood.1 As in the earlier studies involving birth cohorts from New York City2 and California,3 the children's mothers had PBDE levels consistent with average U.S. adult exposure. The concordance of the three studies strongly supports the likelihood that PBDEs are developmental neurotoxicants, according to the authors of the new work.
PBDEs were widely used between the 1970s and 2004 in U.S. consumer goods including furniture, carpet padding, and electronic devices. The main PBDEs found in humans are from the now-banned penta and octa mixtures used in polyurethane foam padding and electronics enclosures, respectively.4 People can accumulate PBDEs in their bodies through food and inadvertent ingestion, inhalation, and dermal absorption of house dust.5,6
BDE-47 is a major component of pentaBDE, a flame retardant mixture still found in older foam cushioning.
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The new research involved participants in the Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment (HOME) Study, a prospective birth cohort of women living around Cincinnati, Ohio, who were pregnant between 2003 and 2006. All 309 mothers provided blood samples at about 16 weeks' gestation, and all had detectable levels of BDE-47, one of the most commonly detected PBDE congeners and the focus of the new study's primary analysis. Their children underwent yearly developmental and/or behavioral assessments through age 5, plus IQ testing at the last followup.
After adjusting for potential confounders, including maternal IQ, the researchers found a statistically significant inverse relationship between mothers' BDE-47 concentrations and their children's IQ scores, says coauthor Aimin Chen, an epidemiologist at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. In repeated measurements of cognition, a 10-fold increase in maternal BDE-47 concentration was associated with a 4.5-point reduction in IQ score,1 consistent with decrements reported for the New York City2 and California3 cohorts. Exposure was also associated with a 3.3-point increase in hyperactivity score.1
"What's really important is the consistency in the results across three very different populations, [which is] pretty amazing," says Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. She observes that the new study's use of maternal serum taken during the first part of the second trimester—earlier than in the other cohorts—suggests outcomes could be linked to earlier in utero exposures.
Small shifts in a population's IQ matter, says coauthor Bruce Lanphear of Simon Frasier University in Vancouver, Canada. Lanphear, who is the senior principal investigator of the HOME Study, explains that a 5-point shift downward in the mean IQ of U.S. children would result in an additional 3.4 million children who are considered intellectually disabled or mentally retarded,7 with corresponding costs in treatment, special education, and lost lifetime earnings. "There isn't a published estimate of the cost of PBDE toxicity," he says, "but based on what we know about the impact and costs of lead toxicity, I would expect the cost of PBDEs to exceed $10 billion annually in the United States."
The prospective cohort design with repeated follow-up visits is a major strength of the new study. Its weaknesses include the lack of PBDE measurements in the children's serum, which other research shows can be higher than maternal levels.3,8 Julie Herbstman of Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, lead author of the earlier New York City study,2 also points out that the half-life of BDE-47 in humans is thought to be on the order of years, so it's hard to isolate the timing of exposure.
There is some evidence that PBDE levels are declining in the U.S. population.9 Even so, "pretty much everyone still has penta- and octa-containing products in their home," says Herbstman. Typically, the types of products that contained these compounds—such as couches—are not replaced frequently.
Because PBDEs' persistence allows them to remain in indoor environments for a long time, Chen recommends that prospective mothers and other concerned individuals wash their hands frequently, vacuum with HEPA filters, and use wet cloths to dust furniture. The nonprofit Environmental Working Group also recommends replacing any foam-containing item with a ripped cover or cushioning that is misshapen or breaking down.10
1. Chen A, et al. Prenatal polybrominated diphenyl ether exposures and neurodevelopment in U.S. children through 5 years of age: the HOME Study. Environ Health Perspect 122(8):856–862 (2014); doi: 10.1289/ehp.1307562.
2. Herbstman JB, et al. Prenatal exposure to PBDEs and neurodevelopment. Environ Health Perspect 118(5):712–719 (2010); doi: 10.1289/ehp.0901340.
3. Eskenazi B, et al. In utero and childhood polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) exposures and neurodevelopment in the CHAMACOS Study. Environ Health Perspect 121(2):257–262 (2013); doi: 10.1289/ehp.1205597.
4. Geyer HJ, et al. Terminal elimination half-lives of the brominated flame retardants TBBPA, HBCD, and lower brominated PBDEs in humans. Organohalogen Comp 66:3867–3872 (2004). Available: http://www.dioxin20xx.org/ohc_database_search.htm [accessed 25 June 2014].
5. Lorber M. Exposure of Americans to polybrominated diphenyl ethers. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol 18(1):2–19 (2008); doi: 10.1038/sj.jes.7500572.
6. CDC. Fourth National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals. Atlanta, GA:U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2009). Available: http://www.cdc.gov/exposurereport/pdf/FourthReport.pdf [accessed 25 June 2014].
7. Gilbert SG, Weiss B. A rationale for lowering the blood lead action level from 10 to 2 μg/dL. Neurotoxicology 27(5):693–701 (2006); doi: 10.1016/j.neuro.2006.06.008.
8. Toms L-ML, et al. Serum polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) levels are higher in children (2–5 years of age) than in infants and adults. Environ Health Perspect 117(9):1461–1465 (2009); doi: 10.1289/ehp.0900596.
9. Zota AR, et al. Temporal comparison of PBDEs, OH-PBDEs, PCBs, and OH-PCBs in the serum of second trimester pregnant women recruited from San Francisco General Hospital, California. Environ Sci Technol 47(20):11776–11784 (2013); doi: 10.1021/es402204y.
10. EWG. Healthy Home Tips: Tip 4—Avoid Fire Retardants [website]. Washington, DC:Environmental Working Group (2014). Available: http://www.ewg.org/research/healthy-home-tips/tip-4-avoid-fire-retardants [accessed 25 June 2014].
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Med Ed Report briefs: December 2013
Bayer Healthcare, Onyx Pharmceuticals and Lilly sponsored a CME workshop series for oncologists and oncology nurses, offering guidance on treatment of solid tumors. ACCME-accredited firm Med-IQ is the provider on the presentations.
The probe that resulted in J&J's $2.2-billion settlement last month for alleged illegal marketing of Risperdal and other drugs also named several academic medical centers. According to the Chronicle of Higher Education, the probe fingered a list of more than 50 researchers at some two dozen mostly US universities who wrote articles for medical journals that J&J allegedly used to overstate the benefits and understate the risks of the drug.
CMS updated its frequently asked questions page on the Open Payments program—formerly known as the Physician Payment Sunshine Act, noted the blog Policy and Medicine. The page was updated with 20 new FAQs.
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The extent to which the alignment between biological sex and gender identity is reinforced in psychological theory and counseling practices is dramatically illustrated in the treatment strategies employed by medicine and psychiatry with children.
We explore the ways in which the psychiatric and medical professions have treated children who either defy our assumptions about the relationship between biological sex and gender identity or have gender dysphoria (defined as psychological discomfort with one's biological sex), often diagnosed as gender identity disorder (GID). Beginning in the 1960s, researchers explored gender variance in children, mostly boys. The leading researchers in this area—Richard Green, John Money, Robert Stoller, and Bernard Zuger—argued that gender-variant children were at greater risk of becoming homosexuals, transvestites, or transsexuals (Bryant, 1996).
A treatment approach used in GID cases to help children accept their biological sex and associated gender identity is termed rehabilitative treatment (Hill, Rozanski, Carfagnini, & Willoughby, 2005; Raj, 2002). George Rekers, Susan Coates, and Kenneth Zucker are considered leading proponents of rehabilitative treatment of GID. Supporters of this reparative therapy argue that ultimately it helps defend against the negative effects of the social ostracism that gender-nonconforming children typically experience. Reparative treatment incorporates behavioral techniques (e.g., Rekers, 1995; Zucker & Bradley, 1995). One behavioral strategy known as play reconditioning (Rekers & Lovass, 1974) requires children to wear wrist counters when playing with same-sex-typed toys. While playing, they earn points they can exchange for rewards or privileges. "Bug-in-ear" devices are also used to communicate and guide the play of children diagnosed with GID. In this "treatment," professionals who are observing communicate via a transmission device in the child's ear: e.g., "No, Charlie, put down that doll. Pick up the truck." Rekers describes the use of these techniques in Handbook of Child and Adolescent Sexual Problems (1995), which was used in the 1990s to assist pediatricians with the diagnosis and treatment of gender identity disorder in children (Burke, 1996).
The diagnosis of GID and the subsequent rehabilitative treatment approaches are certainly not without critics. Interestingly, Burke's fascinating text Gender Shock (1996) provides an alternative perspective on the work of Rekers and those who practice aversive approaches to treatment. In her follow-up of Rekers's treatment of "Kraig," the subject of his 1974 article, Burke noted that several years after his treatment, Kraig attempted suicide by ingesting pills. He reportedly attributed his depression and suicidal attempt to the shame and embarrassment he felt over the childhood diagnosis and treatment he received.
In the excerpt below, Scholinski describes her rehabilitative-style treatment during her hospitalization in a psychiatric facility in the early 1980s. Scholinski's autobiography, The Last Time I Wore a Dress (1997), chronicles her treatment regimen over a three-year period, including wearing make-up and swinging her hips. Scholinski's words echo those of other gender minority clients who are angered and disillusioned as a result of their treatment in the mental health system.
[Dr. Browning] rolled his pen between his fingers for a moment. He said the other diagnosis was something called Gender Identity Disorder which he said I'd had since Grade 3, according to my records. He said what this means is you are not an appropriate female, you don't act the way a female is supposed to act. I looked at him. I didn't mind being called a delinquent, a truant, a hard kidwho smoked and drank and ran around with a knife in her sock. But Ididn't want to be called something I wasn't. Gender screw-up or whatever wasn't cool. My foot started to jiggle, I couldn't stop it. He was calling me a freak, not normal. He was like the boys in Little League calling out tomboy, tomboy, and Michelle who pinned me down for the red lipstick treatment. He was like the boys who yelled, "let me see your titties" when I rode shirtless on my bike in the wind. (Scholinski, 1997, pp. 15–16)
Critics of reparative treatment approaches argue that there is little research to support the idea that such therapy is effective. Further, they claim that such approaches "disrespect the youth's subjective sense of gender" and cast parents and therapists into therole of "gender police" (Hill et al., 2005, p. 26). Protection against peer ostracism is typically used as a rationale in support of reparative treatment. However, Lev (2005) points out that in most instances in which children are bullied on the basis of race, ethnicity, and physical disabilities, any interventions are directed at the system level and "not on changing children to better fit in to oppressive circumstances" (p. 49).
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Elle Fanning & Alice Englert Film 'Bomb'
Elle Fanning wraps herself up in a hefty sweater while on set of Bomb in London on Tuesday afternoon (March 27).
Alice will star as Rosa in the upcoming film which follows a teenage rebel who wants to save the world from nuclear annihilation, but as the cold war meets the sexual revolution, it's her family that threatens to explode.
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The Future Is Recording Over My Pasture
Jason Brammer discusses his permanent, site-specific installation, The Future Is Recording Over My Pasture, at IV Lab Studios (Chicago, IL). This is a playlist of 2 videos about the installation.
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Into The Ocean Of Being
See Jason Brammer's solo exhibition, titled Into The Ocean Of Being, at Linda Warren Projects in Chicago, IL. Includes footage from the opening reception on October 25, 2013.
Video shot by Ben Gershman of 119 Productions
Video edited by Eric Hopper
Music recorded and performed by Carl Broemel of My Morning Jacket. (Composed specially as a sonic accompaniment to Jason's art exhibition. This is what people are listening to on the headphones in the video.)
Dark Matter Machine
Chicago artist Jason Brammer presents his installation and mural, titled Dark Matter Machine, which transforms the Dark Matter Coffee roasting facility into a 19th Century Submarine.
Video by 119 Productions (Filmed By Jude Appleby, Mike Bump & Jackson Duncan | Edited By Ben Gershman)
Music by Winthorp
The Axis Mundi Series
Jason Brammer discusses the paintings and drawings from his Axis Mundi series, which debuted in his solo exhibition at Firecat Projects in February 2012.
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United We Flow
Jason discusses his 80-foot exterior mural, United We Flow, commissioned by the city of Chicago in Rogers Park.
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Music by Free the Robots
A Word From Tony Fitzpatrick
Artist Tony Fitzpatrick talks about his Chicago gallery, Firecat Projects, and artist Jason Brammer. Also shows footage from Jason Brammer's opening reception on February 24th, 2012 for his solo show at the Firecat Projects.
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Jason Brammer: Chicago Visual Artist
A short film about Chicago painter, visual artist, and muralist Jason Brammer. Features interviews with Brammer, his Time Machines series, a site-specific installation, a look inside his studio, live painting, and more.
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Barack Obama Stands by His Correct Pick of Omar Little As the Best Wire Character
He is right.
Omar Little is the best Wire character of all-time, according to Barack Obama. The Commander-in-Chief's Omar Little fandom has been on the books since 2008, when he said "he's not my favorite person, but he's a fascinating character," and President Obama recently reaffirmed his position on the matter. On the most recent episode of The B.S. Report, and after some solid sports banter, Bill Simmons asked the president about the Great Wire Question of Character Supremacy. "It's got to be Omar, right? I mean, that guy is unbelievable," Obama said. "I mean, what a combination. And that was one of the best shows of all-time." We can now consider this hotly debated issue completely settled. Team McNulty and Team Stringer Bell, please lick your wounds accordingly.


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Sometimes you just need a "do over" and credit building credit cards can provide that much needed second chance
When many people think about needing to apply for credit building credit cards, they don't think it's a situation they will ever find themselves in. After all, they think to themselves, I'm a responsible person. I pay my bills on time. My credit rating will always be perfect!
Well, as many people have found out over the course of the economic crisis that our country has faced and is still facing, being a responsible person is not enough to guarantee that you will never face financial hardship. No, things often come into play which take you by surprise, and before you know it, your credit rating is shot.
So, what should you do about that? Sit around and feel sad and depressed and lethargic because you lost something that was important to you, and your life is more difficult now? Well, sure, there is some grieving involved, and plenty of frustration. But once you've let yourself experience that, it's time to make a plan that will mitigate all the negative things that have happened in your life and in your financial situation, and let you move back to a place where you are fully in control, not only of your finances but of your entire life.
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They usually have a limit that is restrictively low, normally under $300. In this way there is very little risk to the lender of losing a lot of money in case it turns out that you don't repay the balance charged on the card, but it's actually a nice safety net for the user as well. There is no way that you can wake up one morning and find out that you have succumbed to the temptation of charging thousands of dollars on your card -- it simply can't happen.
Another way that these cards are not exactly ideal for the mainstream consumer is that many times they are secured, which means that you have to put down a deposit -- many times in an amount equal to the amount that you will be charging to the card -- before you can begin making credit charges to the account. Again, this is to mitigate the risk of the lender. And although it may seem pointless to get a credit card where you are only charging up to an amount that you already had in the bank, remember the point of this credit building credit card is simply to recoup your credit score -- nothing more, nothing less. It's important to keep that goal in mind at all times, otherwise you may become frustrated with the restrictions you will experience on the card, which will likely be more significant than what you would have experienced in the past with other credit accounts.
Lastly, these accounts will very often have prohibitively high interest rates. Because of this, it is merely another incentive to repay the balance on the card in its entirety each and every month. In this way, you will never need to experience the negative effects of the very high interest rate, and additionally you will be making great payments every single month, on time, and these payments will be reported to the credit bureaus. Every single timely payment that you make on the high risk credit card that you've been approved for is a good mark on your credit score, showing that you are ever more trustworthy, and raising that numerical score little by little, bit by bit.
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First of all, because of the fact that the risk is so low to the lender, they are quite a bit easier to get approved for than other types of credit cards. In fact, if your credit is bad enough, these will likely be the only types of credit cards that you will have a hope of being approved for. Still, it is great that you actually can be approved for any type of credit card with credit ratings that low, because using a credit card is exactly what you need to do in order to raise those ratings. The more you use the card responsibly, the better your chance of being approved for a credit account in the future that has much more desirable terms. It's all up to you.
Secondly, these credit rebuilding credit cards are a way to re-acclimate yourself into the world of using credit responsibly. You can start small with them. Charge little things like a tank of gas or your weekly groceries, things are already worked into your budget as "needing to be paid."
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Saturday, June 07, 2008
June 6 is National Doughnut Day: Beignets New Orleans-style
Beignets from scratch
Spending my last afternoon of vacation just sitting on my ass, I decided that I could be more productive with my ass-sitting by injecting my ass-sitting activities with some ass-growing assistance. In a fortuitous twist of fate, I heard it through the grapevine that June the 6th is National Doughnut Day. And so for the sake of ass-sitting/ass-growing multitasking (and perhaps fueled at a subconscious level by my hosting of two Canadians at my house the previous night), I decided to celebrate this great day by making donuts.
But which donuts to make? I've always loved how airy Krispy Kreme donuts are, and I knew that they make yeast-raised donuts, as opposed to the cake donuts common at Dunkin Donuts (which are painfully absent in California). But for today, I decided beignets were right. Donuts need not have holes after all.
My trusty Joy of Cooking by Rombauch and Becker, et al. had a recipe for beignets that called for butter and four eggs. Additionally, I found several recipes online, most notably this one at the New Orleans Cuisine Blog. These were two very different approaches to the beignet-- the Rombauchs' recipe would no doubt be cakier and denser. And the NOLA Cuisine Blog recipe would be fluffier. I chose the latter-- I like the fluff. My only change was an increase in the required sugar because I like my donut dough on the sweeter side.
And just in case those flopped, I also got a box of the famous New Orleans Cafe du Monde beignet mix as an emergency backup.
I invited Elsa and Sean over so that I could have companions in my celebration, and so that I could have people around to keep me from eating all the donuts myself and passing out in the kitchen, waking up in the morning on the floor with powdered sugar all over me.
1 packet active dry yeast
3/4 cup warm water (110 degrees F)
1/3 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
1 egg, beaten
1/2 cup evaporated milk
3 1/2 - 3 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/8 Cup Shortening
About 2 -3 inches of vegetable oil in a saucepan
Loads of powdered sugar
I won't reproduce the instructions anymore as they can be found in the blog post I refer to above. It seemed in the end that my donut dough didn't flop. And I found myself with a boxful of Cafe du Mond beignet mix unopened. I decided to make those anyway so that I could compare the homemade to the mix. The ones I made from scratch were definitely fluffier and plumper. But they also tasted yeasty. Maybe if I switched to a different yeast I could lose the sour undertones produced by the yeast, and I'll have to look into that in the future. The cakemix donuts were also tasty and did not have the yeasty flavor. They were also less sweet. I don't know which ones I prefer. My from-scratch beignets I feel more warmth towards because I pored over them, urging the yeast to bubble and froth, but the New Orleans French Market Cafe Du Monde beignets made me want to have crawdads and okra. So in the end, it's a toss-up.
All told, I think I ate about a dozen donuts in the past twelve hours. I have powdered sugar all over my clothes and all over my kitchen and I'm still sitting on my ass.
Cake-mix beignets
6 comments:
- Dawn said...
I'm so ready to eat those. I am such a lover of good, big-time donuts. You have captured my heart with these little gems.
I live on cape cod and there is nooooooo donut shops here. And Dunkin Donuts? Umm ick.
I swear I can smell that powdered sugar from waaaay over here.
Thanks for sharing.
- My Sweet & Saucy said...
Boy do these look yummy! Pillows of deliciousness!
You seem to have forgotten the "e" at the end of Cafe du Monde...
- bagel said...
Dunkin Donuts were a source of comfort for my friends and me when we had no place to hang out after every other suburban establishment closed for the night when I was growing up.
Laura-- thanks for correcting me.
- JennDZ - The Leftover Queen said...
Oh good God, those are so beautiful Mike! YUM. There is nothing better in the world then a hot beignet and chicory coffee cafe au lait. It is the total bomb!
looks amazingggg :-) but can you tell me how you made them?
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The TSSA once again welcomes the opportunity
to contribute to the Sub-Committee's work.
We set out our evidence as per the headings
(reproduced in bold type) in the Committee's press notice (04/2001-01,
25th September 2001).
1. The desirability of an independent audit
prior to signing the contracts to ensure value for money
The TSSA has consistently argued for an independent
audit prior to signing the 30-year PPP contracts for the following
2. How much information about the precise
nature of the contracts should be made public before they are
It has been a regrettable fact that the vital
public debate on the PPP has been impoverished because the Government
has suppressed the information needed for informed evaluation.
It is salient to note that Lord Cullen's second
Ladbroke Grove report published this month concluded that during
the mainline Refranchising process the HSE should receive full
details of the proposed bids[2].
TSSA safety reps have consistently commented to us that because
so much information is deemed as "commercially sensitive"
they have been denied the information they need to contribute
to the PPP evaluation process. Because of the potentially adverse
consequences of inadequately informing front-line staff in their
safety consultations we believe there is an overwhelming argument
for full and candid disclosure of contract details without prejudicing
legitimate commercial confidentiality. Restricting information
only to the HSE, despite their professionalism and integrity will
be insufficient to allay the justifiable concerns of trade union
Health and Safety representatives.
3. The allocation of risk between the public
and private sectors
The Funding London Underground (Financial
Myths and Economic Realities) report[3]
concluded that financial risk transfer was incomplete and the
GLA/Mayor will have responsibility for meeting the majority of
the outstanding debt if a PPP company has its contract terminatedie
the bank debt.
The public sector and the taxpayer are still
ultimately financially liable because it is not credible that
a government will permit a vital public utility to fail. This
reality compromises the market disciplines that the private sector
can allegedly introduce.
4. The opportunities to adjust the contracts
after they have been signed; and the role of arbitration in the
event of dispute over the contracts
Obviously it is vital with 30-year contracts
that they possess the flexibility to allow for changing circumstances
and priorities, though we note that the mainline experience has
demonstrated that "contract culture" has resulted in
cost inflation, operational rigidity and continuous disputes over
responsibilities and jurisdictions.
It is also essential that LUL, perhaps via the
Secretary of State has sovereignty and possesses the power to
settle disputes in the public interest.
5. Regulation following the signing of the
contracts and the expected relationship between Transport for
London and the infrastructure companies, and how to ensure proper
accountability for the Underground system
For LUL to be satisfied that the work that is
needed to maintain, renew and enhance the network is being done
to the correct standards they will have to monitor and audit Infraco
activities thoroughly. This will be bureaucratic and costly, but
because the PPP necessitates contractual relationships rather
than managerial control, regrettably this will be imperative.
However, effective regulation will be problematic. We suspect
that this process will divert funds from maintenance, renewal
or enhancement into an excessively bureaucratic processif
LUL management have devolved responsibility to the Infraco will
they have the engineering and technical expertise in the future
to effectively assess an Infraco's plans or it's work? Will LUL
have to duplicate this expertise to enable them to supervise the
Infraco's, if not how can they realistically "control"
It remains to be seen if the Infraco's will
be flexible and allow TfL the discretion and power to direct
the work as they see fit.
TfL/LUL must formulate medium term strategies
for service delivery and agree the programmes of work with the
Infracos. Achieving these service delivery strategies will determine
Infraco performance and ensure their accountability only if these
plans and their progress are also publicly advisable.
6. Setting and enforcing performance targets
for London Underground
In the long-term LUL must provide sufficient
services to the growing patronage and passenger demands (punctuality,
frequency, reliability and comfort). This is very challenging
and obviously requires expanding capacity.
Therefore in the medium term LUL should state
how they intend to meet provide present levels of optimum services
(in consultation with TfL/passenger and employee representatives)
and what resources will be needed to deliver this. The strategy
will direct the work that the Infraco's must provide. LUL will
then be judged on how well the system provides the services that
LUL calculated where necessary (see above).
One of the problems will be that LUL's performance
is ultimately dependent on the Infracos but their control will
be indirect. Mainline fragmentation has proved the dangers of
splitting the vertical integration of a railway and we support
Mr Kiley's contention that PPP will compromise "unified management
control" which is a prerequisite for the most efficient and
safety system.
7. Increasing capacity within the existing
network, extending the network and integration within and between
transport modes in London
We believe that PPP will not increase the capacity
of the network sufficiently to satisfy London's commuters and
According to the Government the PPP will commit
£13 billion over 15 years, and to put this into historical
context official past investment expenditure investment figures
are reproduced below.
Source Transport for London (1999-2000 prices).
Four issues emerge. Firstly £13 billion over 15-years
appears only to replicate recent spending levels and this seems
an inadequate figure to enhance a system given that recent spending
cannot even maintain it. Secondly, the government's own analysis
reveal that just 55 per cent, or £7.15 billion, of that will
actually be spent on maintaining and enhancing the infrastructurethe
balance being diverted to the Infracos and their shareholders[4].
If £13 billion appears to be an inadequate sum, in terms
of meeting passenger expectations and London's economic needs
what will be a real spend of £7.15 billion achive? Thirdly,
according to one recent independent academic report, LUL "is
currently faced with a backlog of £1.2 billion, representing
infrastructure assets (track, signalling, rolling stock etc.)
which are being used beyond their design life[5]".
This analysis is borne out from the latest official figures regarding
the condition of Tubes infrastructure: "Just 12 days ago,
it was revealed that breakdowns on the Tube involving signal points
and track failures reached a record 4,738 during the last 12 months,
according to LU's own figures. The rise of 35 per cent masks the
fact that some lines have seen breakdowns double in the space
of a year[6]." Finally,
with the multiple interfaces created by PPP/fragmentation how
confident are the Sub-Committee that all of this money will actually
be spent on improving LUL's assets rather than increased administration
and bureaucracy? A recent "Rail Business Intelligence"
study concluded that "railway electrification and upgrade
costs which remained constant under British Rail have increased
by two to three times since privatisation" and that the "separation
of responsibilities within London Underground PPP could also introduce
similar cost escalators"[7].
The Government's much welcome 10-year Transport Plan envisages
significant expenditure and enhancement for the mainline. Unfortunately
since its privatisation in July 2000 the privatised railway has
been buffeted by continuing crisis and the financial collapse
of Railtrack and the scepticism of the City mean it is unrealistic
that the private sector will contribute as planned to rebuilding
the railway. The lesson for LUL and the Government is that for
the Underground public funds must be spent on increasing capacity
significantly over the coming years because the private sector,
for all it's virtues lacks the ability to commit to such huge
long-term projects that are vital for national prosperity.
8. Industrial relations
The TSSA is highly concerned over the current state of industrial
relations but believes we can engage seriously and constructively
with LUL on the vital issue of improved human resource strategies
that must be aligned to clear corporate objectives based on customer
This means serious investment in training and developing
all its staff, including the further implementation of equality
policies. This process must be audited and not simply be about
achieving IiP status. If the investment in training and development
is genuine and effective it will result in changed staff behaviour
throughout all the levels of the organisation. This changed behaviour
will manifest itself in improved managerial and supervisory skills
combined with enhanced competencies and the framework for achieving
this will be the training, development and equality policies that
LUL must devise and implement in consultation with the trade unions.
The TSSA could facilitate this process because whilst our
duty is to promote our members interests we recognise that our
members will prosper best within an LUL that is truly customer
focused and that invests properly in its most important asset,
its people.
There seems to have been a deteriorating relationship between
LUL, ASLEF and the RMT which have resulted in industrial action
which is not in the best interests of either the passengers or
staff. We believe it is imperative that the Capital, its people
and its economy can operate without damaging disruption.
9. Passenger and staff safety
Firstly we believe that passenger and staff safety is indivisible.
Secondly, our health and safety representatives passionately believe
that PPP will be less safe than the current vertically integrated
system. We state this because:
We believe that the PPP potentially repeats the problems
experienced by the discredited national rail system of increased
bureaucracy, fragmentation and poorer communication. Many commentators
are sceptical that such a system is in the best interests of either:
Lord Cullen's second report has highlighted the concerns
over separating infrastructure control from maintenance and renewal.
TSSA members are deeply concerned how contractors will be effectively
managed. LUL is rightly proud of their safety management system,
but the question that needs to be answered is, will PPP provide
a better structure for that system to operate in?
Legally we do not dispute that quite rightly, safety responsibility
remains with LUL under the PPP. However, that illustrates the
basic deficiency of PPPit confuses "responsibility"
and "control". If responsibility stays with LUL this
implies that the Infraco's are not responsible, but if there is
an accident, incident or problem there is therefore scope for
the very "territorial dispute" that LUL claim is not
possible. The fundamental question is, does LUL have real safety
responsibility and control under PPPsimply, will PPP be
safer and more efficient than a non-fragmented unified system?
The Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry Part 2 Report, paragraph 9.102. Back
Funding London Underground (Financial Myths and Economic Realities)
Gaffney et al-February 2000. Back
Guardian-"Railtrack collapsed because of PPP. So
why is the government still forcing it on the tube" (12 October
2001). Back
Funding London Underground-Financial Myths and Economic Realities
(Gaffney, Shaoul & Pollock) February 2000. Back
Evening Standard-"PPP protest as court battle starts"
(23 July 2001). Back
Rail Business Intelligence ("Historic Cost shows `privatisation
inflation' "), 28 June 2001. Back


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BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- A trailer broke loose from its SUV Friday night on Interstate 64, causing an accident just east of the Huntington Mall exit.
It happened just before 8 p.m. near the 22-mile marker. Police said an SUV was pulling the trailer when the bolt came loose and the trailer disconnected.The trailer flew into a hillside, and the SUV hit the cable barrier in the middle of the interstate. I-64 was closed for a short time so the roadway could be cleared.
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In remarks on the Senate floor today today, Sen. Sessions addressed the Democrat-led Senate's failure to put forward a budget for the past three years. Sessions argued that no elected official should call for higher taxes until they're willing to stand behind a budget plan that lays out taxing and spending priorities for working Americans' tax dollars.
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It Rained (1996)
Israel's rainy season has just begun. Rain is a blessing and we pray for it to flood into our reservoirs, to fill our lakes and ponds, and to soak the fields after the hot dry summer.Last night we were hit with a series of lightning-packed cloudbursts of driving rain. The electricity went out, the streets and traffic lights went dark. Without computers I couldn't select a golden oldie or write a posting for today so I went to bed. By morning the on and off electricity failures had ended (as had the rain) and the next-door neighbor guy stopped by to see if OUR phones were dead.With little time to research and locate an oldie that would relate to the political situation, I decided to just pick a 'toon that was published on this very date.Obviously I lucked out.
This cartoon was published exactly 30 years ago today. On October 26, 1976.It rained.
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I am not a big band fan. My ears live almost exclusively between the one and the nine. But there are exceptions to every rule, except perhaps for this one. Tonight I am listening to Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchestra: New Works. This is a superb album, as good perhaps as Blues and the Abstract Truth.
It is what classical music people would call a concerto. Why aren't there more valve trombone players? This music builds its own venue: soft blue lights, a table with a drink or two, just off the stage. There is just you, your love, the orchestra, and Brookmeyer. All that resolves into a dialogue between your heart and the cage in which it beats.
If you don't have this disc, you have a hole in your collection. Here is a sample.
Bob Brookmeyer and the New Art Orchestra/Celebration Slow Dance/New Works


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- Sight: use colored fabric to drape over lampshades or place a mirror strategically.
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DRAMA CLUB: Angel Eyes Episodes 5-6 (1/2)
Welcome back K-drama fans. The Angel Eyes Drama Club is glad to be with you guys once again as the stations start airing our favorite shows again. Did you give any new shows a try the last few weeks while we waited? I certainly did. This week saw a lot of pushing and pulling between our love birds.
Suspicions and discoveries mark most of episodes 5 and 6. It's easy to get lost in the love story of Dong Joo and Soo Wan that we might not pay as much attention to our secondary stories. Thanks to Teddy and his red pajamas (laughter) I just had to give them a little attention.
Due to the upsetting events taking place in South Korea with the passengers of the capsized ferry, the entertainment industry decided to not release any new episodes in respect for those who are in mourning. We here at the Angel Eyes Drama Club also send our warmest prayers and condolences to the families during this difficult time.
Let's get started with our conflicted parents shall we? Long time friends and business partners at the hospital, they are currently pending in-laws, but all is not well in Wonderland. The Mom, played by Jung Ae Ri is not really all that thrilled with having Soo Wan as a daughter in law. She was her doctor who did the eye surgery, she knows her inside and out and while she loves her as a niece, she wants someone with a little more prestige for her son, who she has plans for. She doesn't like that Dong Joo keeps showing up her son. Having the Chancellor offer to introduce his daughter I'm sure thrilled her with its possibilities.
The Dad, played by Jung Jin Young, has finally come clean with Dong Joo about why he withheld the information about our lovebirds. Both find themselves in agreement that Soo Wan should never know about whose eyes she has. The Dad quickly buys a plane ticket for Joo Wan to get him out of there before anyone finds out who he is. Dong Joo doesn't want to go, but he doesn't have a good reason to stay either.
Our hapless detectives. Kim Woo Chul, retired, currently estranged from his wife and family and living life as a useless bum. Up to this point, I believe he was ruined by whoever didn't want to be discovered as the owner of the hit and run. It's hard when one's life is ruined because you didn't keep your nose short. He currently feels like he's let Dong Joo down because he never solved the case.
Cha Min Soo, Soo Wan's best friend and owner of a mean right hook. She has appointed herself as caretaker of Woo Chul and keeps him from completely falling into the gutter. She is in the unenviable task of being someone EVERYONE feels they can talk to and unload on. I imagine she will become the owner of all the secrets as this series progresses. Let's just hope our shadowy bad guy doesn't try to ruin her as well.
BLACKMAIL!! Our Dad is in a rough spot. Someone saw him try to kill Jung Hwa and now can cause a lot of trouble. Right now all he wants is money, but I don't see this playing out well. It doesn't matter that he did try to save her in the end. We all have those momentary lapses of good judgment. Its just inconvenient when they get observed by someone who has no reason to be understanding. Is our blackmailer in any way connected to our killer?
Poor Ji Woon. It's hard to not like someone you'd just love to hate but is so darn adorable, you just can't. Dong Joo doesn't really want to like this guy but he's too decent to screw over. If anyone less upstanding and warm was engaged to Soo Wan, I have no doubt Dong Joo would have stepped in. Our Ji Woon is in a tough situation. He's head over heels for a girl whose pining for someone else and his mom wants him to raise his status with a "proper" marriage. Unlike most characters suffering from Second Male Lead Syndrome, he is not passive and brotherly. He's actively pursuing the girl he's in love with and engaged to. He is not taking anything for granted because he knew he was fighting an uphill battle against the mysterious "first love" when he got started.
Somebody is missing their grandma a little too much. I am so thankful for Teddy. Unlike romantic comedies, melodramas are a little short in the humor department. Thankfully, the writers have given us our adorable maknae EMT who can't help but be funny. Seung Ri does a great job giving us reasons to laugh and smile as he plays our Korean American who doesn't quite understand Korean culture and phrases. This scene with the red pajamas cracked me up. I laughed so hard. I know you miss your grandmother, but WHY would you put the resuscitation dummy in the pajamas?!! The Chief screaming when he saw him just slayed me. You know this is going to follow Seung Ri for awhile? I wonder how many fans are going to be sending him silk pajamas? (wink) Lacking family can be hard and I'm glad the Chief allows Teddy to come join in some family time with his son.
This is just a little taste of some of the under currents going on in Angel Eyes. Join us in the next article as Tanya and Gina join me and we hash out what we liked and didn't like in our love story this week. Tell in the comments what you think of our secondary characters? Did you laugh as much as I did when you saw that dummy wearing the pajamas? What new dramas did you discover while we were waiting for new episodes?
You can see more from your Angel Eyes Drama Club on their blogs or on Twitter:
Wendilynn: @WendilynnK/As The Kimchi Turns
Miss a post? Catch up on past Angel Eyes Drama Club posts:
Episodes 1-2: [Part 1] [Part 2]
Episodes 3-4: [Part 1] [Part 2]
Episodes 5-6 [Part1]


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Key Secrets to Finding Perfect Christmas Gifts
Christmas is around the corner and it is probably time for you to go shopping for Read about christmas gift for men so you can make your family members happy on Christmas day. Are you having problem with Christmas gift ideas this year? This short article can assist you in purchasing some awesome gifts.
There is a notion among the people that a Christmas gift needs to be costly. They are actually ignoring the true spirit of this occasion. This is a time for you to give gifts and share; whether the gift is costly or cheap matters not; the spirit is important.
If you are having a hard time choosing the right gift this Christmas then you can try one of these gift ideas:
Gift certificates. Gift cards have become a very popular trend of shopping these days. GCs are regarded as wonderful gifts for many reasons. The topmost is that you can mail them easily. If you have several relatives living across town or abroad then you can just send the GCs by mail. The best thing about GCs is that the receiver can use them to buy anything he wants to; and it doesn't take lots of time in buying a GC to give it to someone you love.
Flowers and Cards. These are surely one of the most popular gifts for any event. It's not like you're going to spend more than $200 for a bouquet of roses and one greeting card; they come really cheap so you don't need to worry particularly if you are on a limited budget. You can also add some sweets; chocolates match the whole flower-card thing.
Clothing and Gadgets. You need to be intimate with the other person to give them these kinds of gifts. You need to know their color choice as well as their design choice. You also need to know their size and their style in the case of clothing. For gadgets, they can become very costly. There is a wide selection of gadgets that you can gift to someone on this occasion. A gadget would cost you around $250 to $600 depending on what you choose.
Gift Baskets. Christmas baskets are yet another terrific christmas gifts that several people use. A couple of weeks before Christmas, you can start seeing baskets being sold at supermarkets and shopping malls. These baskets include a selection of things such as cookies, fruits and even household items. Whilst it's always a good idea to just purchase a ready-made Gift basket you can probably save more by preparing your own. This gives you the freedom to choose what to pack in the basket. To pack the gift basket, you may use a shrink wrap then blow-dry to make the basket appear lovely and interesting.
Whichever Christmas gift you choose to purchase for your loved ones keep in mind that it's always the thought that matters. They will certainly value any type of gift you'll be giving them but if you really wish to make an effort and give them the best gift for this occasion then you can just choose from any of the things mentioned above.


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I'm one of those people who rarely watches "American Idol," but every now and then I'll follow the spats that come out of the show.
Ever since Nicki has joined, they just keep getting better. Pitting her against Mariah is an endless delight of divas and egos and old-school versus new-school chart relevance.
(I will also say that Nicki is the first and only artist I've ever discovered because a Brooklyn N train filled with teenagers were rapping her songs together in 2007, and I asked who it was and went home and googled "Nikki Menois." A few years later, she blew the fuck up. If you ever want to find the tastemakers, it's the 14-year-old girls in Brooklyn, man.)
So her latest controversial delight is feuding with Billy Bush who accused her of being negative and unprofessional on Twitter after she blew off his colleague Laura Saltman on the red carpet.
Nicki responded by Twitter, and then today, I watched as Bush shook his head at her behavior some more and threw around terms like "bully."
No way. Nicki is a genius performance artist to me, and I've never seen a performer like her -- she's one of the wittiest female artists to emerge in the last few years, and this latest fight is just making me like her more.
What are your thoughts? And what is your favorite Minaj song? Mine is "Roman Holiday."
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Talk about a steal. Thanks to what I can only assume was a massive screw up, a fan was able to purchase a ticket to Game 1 of the World Series for only $6 on StubHub on Monday. The buyer sent Deadspin a copy of his email confirmation for proof:
The ticket itself was only $3 with the StubHub service fee accounting for the other $3. Pretty sweet deal. The best available price for that section -- Right Field Box 97 -- is $759.00 right now, with most tickets over $850 and closer to $1,000. Here is the obligatory seating map:
Someone really, really screwed up. I'm guessing they misplaced a decimal point, but even in that case the ticket was either way underpriced ($300.00?) or way overpriced ($3,000.00?). I legitimately feel bad for the seller, assuming this was a mistake and not just an act of kindness.
If I was the buyer, I'd resell the ticket for a massive profit, then buy a ticket in a lower priced section and pocket whatever was leftover. But that's just me and I'm kind of a jerk.
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Objectively creative is the idea of being able to honestly look at your creation, be it a comic book, a game, a script, anything you are creating on your own and putting it to the test to see if it is 'good' or not.
Hello Folks,
This is Dwayne, a freelance artist from North Carolina United States, specialized in concept art and illustration. For the past few months I have been working on a personal project that I plan to launch in a few months. In the course of doing this I have come across the idea of objectively creative.
What is that?
Objectively creative is the idea of being able to honestly look at your creation, be it a comic book, a game, a script, anything you are creating on your own and putting it to the test to see if it is 'good' or not. Now, what is 'good' is highly subjective and we all know, what is one man's trash is another's treasure, but I have found there are a few questions you can ask yourself as you move forward with you idea to see if you are blind to its flaws.
1: Does the story matter to you?
This boils down to passion. If you are creating a story, does the story matter to you? Do you have a great idea about a kid who plays basketball and dreams of going pro? But you hate sports, never actually watched more than 20 minutes of basketball in your life and if pressed couldn't name 5 NBA players outside of Michael Jordan? Then maybe this is not the right story for you.
Far too often we as creators are struck with a really great idea, but it is not 'in your wheel house', but because the idea feels like a good idea, we try it. Very quickly we find we are not enjoying it, we are just going through the motions and in a few weeks or months we hate the project and it begins to suffer until you just stop.
That said, maybe you can find a way to make it work. Maybe he wants to be a pro because it was a promise he made to his dying grandfather. Then it becomes less a basketball story and more of a family drama or personal growth story. If that is more your thing you can make it work. Just make sure the story matters to YOU.
2: Is it YOUR story or your VERSION of another story?
Far too often we see this. You are a fan of Batman (for example) and you have this GREAT idea, what if Batman sold his soul on the night his family died to be a hero and became Batman, a man who is part bat, and to become a hero the devil unleashed a bunch of villains. You think this is a GREAT hook. But, you know DC would never allow you to do this to their character, so you change a few names and bam, creator owned!
But be honest, is this your idea, or your version of their idea? Sure, the hook may be cool, but if people WANT Batman, they will buy Batman, not a version of Batman.
While it is true that there are few wholly original ideas out there, it is the job of the creator to be original as you CAN BE. If you can look at your story and HONESTLY drop another pre-existing character into the role and nothing need change, then the story needs to change.
Sure, you can start with an idea from an existing thing, but then, turn it on its head. I had the thought one day, "Batman wears his suit to scare the bad guys. But, outside of the petty criminal, none of the bad guys seem scared, at least not enough to stop. Even the Penguin is not scared enough to give up his umbrella. WHAT IF… there was a hero that was so brutal and scary that bad guys WERE scared of him? What if he has the power level of Superman and the morals of the Punisher? What if there was a hero that would kill a bad guy on sight, because anyone willing to dress up and wreck havoc on the world is probably not going to change his ways after a stint in prison. Odds are, the bad guys would team up. They would not worry too much about their crimes but be more interesting in killing the hero. And I think telling the story from the bad guy's pov would be better because then the hero would be more like Jaws. This scary killer that just shows up out of nowhere to kill you.
While this idea started on Batman, it became something very different. And you drop Batman into the main role, he would have to be radically changed.
3: Be honest, is it interesting?
Look at the whole package, the characters, the story, the theme, the tropes, the pacing, the way in which you plan to release it, everything, and ask, is it interesting? If there is any part that is not, get rid of it. Even if you love that part. Lose it or change it. If there is a few things that are not interesting, maybe the story is not for you or just not that good. Maybe you just had a cool hook but the story around it falls apart. Scrap it and start over.
4: Not JUST for your eyes.
This is a big one, don't create in a vacuum. It is far too easy to work on an idea and be sure it is perfect. You are so close to it; so much of it is perfect in your head, that you can't see the flaws. Have a few people you can go to who will be honest with you, who understand the genre and medium you are working in, who understand story and ask for their feedback. Agree that they are to pull NO punches. They are to tell you straight out, if something is wrong and why.
This is invaluable. You must have a fresh pair of eyes on what you are doing so you can see if it works for the world, or just for you.
5: Is there a market?
This is the tough one. Is there a market? Is there a group of people who will part with their time and or money for this idea?
Sure, there IS a market of pretty much everything. SOMEONE will love your idea. But is there enough? If there are 3 people who LOVE your idea and that is it, is that enough? Maybe for you it is. But if you want this to become something that you can sustain for a while, even grow into a business; you MUST have a decent sized market.
Horror is one of the biggest markets out there. So you may think your story about a zombie that learns to play the flute and finds it mellows him out and he can live on just raw beef as he tries to become a respected star will be welcomed with open arms. But, that is not horror. Sure, you have a zombie, but the STORY is about someone who struggles to fit into a world they are not a part of but uses his gift to pave the way. That is not horror and horror fans won't really flock to it. Sure, some will. But most won't. Just as fans of the indy world who LOVE this type of story may be turned off by the zombie lead. So a few horror fans and a few indy fans may love it. Odds are it finding a huge market will be hard.
But if you target, you WANT the horror fans, then amp up the horror. Find a way to make it market friendly. It is SO important to know WHO you want your audience to be. And sell to them. Yes, you CAN sell to two or more sections, but you have to make sure each section feels as if what they are looking for is met. So really seek to know what they want and find a way to make your work something they HAVE to have.
So now, look at your work and ask, is it objectively original? If it is, then start building that audience!
Now go create.
Dwayne Biddix
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About Berington Club
Berington Club is a deed restrictred community consisting of 134 homes, located in the unincorporated area of Sanford, in Seminole County, Florida, west of Interstate 4 and south of State Route 46. The roadways and the common areas in the community are owned by the association, and the single entrance is controlled by a gate access system.
Wilson Elementary School is directly across the street from the community, allowing the neighborhood kids to walk to school. Seminole Towne Center Mall is a three or four minute drive across the interstate, and many residents ride their bikes down the trail to the Colonial Towne Center shopping district for lunch and a movie. In addition, being located half way between the "World Famous" Daytona Beach and all of the Orlando attractions means that there is always something to do.


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Iva Kafri, Rappaport Prize laureate for young Israeli Artist 2013, "Continuity" exhibition at RawArt Gallery.
Kafri presents paintings she had created over the last three years – paintings on which she worked parallel to the aforementioned painting installations. "Continuity" focuses on Kafri's continuous studio work, displaying paintings that encapsulate her insights regarding space and movement, manifested in a more immediate way in her three-dimensional painting installations.
Most of the paintings in the exhibition are diptychs – artworks consisting of two panels that are placed side by side, but never merge. This historical painting format holds various tensions and conflicting forces, which Kafri uses and plays with in her paintings: repetition and difference, division and connection, disruption and continuity, signification and narrative, opening and closing, plurality and selection, as well as verticality and horizontality. The diptych, of which the split screen is a contemporary manifestation, is an emblem of dispersed attention. But, at the same time, by allowing parallel and simultaneous occurrences, it intensifies a certain instant in time and space, constantly demanding us, the spectators, to focus and make choices.
The diptych in Kafri's work functions as an element of disruption and airiness, and it allows for the insertion of snippets of reality into the painting's surface. In front of each of the paintings, we are faced with a complex whole that draws us to alternately focus on its different parts. Similary to this viewing process, Kafri's continuous painting process is composed of critical moments of observation, selection and action. One after the other, the painterly gestures, the collagistic cutting and pasting, and the insertion of printed images accumulate. They form relations, and assemble constellations resulting from observation, decision and action.
In her paintings, Kafri's employs gestures of organization and association, side by side with more organic gestures of corporal movement. Her works offer us different paths to walk in and various spaces to delve in. The issues that emerge from her paintings are characteristic of contemporary painting – questions of speed and scale, directly confronting the accelerated changes taking place in contemporary visual culture. In this sense, the paintings could also be read in the context of the information age or internet era, and of the ideological transformations occurring all around us in relation to visual knowledge, its organization and distribution.
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Austrian filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter casts an unblinking gaze on the food-processing industry in Europe with this sharp documentary. Across continental locations, fruit and vegetables are picked, crops harvested, fish gutted, pigs eviscerated, cows slaughtered… And in these fields and abattoirs, human beings calmly go about their jobs. Shot on high-definition video by Geyrhalter himself, Our Daily Bread dispenses with any voice-overs or talking heads, relying on ambient sound. The precisely composed result urges us to ponder the origins of the foodstuffs we wolf down each day.
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Madoqua kirkii
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Madoqua kirkii (Günther, 1880)
Common Name(s):
Madoqua damarensis (Günther, 1880)
|Taxonomic Notes:
|Molecular evidence (Kumamoto et al. 1994, Kingswood and Kumamoto 1997) strongly suggests that Madoqua kirkii, as traditionally recognized, is a complex of species, comprising what may effectively represent four distinct species: M. damarensis in Namibia and Angola, and three species, M. cavendishi, M. kirkii and M. thomasi in East Africa (see Brotherton 2013 for review). We provisionally continue to recognize a single species (as per Grubb 2005), recognizing this may require reviewing in the near future.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group
|Hoffmann, M. & Mallon, D.
The species is not currently close to meeting any threshold for threatened status. It remains widespread and locally common throughout much of its historical distribution, and is present in a number of protected areas. If current trends continue, the conservation status of Kirk's Dik-dik is unlikely to deteriorate. It should persist in the long term in large numbers in extensive areas of Kenya, Tanzania and Namibia.
The same status would be likely to apply to all the currently named subspecies.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Kirk's Dik-dik occurs in two separate regions: East Africa, from southern Somalia to central Tanzania and in Southern Africa from northern Namibia and adjoining parts of south-western Angola (East 1999, Brotherton 2013).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Angola; Kenya; Namibia; Somalia; Tanzania, United Republic of; Uganda
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|Population density estimates of Kirk's Dik-dik were reviewed by Kingswood and Kumamoto (1997), East (1999) and Brotherton (2013). East (1999) produced a total population estimate of 971,000 animals and suggested its total numbers may be in the hundreds of thousands or even millions. The population trend is stable over large parts of the range, but is decreasing in some densely settled areas. Site densities reported range from 24/km2 in Serengeti NP to 109/km2 in Tsavo East (Brotherton 2013).
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|It occurs in a wide variety of mainly arid habitats, from dense thorn scrub to thickets and open woodland; also found on rocky hills in savanna habitats, riverine woodland and wetter areas in W Kenya and Tanzania (Brotherton 2013).
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|There are no obvious major threats to Kirk's Dik-dik, although they have been affected by the expansion of agricultural settlement and excessive hunting in some areas (East 1999). However, their ability to exist in scrub and over-grazed areas has made their populations resilient to the vegetation changes that have accompanied human population growth, and may have even favoured them in the short-term (Brotherton 2013).
|Conservation Actions:
|The range of Kirk's Dik-dik includes protected areas Samburu, Meru, Tsavo, Masai Mara, Amboseli and Lake Nakuru National Parks (Kenya), Serengeti, Arusha, Tarangire and Mkomazi (Tanzania) and Etosha NP (Namibia). It is also common on private farmland in Namibia (East 1999). The most urgent research action required is a thorough evaluation of the taxonomic status of the identified cytotypes; if these are confirmed to represent distinct species, then the status of the various forms will require reassessment.
|IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group. 2016. Madoqua kirkii. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T12670A50190709. . Downloaded on 19 August 2018.
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