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I was really excited about doing a review of the Guiding Light/Marvel Crossover…
… since I've actually watched Guiding Light before, (for most of my life, actually (don't judge me! (too harshly))), so I thought I might be able to add some perspective to any reviews that might possibly be out there, beyond "Boy, that was lame."
That was before I read Tom Spurgeon's minute by minute break down. There's no way I can top that. On any level. Even if he lost interest in reviewing it about 2 minutes in. But I'll still tell you what I thought anyway, just to keep this from being glorified link blogging. I kind of feel obligated, since I'm quite possibly the only overlap in audiences they have for this whole thing.
I haven't read the Marvel half of the crossover yet, and given Paul O'Brian's brief mention of it at the X-Axis, I'm not particularly looking forward to doing so, but the GL half is done entirely tongue in cheek. Which makes sense. Given the already risky proposition of devoting a whole episode of a daytime soap opera to a superhero story, I can see why they'd play it for laughs. Â
They picked the best actress on the show, Beth Ehlers, for the job, as she can be genuinely funny, and she and the rest of the cast get a couple of cute lines in amongst the mountain of puns and the sledgehammer subtlty of the foreshadowing. Her character, Harley, was also the best choice for a superhero amongst the cast, particulary one loosely related to Marvel, as she's got the blue collar background that facilitates the kind of struggle between being a superhero and having a normal life that's a trademark of Marvel Comics. Not that much of that comes through in the actual episode or anything, but in the 5 minutes or so where they tried for pathos, it was there.
The episode was obviously taking its cues from the '60s Batman show with its togue and cheek style, without Adam West's absolute earnestness to balance things out. I can see why they went that direction, given the normal viewing audience. A serious take on the genre would have been a lot worse, I imagine. That doesn't excuse how bad it was, but I can at least understand why they went with that tone, as painfully cheesy as it was at times. Â
I didn't really find it entertaining, as a semi-regular GL viewer, superhero fan, or even a fan of "so bad it's hilarious or at least fun to mock" cinema, which is where Spurgeon and his brother seemed to get their kicks during the episode. Other than the sharp, stabbing pains to my brain that some of the more terrible puns elicited, I didn't hate it, I just couldn't find it entertaining on any level.
Spurgeon pretty much covers the rest my thoughts on the episode itself, from how generic the comic art sprinkled through it to any jokes about soap opera storytelling conventions and the quality of the episode I could make, so I won't be redundant in that regard. I found his closing thoughts on the whole endeavor pretty interesting:
My brother and I concluded this crossover likely failed to satisfy fans of soap operas and fans of superhero comics, if not made them outright angry, because both sets of fans consider the other form frivolous in a way the object of their enthusiasm is not, and a crossover on this basis almost always plays to the more absurd, silly elements
Which ties in to my thoughts when I first head that Marvel was doing a Guiding Light crossover: Why? My mom, a regular viewer of the show (and the person who got me watching it in the first place), got a kick out of it, but how many members of GL's regular demographic really wanted to have an episode of the show devoted to a cornball superhero story? Did they expect an influx of viewers from Marvel's readership? I just don't understand how this benefits either party. I'm genuinely clueless as to why they did this, other than "for shits and giggles." That makes a modicum of sense, but I don't get the feeling that the business people involved in the decision making here have the kind of absurdist sense of humor or frivolity required to make decisions on that basis. I could be wrong, mind you, I just don't get that impression is all. I will allow that the possibility of drugs, alcohol, or a bet of some kind were very likely part of the decision making process here.
I have no problem with trying to grow the audience for comics beyond the current readership. Certainly, Marvel and DC get hammered on this point regularly and deservedly so in a lot of ways. The point's been made many times; Greg even devoted a recent post to it. And hey, if nothing else, points to Marvel for trying to do it with a demographic that no one, anywhere, ever, had thought to market comics to before. I just don't see how there's much of a chance of comics activism, or whatever you want to call this attempt at corporate synergy, working here; the overlap between these two audiences just seems too small, despite the fact that long running super hero serials and soap operas are functionally the same thing on a whole lot of levels.
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Former GOP Senator Alan Simpson: Republicans "Won't Have A Prayer" With "Homophobic" Santorum
The former Wyoming senator is blunt, as usual.
Simpson, noting that he is now a "Romney-man," attacked Santorum's views on homosexuality in particular. He called the candidate "rigid" and "homophobic" and brought up Santorum's infamous comparison of homosexuality and bestiality, saying that, to him, that comment was "startling and borders on disgust."
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At age 12, Julie Scott was the only girl in a boys' hockey team. There were no girls' teams when she was growing up in the 1980s in Guelph, Ontario, but she was determined to play hockey just like her big brother. Buried under padding and sometimes using her brother's old equipment, she proved she was just as good as the boys. Now, almost 30 years later, the head of the sports section at Canadian Press applies the same determination to a male-dominated industry.
Many women in sports journalism acknowledge the skewed gender balance and sexism in the industry but would rather not dwell on these negative aspects. Instead, some female leaders are supporting each other and mentoring the next generation.
There has always been a huge gender gap in sports journalism. According to a 2014 U.S. study by the Women's Media Center, women make up less than 10 percent of journalists in this beat in print and online. This ratio extends beyond the borders of the U.S. and many sports desks continue to be notoriously unbalanced.
Early in Megan Robinson's career, a much older male superior told her that she would never make it because she talks like a girl. That was a decade ago, but she still thinks about it from time to time. Today, the Global sports anchor runs a series called Women at Work on her blog that highlights women in various industries. She wants to give them a platform to discuss challenges they face across all fields, and to unite them through storytelling. Robinson says there were many times when she experienced sexism at work at some of her past jobs. She's been doubted by male colleagues and catcalled in locker rooms. In one post, she links a CBC video of sports reporters speaking out against sexism. The women in the video discuss experiences they've had on the job and why they feel like they can't talk about it. One says, "If you said something, you'd probably be perceived as being weak."
But things are finally starting to change: at four leading Canadian news organizations, women hold some of the highest positions in the sports sections. Scott is the senior editor of the sports-arts-lifestyles section at CP, Jennifer Quinn is the sports editor at the Toronto Star, Shawna Richer is the sports editor at The Globe and Mail and Bev Wake is the senior executive sports producer at Postmedia Network in Vancouver.
These women made it to the top in an industry that is historically overwhelmingly male despite the pitfalls and ingrained sexism that accompany the job. Although there is competition between their news organizations, the women are friends. They meet often—usually when Wake is in Toronto—to have dinner, catch up and encourage each other. "We're a good support system for each other," says Scott.
While it's refreshing to see women at the top in sports journalism, Jan Kainer, a professor at York University in gender, sexuality and women's studies, says it's an anomaly for many professions. The majority of women aren't given leadership opportunities. Kainer's course on women in professions analyzes the way women need to act like men and sound like men in order to be accepted. The way female sports broadcasters speak is distinctly masculine, while their appearances are exaggeratedly feminine. "It's such a contradiction," says Kainer. This is why comments such as "you talk like a girl" can be damaging.
Subtly sexist language can be the most harmful. Robinson is always referred to as a "female sports journalist," while male colleagues are just sports journalists. "It's a subtle way of sorting or reducing," says Rachelle Williams, a freelance writer and intersectional feminist advocate in Toronto. "The problem is that this can delegitimize the work a woman in a field is producing, and make her sex or gender identification more prominent than the actual work she's producing." She says this practice of modifying titles can be seen in other typically male-dominated industries, such as engineering, and can also be applied to people of colour and those with diverse sexual orientations.
Scott and Quinn know they're lucky to work in progressive newsrooms and want to mentor and support other women in the industry. Along with other colleagues, they run Women in Sports Toronto, a networking and mentoring community inspired by their friendship. "We recognize that we're quite lucky to have each other and it's good to share that with other members of our community," says Quinn. Events so far include a panel discussion at Ryerson University and a time for members of the industry—mainly women—to socialize and talk about jobs, applications and story ideas.
At Women in Sports, the focus is on mentoring. Terry Taylor from Associated Press and Jane O'Hara from the Ottawa Sun were pioneers of female sports journalism and women that Scott looked up to and admired. Now, she is able to do the same for others, which she considers the most rewarding part of her job.
Meanwhile, Robinson uses the negative aspects of the job as motivation. "No matter what," she writes in an email, "I have chosen and continue to choose this field every day because I love it and because the stories matter to me."


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- An assortment of different types of shoes (a cowboy boot, a high-heeled pump, a running shoe, a beach sandal, and so forth); or pictures of a variety of different types of shoes
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- Walking in Someone Else's Shoes
- Overhead of quotation from To Kill a Mockingbird
- Make copies of the Walking in Someone Else's Shoes handout.
- Gather your collection of shoes. You might borrow shoes from family, friends, and neighbors to get specimens from many "walks of life."
- Alternately, collect pictures of shoesyou might save catalogs and newspaper ads or search for shoes online. The "Apparel" tab on the Amazon Website can provide a variety of images that you can use as well as descriptions of the shoes.
- Make an overhead of the quotation from To Kill a Mockingbird, or write the quotation on the board or on chart paper.
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Chile continues to be a strong trading partner and export market for U.S. companies, largely due to its open market policies, zero tariffs, stable democratic government, solid business practices, and low corruption. While GDP growth over the last 30 years has averaged 5% per year, the Chilean economy has slowed recently, with just 1.9% growth in 2014 and projected GDP growth of 2.3% in 2015.
As the United States - Chile Free Trade Agreement (FTA) concludes its eleventh year, trade of products and services continues to be a resounding success, with an increase of over 330% in bilateral trade since implementation. As of January 1, 2004, duties were reduced to zero on 90% of U.S. exports to Chile, and in January 2015, all remaining tariffs were phased out, such that all U.S.-origin products now enter Chile tariff free.
In 2014, bilateral trade between the United States and Chile reached US$26.0 billion, down slightly from levels in 2012 and 2013. Specifically, the U.S. enjoys a trade surplus with Chile, exporting US$16.6 billion to Chile in 2014, while imports to the U.S. from Chile totaled US$9.4 billion. Overall, the U.S. is Chile's #2 trading partner after China. However, the United States has a broader and more dynamic trading relationship with Chile, exporting over 1,800 different categories of U.S. products (as compared with 500 categories from China).
According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to Chile in 2012 reached US$28.5 billion, and fell to US$20.3 billion in 2013. FDI inflows to Chile from the U.S. amounted to US$3.4 billion, and total FDI stock from the U.S. stood at US$39.8 billion in Chile at the end of 2012 (last year of information available).
Both macroeconomic stability and growing integration with international capital markets has earned Chile an A+ credit rating, the highest in Latin America. Chile is stable, prosperous, and consistently ranks high on international indices relating to economic freedom, transparency, and competitiveness. It also performs very well in terms of government efficiency, low levels of corruption, openness to foreign trade and was the highest ranked country in Latin America in terms of economic competitiveness, according to the World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report 2014-2015.
Chile continues to pursue market-oriented strategies, expand global commercial ties, and actively participate in international issues and hemispheric free trade. Chile is a member of the Pacific Alliance, the Rio Group, an associate member of Mercosur, a full member of APEC, and a founding member of the Trans Pacific Partnership and UNASUR. In 2010, Chile became the 31st member of the OECD, only the second Latin American country to join after Mexico.
Chile has successfully negotiated Free Trade Agreements with 62 countries around the world, notably with Europe, China, India, and North America, among many others. As such, competition is fierce and Chile has given its nearly 17 million citizens unprecedented access to the world's products and services. This offers a unique opportunity for U.S. exporters interested in expanding their businesses in arguably the most open and stable market in Latin America.
On September 10, 2014, the Chilean congress passed a major tax reform, aimed to collect additional revenue equal to 3% of Chile's current GDP. The main changes affect income taxes, and will be phased in over four years, entering into force completely by the beginning of 2017. The top marginal rate for personal income tax will decrease from 40% to 35%, and corporate tax rate will rise from 20% to 27%. Most companies will now pay taxes on a partially integrated basis, under which shareholders will be allowed to use 65% of corporate tax payments against their personal income. Taxes on alcoholic beverages will rise from 15% to 20.5% for beers and wines, and from 27% to 31.5% for distilled beverages. Other new taxes that were also introduced include a "green tax" on sales of new vehicles and a capital gains tax on real estate sales. New provisions on tax compliance will limit evasion and strengthen the capabilities of the Chilean Internal Tax Service, or Servicio Interno de Impuestos (SII). A value-added tax (VAT) of 19% is applied to all goods and services, imported and domestic, and remained unchanged under the tax reform. The mining royalties and fuel tax, which together account for more than half of the country's tax revenue, were also unchanged.
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I always have a copy or two of my magazine with me. It's a great way to show rather than tell what I do. Sidetracked has become a huge part of my life and I love working on it and watching it grow.
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I was given this as a gift whilst in Iceland and now never leave the house without it. I'm constantly forgetting to charge my phone so this thing is perfect for me.
Ok, thankfully this isn't an essential but I do love a good crafted ale. I'm always on the hunt for the darkest, coziest local pubs and breweries to try the local beers. I've also started brewing my own (pictured) which has had very mixed results!
Swiss Army Knife
My wife gave me this about 20 years ago before we embarked on our first adventure together (a year long circumnavigation of Australia) and I've taken it on every trip since. It's one of those things that you rarely need but it's always good to have on hand.
Nixon 48-20 Chrono
Love this watch.
Penguin bottle opener
This appeared in my life a few years back and I've no idea where from. But useful to have around with the aforementioned beer. Seriously, that's not essential though…
Moleskin Notebook
This one is a limited edition with topographic lines carved into the cover. I've nearly filled it up with random notes, shopping lists, sketches and ideas now though so on the look out for it's successor – another moleskin for sure.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in the print publishing game and absolutely love paper and printing. There's no better smell than that of freshly printed magazines – seriously! But I do read a lot and love the Kindle as it's just so easy, portable, light and can hold so many books. Idealy for trips, holidays or long train journeys.
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Editor's Letter
Welcome to the summer issue of Columbia Magazine, a publication that showcases the intellectual rigor, creative spirit, and global influence of the alumni, faculty, and students who make up the Columbia University community. The one publication that reaches more than 320,000 alumni worldwide, this magazine has a single, simple mission: to serve its readers. We create content with your interests and needs in mind.
Accordingly, you'll notice a few changes in the following pages, all of them informed by feedback from thoughtful readers. You asked for more features on alumni, so we created Network, a section where you can catch up not only with Columbians in the news but also those flying under the radar. (If you would like to suggest an alum for inclusion, please contact us at email@example.com.)
At Columbia Magazine we also recognize that our readers are lifelong learners. You told us that you enjoy hearing about the cutting-edge research and groundbreaking studies underway across Columbia's schools and institutes, so we expanded the Explorations section. And because this University has the capability and commitment to take on complex, global questions, we have added The Big Idea. This Q&A asks key researchers to give us greater insight into those questions. In this issue we interview David Rosner, a professor of history and the codirector of the Center for History and Ethics of Public Health, about the national implications of the Flint water crisis.
Along with these and other tweaks, we are also debuting a refreshed design. Our art director, Jeffrey Saks, sought to preserve the integrity of the original magazine but modified its templates to accommodate a wider range of both long- and short-form features and multiple strong images. You may notice that we have also improved the quality of our paper and made greater investments in photography and illustration.
We hope you like the changes, and we welcome your feedback. Indeed, our goal is to build a community of readers who will actively engage with the editors and help shape future issues of the magazine, both in print and digital form. (Don't forget to download your free app on the App Store or Google Play.) If you have thoughts on this issue, suggestions for future stories, or comments on particular features, please e-mail us at email@example.com or send a letter to Columbia Magazine, 622 West 113th Street, New York, NY 10025. We're looking forward to hearing from you.
Spirits of '68
Thanks to the readers who responded to my call for memories of the 1968 campus protest. Your efforts have already yielded much - two interviews lined up, lots of phone conversations, and even some photographs - and represent immeasurable contributions to the Columbia '68 research project.
Paul Cronin '14JRN
New York, NY
Rites and Lights
The research that is going on at Columbia's DeathLab is long overdue ("Making Light of Death," Spring 2016). I have long felt that traditional burial lacks any real meaning, though I appreciate memorial services with photos of the life of the deceased.
When I told my children that I thought primitives had better methods, such as burying the body in the earth as is, for natural recycling, I got the equivalent of "Eeew!" in response.
What happens to my body when I no longer need it is not of great concern to me; my children will decide. I am saving the article for them to read! Thank you!
Helen Cornell Koenig '43BUS
Bernardsville, NJ
I was pleased to read about Columbia's DeathLab in the Spring 2016 issue. This initiative highlights a frequently ignored or minimized aspect of combating global warming: namely, that the global population must be stabilized or even reduced. Usually, the discussion involves increasing acreage for food production and shelter as the population rises. Cemeteries are never discussed, but they are an important component of the vicious circle in which increasing population leads to the need for more land for food production, cemeteries, and housing, and so on. Another article, in the Explorations section, discusses the looming water shortage ("Reduced snowfall could cause water shortages for 2 billion people"). It would at least be ameliorated if the population were stabilized.
Ivan Huber
Madison, NJ
Strong Reactions
I was distressed by the College Walk article "Strong Opinions" (Spring 2016), which reports on a recent panel discussion on op-eds sponsored by the Undergraduate Writing Program. While the examples listed provide compelling evidence that the University Writing curriculum is effective in producing published authors, the article led me to question why the course doesn't give equal instruction in responding to opinions.
I believe there is a real problem with the way students engage with one another's opinions. To see what I mean, just look at the online comments on the many opinion pieces about sexual violence published in the Columbia Spectator over the last two years. The student authors of the op-eds do not necessarily agree with one another, yet in sum have provided readers with the nuances of the debate over the fairness and effectiveness of the University's policies on reporting, investigating, and punishing instances of sexual assault and sexual violence. But the response to these pieces by readers tells another story, revealing that many students do not have the skills of respectful debate and discussion. Even more distressingly, students seem galvanized and defensive to the point of being dangerous to one another, and even empowered by the presence of an anonymous forum to employ hate speech and threats of violence.
While the op-ed may still be a viable form of professional and personal expression for "students raised on the Internet," students desperately need instruction on how to use the forums the Internet uniquely provides. The option to provide anonymous comments severs one's association with one's opinion, and removes the responsibility one has — in a classroom, for instance — to offer comments that are critical and productive to advancing a discussion.
Sarah Dziedzic '04CC, '11GSAS
Brooklyn, NY
Differing Accounts
I was involved in organizing a major discussion of white-collar crimes with University of Virginia law professor Brandon Garrett '01LAW, author of Too Big to Jail, at Lille University law faculty last May. Your article in the Explorations section of the Spring 2016 issue ("In cooking their books, corporate accountants like a good recipe") doesn't make sense: on the one hand you write that accounting professor Shivaram Rajgopal and his coauthors cannot prove corporate intent to cook the books; on the other, you write that his analysis reveals financial fraud and copycat fraudsters.
Robert Kulp '59GS
Mouvaux, France
Shivaram Rajgopal responds: Proving scienter, or the intent to deceive, is hard unless one has subpoena power. All we can do is to document suspicious empirical patterns that are consistent with "contagion" in cooking the books.
Selective Sidebar
Columbia Magazine usually provides refreshingly diverse and well-informed articles. The sidebar accompanying the interview with Kimberlé Crenshaw ("Cause and Effect," Spring 2016) was disappointing at best and dangerous at worst. The "stories of police brutality against Black women" were not stories at all — they were cherry-picked single facts from events that made police officers look like random murderers. Using selectively chosen facts to incite anger at the police is deadly for them and for all those they protect, black and white, male and female.
For example, Miriam Carey drove to a White House perimeter checkpoint, ignored the instructions of officers, and sped off, crashing into other cars. Police were called to Meagan Hockaday's home because of a domestic-violence dispute, and she approached them with a knife. Mya Hall was driving a stolen SUV near the gates of the National Security Agency. These are not details to be omitted casually.
Could the police have done better in these situations? Perhaps. Are these stories of unprovoked brutality? Definitely not. Crenshaw's interview draws attention to very important issues that need to be explored, but sadly they were undermined by tabloid-style slant.
Amy Tschudin '00BUS
Chevy Chase, MD
Twist and Shout
I thoroughly enjoyed the Spring 2016 issue, but I wish you had included more information about the twelve-minute yoga routine, completed every other day, that seemed to give older men and women denser bones ("Yoga: It's Good for Your Bones," Study Hall). Would you please let me know how I may receive information about which yoga positions those were, so that I may do them myself at home?
Marilynn Talal '63GSAS
New York, NY
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|1. vriksasana (tree)
2. trikonasana (triangle)
3. virabhadrasana II (warrior II)
4. parsvakonasana
5. parivrtta trikonasana
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6. salabhasana (locust)
7. setu bandhasana (bridge)
|8. supta padangusthasana I
(supine hand-to-foot I)
9. supta padangusthasana II
(supine hand-to-foot II)
10. marichyasana III
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Police: Fayetteville Man Tried To Run Over Ex-Girlfriend With Car
FAYETTEVILLE (KFSM) – The Fayetteville Police Department arrested a man on suspicion of attempting to run over his ex-girlfriend with a car, authorities say.
Tony R. Scott, 53, of Fayetteville was arrested after police responded to a call of a possible assault and battery case in the 1300 block of North Carriage Way, according to a preliminary report.
Police spoke with the victim who said Scott was her ex-boyfriend. She said they had been arguing when Scott became upset at the victim for not rearranging the vehicle as he wanted, the report states.
The victim left the vehicle, and Scott drove it to the end of the parking lot where they had stopped. He then turned the vehicle around and drove straight for the victim. She told police she had to run out of the way to prevent being hit, according to the report.
She eventually got back into the vehicle with Scott to get a ride home, and they started arguing again. During the ride home, Scott hit the victim on the left side of her face, causing her to have a sore jaw and cut ear, the report states.
When she got home, the victim told him to leave immediately, and he started yelling at her. She locked him out of the home, and he continued yelling before taking the car and driving off, according to the report.
The victim told police that she was "extremely scared" and believed that Scott would come back to the residence. She also told police she wanted her car back and for him to go to jail so "she wouldn't have to be afraid of him," the report states.
Scott was later arrested and booked into the Washington County Detention Center. His first hearing is set for Wednesday (July 16), according to the jail's intake report.
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Six months ago my seven year old son had a fasting blood of 263 mg/dl [14.6 mmol/L] and an A1c of 6.7% so his doctor put him on 6 units of insulin in the morning and 2 units in the evening. Since my son was having a lot of lows, his insulin was discontinued, and he is doing well. His A1cs have been 4.9% and 5.7%. He is eating everything, including chocolate, cakes, etc., and his blood sugar is in the normal range after two hours after meals. However, about once a month, not connected to eating, his blood sugar will be 200-290 mg/dl [11.1- 161.1 mmol/L]. Then, within about two hours it returns to the 80s [mg/dl, 4.4 mmol/L] and even to the 50s [mg/dl, 2.8 mmol/L] half an hour later. During this high, he doesn't show any symptoms like urinating a lot or being thirsty. On the other hand, he sometimes has lows (50s - 60s [mg/dl, 2.8 - 3.3 mmol/L]), even two hours after a meal. For example, two days ago, he ate two large pieces of cake with his sandwich at school and then he had his lunch at home, and two hours after lunch, his blood sugar was 68 mg/dl [3.8 mmol/L]. Our doctor said that it could never be classic type 1 diabetes. My son isn't complaining about anything, and his fasting blood sugar is always normal (60-100 mg/dl [3.3-5.6 mmol/L]). What is the problem with my son? Could it be type 2 diabetes? His two grandfathers have type 2 and his grandmother also has it, but my son is not fat.
The initial blood sugar was abnormal and the hemoglobin A1c test was a little bit over the upper limit of normal so that I would guess that your son may have some underlying glucose intolerance. This kind of story is sometimes seen in the preclinical phase of type 1A (autoimmune) diabetes when some stress like a minor infection can raise blood sugars transiently, and at the same time, the insulin response to a glucose load can be abnormally delayed giving rise to what is called a rebound hyperglycemia. In any event, I think a consultation is in order. it would be sensible to ask for an antibody test, and you could also ask about the possibility of type 1B or type 2 diabetes. if your son is overweight and not very active, it is a possibility. Certainly, he seems to have a good appetite.
Another possibility is that he does have another form of reactive hypoglycemia which might be detected with a four-hour glucose tolerance test and then treated with dietary means.
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Catholic Interracial Council of New York
An inventory of the Records of The Catholic Interracial Council of New York at The American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives
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Historical Note
Father John LaFarge formed the Catholic Interracial Council of New York (CICNY) in May of 1934. Prior to the creation of the CICNY, LaFarge had participated in a number of Catholic organizations that sought to advance African American equality in the Catholic Church and encourage the Catholic Church's presence in African American communities. He was chairman of the executive board for the Cardinal Gibbons Institute, a school established in southern Maryland in 1924 for African American students. LaFarge was also active in the Federated Colored Catholics of the United States (FCC). Dr. Thomas Wyatt Turner formed the FCC in 1924 to support the Cardinal Gibbons Institute, encourage African American educational advancement, stimulate African American interest in the Catholic Church, and create a better relationship and understanding between African American Catholics and the Church. The FCC experienced a painful split at its 1932 convention over whether it should continue as an interracial organization, or become a racially separate African American organization that advanced African American interests in the Church. LaFarge argued that any organization that sought to encourage integration in the Catholic Church should not be segregated. The Gibbons Institute, mired in a number of personal and financial problems, closed in 1933. LaFarge thought that the problems in the FCC and the closing of the Gibbons Institute left a void in interracial Catholic activity. He formed the CICNY to fill that void.
The CICNY was a Catholic organization that functioned under the sanction of the Archdiocese of New York City. Catholic social teachings and American democracy formed its underlying principles. The CICNY sought to increase cooperation and understanding between African Americans and whites and advance the cause of social justice and equality for African Americans. LaFarge served as the CICNY's chaplain, primary theorist, and guiding light from its founding in 1934 until he retired in 1962. George Hunton, who had been the secretary of the executive council of the Cardinal Gibbons Institute, served as the CICNY's executive-secretary from its founding in 1934 until 1962. Hunton oversaw the daily business in the CICNY offices and served as the editor for its monthly journal, Interracial Review. Hunton and LaFarge, who for almost 30 years were unmistakably the prime movers and visible representatives of the CICNY, were joined by Gerard Carroll, long time chair of the CICNY Board of Directors, in making the CICNY a stable and active organization that, despite its regional name and jurisdiction, possessed a national reach and profile.
The CICNY served a number of secular and religious functions. It encouraged a spiritual reflection of interracial justice. The CICNY organized and participated regularly in interracial religious services and breakfasts that encouraged, celebrated, and sermonized the gospel of social justice in peoples' lives and in the Catholic Church. LaFarge and the other priests active in the CICNY regularly grounded the CICNY's actions and philosophy in Catholic teachings. During the Hunton/LaFarge years, the CICNY also became active in a wide variety of social and political issues. Although organized as a local institution, the CICNY served as the de facto progressive wing of the Catholic Church on national racial matters and LaFarge and Hunton, at least through the middle of the 1950s, served as spokesmen for progressive Catholics on racial issues. The CICNY became active, for example, in the American Scottsboro Committee in the 1930s, the National Committee for a Permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee in the 1940s, and supported Civil Rights organizations like the NAACP and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the civil rights struggles of the 1950s. The CICNY devoted much of its resources and efforts to educate Catholics on racial issues, like those mentioned above, through the Interracial Review and in numerous meetings and conferences. The CICNY also regularly honored Catholic civil rights activists with a number of annual awards and celebrations, including the annual James Hoey Interracial Justice Award.
The CICNY model encouraged others in the Catholic Church to actively challenge racial norms that contradicted Church teachings. Similar Catholic interracial councils emerged in cities throughout the United States. By 1960 there were 43 CICs throughout the country. Although the leaders of CICs in different cities talked frequently, the local organizations were not linked by a formal hierarchical structure or to a central national organization. Because it was the first and because of its high profile, the CICNY served as the informal central national organization. But some CICs, such as the Catholic Interracial Council of Chicago, grew to have national prominence by mid-1950s, challenging the CICNY's position. As the 1950s closed, Hunton and Lafarge were still viewed as important racial pioneers, but also as aging men who had valiantly fought for a just cause, but who could no longer lead the CICNY. A movement to create a national interracial organization led to the creation of the National Catholic Conference of Interracial Justice (NCCIJ) in 1961. In 1962, the year after the creation of the NCCIJ, Hunton and LaFarge fittingly retired together.
As the LaFarge/Hunton era ended, the focus of CICNY activities changed from national to local New York City issues. Under the guidance of Hunton's successors, Dennis Clark (1962) and Arthur Wright (1963), the first African American to hold high office in the CICNY, the organization became involved in a variety of New York City housing and education issues. For example, it closely followed the bitter decentralization battle in schools located in the Ocean Hill/Brownsville districts and supported the continuation of open admission policies at City University of New York. The CICNY also monitored ongoing racial problems, such as job discrimination and housing conditions in poor neighborhoods in New York City.
The CICNY continued well into the 1990s, but had declined markedly in activity and importance by the late 1970s. The NCCIJ moved to the forefront as the national Catholic organization on race relations and the CICNY lost substantial foundation support, creating serious financial problems that forced the CICNY to drastically curtail its activities. For example, the Interracial Review, one of its more important undertakings since its founding, ceased publication in 1966, although it was revived in a much less ambitious format in the 1970s.
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Scope and Contents
The CICNY Records contains correspondence, pamphlets, meeting minutes, article drafts, reports, photographs, ephemera, and clippings that span 1921 to 1998. The materials from 1921 to 1933 relate to the Cardinal Gibbons Institute and the materials from 1934 to 1975 document CICNY offices and activities. The collection consists of six series: Executive-Secretary Series; Board of Directors, Carroll Chronological Series; the Subject Files Series; Publications Series; Photos and Ephemera Series; and the 2008 Addendum.
The Executive-Secretary Series is composed of the files of CICNY Executive-Secretaries, George Hunton and Arthur Wright. The George Hunton Subseries is primarily, but not exclusively, correspondence. It also includes clippings, article drafts, and occasional reports and pamphlets. The materials span 1921-1966, but are focused most heavily between 1934 and 1959. The 9.5 linear feet document Hunton's activities as the Executive-Secretary of CICNY from 1934 to 1962. For example, it includes correspondence with civil rights organizations like the NAACP, and materials related the March on Washington Movement in the 1940s. A good deal of the materials document his position as editor of the Interracial Review. It also includes records from his time as secretary of the Cardinal Gibbons Institute, 1921-1933, and materials related to his teaching at Fordham University. The Arthur Wright Subseries contains three linear feet of primarily correspondence. It also includes a small assortment of other records, such as CICNY Executive Committee and Executive Board meeting meetings, pamphlets and clippings. These records span 1959 to 1975, but are heavily concentrated in the 1963 to 1970 period.
The Board of Directors, Carroll Chronological Series spans 1934 to 1970 and is composed of the chronological files of Gerard Carroll, chair of the CICNY Board of Directors. These 3 linear feet of records includes correspondence, clippings, meeting minutes, press releases, financial records, and other official CICNY documents, such as by-laws and constitutions. This series documents the activities of the CICNY Board of Directors.
The Subject Files Series include materials from both the Hunton and Wright eras. The materials, which span 1931-1975, are focused on the 1963-1970 period, when Arthur Wright was executive secretary. This series contains a wide array of materials, including clippings, pamphlets, reports, conference materials, correspondence, and meeting minutes. The materials document the CICNY's interest in New York City issues in the 1960s, like education and housing, and its contact with New York City government offices, like the New York City Board of Education and the New York City Housing Board. Materials related to a large assortment of Civil Rights organizations and activities, such as the American Scottsboro Committee, the NAACP, and the NCCIJ, can be found in the Subject Files. It also documents the CICNY's public programs and awards ceremonies.
The Publications series is divided into the Journals Subseries and the Index Subseries. The Journals Subseries is composed of incomplete runs of The Chronicle (February 1931-September 1932) and the Interracial Review (October 1932-1971). The Index Subseries is comprised of title and author indexes for the Interracial Review that covers the 1934 to 1960 issues.
The Photos and Ephemera Series is divided into the Photos Subseries and the Ephemera and Oversized Subseries. The Photos Subseries contain one linear foot of photographs related to CICNY activities. The photos either appeared in the Interracial Review or were sent to the CICNY offices by other CICs or individual people. The photos include many interracial groups of people in church, at communion breakfasts organized by the CICNY, and at meetings of various related organizations. There are also a number of portraits of award recipients and others. The Ephemera and Oversized Subseries includes a few awards given by or to the CICNY, a number of oversized photographs, a poster, and draft material for the cover of the Interracial Review.
The last series is an addendum containing 20 feet of material received in 2008 from John Jay College in New York City. This material, ca. 1970-1998, is from the last three executive directors, Charles Inniss, Herbert Johnson, and Gerald Lynch. At some point this material will be processed and is included in this finding aid now in the format of a preliminary box list inventory. This is an unorganized collection of documents and ephemera placed in no particular order by either date or subject relating to day-to-day operating activities, meeting minutes, financial records, program information, general correspondence, and fundraising efforts. The files also contain photographs, newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, office supplies, membership rolls, and donor contact information.
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The Records of The Catholic Interracial Council of New York consists of six series:
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Restrictions on Access
There are no access restrictions.
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Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The Catholic Interracial Council of New York donated its records to the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives in 1977. In 2008, John Jay College in New York donated 15 boxes, some 20 feet of material, ca. 1970-1998, from CICNY's last three Executive Directors, Charles Inniss, Herbert Johnson, and Gerald Lynch.
Processing Information
Processing performed in July 2003 by Joseph Turrini. Data entry by Clint Tibbs and Joseph Turrini. EAD markup completed in March 2005 by Washington Research Library Consortium. Additional EAD markup completed in October 2005 by Jordan Patty. Revised and expanded in 2008-2009 by William John Shepherd, with additional contributions by Leslie Griffin. EAD revisions in 2013 by Michael J. Dobbs and in 2015 by Mr. Shepherd.
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Related Material
At the American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives:
Norman C. McKenna Papers. (Prince George's CIC)
National Catholic Welfare Conference/U.S. Catholic Conference Records, Social Action Department
National Catholic Welfare Conference/U.S. Catholic Conference Records, Executive Department/Office of the General Secretary
Joseph Nichols Papers.
Celestine Joseph Nuesse Papers (Washington DC CIC)
At other Institutions:
Monsignor Daniel Cantwell Papers.Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois. (Chicago CIC)
Catholic Interracial Council of Pittsburgh, Archives Service Center, University of Pittsburgh. (Pittsburgh CIC)
Chicago Interracial Council Papers, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois. (Chicago CIC)
The Harriet Franklin Papers, Center for African American History and Culture, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Philadelphia CIC)
Rev. John LaFarge Papers (both accessions). Georgetown University, Washington, DC
Rev. Donald W. McIlvane papers, University of Notre Dame Archives. (Pittsburgh CIC)
Milwaukee Catholic Interracial Council, Special Collections and University Archives, Marquette University. (Milwaukee CIC)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Papers. Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, DC
National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, Special Collections and University Archives, Marquette University
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Index Terms
This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Carroll, Gerard L.
Drexel, Katharine Mary, Saint, 1858-1955
Hunton, George K.
La Farge, John, 1880-1963
Morrell, Louise Drexel, 1863-1945
Toussaint, Pierre, 1766-1853?
Wright, Arthur D.
American Jewish Congress
Brooklyn Catholic Action Council
Cardinal Gibbons Institute
Catholic Interracial Council of Brooklyn
Catholic Interracial Council of New York
City University of New York
City University of New York SEEK Program
Convent of the Blessed Sacrament (St. Elizabeth's)
Fordham University
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice
National Catholic Welfare Council
National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing
National Urban League
New York (City) Board of Education
New York (City) Housing and Development Administration
Public Education Association
New York (N.Y.)
African Americans Catholics
Community Control
Decentralization of New York City Schools (Oceanhill-Brownsville dispute)
Employment Discrimination
Fair Employment Practices Committee
Interracial Review
Jewish-African American Relations
March on Washington Movement
Oceanhill-Brownsville dispute (decentralization of New York City Schools)
Scottsboro Boys
Davis, Cyprian. The history of Black Catholics in the United States. New York: Crossroad, 1990.
Davis, Cyprian and Phelps, Jamie (eds). "Stamped with the image of God": African Americans as God's image in Black. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2003.
Hayes, Diana L. and Davis, Cyprian (eds). Taking down our harps: Black Catholics in the United States. Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1998.
Hunton, George K. All of which I saw, part of which I was; the autobiography of George K. Hunton as told to Gary MacEoin. Introduction by Roy Wilkins. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, 1967.
Zielinski, Martin A. "Doing the truth": the Catholic Interracial Council of New York, 1945-1965. Catholic University of America Doctoral Dissertation, 1988.
Zielinski, Martin A. The promotion of better Race Relations: the Catholic Interracial Council of New York, 1934-1945. Catholic University of America Masters' Thesis, 1985.
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Detailed Description of the Collection
Detailed Description of the Collection
Series 1: Executive Secretary, 1921-1975
Series 2: Board of Directors, Carroll Chronological Files, 1934-1970
Series 3: Subject Files, 1931-1975
Series 4: Publications, 1931-1971
Series 5: Photos and Ephemera, 1937-1970
Series 6: Addendum: Charles Inniss, Herbert Johnson, and Gerald Lynch Files, 1970-1998


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Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer, songwriter and fiddler. She entered the music industry at an early age, winning local contests by the age of ten and recording for the first time at fourteen. She signed with Rounder Records in 1985 and released her first solo album in 1987. She was invited to join the band with which she still performs, Alison Krauss and Union Station (AKUS), and later released her first album with them as a group in 1989.
She has released fourteen albums, appeared on numerous soundtracks, and helped renew interest in bluegrass music in the United States. Her soundtrack performances have led to further popularity, including the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, an album also credited with raising American interest in bluegrass, and the Cold Mountain soundtrack, which led to her performance at the 2004 Academy Awards. As of the 2011 Grammy Awards, she has won 26 Grammy Awards, making her the most awarded singer, the most awarded female artist, and tied for the third most awarded artist overall in Grammy history. At the time of her first award, at the 1991 Grammy Awards, she was the second youngest winner ever (currently tied as third youngest).


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In the scientific hunt for the causes of autism, researchers at UC Davis may have just picked up a new trail: obesity during pregnancy.
Their study, published today in the journal Pediatrics, found obese mothers were 70 percent more likely to have a child with autism and twice as likely to have a child with other kinds of developmental delays compared with normal-weight moms with normal blood pressure and no diabetes.
"That's totally new," said researcher Irva Hertz-Picciotto, professor of epidemiology and chief of environmental and occupational health at the UC Davis MIND Institute. "Nobody has looked at obesity in relation to autism spectrum disorders that I'm aware of."
With obesity rocketing skyward in the United States, the findings "raise serious public health concerns," the authors wrote. However, the results could also represent a step toward uncovering causes of autism and a pathway for further research.
"Currently we really know very little about the causes of autism," Hertz-Picciotto said. "We have a few clues."
Nearly 60 percent of women of childbearing age are overweight, and one-third are obese, the researchers reported. Nearly 9 percent have diabetes.
The study, which involved more than 1,000 children from California, also confirmed earlier findings that a mother's diabetes may play a role in cognitive disabilities in her children.
Diabetic moms were more than twice as likely to have a child with developmental delays other than autism, compared with non-diabetic moms with normal weight and blood pressure. The diabetic moms showed a higher risk of having an autistic child, but the difference wasn't robust enough for scientists to consider it reliable.
Whether they were autistic or not, kids whose moms had diabetes scored lower on language tests than those with non-diabetic moms. That held true even for children who seemed otherwise mentally normal.
Obesity, diabetes and high blood pressure are all implicated in problems with metabolism, the body's processing of food into energy. These metabolic conditions often come together.
So the researchers looked at all three conditions and found that having any one of those significantly increased a mom's risk of having an autistic child – though obesity was the strongest factor.
"It's all about the obesity," as it relates to full-fledged autism in these findings, said Michael Greene, director of obstetrics at Massachusetts General Hospital, who was not involved in the study.
"Is diabetes the mechanism that caused the autism spectrum disorder, or is it an innocent bystander (and oh, by the way, it's common in women with obesity)?" Greene asked. Scientists will need more data to answer that question and ferret out the disorder's cause, he said.
"Obesity has been rising and autism has been rising, and people might think, 'Are they linked?' " Hertz-Picciotto said. It could be that one causes the other, or that something else causes them both.
If a mom's obesity does turn out to be causal, the likely trigger for autism could be the chronic inflammation that obesity causes in various systems in the body, Greene said. The UC Davis researchers suggested possible triggers could also be low oxygen levels or lasting exposure to high blood sugar while a fetus is in the womb.
"We see pregnancy as a critical time window," Hertz-Picciotto said. "The brain is going through growth, it's got cells that need to migrate to the right place and connect with other cells. All those things are very delicately timed and require the right amount of energy, and everything else about the intrauterine environment has to be just right."
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Lumines Girls Choir
Lumines Girls Choir performs traditional Anglican choral anthems and hymns, plus spirituals and sacred folk songs, about once a month in church and meets every Saturday morning from 11:45 am to 12:45 pm, and/or Wednesday evening from 5:30 to 6:30 pm.
Skills fostered are singing, sight reading, musical understanding, teamwork, deportment, and performance. The Lumines Girls Choir is for girls age 11 and up. Members of the choir receive semester stipends. To arrange for an audition, contact Claudia Dumschat at 917-825-7504.
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OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) � Hundreds turned out in this once-secret city that helped build the first nuclear bomb on Tuesday to support an upgraded and consolidated U.S. nuclear weapons program.
A few peace activists who regularly mark the anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb with protests outside the high-security gates of the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge also attended.
The first of two hearings in this eastern Tennessee city filled a 400-seat auditorium and brought some 80 speakers to the podium to register comments.
"I want to hear from the Oak Ridge community that Y-12 has a valuable mission," Y-12 site manager Ted Sherry said. "That it is important to this region. And that they fully support (its) continued operations."
A dozen local mayors responded with a letter saying their communities have backed the 4,600-employee Y-12 plant since it opened 65 years ago as part of the secret bomb-building Manhattan Project.
"The multitude of operations at Y-12 has always been supported by the citizens of our region," the mayors' letter said. "Each and every time our nation has faced a crisis requiring our region's support, Y-12, with its unique capabilities and skilled workforce, has readily stepped forward to serve."
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., who recently visited the Department of Energy plant, also issued a statement supporting Y-12.
But Ralph Hutchison of the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance said DOE has ignored a rising call, likely to be heard at future hearings, for a "no-production alternative" that would effectively turn the complex into a warhead-dismantling enterprise.
Hutchison also complained that all of the hearings are being held near weapons production sites, "which means they are only having it in communities where people make money building bombs."
As for the environmental impact of DOE's complex-wide decision later this year, opponent Bill Hickey of Detroit said the issue is bigger than any single site. "We know that mushroom cloud potentially covers the whole planet," he said.
Oak Ridge was the second stop on a 16-city tour to collect comments on the government's plans for a "smaller, more efficient, more secure and less expensive" nuclear weapons operation.
Under the plan, hundreds of old buildings would be demolished, site missions would be refocused and some new facilities built at the nation's eight nuclear weapons sites from South Carolina to California.
The preferred alternative of DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration is to consolidate weapons work at five sites � the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Nevada Test Site in Nevada, the Pantex plant in Texas, the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge.
Y-12, which has long made uranium parts for every warhead in the U.S. nuclear arsenal and serves as the main storehouse for bomb-grade uranium, would become a "uranium center of excellence" under the NNSA's preferred option.
That declaration would be a boost to the work already under way at Y-12. A $500 million fortress-like storehouse for highly enriched uranium is nearing completion at Y-12, and early plans are being made for a new uranium processing plant that could cost up to $3.5 billion.
Already, some 250 old buildings have been demolished to modernize the Y-12 site, two privately developed office buildings have opened to house administrators and projections are being made to tear down another 15 Cold War-era building complexes totaling about 3 million square feet over the next decade.
"Absolutely, it will help us," Y-12 strategic planning manager Tom Smith said. "It will basically continue our momentum."
"We want the work. We want the jobs. And for the future peace of the world, it is great for this country," said Terry Bowers, a longtime iron worker and union leader at Y-12. "This place has been here for 65 years and we hope to continue to do the work for the country."
Y-12 nuclear weapons plant: http://www.y12.doe.gov/
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Mar 6, 2015
iDevices is a well known entity with regards to connected mobility, and it is making another splash with the release of SweetBlue, a Bluetooth Library for Android developers.
iDevices, the preeminent brand and development partner in the Internet of Things (IoT) market, launches its unique Android Bluetooth® Smart library, SweetBlue. This advanced library allows developers to create Bluetooth Smart enabled apps, with extremely reliable and robust connections between the product and smart device. SweetBlue significantly cuts down development time by eliminating the need to learn the complex library offered by Google.
"Android developers know how difficult it can be supporting the plethora of different phones out there. Working with Bluetooth Smart is even harder due to the combinations of native software and hardware involved, all with their own little quirks and idiosyncrasies. SweetBlue lets you focus on what's most important: your app,†said Doug Koellmer, iDevices App Developer.
SweetBlue Features:
An API designed from the ground-up to be simple, predictable and robust.
Transparent fallback, retry and correction mechanisms for a multitude of failure conditions both transient and permanent.
High-level constructs like transactions, state tracking and polling that make common use cases a breeze to implement.
Open-source codebase, full-coverage API documentation, sample projects and support.
Pricing is varied:
SweetBlue is available on the iDevices website today. Pricing varies depending on what type of project the library will be used for.
- Free Version – Evaluation and development purposes, non-commercial use only.
- Standard – Commercial use with basic technical support.
- Professional – Commercial use with priority technical support.
- Premium – Multiple application use and/or repackaging for other commercial libraries.
SweetBlue is available now; more info can be found on the website at www.idevicesinc.com/sweetblue.


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Name: The First Battle of Reams Station
Other Names: Reams' Station
Location: Dinwiddie County
Campaign: Richmond-Petersburg Campaign (June 1864-March 1865)
Date(s): June 29, 1864
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. James Wilson and Brig. Gen. August Kautz [US]; Maj. Gen. William Mahone and Maj. Gen. Fitzhugh Lee [CS]
Forces Engaged: Divisions
Estimated Casualties: 600 total (1,817 for entire raid)
Description: Early morning June 29, Brig. Gen. August Kautz's division reached Ream's Station on the Weldon Railroad, which was thought to be held by Union infantry. Instead, Kautz found the road barred by Mahone's Confederate infantry division. Wilson's division, fighting against elements of William H.F. "Rooney" Lee's cavalry, joined Kautz's near Ream's Station, where they were virtually surrounded. About noon, Mahone's infantry assaulted their front while Fitzhugh Lee's cavalry division threatened the Union left flank. The raiders burned their wagons and abandoned their artillery. Separated by the Confederate attacks, Wilson and his men cut their way through and fled south on the Stage Road to cross Nottoway River, while Kautz went cross-country, reaching Federal lines at Petersburg about dark. Wilson continued east to the Blackwater River before turning north, eventually reaching Union lines at Light House Point on July 2. The Wilson-Kautz raid tore up more than 60 miles of track, temporarily disrupting rail traffic into Petersburg, but at a great cost in men and mounts.
Result(s): Confederate victory
The First Battle of Ream's Station: June 29, 1864:
The Confederates Nearly Surround Wilson and Kautz
Brief Summary: The Wilson-Kautz Rsaid had kicked off on June 22, with the Southside and Richmond & Danville lines as the targets. But the Yankee raiders met a setback at Staunton River Bridge on June 25, and by June 29 the Confederates had nearly surrounded them near Reams' Station. Wilson and Kautz were in a tight spot.
Confederate infantry led by William Mahone blocked the roads leading north to Petersburg and east to Ream's Station. Rebel Cavarly under Fitz Lee blocked the Yankee left. And Wade Hampton, pursuing the raiders for some time, had finally caught up in Wilson's rear. There was no way to take the direct route home, so Wilson sent a small group to penetrate the Confederate lines and get a message back to Meade and Grant that infantry help was needed. In the ensuing choes, Kautz managed to sneak through the Confederate lines with the loss of all of his artillery, while Wilson was forced to go around, heading south before moving east and back north to the Union lines. Kautz made it back on June 30, while Wilson's longer route delayed him by one more day.
Was the raid a success? On the plus side for the Federals, they tore up miles of track and did delay two vital supply lines from working properly for some period of time. On the negative, they had failed to reach and destroy the Staunton River Bridge, just barely. In addition, both Yankee cavalry divisions were badly handled at Ream's Station and were out of commission for awhile. So the question becomes, "was the damage done to the Confederate supply lines worth the mauling of two Union cavalry divisions?", and the answer isn't really a strong yes or no either way. What had started with such promise ended badly at Ream's Station on June 29, 1864.
Note: As you will see in the links below, one big theme of the Richmond and Petersburg papers during and after the raid is the glee with which they recounted Union cavalrymen being found with all sorts of nonessential items like women's dresses, silverware, and the like.
Note: Please see the sites listed below for more information.
- "Destroy the Junction": The Wilson-Kautz Raid and the Battle for Staunton River Bridge, June 21, 1864 to July 1, 1864 by Greg Eanes
First Person Accounts:
Siege of Petersburg Documents Which Mention This Battle:
- 150 Years Ago Today: The First Battle of Ream's Station: June 29, 1864
- "Destroy the Junction": The Wilson-Kautz Raid and the Battle for Staunton River Bridge, June 21, 1864 to July 1, 1864 by Greg Eanes
- B&L: Operations South of the James River: I. First Attempts to Capture Petersburg by August V. Kautz
- MOLLUS MN V4: Personal Experience; A Side Light on the Wilson Raid, June, 1864 by Edmund M. Pope
- NP: December 6, 1896 Birmingham Age-Herald: The 10th Alabama at the Siege of Petersburg
- NP: July 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Telegraphic Reports, June 29
- NP: July 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The Situation at Petersburg, June 29
- NP: July 1, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, June 28-29
- NP: July 13, 1864 Richmond Examiner: News from Petersburg, June 29, July 1, 11-12
- NP: July 2, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Telegraphic Reports, June 29-July 1
- NP: July 2, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The Situation at Petersburg, June 28-30
- NP: July 2, 1864 Richmond Examiner: The War News, June 29-July 1
- NP: July 7, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Fitz Lee's Cavalry, June 29
- NP: June 23, 1964 Petersburg Progress-Index: Siege Centennial, Part 15: The Most Sweeping Raid Of All
- NP: June 30, 1864 Richmond Examiner: Telegraphic Reports, June 29
- OR XL P1 #1: Report of Lt Gen U. S. Grant June 13-July 30, 1864
- OR XL P1 #2: Dispatches of Charles A. Dana, Asst Secy of War June 12-July 30, 1864
- Petersburg Medals of Honor: A Ride to Almost Certain Death
- Reams Station Vicinity: Official Records
- The First Battle of Reams Station: June 29, 1864
- Union Position Near Reams Station, June 29, 1864: Official Records
Source: CWSAC Battle Summary
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Monitoring Uptake of Legume N by Apple Trees Using Nitrogen Isotope Discrimination
CSANR Project 138
Status: No-cost extension granted
Project Summary
Intercropped legumes can supply nitrogen to fruit trees and reduce the need for purchased nitrogen fertilizer, potentially reducing costs and environmental footprint. The proposed research project will address the biologically-intensive and organic approaches to sustainable management of soil quality priority. The project will evaluate the nitrogen isotope abundance technique (comparing the 15N and 14N signal from the legume N versus other sources) as a method to monitor the degree of uptake by apple trees of legume N grown in the orchard. The project involves two components: 1) a greenhouse study using 15N-labeled clover residue added to potted apple trees for a quantitative evaluation of legume-N uptake and a comparison to values using nitrogen isotope abundance; 2) a field study in an existing orchard legume cover crop trial using natural abundance for a qualitative evaluation of legume N and the ability to discriminate this signal in an ambient field environment. The 15N enrichment technique is known to be more sensitive than the nitrogen isotope abundance technique, but is not suitable for routine field use by growers or consultants. The objective of the proposed project is to determine the uptake of legume-derived N in a quantitative manner and compare it with a more qualitative method to assess its utility on farms.
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|Principal Investigator:
David Granatstein
|Additional Investigators:
Kefyalew Desta
Pamela Pavek
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|Principal Investigator:
David Granatstein
|Additional Investigators:
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Pamela Pavek


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COLUMBIA, S.C. - The Request for Final Review (RFR) Committee of the South Carolina Board of Health and Environmental Control will meet via conference call on Monday, Mar. 3, 2014, at 4 p.m. in the Board Room #3420, 2600 Bull St., Columbia, S.C. The Board Room will be open for the public to listen to the proceedings.
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Well, I crunched the numbers and our economy is ruined because you all just HAD to look at the eclipse
Thanks for looking at the sun for ten minutes, everyone: you ruined the economy.
Thanks for looking at the sun for ten minutes, everyone: you ruined the economy.
Satellites and Space Station astronauts had a unique vantage point for Monday's total solar eclipse.
Get your lighters ready.
Yes, there are a lot of Eclipse gum jokes.
Look down at your smartphone.
Follow along with Mashable as we track the phenomenon.
They have good BBQ, though.
There's a reason you've been told not to do this.
Was the Mexico eclipse better than the Great American Eclipse?
This will be the ultimate U.S. citizen science experiment.
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The Internet is proving to be the big winner of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, which has only emboldened the Twittersphere to chronicle the continuous failures that are trending around the globe.
"The first star of the Olympics was #sochiproblems," sports social media strategist Craig Howe told USA Today. Complaints about disgustingly dark and murky water, questionable toilets and more were chronicled with the hashtag and gave birth to @SochiProblems.
Clocking in at 340,000 followers, which is nearly 120,000 more than the official @Sochi2014 account, the Internet won a gold medal for hilarious Sochi coverage. The web's pop culture pros have been churning out an impressive level of Photoshopped work full of snark, skill and biting social commentary.
We're only halfway through the 2014 Winter Olympics, but we've already found some great Sochi shade for you to check out in the slideshow below.
Photos: WENN, Twitter
We start off with Miley Cyrus wrecking things as usual…
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As we at Breitbart News have noted before, the main function of the left-leaning mainstream media is to tell its audience what attitude to adopt towards the news, rather than the news itself. The case of the "born in Kenya" booklet produced by President Barack Obama's then-literary agency is a prime example.
Whether on HBO or at the Washington Post or at the New York Times (below), the media tells its consumers that Breitbart News encouraged the "Birther" movement–without telling them what we actually reported.
As NewsBusters reported, the Times' Michael Shear used the booklet issue to launch accusations of racism against conservatives, while obscuring what we had actually written about it:
Nevertheless, Shear advanced a racial argument against the GOP, while leaving out details of another scoop, from Joel Pollak of Breitbart, who dug up a 1991 booklet from a literary agent claiming that Obama was "Born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii." He also likened the Drudge Report and Breitbart.com to "some extreme quarters of the American electorate" for the crime of reporting news the liberal media overlooked.
But the issues of race and religion never go completely away, at least in some extreme quarters of the American electorate.
On Thursday, the Drudge Report posted a link on its Web site to a report that sought to revive the long-discredited assertion that Mr. Obama was not born in the United States. And as election season heats up, so does publication of books promoting various conspiracies and theories, including a new one seeking to focus new attention on Mr. Obama's dealings with Mr. Wright.
Shear didn't bother to give details about the Drudge link, which presumably was this Breitbart scoop from last week, about a 1991 booklet from a literary agency listing Obama's birthplace as Kenya.
Shear ignored conservatives who aren't in fact questioning Obama's birthplace, but instead are asking why such details like the booklet were overlooked by the media during the race of 2008. They are also questioning whether Obama submitted his own biography, as was customary at that agency, or if not, why he failed to correct the erroneous bio (which remained uncorrected until 2007).


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SOURCE: Island Global Yachting
January 27, 2016 17:33 ET
FORT LAUDERDALE, FL--(Marketwired - January 27, 2016) - IGY Marinas is thrilled to announce that Yacht Haven Grande in St. Thomas has won the award for Superyacht Marina of the Year 2016. Now in its third year, the Awards were open to Gold Anchor accredited marinas in both the UK and overseas. The winning marinas are considered the best by their customers in the UK Coastal, UK Inland, International and International Superyacht categories.
The Yacht Harbor Association (TYHA), one of the oldest international yachting associations in the world, worked closely with partner GJW Insurance to encourage marina customers to vote for their favorite marina which culminated in over 4,500 casted votes, a 48% increase from the 2015 awards! The Awards have developed significantly with votes being cast for an impressive 88 marinas. The increase in votes and the comments that were posted on marinaawards.com clearly show the high regard in which marina customers value the superior levels of customer service provided in Gold Anchor accredited marinas.
Upon receiving the news of this award, Kenny Jones MBE, Executive Vice President of Operations stated, "IGY Marinas, and more importantly the operational staff at Yacht Haven Grande who work exceptionally hard to present the highest quality of service to the superyachts' owners, guests, crew and captains, are extremely proud to have received this recognition. The fact that this award is measured on honest feedback through positive testimonials from our guests, makes this award even more valued by our teams."
The sincere appreciation throughout the IGY Marina executive team was projected to all of the marina employees at Yacht Haven Grande. The IGY Marina Executive Team instructed the General Manager, Michael Revier, to take some time to celebrate with his team for being recognized as the best superyacht marina in the industry. Kenny also stated that "Across the IGY network we have learnt never to be complacent in our approach to customer service and recognize that every year the service level, facilities and overall presentation needs to be improved if it is to survive in a very demanding sector of the marina industry. I am very honored to be receiving the award on behalf of IGY and Mike Revier of Yacht Haven Grande and his very devoted team."
IGY Marinas is the largest international marina network in the world and serves as the leading point of contact for vessels throughout the western hemisphere. The network consists of 13 marinas operating throughout 7 countries servicing in excess of 100,000 customers, including 8,000 unique vessels per annum. With over 300 slips accommodating vessels ranging from 80ft to over 600ft in length, IGY is home port to some of the world's largest megayachts. IGY Marinas has over 2,000 slips under management catering to a variety of markets including sportfish, cruise, sail & motor vessels. Many of the marinas under IGY host top international sailing, fishing, and nautical related events, making our marinas highly sought‐after maritime activity destinations. For more information, please visit www.igymarinas.com.
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Do you think you are good at fight analysis? Do you think you have what it takes to take out Pro MMA Now's best fight analysts? Do you want a chance to win REAL money? If so, join the UFC 148 Pro MMA Now "Smack Down" Kountermove tournament!
Here's the lowdown on everything. You may have heard of Kountermove before as it's basically a version of Fantasy MMA with the real chance of winning REAL money. It all depends on how good you are at analyzing fight matchups and predicting how each fight will go. You have a salary cap of 25,000 dollars(these are fake dollars) in which you draft 5 fighters for each event. Each fighter has a dollar value(favorites to win the fights usually have higher dollar values). The five fighters you select can't go over the 25,000 salary cap.
Here's how to play….
1) Pick a Game: You will simultaneously select (1) the "Entry Fee", from a choice of free games or various cash games, and (2) the size of the opponent pool you wish to play in.
2) Draft Your Team of Fighters: You then draft a team of 5 fighters, under a salary cap of $25,000 in fake money. You may edit your team of fighters at any time right up until the first preliminary bout of the event begins.
3) Score points and win cash (or play for free!): Kountermove determines a fighter's fantasy score as follows. A first-round win (by knockout, submission, DQ, or other) earns 100 points, second-round win earns 75 points, and third, fourth, or fifth-round wins, again by knockout, submission, DQ, or other, earn 50 points. Rounds won (win-by-decision fights only, two out of three judges required) earn 10 points each.
In addition, fighters earn fantasy points for Significant Strikes Landed (.5 points each), Takedowns (2 points each), Submission Attempts (3 points each), Knockdowns (3 points each), and Dominant Positions (2 points each). Like other fantasy sites, Kountermove awards zero points to players who draft a fighter who scratches or an entire fight that scratches because of injury, illness, or any other reasons. Decisions and points are final in the cage – scoring is based only on the final call, during the event, in the cage.
Got it? Good. If not, feel free to drop your questions in the comments section of this post. If you are asking yourself if Kountermove is legal, yes it is and you can read about that right here.
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So are you ready to compete against the Pro MMA Now staff as well as other readers of the site? All you have to do is click on this link which will take you to the Pro MMA Now UFC 148 "Smack Down" Kountermove tournament. The entry fee is $5 (which you will need to deposit first) with the chance to winning the following:
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There are 28 slots available for this UFC 148 tournament.
Also, Kountermove will pay your next $10.00 entry fee for every person who clicks on your Facebook post or tweet, signs up for Kountermove, and then plays a cash game. So in short, if you got 5 people to sign up for this game you would receive a $50 credit to your account(as long as they play a cash game). So go out and invite your friends!
The deadline to enter the tournament is posted on the Kountermove website(deadline is right before the actual UFC 148 preliminary fights begin).