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Prime Minister David Cameron has thanked the people of Glasgow for a "dazzling" Commonwealth Games.
Speaking at a reception held before the closing ceremony got under way, Mr Cameron said the Scottish hosts had shown the world Glasgow is the "friendly city for the friendly Games".
During his speech at the city's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, he also expressed his appreciation to the 15,000 volunteers, or Clyde-siders, for being "absolutely magnificent" and the members of the armed forces and police who played their part.
"Team Scotland, Team Wales, Team England and Team Northern Ireland - you have cycled, run, shot, swim, dived, wrestled, boxed your way to victory. It's been a stunning performance", he said.
"Everyone will remember their favourite moments but I don't think anyone who saw Lynsey Sharp get that silver in the 800m and that incredibly emotional interview afterwards will forget that.
"It was wonderful to see Tom Daley back on the diving board - gold again. I think the 4x400m relay was one of the favourite events that I saw."
Mr Cameron also singled out the performance of the boxers from the home nations who won a flurry of medals in the ring as well as Geraint Thomas, of Wales, for winning the cycling road race today despite getting a puncture.
He added: "There are many ways to measure the success of a Games and this has been a success on every level. I can feel it actually myself in my left hand because I promised to write a letter to every single home nation medal winner and I can confirm tonight that I already have repetitive strain injury from signing those letters."
The Games would also deliver a "great legacy" for Glasgow, Scotland and the United Kingdom and legacy for the city's economy and more broadly, he said.
"We will be able to measure these Games in the number of people who have been inspired to take up cycling or swimming or boxing or running. These sights and the inspiration including that wonderful 13-year-old from Shetland winning in the pool - a massive inspiration to young people across our country."
"Truly what was the second city of the empire has been the first city of the Commonwealth and you have made the whole country proud."
"Tonight we say thank you to the people of Glasgow, the organising committee, the city council, the troops the police, the athletes.
"It has been dazzling, it has been wonderful, it has been a joy to behold and you have made the whole country proud. Thank you very much indeed."
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One of the first lessons Ben Sutton gleaned in college came not in the classroom, but from the school of life: Be careful what you wish for.
After growing up on a farm in Seneca, Wis., his ardent desire had been "to get away from the animals and all that stuff." His first year at La Crosse's Viterbo University changed all that.
"When I got there, I was not sure what I wanted to do," he said. "After a while, I realized I really honestly missed animal stuff."
A decade and a half later, Sutton, 36, is the Minnesota Zoo's reigning "Zookeeper of the Year" for his collaboration with leopards and tigers and bears (oh, my).
Sutton did forge one distinct path: He went from working with domestic livestock to animals that cannot be domesticated. His feral coterie includes not only big cats and bigger bears but also boars and wild dogs known as dholes. He works with carnivores on the Northern Trail and trains bears named Sadie, Kenai and Haines at Russia's Grizzly Coast.
The St. Paul resident has become a bit attached. Asked about the worst part of his job, Sutton said, "We work with them every day of their lives, and they get sick and die. You do get connected. They're certainly not pets, but it's very hard when you lose an animal."
Sutton had more to say about getting up close and "personal" with his non-human sidekicks.
Q: What is mastery? What makes an excellent trainer?
A: You don't ever truly achieve that. Honestly, you just keep kind of learning. I started working with the hoof stock, then bears and leopards and tigers. You keep adding, and every day you learn something new. You have to know the species in general, have to know general behavior. Once you have that, you get to know the individual animal's personality, like, this is what a typical bear does, but this is what these three bears do differently. You need to be willing to learn something new every day no matter what you're doing. If you think you're a master, you're probably wrong.
Q: Do you train?
A: I should do more exercise [laughs]. … I try to do a lot of reading, learn from older keepers, talk to friends from school. And you learn from the animals. Most bear books you find are about bad hunting, but have interesting stuff about the bears.
Q: What are the best parts of the job?
A: Definitely the interactions with animals. Just when you think you have them figured out, they show you something new. Also the behind-the-scenes tours. In my job I get used to seeing [the animals] every day and don't think of them as 900-pound bears. But you get a school class here and see through [the kids'] eyes how exciting it is to be 10 feet from a bear. It rekindles that sense of wonder.
Q: Are there sacrifices?
A: We're open every day except Christmas and Thanksgiving. And even when the zoo is not open, we have to come in. So we work weekends, we work holidays. I miss a lot of family get-togethers. I work Sundays, so I miss a lot of Packers games.
Q: Does the mastery help other parts of your life?
A: It's helped a little bit with public speaking because the more you know about the topic, the more confident you get and the easier it is to do. When I started to do this, I didn't expect to do as much talking. And I pick up more cues from animals. Maybe with people, I should pay attention to physical cues rather than what people are saying [laughs].
Q: What's your ultimate goal?
A: I'm pretty happy with where I am right now. I'm not sure if I want to move up to a management position. The farther you move up the food chain, the less animal interaction you have.
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On Saturday, I had the pleasure of visiting the home of the artist Bruce Onobrakpeya. He has been called a "national treasure." A walk through his home gives a little glimpse why. As you walk through the gate, you are greeted with installation pieces. The flight of steps that rises from the ante room is covered in oil paintings, water colours, plastographs and installation work.
Upstairs is his work room and out of the turmoil emerges the beautiful work that I saw everywhere. His work is notable for its diversity. He is not an artist who works within one particular medium. He experiments and learns from other artists, including from his students. These influences are evident in a myriad of ways from the materials he chooses to use, from the way he presents the work.
The Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation organises the Harmattan Workshop for artists, which is supported by the Ford Foundation amongst other funders.
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4 comments:
- Efioanwan said...
Wow, great men are still walking this earth.
- 4:37 am, April 26, 2012
- Ore said...
Yes, very much so.
- 6:50 pm, April 26, 2012
hello Ore,
Welldone for documenting Dr. Bruce, my thesis in school included him. I will also like to seek your permission to use two of these photos in my forthcoming work titled a Flight to greatness'. Pls do grant me your permission. Thank you. my email is: firstname.lastname@example.com and my name is idoreyin N
- 2:28 pm, May 29, 2012
- Bruce Onobrakpeya Foundation said...
Bruce Onobrakpeya has been described as one of the most influential artists in West Africa by John Picton.
you can view his extended resume here
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- The Department adopted and implemented Proofpoint Encryption as a safeguard for email being sent outside the mo.gov domain that contains protected health information or otherwise confidential information.
- Every DHSS employee sending an email containing confidential information to a recipient outside the state domain must type [encrypt] on the subject line of the email to securely encrypt the email.
- Confidential information should not be included in the subject line because the subject line is not encrypted.
- The new encryption feature provides an additional safeguard against a breach by helping compensate for human error in some instances. The new feature will automatically encrypt an email being sent outside the mo.gov domain, even though the sender failed to type [encrypt] on the subject line, if the email appears to contain confidential information, e.g., a SSN or DCN.
- If you receive an encrypted email, you will be instructed to open a SecureMessageAtt.html attachment and click to read the message. The first time you will be asked to register in the Proofpoint encryption system and choose a password (which does not expire). Future encrypted emails from DHSS will only require you to enter your password to access the email.
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Hours after a body found on the Bridgeport-Trumbull line was identified as that of a missing Eastern Connecticut State University student, a Bridgeport man was charged with kidnapping and killing her.
Hours after a body found on the Bridgeport-Trumbull line was identified as that of a missing Eastern Connecticut State University student, a Bridgeport man was charged with kidnapping and killing her.
Jermaine Richards, 30, of 115 Beardsley Park Terrace, was charged with first-degree kidnapping and murder Saturday in the death of Alyssiah Marie Wiley. Wiley, a 20-year-old Eastern Connecticut State University sophomore originally from West Haven, went missing from campus April 20.
State police spokesman Lt. J. Paul Vance said in a release Saturday that police also seized evidence from Richards' home.
Police have not said what, if any, connection Richards had with Wiley.
Richards is being held on $2 million bail and will be arraigned Monday in Bridgeport Superior Court.
Wiley's body was found by cadaver dogs Friday in a wooded area off Quarry Road in Trumbull, almost 80 miles from the Willimantic campus where she was last seen. DNA testing provided a positive identification, but Wiley's cause of death is not yet known.
Vance said an autopsy performed by the state medical examiner will determine the cause of death.
ECSU students organized a vigil for Wiley at the campus late Saturday to remember their friend.
Wiley was last seen walking back to her dorm late on Saturday, April 20. Her missing person's report indicates that her boyfriend had dropped her off at a Dairy Queen on Main Street that night, and friends reported her missing when she didn't make it back to her dorm, a few blocks away. After university police were unable to find her, state police joined in the search April 24.
Police located a car they said was tied to Wiley's disappearance in Bridgeport on April 26, but have not yet released the identity of its owner. The search for Wiley has spanned the state, including several sites throughout Eastern Connecticut and greater Bridgeport.
Wiley's parents appeared, tearful, before assembled news media on May 2, asking the public to help find their daughter. Corrinna Martin and Christopher Wiley has also made appearances at other search sites.
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Wake County voters will not get a chance this fall to voice their opinion on whether local sales taxes should be raised to provide more money for teacher salaries.
In a 4-2 vote Monday, the Wake County Board of Commissioners rejected putting on the Nov. 4 ballot a referendum that would ask voters for permission to raise the sales tax rate by a quarter-cent. The additional revenue, estimated at around $27 million a year, would have gone toward raising salaries for school employees. It would have cost the median income Wake County household about $40 more per year.
Monday's vote came after a heated debate in which Republicans and Democrats accused each other of playing politics. Republican commissioners argued that the referendum wasn't needed, pointing to how the new state budget raises salaries for teachers.
"It is a state responsibility," said Joe Bryan, the Republican vice chairman of the commissioners. "The state addressed that with a 7 percent on average pay increase, the largest amount ever in the history of the state."
But Democratic commissioners questioned the stability of the state budget, pointing to the use of one-time dollars for the pay increase. Democrats also said Wake risks falling behind other counties that want to raise sales taxes to provide an additional pay boost for teachers.
"I'm simply asking that we let our voters decide if they think it's important for Wake County to remain competitive in teacher recruitment and retention, and if they think it's important that we pay our teachers more," said Democratic Commissioner Caroline Sullivan.
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Monday's vote kills the chances of a referendum for this year and likely one for next year, too. Monday was the deadline for commissioners to give the Wake Board of Elections enough time to put a referendum on the Nov. 4 ballot.
"I'm sad they've taken that opportunity away from voters," school board Vice Chairman Tom Benton said in an interview.
Also, a recently passed state bill awaiting the signature of Gov. Pat McCrory would only allow counties to hold special elections, such as referendums, in even-numbered years or during regular countywide elections.
Democratic commissioners complained that the new law would kill prospects for a half-cent sales tax vote being considered for November 2015 to pay for transit improvements. But Republican Commissioner Paul Coble said officials would then have more time to get a new transit plan right.
Monday's vote on the school referendum came after months of debate about how much the county should do to raise pay for teachers. In June, commissioners agreed to raise teacher pay by $3.75 million after rejecting a $29.1 million proposal from the school board.
In North Carolina, the state pays the salaries for most public school teachers. Counties such as Wake can supplement the state's pay. Wake's supplement is a percentage of each teacher's state salary, working out to an average of $6,204 per teacher.
For instance, the new state budget would raise the salaries for beginning teachers to $33,000, a raise of 7 percent. Wake would provide an additional boost to raise the salary to around $37,700 a year.
Democratic commissioners had pushed for the referendum, noting how Guilford and Mecklenburg counties are holding referendums this fall to raise sales taxes to provide more funding for teacher salaries.
"Why on earth would a new graduate in education not go to a place where they can make $3,000 more?" Sullivan said. "What's the incentive to come here to Wake?"
But Republican commissioners questioned raising sales taxes on the heels of a 4.4-cent property tax rate increase this year to repay last fall's school construction bond referendum.
"The point is not to be the highest county in the state in taxation," Coble said. "The point is to be competitive, and that's the reason we're seeing people come here and move into this area, and businesses come here – because they don't feel like they're going to be taxed unfairly."
Voting squabble
The heated tone of the debate was shown earlier in the meeting when commissioners voted 4-2 along party lines to not suspend the rules to allow Democratic Commissioner Betty Lou Ward to participate via phone. Ward, a supporter of the referendum, was recently discharged from the hospital and is recuperating.
County Attorney Scott Warren said that in his opinion, Ward's request to participate should be respected.
But Republican commissioners argued that letting Ward participate by phone wasn't warranted because her request didn't qualify as a real emergency.
"I have a problem with people who want to call in and vote on one item and don't want to participate in the entire meeting," Coble said. "It's not fair to the people who are here and doesn't help us have a healthy and robust discussion on a particular item."
Democratic commissioners accused their GOP colleagues of not showing respect to the board's longest-serving member.
"If that's the compassion we have, so be it," said Democratic Commissioner James West. "It's just perplexing. It's beyond my wild imagination that we as human beings would have that kind of incompassion and the inhumanity to one another."
Referendum support
During public comment, several speakers urged commissioners to put the referendum on the ballot. Paulette Jones Leaven, vice president of the Wake County chapter of the N.C. Association of Educators, said the group would work to get the referendum passed.
"I'm sure today a positive vote on this referendum being on the ballot will help instill confidence and will help shore up morale of the teachers in Wake County schools," she said.
The vote Monday came at a time when state legislators have been considering new limits on local decisions to raise taxes.
An earlier version of a measure would have set the limit on local sales tax rates at 2.5 percent – offering new tax options for most rural counties, but a step down from the current limit of 2.75 percent in Wake and five other urban counties. Wake's current local rate is 2 percent.
The Senate gave the counties a last chance at keeping the higher rate by adding a use-it-or-lose-it provision. If they acted to levy 0.25 percent before the last day of 2014, the urban counties would keep their authority to raise local sales tax rates to 2.75 percent.
The Senate approved the sales tax measure, but the House parked it in the House Rules Committee, often a place where bills go to die.


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Shanley is a business management student who won first place for UrLocker in the E. Philip Saunders Young Entrepreneurs Academy Regional "Bright Ideas" Competition—which earned him a four-year $30,000 scholarship from the Saunders College to attend RIT and an opportunity to show his prototypes at the Imagine RIT: Innovation and Creativity Festival last May. The innovative entrepreneur earned enough college credits at Ruben A. Cirillo High School in Gananda, N.Y., to enter RIT as a second-year student.
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The Somali refugees located in the Twin Cities have played a part in the creeping sharia that we discussed over the weekend in "Where once was Hamm's." In today's New York Post Maureen Callahan explores the phenomenon involving the disappearance of young Somali men in the Twin Cities. They have apparently returned to Somalia, where they are trained to wage jihad.
In "American terrorists" Callahan raises the question: what happens when these young men return to the United States? Incidentally, Callahan misplaces the Cedar-Riverside complex that has become a center of Somali life in the Twin Cities. It's not in St. Paul, as she says, but rather in Minneapolis.
This is a story that emerged in the wake of the death of Somali immigrant Shirwa Ahmed. Ahmed disappeared in Minnesota only to turn up as the perpetrator of a suicide bombing in Somalia last year. A federal investigation in the Twin Cities is apparently underway. We touched on the subject of Callahan's article at the time Ahmed's death came to light last year in "Willful blindness, from Minnesota to Mumbai" and "Waging jihad from Minnesota to Mogadishu."


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STOCKTON - There are no favorites in the Big West Conference 2012-13 men's basketball race, just contenders, and nearly everyone feels as if they have a shot at dancing in March.
As Long Beach State and UC Santa Barbara reload after controlling the Big West for a few years, there is a clearer path to the top of the conference for everyone. While the 49ers and Gauchos - who played for the conference's NCAA Tournament bid in Anaheim in each of the past three seasons - have talented transfers to take the place of departed standouts, it may take both programs time to regain top form, which has raised everyone's hopes.
"There aren't any dominant teams in our league but there a lot of good ones," UC Irvine coach Russell Turner said. "I'm not just saying that to be politically correct, anybody can win these games."
Coach Bob Thomason and the Tigers (6-7, 0-1) began their final run through the Big West with a 67-63 loss at Long Beach on Dec. 30 and will travel to UC Davis at 7 p.m. today. Thomason, the conference's all-time wins leader at 420, will retire at the end of this season and Pacific will join the West Coast Conference next season after 42 years in the Big West. Thomason, who has won six Big West regular-season titles, said it is simple, yet difficult, to achieve a formula that leads to conference crowns.
"To win the conference, you have to win at home and find a away to win four or five road games," Thomason said. "It's the team that stays healthy, gets lucky, has breakthroughs and plays good consistent basketball."
That consistency has been lacking for the Tigers as they have lost three of their past four games. Senior point guard Lorenzo McCloud said staying focused has been the theme this week, as the Tigers look to regain their early-season form.
"If we play like we did in the beginning of the year, I feel it would be our league to lose," McCloud said. "We just have to be aggressive and consistent."
Cal State Northridge (9-5, 0-2) was considered one of the contenders after terrific play in nonconference action, but coach Bobby Braswell's Matadors have dug themselves a hole with losses at Hawaii and against UC Riverside.
"I still feel we have that kind of team, I just haven't seen it the past couple of games," Braswell said. "We're young so success tends to go to your head and failure can go to your heart, so we have to be careful here and bounce back."
UC Santa Barbara's Bob Williams and Braswell still tabbed the 49ers as one of the leading contenders as coach Dan Monson incorporates three top transfers into his rotation, as well as Cal State Fullerton, who are led by former Tokay High standout D.J. Seeley.
"The past few years I felt us and Long Beach State were better physically, but now that middle class is stronger," Williams said. "I believe 13-5 could win this league."
Hawaii returns to the conference and is considered a contender because of its homecourt edge and deep, physical front line featuring 6-foot-11 senior center Vander Joaquim under coach Gib Arnold.
Thomason said with so many teams bunched together, he's told his team that they will have to learn how to enjoy the process of grinding out these games in the Big West.
"You have to fight through the first eight or nine games and see what you have," Thomason said. "Then you wait for people to step up in the second half and get some momentum."
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Most senior men and women are concerned about getting soft, gaining weight, and elevating their blood pressure. They have already discovered that dieting doesn't produce permanent weight loss and that walking isn't always effective for firming muscles. Quite true. Unfortunately, many seniors are afraid to try strength training, because they've heard that it can increase both their body weight and their blood pressure. Untrue.
Several small-scale studies have shown that strength exercise is effective for decreasing body weight, increasing lean weight, and reducing resting blood pressure. In addition, strength training results in a higher resting metabolic rate and greater daily energy utilization.
But what specific changes can seniors expect from a basic program of strength exercise? We recently analyzed data on 1,132 men and women who completed the South Shore YMCA basic fitness program. All of the participants performed 25 minutes of strength exercise and 25 minutes of endurance exercise, two or three days per week for a period of eight weeks.
The strength-training program included the following Nautilus exercises: leg extension, leg curl, leg press, chest cross, chest press, super pullover, lateral raise, biceps curl, triceps extension, low back, abdominal curl, neck flexion, and neck extension. Each exercise was performed for one set of eight to 12 repetitions, at a slow movement speed (2 seconds lifting and 4 seconds lowering) and through a full range of motion. Resistance was increased by approximately five percent when 12 repetitions were completed.
The endurance-training program involved walking on a treadmill and stationary cycling. Participants exercised at about 70 to 75 percent of their maximum heart rate, and progressively increased their training time to 25 minutes of continuous aerobic activity.
The basic fitness program was offered in a separate and carefully supervised exercise room. Classes were held almost every hour throughout the day, and typically had six participants with two instructors. The class members were assessed for body weight, body composition, fat weight, lean weight, systolic blood pressure, and diastolic blood pressure before and after the two-month training period.
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The 1,132 basic fitness program participants included 238 young adults (21 to 40 years), 553 middle-aged adults (41 to 60 years), and 341 senior adults (61 to 80 years). As shown in Table 1, all three age groups started the program with similar body weights (172.7 to 179.9 lb.) and percent fat readings (25.6 to 27.2 percent). The body weight and body composition changes were comparable for all age groups.


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Reality star Kim Kardashian got punched in the face and the video of the punch is below. The bad news? It was only for a celebrity boxing match.
The Keeping Up With The Kardashians star, along with some of her family members, participated in a celebrity boxing charity event back in November. The fights will be shown in tonight's episode of the E! reality show.
"I've never been hit so hard," Kim, 29, says in the clip (below). Kim's sister Khloe Odom Kardashian was however proud of her sis for fighting back.
"I'm really impressed," said Khloe. "Kim looks aggressive out there — she's defending herself!"
And though she claimed to have gotten a black eye from the match (she posted the above "black eye" photo on her site), Kim was however a good sport about the match. "The boxing match was crazy!" Kim Tweeted the night of the fight. "I'm a little banged up today but all worth it for charity!!!"
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— Use enough sunscreen to fill a shot glass, advises the American Academy of Dermatology, though larger people should adjust accordingly. Most people apply a quarter to half of the recommended amount of sunscreen, which lowers the advertised SPF factor.
— Spread it on liberally 15 to 30 minutes before going outside and reapply every two hours or after swimming, sweating or towel drying.
— Get some vitamin D. The body needs sunlight to make this vital chemical. The National Institutes of Health suggests five to 30 minutes of sun exposure between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. several times a week on the face, arms, legs and back during the warmer months. After that, seek shade, cover up, wear a hat and sunglasses and use sunscreen. Speaking of covering up, the FDA doesn't regulate clothing that claims to offer UV protection.
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HAVANA (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has arrived in Havana for medical treatment.
The Communist Party daily Granma reports that Chavez arrived during the night.
Chavez on Tuesday announced plans to travel to Cuba for more medical treatment after spending much of the past 18 months fighting cancer.
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My ped said Vitamin D once daily. She said its the one thing breast fed babies are lacking. My baby loves the taste and is thriving!
My ped said Vitamin D once daily. She said its the one thing breast fed babies are lacking. My baby loves the taste and is thriving!
Did you all get them online or in a store? And I wonder why that is. I mean breastmilk should be all they need right? What happened in nature that something is lacking? Things like that bug me haha
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I just got it from my local drug store it was about 18.00 dollars infant vitamin D 400IU and I give her 1ml daily. Vitamin D supports good bone health. Baby development will become impaired with a lack of Vit D also they were finding babies that were exculsivly breastfed were developing rickets. It's very hard for babies to get vitamin D naturally as it comes from sunlight and babies are not suppose to be in the sun without high ammounts of sunscreen which blocks out the Vitamin D.Depending on where you live there is little sunlight in the winter I live in Ontaio Canada and their has been little to no sunny days since I had my baby at the end of December. I know my OB also had me on 1000IU of VIT D when I was pregnant and had said it helps with baby bone growth and development inutero!
In addition, many moms (and adlts in general) are vitamin D deficient because we just aren't outside enough. This is particularly true for darker-skinned people: melanin inhibits the absorption of UV light, protecting people from skin cancer but also making it harder for them to produce vitamin D. So if a mom is vitamin D deficient, her milk may have less vitamin D than is desirable.
It is possible to overdose on Vitamin D, so if you are concerned talk to your doc before taking mega-doses of D vitamins!
I've not seen just the Vitamin D supplement only. Just the nasty poly and tri vi sol. I prefer unflavored meds, and meds with no dyes. I may have to look for that!
Thanks to our modern conveniences, we now spend much of our days inside we no longer get enough sun exposure for sufficient vitamin D synthesis. It is my understanding that even if a mother has ample vitamin D stores not enough of it necessarily passes through her milk to ensure that her baby will get sufficient vitamin D through milk alone. This makes sense, as this has never been the primary source of vitamin D for infants. As mentioned by paytons.mom and mommal, ample, direct sunlight exposure is the best way to insure that your baby gets enough vitamin D. Supplements should be given when it is too cold to go out with exposed skin (pigments in the skin synthesize vitamin D when activated by UVB light).
Recent research has shown that vitamin D is important for far more than just bone health. The Mayo Clinic has a good review on the current status of vitamin D.
Definitely look into the Carlson drops. You only need a single drop without all of the stinky stuff.
Darker skinned folks in cooler climates are at the highest risk of Vit D deficiency, but even very fair skinned people in sunny climates, like me, may be at risk because we use sunscreen to try to prevent skin cancer. Studies show that people get a LOT less exposure to sunlight now than they used to. If mom is deficient, she can't get it to her baby in breastmilk. You can expose your child to sunlight every day for Vitamin D, but I know where I live in CA, people are pretty worried about sunburn. So while most people who don't supplement turn out just fine, I don't see any harm in supplementing, ESPECIALLY if (a) you are darker skinned or (b) you live in a climate with long winters or not much sun at all (the Paciific NW) or (c) you live in a sunny climate but regularly use sunblock or never let your child in the sun without a hat, etc.
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That makes sense for sure. I went out and got the vitamin d only supplement drops today. And gave A2 her first dose. When I bought them I remembered that I actually did give A1 a multivitamin with d vitamin supplement when she was a baby and totally forgot. So I guess thank goodness I did that! She was my first so I was more paranoid and did everything ya know? I'm glad A2 isn't too old yet. I know both my brother and dad get vitamin d deficient. My dad suffers from SADD during our long winters here in Utah and my brother is actually on prescribed vitamin d supplements as his bone growth and repair has been harmed. So I'm so glad I got her on the vitamin D now. She hasn't been in the sun for more than a few seconds since she was born since its freezing here and mostly overcast right now. She always kind of acts like she hurts a bit and I thought it was her GERD but now I think it may be some bone pain. So after a few weeks on the D I hope to see an improvement. I wonder why my ped never told me to supplement? She always exclusively breastfed her babies and knows I do and plan to do extended BFing. She knows how much research I do on my own and how up to date (or I thought I was!) on most things so maybe she thought she had told me or thought I knew. Maybe she did tell me and that's why I had A1 on vitamins and I just forgot she said it...anyway I'm rambling now. Thanks everyone!
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You can get Carlson's Baby D drops online, like Amazon, or WF or other natural foods stores locally. Wegmans grocery carries them too, eat coast moms.
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I really doubt your baby is suffering from bone pain as a result of vitamin D deficiency. While it's never a bad idea to supplement, actual rickets takes a really long time to set in, and it's really incredibly rare in the developed world. Most cases of rickets result from severe malnutrition in childhood due to severe famine, etc. (Or famously, children in England in the 19th century would get it because they worked long hours in factories and didn't get any sun at all.) The supplement is recommended out of "an abundance of caution" and because there's no down side to supplementing, not because most babies are at high risk of developing severe deficiency. I just don't want you to feel bad for not giving the vitamins until now! Your baby is very unlikely to have suffered any adverse effects! The vitamin D deficiency that is common in the developed world today is a mild variation, generally not severe enough to cause bone problems.
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Forget hair dye - scientists may have discovered a more permanent way to get rid of grays, Medical Daily reported.
Gray hair is thought to be caused by an accumulation of hydrogen peroxide in the roots of hair follicles, which causes harmful oxidative stress. The same phenomenon is also linked to a skin condition called vitiligo, which leads to patchy pigmentation in skin and can cause eyelashes to turn white, Medical Daily reported.
In a new study, researchers analyzed skin biopsies of a group of people suffering from vitiligo and discovered that patients had low levels of an enzyme called catalase, which helps break down hydrogen peroxide and relieve oxidative stress.
Researchers then treated vitiligo patients with a cream containing a 'pseudo-catalase,' which can be activated by sunlight. After patients applied the cream, and spent time in the sun, pigment returned in both their skin and eyelashes.
Based on this finding, researchers believe a similar cream, applied to the hair, could restore color to strands that have gone gray, according to Medical Daily.
"For generations, numerous remedies have been concocted to hide gray hair," said Dr. Gerald Weissmann, editor-in-chief of The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, which published the study, "but now, for the first time, an actual treatment that gets to the root of the problem has been developed."
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Mark Olver - Happy Accidentally
Note: This review is from 2006
Mark Olver used to work with children with special needs, demanding, attention-seeking handfuls with short attention spans. It was ideal training for his job today, a comic who mostly comperes at clubs at the rowdier, Jongleurs end of the spectrum, corralling drunken stag parties and boisterous hen dos.
In fact, the career leap from that sort of environment to the relatively rarefied atmosphere of a Fringe show is often a greater one, which many a decent club comic struggles to make. When an audience have paid to see you personally and want to pay attention to what you say, you don't need shouting and crowd-control, you need material.
What Bristol-based Olver has skilfully managed to do is combine his strengths as a rabble-rousing MC with a story, of sorts. He's still happy to admit his weakness for the 'elaborately constructed wank gag', but that's not the be all and end all of the show.
The tale at the nub of it comes from his compering job, when he managed to dislocate his knee and break his ankle as he came bounding onto the stage at Bristol's Jester comedy club. At first, like Tommy Coooper's death, the audience first thought it was all part of the act, although it soon became clear it wasn't. Yet despite the agonising pain, and because he couldn't be moved, he continued to entertain the audience for 20 minutes until an ambulance arrived, slipping in and out of consciousness as he did so.
It's a great, if simple, story and Olver takes his leisurely time getting there, by way of all manner of other engaging anecdotes that provide important context - though you'd barely know it at the time, as the structure is so well disguised. He deviates wildly, banters expertly with the audience and is happy to explore in some depth what he learns from these chats, with a pretty impressive hit rate. 'My ad libs are better than my material,' he says. 'I'm nothing if not self-aware.'
But that's not a problem, he's just playing to his strengths, and it the main one is that he instinctively creates a vibrant, happy atmosphere, and one that's even better because of its spontaneity however engineered that spontaneity may actually be. He continually returns to running themes, such as the idea he's being bullied by an audience deliberately trying to wind him up, which all contributes to the feeling you're sharing a unique experience. Yes, he's still playing the inclusive compere to a large extent, but it's tailored to the audience he's playing to.
The upshot of it all is that this is a genuine feelgood show. Olver's optimistic message is that his accident brought him publicity (thanks to an initial story in Chortle picked up around the world) plus sympathy and gifts from all his friends in comedy. But the lesson is best taught by example, and Olver's true to at least half the title of the show. You'll come away happy, but it's no accident.
Steve Bennett
Review date: 1 Jan 2006
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett


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Will Davies created this limited edition print of the Canada II before the actual racing yacht was built.
"I'd seen a similar painting done by Bob Heindel and wanted to try something like that." says Will.
The idea originally came from a friend and client, art director Bob McGee, who suggested that the two men do the print as a business venture in advance of the 1987 America's Cup yacht racing series.
"I used photos of the Canada I," Will told me, "and the Captain of the Canada II came out to my studio and explained how all the rigging and so on should be strung."
"There were no shots with people on board, so I had to make up all the figures."
Will remembers Bob McGee moving out West to do paintings of horses not long after this venture. "Bob loved horses and knew everything about them."
The Royal Canadian Yacht Club in Toronto purchased the original painting... but the prints, unfortunately, did not sell well. "I still have a bunch of them here at the house," chuckles Will.
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Report: Dan Harmon Invited Back to Community
He let it slip at a Harmontown podcast taping.
Although the publicly unsavory nature of NBC's split with Community creator Dan Harmon renders any news of a reunion very take-with-a-grain-of-salt-y, here we go: "Dan Harmon just told the audience of his podcast Harmontown that he has been asked to return to Community!" writes Hollywookiee, who had a writer present at the Harmontown taping. "As soon as Dan said it, he asked that it be edited out of the podcast and it was just for us audience members (and I wasn't going to say a word) but soon after that Dan said 'Ahhh fuck it. I don't care who knows!'" Harmon joked he'd only go back if his good buddy Chevy Chase returned, too. It's unclear if Harmon would return as showrunner or just as a producer, although it's also unclear if this will amount to anything at all.


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Democrats seized Wednesday on a Republican Senate candidate's comments about pregnancy, looking to regain an upper hand with female voters not only in that state but also in the nationwide presidential campaign.
The candidate, Richard Mourdock of Indiana, apologized Wednesday for what he called the awkwardness of his remarks, in which he defended his opposition to abortion in most cases by saying that even pregnancy caused by rape is the will of God. Democrats criticized him, saying the remarks were demeaning to women and working to convince women to turn away from Mourdock as well as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
The brouhaha came as both parties wage a high-stakes contest for the support of female voters, a fight given new urgency as Democrats have lost their big lead among women and consequently found President Barack Obama in a neck-and neck-fight for the presidency.
It was unclear whether Democrats would be able to regain their historic advantage nationally among women. Last-minute controversies have a history of affecting close races, but this time most voters already have decided on their candidates. The controversy's impact on persuadable voters could depend on how long the story survives.
"Is this likely to affect a lot of voters? I'm skeptical," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
The greatest impact could come in the Indiana Senate race, where Mourdock is fighting to keep the seat now held by Richard Lugar in Republican hands. "Odds are 75 percent it will cost Mourdock the seat," said Brad Coker, the managing director of Mason-Dixon Polling & Research. "It's going to be something that will dominate local news all week."
The story started in a Senate debate Tuesday night when Mourdock was asked about his opposition to abortion in all cases except when the woman's life is in danger. His opponent, Rep. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., supports abortion rights in cases of rape, incest or saving the woman's life.
"I struggled with it myself for a long time," a highly emotional Mourdock said. "But I came to realize life is that gift from God, and I think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that God intended to happen."
Soon after the debate, he and his campaign worked to make sure no one thought he was saying that rape itself was God's will. "God creates life, and that was my point," a campaign statement said. "God does not want rape, and by no means was I suggesting that He does. Rape is a horrible thing, and for anyone to twist my words otherwise is absurd and sick."
On Wednesday, Mourdock apologized for giving the impression to anyone that he condoned rape or that he thought God condoned rape. "I have certainly been humbled by the fact that so many people think that somehow was an interpretation," he said. "I absolutely abhor violence. I abhor any kind of sexual violence. I am absolutely convinced that the God I worship abhors violence."
Romney, who's endorsed Mourdock and appears in a TV ad for him that started airing Monday, distanced himself from Mourdock's remarks. "Gov. Romney disagrees with Richard Mourdock's comments, and they do not reflect his views," spokeswoman Andrea Saul said. Romney opposes abortion rights, but does support exceptions in cases of rape, incest or to save the woman's life.
He didn't withdraw his endorsement or ask that the ad featuring his endorsement be pulled from Indiana's airwaves.
Democrats hit Mourdock and Romney within moments of the debate and continued Wednesday.
"The president felt those comments were outrageous and demeaning to women," Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Wednesday, raising the subject herself when reporters didn't ask about it. "This is a reminder that a Republican Congress working with a Republican president Mitt Romney would (feel) that women should not be able to make choices about their own health care."
"National Republicans cannot paper over Richard Mourdock's heinous views on rape. Enough is enough," added Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash, the chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Asked about the remarks on the Jay Leno program Wednesday night, Obama said, "Let me make a very simple proposition: Rape is rape. It is a crime. ... And so, these various distinctions about rapedon't make too much sense to me."
Democrats also hoped that the Mourdock remarks would cause the same controversy as remarks earlier this year by Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin in Missouri. Akin, a Missouri congressman, set off a firestorm when he explained his opposition to abortion rights even in cases of rape by saying it was rare for a woman to get pregnant if she really were raped.
Republican leaders, including Romney, distanced themselves from Akin.
In this case, Republican leaders and their allies were firm Wednesday in lining up behind Mourdock.
"Richard and I, along with millions of Americans – including even Joe Donnelly – believe that life is a gift from God. To try and construe his words as anything other than a restatement of that belief is irresponsible and ridiculous," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
"Richard Mourdock said that life is always a gift from God, and we couldn't agree more. To report his statement as an endorsement of rape is either willfully ignorant or malicious," added Marjorie Dannenfelser, the president of the conservative Susan B. Anthony List.
The major Western religions take varying positions on abortion.
"The Catholic Church's position is that direct abortion is the killing of an innocent life. However tragic, there are no exceptions to this position, even to save the life of the mother," said Karey Harwood, an associate professor of religious studies at North Carolina State University. "The Jewish and Protestant positions are too internally diverse to summarize as singular positions."


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Cotton producer Joe Bostick can't control every factor for producing high-quality, high-yield cotton. But the ones he can control get his full attention.
After harvest, Bostick cuts his stalks and runs soil samples where needed. Lime and maybe potash will go out in the fall and winter months. Having on-farm fertilizer bins and application equipment means he's able to spread when and how he wants to. He also uses homogenized fertilizer rather than blends, because it breaks down into the soil more predictably.
He'll burn down in the spring, about five weeks before planting with Roundup and 2,4-D, then go with another burndown of Roundup right before planting. Bottom land is planted on raised beds and hill ground is planted flat. A pyrethroid goes out behind the planter for cutworms, a must in Bostick's 100 percent no-till program.
He plants the majority of his acres in DP 444 BG/RR, the rest in DP 555 BG/RR, ST 5242 BR, BG 28R and DP 432 R. Joe Lamp with Agriliance makes sure Bostick gets ample supplies of seed for planting. Bostick uses a seed treater he purchased for $1,200 to apply Delta Coat AD, PGR-IV and Orthene to his seed. He figures he can treat his own for about 50 percent less than a commercially applied treatment. "We've had excellent results," says Bostick.
He'll put out 5-20-20 prior to planting, then knife in additional nitrogen after he establishes a stand. He'll make one over-the-top Roundup application before the fifth true leaf, then come in with a directed spray of Roundup, followed by a layby of MSMA and diuron. No hooded sprayers are used on Bostick's operation.
Bostick says a different weed emerges as a problem each year. This year, crabgrass is the culprit, according to Bostick's consultant, Homer Wilson. "We put out some Prowl this year. It helped in some places, but didn't in others. This is the worse crabgrass we've seen in years. We just had one flush after another."
Bostick starts applying plant growth regulator at pinhead square, preferring to go with smaller, more frequent applications to hedge against dry weather. In addition, smaller doses of PGRs at more frequent intervals create a more uniform boll set and a more uniform boll growth, which also contributes to more consistent cotton quality.
The only significant rainfall this season came from three hurricanes/tropical storms that tore through the Gulf of Mexico. "The rain helped because we were excessively dry," Bostick said. But it also brought damage. Early on, winds blew the young cotton over. Later, after cotton was opening up, winds from Rita blew cotton out of the bolls.
The seed treatment of Orthene takes care of thrips, although the producer will spot spray for the pests on occasion. Spider mites were a problem this year, which Bostick took care of with Bidrin on the first spray and Comite on the second. Two applications of Centric were directed at plant bugs. Stink bugs, mostly greens, are the hidden pest that producers don't think about, according to Wilson. The pest was controlled with Orthene and Bidrin.
Some odd pests have appeared in the past few years, such as snails and slugs. "We haven't had economical damage, but it has gotten our attention," Wilson said. Meanwhile, the elimination of the boll weevil "has helped us tremendously in how we manage our other pests."
Bostick defoliates his crop at around 60 percent open, although this year he pulled the trigger at 50 percent. He applied Finish and ET in a one-time application. Strong winds from Hurricane Rita helped out at defoliation this year, according to Wilson. "Cotton started defoliating itself. So it didn't take much on rates and we have not had a leaf sticking problem."
He picks the crop with two John Deere 9960s and one 9970 (all four-row harvesters), one module builder and Boll Buggy.
"Picking time is hard to beat," Bostick says, although this year's yields dropped off due to a couple of weeks of hot, dry weather in mid-August, between hurricanes. "We were already low on moisture and the heat just took its toll. We lost a lot of top bolls."
Timely rains pushed yields towards 1,000 pounds in 2003 and 2004, but could drop to between 750 pounds and 800 pounds this year. That still would be a profitable crop for Bostick, who figures he needs about 600 pounds to break even, with input costs of between $260 and $280 an acre.
In any event, new varieties seem to handle the drought better these days, according to Wilson. "We get a much quicker fruit set on these varieties. For the most part, we don't experience a lot of drought during the fruit set time."
Bostick gins his cotton at Servico Gin, in Courtland, Ala. The gin, operated by ginner and former National Cotton Council chairman Bobby Greene, is one of the more technologically-advanced gins in the world, using IntelliGin gin process control and new Continental LouverMax lint cleaners. These two technologies can minimize overcleaning at the gin and maximize returns for the grower. "They do a real good job," Bostick said. "Our grades overall have been good."
In fact, the consistent quality of his crop helped him sell his cotton mill-direct to Parkdale Mills for four years, from 1998 to 2002. Today, he markets his crop through Autauga Marketing.
Quality begins with variety selection and is preserved by the producer's ability to produce a uniform crop, "but in the end, a lot depends on how much rain falls at harvest and when," Bostick says.
Bostick is always ready for the challenge. Wilson recalls a meeting where someone remarked that there was some cotton being produced in northeast Mississippi, "but that it wouldn't be there long."
The population of cotton producers in this region has definitely thinned out some, but Bostick is still here, making a good living on a consistent, quality cotton crop. "He must be doing something right," Wilson said.
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