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Hormone, organic substance secreted by plants and animals that functions in the regulation of physiological activities and in maintaining homeostasis. Hormones carry out their functions by evoking responses from specific organs or tissues that are adapted to react to minute quantities of them. The classical view of hormones is that they are transmitted to their targets in the bloodstream after discharge from the glands that secrete them. This mode of discharge (directly into the bloodstream) is called endocrine secretion. The meaning of the term hormone has been extended beyond the original definition of a blood-borne secretion, however, to include similar regulatory substances that are distributed by diffusion across cell membranes instead of by a blood system.
General features
Relationships between endocrine and neural regulation
Hormonal regulation is closely related to that exerted by the nervous system, and the two processes have generally been distinguished by the rate at which each causes effects, the duration of these effects, and their extent; i.e., the effects of endocrine regulation may be slow to develop but prolonged in influence and widely distributed through the body, whereas nervous regulation is typically concerned with quick responses that are of brief duration and localized in their effects. Advances in knowledge, however, have modified these distinctions.
Nerve cells are secretory, for responses to the nerve impulses that they propagate depend upon the production of chemical transmitter substances, or neurotransmitters, such as acetylcholine and norepinephrine (noradrenaline), which are liberated at nerve endings in minute amounts and have only a momentary action. It has been established, however, that certain specialized nerve cells, called neurosecretory cells, can translate neural signals into chemical stimuli by producing secretions called neurohormones. These secretions, which are often polypeptides (compounds similar to proteins but composed of fewer amino acids), pass along nerve-cell extensions, or axons, and are typically released into the bloodstream at special regions called neurohemal organs, where the axon endings are in close contact with blood capillaries. Once released in this way, neurohormones function in principle similar to hormones that are transmitted in the bloodstream and are synthesized in the endocrine glands.
The distinctions between neural and endocrine regulation, no longer as clear-cut as they once seemed to be, are further weakened by the fact that neurosecretory nerve endings are sometimes so close to their target cells that vascular transmission is not necessary. There is good evidence that hormonal regulation occurs by diffusion in plants and (although here the evidence is largely indirect) in lower animals (e.g., coelenterates), which lack a vascular system.
The evolution of hormones
Hormones have a long evolutionary history, knowledge of which is important if their properties and functions are to be understood. Many important features of the vertebrate endocrine system, for example, are present in the lampreys and hagfishes, modern representatives of the primitively jawless vertebrates (Agnatha), and these features were presumably present in fossil ancestors that lived more than 500 million years ago. The evolution of the endocrine system in the more advanced vertebrates with jaws (Gnathostomata) has involved both the appearance of new hormones and the further evolution of some of those already present in agnathans; in addition, extensive specialization of target organs has occurred to permit new patterns of response.
The factors involved in the first appearance of the various hormones is largely a matter for conjecture, although hormones clearly are only one mechanism for chemical regulation, diverse forms of which are found in living things at all stages of development. Other mechanisms for chemical regulation include chemical substances (so-called organizer substances) that regulate early embryonic development and the pheromones that are released by social insects as sex attractants and regulators of the social organization. Perhaps, in some instances, chemical regulators including hormones appeared first as metabolic by-products. A few such substances are known in physiological regulation: carbon dioxide, for example, is involved in the regulation of the respiratory activity of which it is a product, in insects as well as in vertebrates. Substances such as carbon dioxide are called parahormones to distinguish them from true hormones, which are specialized secretions.
The hormones of vertebrates
Hormones of the pituitary gland
The pituitary gland, or hypophysis, which dominates the vertebrate endocrine system, is formed of two distinct components. One is the neurohypophysis, which forms as a downgrowth of the floor of the brain and gives rise to the median eminence and the neural lobe; these structures are neurohemal organs. The other is the adenohypophysis, which develops as an upgrowth from the buccal cavity (mouth region) and usually includes two glandular portions, the pars distalis and the pars intermedia, which secrete a number of hormones. The hormones secreted by the adenohypophysis are protein or polypeptide in nature and vary in complexity; as a result, their chemical constitution has not always been as fully characterized as has that of structurally simpler molecules of some other endocrine secretions. Functional analysis of these hormones also is difficult, for the targets of certain hormones of the adenohypophysis, called tropic, or trophic, hormones, are other endocrine glands. The action of such tropic hormones can be understood only in the light of the mode of function of the endocrine glands they regulate.
Growth hormone (somatotropin)
Growth hormone is a protein, the primary structure of which has been fully established for the human and bovine forms of the hormone. It is probably universally distributed in gnathostomes (vertebrates with jaws), in which it is essential for the maintenance of growth, but its presence in agnathans (jawless vertebrates) has not yet been established with certainty. The physical and chemical properties of growth hormone, which differ from species to species, are associated with marked differences in biological activity. Only part of the molecule, however, is actually responsible for its biological activity, for up to 25 percent of it can be lost without causing any decline in potency.
Humans respond to growth hormones obtained from other primates, but the rat responds to those from a wide range of species. Even more striking, growth of teleost (bony) fishes, which stops if the pituitary gland is removed, can be restarted by treatment with mammalian growth hormone; on the other hand, preparations of pituitary glands from these fishes have no effect on the growth of mammals. The growth hormones of lungfishes, which are closely related to the terrestrial vertebrates, and of sturgeons, which are primitive members of the evolutionary line that led to bony fishes, affect mammalian growth, perhaps because these hormones have a more generalized molecular structure.
Growth is such a complex process that definition of the growth hormone's mode of action is difficult. One of its known effects is an increase in the rate of protein synthesis, which is to be expected, since growth involves the deposition of new protein material. In addition, growth hormone affects the metabolism of certain ions (including sodium, potassium, and calcium), promotes the release of fats from fat stores, and influences carbohydrate metabolism in ways that tend to cause an increase in the level of glucose in the bloodstream. The last action creates a demand for an increased output of insulin (a hormone secreted by the pancreas), which acts to return the blood glucose level to normal. Prolonged treatment of dogs with growth hormone can overstrain the pancreatic tissue in which insulin is synthesized and bring about a diabetic condition, with insulin being formed in inadequate quantities. It is unlikely, however, that this is a factor in establishing diabetes mellitus in humans. Excess secretion of growth hormone does, however, have damaging effects in humans, for it produces overgrowth of the skeleton. If this occurs in youth, before the closure of the epiphyses (ends) of the long bones, it results in gigantism. If it occurs afterward, it causes acromegaly, in which the disturbance is more serious, with enlargement of the bones and soft tissues and consequent distortion of the skull.
Prolactin is a protein hormone that in female mammals initiates and maintains the secretion of milk, the mammary glands having been previously prepared for this function by the action of other hormones. In the female rat, prolactin also maintains the secretion of the hormone progesterone, which is formed by the corpus luteum, an endocrine gland of the ovary. Thus, prolactin is a gonadotropin, its target being an endocrine gland. Moreover, the molecular structures of prolactin and growth hormone are similar, which may explain why they show some overlap in biological properties. In particular, administration of prolactin promotes some growth in many terrestrial vertebrates. Human growth hormone has prolactin-like luteotropic properties.
Prolactin itself shows remarkable variety in biological action from one vertebrate group to another. It promotes the production of so-called crop-milk with which pigeons feed their young, and the associated changes in structure and arrangement of the wall of the crop provide a convenient means to assay the hormone. In certain newts (Triturus species) prolactin induces the change of behaviour that drives young animals into the water (water-drive action). In bony fishes, prolactin is concerned with the regulation of the level of sodium in blood plasma. It therefore is essential in some teleost species for the maintenance of life in fresh water. Although other teleosts (e.g., eels) can survive in fresh water after hypophysectomy, this means only that prolactin is but one factor in a complex regulatory mechanism involving several factors. Mammalian prolactin can regulate sodium metabolism when given to eels. Yet, although other convincing evidence suggests that the hormone must be present in the pituitaries of certain teleosts, preparations of their glands tested on pigeons do not have a typical crop-stimulating action. This evidence is best accounted for by supposing that the prolactin molecule has undergone evolutionary changes in its molecular structure and biological properties with respect to particular species and has also established specific adaptive relationships with target organs such as the crop and mammary glands.
Adrenocorticotropic hormone
Adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH; also called corticotropin) is present in all jawed vertebrates but has not yet been decisively demonstrated in agnathans. It regulates the activity of part of the outer region (cortex) of the adrenal glands. In mammals its action on the adrenal cortex is limited to areas called the zona reticularis and zona fasciculata, in which important steroid hormones (e.g., glucocorticoids, such as cortisol and corticosterone) are formed; ACTH does not affect the synthesis of the mineralocorticoid hormone aldosterone, which takes place chiefly in the outer cortical region (zona glomerulosa). Evidence strongly suggests that the action of ACTH is mediated by a substance known as CAMP (cyclic 3′,5′-adenosine monophosphate), the rate of synthesis of which increases in adrenal tissue in the presence of ACTH; CAMP in turn promotes synthesis of enzymes necessary for the formation of cortisol and corticosterone. The relationship between ACTH and the adrenal cortex is an example of the negative feedback characteristic of endocrine systems; i.e., a decrease in the level of glucocorticoids circulating in the bloodstream evokes an increase in the secretion of ACTH, which, by stimulating the secretory activity of its target gland (the adrenal cortex), tends to restore to normal the level of glucocorticoids in the bloodstream. The release of ACTH can also be influenced by the level of circulating epinephrine (adrenaline), which is not surprising in view of the close functional relationship between the hormones of the adrenal cortex and medulla.
The ACTH of mammals is a polypeptide molecule consisting of 39 amino acids, only the first 20 of which are required for full activity. This region, often referred to as the active centre, is constant in composition in all mammals studied thus far; the remainder of the molecule varies slightly in amino acid composition among different species. Since, however, the mammalian hormone is active in all vertebrates, ACTH structure probably varies little from one class to another. The concept that biological activity is localized in an active centre of a complex molecule is applicable to other polypeptide and protein hormones, including growth hormone, the structure of which, as noted previously, can be partly lost without causing loss of activity. The concept of an active centre, however, raises the question of the function of the rest of the molecule. It may serve as the site of antigenic properties or of structural features important in establishing relations with specialized receptors in target cells.
Thyrotropin (thyroid-stimulating hormone)
Thyrotropin (also called thyroid-stimulating hormone, or TSH) regulates the thyroid gland through a feedback relationship similar to that for ACTH; thyrotropin increases the secretion of the hormones from the thyroid gland and, if its action is prolonged, evokes increases in cell number (hyperplasia) and in size of the gland. One consequence of an overactive thyroid in humans is a bulging of the eyes (exophthalmos). The cause of this is obscure, although it has been thought to result from the action of a distinct exophthalmos-producing substance that, while closely associated with thyrotropin, can be chemically separated from it. Thyrotropin, which is probably absent from agnathans, is a glycoprotein—i.e., a protein combined with carbohydrate. Its molecular weight is estimated to be about 26,000 to 30,000 in mammals. Some variability occurs in the degree of response obtained when a hormonal preparation from one species is tested on other species. This suggests, as with prolactin, that it has undergone molecular evolution.
Follicle-stimulating hormone
Follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) is a type of gonadotropin; it is concerned with the regulation of the activity of the gonads, or sex organs, which are endocrine glands as well as the sources of eggs and sperm. FSH stimulates development of the graafian follicle, a small vesicle containing an egg, in the ovary of the female mammal. In the male it promotes the development of the tubules of the testes and the differentiation of sperm. FSH, like thyrotropin, is a glycoprotein, with an estimated molecular weight (in humans) of 41,000 to 43,000. The effects of FSH are discussed further in the section Hormones of the reproductive system, below.
Luteinizing hormone (interstitial-cell-stimulating hormone)
Luteinizing hormone (LH; also called interstitial-cell-stimulating hormone, or ICSH) is another gonadotropin, a glycoprotein with a molecular weight of 26,000 in humans. In the female mammal it promotes the transformation, following release of the egg (ovulation), of the graafian follicle into the corpus luteum, an endocrine gland. In the male LH promotes the development of the interstitial tissue (Leydig cells) of the testes and hence promotes secretion of the male sex hormone, testosterone. It may be associated with FSH in this function. The interrelationship of LH and FSH has made it difficult to establish with certainty that two separate hormones exist, particularly since both are glycoproteins. Although the existence of two hormones has been established in mammals, the situation in lower vertebrates is not yet certain. All vertebrates undoubtedly have gonadotropic activity in their pituitary glands; but, although FSH-like and LH-like effects are detectable, it is not yet clear that two distinct hormones always exist.
An unexpected property of mammalian FSH and LH is that both have a thyrotropic action (i.e., stimulate secretion of thyroid hormones) in lower vertebrates. This so-called heterothyrotropic effect has led to the supposition that FSH, LH, and thyrotropin may have evolved by modification of a common ancestral glycoprotein molecule, resulting in an overlap of properties.
Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (intermedin)
Melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH; or intermedin), secreted by the pars intermedia region of the pituitary gland, regulates colour changes in animals by promoting the concentration of pigment granules in pigment-containing cells (melanocytes and chromatophores) in the skin of lower vertebrates. MSH acts in conjunction with the nervous system in bony fishes and reptiles. No response involving physiological colour change is found in birds and mammals, although the hormone is secreted by them, even in species in which a pars intermedia region is no longer distinguishable in the adenohypophysis. MSH is known to influence the behaviour of mammals and the total amount of pigment in their skin, which darkens in humans after administration of large doses of the hormone. This type of change, however, which results from a change in the total amount of pigment present, is called a morphological colour change, in contrast to the physiological one that occurs in the skin of lower vertebrates.
As noted above, MSH exists in three forms. α-MSH contains 13 amino acids, which are found in the same sequence in all species studied thus far. ß-MSH and γ-MSH vary in length and sequence. All three forms are derived from a protein known as proopiomelanocortin (POMC). A change in biological activity results from the differences in amino acid composition, in which each form is capable of activating a different melanocortin receptor (MCR).
Evidence shows that each of the adenohypophysial hormones is secreted by a specific cell type. The cell types can be differentiated by staining sections of the pituitary gland, and known changes in the output of an individual hormone, induced experimentally or correlated with phases in the life cycle, can be shown to correspond with changes in the appearance of the corresponding cell type.
The regulation of the activity of the secretory cells of the adenohypophysis depends upon its association with the floor of the brain and results from the existence of a neurosecretory system located mainly, perhaps entirely, in the hypothalamic region there. Much remains to be learned about this system, which involves the passage into the adenohypophysis of neurosecretions from the hypothalamus called hypothalamic releasing factors. Chemical characterization of these factors shows them to be simple polypeptides, in which respect they resemble the hypothalamic polypeptide hormones. This neurosecretory system is best understood in mammals, in which good evidence has been found for the existence of a separate releasing factor for each hormone secreted by the pars distalis region of the adenohypophysis; a similar arrangement probably exists in other gnathostomes. The situation in agnathans is obscure, but the anatomical organization of the pituitary glands of these animals implies at least some form of chemical communication between the hypothalamus and the pituitary gland.
Chemical communication is achieved by two routes. One route is by the entry of neurosecretory-cell fibres from the hypothalamus into the adenohypophysis, so that the hypothalamic factors, when released, are either in immediate contact with the secretory cells or in blood capillaries very closely related to them. This route is characteristic of the pars intermedia region, in which neurosecretory fibres from the hypothalamus control the functioning of the secretory cells. If the pars intermedia is separated from its direct connection with the floor of the brain, for example, MSH secretion in amphibians increases, and prolonged darkening of the skin results. Secretory activity of the pars intermedia cannot then be regulated again until the nerve fibres have regenerated.
Direct innervation similar to that of the pars intermedia is also found in the pars distalis of bony fishes. Here neurosecretory fibres arise from a localized region of the hypothalamus, called the nucleus lateralis tuberis, and end in contact either with the various types of secretory cells or with blood capillaries related to them. The other route of chemical communication to the pars distalis is found in many fishes and in all terrestrial vertebrates; it is a vascular route that depends upon the median eminence, which lies at the front end of the neurohypophysis. The median eminence is a neurohemal organ containing a capillary bed into which hypothalamic neurosecretory fibres discharge their releasing factors. These are then transmitted through blood vessels known as the hypophysial portal system, into the capillaries of the pars distalis, where each factor influences its specific target cells.
Both hypothalamic neurosecretory routes have the same physiological significance: they provide chemical communication between the adenohypophysis and the central nervous system, thus making it possible for the latter to regulate the activity of the gland (and also of the endocrine glands its tropic hormones influence) in response to the demands of both the internal and external environments. The hypothalamic neurosecretory system is also involved in the function of the negative feedback mechanisms that regulate the secretion of the tropic hormones. As already mentioned for ACTH, the secretions of tropic hormones from the adenohypophysis are controlled by bloodstream levels of the hormones secreted by their target glands; the hormones of the target glands may act directly on specific adenohypophysial cells or indirectly by influencing the output of releasing factors from the hypothalamus.
Neurohypophysis and the polypeptide hormones of the hypothalamus
Another neurosecretory system, which involves the hypothalamic region of the brain and the neurohypophysis of the pituitary gland, originates in groups of neurosecretory cells in the hypothalamus called, in mammals, the nucleus supraopticus and the nucleus paraventricularis and, in lower vertebrates, the nucleus preopticus. Neurohormones from these regions pass along the axons of the neurosecretory cells to the neural lobe bound to a protein called neurophysin (molecular weight of 20,000 to 25,000). In the neural lobe, which is the neurohemal organ of this neurosecretory system, the hormones separate from neurophysin and are released into the bloodstream.
In most mammals, the neurohormones are oxytocin and vasopressin (sometimes also called arginine vasopressin, since in many species the hormone contains arginine). Both have relatively simple and very similar molecular structures. Each is composed of nine amino acids arranged as a ring, which is formed by the linkage of two molecules of the amino acid cysteine (a disulfide linkage ―S―S―), and a short side chain. The two hormones differ in structure only at amino acids numbered 3 and 8. In some species of the family Suidae (pig, peccary, hippopotamus), arginine vasopressin is replaced by lysine vasopressin; in others, both may be present. The difference between the two vasopressin hormones is that one has the amino acid lysine (Lys) at position 8 while the other has arginine (Arg).
Both the vasopressins and oxytocin show some overlap of activity, which is a consequence of the similarities in their molecular structures. Preparations of the three hormones evoke responses from the mammalian kidney, from the epithelial-cell layer of the frog bladder, and from the smooth muscle in blood vessels, uterus, and milk glands. The slight variation in amino acid composition, however, affects the levels of the responses; i.e., the vasopressins differ slightly from each other in response, and oxytocin differs markedly from both. Each, therefore, is said to have a characteristic pharmacological spectrum, and all have some medical use.
The primary actions of oxytocin are the promotion of uterine contraction (of value in obstetrical medicine) and the release of milk during suckling. The stimulation exerted upon the nipples during suckling leads to the transmission of nerve impulses to the hypothalamus. These bring about the discharge of oxytocin, which causes contraction of the smooth muscle of the small ducts of the mammary glands and the release of milk. Although the vasopressins cause an increase in blood pressure in mammals through vasoconstriction (i.e., contraction of blood vessels), this action requires a high concentration of hormone and is probably not a normal physiological effect. The primary action of the vasopressins is on the kidneys; it brings about a reduction in the output of urine. As a result, vasopressin is also commonly known as antidiuretic hormone (ADH). A lack of this hormone in humans results in a copious flow of urine, a condition called diabetes insipidus, which is readily alleviated by pharmacological preparations containing vasopressin.
The antidiuretic action of vasopressin is thought to depend upon its binding to the outer surface of the kidney tubule, resulting in an increase in the uptake of sodium from the urine into the tubule cells and, concurrently, an increase in the uptake of water. The amount of water, however, is greater than can be accounted for merely by increased diffusion of sodium into tubule cells, suggesting that ADH increases either the number of or the size of pores on the surfaces of the cells. One stimulus that increases the release of vasopressin is a rise in the concentration of certain substances—chloride, for example—in blood plasma. These substances act directly upon the neurosecretory cells, although other receptors may also be involved. Another stimulus is a lowering of plasma volume, which probably acts chiefly through receptors in the vascular system, particularly in the heart and in the carotid blood sinuses. Both conditions necessitate increased retention of fluid; as soon as normal conditions are restored in the bloodstream, the secretion of ADH is reduced by negative feedback.
Oxytocin and the vasopressins are members of a series of hormones of which seven members have thus far been fully characterized. The existence of others is suspected. All show the same molecular structure but differ with respect to individual amino acids. The hormones are thought to have been derived from each other by mutations that resulted in one amino acid substitution at a time; the starting point in the series is arginine vasotocin, which is the only one of the series found in agnathans. Two types of molecules are found in gnathostomes—a result, presumably, of a genetic duplication that established two lines of evolution. One line (basic vasopressor principles) is constituted mainly of arginine vasotocin, which is present in all gnathostomes except mammals; amino acid substitution in the molecule gave rise to the vasopressins of mammals. The second line (neutral oxytocin-like principles) is represented by oxytocin, isotocin, glumitocin, and mesotocin. Each evolutionary line tends to have characteristic molecules, but the molecular history in the second line is not clear. Oxytocin is thought to exist in some lower gnathostomes, and it is not yet certain whether it or mesotocin is phylogenetically the older molecule.
The functions of the hypothalamic polypeptide hormones in lower vertebrates are not yet clear, except to some extent in amphibians, in which arginine vasotocin evokes the so-called Brunn (water-balance) response; that is, water accumulates within the body as a result of a combination of increased water uptake through the skin and the wall of the bladder and decreased urinary output. This response, which also involves the uptake of sodium by the skin, is found only in the more terrestrial members of the Amphibia, in which it is an adaptation that enables them to conserve water. Hypothalamic polypeptides may also be involved in the movements of water and ions (charged particles) in fishes. Changes in the functions of the polypeptide hypothalamic hormones during vertebrate evolution have occurred, partly as a result of evolution of their targets. For example, water balance in amphibians is mediated by a hormonal molecule that was already present in agnathans and was thus a part of the earliest hormonal endowment of vertebrates.

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May 19, 2000
San Luis Obispo, Calif. - Gabe Neboyia pitched his finest game of the season when the Gauchos needed it. This was his first shutout of the season and his fourth complete game. Neboyia allowed only five Cal Poly hits, struckout six and only walked one batter.
The game remained scoreless until the Gauchos came to the plate in the third. With one out, Jeff Carter walked and stole second. On the throw, short stop Brian Oxley committed one of his two errors on the night to allow Cater to advance to third. Mike Kolbach then grounded out to the second baseman which scored Carter on the play.
The score remained 1-0 until the Gauchos came to the plate in the fifth. They scored three runs, all on RBI singles from Chad Peshke, Dave Molidor and Tyler Von Schell. With the score 4-0, the Gauchos came to the plate the very next inning to put the game out of reach.
In the sixth, the Gauchos brought ten batters to the plate and scored five runs. With one out, Jimmy Walker singled to left. After advancing on a wild pitch, Andy Campanella hit one of his two triples on the day to drive in Walker. Carter was then hit by a pitch which brough Kolbach to the plate. He singled to drive in Campanella and advance Carter to third. Peshke then singled to drive in Carter as Kolbach advanced to second. After a pitching change, Molidor walked to load the bases. Von Schell reached on an error by the third baseman which resulted in scoring by both Kolbach and Peshke. A Jeff Bannon flyout and ground out by R.J. Smith ended the inning as the Gauchos scored five runs on four hits.
The Gauchos put two more runs on the board in the seventh. Campanella's second triple drove in Walker who singled earlier in the inning. A fielder's choice out by Carter drove in Campanella for the final run in the game for the Gauchos.
Neboyia earned his sixth win on the season to even his record at 6-6, while Jon Smith picked up the loss for the Mustangs to drop his record to 7-4.
Overall, the Gauchos have a 27-24 record, while Cal Poly is 31-23. The teams are tied in the Big West with a 17-11 record. UCSB and Cal Poly will meet again tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. in San Luis Obispo.


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11 week old puppy pooping on our bed.
Our 11 week old mini wirehaired dachshund is occasionally pooping on our bed,we had her for 2 weeks and so far it happened about 4 times.
She's been diagnosed with coccidia and is on her last two doses of Albon for it.
As of today I started feeding her for the second time around 4pm took her out and she pooped
Her stool has been solid and she doesn't have any runny stuff.She also pees in our bed,I take her out one last time before bed,than brush my teeth etc. while she stays with my husband,a few minutes later when I'm already in bed my husband then puts her into bed with me,she than hops around the bed-spreads like the energizer bunny,eventually she stops but quickly pees one last time on the bed before finally What are we doing wrong
Thanks in advance!
You are expecting too much from a tiny, young pup who has been very sick.
Since you are able to see a pattern in her last late night mistake on your bed, then know that just before she stops her last late night romp in the sheets you need to take her outside ASAP.
She has not learned to recognize that she needs to go and so the second she feels it she does it. Her brain and muscles are still young and they aren't always communicating with each other in a timely manner.
Also, every time she soils the bed and you don't catch her, then she learns to soil on the bed. She is also learning to soil on soft things like mattresses and sheets. Dogs often habituate to a texture that they can soil on so be careful and set her up for success on the grass.
Also.....just because she soils once doesn't mean she isn't going to need to do it 3 more times within the next 15 mins. So you have to give her lots of chances to do it some more on the grass.
Also............When is the last time she gets water? Take her out just before bed, again after she races around the bed and then you are done. Try not to let her reload with more water. A little water is okay but try not to let her fill the tank.
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Doug Short is out with his fantastic chart illustrating the latest GDP advance estimate tick, which shocked everyone by going negative.
First, here's the BEA's breakdown:
- Real personal consumption expenditures increased +2.2 percent in Q4, compared with an increase of 1.6 percent in Q3.
- Real nonresidential fixed investment increased +8.4 percent in Q4, compared with a decrease of -1.8 percent in Q3.
- Exports decreased -5.7 percent in Q4, compared with an increase of +1.9 percent in Q3. Imports decreased -3.2 percent, compared with a decrease of -0.6 percent in Q3.
- Government spending decreased -15.0 percent in Q4, in contrast to an increase of +9.5 percent in Q3.
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After busy week in the global market, the ETFdb pop quiz returns with another round of questions about Leverage, Liberia, Large.
As always, all answers can be found using the suite of free tools at ETFdb.com, including the ETFdb Categories, ETF screener and the new ETF Analyzer.
1. Which Leveraged Currency ETF has the lowest expense ratio?
2. Which Government Bond ETF has a higher YTD return?
3. Which FactorShares ETF has the highest beta, 2x Gold Bull or 2x Oil Bull?
4.Which ETF has the largest number of assets?
5. Which Liberia ETF has the highest exposure?
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Brussels, 13 November 2008
Taxation of savings: The European Commission proposes changes to eliminate tax evasion
(see MEMO/08/704)
The European Commission has adopted today an amending proposal to the Savings Taxation Directive, with a view to closing existing loopholes and eliminating tax evasion. Since 2005, the Savings Directive ensures that paying agents either report interest income received by taxpayers resident in other EU Member States or levy a withholding tax on the interest income received. The Commission proposal seeks to improve the Directive, so as to better ensure the taxation of interest payments which are channelled through intermediate tax-exempted structures. It also proposes to extend the scope of the Directive to income equivalent to interest obtained through investments in some innovative financial products as well as in certain life insurances products. Moreover, simplification of the technical operation of the Directive should lead to a more user friendly system and more efficient implementation.
László Kovács, Commissioner for Taxation and Customs, said: "The first report on the operation of the Savings Taxation Directive concluded that the Directive, although effective within the limits of its scope, can be easily circumvented. The current scope of the Directive needs to be extended, in order to meet our goal of stamping out tax evasion, which affects the national budgets and creates disadvantages for the honest citizens."
Determining the effective beneficial owner of interest payments
The first review of the Directive has shown that, at present, it is relatively easy for individuals to circumvent the rules by using interposed legal persons or arrangements (like certain foundations or trusts) which are not taxed on their income.
As far as interest payments are made by paying agents (banks, financial institutions, independent professionals, etc.) established in the EU to certain intermediate structures (listed in the compliance list in Annex I of the proposal) established outside the EU, the Commission proposes that paying agents in the EU (who know, under the anti-money laundering provisions that the beneficial owner of the interest payments is an individual resident in the Union) apply the provisions of the Directive (exchange of information or withholding tax) at the time of the payment to the intermediate structure, as if this payment was directly made to the individual.
Concerning payments of interest to certain intermediate structures established within the EU, including some non-charitable trusts and foundations, those structures will be always obliged to act as a "paying agent upon receipt". This means that the provisions of the Directive (exchange of information or withholding tax) must be applied by these structures upon receipt of any interest payment from any upstream economic operator (bank, financial institution, independent professional), no matter where they are established and regardless of the actual distribution of any sums to the individual beneficial owners. The suggested definition of "paying agent upon receipt" includes all entities and legal arrangements (trust foundations etc) which are not taxed on their income under the general rules for direct taxation in their Member State of residence/establishment (an indicative list of those entities and legal arrangements will form Annex III of the Directive).
Extending the scope to income equivalent to interest payments
The Savings Taxation Directive can also be circumvented by using innovative financial vehicles instead of a classical savings account in a bank.
Therefore, the Commission proposes extending the scope of the Directive to income from:
Income from investment funds
In addition, the Commission proposal seeks to ensure a level playing field between all investment funds or schemes (be it undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities authorised in accordance with the UCITS Directive[1] or not), independently of their legal form. This means that income obtained from those investment funds by individuals resident in the EU will be subject to effective taxation.
On 1 July 2005, the provisions of the Savings Taxation Directive started to be applied by all EU Member States. The purpose of the Savings Directive is to promote exchange of information automatically between Member States and thereby enable them to apply their own taxation rules to interest payments which their residents receive from paying agents in other Member States. Belgium, Luxembourg and Austria, instead of exchanging information automatically, are obliged to levy a withholding tax at a rate of 20% on a transitional basis, until 30 June 2011 and at a rate of 35% thereafter. Nevertheless, citizens receiving interest in these 3 Member States may opt individually for the exchange of their information and then no withholding tax is levied.
The same or equivalent provisions to the Directive (exchange of information or withholding tax) have also been applied in 5 European third countries (Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Andorra and San Marino) and in 10 dependent or associated territories of the United Kingdom and the Netherlands (Anguilla, Aruba, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Montserrat, the Netherlands Antilles as well as the Turks and Caicos Islands) through the implementation of bilateral agreements.
Further information on the Directive and on the proposal can be found at:
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Choose a fabulous artwork in a size and specification to fit your space. The high-quality image resolution is reproduced on fine art paper or canvas and creates exceptional clarity, depth and richness of colour that really enlivens your walls.
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and that the library created the parser on the fly as needed. It's not only less typing - but also much simpler mental model. This simpler model is sometimes too simple - for example if you parse a lot of dates then sparing the parser creation each time can make a difference.
I think the optimal thing to do is provide two APIs - like JSON - a functional one:
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Will the success formula of Comic-Con International work for a Mickey Mouse operation?
The leadership at Walt Disney Co. hopes so as it moves forward with the D23 Expo, a four-day event next month in Anaheim that will celebrate -- and sell -- all things Disney with celebrity appearances and slick sneak previews of upcoming films, television shows and theme park attractions.
The approach is pure Comic-Con, the pop-culture festival that has become one of Hollywood's most potent megaphones by providing hard-core fans with insider-access experiences that turn many of them into Internet apostles for movies, television shows and other projects.
Last month, more than 126,000 people attended Comic-Con in San Diego, and films such as "District 9" and "Avatar" enjoyed a strong surge in public awareness after putting stars and filmmakers in the same room as fans hard-wired into Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
Disney was a key player at Comic-Con with Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton appearing before a cheering crowd to promote their 2010 release "Alice in Wonderland," but now the company is looking to separate itself by throwing its own pop-culture party in Disneyland's shadow.
Robert Iger, Disney's president and chief executive, said that the company has, more than any other entertainment outlet, enjoyed decades of support from "very passionate, very ardent" uber-fans, but now, in this digital age, that constituency has greater expectations as well as newfound tastemaker power.
"We will be much better served by serving them better," Iger said. "We live in a world where digital communication enables people to express their opinions about things to a much broader set of people. We call it the combustion of digital world of mouth . . . their ability to communicate with others is unlike anything we've seen at any time before."
It's a good time for Disney to reach out to fans -- the recession has been bruising, even for a company with a market cap of $49.8 billion. Disney's profits declined in the most recent quarter with tough times for television advertising, DVD sales and domestic theme park attendance. The film studio posted its first operating loss since 2005, despite the success of Pixar's "Up." Disney's ABC has also struggled, with declines in summer prime-time viewership landing the network in fourth place.
Still, company leaders are sunny about the potential of D23, which is a chance to preach to their most devoted choir, the fans who are true believers in the Disney marketing message, that the company creates touchstones, not just entertainment properties.
The event at the venerable Anaheim Convention Center will be a chance for Disney to promote feature films such as Burton's "Alice," "The Princess and the Frog" and "A Christmas Carol" but also will serve as a big tent for Disney's varied empire. Attendees will not only be offered the chance to buy new teen-pop CDs and vintage animation cels, for example, they also will be pitched travel packages for the Disney Cruise Line.
ABC Entertainment Group President Steve McPherson and stars Patricia Heaton, Kelsey Grammer and Ed O'Neill will be part of a major presence for the network, which has a screening room and an exhibit dedicated to "Lost."
The expo's schedule aspires to be all things to all Disney fans. The Disney Channel will bring the cast of "Wizards of Waverly Place," screen an upcoming episode and stage a musical performance. Pixar fans will be more interested in the final day's slate of events: a presentation by animation guru John Lasseter, a special "Toy Story 3" preview and a digital 3-D screening of the first two "Toy Story" films.
The expo will also try to stir interest in the reworking of California Adventure, the struggling Anaheim venture that is undergoing a $1 billion reworking and will, in 2012, have a new 12-acre attraction based on Pixar's "Cars." It may also be used to announce the major upgrade to "Star Tours," the somewhat creaky Disneyland ride based on "Star Wars."
The D23 Expo (the name alludes to 1923, when founder Walt Disney arrived in Hollywood) will begin Sept. 10 with an Iger speech about the future of the company. Iger may take the opportunity to share a favorite anecdote about a fan who stood up at a Disney shareholders meeting in New Mexico and said the company should give its most passionate fans more respect and special access.
"Some of these fans show up at those meetings," Iger said, "because, other than going to our parks, it's been the only way they can feel truly connected."
D23's corporate heritage sets it apart from Comic-Con, which started in 1970 as a scruffy merchant show in a hotel basement. Now bursting at the seams, it has become a world's fair for fanboys.
Conventions in New York and Chicago are cutting into the San Diego event's supremacy as far as Hollywood programming, and it's reasonable to wonder if Disney will also scale back its participation if it finds success in Anaheim. The D23 Expo is $35 a day (or less with multi-day passes) -- for programming that runs from 10 a.m. past 11 p.m.
Disney is not the first corporate entertainment power to create a major dedicated expo aimed at giving fans an insider experience. About 75,000 people attended Star Wars Celebration in 1999 in Denver, organized by LucasFilm, and there have been six editions of the event since, including a 2006 staging at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Lucasfilm is entertaining civic sweetheart deals now for a 2010 encore.
Like "Star Wars," Disney has a world-class array of toys and collectibles, and there will be 20,000 square feet at the expo devoted to merchandise new and old. A Disney Treasures exhibit will feature more than 100 rare items, among them artifacts such as Annette Funicello's sweater from "The Mickey Mouse Club" and Fess Parker's coonskin cap from "Davy Crockett." Iger said he was stunned during a warehouse tour of the pieces, especially a "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" prop of the Nautilus that he called "a jewel."
Iger said some components of D23 may eventually travel beyond Anaheim -- perhaps those vintage items, considering the success of the touring "Harry Potter" exhibit -- but overall the expo is viewed as an annual Anaheim tradition in the making.
The D23 brand goes beyond the expo. It's a new $75-a-year paid-membership fan club that launched in March to provide "a high-end, elite-level access" for intense Disney fans, according to Steven Clark, head of the initiative. It includes a glossy quarterly magazine and members-only special events and advance screenings.
The passion Disney is hoping to tap into is the same one that powers hundreds of blogs that obsess over Disney lore, theme park doings and daily corporate life of the company employing more than 150,000.
The D23 community got off to a slow start, according to Al Lutz, editor of the independent Disney blog MiceAge, but the expo seems to mark a turning point. "To their credit, they have really come to the ballpark," he said. "They've been responsive and listening to the fan community."
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Here's the 411 on D23
The four-day expo has programming from 10 a.m. to past 11 p.m. There will be numerous film screenings, many with cast members and creators in attendance. Among them: "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" (Sept. 10), "The Shaggy Dog" (Sept. 11), "Sleeping Beauty" (Sept. 12) and a special digital 3-D screening of "Toy Story" and "Toy Story 2" (Sept. 13).
There's been talk of a major overhaul of the "Star Wars"-themed "Star Tours" attraction at Disneyland, and actor Frank Oz confirmed to The Times earlier this year that he had recorded new dialogue for Yoda, who would be added to the somewhat dated ride. Lucasfilm and Disney won't comment, but the fact that a large Stormtroopers group is scheduled to appear at D23 suggests this might be the event where plans are announced.
Fans of Disney's hand-drawn animation can catch 30 minutes of footage from "The Princess and the Frog," which has never been seen publicly, during Chief Executive Bob Iger's presentation. Anika Noni Rose, the actress who voices the main character, Princess Tiana, is expected to join him onstage to perform a song from the movie.
Walt Disney Imagineering will preview its advanced audio-animatronic technology and discuss updates that were made to the Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln exhibit at Disneyland and how the Hall of Presidents at the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Orlando was refurbished.
For the complete schedule of events, go to the Hero Complex blog latimes.com/herocomplex.


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mechanical switch, Foot switch (SW1_P)
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The USB Switch cable with 7Φ, length 2m (Max length 150m ), can also connect Six any shape switches at the same time. It is used in playing games, factory testing, controlling instruments, helping the disabled and so on. You can use it by hands or feet for efficiency.
It is equivalent to a standard HID USB keyboard and mouse , but it is customizable by using the setting software, which can define your foot switch as any keys, key combinations , mouse and string , No other software is required.
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Auditors report on Nikki Sinclaire MEP
Link: http://www.eureporter.co.uk/story/auditors-report-nikki-sinclaire-mep
Independent MEP Nikki Sinclaire has become the first British Member of the European Parliament to receive a satisfactory auditor's report in respect of her expenditure in accordance with articles 25 to 28 of the Parliament's rules.
It looks likely that politician's expenses will become an issue in the forthcoming General Election, as they did in last year's euro-elections, which saw the main parties punished at the polling booths by voters. Ms Sinclaire has highlighted the lack of transparency amongst elected members of all the parties. "Despite all the media coverage, and the fact that criminal charges have been brought against the worst offenders, politicians still have not got the message", she said. "We are still seeing vague and incomplete declarations, politicians are still employing their wives and families, and despite the economic crisis they still go off on luxurious taxpayer-funded junkets".
The issue of politicians diverting allowances to their parties is also an issue that she feels needs to be addressed, and one which parliament and OLAF are known to be investigating. Ms Sinclaire has in fact raised a formal question with the EU Council of Ministers concerning money that she has personally identified as having been diverted from staff budgets and into UK party coffers.
The auditor's report shows that she has not only acted absolutely within the rules, and that she has not benefited personally from her expenditure allowances, but that she has also personally funded her activities on behalf of her constituents to the tune of more than £10,000.


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Willie Nelson Makes Special Little Girl's Dream Come True
Willie Nelson spent his weekend fulfilling one little girl's big dreams.
On Friday night (July 11), Nelson took the stage at the Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, Missouri, joined by Jason Isbell and co-headliner Allison Krauss and Union Station. And it was there that the singer met adorable audience member named Tatum Lee.
Tatum made the 2-and-a-half-hour drive from Joplin, Missouri to Kansas City with her family. It was all thanks to the loving volunteers with the Make a Wish Foundation, who arranged for Tatum to meet her favorite singer, Nelson. But they didn't just meet -- she was also lucky enough to get her guitar signed and a photo with the legend.
The little girl relies on music a great deal, especially every four months when she has operations to extend the rods in her back. Her next surgery is rapidly approaching, but now she'll have memories of seeing her favorite singer, Willie Nelson, to help get her through. More pictures from the meeting are on Nelson's official website.
The country icon is currently touring Krauss. The 35-city U.S. tour runs a few more days before the last stop in Toledo, Ohio. Isbell was on a portion of the tour along with folk trio the Devil Makes Three and Kacey Musgraves.
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I've always wondered this but never asked. Given this statement:
Energy can be neither created nor destroyed.
Should it be or or nor? This is on Wikipedia so they are probably correct in saying nor but why is this so? In my opinion it sounds like it should be or.
The more I think of it the more I think it can be left up to interpretation or emphasis. For example, it could be interpreted to mean:
Energy = ¬Created ∨ ¬Destroyed
Energy = ¬(Created ∨ Destroyed)
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Scott Teare, Faculty Member and Research Physicist, May 4, 2001
SOCORRO, N.M., May 2, 2001 -- After six months on the job at New Mexico Tech, Scott Teare has been dividing his time between being a professor of electrical engineering (EE) and as a research physicist for the Magdalena Ridge Observatory (MRO) in his dual role at the state-supported research university.
In his capacity as an electrical engineering professor, Teare is currently is tasked with managing two laboratory courses--one in micro-controllers and another in digital electronics. He also serves as an academic advisor to several undergraduates and has even recruited a few of them to work in
his photonics laboratory.
Next semester, Teare will be in charge of the EE department's senior design course in which students enrolled in the class take on real-world problems submitted by industry. He also has developed a new course for the fall semester in optical coating and electronic device fabrication which will be offered jointly through the EE and physics departments.
As a research physicist, Teare is participating in the development of instrumentation and adaptive optics systems for New Mexico Tech's MRO, a state-of-the-art optical observatory that, once constructed, will produce extremely detailed images of celestial objects located in the far reaches of the universe.
"I've spent the last five years working on various astronomical telescopes and have been focusing on building scientific instrumentation and adaptive optics systems," Teare relates.
By developing and combining new technologies, such as adaptive optics and optical interferometry, astronomers and other scientists using the MRO will be provided with unprecedented clarity and resolution in the images they attain of distant stars.
In the recent past, Teare has worked with Laird Thompson of the University of Illinois on retrofitting the 83-year-old, 100-inch telescope at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California with laser-guided star adaptive optics which compensate and correct for optical disturbances caused by atmospheric turbulence, allowing astronomers to do cutting-edge research on some of these older telescopes.
"I've also built spectrometers for telescopes, and am in the process of completing a near infrared spectrograph as my first research project here at Tech," he notes. "It's all very fun stuff. . . . There's no problem finding exciting things to do."
Teare's other research interests also include astrophysics, high-speed parallel computing, and high-angular resolution imaging. Later this month, he is hosting a photometry workshop in Big Bear, Calif., as part of the annual International Amateur/Professional Photometry-Western Wing Symposium.
He earned his bachelor of science degree in physics and mathematics, as well as his master of science and doctorate in condensed matter physics, from the University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada.
"My coming to work at New Mexico Tech is an ideal scenario for me," Teare relates. "I've been impressed with how many doors can be opened through being at Tech."
In his spare time, the Canadian-born physicist enjoys scuba diving and sailing -- even if it means a 12-hour drive to his favorite sailing spot, California's Long Beach Harbor -- and, closer to home, mountain biking along the Rio Grande.
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On July 22, 1825, the Cleveland Herald welcomed the German and Irish immigrants who had come to Ohio after completing New York's Erie Canal. They joined local farmers and laborers, who already were working on the canal to supplement their income. Initially, wages were 30 cents a day plus a ration of whiskey. By September 1825, more than 2,000 men were working on building the "Big Ditch."
It was once said that Ohio's wilderness was so thick that a squirrel could cross from one side of the state to the other without setting foot on the ground. To construct the canal, the men first had to chop a path through the forest. Using picks, shovels, and wheelbarrows, laborers worked from sunup until sundown clearing the path and then digging the canal. Once dug, the canal ditch was lined with clay to make it water tight. Construction of the sandstone locks was also difficult. Each stone weighed between two and four tons and had to be set in place using a system of ropes and pulleys. Beyond the dangers of the work itself was the possibility of catching malaria, or "Canal Fever" as it was called by the workers. Many of these workers lost their lives to this disease. It has been said that an Irishman was buried for every mile of canal constructed.
The main channels of the canal were to be 26 feet wide at the base and 40 feet wide at the water line (see Diagram 1). The water depth was to be four feet. Horses and mules provided the power for the canal boats. Connected to the boat by tow lines, the animals pulled the boats along the canal by walking along a towpath, a dirt path that was built parallel to the canal. Mule drivers walked along with the mules or horses and guided them along the towpath.
Locks, chambers that served as water elevators to compensate for changes in elevation, were vital to the operation of the canal (see Diagram 2 and Photo 1). Constructed of sandstone blocks, the lock walls were five feet thick at the base and tapered to four feet at the top. Each lock chamber was 90 feet long, 15 feet wide and had a lift of 8 to 10 feet. The size of the locks subsequently determined the size of the boats, which averaged about 80 feet long and 14 feet wide. A boat would be pushed manually into a lock. Once inside, the boat would face a giant, eight-foot step. A small sluice gate in the main gate would open to allow water to flow into the lock. After the water raised the boat up and over the step, the boat could proceed to the next lock.
In many spots along its route, the canal had to cross other rivers and streams. At these locations, aqueducts carried the canal over the stream. Culverts, barrel-shaped channels, carried small streams under the canal. Turn-around and pull-off basins allowed boats to unload cargo, make repairs, stay the night, or simply turn around.
When completed in 1832, the canal had cost $4,244,540. This averaged just less than $15,000 per mile. The finished canal consisted of 146 lift locks, 7 guard locks, 14 aqueducts, 203 culverts, and 14 dams. The canal operated throughout the 19th century, but its heyday was in the 1840s. By the late 1870s railroad construction had caused a slow decline in the use of canals. Between 1905 and 1907, the state tried to rehabilitate the canal by repairing lock walls and sluice gates. In 1913 a major flood devastated the state and the canal. Canal damage was extensive and the cost of rebuilding was too great. In effect, the 1913 flood washed away the Ohio & Erie Canal.
Questions for Reading 2
1. Who performed the labor of building the canal?
2. What health hazard did canal workers face?
3. What was the purpose of the towpath? Why do you think this method of locomotion was used? What would be some of its disadvantages?
4. How many years did it take to complete the canal?
5. What finally put the canal out of business?
Reading 2 was compiled from Carol Poh Miller, "Ohio and Erie Canal" (Cuyahoga County, Ohio) National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1978; and James S. and Margot Jackson, The Colorful Era of the Ohio Canal (Peninsula, Ohio: Cuyahoga Valley Association, 1988).


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CBS Sportscaster Jim Nantz drops by the New Orleans set of THE TALK to preview this weekend's Super Bowl game, Friday, February 01, 2013. All week THE TALK broadcasts live from CBS Super Bowl Park at Jackson Square in the heart of the historic French Quarter in New Orleans leading up to Super Bowl XLVII airing on the CBS Television Network. Sheryl Underwood, from left, Sara Gilbert, Jin Nantz, Sharon Osbourne, Aisha Tyler and Julie Chen, shown. Photo: Heather Wines/CBS ©2013 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved


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Zhang has been associate conductor of the New York Philharmonic, won awards and appeared with major orchestras around the world, including the L.A. Philharmonic at Disney Hall, where she is leading a program of works by Bartok and Prokofiev this weekend.
But opinions about Zhang's new role bouncing about the blogosphere most frequently commented upon her gender. Music aficionados even posted close-up photographs of the Chinese-born and educated Zhang's glitter-painted lips on the Web. It's hard to imagine Gustavo Dudamel receiving the same treatment.
The appointment of a female music director in a country as conservative as Italy has generated considerable buzz and again focused attention on the progress women have made toward taking their place on the podiums of major orchestras -- and the stubborn forces that prevent more of them from getting there.
Classical music institutions throughout the world are embracing the notion of female conductors more than ever. In addition to appearing regularly as guest conductors and in assistant conductor positions with top orchestras, women are now commonly in the running for -- and occasionally winning -- music directorships.
Recent appointments in North American orchestras include Joana Carneiro at the Berkeley Symphony, Laura Jackson at the Reno Philharmonic, Anne Manson at the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, Teresa Cheung at the Altoona Symphony, Elizabeth Schulze at the Flagstaff Symphony and Antonia Joy Wilson at the Midland Symphony.
The nation's most established female music directors are proving successful at their jobs. Over the course of JoAnn Falletta's 11-year directorship of the Buffalo Philharmonic, the orchestra's budget has grown from about $7.5 million to $10 million. The orchestra has won two Grammy Awards, made 14 recordings and boasts record subscription levels. Meanwhile, in 2008, the Baltimore Symphony announced its first balanced budget in five years, which observers attribute in part to enthusiasm surrounding the appointment of music director Marin Alsop in 2007.
It couldn't have been more different only a few decades ago. "It is safe to say that until the past 15 or so years, there simply was no woman with an important international conducting career," wrote Henry Fogel, the League of American Orchestras' former president, on his blog in 2007. Despite inroads by such early pioneers as Antonia Brico (1902-89), Sarah Caldwell (1924-2006) and Judith Somogi (1941-88), women rarely appeared on the podiums of major orchestras in the first half of the 20th century.
The 1980s saw a small surge in female conductors, with Alsop, Falletta and the composer-conductor Victoria Bond leading the pack.
These conductors had to fight hard for their success. When Bond was conducting the Pittsburgh Youth Orchestra early in her career, a doorman tried to prevent her from entering the rehearsal studio because he couldn't find her name on the orchestra's list of players. "I looked like a youth orchestra musician, not the conductor," recalls Bond, who is conducting the premiere of her own composition, "Frescoes and Ash," at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Monday evening.
"Then a newspaper guy got hold of the story and ran with it, saying, 'She's no bigger than a bass fiddle, but she's in charge of the orchestra,' " Bond said. "That was all very flattering, but it undermined my sense of authority."
Faletta has an alarming experience in her past as well. "When I was conducting a major symphony on the East Coast, one of the older members of the orchestra said he hoped he would die before seeing a woman on the podium."
The new generation of female conductors don't report the sort of skepticism encountered by their forebears. "I don't feel like I am being held back because of my gender," says Jackson. "I can continue to excel."
They are also reluctant to attribute professional difficulties to their gender.
"The chemistry between an orchestra and its conductor is very subtle. There are times where I feel that there is something not quite right, but I can't be sure why. Is it because I'm a woman or Asian or young or something else?" says Zhang. "I try not to be too sensitive to the fact that I'm a woman. The majority of my experiences have been very positive. I haven't felt any prejudice so far."
There seem to be several reasons for the growing self-confidence and prevalence of female conductors. Female instrumentalists are no longer a novelty in the country's top orchestras, which has helped audiences and industry insiders to accept that women are as capable of the highest levels of musicianship as their male counterparts. The increased visibility of women in leadership positions in politics and government as well as in key orchestral management positions, like L.A. Philharmonic President and Chief Executive Deborah Borda, also has had an impact.
"In the past, people saw leadership as a quality connected solely with men," says Boston Symphony assistant conductor Shi-Yeon Sung. "But now women like [German Chancellor] Angela Merkel hold very important positions, so people see that there is no limit to what women can do."
The increasing availability of training opportunities for women has also helped to attract more aspiring female conductors. Since its inception in 2002, the League of American Orchestras' Conducting Fellows Program has offered nine fellowships to up-and-coming conductors. Four of the recipients have been women.
The Taki Concordia Fellowship, founded by Alsop in 2003, exclusively supports the development of female conductors through mentorship and providing professional conducting opportunities with major orchestras alongside established musical directors such as Alsop.
"The fellowship provided me with a unique experience both in terms of the significant podium time as well as one-on-one coaching with Marin," says recipient Jackson. "I learned a ton from her. She was able to say things to me that no man would have dared to say. Once, when she was watching my left hand, Marin shook her head and said, 'Your left hand is way too girly.' We laughed. Her comments cut to the chase."
In the past, a conductor's job was largely wielding a baton from on high. These days, the role demands a more collaborative, nurturing approach. Orchestras expect their conductors to work as partners with the musicians and the community rather than be aloof artistic dictators.
"The old idea of the autocrat who led by absolute authority has fallen away," says Jesse Rosen, president of the League of American Orchestras. "The qualities of leadership have changed, enabling different types of people who possess strong partnering and nourishing skills, many of them women, to inhabit leadership roles."
If today's up-and-coming female conductors are able to ignore gender issues, it's partly thanks to their forebears.
"Without these amazing women, I know history for my generation would have been very different," says Carneiro. "I feel a deep sense of gratitude towards pioneers like Marin and JoAnn who have made it possible for my generation to have full access to all the opportunities we have. I have never felt I won or lost an audition or competition because of the fact that I am a woman. It was always based on musical reasons. This is a very profound gift and a privilege when we think of our recent history."
Yet the podium still remains largely male territory. Women head up only 11.9% of the country's symphonies, according to the latest data from the orchestra league. While female conductors are now more regularly ascending to music director positions at small and midsize orchestras, only two women in this country -- Falletta and Alsop -- run big-league institutions.
Conductor training programs continue to be dominated by male students. Tanglewood's three conducting fellowships all went to men this year. The Los Angeles Philharmonic's new conducting program offered four fellowships, all of them to male conductors; of the 26 conducting students enrolled on the Juilliard School's prestigious program since 1990, only four have been women.
And some people's minds change slowly. "A while ago, I auditioned for a music director position and was one of two finalists," recalls Sarah Ioannides, music director of the El Paso and Spartanburg, S.C., symphonies. "I didn't get the job. Later, I found out from a board member that the executive director didn't want a woman on the podium for its 50th-anniversary season."
Still, it may not be too long before the world's most august classical music institutions hire female music directors.
"I think we'll see a woman at the top within a decade," says Alsop, who hopes that there will be enough professional female conductors working in the world some day to open the Taki Concordia fellowship up to male applicants. "Then again, I might have said the same thing 25 years ago and would have been proved wrong. Hope springs eternal for me."


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Slight schedule shake-up is coming Monday at WBT-AM (1110): "Charlotte Morning News" adds an hour, cutting Keith Larson back to 10 a.m. to noon.
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In the 9 a.m. hour, morning host Bo Thompson will preside over a topical segment keyed to the day's major story or something trending in the news. Expect extended interviews and calls from listeners.
Larson, who's held the hour since coming to WBT in 2002 and announced the change on the air Tuesday morning, says he's fine with it. He hopes to do more writing after the success of his book on Hope Stout and the Panthers, "That Season of Hope," and his side advertising and marketing business is picking up steam.
"A change in daily schedule and body-clock will work well," says Larson, who habitually shows up at WBT at dawn to prepare for his show. "WBT is a part of who I am and what I do."
"Bo is the rising star at the station," says Furst.
Thompson is one of the few local broadcast personalities who grew up in Charlotte. He was still a student at Myers Park High School when he started working part-time at WBT in 1990, and here's an irony: His first gig there was as an intern for Mike Collins, whose hour-long "Charlotte Talks" show runs at 9 a.m. on WFAE-FM (NPR 90.7), opposite Thompson's new hour.


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Fox News Hides The President's Budget Plan
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Now that Mitt Romney has chosen Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) -- made infamous by his extreme budget proposal -- as his running mate, some at Fox News are pretending President Obama's plan to reduce the deficit doesn't exist. But President Obama has a plan to reduce the deficit. It's been laid out in significant detail for nearly a year and was widely reported in the media.
On the August 11 edition of Fox & Friends Saturday, host Dave Briggs asked, "will the pressure be on [the Obama campaign] to come up with some sort of deficit reduction plan that they have punted on?"
Later on Fox & Friends Saturday, conservative radio host Michael Graham also claimed that the Obama administration doesn't have a plan, saying, "I refuse to debate anyone on the Paul Ryan plan until they tell me the Obama plan. ... there is no plan from the White House."
Again, Obama does have a plan to reduce the deficit. It's a plan that's been lauded for its specifics and includes a combination of spending cuts and tax increases, with an emphasis on near-term stimulus and middle-term deficit reduction -- a hierarchy of priorities that coincides with the advice of economists, who note that unemployment is still the most immediate need to address.
The Washington Post's Ezra Klein bookmarked the deficit provisions for anyone having trouble finding them:
On deficit reduction, Romney's plan "requires spending cuts of approximately $500 billion per year in 2016." He has not released spending cuts that come anywhere close to that goal. He does have some nice words to say about the Ryan budget, but Romney advisers have told the media that their candidate disagrees with large parts of it, including the Medicare cuts.
The comparison to Obama is, again, instructive. Pages 23 through 37 of Obama's budget detail dozens of spending cuts and tell you how much money they'll save. You might not like those spending cuts, or you might want to see more. But at least you know the specifics of the president's plan.
ABC News highlighted some of the provisions in September 2011:
The bulk of the savings in the president's plan come from $1.5 trillion in deficit-reduction through new taxes for high-end earners and $580 billion in cuts to entitlement programs, including $248 billion to Medicare and $72 billion to Medicaid.
Obama also proposed other means to raise taxes, including more than $800 billion by allowing the Bush tax cuts for upper income earners to expire and $300 billion by closing loopholes and eliminating special-interest tax breaks.
In total, the president's plan will claim more than $4 trillion in deficit reduction through entitlement cuts, tax increases and war savings, in particular. The proposal includes $1.2 trillion in savings from the Budget Control Act and $1.1 trillion from drawing down the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Of course, conservatives are certainly aware of Obama's budget and its deficit priorities. But if they acknowledge its existence, they'll be forced to compare it to a Romney plan that "defies the rules of math," or a Ryan plan dubbed "the most fraudulent budget in American history."
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I'm happy to report that our electrical lines have been repaired and we have electricity in our house again. Counting from Tuesday of last week to today (Thursday), we had ten days that were spent at least partly without electricity.
A crew of linemen came to the house last night about 7:00 pm, but decided that our problems were too extensive to fix in the dark. They came back this morning and spent about five hours shoring up the tilted pole and repairing multiple broken lines.
One of the guys was from North Carolina, but the others were from Tennessee. All were employees of the Davis H. Elliott Company.
According to a January 28, 2009, news release, Elliott sent nearly a thousand power line workers to eight states after the ice storm.
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