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This Could Feed The Entire Planet Three Times Over – And That's Not All
We have more than enough resources on the planet to take care of everybody's needs. For example, if we look at our food waste alone, we see very quickly that with what we throw into landfills we could easily feed the entire world three times over.
We continue to look to big corporations for solutions to our problems, while remaining blind to the real solutions that could easily be implemented, or are readily available today. Solutions to these problems seem to go hand and hand with profit, and these proposed "solutions" seem to have a negative impact on human health and the environment. Genetically modified organisms are one example of these proposed 'solutions' to end the world hunger problem. Meanwhile, we do not know the full dangers of the practice and as a result, multiple countries around the world have banned them. A number of studies have shown that they can indeed be harmful to our health. Here is one of many that raises cause for concern.
We also have concepts such as free energy that could provide energy to the entire planet with no external input. There are literally hundreds of ways we could create change on this planet, so why aren't we doing it? What is stopping us? One thing that's stopping us is a lack of awareness, the more people that wake up to what is really happening around them, the more people feel the need to change the world. With that intent alone, the ball will start rolling as we accelerate towards a new experience for all. Luckily, the ball is already in motion.
Humanity is waking up, and we are starting to see much more clearly. Check out this very informative video below:
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Latest Facebook Strike Means CE Might No Longer Be Able To Pay Me To Write
In Brief
- The Facts:
A new online 'fact-checking' agency has wrongfully labeled one of our articles as 'false news,' impacting Facebook's distribution of our content and once again seriously reducing our advertising revenues.
- Reflect On:
Is there a way for us as a community to come together and get beyond the reach of censorship and demonetization brought upon us by the social media establishment?
This message goes out to those readers who have enjoyed one or more of the almost 200 articles I have written for Collective Evolution since April 2018, and more broadly to those who believe in CE's mission and mandate to provide conscious fact-based journalism: Now is the time for us to come together as a community.
It is a time when our ability to speak out against the fraud, corruption and manipulation of the social media giants and the powerful financial elite that support them is being severely impacted by these very forces. And unless those who believe in the value of our work and our mandate are willing to put a stake in the ground at this time and really support our efforts to overcome mainstream perception and its agenda to keep people distracted and asleep, our voices may be snuffed out.
The profound irony of the situation is not lost on me. Allow me to explain.
Facebook Reach
A basic explanation of how Facebook works and its impact on CE's revenues is in order.
Up until a few years ago, the basic algorithm that Facebook used for delivering content into individuals' daily news feeds was pretty simple: the more the individual actually clicks on the content provided by a source, the more consistently it would be delivered into their news feed. This algorithm was really in service of the people, give them more of what they are indicating that they want to see in their news feed.
Of course this was of great benefit to companies like CE, who were consistently creating content that people wanted to read. And so a few years ago it would not be unusual for a CE article to get over a million views, from some of the over five million people who had 'liked' the CE Facebook page that was launching the articles. This number of views in turn generated advertising revenue that more than supported CE's operating expenses and initiatives that helped them really get their message out.
Fast forward to today, where the Facebook algorithm is increasingly being used as a tool to limit the distribution of content that mainstream forces do not want proliferating amongst an awakening population. New organizations are cropping up in cyberspace that purport to have the authority, knowledge, and discernment to label certain content as inaccurate, misleading, or flat-out 'fake news' that is somehow a threat to the public. What's worse, these organizations and their findings actually have an impact on the reach that media companies like CE get for their articles.
Is this a violation of freedom of speech? Not exactly–it's even trickier than that. It's as if you are running a newspaper business, and they tell you that they will not prevent you from writing what you want. Your newspaper sells out daily at all the newsstands. Slowly, they start pressuring the newsstands not to put out all the newspapers you sent them. Then they start buying up all the newsstands, and the newsstands now tell you that they are not sure your content is suitable for their customers–even though they are selling out. Then the newsstands just stop buying and selling your newspapers, and you're out of business–all because your content is not what the powerful new owners want the public to see.
The Latest Hit Job
Many examples could be given of how this plays out in our modern social media infrastructure that is so crucial in terms of the information the average person gets to see. Let's examine the latest hit job on CE in detail to get a really clear picture of what is going on and the hypocrisy that is inherent in it.
In early March of this year I wrote an article entitled "Unvaccinated Children Pose No Risk To Anyone, Says Harvard Immunologist". It was an article revealing that immunologist Tetyana Obukhanych has substantial scientific insights that lead her to believe that unvaccinated children pose no greater health risk than vaccinated children. I would defy anyone to examine this article and find any place in it where I am promoting 'false news' or authoring 'misleading content.'
The article centers around a 2015 'Open Letter To Legislators Currently Considering Vaccine Legislation' she wrote where she argues to legislators, some of whom are poised to remove vaccine exemptions from their districts, that "discrimination in a public school setting against children who are not vaccinated for reasons of conscience is completely unwarranted."
Does making a factual statement and providing the details that a person said something or did something constitute false news or misleading content? Of course not. Nowhere in the article do I personally state that unvaccinated children pose no risk to anyone. I may as an individual believe that this assertion is possible, but I do not promote it as established fact. That's journalism.
However look at what the 'fact-checking' effort pictured above really is. This newly-formed online watchdog is taking a fully UNPROVEN ASSERTION, that 'Choosing not to vaccinate increases risk of potentially serious illness to self and others,' and utilizing it as ESTABLISHED FACT without providing evidence. It is this 'fact-checking' group that is promoting misleading content and doing what they are accusing us of doing. All that I am doing is sharing the opinion and actions of an Immunologist who would like healthy debate and dialogue to be going on, challenging assumptions that are passed off as fact and providing fact-based testimony to substantiate her opinion. And she does so in the interest of the health and well-being of our children.
But here's the kicker in all this. How does this company afford to operate? Who butters their bread? As Joe Martino reveals in a rare rant below (not to be missed) they are funded by groups like the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation, probably the most powerful advocacy group for mass vaccination in the world, working in lock step with the pharmaceutical industry. Do we see perhaps a slight conflict of interests between a group supposedly going on the internet doing objective fact-checking of content, and a massive financial supporter that is deeply invested in the mass proliferation of vaccines across the globe?
They contributed a staggering $382,997 to these 'fact-checkers'. Do you think that these fact-checkers are not fully compromised by the agenda of the rich and powerful? Can you imagine what CE would be able to accomplish with that kind of money?
Full Disclosure And Transparency
I would like to offer full transparency as to how this 'strike' against CE affects the company and impacts me personally.
When I started off with CE in April 2018, I was offered a 3-month contract that would pay me $3400/month, and I was grateful for it. Living in Toronto, this amount is considered just above a living wage. When my contract was over, and because dwindling advertising revenues due to Facebook algorithm changes had already negatively impacted CE, I was told that the company would love to retain me, but that at this time they could only afford to offer me $2040/month, allowing for reduced hours. This affected not only me, but all employees of the company.
I understood, and accepted it with gratitude. This has been the best company I've ever worked for. I love and respect Joe Martino as a man of great integrity, courage and wisdom, and I share this feeling with all the great people who work here. In fact I consider CE to be a model for how evolved companies should operate in the future. There is no hierarchy, we are all treated with great respect, our input is always welcomed, and self-responsibility is engendered in a way that makes each of us want to go above and beyond to make things work.
However, as Joe reveals in the video above, these strikes against CE (all of which have reeked of censorship and the growing establishment control over content) has seen a reduction in our reach to the public that results in a monthly loss of about $10,000 in advertising revenues. This is equivalent to three times my previous full-time salary. We are at the stage where any more shortfall in advertising revenues will affect the company's ability to pay its employees, including me.
In truth, if I could afford it, I would work for this company for free. I feel we have an important mission and I feel like I am a big part of it. However the reality is, with a 5-year old at home, I have to eventually get back to earning a living wage. And I certainly hope that I can do it as a member of Collective Evolution.
The Takeaway
The irony is, all this chaos and uncertainty may actually be the catalyst for something very positive. The efforts by Facebook and other social media players to drastically reduced our advertising revenues has forced us to look at a different revenue model, which involves community funding. In truth, getting off of the conventional advertising model and being directly supported instead by those who believe in what we are doing is more aligned with our values.
Now, rather than passively clicking on whatever content comes to them from their Facebook news feed, our supporters will have to make conscious choices as to what content they will access and give their attention to, if they want to see anything other than a monotonous litany of mainstream propaganda. And in taking the important step to directly support companies that are trying to make our world a better place, our community will begin moving off the mainstream grid and increasingly gain power to effect change in the world.
The support we have already gotten as a result of people joining CETV is one of the main reasons we are still in a position to fight for our existence. If you don't know about it, CETV is our online video platform that features the news broadcast 'the Collective Evolution show' and other great weekly shows. Consider joining here.
We have many other great ideas that we are dying to implement that will truly bring our community together, but we are still working our way out of survival mode. If everyone pitches it, we could probably exit survival mode overnight and really get things into gear. So I'd like to offer a slogan I came up with for our CMM (Conscious Media Movement) Campaign, which you can donate to here: Help us survive, then together let's thrive!
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New Study Finds That Measles Outbreaks Are Occurring In Many VACCINATED Individuals
In Brief
- The Facts:
A new study from China has been added to the long list that questions the effectiveness of the MMR vaccine given the fact that outbreaks are occurring in highly vaccinated populations and within vaccinated individuals.
- Reflect On:
Are vaccines really as safe as they're marketed to be?
There is a lot of hysteria surrounding measles outbreaks right now, and a lot of mainstream media bombardment in North America whereby unvaccinated children are wrongfully blamed for multiple measles outbreaks. This media hysteria capitalizes on terms like "anti-vax conspiracy theorists" instead of actually acknowledging the points that are being made by vaccine awareness advocates, many of whom are scientists and doctors. The point is, when people are trying to shut down and block credible information and critical thinking, you know something is up.
When it comes to the measles, blaming these outbreaks on unvaccinated people makes absolutely no sense at all. Why? Because, since the introduction of the measles vaccine, outbreaks have occurred in highly vaccinated populations. Furthermore, ample evidence has been presented showing that vaccinated people might also be shedding their virus and infecting others with it.
For example, during the measles outbreak in California in 2015, a large number of suspected cases occurred in recent vaccinees. Of the 194 measles virus sequences obtained in the United States in 2015, 73 were identified as vaccine sequences. The media (Pharma-owned) generated high public anxiety. This fear mongering led to the demonization of unvaccinated children, who were perceived as the spreaders of this disease. Rebecca J. McNall, a co-author of the published report, is a CDC official in the Division of Viral Diseases who had the data proving that the measles outbreak was in part caused by the vaccine. It is evidence of the vaccine's failure to provide immunity. (source)
There are dozens of studies on measles outbreaks in highly vaccinated populations that found that the cause of these outbreaks was not due to failure to vaccinate, but rather because of a failing vaccine. I will provide more examples further in the article, but for now, I want to get to some recently published information.
This research was published in the journal Vaccine, titled "Assessing measles vaccine failure in Tianjin, China," and it's another study showing measles outbreaks in highly vaccinated populations.
"Despite increasing global measles vaccination coverage, progress toward measles elimination has slowed in recent years. In China, children receive a measles-containing vaccine (MCV) at 8 months, 18– 24 months, and some urban areas offer a third dose at age 4–6 years. However, substantial measles cases in Tianjin, China, occur among individuals who have received multiple MCV doses."
The study explains how there has been an increase in global measles vaccinations, and they're right. Despite this fact, mainstream media in America continues to blame low vaccination rates for these outbreaks, when that could not be further from the truth. Luckily, the CDC has a super-easy, interactive map that illustrates this data very clearly, and it would be great if members of the mainstream media actually started to take a look at the data. Vaccination rates in the States are actually very high. So why are they blaming the unvaccinated? Washington State, for example, has a 90 percent MMR vaccination coverage.
The study from China goes on to explain:
Twenty-nine percent of those in the surveillance dataset and 54.4% of those in the case series received at least one dose of MCV. The minimum and median time-to-diagnosis since vaccination revealed an increase in time since vaccination for incremental doses. Considerable measles cases in Tianjin occur in vaccinated children, and further research is needed to understand the reasons for vaccine failure.
Another study published in the highly authoritative Bulletin of the World Health Organization looked at recent measles occurrences throughout China and found that there were 707 measles outbreaks in the country recorded between 2009 and 2012, with a steep upward trend in 2013. "The number of measles cases reported in the first 10 months of 2013 – 26,443 – was three times the number reported in the whole of 2012." This is odd considering that since 2009 "…the first dose of measles-virus-containing vaccine has reached more than 90% of the target population." (source)
A study published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases – whose authorship includes scientists working for the Bureau of Immunization, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, GA – looked at evidence from the 2011 New York measles outbreak, which showed that individuals with prior evidence of measles vaccination and vaccine immunity were both capable of being infected with measles and infecting others with it (secondary transmission). The study concluded that "measles may occur in vaccinated individuals, but secondary transmission from such individuals has not been documented." (source)
Furthermore, according to a MedAlerts search of the FDA Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) database, as of 2/5/19, the cumulative raw count of adverse events from measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines alone was: 93,929 adverse events, 1,810 disabilities, 6,902 hospitalizations, and 463 deaths. The National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act has paid out approximately $4 billion to compensate families of vaccine injured children. As astronomical as the monetary awards are, they're even more alarming considering HHS claims that only an estimated 1% of vaccine injuries are even reported to the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System (VAERS). If the numbers from VAERS and HHS are correct – only 1% of vaccine injuries are reported and only 1/3 of the petitions are compensated – then up to 99% of vaccine injuries go unreported and the families of the vast majority of people injured by vaccines are picking up the costs, once again, for vaccine makers' flawed products.
From 2013 to 2017, measles killed 2 people, but the vaccine killed 127 people. The odds of dying from the measles are 0.01 – 0.02 percent, meaning you have a greater chance of getting hit by a lightning bolt multiple times. Furthermore, if your child contracts the measles, they will be immune for life, but that cannot be said for vaccinated children.
Our Episode About Vaccines On CETV
On a recent episode of CETV, we discussed the mainstream media and the way they fear monger and blame the unvaccinated without addressing important facts. We talked about the history of measles outbreaks in highly vaccinated populations, provided multiple clips from scientists and doctors sharing information related to the above, and cited examples of fraud, specifically with regards to the MMR vaccination and the CDC.
Below you can watch our discussion, and the first hour is free. To watch the other 2 hours of this episode, become a member of CETV.
Another Episode Specifically About The MMR Vaccine
In a later episode of The Collective Evolution Show on CETV, Joe, Richard and I discussed New York's mandatory vaccination order as well as Del Bigtree's analysis of the MMR studies he received and the reason that Big Pharma does not want to do proper, large-scale studies on the safety of vaccines.
A FOIA request by Del Bigtree reveals that the 8 studies supporting the release of the MMR vaccine were only 6 weeks long, used only 800 children, and led to respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses in many of the children.
Related Recent & Important Articles On Vaccines
Biochemical Engineer Drops Bombshell Facts About Measles & The MMR Vaccine In Washington
Worlds Leading Authority On Aluminum Toxicity Has GoFundMe to Study Aluminum In Vaccines Shut Down
We now know that aluminum, once injected, does not leave the body but travels to distant organs and the brain. More information on that in the article linked above.
More Examples of Measles Outbreaks In Highly Vaccinated Populations
A measles outbreak in vaccinated individuals occurred in Israel during 2017—reported on by the CDC—where all but one patient had laboratory evidence of a "previous immune response" (secondary vaccine failure), and the one patient who did not display such evidence reported having received two doses of the vaccine (primary vaccine failure). In addition, the index patient—the one who launched the chain of transmission—had received three doses of the measles-containing vaccine.
If we go back in history a little bit:
Barratta et al. (1970) investigated an outbreak in Florida from December 1968 to February 1969 and found little difference in the incidence of measles in vaccinated and unvaccinated children. (source)
Robertson et al. (1992) wrote that in 1985 and 1986, 152 measles outbreaks in US school-age children occurred among persons who had previously received the measles vaccine. "Every 2-3 years, there is an upsurge of measles irrespective of vaccination compliance." (source)
In 2010, there were a number of children in Croatia who had contracted measles that were fully vaccinated (source). The interesting thing about this case was the fact that not only had they become infected with measles from the vaccine strain, rather than the normal "natural" strain, but they were also contagious.
According to an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1987, "An outbreak of measles occurred among adolescents in Corpus Christi, Texas, in the spring of 1985, even though vaccination requirements for school attendance had been thoroughly enforced." They concluded that "outbreaks of measles can occur in secondary schools, even when more than 99 percent of the students have been vaccinated and more than 95 percent are immune." (source)
An article published in the American Journal of Epidemiology titled, "A persistent outbreak of measles despite appropriate prevention and control measures," looked into an outbreak of 137 cases of measles in Montana. School records indicated that 98.7% of students were appropriately vaccinated, leading the researchers to conclude: "This outbreak suggests that measles transmission may persist in some settings despite appropriate implementation of the current measles elimination strategy." (source)
According to an article published in the American Journal of Public Health in 1991, "In early 1988 an outbreak of 84 measles cases occurred at a college in Colorado in which over 98 percent of students had documentation of adequate measles immunity…" due to an immunization requirement in effect since 1986. They concluded that "…measles outbreaks can occur among highly vaccinated college populations." (source)
According to an article published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health in 1991, a 1989 measles outbreak was "largely attributed to an incomplete vaccination coverage," but following an extensive review the researchers concluded that "incomplete vaccination coverage is not a valid explanation for the Quebec City measles outbreak." (source)
According to an article published in the journal Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, in a measles outbreak from March 1991 to April 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, 76.4% of those suspected to be infected had received measles vaccines before their first birthday. (source)
According to an article published in the South African Medical Journal in 1994, "[In] August 1992 an outbreak occurred, with cases reported at many schools in children presumably immunised." Immunization coverage for measles was found to be 91%, and vaccine efficacy found to be only 79%, leading them to conclude that primary and secondary vaccine failure was a possible explanation for the outbreak. (source)
Furthermore, what about the bioaccumulation of vaccine ingredients? Studies have shown that injected aluminum does not exit the body, and can be detected inside the brain up to a year after injection. There are several other concerning vaccine ingredients like aborted human fetal cells, formaldehyde, and MSG. Why are these never looked at when studies are being conducted? You can read more and access information and studies about aluminum here.
The Takeaway
How safe are our vaccines? Why does the mainstream constantly use terms like "anti-vax conspiracy theorists" to brainwash people instead of actually addressing the points made by vaccine awareness advocates? Why are they always attacking instead of just discussing? It's OK to question vaccines, think for yourself, utilize critical thinking, and seek out information that mainstream media seems to ignore.
Help Support Collective Evolution
The demand for Collective Evolution's content is bigger than ever, except ad agencies and social media keep cutting our revenues. This is making it hard for us to continue.
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Legendary UFO Researcher & Nuclear Physicist Stanton Friedman Has Passed Away
In Brief
- The Facts:
Legendary UFO Researcher and Nuclear Physicist has passed away at age 84.
- Reflect On:
Stanton and many others brought a tremendous amount of credibility to the idea that we are being visited by intelligent extraterrestrials, and have been for a long time. This topic is no longer taboo. What are the implications of such a realization?
Legendary UFO researcher Stanton Friedman has passed away at the age of 84. Stanton was a long time UFOlogist, one of the "originals" who played a huge role in bringing credibility to a topic that was previously only ridiculed. Friedman was an accomplished writer who published dozens of papers about UFOs and wrote and co-authored several books. As CBC News points out, "He was also a familiar face in documentaries, radio and television, including multiple appearances on Larry King Live, and lectured about UFOs for hundreds of colleges and professional groups across the United States, Canada and many other countries."
Friedman, like many others, was convinced that intelligent extraterrestrials have visited and are still visiting our planet. He was a nuclear physicist and an extremely intelligent man, just as many others in this field are with similar backgrounds to his.
He is one of many who recognized that the evidence in support of extraterrestrial intelligent life visiting our planet is far greater than the evidence we use to accept other well-known concepts like black holes. The evidence in support of extraterrestrial life is vast. It's full of optical data (video footage, radar trackings), other physical evidence, high-ranking whistleblower testimonies from hundreds of sources, and much more. This is what Friedman did such a good job at: presenting the evidence in a credible, academic manner.
Friedman knew that the disclosure of this reality would affect all aspects of humanity, and that it was and still remains the best kept secret in human history thanks to the "official campaign of secrecy and ridicule." ( Ex-CIA Director Roscoe Hillenkoetter )
This subject has permeated the mainstream in many ways. It's gained a tremendous amount of credibility, and once you dive deep into the rabbit hole, you begin to ask yourself so many other questions that cannot yet be answered. The fact that we are not alone and are being visited is one small part of this giant puzzle. It's simply the tip of the iceberg when it comes to discovering more about the nature of our reality.
Thanks to people like Friedman, we continue to unravel this strange and interesting phenomenon.
He was most well-known in the UFO community for bringing credibility to the Roswell incident. He was also a big proponent of the MAJESTIC 12 documents and believed that they were authentic. You can read what he had to say about those here.
For almost sixty years the public has been hearing about flying saucers and then UFOs. Press coverage has ebbed and flowed, but polls have always shown a very high awareness score. Motion pictures, tabloids, and TV programs have picked up the slack with a mélange of fiction and some truth. Unfortunately, much of what we have been told by the "powers that be" has been false. Many different government agencies have shared in the misrepresentation and have provided outright LIES as well. These include the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, United States Air Force, etc. The press and certain other academic and supposedly scientific groups, such as SETI (Silly Effort To Investigate) have often blindly accepted and promulgated nonsense without any effort to get at truth. – Friedman
In honour of the legend, I thought I'd leave you with one of his many lectures. Friedman did a lot of investigations, visiting real sites and real archives where important documents are held.
The Takeaway
The UFO field is filled with credible information, and once you begin to analyze it, the more you know the more you realize you don't know. At the same time, one thing seems to be certain, and that's the fact that:
"There are objects in our atmosphere which are technically miles in advance of anything we can deploy, that we have no means of stopping them coming here … [and] that there is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of 'rubishing' by tabloid newspapers." – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, and Chairman of the NATO military committee
A lot of people in this field have disagreed on many things, but the point is that we are not alone, and that in itself has huge implications. As time goes on, the truth will continue to seep out like it has been doing for decades.
Stanton will be dearly missed.
Help Support Collective Evolution
The demand for Collective Evolution's content is bigger than ever, except ad agencies and social media keep cutting our revenues. This is making it hard for us to continue.
In order to stay truly independent, we need your help. We are not going to put up paywalls on this website, as we want to get our info out far and wide. For as little as $3 a month, you can help keep CE alive!
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A growing number of people with ulcerative colitis are reaching for probiotics -- products containing so-called "friendly" bacteria that populate the intestines.
Why? Researchers don't yet know what causes ulcerative colitis and other inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). So finding effective treatments has been a challenge. Several kinds of medications can help reduce inflammation, improve symptoms, and achieve remission. But many people with IBD also want to use more natural methods to ease their discomfort.
Two out of five patients with inflammatory bowel disease use probiotics regularly, recent surveys suggest. Children with IBD are also frequently given probiotics by their parents.
But do they really work?
"I'm a great believer in probiotics," says Walter J. Coyle, MD, director of the Gastrointestinal Program at Scripps Clinic Medical Center in La Jolla, Calif. "I definitely recommend them for irritable bowel syndrome, regulation, and bloating. But frankly, when it comes to inflammatory bowel diseases like ulcerative colitis, we have almost no scientific evidence that they are beneficial."
Probiotics and Ulcerative Colitis: A Mixed Bag of Findings
In theory, at least, the approach makes sense. Ulcerative colitis and other IBDs may occur when bad bacteria outnumber the beneficial bacteria that normally reside in the gut. Recent research suggests that a lack of certain beneficial bacteria may also be a cause of the diseases. If that's true, introducing more friendly bugs would certainly seem to help.
Evidence Supporting Probiotics for Ulcerative Colitis
Researchers have discovered probiotic bacteria can influence the activity of immune cells and the cells that line the intestines. Specifically, these friendly bacteria appear to block disease-causing bacteria from sticking to the lining of the intestines. There's also evidence that the good bugs block chemical factors involved in inflammation.
"It's clear that the effects of probiotic organisms could be helpful in treating the pathogenic mechanisms of inflammatory bowel disease," notes University of Alberta gastroenterologist Richard Neil Fedorak, MD, who recently published a review of current research findings on probiotics.
Murky Results in Some Clinical Trials of Probiotics
Still, researchers acknowledge that they're only just beginning to explore the complex populations of bacteria -- friendly and unfriendly -- that reside in the gut. So far, clinical studies designed to test whether probiotics help either to maintain remissions or to resolve flare-ups have produced mixed results.
For example, one study of 90 volunteers found significantly higher remission rates in people with ulcerative colitis who were given the beneficial bacteria E. coli Nissle. The higher the dose, the longer their remission -- good evidence that the friendly bacteria were effective.
But other studies that looked at other bacteria haven't shown any benefits compared to placebos. A 2006 study of 157 ulcerative colitis patients found no difference between the placebo group and those given one of three different beneficial bacteria, although the findings did suggest that probiotics may have prolonged the length of remission.
Weighing the Advantages of Probiotics: Small Benefits but No Risk
Even if probiotics help, Fedorak points out, the evidence strongly suggests they're likely to offer only small benefits, certainly not a cure. For that reason, probiotics are not a replacement for conventional medication. They can be used along with prescription drugs, however. And there's certainly no evidence that they pose any risk at all -- except to your wallet. Since probiotic-containing products are not covered by health insurance, most ulcerative colitis patients end up paying out of pocket.
To make sure they're worth the expense, consider starting a food and symptom diary before you begin using probiotics. Then keep track of how you feel before and after you start taking them. After several weeks, try going off the product. If you notice an increase in symptoms, the probiotic may be helping. Begin using it again to see if you feel better.
Experts can offer little help on which products to choose. Unfortunately, there's no regulation of probiotics, so it's very hard to know what you're actually getting when you buy one. "I tell people to use a product that's refrigerated, which may give you a better chance at getting something with live culture," says dietitian Tracie Dalessandro, RD, author of What to Eat With IBD.
Whatever you choose to try, tell your doctor if you're using probiotics. It's important to discuss with your doctor any and all complementary remedies you're taking. "Most of us want to know what works and doesn't work for you," says Coyle. "So if you're using something and it's helping, tell your doctor."

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10 most dangerous species of help desk analystIT veteran Jeff Dray follows up his hilarious 10+ most dangerous species of help desk caller and 10 most dangerous species of IT manager lists, with this lighthearted look at the people who inhabit the world's IT help desks. I picked the photos to illustrate Jeff's great descriptions. Enjoy!
If you'd like to see Jeff's list in text form (without the images) check out this TR Dojo blog post.
-- Bill Detwiler, Head Technology Editor
It has taken nearly ten years but finally, after many months lurking in hides or camouflaged as a photocopier, I have identified the genus and species that inhabit our IT support teams.
Caption by: Jeff Dray
Photo credit: ©iStockphoto.com/JordiDelgado
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Hope College students received a variety of special awards during the college's annual Honors Convocation held on Thursday, April 23.
Hope College students received a variety of special awards during the college's annual Honors Convocation held on Thursday, April 23.
Special prizes and awards presented are as follows:
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships - senior Mark Lunderberg of Grandville; junior Joel Blok of Schoolcraft; senior Paul Frybarger of Muskegon.
Beckman Scholarship - sophomore John Donkersloot of Zeeland.
Cancer Federation Award and Beckman Scholarship - junior Camille Riddering of Belmont.
Dean for the Arts and Humanities Award - senior Gray Emerson of Holland and senior Karen Luidens of Altamont, N.Y.
Dean of Students Community Service Award - senior Alison Watchorn of Sault Ste. Marie.
Dean of Students Peter Bol Award - senior Anna Finger of Anderson, Ind.
Dean of Students Greek Leadership Awards - senior Cameron DeHaan of Cadillac and Abigail Drake of Portage.
Earhart Emerging Scholars - senior Michael Bertrand of Naperville and junior Alexander Schwiebert of Chelsea.
Fulbright Fellowships - senior Robin Litscher of Lebanon, Ind.; senior Lani Pickard of Minnetonka, Minn., senior Molly Smith of Urbana, Ill.
Jurries Family Vienna Summer School Awards - sophomore Elizabeth Nieusma of Okemos.
Laszlo Tokes Award - senior Cara Hahn of Rockford and senior Brandon Smith of Kokomo, Ind.
Office of Multicultural Essay Contest Awards - sophomore Emily Feldhake (first place) of Pickford, senior Karen Luidens (second place) of Altamont, N.Y. and freshman Rebekah Chew (third place) of Hillman.
Theune Family Award - senior Gray Emerson of Holland.
Paul Norman Timmer Memorial Award - sophomore Aftan Snyder of Bigfork, Mt. and sophomore Nicole Tyner of Grand Rapids.
Chapel Choir Exemplary Service Awards - seniors Paul Connelly of Lower Waterford, Vt., Susan Jolink of Grandville, Ross Knoll of Grand Haven, MariJo Koedyker of Grand Haven, Caitlin Lautz of Wheaton, Ill., Stephen McEwan of Midland, Matthew Minkus of Zeeland, Katie Ross of St. Louis Park, Minn. and Andrew Steiger of Arlington Heights, Ill..
All-campus awards presented are as follows:
Academy of American Poets Award - senior Matthew Baker, of Grand Rapids, senior Karly Fogelsonger of Tawas City, senior Kimberly Jongsma of Grand Rapids, junior Amy Soukup of Cedar Rapids, Ia.
American Association of University Women Award - senior Tara Salas of Holland and Shannon Schamback of Grand Haven.
M. Harold Mikle Prize for Communication - senior Leticia Parker of Holland.
Southland Medal (Gerrit H. Albers Gold Medal) - senior Melyn Tank of Midland.
John Schouten Award - senior Nora Kuiper of Kalamazoo.
Otto Vander Velde All-Campus Award - senior Jesse Reimink of Hudsonville.
Special senior awards presented are as follows:
AATF Outstanding Senior in French Award - senior Caitlin Schrock of Grandville.
Paul G. Fried Prize in International Education - senior George Khory of Jerusalem, Palestine.
Music Teachers National Association Student Achievement Recognition - senior Joy Morin of ByronCenter.
Technos International Prize - senior Amanda Anderson of Grandville and senior Edleda James of Nashville, Tenn.


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China cheats – it openly flouts trade laws – and routinely denies it. It restricts access to its markets, forces companies that want to sell in China to transfer technology and manufacture there, and then often steals the technology. It purposefully underprices its currency to keep the down the price of its exports. When it targets an industry as strategic, it employs a range of subsidies, directed procurement, and trade maneuvers to capture market share.
China cheats and everyone knows it. Pressures are building on the administration to start enforcing our trade laws. Republican presidential aspirant Mitt Romney says he'll cite China as a currency violator on day one of his presidency. In his State of the Union address, President Obama announced he would set up a special unit to enforce trade laws, calling out China by name.
Now a coalition of unions led by the United Steelworkers and the United Auto Workers, along with allied organizations are joining with Senators Sherrod Brown and Debbie Stabenow to call the question.
Today, they announce that they will file a series of enforcement actions – and call for legislation – to challenge Chinese violations in the area of auto parts. There has been a 900% increase in auto parts imports from China over the last decade, to nearly $12 billion a year. Over 400,000 jobs have been lost in this industry in the last decade, according to a study by the Economic Policy Institute that will be released today. Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania — three key swing states in the upcoming presidential election – – have been hit particularly hard.
On February 14, China's vice president, Xi Jinping, expected to become president next year, will visit the White House. Traditionally, both countries make friendly gestures preceding these visits. The Chinese are expected to go on a U.S. shopping spree over the next couple of weeks for example.
But this time, the niceties will not suffice. China cheats. The President has called for tougher enforcement of our trade rules. Push may well be coming to shove.


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Actually, that's closer to the headline on MSNBC's reprint ("White House allows big firms to dodge health reforms") of this New York Times article than the one in the Times itself ("Waivers Address Talk of Dropping Coverage"), but the meaning is plain either way. Instead of enforcing the ballyhooed standards and mandates for insurers that Congress passed in ObamaCare, Kathleen Sebelius and the White House blinked in the face of bad press and exempted dozens of companies from the law. If the marketplace had uncertainty before, the administration has made the situation much, much worse:
As Obama administration officials put into place the first major wave of changes under the health care legislation, they have tried to defuse stiffening resistance — from companies like McDonald's and some insurers — by granting dozens of waivers to maintain even minimal coverage far below the new law's standards.
The waivers have been issued in the last several weeks as part of a broader strategic effort to stave off threats by some health insurers to abandon markets, drop out of the business altogether or refuse to sell certain policies.
Among those that administration officials hoped to mollify with waivers were some big insurers, some smaller employers and McDonald's, which went so far as to warn that the regulations could force it to strip workers of existing coverage. ….
To date, the administration has given about 30 insurers, employers and union plans, responsible for covering about one million people, one-year waivers on the new rules that phase out annual limits on coverage for limited-benefit plans, also known as "mini-meds." Applicants said their premiums would increase significantly, in some cases doubling or more.
These early exemptions offer the first signs of how the administration may tackle an even more difficult hurdle: the resistance from insurers and others against proposed regulations that will determine how much insurers spend on consumers' health care versus administrative overhead, a major cornerstone of the law.
First, let's point out that the law turned out to be unworkable, almost before it even got started. Dictating percentages for administration costs in insurance plans isn't the job of the federal government anyway, but more to the point, that issue is obviously not determinative in value to the consumer — as these waivers proved. This shows what happens when people with no experience in an industry decide that they can construct it better than the market has structured itself.
The proper action would have been to repeal at least this portion of the law in order to give a level playing field to everyone. By granting a few dozen waivers at the outset, though, the White House has amplified the uncertainty and arbitrariness in ObamaCare even further. At least insurers and employers had a figure that they could use for planning. Now there is no standard at all, except for whatever Kathleen Sebelius decides she likes — and whom she wants to favor.
The Rule of Law depends on an environment with clear regulation and unbiased enforcement. From the start, ObamaCare lacked any clarity in regulation. Congress filled the bill with the phrase "The Secretary shall determine" in place of establishing rules and regulations for the massive regulatory regime Congress created. Now, the White House has added arbitrary enforcement to uncertain regulation and opaque processes. This is not the Rule of Law, but the Whim of Autocracy.


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Teatime Spread
So right about this time each day, I make myself a nice cup of tea and have a little teatime treat like the sandwiches above made with Teatime Spread, a delicious combination of cream cheese, green olives, and pimentos.
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I wish!
I'm much more likely to be grabbing a quick lunch like this:
Teatime spread and my favorite new snack, Trader Joe's Savory Thin Mini Crackers that come in a bag like this for $1.69:
WARNING: These crackers are addictive. Try them at your own risk.
These little rice crackers don't look that interesting, but everyone I've met likes them. I was introduced to them by a fellow mom (she likes them with Spanish Manchego cheese) and yesterday we both took a full bag each on our Zoo field trip (with 20 kindergarteners and parents) and all the parents and kids loved them.
I have to admit, I like them with butter. They're good plain too.
I discovered Teatime Spread at a local independent grocery, where they made it a couple of times and then cut off my supply. Happily, they told me how to make it and it couldn't be easier. In fact, it was the first recipe in which I used green olives stuffed with pimentos.
Yummy on toasted bagels or add zip to your favorite sandwich. And it really is perfect for making quick teatime sandwiches!
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4 oz cream cheese
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How do you count words? Ashley Wagner discusses the question as part of our video on the number of words in the English language.
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IBM digs in with Eclipse for weapons
It's... 'complex'
IBM Rational has released an Eclipse-based tools package taking the unit back to its roots serving embedded software in an area it's calling "complex" systems – otherwise known as weapons systems.
Launching the clumsily titled Rational System Development Solution (SDS) IBM put it more euphemistically, of course. "In the aerospace and defense industry, for example, the net-centric environment of the battlefield requires manufacturers to create products that deliver advanced capabilities to the front lines fast," IBM said
The same tools could, of course, be equally well be used in other industries where there is a demand for resilient software - such as automotive. The emphasis in embedded system is on reliability and robustness, and the SDS portfolio reflects this.
The suite, following Red Hat's JBoss Eclipse announcement on Monday, includes the Eclipse-based IBM Rational Systems Developer and IBM Rational Software Modeler design and development tools that use Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.1 to help build high-quality software. Both products have been upgraded to support the UML Profile for DoDAF and MoDAF (UPDM) standards. Specified by the Object Management Group (OMG), UPDM aims to define a common language to describe software architectures.
The SDS also includes the IBM Rational Test Real-Time to enable developers to ensure the quality and reliability of real-time and embedded systems, and to comply with industry standards such as DO-178B, MISRA and Defense Standard 00-55 and solutions. IBM Rational said Test Real-Time combines static analysis with component testing and runtime analysis across multiple host and target platforms including C, C++, Ada and Java J2SE.
IBM is taking a renewed focus on embedded systems these days, as evidenced by its proposed acquisition of Telelogic. Completion of the Telelogic deal is under review by the European Union and completion was expected this month but is now delayed indefinitely.
The two companies were working on rival proposals for UPDM - one based on SysML and one on UML - until earlier this year when the two were combined.®


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Nominations are now open for the 2018 Small Business of the Year Awards, and the Small Business Committee is touting several major changes to the program.
This year, seven Chamber businesses will be honored for their contributions to the South Florida community. The expanded categories are: Health & Wellness, Hospitality & Tourism, Nonprofit Organization, Professional Services, Retail Products & Services, Small Business Person of the Year and Technology.
Only existing Chamber members with 50 or fewer employees may be nominated, with the exception of nonprofits, which have no employee cap for entry. A panel of judges coordinated by the Small Business Committee and select community leaders will evaluate each nominee and select one winner per category. The Small Business Person of the Year will be selected from the entire pool of nominations.
An application fee of $60 will be charged for all nominations and includes one ticket to the breakfast. All nominations are due by 5 p.m. April 6 and must be submitted electronically. The Small Business of the Year Awards will be held May 4 at the Downtown Events Center inside First Baptist Church Fort Lauderdale. Tickets can be purchased and nomination forms filled out at www.ftlchamber.com/smallbusinessawards.
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Starring a rusty Land Rover.
Vincent Urban's envy-inducing video traces a journey through Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay and Southern Brazil. The five-minute escape is full of time-lapse shots and landscapes worthy of the BBC's Planet Earth series.
The video stars "a rusty Land Rover" and features Ólafur Arnalds' "3055" as a soundtrack. Watch it full screen and you'll be itching to look up flights to South America.
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Time trackers are popular apps these days, with each one aiming to increase productivity, provide greater accuracy in recording billable hours, and simplify the process of generating reports. For small businesses, entrepreneurs and independent contractors such as myself, an effective time-tracking program can be an invaluable tool, and finding the perfect one is no easy quest.
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There isn't that much difference between a trained archaeologist and a professional wrestler, is there? Look at the new depradations encouraged by reality TV:
There's nothing more exciting than digging for treasure, and that's just what SPIKE TV's new unscripted original series, American Digger is going to do when it premiers on March 20 at 10/9c. Former professional wrestler Ric Savage and the American Savage team have the tools, knowhow, and instincts, and are ready to show everyone what could just be hidden beneath your backyard if you give them the chance.
American Digger will showcase Ric Savage and his crew trekking across the country each week, from Chicago, IL to Jamestown, VA and everywhere in between. Once the team identifies an area they think is ripe with high-value artifacts and relics, they'll have to convince the current homeowner to give them permission to dig up their backyard. If American Savage is persuasive enough, they'll get a chance to dig up the tenant's backyard using their state-of-the-art equipment, and divide the cash they get from selling the artifacts they find there with the tenant.
Savage and his crew definitely have an eye for artifact-rich areas, and will seek out historic sites as a result. These areas are home to great finds, as the team uncovers old relics in the show such as a 5 million year old Megalodon shark's tooth. American Savage is the top artifact recovery company in the United States and is made up of Ric Savage's wife Rita, who manages the business, battlefield historian Bob Buttafuso, recovery expert Rue Shumate, and Giuseppe, his 25-year old son.
Shark's teeth aren't a big deal, but having a team of hacks charge into a historical site to dig up and sell everything they find sounds like a horror story.


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March 8, 2010
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - UC Santa Barbara sophomore guard Orlando Johnson was named 2010 Big West Player of the Year and head coach Bob Williams was named Big West Coach of the Year, it was announced Monday.
Johnson was also a First Team All-Big West choice. Fellow sophomore James Nunnally was a Second Team All-Big West selection.
A transfer from Loyola Marymount, Johnson enters the Big West Tournament leading UCSB and the conference in scoring at 18.0 points per game. He also averaged 5.5 rebounds and 2.3 assists per game while shooting 48.5% overall and 39.6% from 3-point range. A two-time Big West Player of the Week, Johnson is the first Gaucho since 1996-97 to score in double-figures in every regular season game. In addition, the 6-foot-5 native of Seaside, Calif., has scored 20 or more points nine times and he has two double-doubles.
"Orlando was very deserving," Williams said. "He made a ton of big shots and made a ton of big plays for us. He's tough to guard outside and tough to guard inside, he shoots it and he can rebound, and he wants to be coached."
Johnson is the fifth UCSB player to earn the Big West Player of Year award. He joins Brian Shaw (1988), Lucius Davis (1992), Branduinn Fullove (2003), and Alex Harris (2008). Fullove was a junior when he won the honor, the only non-senior of the four previous honorees.
Nunnally is averaging 14.8 points and 5.5 rebound per game overall, but in 16 Big West games he averaged 16.8 points and 6.3 rebounds per game while shooting a league-leading 48.3% from 3-point range.
"James had a phenomenal league season," Williams said. "He made the move to the four-spot and did a great job. He was our leading scorer in eight of 16 conference games and our leading rebounder in nine. There is no question how important he is to our success."
For Williams, the Coach of the Year honor was his third during a 12-year tenure at UCSB. He also won the award in 1999 and 2003. In 2009-10, he guided the Gauchos to their second conference co-championship in three seasons and the No. 1 seed in the Big West Tournament. After losing its league opener at UC Irvine, Santa Barbara won 13 of its last 16 games overall, including 12 of 15 league contests.
"I'm honored," Williams said. "When your peers reward you in this way, it is a good thing."
The Gauchos will begin Big West Tournament play at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Mar. 12 at the Anaheim Convention Center Arena. Their opponent will not be determined until Thursday night's quarterfinal games are completed.
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INDIANAPOLIS — For drivers, today's first-ever NASCAR Nationwide Series race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway represents a chance to run on perhaps the most famous track in racing.
INDIANAPOLIS — For drivers, today's first-ever NASCAR Nationwide Series race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway represents a chance to run on perhaps the most famous track in racing.
It is also one of the tougher tests they will face all season.
The historic 2.5-mile oval has hosted NASCAR's top-level series, now known as Sprint Cup, since 1994 but didn't add the second-tier Nationwide Series until this year. For many drivers in the field, it will be their first time racing at Indy — and they are in for a challenge.
"This place is not forgiving at all," Nationwide points leader Elliott Sadler said. "It's fast, the corners are sharp. You've got to be on your money, I think, to run some fast laps here."
Sadler raced at Indianapolis 12 times in Cup, including a third-place finish in 2004 and a fourth-place finish in 2008.
He said the track's combination of long, high-speed straightaways and sharp, unbanked turns make it one of the toughest to master.
"Banking makes us drivers look good, because it makes it more forgiving," Sadler said. "The banking can catch you if you're tight or if you're loose and you can move around on the track. Here, you've got to run the bottom, it's very flat so if you overdrive the corner, the car takes off on you, there's no banking to catch you. It's a very tough, hard, momentum place to race at, and it's going to take these guys a race or two to understand what they need, especially when you're (in) traffic with 42 other cars around you."
Tough? Sure, but Sadler is thrilled to be back. Without a Cup ride, he didn't get to race at Indy last year.
"You know how you don't ever know how much you're going to miss something until you're not there? It killed me not to be here at the big track last year," Sadler said.
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"I asked them both what it felt like," Childress said. "I could see the smile on their face. They didn't have to even say anything (to show) how special it was to be able to drive around and to be able to come to Indianapolis to race because there is so much history."
Austin Dillon said drivers who have raced at Indy in Cup will have an advantage today.
"I think it's very tough, because it invites you into the corner because there's so much grip. The grip level is high, it's very smooth — and it's easy to overdrive."
Having Nationwide race at the "big track" — instead of at Lucas Oil Raceway, a nearby short track — is part of Indianapolis Motor Speedway officials' push to put more action on the track in hopes of boosting sagging attendance.
NASCAR drew huge crowds at Indy for more than a decade. And while drawing more than 100,000 fans is impressive for any event, attendance at the Brickyard has steadily declined in recent years.
"(It) just raises the level of the entire sport having other motorsports being able to participate here," said Chip Ganassi, who owns teams in NASCAR and IndyCar. "It's still the world's center of racing, and still arguably the greatest race course in the world in any configuration. ... The electricity at this place, it doesn't matter what you show up in. It's a magical center of motorsports."
After having Nationwide cars practice Thursday, Indianapolis took a one-day break from NASCAR on Friday to host the Grand Am sports car series on the road course, part of which winds through the track's expansive infield. The Nationwide race is today, with the Cup series Sunday.
Having more action on the track didn't make much of a difference during the day Friday, as a relatively small crowd was on hand for the Grand Am races.
Sadler still thinks it's a good idea.
"I think it's neat that they're running so many (different series) with the road course and the oval," Sadler said. "To me, in today's world, with ticket prices and people not able to travel, this gives them a really good bang for their buck, to have this many different styles of racing and cars going on at the racetrack."
Danica Patrick's IndyCar days helped her develop an appreciation for the track's place in history, and hopes others in Nationwide will walk away from Indy feeling the same way.
"I'm determined to make them all love it, and to make them see what I see," Patrick said.


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(CNN) -- Russia and France are preparing contingency plans to evacuate their citizens from Egypt, as violent clashes between the military government and Islamists in the country continue.
In the latest violence, suspected militants killed at least 25 Egyptian soldiers with rocket-propelled grenades in the Sinai Peninsula.
Russia's Federal Aviation Agency has ordered airlines to prepare plans to airlift Russian tourists from Egypt, the Moscow Times reported. Russia's largest airline, Aeroflot, said it was ready to begin evacuating passengers from the country as soon as it was instructed to do so.
Late last week France also announced that it had a plan to evacuate its citizens under review.
Travel advice hardens
Russia was among other governments that had already hardened their travel advice on Egypt following the killing last week of more than 500 people in Cairo and other cities in protests against the military overthrow of the government of Mohamed Morsi.
Having advised its citizens against traveling to Egypt, on Thursday Russia barred tour operators from selling vacations to the country.
Germany extended its advice against travel to the country to include the Red Sea beach resorts around Hurghada and Sharm El-Sheikh -- areas that have been largely immune from the unrest of recent months and that foreign governments have tended to advise were safe.
Last week the government of Hong Kong also raised its travel warning, to "black," advising against all travel.
On Wednesday night, following the day of violence in Egypt in which hundreds of people died as security forces cleared pro-Morsi sit-ins, vacationers in Hurghada had letters posted through their hotel bedroom doors telling them to stay within the hotel grounds and that all excursions had been canceled, the TravelMole website reported.
U.S. and British travel advisories on Egypt remain basically unchanged. The U.S. State Department continues to urge its citizens to leave Egypt, if they can. Any remaining in the country should monitor local media for updates on the unrest, it says.
The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office continues to advise against travel to Egypt, except the Red Sea resorts. The FCO has for some time advised against travel to the lawless Sinai Peninsula, where the recent grenade attack on Egyptian soldiers took place, except for the resort areas.
Government travel advisories are important not only for travelers' safety but because they affect what compensation they can claim.
Following the German government's announcement, the tour operator TUI Germany said it was cancelling all trips to Egypt until September 15 and that travelers already in its resorts could stay for the remainder of their holiday or leave early.
In Britain, a travel journalist specializing in the Middle East, Matthew Teller, told the Guardian: "What the FCO does or doesn't say rules the roost in terms of what tour operators can and can't offer clients."
Travelers were unlikely to be able to change their plans if they were booked to travel in an area, such as Sharm el-Sheikh and other Red Sea resorts, that the government deemed safe, he said.
Other large travel firms were altering or canceling their Egypt travel programs, in addition to TUI.
Thomas Cook said it had canceled all excursions from Red Sea resorts to Cairo, Luxor and sights including Moses Mountain and St Catherine's Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula.
Kuoni, the UK-based operator, has also canceled all Egyptian excursions for 30 days.
British Airways has changed its flight schedules to Cairo to avoid the dusk-to-dawn curfew the government has imposed as part of its state of emergency, although tour operators are still being allowed to operate overnight transfers to Sharm el-Sheikh.
"We are also offering customers the option of rebooking to a later date, or to another destination," a BA spokesman said.
Most tourists fly to the Red Sea resorts directly. Easyjet, which runs flights to Sharm el-Sheikh, said it was allowing some passengers with flights booked to Egypt within the next few days to change their destination.
The cruise operators MSC, Costa and Holland America Line have also reportedly canceled their Egypt-bound ships.
Tourism vital
The latest violence in months of unrest in Egypt can only do further damage to the country's vital tourism industry, which normally employs around 10% of the workforce and brought in $10 billion in 2012.
As chaos has increasingly gripped the country, beginning with anti-government protests in 2011 that led to the overthrow of the Hosni Mubarak regime, tourist numbers have fallen by almost one-third -- from 14 million in 2010 to 10.5 million last year.
In further news, the Egyptian ministry for antiquities has closed archaeological sites and museums across the country to protect them from looting, the Egyptian newspaper al Alhram reported.


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Canning is having a moment.
So is pickling, preserving, jam making and all around "putting up," as they used to say — and now do once more — of the season's harvest. And if that puts you in mind of a remote farmhouse kitchen, gingham aprons and a cellar lined with rows of apple butter, then you haven't been paying attention.
At Food in Jars, blogger Marisa McClellan makes peach-plum jam from a most unusual perch — the 20th floor of a Philadelphia high-rise — and draws more than 100,000 hits per month. In New York, Tigress in a Jam issues monthly jam challenges that are accepted by fellow bloggers around the globe. In Brooklyn, there's Anarchy in a Jar, a blog-based business dedicated to getting you out of a jam-mergency (i.e., you are in dire need of jam). They deliver their homemade wares on bicycle.
Closer to home, there's Saving the Season, a blog started on a whim just over a year ago by Kevin West to document his efforts to learn to can, jam, pickle and preserve his farmers market finds in his postage-stamp-sized kitchen tucked high above Laurel Canyon. His efforts just earned him a book deal.
That New Media has embraced this Old Favorite with such relish is the natural next step in our increasingly sophisticated food culture, West says. The notion of eating seasonally and locally is no longer niche — it's mainstream. And how else can you enjoy a just-picked, perfectly ripe, juicy-sweet nectarine in the dead of winter?
By canning it, of course.
"People just want to know how to do stuff," West says. "And I think that jams and pickles are one of those things. In the '70s, there was the whole bread-baking thing. Last year, there was a whole bacon moment. Well, jams and jellies and pickles are the new bacon."
McClellan, a food writer, launched her blog in early 2009 precisely because she saw an opening: "Nobody was just talking about canning and preserving," she says. "But it has really exploded in the last few months." She teaches canning classes and says demand is greater than ever.
"There's been a perfect storm: There's an appreciation for eating locally and wanting to have high-quality things," she said. "People are truly concerned about what is going into their food and want to make sure it is as healthy and chemical-free as possible. You can do that when you make it yourself."
This canning-pickling-jamming craze isn't just a trend, it's a movement, says Amy McCann. She and her husband, Matt Scheibe, are the bloggers behind Our Home Works, based in Eugene, Ore., which documents the couple's effort to eat as locally as possible.
Preserves have the ability to strike a chord, to allow us to delight in the simple joy of farm-fresh fruits and vegetables, prepared by hand at home, McCann says. "People are always like, 'Oh, wow, this is what strawberry jam is supposed to taste like.' They really light up."
Strawberry jam is just the beginning, however.
Valerie Gordon has begun teaching jam-making and preserving classes along with West at her Los Angeles boutique, Valerie Confections, and hosting private preserving parties. She tells her students that the real fun is all about experimenting — with herbs, liquors, unexpected flavor combos — and creating a signature taste and style.
"For the beginning canners, once they learn the basics, the world really starts to open up. They say, 'I can pair anything I want?' It's a wonderfully liberating thing."
And sweets are only half the fun.
Gordon, who also sells her wares at the Hollywood farmers market, says that some of her customers' favorites are on the savory side of the aisle, including a tomato marmalade brightened with citrus and a rich Santa Rosa plum ketchup layered with deep, smoky flavors.
Due to overwhelming class demand — and everyone's fear of having too many tomatoes and not enough recipes — Gordon is adding a tomato class to the lineup Sept. 11, with students learning the finer points of canned tomatoes, ketchup and marmalade. Everyone goes home with a jar of each.
West, who is West Coast editor for fashon bible W magazine and is juggling the blog, classes and deadlines for his upcoming book (his publisher is Knopf, and it's slated to be out in early 2012), says his goal is to inspire people who fear that canning is too much work or too dangerous or requires a farm. He wants people to preserve in much the same way that we've all learned, slowly but surely, to cook: year-round, along with the seasons, using fruits and vegetables from the market.
"A preserve is meant to extend the season a little bit," he says. "We're not trying to put something up for the bomb shelter 10 years from now. But if it's apricot season, maybe you just put up 5 pounds of that and you'll enjoy it until September.
"And in September, when you're out of apricot jam, then you can put up some pears and maybe apple jellies. And then you can enjoy that into January when the citrus is really hitting its peak ... and you'll get five jars out of that. And that will carry you through strawberry season, and then you've got five jars of that, and then you're back at apricot season.
"You're making and eating jam all year-round, and then you never have to make this huge effort to make 'a year's worth' of something."
As he speaks, he's in his airy, sun-dappled kitchen. The counter is cluttered with canning jars of all sizes and colors, and there are spoons, spoons, spoons everywhere for tasting. A new recipe for apricot paste is reducing in the oven. Slender stalks of rhubarb — a surprise find at the market so late in the season — are nearby, waiting for his attention, as is a box of all the makings of some crisp, sweet-tart bread-and-butter pickles. The afternoon sun reflects off jars of blackberry and apricot preserves and an orange marmalade like they are jewels, which they are.
Is it really such a surprise, West asks, motioning to it all, that we're embracing our culinary heritage?
He becomes quiet for a moment, then begins ticking off a list of woes facing the world today — the BP oil spill, Wall Street scoundrels, unemployment, voter skepticism, anxiety about the future ...
"If you're afraid, uncertain, ambivalent, what do you do?" he asks. "I think you look to the past, you look to find stability and reassurance where you can find it." He holds up a jar of asparagus spears that he pickled earlier this year, tucking in a few tufts of tarragon and green garlic for good measure. "This is stuff our grandparents were doing. And that is stuff that we can do in our own home. We can grow a zucchini in the backyard and put it up in a jar. And that is a certainty. That is a tangible, concrete certainty in this world of uncertainty."
Canning is having a moment.


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Drugs & Medications - Aurobiotic-HC otic
Aurobiotic-HC otic
Common Brand Name(s): Cortisporin
Aurobiotic-HC otic Warnings
Aurobiotic-HC otic Uses
This ear drop is used to treat outer ear infections caused by bacteria (also known as swimmer's ear). This medication contains neomycin and polymyxin, which are antibiotics that work by stopping the growth of bacteria. It also contains hydrocortisone, which is an anti-inflammatory corticosteroid that works by reducing ear swelling and discomfort.
This medication treats only bacterial ear infections. It will not work for other types of ear infections. Unnecessary use or overuse of any antibiotic can lead to its decreased effectiveness.How to use Aurobiotic-HC otic
This medication is usually used 3 or 4 times a day or as directed by your doctor. The ear canal should be clean and dry before using this medication.
For accuracy and to avoid contamination, have another person insert the drops if possible. Before using, hold the container in your hand for a few minutes in order to warm it. This will minimize dizziness.
To apply ear drops, wash your hands first. To avoid contamination, do not touch the dropper tip or let it touch your ear or any other surface.
Lie on your side with the affected ear upward. Hold the dropper directly over the ear and place the prescribed number of drops into the ear canal. To help the drops roll into the ear of an adult, hold the earlobe up and back. For children, hold the earlobe down and back. Keep the head tilted with the treated ear upward for 5 minutes, or insert a soft cotton plug if so directed. Another way to give this medication is to place a cotton wick in the ear canal and moisten it with the prescribed number of drops as often as directed. The wick should be replaced at least once a day.
Repeat the above steps for the other ear if so directed. Do not rinse the dropper. Replace the cap after use.
Use this medication regularly in order to get the most benefit from it. To help you remember, use it at the same times each day. Continue using it for the full time prescribed, even if symptoms disappear after a few days. Stopping this medication too early may allow bacteria to continue to grow, which may result in a relapse of the infection.
Do not use this medication more often than prescribed or continue to use it for longer than 10 days.
Inform your doctor if your condition persists or worsens.
Do not use in the eye.
Aurobiotic-HC otic Side Effects
This medication may temporarily sting or burn your ear for a minute or two when applied. If these effects persist or worsen, notify your doctor or pharmacist promptly.
Remember that your doctor has prescribed this medication because he or she has judged that the benefit to you is greater than the risk of side effects. Many people using this medication do not have serious side effects.
Tell your doctor right away if this rare but very serious side effect occurs: hearing problems (e.g., hearing loss).
Use of this medication for prolonged or repeated periods may result in a new fungal ear infection. Do not use it for longer than prescribed. Contact your doctor if you notice new or worsening symptoms.
A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is unlikely, but seek immediate medical attention if it occurs. Symptoms of a serious allergic reaction may include: rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), redness of the ears, severe dizziness, trouble breathing.
This is not a complete list of possible side effects. If you notice other effects not listed above, contact your doctor or pharmacist.
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Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or at www.fda.gov/medwatch.
In Canada - Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to Health Canada at 1-866-234-2345.
Aurobiotic-HC otic Precautions
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to neomycin, polymyxin, or hydrocortisone; or to aminoglycoside antibiotics (e.g., gentamicin, tobramycin); or to corticosteroids (e.g., dexamethasone, prednisone); or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients (such as sulfites), which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.
This medication should not be used if you have certain medical conditions. Before using this medicine, consult your doctor or pharmacist if you have: other ear problems (e.g., a hole in your eardrum, middle ear infection), an ear infection caused by a virus (e.g., herpes simplex, varicella).
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history.
This medication should be used only if clearly needed during pregnancy. Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor.
It is not known whether this medication passes into breast milk. Consult your doctor before breast-feeding.
Aurobiotic-HC otic Interactions
Your healthcare professionals (e.g., doctor or pharmacist) may already be aware of any possible drug interactions and may be monitoring you for it. Do not start, stop or change the dosage of any medicine before checking with them first.
Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist of all prescription and nonprescription/herbal products you may use.
Keep a list of all your medications with you, and share the list with your doctor and pharmacist.
Aurobiotic-HC otic Overdose
If someone has overdosed and has serious symptoms such as passing out or trouble breathing, call 911. Otherwise, call a poison control center right away. US residents can call their local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222. Canada residents can call a provincial poison control center. This medicine may be harmful if swallowed.NOTES:
Do not share this medication with others.
This medication has been prescribed for your current condition only. Do not use it later for another infection unless told to do so by your doctor. A different medication may be necessary in those cases.
It is important to keep the infected ear(s) clean and dry. Try not to get the infected ear(s) wet when bathing. Avoid swimming unless your doctor tells you otherwise.MISSED DOSE:
If you miss a dose, use it as soon as you remember. If it is near the time of the next dose, skip the missed dose and resume your usual dosing schedule. Do not double the dose to catch up.STORAGE:
Store at room temperature away from light and moisture. Do not store in the bathroom. Keep all medications away from children and pets.
Do not flush medications down the toilet or pour them into a drain unless instructed to do so. Properly discard this product when it is expired or no longer needed. Consult your pharmacist or local waste disposal company for more details about how to safely discard your product.
Information last revised July 2016. Copyright(c) 2016 First Databank, Inc.
Report Problems to the Food and Drug Administration
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.FDA.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
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Project: IM 0293(96)73 PCN 01QS Lincoln/Minnehaha County; IM 2292(90)0 PCN 020Q Lincoln County; P1360(01) PCN 03YF / CIP Number 515099 Lincoln County / City of Sioux Falls
Location: I-90 From West of Cliff Avenue to Slip Up Creek East of I-229 and Cliff Avenue From North 60th St. north to Dike Place
Improvement Type: The proposed project includes reconstruction of I-29 and I-229 from north of Exit 73 (Tea) on I-29
to north of 57th Street and on I-229 from I-29 to Louise Avenue and reconstruction and extension of 85th Street from Louise Avenue through Sundowner Avenue. Along the interstate segments, the primary improvements are to add auxiliary lanes to the northbound and southbound lanes. The 85th Street project includes constructing a grade-separated crossing of I-29 to establish a continuous east-west corridor.
Public Meetings
The South Dakota Department of Transportation (SDDOT) has a long history of public involvement in the development of transportation plans and projects. The 2005 passage of the Safe, Accountable, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) requires a public involvement process. Public meetings for the project scope and/or design will occasionally be scheduled to collect public input, provide information and answer questions.
Public Meeting Information - May 2, 2013
For more information or comments please contact the SDDOT project manager Cary Cleland, who can be reached by email at email@example.com or by phone at (605) 367-5680.