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It's been a while since World War II games were much good. Been a long time since they were "the thing". In recent years only series like Il-2, Red Orchestra and Men at War have been keeping the Nazi-killing dream alive.
Yet it was with a little excitement I sat down with Unity of Command, an upcoming PC strategy game. Mostly because, growing up, I was hopelessly addicted to the Panzer General series, a franchise built on the idea of taking hex-based wargaming, normally a quite complex affair, and making it as streamlined and accessible as possible.
It was Advance Wars with Tiger Tanks, essentially.
Unity of Command does this, only with a little more flair and a little more realism.
At its heart, the game is a simple, turn-based strategy title. You take command of a side on the Eastern Front (so no British or American forces), you have a set number of turns to achieve your objectives, and combat is taken care of by simply clicking on the unit you want to attack (with helpful prediction counters aiding your decision-making).
So far, so Panzer General, but UoC has a few new tricks going for it. One, and this seems strange for a Second World War turn-based strategy game, is that it looks slick. There's a stylised appearance to your infantry, displayed as faceless little busts, and your armour and aircraft are likewise looking good.
The other thing that stands out is the game's use of supply. While UoC is determined to keep things simple, with an emphasis on pure strategy over mouse clicking, there's some complexity added to the game by the way the developers have applied logistics, something many games either don't bother with or which will bore a player to death.
In UoC, your supply lines are like veins running across the map. You've got to keep your units near them, otherwise you won't be able to attack. Go too far too fast and you'll over-shoot them, leaving your units vulnerable. Likewise, let the enemy cut across them and at best you'll only lose a few units. At worst you can lose your entire army. Though, hey, this also applies in reverse.
What this means in terms of how the game flows is that despite its stylish looks and easy-to-pick-up rules, Unity of Command feels real. You're not simply on a map slugging your way through units or racing for dots on a map, it's more of a dance, each side striking out not just at the bad guys, but the more-important roads and supply lines as well.
Unity of Command isn't out yet; it'll be shipping out on November 15. You can see more of the game in action at the official site, linked below.
Unity of Command [Official Site]
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[caption id="attachment_7512" align="alignright" width="500"] Master Sgt. Christopher Aguilera, right, assists the only other survivor of the crash, his co-pilot, Capt. Anthony Simone, during the torch relay ceremony at the start of the 2012 Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, May 1.[/caption]
Two years of pain, frustration and hard work has finally paid off for Air Force Master Sgt. Christopher Aguilera.
Known as "Aggie" by his personal trainer and close friends because of his affinity for Texas A&M, he was one of only two survivors of a deadly helicopter crash during a combat rescue mission in Afghanistan in June 2010.
On Friday, he received some good news:
"Due to MSgt Aguilera's tremendous efforts in recovery and rehabilitation, he has received waivers to return to unconditional flying status." – Air Force Capt. H. Leo Tanaka, M.D.
Just two summers ago the 35-year-old, El Paso, Texas native was a gunner aboard an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter scrambled to evacuate a critically wounded British Royal Marine outside Forward Operating Base Jackson in southern Afghanistan.
It was the third combat rescue within 24 hours for his crew of the 563rd Rescue Group, and since the sun had come up it would be their first of the day without the cover of darkness.
"It smelled of a really bad situation," Aggie said. "But when you are doing combat rescues you have to go in no matter what your gut says. Someone is dying and it's our job to save them. These things I do, that others may live—that is our motto."
The two airships raced into the heart of one of the most hostile territories of Helmand Province—Sangin—where the British had already lost nearly 100 Marines that summer.
As the two rescue choppers (known as Pedros) convened above FOB Jackson, the "two-ship" began its descent while Aggie's bird circled to provide combat support. Everything was going according to plan until he heard the gut-wrenching ting ting ting of machine gun fire impacting the tail rotor of his helicopter.
The pilots and crew reacted quickly to maneuver the aircraft away from the base and the other bird before they lost what little lift they had and plummeted to the earth at nearly 140 mph. The helicopter burst into flames.
Flight Engineer David Smith, Combat Rescue Officer Capt. Joel Gents, Pararescueman Tech. Sgt. Michael Flores and Senior Airman Benjamin White all perished.
Six-foot-two, 225-pound Aggie found himself in a heap of shredded metal, fire and blood.
The violent crash broke his ankle in two places and his back in five. It fractured his femur, hip and tailbone. It broke four ribs, his jaw, sternum and collar bone, and it punctured his lung. His seat tore through his upper-left hamstring all the way up to his hip. On top of all that, he was on fire.
"I was sitting there basically waiting to die," he said. "I could hear the enemy closing in, but I wasn't scared. It was time to join my brothers."
The British newspaper, The Telegraph, reported that a company of 90 Commandos immediately "crashed out" of their base in a desperate race against the insurgents to get to the wreckage first.
"When we got to it, the whole of the [helicopter] was in flames," said Royal Marine Sgt. Rick Angove, one of the first on-scene.
After setting up a perimeter, the Marines—assisted by the crew of the second bird—pulled the two unconscious pilots from the burning aircraft just as armor-piercing ammunition began exploding. Five more Marines fought the fires in the fuselage and worked to free the severely wounded and badly burned Aguilera.
The pilot, Capt. David Wisniewski, died 23 days later with his family and his fiancé by his side. Co-Pilot Capt. Anthony (Tony) Simone eventually woke from his coma and is steadily recovering from severe traumatic brain injuries that have paralyzed the left side of his body.
"At first I was in denial," said Aguilera upon hearing details of the crash. "I didn't want to accept that I'd lost so many friends that day. About a week later I was watching TV in my hospital bed and it all hit me. They were talking about another round of amputations and it finally started to sink in that everything in my life had changed. I had lost my friends forever and I didn't know what would become of me. I was crippled—both in body and mind."
He endured more than 25 surgeries to repair his shattered body. A large portion of his left calf was amputated due to severe burns and he was finally released back to duty in a wheelchair five months after the crash. Life in a chair, however, was unacceptable for him.
"The military got me to the point where I could effectively transition from my wheelchair to a toilet," he said. "But that wasn't enough. I didn't want to get kicked out of the military. I wanted to get back to my job—to get back to combat."
After his final surgery in June 2011, he met with Mel Batterman, a civilian personal trainer at his local gym outside Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas.
"He was just out of his wheelchair—using a cane—and he barely had any balance," said Batterman, a 15-year veteran of the fitness industry. She knew she had the ability to help him recover so she offered her assistance pro-bono.
"He's a true hero—a personal and professional inspiration to me," Batterman said. "He says he does it so others may live—and I can get on board with that.
"There's no question his goals were ambitious considering where he started," she added, "but Aggie has a tremendous amount of inner drive and a huge heart. More-so than I've ever seen. The guys who didn't make it through that accident—he carries them with him every day."
At the start of their training just one year ago, Aggie weighed in at a meager 180 pounds. The lack of muscle tissue and nerve endings in his calf meant re-training the body to tell what little muscle he had left to take over and function as if it were all there.
"Many people in his situation would give up or let their wounds define them," Batterman said. "He never did that. He said to me, 'This is my life, and this is my job—get me there.' So I did."
"If it wasn't for her, there's no doubt in my mind that I'd still be in a wheelchair today," Aguilera said. "She took me from wheelchair to running. She saved my life. She changed my life. She did it so I could live."
The first major milestone of his recovery came this summer, when he participated in the 2012 Warrior Games, a military Paralympics competition sponsored by the USO. He competed in the 100-meter sprint, 200-meter sprint, shot put, discus, seated volleyball and wheelchair basketball, helping to bring home four bronze medals for the Air Force.
Now, just two years after the accident, Master Sgt. Aguilera is officially "back." His balance is no different than anybody else's, and he even scored a 92 on his recent physical fitness test—considered "excellent" by Air Force standards.
He hopes to return to Afghanistan by spring of 2013, and this time he intends to finish his deployment and return to the States on his own terms.
"Returning to flying status will show a lot of the guys in the rescue community that no matter what happens—even if the worst happens—you can still come back," he said. "It will give them confidence to know that there's life after this. You can survive and you can go on and you can come back."
- Joseph Andrew Lee, USO Staff Writer
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Surgery deaths … in about 1 per cent of cases, the clinical problems were found to have probably caused the person's death.A QUARTER of all surgical patient deaths involve potential problems with care that could or should have been provided differently, a massive national audit has found.
And one in every 20 deaths led to significant criticism of the care given to the patient, according to the Australian and New Zealand Audit of Surgical Mortality.
In about 1 per cent of cases, the clinical problems were found to have probably caused the person's death.
The audit's chairman, Guy Maddern, said the potential problems were those where it might have been possible to tackle the issue differently and bring about different results.
"It may have been that a scan should have been done earlier or an antibiotic prescribed, it may not have made any difference but with the benefit of hindsight we have identified it," he said.
The audit, which is run by the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons and examined more than 10,000 deaths over three years, found the most common areas of concern were problems with delays in treatment, or the decision to operate at all.
Professor Maddern said he believed the audit, in its third year, could prevent patient deaths. In Western Australia, where an audit has been run for about 10 years, deaths seemed to be decreasing.
"We think what might be happening is we might be finding surgeons who are realising it might not always be necessary to do [surgery]," he said. "Often these patients are put in front of a surgeon and they feel obliged to do something, and this audit is giving them the confidence to say 'this surgery is not going to provide a meaningful solution.' "
In most of the audit areas the national figures showed improvements on previous years, and the vast majority of deaths involved no significant criticisms.
The proportion of surgeons participating has also increased drastically, from 60 per cent last year to 90 per cent this year.
But Professor Maddern criticised private hospitals in NSW and Queensland that had been slow to participate, despite the NSW government now funding the process here.
Other problems identified in the audit included patients not being moved into a critical care unit, with 12 per cent who had not received critical care treatment likely to have benefited from it. Patients had also missed out on preventative treatment for deep vein blood-clots, and experienced delays in transport to other hospitals.
"Most of these deaths are occurring in the older age groups, and they have many co-morbidities … the surgery is in many ways the easy part; it's managing these other conditions in the post-surgical period that is extremely complex," Professor Maddern said.
The chief executive of the NSW Clinical Excellence Commission, Cliff Hughes, said every surgeon would receive a personal audit report, which was conducted in a similar manner to a jury trial, and a summary at the end of the year.
He said such detailed feedback was "pretty much a world-first", and had been driven by surgeons and anaesthetists in NSW.
He could not say how many private hospitals in NSW were currently participating in the audit process, but was confident the number would improve.
The Australian Private Hospitals Association did not respond to a request for comment.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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THE CAPITAL, TALLAHASSEE, March 21, 2011 --
Once you're over a billion, a couple hundred million more is barely noticeable.
Still, when you're trying to erase a budget deficit that's more than $3 billion, you'd prefer to have new numbers come along that make that smaller, getting you closer to your goal.
All in all, a bad week for budget balancers – which is everyone in the Legislature by constitutional mandate.
They must now erase a $3.75 billion deficit in the next six weeks, instead of $3.6 billion. Economic forecasters agreed late Friday that sales tax collections have remained slower than previously expected and that will leave the state with more than $100 million less in incoming tax dollars than lawmakers thought they would have when they started the session.
If the above sounds like the beginning of a question on the FCAT, perhaps that's appropriate.
Some teachers this week may have wondered whether they may be able to forecast an increase in revenue in their household budget. Teachers with students who do well on standardized tests may soon be able to look forward to the prospect of a merit pay increase thanks to legislation that passed the House this week and went to Gov. Rick Scott.
Then again, they may not.
While the new law – Scott has said he will sign it – will allow districts to give merit pay raises for teachers whose students do well on tests, the change doesn't come with any money to pay for those raises (see above paragraphs about the budget shortfall.)
The notion that nobody is really likely to get much of a raise anyway didn't blunt complaints from many teachers or their union that the merit pay bill is unfair. Many said much about student performance is beyond their control, and their ability to make more money may now hinge on whether Johnny ate breakfast on test day, or whether Susie's parents bothered to make her do her homework.
The merit pay bill was the high profile item of the week, in part because the measure has been so controversial the last two years, in part because it is a huge change in the way teachers are paid, ditching the tenure system in place for years – and in part because it was the first bill this year to go to Scott, the new governor, and the first he will sign.
The jobs governor – who came into office promising to focus on job creation almost at the expense of just about anything else – will likely not sign an economic development measure into law first, but rather a bill some teachers say may make them look for a job out of state. Scott and other backers of the legislation say that good teachers need not worry, only those who can't find a way to make students learn, which is their job, will see their earning ability hampered.
Some may also see themselves forced out of teaching, as well. The bill also removes a job protection by allowing districts to hire on one year contracts. The bill also will do away with the last in, first out way of laying off teachers, which meant that eager, new teachers were the ones to go when schools have had to shed jobs.
While the teachers union would say lawmakers were hard on teachers this week, the Senate looked intent on going easier on schools than previously feared, and easier than Gov. Rick Scott would. The Senate spending proposal for education, as it emerged this week, would cut about 2.3 percent per student from its main school budget, which is far less than a more than 7 percent per student cut in early House plans and a roughly 10 percent cut proposed by Scott.
Sen. David Simmons, who writes the Senate's PreK-12 budget called his plan "roughly level" and said it was a significant statement of the Senate's belief in the importance of investing in education.
The Senate may be trying to ease the pain for the current users of the education system, but future users got a shock this week when another Senate committee proposed spiking the popular Florida Prepaid program that lets parents lock in tuition and pay it in advance. It's far from a done-deal, but the idea of closing it to new enrollees was floated in the Senate Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee this week.
Doing so would have absolutely no impact on the budget and wouldn't help lawmakers balance it, because the program gets no state dollars.
But Sen. Evelyn Lynn, R-Ormond Beach, said the state would be on the hook should the program go into the red. There's no indication that it might, but Lynn noted that the stock market hasn't been doing very well of late.
"With assets exceeding liabilities every year since inception, the program continues to remain financially and actuarially strong with a funding ratio of 105 percent," Prepaid program officials said in a statement.
Overall, the Higher Education budget isn't spared the tough cuts facing other parts of the budget. Because of the ending of federal stimulus money, Lynn's committee is looking to reduce the higher education spending plan by $320 million. A number of Florida high school students also count on the Bright Futures program that makes it easier for many to pay for college. Lawmakers said again this week they are looking to save money by making it harder to get that scholarship.
The governor ended this week as he says he spends much of every day – trying to drum up economic development to create jobs in the state. Scott left the country for his first "trade mission," visiting the Central American nation of Panama. One of Scott's bigger job-creating announcements so far was his earmarking of state money earlier this year for an expansion of the Port of Miami with plans to have it get calls from the larger ships that will now be sailing through the Panama Canal, which is being enlarged. Scott checked on that while in Panama this week, along with meeting with government officials there.


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Heading to GABF? Check out the Don't Miss List
Round 1 of GABF is over. Round 2 begins.
Take a look at our "don't misses" as you plan out your Friday and Saturday sessions.
Happy Drinking!
The sour smorgasbord:
After debuting at GABF last year — and generating quite a bit of buzz — brewpub Destihl of Normal, Ill. has returned with six different sours that do not disappoint. (The Reserve Gose is my favorite, but the Sour Hawaii Ale is probably the most unique.) And great news for Colorado, founder and brewmaster Matt Potts says they've secured warehouse space to start production brewing and, thanks to the warm reception here in Colorado, we're one of the top five states they hope to start shipping kegs to by the end of 2013. Fingers crossed!
But that's far from all for sour fans. Both New Belgium and Avery are each featuring two true gems. Tart Lychee, which goes quickly from sought out to sold-out after each release and NBB Love Felix are must tries from New Belgium. And on Thursday night, Avery head brewer Adam Avery was pouring samples of Oud Floris and Odio Equum, a best of fest pick from your humble First Drafters.


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Last fall a group of anthropologists participated in the 2012 All Scientists Meeting (ASM) of the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network in Estes Park, Colorado. They were there to make a case for integrating more anthropologists into the study of ecosystems. Read about their experience in Anthropology News. Below is an excerpt:
There is a growing recognition among ecologists that they need to grapple with the human impacts on ecosystems and that the old model of studying isolated and protected reserves to understand ecosystems is no longer valid. This is evidenced by the theme of this year's ASM meeting and the increasing impact of climate change on ecosystems in the LTER sites. However, there are few ecological models that satisfactorily incorporate human complexity. Ecologists may study ecosystem processes at the micro-scale and then jump to the global macro-scale, eg, measuring the impact of global warming on these processes, thus skipping the local, regional, and national scales at which human activities more directly affect ecosystem processes in myriad ways. This offers opportunities for anthropologists who study complex social-ecological systems using a holistic approach and making linkages across these spatiotemporal scales. Moreover, anthropologists are no strangers to long-term research as many are involved in ethnographic research in one site over multiple decades. Thus, anthropologists can make significant conceptual contributions to LTER projects.
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This is just an intro to the big World of Run Levels in Linux. If I get some feed back I may do a second one with more detail but I don't want to start off with something huge yet, first I want opinions on this one and then I shall go from there. So here itis, an small intro into the World of Run levels. All comments are welcome and if it's liked or if some of you want more, then reply here and I can start the next one up. I'm going to be finished with this semester in college soon so I can make more time for things.
When you boot up a Linux system and see "uncompressing Linux" that tells you the Kernel is now taking over your hardware. It checks and sets your console. Next your drivers "probe" existing hardware and start it up as needed.
After checking the partitions and loading the root file system the Kernel starts up init which then finishes booting up programs and configurations that are used for booting the system up.
The Kernel controls the entire system, which includes hardware access and the CPU time programs use. This is called a Preemptive Multi Tasking OS. As opposed to Cooperative Multi Tasking that OSs such as Windows used all the way up to Windows 9X. This itself is a bad idea and explains why they were so unstable.
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cooperative multitasking
A type of multitasking in which the process currently controlling the CPU must offer control to other processes. It is called cooperative because all programs must cooperate for it to work. If one program does not cooperate, it can hog the CPU. In contrast, preemptive multitasking forces applications to share the CPU whether they want to or not. Versions 8.0-9.2.2 of Macintosh OS and Windows 3.x operating systems are based on cooperative multitasking, whereas UNIX, Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, and later versions of Mac OS are based on preemptive multitasking.
Init is responsible for correctly initializing all system processes. It's the Parent Process of all other system processes. Init is started by the Kernel and is immune to every BOFH's favorite "kill -9". All other programs are started either by init or one of it's child processes.
init is centrally configured via /etc/inittab. Here are where run levels are defined and what services and daemons are loaded by the system in whichever run level you choose.
In Linux, run levels define how the system is started. After booting, the system starts as defined in /etc/inittab which is in the line initdefault. For the most part, this is going to be 3, or 5. An Alternative to this is assigning a special run level at boot time (Like at the boot prompt). The Kernel passes any parameters it does not need directly to init.
Changing run levels while the system is running is easy, just type init and whichever run level you want. You must be root to do this.
Run levels:
0 - Systems halt (Like typing halt or shutdown at the prompt)
S - Single user mode
1 - Single user mode
2 - Local multiuser but without network
3 - full multi user with network. This is standard on Slackware.
4 - Unused unless you're using Slackware, which would be what other Linux distros use as 5.
5 - Full multiuser, network, and X. Except on Slackware, in which this is 4.
6 - reboot
(You can imagine the fun I've had making my cousin's box default run level 6 )
If /etc/inittab is damaged, the system may not boot properly. In other words, only play with it if ou don't care about having to reinstall. If you do damage it though, you should have a back up. I assume you do because in any OS, before oyu screw with it, back it up. If you do screw it up though, try entering this:
after the Kernel name in the LILO boot prompt to boot right into a shell, and then use cp to replace the FUBARED version with your back up copy.
To change your GUI run level to text, type init 3.
Generally two things happen when you are changing run levels. First, stop scripts of the current run level are run, closing down programs essential for the current run level and then start scripts are ran where most of the time programs needed for this run level get started.
when starting the same run level you're already in, init only checks /etc/inittab checking for changes.


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BMI is a measure that adults and children can use to see if they are a healthy weight for their height.
The body mass index (BMI) is a measure that uses your height and weight to work out if your weight is healthy.
The BMI calculation divides an adult's weight in kilograms by their height in metres squared. For example, A BMI of 25 means 25kg/m2.
For most adults, an ideal BMI is in the 18.5 to 24.9 range.
For children and young people aged 2 to 18, the BMI calculation takes into account age and gender as well as height and weight.
If your BMI is:
If you want to calculate your BMI, see How can I work out my BMI? or try our healthy weight calculator.
BMI takes into account natural variations in body shape, giving a healthy weight range for a particular height.
As well as measuring your BMI, healthcare professionals may take other factors into account when assessing if you're a healthy weight.
Muscle is much denser than fat, so very muscular people, such as heavyweight boxers, weight trainers and athletes, may be a healthy weight even though their BMI is classed as obese.
Your ethnic group can also affect your risk of some health conditions. For example, adults of Asian origin may have a higher risk of health problems at BMI levels below 25.
You should not use BMI as a measure if you're pregnant. Get advice from your midwife or GP if you're concerned about your weight.


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What AZEMO is used for?
It is used to treat bacterial infections caused by bacteria. These infections include
- chest, throat or nasal infections (such as bronchitis, pneumonia, tonsillitis, sore throat (pharyngitis) and sinusitis
- ear infections
- skin and soft tissue infections (such as an abscess or boil)
- sexually transmitted diseases caused by an organism called chlamydia trachomatis and Neisseria gonorrhea
Talk to your doctor before taking this medicine, If you
- are allergic (hypersensitive) to or any other macrolide antibiotic such as erythromycin or clarithromycin or any of the other ingredients in this medicine
- have liver or kidney or heart problems
- have low potassium or magnesium levels
- have myasthenia gravis
- If you are pregnant or breast-feeding, think you may be pregnant or are planning to have a baby, ask your doctor for advice before taking this medicine
Tell your doctor if you are taking,
- Colchicine (used for gout and familial Mediterranean fever)
- antacids (medicine for indigestion)
- Ergot or ergotamine (medicines used for migraine)
- Warfarin or any similar medicines to prevent blood clots
- Ciclosporin (used to suppress the immune system to prevent and treat rejection of a transplanted organ or bone marrow)
- Digoxin (used to treat heart failure)
- Terfenadine (for hay fever or a skin allergy)
- Always take this medicine exactly as your doctor has told you
- It should be swallowed as a whole
- Take this medicine either 1 hour before a meal or 2 hours after a meal
- Adults and children with a body weight of 45 kg and above
- The recommended dose is 500 mg (2 dose) taken together, once a day, for 3 days
If you take more AZEMO
- If you take more this medicine, talk to a doctor or go to a hospital straight away
If you forget to take AZEMO
- If you forget a dose, take it as soon as you remember. However, if it is nearly time for the next dose, skip the missed dose, do not take a double dose to make up for a forgotten dose
If you stop taking AZEMO
- Do not stop taking this medicine unless told by your doctor
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- difficulty breathing, sudden wheeziness, swelling of the eyelids, face or lips, rash or itching
- severe or prolonged diarrhea
- severe skin rash causing redness and flaking
- rapid or irregular heartbeat
- low blood pressure
- serious skin reactions; blistering of the skin, mouth, eyes and genitals
- headache, dizziness, vomiting, indigestion
- low number of lymphocytes (a type of white blood cells), higher number of eosinophils (a type of white blood cell)
- low blood bicarbonate
- numbness or pins and needles
- loss of appetite, taste disturbance
- visual disturbances, deafness
- skin rash and /or itching
- joint pain, tiredness or weakness
- yeast infections of the mouth and vagina (thrush)
- low numbers of leukocytes (a type of white blood cell), low number of neutrophils (a type of white blood cell)
- skin more sensitive to sunlight than normal
- feeling nervous, reduced sense of touch or sensation (hypoesthesia)
- sleepiness or sleeplessness (insomnia)
- poor hearing or ringing in the ears
- heart palpitations, chest pain
- constipation, stomach pain associated with diarrhoea and fever
- inflammation of the liver (hepatitis), changes in liver enzymes
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Malibu Beach is a bit of bay sandwiched between a stretch of six-lane Morrissey Boulevard and a fraction of eight-lane Interstate 93. It is a sandy stretch that surrounds a shallow body of water that has about twenty feet of extra beach at low tide. It isn't the most romantic spot, but when love is in the air it is the perfect place to take a walk with a significant other and pitch woo.
Nothing about Malibu Beach resembles California except that there is air and water and sand and traffic. After dusk, the water sparkles with the refracted light of street lamps that line the highway and Morrissey Boulevard, headlights and taillights of passing cars stuck in traffic or zipping by, and the antique lamps that limn the walkway that circles three quarters of this inlet. The sidewalk that runs parallel to the beach is a linear park, part of the Boston Harborwalk's Dorchester branch. Malibu Beach is part of the Savin Hill neighborhood's many amenities, easily walked to from the T station on the Red Line or accessed by driving down Savin Hill Avenue, turning at Playstead Road and parking in the lot at McConnell Park.
The elbow where Playstead Road bends into Denny Street is a good place to start a romantic amble when the sun goes down. Intramural leagues use McConnell Park for Little League and softball games late into the night. Some games don't start until after 9:00PM on weeknights. The play is high-spirited, well-mannered and orderly. Catch follows fly which leads to a tag or a run and everyone cheers, "Well done," no matter which team is ahead. Sportsmanship, above all, is the goal of these contests. The powerful halogen bulbs suspended high over the diamonds light the fields as brightly as day but with deeper, more dramatic, crisp shadows. You can lean against the waist-high chain link fence and watch the good-natured clash of competitors go on for nine innings or just for half of one. A small dose of good clean fun refreshes one's faith in the human spirit.
Between the parking lot and the beach is a playground where young families gather to enjoy the swings and slides and monkey bars. Toddlers and adolescents mingle with adults and everyone keeps an eye on everyone else. It is forums like this that produce cross-generational connections and where the blooms of youth are tendered under watchful, experienced eyes. Fights rarely break out and when they do, this is an area that polices itself. No blood is shed, no grudges are nursed and parties shake hands after a disagreement, agreeing that the other has a point and that fisticuffs or worse are not the best means to settle a dispute.
A little to the east of the playground, across a sidewalk and up a slight rise, is a monument to Savin Hill, which used to be called Rock Hill. The geographic formation formerly known as Rock Hill is just up Denny Street and a right turn on Grampian Way, which is a road that surrounds Savin Hill in an inner loop. A little to the east of the playground, across a sidewalk and up a slight rise is a boulder of gray rock surrounded by a cast iron, barred fence with spikes on top of the bars. This fence is forty-one inches tall, so it is more ornamental than forbidding. Anyone who wants to touch the rock can climb the fence if he or she is mindful of their crotch. Not many people climb the fence. There is no plaque or nameplate within or without the fence. There is story cast on a bronze plate that describes the reason this rock is so important it deserves to be set apart and protected from its surroundings.
From outside the fence, one admits the rock is noble and honorable and worthy of its special esteem. It is a piece of geology older than Shawmut. It is strong and true to its self. It rests contently, as only stone can, unmoving from its seat of respect within its stately, cast-iron fence. The rock accepts gazes of admiration from those who stop and wonder why such a large lump of puddingstone, as impressive as it may be, should be fenced of in such grandeur as if it were a statue of George Washington. Observers who do not know the rock's history assume it has historical significance. They are right.
The rise on which the rock sits runs in a ridge next to the beach. There is a sidewalk along the ridge through the side yards of neighbors, and there is a sidewalk about five feet lower alongside, near where the sand starts. Where the two sidewalks converge there is a public bubbler pumping pure Boston Ale for the thirsty.
Be careful. The pressure in this bubbler is high. The spigots spout streams of transparent refreshment over the basins and onto an unwary drinkers pants right where they would prefer not to have a wet spot. The water out of the bubblers is cold and fresh, without impurities and plump on the tongue with full-bodied flavorless flavor. It is drinking water at its best, cleaner than clean, and it is part of the public supply available to all for free.
There are benches along the sidewalk that follows the contours of Malibu Beach. They are regularly spaced at convenient intervals for strollers who want to rest their dogs and enjoy the view. Most people sit when the drawbridge that spans the mouth of the cove opens to let boats moor at the Dorchester Yacht Club. The bridge goes up and halts traffic on Morrissey Boulevard, stopping cars for a mile at minimum and the edge of Malibu Beach is lit with brake lights like a halted parade of ladybugs.
Couples take their ease along Malibu Beach in the lazy fashion of people who have nothing better to do. People come here to spend quality time with their significant other in a place where the ugly infrastructure of civilization comingles with nature. The cove is surrounded by high-speed roads and major automobile arteries. There is nothing picturesque about Malibu Beach but the beach. Sitting on a bench, enjoying the horizon, you are reminded that you are in a city, a member of a human community full of commotion and distractions. You are confronted by two types of endless tides: the highway and the surf.
The susurrus of wheels whizzing on pavement and the low, lazy slap of Malibu beach's weak-fingered waves makes the perfect, unobtrusive background noise over which to whisper poetry in the dark. The antique street lamps that stand between pairs of benches along the walk bathe the concrete paving and the benches in a welcoming glow. They erase imperfections and paint faces ideal. The ambient soundtrack, the ambient light, the scent of ocean, good company; forces converge to make romance bloom and honeymoons sweet.
You can see scores of couples arm-in-arm every evening along Malibu Beach's promenade. Their heads are leaned close together past where their shoulders touch. They use their free hands to caress their companion's midriff or cheek. They whisper and quietly chuckle in response. They mind only the business that exists between them. A couple will invariably stop at bench. They will sit closely together, nuzzle, kiss, look out over the water, cuddle closer and kiss again. The most common words overheard at Malibu Beach are, "I love you."
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Monday, September 03, 2007
The Whale Tosses Its Tail
Whalehead King has beached in Boston. He has landed in North Dorchester, just south and inland of Columbia Point. He lives on Sydney Street in Fourth Haven, Dorchester, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., Planet Earth, Solar System, Milky Way.
One thinks cosmic thoughts surrounded by Vietnamese Buddhists on a sultry, Dorchester night while they stain the bare lumber bannisters that border thier front steps. Plastic boddhisatvas are glued to car dashboards and hang from rear-view mirrors. So many souls along Sydney Street are considering their karma, everyone else is drawn in the whorl. Sydney Street is a quiet, contemplative street.
One thinks cosmic thoughts surrounded by Vietnamese Buddhists on a sultry, Dorchester night while they stain the bare lumber bannisters that border thier front steps. Plastic boddhisatvas are glued to car dashboards and hang from rear-view mirrors. So many souls along Sydney Street are considering their karma, everyone else is drawn in the whorl. Sydney Street is a quiet, contemplative street.
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New Checklists Aid in Lewy Body Dementia (LBD) Symptom Reporting
(Atlanta, GA) – August 19, 2013 – The Lewy Body Dementia Association (LBDA) announced today the launch of new resources for physicians and their patients. LBDA created two new LBD symptom checklists; an abbreviated checklist to assist in the reporting of LBD diagnostic symptoms and a more comprehensive checklist to help people already diagnosed with LBD or their caregivers to report new or concerning LBD symptoms as the disease progresses. The checklists are now available for unlimited free download by healthcare professionals and the general public.
Lewy body dementia (LBD) is a relentlessly progressive brain disease that affects thinking, movement, behavior or mood and sleep. Although LBD is lesser known than Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease, LBD is not a rare disorder, and affects an estimated 1.3 million Americans.
Diagnosing LBD can be challenging, even for specialists. Early LBD symptoms may resemble similar symptoms in brain diseases like Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. And LBD symptoms vary in time of onset, combination and severity, making no two cases exactly alike. Early diagnosis and a comprehensive treatment approach can maximize the quality of life for the person with LBD and their caregiver. Getting an early diagnosis of LBD is also very important, as people with LBD react differently to certain medications, sometimes severely so, than people with Alzheimer's or Parkinson's.
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Bangladesh Railway Tickets Online – Get eTicket Now – www.railway.gov.bd
Bangladesh Railway launched online internet ticket purchase service to ease the sufferings of passengers.
Bangladesh Railway Minister Obaidul Kader unveiled the online ticketing service at the Railway Bhaban today, Tuesday May 29, 2012.
"Passengers can purchase online tickets from today and if this service is successful, then whole ticketing system will be transformed to online eTicket." said the minister.
Bangladesh Railway (BR) would keep 10 percent of its tickets reserved for online purchase as e-tickets. 15% will be allocated for mobile. Before this, 25% of the tickets were available for mobile ticketing system.
Passengers can buy online tickets from internet by using ther Visa & Master Card, both Debit & Credit card of any bank will work online.
"2000 tickets of different destinations will be available for online purchase from Tuesday May 29." added by managing director of Bangladesh Railway, Abu Taher.
Passengers need to buy online eTickets in 3 days advance from the actual departure date and one person can buy maximum 4 tickets against a credit/debit card for a destination for that day.
On successful completion of purchase subject to availability of desired seats, one would be able to get a printout of the ticket from his or her email address. Passengers need to submit the printer bill copy to the e-Booth of railway station to collect the actual travel ticket.
"We have setup strong security measures to stop tickets going to black market." Abu Taher added.
Online train ticketing will help passengers spare the hassle of coming all the way to the station during working hours and waiting in long queues. And the service will also help curb the malpractice of touting train tickets.
Meanwhile, government is going to procure 200 air-conditioned train coaches from Malaysia within a year to enhance the country's rail service capacity, said the communications minister on Tuesday
The coaches are to be of metre gauge nature, Communications Minister Obaidul Quader said in a press briefing after Malaysian Prime Minister's special envoy Dato Seri S Samy Vellu called on him at Railway Division.
Quader, also in charge of railway ministry, said an expert team is expected to visit Bangladesh next month to ascertain their compatibility with the local rail track.
An agreement between the two governments in this regard will follow a visit of a Bangladeshi team to Malaysia, he said.
The railway sector has been 'limping' with age-old tracks, coaches and engines, he said adding that of 2,835 kilometres of rail track, 2,200 kilometres are metre-gauge.
On average, about 65 million passengers avail railway service in a year. Over 50,000 people travel to and from Dhaka through Kamalapur Railway Station each day.
. Step-by-step Guide .
. Buy Bangladesh Railway Train Tickets Online .
How to Buy Online eTickets – Bangladesh Railway Online eTicketing Service – www.esheba.cnsbd.com
- Need a computer or laptop with internet connection to buy Bangladesh Railway online eTicket .
- Go to following website link to find the Registration/Sign-up form – Click here to Sign-up
- Fill up the form. Enter your name, email address, address, mobile number.
- Enter the 'Security Code' as shown on the right side. Code is case sensitive, so enter correctly.
- Click the 'Register' button to complete the registration/sign-up process.
- Check your email inbox for eTicket registration confirmation.
- Go to following website link to Sign-in – Click here to Sign-in
- Enter your email address, password & security code and click 'Login'.
- Select your travel details, including Date, Starting Station, Destination, Train Name, Number of Adult/Child passengers.
- You can buy up to maximum 4 tickets online.
- Check your total ticket price amount in taka.
- Enter your Visa Card/Master card details. Credit/debit card of any local bank is acceptable.
- Check your email for Online Ticket Purchase confirmation.
- Printout the email.
- Carry the printed copy to the station along with the mobile phone & card used to purchase the online tickets.
- Submit the printout in the e-Booth of each train station to collect the original travel ticket. e-Booth officer may verify your identity by checking your mobile number & card.
- Collect the original ticket from your train station at least 15 minutes prior to your journey.
- Bangladesh Railway Online eTicketing service is currently offered for only Resident Bangladeshi Citizens.
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Select Journey Date, Station From, Station To, Train Name, Seat Class from drop-down menu and then enter Number of Adult & Number of Child passenger(s). Finally Click on 'Show Fare' button to show Bangladesh Train Ticket Price online in a popup window. (Train Ticket Price shown is including VAT & Service Charge)


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Puig continues torrid stretch with two hits, RBI
Harang retires 11 of final 14 batters faced after difficult three-run first inning
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Lorenzo Cain and Mike Moustakas, two of the Royals' hottest hitters, each ripped a solo home run and had a perfect afternoon in a 7-2 victory over the Dodgers on Wednesday at Surprise Stadium.
Moustakas went 3-for-3 with two RBIs, raising his average to .460. Cain's two hits with a walk boosted his mark to .474. Johnny Giavotella, battling for the Royals' second-base job, also homered.
"I'm just seeing the ball good right now," Moustakas said. "It's still spring, it still doesn't count too much, but right now we're playing good baseball altogether, so that's important thing we're taking from this."
The Dodgers' spectacular outfielder, Yasiel Puig, tripled, singled and had a sacrifice fly for another perfect day after going 4-for-4 against the A's on Wednesday. He's hitting .521 (25-for-48) with eight extra-base hits and 11 RBIs.
"Again, we just keep building up expectations. If he doesn't hit .500 now, he's terrible," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said of Puig. "Again, he's facing a good big league pitcher today in Wade Davis and he continues to look good.
"He's still a wild horse out there. He plays fast and he plays hard. He's going to make some mistakes right now. He continues to learn all the time. That's really what you want to see. You don't mind mistakes as long as the guy is continually not making the same ones."
The Royals' record improved to 18-6-1. The Dodgers are 9-14-3.
The Dodgers weren't very artful in the first inning, with two errors and a wild pitch helping the Royals score three runs, two of them unearned.
Dodgers starter Aaron Harang began by giving up Alex Gordon's double and Alcides Escobar's single, then struck out Billy Butler. When Harang tried to pick Gordon off third base, Nick Punto missed the ball and Gordon scored. Moustakas singled home Escobar, but was thrown out trying for second.
On Salvador Perez's grounder to first base, Harang covered, but dropped the toss for another error. Cain doubled Perez to third and then he scored on Harang's wild pitch.
Royals starter Wade Davis was charged with one run in his four-plus innings in his first Major League start since March 3, giving up two hits and four walks. Davis left a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the fifth to Louis Coleman, who got a double-play grounder and a strikeout to escape with minimal damage.
Up next: The Dodgers travel to Tucson Thursday for what has become the annual Christina Taylor Green charity game. Stephen Fife will start against the Cubs in the 1:05 p.m. PT game, and among the regulars making the trip are Matt Kemp and Andre Ethier. Also listed on the travel roster is Puig.


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Gastech 2014
March 24 - 27, 2014
Location: Goyang City, South Korea
Venue: KINTEX – Korea International Exhibition Center
Booth number: G110.
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Gastech is the a worldwide meeting for energy professionals working in the natural gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) industries. Established as the leading international event for technical and commercial executives, and operating on an 18 month cycle, the event celebrates its 42nd birthday in 2014 when it will be held in South Korea, hosted by KOGAS.
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Vehicle: 2005 Toyota Tacoma Access Cab
Owner: Camren Beattie
Location: Moorpark, California
Chassis: Fully 'caged
Engine: 4.0L OHV V-6 with more than 300,000 miles
Drivetrain: five-speed manual, 9-inch rear end with a 9+ Nodular Iron Case and spool and 6.00 gears
Suspension: Giant Equal Length Beams with 16-inch-stroke Sway-A-Way 3.0 triple-bypass shocks and 14-inch-stroke King Coilover shocks with 15.5 inches of travel, Giant four-link with 18-inch-stroke King triple-bypass shocks and 14-inch-stroke Sway-A-Way Coilover shocks in the rear with 24 inches of wheel travel.
Steering: Equal-length steering
Brakes: Stock
Tires/Wheels: 35x12.5R15 General Grabbers DOT Red Labels
Interior: Full interior 'cage
Other parts: 6.0L LS V-8 sitting on the garage floor waiting to get installed
Favorite off-road area: Pismo Dunes
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Vehicle: 2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee WJ
Owner: Shane Briggs
Location: Cape May Court House, New Jersey
Chassis: Stock
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Favorite off-road area: South Jersey
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Vehicle: 1987 Toyota Pickup 2WD
Owner: Bryan Blagg
Location: Anaheim, California
Chassis: Stock frame plated, 4130 Chromoly and DOM 0.120 wall 1.5-inch tubing
Engine: 22R, Weber Carburetor, Downey Header, Dooley Enterprises 7.5-quart oil pan
Drivetrain: Currie 9+ rear end, Nodular Iron third member, locker, 6.00 Motive Gears, 31-spline axles
Suspension: O.R.A. Racing Team front kit, King Coilover shocks, Deaver Spring Race Pack, O.R.A 12 in. shackles, 16-inch-stroke Fox bypass shocks
Steering: sicknicksfab.com steering kit
Brakes: Wilwood brakes
Tires/Wheels: 33x10.50R15 BF Goodrich All-Terrain tires on 15-inch Centerline Wheels
Interior: Sick Nicks Fab
Other parts: Welding Works custom exhaust, G&G lighting.net
Favorite off-road area: Johnson Valley, Dumont Dunes, Ocotillo Wells, and Glamis
Powder Puff Samurai
Vehicle: 1987 Suzuki Samurai
Owner: John Moseley
Location: Montclair, CA
Chassis: Stock
Engine: 3.0L Toyota V-6
Drivetrain: Five-speed manual, dual T-cases with 4.7 gears, Toyota Landcruiser front axle, 8-inch Toyota rear with positraction, 5.29 gears
Suspension: Front four-link with F.O.A. coilover shocks with Eibach coils with 20 inches of wheel travel, rear four-link with F.O.A. coilover shocks with Eibach coils with 22 inches of wheel travel
Steering: Custom draglink and track bar
Brakes: Stock Toyota front and rear
Tires/Wheels: 37-inch Goodyear Wrangler MTRs on 15-inch black steel simulated beadlock wheels
Interior: Beard suspension seats
Other parts: 4130 Chromoly exo cage, Stretched wheelbase to 105 inches
Favorite off-road area: Truckhaven and Johnson Valley
EVO Built Wrangler
Vehicle: 2007 Jeep Wrangler JK four-door
Owner: Nicholas Green
Location: Valley Center, California
Engine: 3.8L V-6, RIPP Super Charger, RIPP long tube headers, Diablosport Tuner with custom RIPP tune, Custom Exhaust with Flowmaster Hushpower muffler, RIPP NGK spark plugs, Granetti spark plug wires
Drivetrain: '08 Rubicon T-case with twin stick shifters, Dana 44 front from '08 Rubicon, Dana 44 rear from '08 Rubicon, Superior Axle & Gear 5.13 gears, J.E. Reel 1310 driveshafts, ARB 35-spline air lockers front and rear, RCV Performance CV 35-spline driveshafts, Superior Axle & Gear 35-spline axles, custom painted Riddler Diff Covers rear Diff Cover, custom front axle truss, Evo C-gussets, Evo control arm skids, custom rear control arm skids
Suspension: Off Road Evolution front EVO MFG Coilover kit with 2.5 King Coilover shocks, Off Road Evolution Evolever 2.5 King Coilover shocks, Full Traction Long Arm Kit, Custom Painted Teraflex Speedbumps front and rear
Steering: PSC Hydro Assist Steering, JKS Adjustable sway bar links front and rear, Reid Performance Knuckles, Dynatrac ball joints, Rock Krawler heavy-duty tie rod, Moog tie rod ends, Rock Krawler draglink
Brakes: Crowne Automotive extended stainless steel brake lines, custom extended ESP lines, Tera Flex big brake kit
Tires/Wheels: 37x13.50R17 Toyo Open Country Mud-Terrains on 17-inch Raceline beadlocks
Interior: Corbeau seats, five-point harness, seat heaters, Alpine INA-w900 head unit, Rock Camera mounted in front bumper, Custom Ipad mount, Alpine LAT subwoofer, PDX-5 Amplifier, Tuffy stereo enclosure, Aeroforce dual gauges, SPOD switch panel, The Source 20 pound CO2 tank with custom air distribution throughout cab and engine compartment, Cobra CB with Firestick antenna, external P.A. speaker, Tuffy Security Deck, Streamlite LED flashlight with charger mounted to driver's seat, Kilby JK seat and cargo panels
Other parts: Fire extinguisher, one big Jeep knife, machete, first-aid kit, tire-repair kit, custom assembled tool kit, Warn recovery kit
Favorite off-road area: Moab, Utah


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Despite a decade of development, the Mekong Delta's tourism industry has failed to show robust growth. Uninspired tourist packages, limited advertising, a lack of tourism investment promotion and poor human resources training, all plague the industry.
|Tourists visit Cai Rang Floating Market in Can Tho City. To keep visitors coming back, the Mekong Delta tourism sector needs to diversify tour packages and highlight each province's strongest attractions. (Photo: SGGP)
Thus, most tourists who visit, never return.
The Mekong Delta is a large and heavily populated region with a warm climate and few natural disasters. In addition, its natural beauty and abundant waterways makes the area an attractive eco-tourism destination.
However, experts say these attributes have not been taken advantage of. According to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the number of visitors to the Mekong Delta in 2008 accounted for just 8 percent compared to other regions visited in the country.
On average, foreign tourists spend just one day in the region while Vietnamese tourists stay an average of two days.
In 2004, the Tien Giang Tourist Company began offering fishing tours. One week later, other eco-tourism companies began offering the same packages.
Now, visiting fruit gardens, rowing boats, fishing, and traditional music performances appear as part of nearly every tour.
This has led to unhealthy competition amongst businesses who try to offer the lowest prices and ultimately end up sacrificing service.
At a seminar on sustainable development for Mekong Delta tourism held recently in Can Tho, Dr. Dinh Van Hanh from the Vietnam Institute of Culture and Arts, Ho Chi Minh Sub-Institute said that because most tours are the same, travelers have no reason to return after their first visit.
To address the lack of creativity, HCMC tour operators proposed developing an excursion that would take visitors through more of the Mekong Delta provinces, highlighting the different attractions of each area. Moreover, each province would benefit financially.
However, the program failed to take flight as many thought it would be too expensive to instigate the tour and companies didn't like the idea of sharing profits.
Cultural, historic attractions overlooked
The Mekong Delta lacks an abundance of famous landscapes as compared to the central and northern regions. However, it boasts many interesting architectural works and historical relics like Doi Pagoda in Soc Trang Province, Binh Thuy Communal House in Can Tho City, and Ba Om Pond in Tra Vinh Province to name a few.
According to statistics from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Mekong Delta has 150 national cultural and historical relics in all.
In addition, the region hosts traditional festivals like Chol Chnam Thmay, Dolta, and Ha Xan.
But experts say businesses have failed to realize the area's potential cultural attraction in creating tours with variety.
According to Dr. Pham Trung Luong, deputy head of the Institute for Tourism Development Research, tourism development strategies should be tailor-made for each locality.
For example, Long An, Tien Giang, Ben Tre, and Dong Thap provinces should focus on tours to cultural and historical relics and trade villages.
Meanwhile, Vinh Long, Can Tho, Tra Vinh, Hau Giang, Soc Trang, Bac Lieu and Ca Mau provinces should exploit shopping, eating, and floating market tours.
An Giang and Kien Giang provinces should prioritize sea, island, and mountain tourism and facilitate trips into Cambodia and Thailand.
Only by capitalizing on each province's strengths and diversifying tours will visitors be enticed to return.


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Teddy bears were named for a president of the United States. The first teddy bear was a cuddly toy said to be inspired by a hunting trip made by President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt in 1902. He was praised because he saw a bear cub but dind't shoot it. Morris and Rose Michtom started selling their stuffed bears as teddy bears and the name stayed. The Michtoms founded the Ideal Novelty and Toy Company. The German version of the teddy bear was made about the same time by the Steiff Company. There are many types of teddy bears and all are collected. The old ones are being reproduced. Vintage teddy bears are usually covered with wool mohair. Other bears are listed in the Toy section.
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Rural Action: Revitalizing Appalachian Communities
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Twice weekly from May to October, farmers bring produce to an open-sided auction barn in Chesterhill, Ohio: bags of potatoes and onions, bushels of sweet corn, boxes of beans and blueberries. By the time the auctioneer has chanted his last chant, the produce has all been sold, some of it for home consumption and some for resale at small roadside stands. It's a scene that may suggest a rural marketing past that's somehow survived in a world of supermarkets, but in fact the auction is only two years old. Morgan County resident Jean Konkle built the auction barn and provides its facilities to local farmers in exchange for 10 percent of auction sales. Gross sales during the 2006 season totaled about $40,000, an amount Konkle expects to double in 2007 as more farmers participate. Yet her explanation of why she decided to start an auction has little to do with her own profit. "We saw what produce was going for," Konkle says. "And we thought people were worth more than that."
That attitude fits the overall strategy of Rural Action, whose headquarters are in Trimble, Ohio. Rural Action can be defined either as a network of projects or as a coalition of generally like-minded organizations and groups in Appalachian Ohio, which covers the state's southeastern counties. Its projects are based on the premise that the area's farms, streams, and forests are valuable, and that its people are far more capable and resourceful than they themselves may realize. Supporting projects like the Chesterhill Produce Auction is one of the ways Rural Action works to promote a focus on the value of local assets.
The historical antecedents of Rural Action can be traced to several initiatives by activist groups who organized on behalf of specific issues or causes, often involving pollution abatement or environmental preservation. By the early 1990s, more than 30 such organizations had concluded that warding off immediate threats, while important, would never be sufficient. Always clear about what they were against, they began the more difficult task of articulating what they were for.
With support from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC), representatives of these groups formed Rural Action to envision and stimulate creation of sustainable alternatives to short-sighted policies and practices. The organization defines its mission in terms of constructive action on three fronts: ". . . to promote economic, social, and environmental justice in Appalachian Ohio." Or, as Jane Forrest Redfern, the executive director of Rural Action, puts it, "We can fight until the cows come home, but it's up to us to create the environment we want."
Helping Local Food Producers ThriveRural Action's three broad goals are to create a sustainable economy, promote sustainable communities, and foster a sustainable environment in Appalachian Ohio. Promoting sustainable agriculture is an integral part of Rural Action's efforts to meet the first of these goals. The organization supports a cluster of activities to help area food producers survive economically; much of the focus in these activities is to find ways to enable and encourage local food consumers to choose locally produced products. Tom Redfern, Rural Action's Sustainable Agriculture Program coordinator, uses the analogy of a watershed to describe the area's "foodshed." In eastern Ohio, as in almost the entire nation, residents depend for their groceries on flows of food from remote places (oranges from Florida, lettuce from California, beef from Argentina). Redfern doesn't expect to end these downstream flows or put supermarket chains out of business, but he insists that enabling local farmers to survive and grow is good for both the farmers and the community—as valuable as having a few deep wells just in case upstream sources become polluted or unduly expensive. "The dream," Redfern says, "is to build a local wholesale food system."
In support of the Chesterhill Produce Auction, Rural Action arranged for five farmers in the Chesterhill area to visit Green Edge Gardens, an organic farm in Amesville. The Green Edge owner, not hesitating to help potential competitors, joined with a Morgan County extension agent to offer information on greenhouse construction, gravity flow irrigation, and other techniques to extend the produce-growing season. Three of the five participants decided to invest in greenhouses and irrigation equipment.
An ARC-supported regional survey to gauge interest in buying local foods identified invitees to a farm-field day designed to bring together area farmers, people in food-related businesses, and institutional food buyers and preparers. Participants included farmers from six counties, local restaurateurs, other food retailers, and staff from Ohio University and nearby Hocking College, whose delegation included two chefs and 30 culinary arts students. Immediate results included new sales from three area farms to local stores and restaurants, and the event sponsors were glad to introduce 30 future chefs to the advantages of buying fresh meats and produce from local suppliers.
The Athens Farmers Market, a retail-level version of the dream of a local food system, provides another example of Rural Action influence. The market is open year-round, and on a summer weekend more than 60 sellers offer a cornucopia of fresh produce, cut flowers and bedding plants, jams and pickles, and baked goods. Everything is locally grown or produced—no exceptions. The market is financially self-sustaining, and Audubon magazine recently rated it one of the ""top 10"" such markets in the nation.
Rural Action didn't create the farmers' market, but vendors who sell there are emphatic in saying that Rural Action has helped the market grow. For example, Larry Cowdery, a Meigs County farmer, has been bringing produce to the market for eight years. In addition to local favorites like green beans, squash, and lettuce, his stand displays exotic-looking varieties of eggplant and hot pepper, in demand by Asian and Indian families at Ohio University. Rural Action helped him with university contacts, including a recent deal for supplying some of the produce for the university's food service. "If it wasn't for them," Cowdery says, "we wouldn't have been able to get in the door."
Capitalizing on AssetsAltogether Rural Action provided help for 40 area entrepreneurs during the most recent reporting period—including the creation of two new growers' associations. Rural Action's support normally takes the form of assistance with networking and marketing. The agency also makes extensive use of AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers to help local groups get good ideas off the ground. Rural Action currently uses 27 of these volunteers, who contributed almost 38,000 hours to Rural Action and its partners in 2005.
One of Rural Action's more innovative agriculture-related projects is based on research in "sustainable forestry." (In 2002 an out-of-state nonprofit group deeded Rural Action a heavily wooded 68-acre tract in Meigs County; the site is used for research trials, as well as education and outreach activities.) One aspect of Rural Action's sustainable forestry strategy is teaching landowners to squeeze extra value out of wooded acreage by growing marketable forest herbs, such as goldenseal, black cohosh, and ginseng. Ginseng takes nine to ten years to mature, so growing it is no way to get rich. But the herb's dried root sells locally at about $350 per pound. Tom Johnson, president of Roots of Appalachia Growers Association, calls growing ginseng "a good way for a small farmer to make enough money to pay the taxes." He adds that demand for ginseng is growing fast as Chinese buyers become more affluent. "When demand spikes," says Chip Carroll, Rural Action's non-timber forest products research, education, and demonstration coordinator, "our people will be in the best position to supply that market."
Both comments say something about Rural Action. Some aspects of its projects recall the past. But those same projects reflect a determination to recognize and capitalize on previously undervalued assets, so that Appalachian Ohio can sustain its environment, economy, and quality of life within a highly interconnected world. "We're talking about promoting a mindset," Forrest Redfern sums up. "The whole idea is looking at your assets and building on them. Then a lot of the negativity and hopelessness of a needs-based mindset don't happen."
Fred D. Baldwin is a freelance writer based in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.February 2007


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Motorcyclist hits tree, dies Sunday night
A Beaumont man is dead and his motorcycle heavily damaged after striking a tree in Beaumont's North End.
According to a BPD press release, police responded to the crash about 4:49 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18 to find 53-year-old Perry Michael Herring with serious head injuries, having not worn a helmet at the time of the crash.
The press release said Herring was traveling southbound on Pine Street from the river when his motorcycle left the road near Pine and Lasalle streets.
EMS transporter Herring to the hospital where he later died from his injuries Sunday night.
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With the victory, PLU improved to 5-3 overall to assure itself of back-to-back winning seasons. The Lutes are 3-2 in the conference. Pacific, in its second year of collegiate football after a 19-year hiatus from the sport, finishes its season with a 1-8 overall record and a 1-5 mark in the conference.
The Lutes dominated the Boxers through the first half in building up a 28-0 lead at the intermission. Quarterback Zack Halverson, one of 19 seniors introduced prior to the game on Senior Day, was 13-for-14 for 263 yards and four touchdowns in the first 30 minutes. His touchdown passes covered 41 yards to senior Alex McDiarmid, 19 and 2 yards to Lucas Sontra, and 69 yards to senior Tyler Bowen.
The ground game accounted for 93 first half yards, including 38 on four carries by Zack Baldwin, as the Lutes piled up 356 yards to 89 for the Boxers.
PLU added a touchdown six minutes in the third quarter on another Halverson aerial, this one covering 32 yards to Kyle Warner, to make it 35-0. Pacific finally got on the board at the 5:12 mark of the third period when Moses Villareal-Gomez converted a 28-yard field goal after the Lutes turned the ball over deep in their own territory on a bad punt snap.
The final quarter featured three onside kicks, two of which scrappy wide receiver Blake Anthony recovered for Pacific, and a passing frenzy by second string Boxers quarterback P.J. Minaya. It also led to some uneasiness in the PLU side of the grandstands.
Minaya drove the Boxers 65 yards in 10 plays and hit Matt Nyberg with a 3-yard scoring pass to make it 35-10. PLU's Matt Johns recovered the first of the Pacific onside kicks, but the Lutes were forced to punt after failing to pick up a first down. After getting the ball at their own 15-yard line, the Boxers went 85 yards in nine plays, scoring on Minaya's 2-yard pass to Bryce Kershner with 2:40 remaining. Minaya scrambled 22 yards on a 3rd-and-13 to highlight the drive.
That made the score 35-17, and when the Anthony came up with the ball at the bottom of a scrum on the next onside kick, the Boxers were again in business. This time they drove 55 yards on nine plays for the score. Minaya hit a sliding Nelson Kawai with a 19-yard pass to the 2-yard line, and after a false start penalty moved the ball back five yards Brian Taylor caught a 7-yard scoring aerial.
With 40 seconds left on the clock and still needing two scores, Pacific again recovered the onside kick, Anthony coming up with the ball at the bottom of a scrum of players. On the first play from scrimmage, Minaya just missed connecting with Jordan Fukumoto, who had gotten behind the PLU secondary, and the game ended six plays later on Minaya's incomplete pass into the end zone.
When all was said and done, the Lutes had the 35-24 victory.
PLU ended the game with 438 yards of offense, including 336 through the air. After his hot start, Halverson finished 18-for-26 for 336 yards with a career-best five touchdowns (one from the school record) and no interceptions. Dalton Ritchey caught four balls for 39 yards to lead a group of nine different receivers with at least one catch each.
The Lutes ground game netted 102 yards on 29 carries, with Baldwin's halftime numbers of 38 yards on four carries leading the way.
After managing slightly more than 12 minutes of possession in the first half, Pacific had the ball for 21:07 of the final 30 minutes. Minaya was 23-for-34 for 223 yards with three touchdowns and one interception. Fukumoto had eight receptions for 83 yards, Nelson Kawai added six catches for 89 yards, and Nyberg had five gabs for 42 yards. Of Pacific's 43 net rushing yards, Minaya had 35 of them on five carries.
The Boxers finished with 369 yards of offense and 24 first downs to 19 for the Lutes. They also enjoyed nearly seven minutes more than the Lutes in time of possession.
Senior linebackers Michael Warsaw and Adam Schwander led the Lutes with nine and eight tackles, respectively. Another pair of seniors, end Erik Magnussen and linebacker T.J. Suek, both had a pair of quarterback sacks.
PLU plays its final game of the season next Saturday when it takes on the Willamette Bearcats at McCulloch Stadium in Salem, Ore.