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It's the 4th of July! As we celebrate our country's birth, we should remember that the challenges to our freedom are from within rather than from external enemies. There will always be those who want to control others and take away their rights and freedoms.
This is an unfortunately part of human nature, and it's something that we need to oppose at every turn. We are at our very best when we are free! Freedom to choose how we remain healthy, to worship, to travel, work, and associate are all rights that we must protect, against those who want to take these freedoms away in the guise of helping us!
The Founding Fathers gave us a country that was designed to function as a free society with minimal government, that allowed each individual to pursue his or her destiny and reach their maximum potential.
Those in the generations before us that have made the ultimate sacrifice so that we could remain free can best be honored by our continued vigilance and resistance to any efforts to undermine our freedoms!
Do you think your sunscreen is protecting you? Well maybe you better think again! What you thought you knew doesn't quite match up to the reality of the sun protection product market.
Remember that these products are marketed to sell to you, not necessarily to ensure quality and safety. You do need sunlight in order for your body to make vitamin-d, but you have to use caution when it comes to sun exposure.
Here is a link to the Environmental Working Group's page on sunscreens.
This will give you some solid information that will make choosing a safe and effective sunscreen a whole lot easier! Remember also that the nutrients you take in via your diet also factor into protecting your skin from sun exposure.
Colorful foods that get their pigmentation from their antioxidant compounds are your best bet. These are foods like:
red and orange peppers
dark colored berries
green tea
ripe red tomatoes
tumeric (circumin)
Omega 3 fatty acids are also necessary for the health of your skin, so be sure to consume fatty cold water fish on a regular basis, and/or use a good pharmaceutical grade fish oil to get your omega 3 fats.
The standard nutrients like vitamin-c, vitamin-e, also help protect your skin from free radical damage due to sun exposure.
All the strategies you might use from grounding, to drinking alkaline water, or using an air ionizer will also help protect your skin. The key is to avoid prolonged exposure especially around noon when the sun is highest in the sky.
You might also want to wear a cap with a visor to protect your head and eyes as well.
Remember that you can even get too much sun exposure when the weather is overcast, because you don't notice the heat of the sun on your skin and may spend a longer period of time outdoors, thinking you are safe.
If you do get overexposed and end up with a burn, there is an excellent product that will help your skin heal. It's made with Willard's Water and is available at the Nutrition Coalition.
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I have no financial interest in this product. I just like it and feel that it works well for minor burns and skin irritations.
Some time ago I shared a link to something called "PubMed" which is a site where you can get abstracts of medical research from many sources.
Here is the link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
It's a great place to start to do some of your own medical research. I know that sounds intimidating, but the Internet makes gathering information so much easier. Don't be afraid to get out there and search for answers. The information has been put out there for you to help you find answers and solve problems.
The home page of PubMed will have information on how to use this valuable resource. Check it out when you have the chance!
Do you have a disease, or other medical condition that you or someone close to you is suffering from that you would like me to research and write about? Then please let me know. I can't give medical advice because I am not a doctor.
But I CAN research things for you and look for the most cutting edge information on that topic and present it to you and everyone who reads this newsletter. Our knowledge is advancing rapidly, and I am here to report on the very latest on health, wellness, and anti-aging for everyone who reads this "Age Better!"
So if you have questions, or comments, please share them with me. I love hearing from you!
Into Darkness is the second Star Trek film by J.J. Abrams, and it rocks! I don't want to spoil anything for those that haven't seen it, but let me just say the action is non-stop and there are several plot twists, including an old Star Trek villain AND icon!
I wasn't sure that I would like it, as the trailers really didn't give a good idea of how the plot would unfold. Abrams has definitely put his own unique stamp on the Star Trek films, and they really deliver in the action and special effects department.
Great performances by the main cast in their iconic roles, although they are not quite able to capture the charm of the original series. But this is, after all, a "reboot" of the original, with vastly scaled up action and intensity. Go see it, I don't think you will be disappointed!
I stumbled yet again on another cool music video clip. I had not heard of Lara Fabian, but she sings in French and has quite a voice. What was really different about this video clip is that the audience really gets into the song, and this has a very emotional effect on her, as you can see.
This newsletter is read by people all over the world, so if you have something that you would like me to share such as music from your country or culture with the other readers, please let me know.
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President Barack Obama gave his farewell address Tuesday night at McCormick Place on Chicago's South Side to cheers of "four more years" from a crowd of approximately 18,000.
The outgoing commander in chief touted many accomplishments from tracking down Osama bin Laden to rebooting the auto industry—along with a few emotional and personal messages of thanks to the city of Chicago and those he loves.
Here's a look at some of the poignant moments of his final speech as president.
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Jobs, Cuba, marriage equality and the "mastermind behind 9/11": Obama touts accomplishments
The imperative peaceful transfer of power "from one freely elected president to the next"
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Many outdoor activities seem to come in pairs: hunting and fishing; boating and swimming; and skiing and sledding, to name a few. One dynamic duo becoming more and popular in Wisconsin is the combination of camping and horseback riding; and why not? Some of the best places for riding also happen to be some of the best, most scenic spots for camping!
Many campgrounds now facilitate comfortable, convenient overnight adventures for both horse and rider. Wisconsin's equestrian-friendly campgrounds feature hitching rails, riding trails, and extra long parking spurs to accommodate horse trailers. Be sure to call ahead to find out exact hours of operation (some places are closed for the winter) and reservation information (some spots have only a limited number of horse-camping sites).
So don't leave Trigger behind; throw a saddle in with your camping equipment and head out to one of these equestrian-friendly campgrounds.
Dugan Run Horse Trails and Campground - Spooner
Thirty miles of trail looping through gently rolling hardwood ridges make a beautiful backdrop for riding enthusiasts of all kinds. Nearby, be sure to visit the amazing Governor Tommy G Thompson Fish Hatchery, the largest of its kind in the world!
Pioneer Park and Campground - Ogema
In addition to many amenities and miles of trails, Pioneer Park also offers a unique horse pull track. One block from the campground is the popular Pine Line Recreation Trail, 26 miles of beautiful trails for riders to enjoy!
Triple HHH Stables - Hillsdale
Triple HHH not only offers camping for both horse and human, it also provides horse rentals for those folks who don't have their own. Guided trail rides are available for all levels of riders.
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LI schools see heightened sensitivity to threats
Long Island school communities have a heightened sensitivity to on-campus violence in the wake of the Newtown, Conn., shootings, administrators said Friday, at the end of a week that saw perceived threats at five campuses.
Gary Bixhorn, chief operating officer for Eastern Suffolk BOCES, said more people -- including students and staff -- are reporting suspicious incidents more often.
"It's been such a prominent topic over the last month or so and I really think the public has become more cognizant of real threats," he said.
Hewlett High School was placed on lockdown Friday morning because of an unfounded report of a student with a gun, and police were called to two Baldwin campuses on the same day because of written threats about a shooting.
Seaford Middle School was evacuated for three hours Wednesday after a threat; a toy gun led to a four-hour lockdown at Elmont High School on Tuesday.
James McKenna, superintendent of the Mattituck-Cutchogue district, said many similar incidents might not have been as widely reported before the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy in which 20 first-graders and six adults were gunned down Dec. 14.
Security is now at the top of each school's agenda, said McKenna, president of Suffolk County School Superintendents Association. And the community is watching.
"Our parents in many of our districts want to know how we are handling these situations," he said. "The best way to do that is to maybe take a higher profile action -- the idea of looking at everything with a different lens."
Email, Listservs and mass text-messaging make it easier to alert parents to threats. Years ago this information "would have been sent home in backpacks," said John E. Bierwirth, superintendent of the Herricks district.
Bierwirth said many of his students have cellphones and alert their parents in real time if they're being evacuated, for example. It's easier to provide parents with the right information first "than deal with 100 suppositions" later, he said.
Herb Brown, immediate past president of the Nassau County Council of School Superintendents, said no universal plan exists on how to deal with threats, and administrators handle each case differently.
Brown, superintendent of the Oceanside district, said an eighth-grader there was recently suspended for two weeks after administrators learned he posted a picture of himself holding a gun on Facebook.
The child didn't mention the gun in school, but the photo was discovered by students shortly after the Sandy Hook killings and the picture alarmed them. School officials argued that he was disrupting the educational process. He had initially refused to take the image down but has since removed it.
"Different people might have reacted differently to that," Brown said. "Someone might have suspended him for the rest of the year. Some not at all. There is not a book we all follow for every incident because they are all a little different."
Brown said he didn't tell parents about the incident because students were not in danger. But, he said, the district is more likely to reach out to them in general about such cases after the Newtown tragedy.
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Most fragile of Colorado murder victims left in trash bins and toilets
Maybe the most troubling part of the discovery of a dead newborn in 2002 was the fact that a law had been passed to stop such an abandonment.
Over the years many newborns have been abandoned, often in terrible circumstances: swirling in effluent in a sewage treatment plant or at a doorstep where, had they been left at another hour, they would have almost certainly been saved.
Since 1970, there have been six children born and then abandoned, according to a tally by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. But the numbers are much higher.
The lifeless children were given pseudonyms that were only slightly less generic than the typical homicide victims, referred to simply as John or Jane Doe. They were Baby John Doe or Baby Jane Doe.
The difference was stark though.
In these cases it is possible, maybe even likely, that the newborn infants were never given a name by their mother and father. They were simply discarded.
The circumstances in which most of them were abandoned suggested there was no care taken for the fragile newborns. They were discovered in locations across Colorado.
On December 10, 1970, a boy was born into a toilet at a Woolworths store at 16th and Champa in Denver.
The mother didn't take her newborn child out of the toilet. It's unclear if the baby cried or struggled.
The infant was simply abandoned in the toilet and left for someone else to deal with. It's possible the baby was found moments later as the mother was leaving the store.
Denver police tried to discover who the mother was but failed. No one ever came forward.
In the 43 years since the discovery, the newborn has simply been known as Baby John Doe.
Anyone with information that could identify the parents of the child are asked to contact Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-2000.
On March 28, 1971, a Colorado Springs police officer was dispatched to the city sewage plant at 811 E. Las Vegas St. The sickening message was that a dead baby's body had been found.


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Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg speaks often of his religion—but he tailors it to fit his politics, and it focuses on works over faith
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As Monday morning sunshine spills across the high plains of Aurora, Colo., and a new work week begins, fresh career challenges await Ms. Ying Bei Wang. On Monday, for example, she might scalpel her way through the brain stem of an aborted 24-week pre-born child, pluck the brain from the baby's peach-sized head with forceps, and plop it into wet ice for later shipment. On Tuesday, she might carefully slice away the delicate tissue that secures a dead child's eyes in its skull, and extract them whole. Ms. Ying knows her employer's clients prefer the eyes of dead babies to be whole. One once requested to receive 4 to 10 per day.
Although she works in Aurora at an abortion clinic called the Mayfair Women's Center, Ms. Ying is employed by the Anatomic Gift Foundation (AGF), a Maryland-based nonprofit. AGF is one of at least five U.S. organizations that collect, prepare, and distribute to medical researchers fetal tissue, organs, and body parts that are the products of voluntary abortions.
When "Kelly," a woman who claimed to have been an AGF "technician" like Ms. Ying, approached Life Dynamics in 1997, the pro-life group launched an undercover investigation. The probe unearthed grim, hard-copy evidence of the cross-country flow of baby body parts, including detailed dissection orders, a brochure touting "the freshest tissue available," and price lists for whole babies and parts. One 1999 price list from a company called Opening Lines reads like a cannibal's wish list: Skin $100. Limbs (at least 2) $150. Spinal cord $325. Brain $999 (30% discount if significantly fragmented).
The evidence confirmed what pro-life bioethicists have long predicted: the nadir-bound plummet of respect for human life-and the ascendancy of death for profit.
"It's the inevitable logical progression of a society that, like Darwin, believes we came from nothing," notes Gene Rudd, an obstetrician and member of the Christian Medical and Dental Society's Bioethics Commission. "When we fail to see life as sacred and ordained by God as unique, this is the reasonable conclusion ... taking whatever's available to gratify our own self-interests and taking the weakest of the species first ... like jackals. This is the inevitable slide down the slippery slope."
In 1993, President Clinton freshly greased that slope. Following vigorous lobbying by patient advocacy groups, Mr. Clinton signed the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Revitalization Act, effectively lifting the ban on federally funded research involving the transplantation of fetal tissue. For medical and biotech investigators, it was as though the high government gate barring them from Research Shangri-La had finally been thrown open. Potential cures for Parkinson's, AIDS, and cancer suddenly shimmered in the middle distance. The University of Washington in Seattle opened an NIH-funded embryology laboratory that runs a round-the-clock collection service at abortion clinics. NIH itself advertised (and still advertises) its ability to "supply tissue from normal or abnormal embryos and fetuses of desired gestational ages between 40 days and term."
But, this being the land of opportunity, fetal-tissue entrepreneurs soon emerged to nip at NIH's well-funded heels. Anatomic Gift Foundation, Opening Lines, and at least two other companies-competition AGF representatives say they know of, but decline to name-joined the pack. Each firm formed relationships with abortion clinics. Each also furnished abortionists with literature and consent forms for use by clinic counselors in making women aware of the option to donate their babies' bodies to medical science. According to AGF executive director Brent Bardsley, aborting mothers are not approached about tissue donation until after they've signed a consent to abort.
Ironically, it is the babies themselves that are referred to as "donors," as though they had some say in the matter. Such semantic red flags-and a phalanx of others-have bioethicists hotly debating the issue of fetal-tissue research: Does the use of the bodies of aborted children for medical research amount to further exploitation of those who are already victims? Will the existence of fetal-tissue donation programs persuade more mothers that abortion is an acceptable, even altruistic, option? Since abortion is legal and the human bodies are destined to be discarded anyway, does it all shake out as a kind of ethical offset, mitigating the abortion holocaust with potential good?
While the ethical debate rages in air-conditioned conference rooms, material obtained by Life Dynamics points up what goes on in abortion clinic labs: the cutting up and parting out of dead children. The fate of these smallest victims is chronicled in more than 50 actual dissection orders or "protocols" obtained by the activist group. The protocols detail how requesting researchers want baby parts cut and shipped: "Dissect fetal liver and thymus and occasional lymph node from fetal cadaver within 10 (minutes of death)." "Arms and legs need not be intact." "Intact brains preferred, but large pieces of brain may be usable."
Most researchers want parts harvested from fetuses 18 to 24 weeks in utero, which means the largest babies lying in lab pans awaiting a blade would stretch 10 to 12 inches-from your wrist to your elbow. Some researchers append a subtle "plus" sign to the "24," indicating that parts from late-term babies would be acceptable. Many stipulate "no abnormalities," meaning the baby in question should have been healthy prior to having her life cut short by "intrauterine cranial compression" (crushing of the skull).
On one protocol dated 1991, August J. Sick of San Diego-based Invitrogen Corporation requested kidneys, hearts, lungs, livers, spleens, pancreases, skin, smooth muscle, skeletal muscle and brains from unborn babies of 15-22 weeks gestational age. Mr. Sick wanted "5-10 samples of each per month." WORLD called Mr. Sick to verify that he had indeed ordered the parts. (He had.) When WORLD pointed out that Invitrogen's request of up to 100 samples per month would mean a lot of dead babies, Mr. Sick-sounding quite shaken-quickly aborted the interview.
Many of the dissection orders provide details of research projects in which the fetal tissue will be used. Most, in the abstract, are medically noble, with goals like conquering AIDS or creating "surfactants," substances that would enable premature babies to breathe independently.
Other research applications are chilling. For example, R. Paul Johnson from Massachusetts' New England Regional Primate Research Center requested second-trimester fetal livers. His 1995 protocol notes that the livers will be used ultimately for "primate implantation," including the "creation of human-monkey chimeras." In biology, a chimera is an organism created by the grafting or mutation of two genetically different cell types.
Another protocol is up-front about the researchers' profit motive. Systemix, a California-based firm, wanted aborting mothers to know that any fetal tissue donated "is for research purposes which may lead to commercial applications."
That leads to the money trail.
Life Dynamics' investigation uncovered the financial arrangement between abortionists and fetal-parts providers. The Uniform Anatomic Gift Act makes it a federal crime to buy or sell fetal tissue. So entities involved in the collection and transfer of fetal parts operate under a documentary rubric that, while technically lawful, looks distinctly like a legal end-around: AGF, for example, pays the Mayfair Women's Center for the privilege of obtaining fetal tissue. Researchers pay AGF for the privilege of receiving fetal tissue. But all parties claim there is no buying or selling of fetal tissue going on.
Instead, AGF representatives maintain that Mayfair "donates" dead babies to AGF. Researchers then compensate AGF for the cost of tissue recovery. It's a service fee, explains AGF executive director Brent Bardsley: compensation for services like dissection, blood tests, preservation, and shipping.
Money paid by fetal-tissue providers to abortion clinics is termed a "site fee," and does not, Mr. Bardsley maintains, pay for baby parts harvested. Instead the fee compensates clinics for allowing technicians like Ms. Ying to work on-site retrieving and dissecting dead babies-sort of a Frankensteinian sublet.
"It's clearly a fee-for-space arrangement," says Mr. Bardsley. "We occupy a portion of their laboratory, use their clinic supplies, have a phone line installed. The site fee offsets the use of clinic supplies that we use in tissue procurement."
According to Mr. Bardsley, fetal-tissue recovery accounts for only about 10 percent of AGF's business. The rest involves the recovery and transfer to researchers of non-transplantable organs and tissue from adult donors. But, in spite of the fact that AGF recovers tissue from all 50 states, Mr. Bardsley could not cite for WORLD an instance in which AGF pays a "site fee" to hospital morgues or funeral homes for the privilege of camping on-site to retrieve adult tissue.
Mr. Bardsley, a trained surgical technician, seems like a friendly guy. On the phone he sounds reasonable, intelligent, and sincere about his contention that AGF isn't involved in the fetal-tissue business for the money.
"We have a lot of pride in what we do," he says. "We think we make a difference with research and researchers' accessibility to human tissue. Every time you go to a drug store, the drugs on the shelf are there as a result of human tissue donation. You can't perfect drugs to be used in human beings using animal models."
AGF operates as a nonprofit and employs fewer than 15 people. Mr. Bardsley's brother Jim and Jim's wife Brenda founded the organization in 1994. The couple had previously owned a tissue-recovery organization called the International Institute for the Advancement of Medicine (IIAM), which had also specialized in fetal-tissue redistribution, counting, for example, Mr. Sick among its clients. But when IIAM's board of directors decided to withdraw from involvement with fetal tissue, the Bardsleys spun off AGF-specifically to continue providing fetal tissue to researchers.
Significantly, AGF opened in 1994, the year after President Clinton shattered the fetal-tissue research ban. Since then, the company's revenues have rocketed from $180,000 to $2 million in 1998. Did the Bardsleys see a market niche that was too good to pass up? Brenda Bardsley, who is now AGF president, says no. AGF's economic windfall, she says, is related to the company's expansion into adult donations, not the transfer of fetal tissue. She says she and her husband felt compelled to continue providing the medical community with a source of fetal tissue "because of the research that was going on."
"Abortion is legal, but tragic. We see what we're doing as trying to make the best of a bad situation," Mrs. Bardsley told WORLD. "We don't encourage abortion, but we see that good can come from fetal-tissue research. There is so much wonderful research going on-research that can help save the lives of wanted children."
Mrs. Bardsley says she teaches her own children that abortion is wrong. A Deep South transplant with a brisk, East coast accent, Mrs. Bardsley and her family attend a Southern Baptist church near their home on the Satilla River in White Oak, Ga. Mrs. Bardsley homeschools her three children using, she says, a Christian curriculum: "I've been painted as this monster, but here I am trying to give my kids a Christian education," she says, referring to other media coverage of AGF's fetal-parts enterprise.
Mrs. Bardsley says she's prayed over whether her business is acceptable in God's sight, and has "gotten the feeling" that it is. She also, she says, reads the Bible "all the time." And though she can't cite a chapter and verse that says it's OK to cut and ferry baby parts, she points out that God commands us to love one another. For Mrs. Bardsley, aiding medical research by supplying fetal parts qualifies. If they were in it for the money rather than for the good of mankind, says Mrs. Bardsley, AGF could charge much higher prices for fetal tissue than it does, because research demand is so high.
The issue of demand is one of several points on which the testimonies of Mrs. Bardsley and her brother-in-law Brent don't jibe. He says demand for fetal tissue "isn't all that high." She says demand for fetal tissue is "so high, we could never meet it." He says "only a small percentage" of aborting moms consent to donate their babies' bodies. She says 75 percent of them consent. He says AGF charges only for whole bodies, and doesn't see how the body-parts company Opening Lines could justify charging by the body part. She says AGF charges for individual organs and tissue based on the company's recovery costs.
Founded by pathologist Miles Jones, Opening Lines was, until recently, based in West Frankfort, Ill. According to its brochure, Opening Lines' parent company, Consultative and Diagnostic Pathology, Inc., processes an average of 1,500 fetal-tissue cases per day. While AGF requires that researchers submit proof that the International Research Board (IRB), a research oversight commission, approves their work, Opening Lines does not burden its customers with such technicalities. In fact, says the Opening Lines brochure, researchers need not tell the company why they need baby parts at all-simply state their wishes and let Opening Lines provide "the freshest tissue prepared to your specifications and delivered in the quantities you need it."
Opening Lines' brochure cloaks the profit motive in a veil of altruism. The cover tells abortionists that since fetal-tissue donation benefits medical science, "You can turn your patient's decision into something wonderful." But in case philanthropy isn't a sufficient motivator, Dr. Jones also makes his program financially appealing to abortionists. Like AGF, he offers to lease space from clinics so his staff can dissect children's bodies on-site, but also goes a step further: He offers to train abortion clinic staff to harvest tissue themselves. He even sweetens the deal for abortionists with a financial incentive: "Based on your volume, we will reimburse part or all of your employee's salary, thereby reducing your overhead."
Again the money trail: more dead babies harvested, less overhead. Less overhead, more profit.
But Dr. Jones' own profits may be taking a beating at present. When Life Dynamics released the results of its investigation to West Frankfort's newspaper The Daily American, managing editor Shannon Woodworth ran a front-page story under a 100-point headline: "Pro-Lifers: Baby body parts sold out of West Frankfort." The little town of 9,000 was scandalized. City officials threatened legal action against Dr. Jones and his chief of staff Gayla Rose, a lab technician and longtime West Frankfort resident. The story splashed down in local TV news coverage, and Illinois right-to-life activists vowed to picket Opening Lines. Within a week, Gayla Rose had shut down the company's West St. Louis Street location, disconnected the phone, and disappeared.
Area reporters now believe Dr. Jones may be operating somewhere in Missouri. WORLD attempted to track him down, but without success.
The demands of researchers for fetal tissue will continue to drive suppliers to supply it. And all parties will continue to wrap their grim enterprise in the guise of the greater good. But some bioethicists believe that even the greater good has a spending cap.
Christopher Hook, a fellow with the Center for Bioethics and Human Dignity in Bannockburn, Ill., calls the exploitation of pre-born children "too high a price regardless of the supposed benefit. We can never feel comfortable with identifying a group of our brothers and sisters who can be exploited for the good of the whole," Dr. Hook says. "Once we have crossed that line, we have betrayed our covenant with one another as a society, and certainly the covenant of medicine."


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Volume 22. All Saints, Poplar. Baptism Registers, 1858-1872.7,201 entries.
These are transcribed entries, not scanned images. You can generally expect to find:
Entry No, Birth Date, Baptism Date, Firstnames, Father, Mother, Surname, Address, Occupation of the Father, Source Ref and any notes in the margin.
Easily searchable CD-ROM in Adobe Acrobat format(supplied).Transcribed by James Legon.
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Over the past several weeks, I've been learning a bit more of the Taiwanese (AKA Minnan) language. One interesting thing I've recently discovered is that Minnan is one of the many languages included in the spaceship voyager's greeting message.
I was listening to the greeting message NASA sent out of our solar system to see how much I could understand, and was very surprised to hear something understandable as Minnan at about 2m50s into it. After a quick check at NASA's website, sure enough there was Amoy, the prestige Minnan dialect! Below is the Amoy clip from NASA's page.
I never would have guessed this would be one of the languages we sent in our greeting, though in terms of the number of native speakers, I suppose it makes sense.


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First they told us not to French Kiss COWS, now the Centers for Disease Control is warning people not to "kiss or snuggle" CHICKENS after an outbreak of salmonella sickened 52 people in multiple states.
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Seattle's Baltic Room showcases Electro‑Voice Tour X, ZX loudspeakers
The Baltic Room, one of Seattle's finest DJ and live music venues, recently worked with AV specialists TR Professional (Lynnwood, Wash.) to take their house sound system to the next level. Built around the new Tour X loudspeakers from Electro-Voice, TR Professional's system design and installation has exceeded all expectations, raising the bar for small-club sound in the city.
Located in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, The Baltic Room offers its patrons the intimacy and elegance of a jazz lounge with the energy and sound of a DJ club. Joel Bockovich of TR Professional explains how their EV solution balances the best of both worlds:
"Tour X's combination of superb audio, compact footprint, and budget‑friendly price‑point made it the perfect box for the Baltic Room"
"The Baltic Room isn't a huge space, but it's got a really cool vibe. It's not a typical club: it has a stylish, upscale atmosphere, complete with wood paneling and soft lighting - it's very classy. That's why the owners were looking for something low-profile that wouldn't monopolize the dance floor or take up too much room when flown above their small stage."
To achieve the desired sound and aesthetic for the space, TR Professional's owner Ric Webb specified EV Tour X loudspeakers to provide sound reinforcement to the dance floor, and ZX1i loudspeakers to provide sound to four zones of the club's interior.
"Tour X's combination of superb audio, compact footprint, and budget-friendly price-point made it the perfect box for the Baltic Room," adds Bockovich. "These speakers really stretch the dollar, and their size doesn't interfere with the look and feel of the club. The ZX1is are beautiful too - another example of a small, aesthetically pleasing enclosure packed full of high performance components. They're also very quick and easy to install - the brackets are great. They tuck up into the corner and discretely deliver clear sound and precise coverage. We love working with them."
The main dance floor system at the Baltic Room comprises two TX1181 subs and two TX1152 15-inch top boxes. An SxA250 powered 15" two-way loudspeaker serves as a DJ monitor. CP4000S amplifiers provide power to the subs. The two top boxes are powered by two CP3000S amps; two new Q66 amplifiers power the ZX1is. A DC-One processor provides system control and limiting. "At some point the club is going to add one or two additional subs to the system," says Bockovich. "So we overspec'd the amps to accommodate future growth - all they have to do is just plug in the new boxes."
"The ZX1i/TX combination provides seamless distributed audio, not only for the louder DJ music but also for BGM or TV sound," Bockovich continues. "Though the system is full and clear at these lower volumes, it has the headroom to deliver serious SPLs. This configuration also helps the Baltic Room conform to Seattle's strict noise ordinance. If we tried to fill the entire space with sound from a single point source - just the TX boxes - then the sound from that point would bleed through to surrounding buildings and violate those noise ordinances. So by adding the ZX1is to the mix, piping the audio into each zone instead of blasting sound from one point, we not only have the flexibility of multi-zone audio, we're able to bring down the volume of the main Tour X system while maintaining the perception of a loud system."
"The Baltic Room is very happy with their new sound and the bang they got for their buck," adds Bockovich. "The intelligibility and full-bandwidth sound of the system, especially out of the tops, is where they're hearing the most improvement - it blows away the equipment they used to have in there. The sound is crisp and clear; it can be driven all the way up without creating that listening fatigue that you get from a harsher horn."
The installation at the Baltic Room proved so successful that TR Professional now uses the system to showcase Tour X to customers. "The owners gave us the keys so we could demonstrate the system after hours," Bockovich explains. "Our clients - a local church - purchased their system based solely on the sound samples we played through the top boxes at the Baltic Room. Tour X was exactly what they needed - it simply sounds great as-is, with minimal tweaking necessary, if any. That makes it an exceptionally versatile solution for a wide range of spaces."
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You were born in the water right about now one year ago.
Kissing you on the forehead the day you were born was like kissing a peach.
We laughed when you cried the first time, because it was surprisingly loud. You always have known how to speak up.
You loved being "tangled up" in a wrap in those early days, and we loved being tangled up with you.
Suzi kept wanting to hold you, even after you got too big and wiggly and she could hardly see over the top of your head.
After a few months you started crying Mamma! and I loved it.
Then you started calling for Dada more. He still walks you to sleep and cuddles with you at night.
You love to play in the water, to splash Suzi, and you don't see why she cries about it.
You refused to eat for a while, but now there's nothing you won't eat. And you eat a lot!
You grew six teeth and they look a little out of place in your baby mouth.
Then you learned to use those teeth to stand up for yourself. Ouch!
Now you press your little hand to your chest to ask if something is yours.
You walk over to me and fall into my arms with a big six-tooth grin.
You climb into my lap and sit down like it's the best seat in the house.
And I don't think there's been a single day that I held you enough to suit you. But I tried.
Today you are one. Happy Birthday, Ivey. We love you so much!


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To help transform our clients' businesses through mobility, we are working closely with SAP to deploy a range of mobile capabilities underpinned by SAP mobile solutions to :
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In the Accenture Innovation Centers for SAP Solutions, we showcase how clients can deploy mobile solutions in their specific industries and help clients implement and customize SAP Fiori apps more rapidly and at scale.


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Grants available from Women's Fund El Dorado
Women's Fund El Dorado is accepting grant applications for community programs.
This year, the Grants Committee will distribute $40,000 in youth development and $10,000 divided among services for women and children, seniors, and physical and mental health. Women's Fund El Dorado is a philanthropic organization based on the principal of collective giving and operates under the umbrella of the El Dorado Community Foundation. The organization's Grants Committee researches various nonprofit and educational requests to fund specific programs and then determines which will appear on each year's ballot.
Complete guidelines and application forms are available online at http://tinyurl.com/WFEDapp, or at the office of the El Dorado Community Foundation, 312 Main St., Placerville. All proposals must be received in the Foundation office by noon on March 20.


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EXCLUSIVE: Fledgling sales outfit International Film Trust arrives on the Croisette with Cell starring John Cusack and is negotiating to handle sales on Some Velvet Morning from Neil LaBute.
IFT, launched officially last week by Michael Benaroya and Miscellaneous Entertainment, has come on to finance and produce Cell and commences sales on a bucket of territories including the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan and South Korea.
Tod 'Kip' Williams will commence shooting in September on the Stephen King adaptation about a catastrophic signal blast across US phone networks.
Richard Saperstein and Michael Benaroya produce with The Genre Company's Brian Witten and Shara Kay. Marina Grasic and Jan Korbelin of Cargo Entertainment serve as executive producers.
Some Velvet Morning premiered at Tribeca recently and the battle-of-the-sexes two-hander stars Stanley Tucci and Alice Eve.
Tim Harms produces the drama with Daryl Freimark, Michael Corrente, Trent Othick and David Zander. Executive producers are Forrest E Crisman Je and Kevin Sisti Jr.
IFT president of sales Ariel Veneziano will also be talking up Max Rose starring Jerry Lewis, The Toxic Avenger with Arnold Schwarzenegger, comedy King Of The Kastle starring Clive Owen and Jacki Weaver and Eduardo Sanchez's horror-thriller Exists.
"Anytime of the year it's a competitive market, but Cannes is a different beast altogether so we have been very selective in what we have chosen to debut at our first market," said Veneziano. "Buyers are looking for commercially driven, quality feature films from reliable suppliers and we have launched IFT to fill that gap."


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A turnout record in Massachusetts
Massachusetts set a voter turnout record on Election Day, reports The Boston Globe:
Massachusetts residents voted in record numbers earlier this month, state officials said today, despite predictions that President Obama's race against Republican Mitt Romney - a former governor - would not generate as much enthusiasm as the Democrat's initial run for the presidency.
Secretary of the State William F. Galvin said the Nov. 6 turnout was 3,184,196 people – or 73.3 percent of registered voters - compared with 3,102,995 people who voted in 2008, the previous record.
Aside from the presidential race, which featured Romney as the GOP nominee and Massachusetts resident Jill Stein as the Green Party nominee, there were plenty of other factors driving turnout. Among them: a few more competitive House elections than usual, several statewide ballot questions and, most important, the high-profile Senate race between GOP Sen. Scott Brown and Democrat Elizabeth Warren.
The high home-state turnout didn't work out so well for Romney, however. While he ran 2 percentage points better than John McCain in 2008, the former governor suffered the second-worst home state loss by a major party presidential nominee. In addition, the Romney-Paul Ryan ticket was the first since 1972 to fail to carry the nominees' home states.


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Wausau, Wis.-based King's Campers ranked as the state's top selling motorhome dealer for 2011, according to year-end data from Statistical Surveys Inc.
In a press release, King's Campers reported that it marked the sixth time that the retailer was No. 1 in Class A sales in Wisconsin. It also represented the second time as the overall motorhome sales leader and first ranking as No. 1 in Class C sales.
"It is truly a proud moment for King's Campers service, sales, parts, warranty and finance teams because it brings recognition to their hard work and dedication," said John Gajewski, sales manager. "A comment we hear repeatedly from our customers is how much they appreciate the amount of time we spend assisting them; be it with financing, the answering of questions and concerns long after a purchase, or assisting with towing needs.
"Another compliment we get from our customers is how amazed they are at the way we stand behind products we've sold. Our employees work tirelessly to ensure our customers are as satisfied as possible and are always willing to add extra touches – which sometimes means a cost other dealerships don't want to incur."
Gajewski noted that the company instituted a one-year warranty program on all pre-owned motorhomes this year called "Royal Protection." For more information visit www.kingscampers.com.


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richmondpapaw wrote:...it looks like 100% family clubs are a thing of the past.
MoNatureMan wrote:It seems like many clubs operate out of fear of perceived discrimination. Under our current political system a lawsuit from any excluded group could put you out of business. Pardon my political statement, but if the courts in the US would stop creating laws and follow their job description given them by the Constitution, many of the worries of 'can't discriminate' against any group would go away. Then businesses can run the business.
Each resort could make their determination of clients, without fear.
If swingers want their own resort and there is a real need, someone would start one. (Example = There was an adult only resort in either MO or IL. Don't know if still there or not.)
MoNatureMan wrote:True, but the protected groups were not protected until somebody wanted to push, ''being discriminated against',got a lawyer, and a favorable judge. It is sad to say, but that is how many 'protected groups' got to where they are.
After the pitchin there was a dance where some of the couples were getting carried away with some of their dance moves and one got the feeling that they were there for more than the sun.
Ramblinman wrote:Our club tends to be mostly married couples, some old, some young and a few singles.
I know of one club that has a waiting list for unescorted males, others tend to attract so many families with children that they far outnumber the single men.
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The Stories Behind The Best-Loved Songs of Christmas
I had a few best sellers in the 1990s including Father Does Know Best, written with Lauren Chapin, Lassie A Dog's Life, penned with the famous canine and The Cathedrals, done with gospel music legends George Younce and Glen Paine. Yet the book that gave me the title "Best Selling Author" is this one. I have lost count as to how many times it has gone into reprints and I have literally done thousands of radio and hundreds of television interviews on this wonderful little project. It not only makes the holidays more special knowing these stories, but it also stands on its own as a testament to not giving up. This book was rejected more than twenty times before it found a home and hit the charts. Thus it proved to me the lesson that you never quit on what you believe to be a good idea!
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Oddly enough, understanding the original meaning behind this song, one of the most misunderstood carols of Christmas, also helps explain one of the most misused words describing Christmas itself. What Americans hear when they listen to "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" is not anything like what the English peasants meant when they first sang this song more than 500 years ago. Because of how wonderfully it told the Christmas story, the song even earned a prominent spot in Dickens's classic novel A Christmas Carol, [—because of the author's understanding of the true meaning—] add?? Or add why you put this in] and if people today fully understood its unique lyrics too, most would probably designate "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" as one of the most profound and meaningful hymns in the world.
Like so many early Christmas songs, this carol was written as a direct reaction to the music of the 15th Century Church. During this period, the songs of organized religion were usually written in Latin and their melodies were somber and dark, offeringsingers and listeners little inspiration or joy. In fact, though few admitted it in public, most church members secretly disliked the accepted religious songs of the day. Yet the laymen of the time had no power over the way they worshipped and had to accept things as they were. So, while they continued to go to worship, they created their own church music outside the walls of the cathedrals and chapels. In this way, the peasant class led a quiet rebellion against the tone of religious music by writing religious folks songs that were light, lively and penned in common language. Their Christmas folk songs became the foundation of what are now knows as Christmas carols.
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" was the most famous and most loved of all the early carols. Written with an upbeat melody and speaking of the birth of Jesus in joyful terms, the song may have shocked early church leaders, but it charmed their flocks. Not only did they sing to this carol, they danced to it.
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen's" lyrics reveal that the song's unknown writer knew the story of Jesus' birth well. He included the high points of the gospel throughout the carol's verses. The writer also fully understood the power of Christ and what His arrival meant to all who embraced it. In the case of this writer, comprehending the full and personal meaning of the birth of the Son of God brought forth enthusiasm and joy simply not found in any other church songs of the period. Though it might have been rejected by the church leaders, "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" better presented the message of the first Christmas and the life of Jesus than did many of the songs used in formal worship of the day.
"God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" was sung for hundreds of years before it was finally published in the nineteenth century. By that time—thanks in part to Queen Victoria's love of carols—the song found favor in the Anglican Church. Soon even the protestant English clergy of the Victorian era were enthusiastically teaching "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" to their parishioners. Crossing the ocean to both Europe and America, the carol became a favorite throughout the Christian world and it is still sung in much the same way as it was five hundred years ago. The only problem is that few of today's singers fully understand the beginning of each of the carol's many verses. This is a result of the evolution of the English language.
When modern people say "Merry" Christmas, the word merry means happy. When "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" was written, merry had a very different meaning. Robin Hood's "Merry Men" might have been happy, but the merry that described them meant great and mighty. Thus, in the Middle Ages, a strong army was a merry army, a great singer was a merry singer, and a mighty ruler was a merry ruler.
So when the English carolers of the Victorian era sang, "merry gentlemen," they meant great or mighty men. Ye means you, but even when translated to "God rest you mighty gentlemen," the song still makes very little sense. This is due to another word that has a much different meaning in today's world and a lost punctuation mark.
The word rest in "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" simply means keep or make. Yet to completely uncover the final key to solving this mystery of meaning, a comma needs to be placed after the word "merry." Therefore, in modern English, the first line of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" should read "God make you mighty, gentlemen." Using this translation, the old carol suddenly makes perfect sense, as does the most common saying of the holidays, "Merry Christmas."
You might wonder why, when most didn't fully understand the real meaning of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," the old carol remained popular. The world's love for this song is probably due to its upbeat musical piece paired with the telling of the most upbeat story the world has ever known. Those who sing it naturally get caught up in the celebratory mood of the message and embrace the same kind of emotions that those first to visit the baby Jesus must have felt. As the angel told the shepherds, "I bring you news of great joy." That joy and the power of faith can be felt and experienced in every note and word of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen." You just have to know how to translate the words into the language of the day to have a very Mighty Christmas!


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Opinion: Obama Missions Unaccomplished
Editorial board member Matt Kaminski on the tide of war that's advancing in the Mideast.
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- Summary
True to the French spirit of dining well every day, this flatware melds classic elegance with exceptional durability and ease of care. Expertly crafted in a small town in Normandy, the collection features fiddleback handles edged with beading as refined as a string of pearls. Stainless steel lends heft and substance, along with a shine that rivals silver plate – no polishing required.
- Five-piece place setting includes a dinner fork, salad fork, dinner knife, soup spoon and teaspoon.
- Crafted of 18/10 durable stainless steel.
- A high chrome content gives the knife blade superior strength and a sharp, straight edge.
- Dishwasher safe.
- Made in France.
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- Dinner fork: 8" long.
- Salad fork: 6 3/4" long.
- Dinner knife: 9 1/2" long.
- Soup spoon: 8" long.
- Teaspoon: 6 3/4" long.
- Made in France.
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Rated 2 out of 5 by kjbm from Sell pieces separately! Love the set, even with the enormous spoons, and we'd buy more if THEY WERE SOLD SEPARATELY please. For that reason, I give only two stars.Date published: 2018-12-08Rated 5 out of 5 by luclarecuisine from Love the set We love this set, I agree with everyone, the teaspoons are large but are perfect as a soup spoons, the large spoons I'm using as a service spoons. I'm going buy the Moca spoons" from the company. They are small spoons. The weight and the way the fork and knife feel in your hands makes eating a pleasure.Date published: 2016-11-18Rated 5 out of 5 by 4pearlywhites from Elegant flatware I love Milady flatware! It has an elegant, classic styling. It has a nice sturdy feel without being too heavy. The desert/soup spoon included with the 5 piece place setting is rather large at 7 1/16" long but Guy Degrenne does have a coffee/teaspoon at 5 1/2" available as well as many other single pieces! After a month of daily use and washing it in the dishwasher the flatware still looks beautiful! No rust! The knives are very sharp due to the nickel content! This flatware can easily be dressed up and used with my fine china or with my white Eclectique! It is perfect and will last me for many years!Date published: 2015-12-28Rated 4 out of 5 by Pookerella from Gorgeous, but … We loved the look of this flatware, shiny and beautiful, but…the spoons are ENORMOUS. I know that is a "look" today, I don't like it, and we decided to pass on this set because of the spoons. Pity.Date published: 2015-08-27Rated 3 out of 5 by SusanDaniels from small issues I LOVE this flatware. I am, however, disappointed that it is not offered as open rather than sets. MY forks seem to walk away and I would love to purchase ONLY dinner forks. Having seen the reviews that mention difference in weight and markings, I do not know. When I purchase the full place settings merely for the forks, I will have a much better idea. And that brings me back to the issue of open stock purchase. I already have enough spoons...And NOT the size spoon used for coffee or tea.Date published: 2015-02-07Rated 3 out of 5 by ReallyHonest from Disappointed - These are not the same I bought 10 sets of the Milady stainless steel utensils from Williams and Sonoma many years ago and seriously loved it. In a recent move, all but one piece was stolen, and I wasn't worried because I knew it was still available at W&S. That's not exactly true. Unfortunately, the current sets are not the same quality and style. They no longer have the two marks (some call them dimple marks as mentioned in the 3/22/2012 review) on the top of the spoon/fork, etc.); the handle pattern appears larger and the overall look of each utensil is cruder and less classy, and the weight feels less. With the old set, I always used it for special occasions because I thought it looked and felt classy. With this new set, I am embarrassed and will not use this for entertaining. The overall appearance and weight is medium "cheap," and I am so disappointed. I wish I could find the exact set again.Date published: 2015-01-25Rated 4 out of 5 by WorkingMom99 from SELL TEASPOONS! Great quality silverware. Have had for 10 years and still looks fantastic. Like many other reviewers I am missing teaspoons and am really unhappy to find that you don't sell individual teaspoons. For that reason, I would not recommend it to others. The only other downside is that the soup spoons are quite large -- more like serving spoons.Date published: 2014-12-09Rated 4 out of 5 by DanaCA from Love this setting but beware of no open stock! I have had 12 sets of these 5-piece settings for 14 years. I love the weight and simplicity of the design. They still look decent after years of wear. Like other reviewers, I have lost several of the teaspoons (kids threw them in the trash?) and a few other pieces. It is really unfortunate that WS does not sell open stock. This flatware is relatively expensive and it is ridiculous to have to buy an entire set to replace a few random pieces.Date published: 2014-11-07
What color is the engraved letter? I am looking to get "H" on my silverware set in basic block lettering. However, am wondering if it will be simply engraved or more colored on the utensil? A picture would be very helpful. Thanks.


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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ A biography of President Dwight Eisenhower, a history of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and novels set in the state and elsewhere are among this year's 15 notable Kansas books.
State Librarian Jo Budler announced the list Monday. It honors books published last year by a Kansas author or on a Kansas topic.
Annual lists began in 2006.
This year's list includes ``Beyond Cold Blood,'' a history of the KBI by former Director Larry Welch. Also honored is ``Eisenhower in War and Peace,'' by Jean Edward Smith.
The novels include ``The Yard,'' by Alex Grecian, about London's murder squad in the late 19th century, and ``The Chaperone,'' by Laura Moriarty, a story of a young actress and her visit to New York.


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GRANADA, Spain, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- European astronomers say they've taken advantage of a cosmic opportunity to learn more about the icy dwarf planet Makemake, thought to be similar to Pluto.
Makemake's rare passage in front of a background star has yielded new information about its size, shape and surface properties, the researchers report in Nature.
Pluto, demoted to the status of dwarf planet, is one of at least four known dwarfs orbiting the sun. Makemake, (pronounced MAH-kay MAH-kay,) which orbits farther from the sun than Pluto, has been found to have no atmosphere, unlike Pluto, which has a thin but detectable atmosphere.
Jose Ortiz of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucia in Spain and colleagues studied Makemake using the same technique used to probe an even more distant dwarf planet, Eris, a year ago.
"Pluto, Eris and Makemake are among the larger examples of the numerous icy bodies orbiting far away from our sun," Ortiz said.
By studying the change in light of a distant star as Makemake passed directly in front of it, the astronomers said they were able to determine the dwarf planet's size and surface brightness, results that rule out a global, Pluto-like atmosphere.
"As Makemake passed in front of the star and blocked it out, the star disappeared and reappeared very abruptly, rather than fading and brightening gradually," Ortiz said. "This means that the little dwarf planet has no significant atmosphere."


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Hello. I read your post about having a file with parts and diagrams for a Monitor 30 heater. I was wondering if I could get that file from you? A freind of mine has one and wants to use it. I'll make sure I pass on what you said about this model (scrap it). I've looked at the combustion chamber and it seems clean and doesn't look like it was used a whole lot. I have a 441 myself, but looks a bit different inside. I'd be more than happy to start a new thread if that's what I should do. Thanks a lot. Marc, also from Bethel, just in Maine :-)
HayZee518 suggested I reach out to you regarding the problem I'm having with my Monitor 40 heater. If you have time, could you look over the following thread?
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Hello Hawkins111, I got in touch with HayZee about getting a service manual for my monitor 441 and he said you could help me. Im in Sterling Alaska and cant afford a service call but am pretty handy if I've got a manual. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks, Dave
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The answer to the title question is "probably yes" if the FDA concurs with the recent recommendation of its advisory committee in regard to a "new" indication for rosuvastatin (Crestor).
Dr. Matthew Mintz gives his thoughtful analysis of the panel's decision ( see here) and,in general, he seems to support the decision of the panel. The panel basically approved rosuvastatin for patients with normal LDLs and an elevated hs-CRP (high sensitivity CRP).
As has been pointed out (see here for Sandy Szwarc's detailed comments and critique on the study (Jupiter) that lead to the panel's decision) a very large number of people would be "eligible" for this new indication.I believe her comments contain several important counter-points to the avalanche of glowing comments from well known "thought leaders" that came quickly on the heels of the publication of Jupiter in the NEJM and should be read by someone before planning to check everyone's CRP and treat those eligible folks with CRPs of over 2.Although, I'll bet that the media blitz and specialty society guideline publicity that will blare forth if and when the FDA gives final approval will overwhelm any suggestion by a physician that we might give the matter a little thought before we prescribe Crestor because of an elevated CRP.
A 2009 article by Dr. Erica Spatz concluded " JUPITER's findings have the potential to impact treatment recommendations for 20% of middle-aged to elderly adults, thus increasing the proportion of this segment of the population with an indication for statin therapy to nearly 80%."
That 80% of middle-aged and elderly should be on a statin is ,to put it mildly, mind boggling.
One comment by a FDA panel member caught my eye-that the increases of new onset diabetes in the Jupiter trial was a "class effect" meaning that all statins tend to do that. For the number of patients for whom I recommended statins I did not see fit to warn them about an increased risk of diabetes. I was not aware of any. In fact, the West of Scotland study (WOSCOPS) found a 30% reduction in the onset of new diabetes in the pravastatin treatment arm. JUPITER had reported the opposite namely that there were 3% new diabetes cases in the treatment arm versus 2.4% in the placebo group. Further, Rajpathak published a meta-analysis of six statin trials that demonstrated a slight increase if the WOSCOPS data were excluded but no difference in onset of diabetes when that data were included. ( I never did understand why they would want to exclude the Scotland study anyway but...) So, if it is a class effect it must be a rather small one and I would worry more about muscle toxicity related side effects in the newly enlarged pool of older eligible patients.
So much has been written,just in the medical blog world,that I won't try and summarize all of the gleeful announcements of a really big breakthrough or the more somber critiques. But if you read only one commentary this one by DrRich would be worthwhile.
You can talk about the fact that Jupiter was terminated prematurely, you can talk about relative risk versus absolute risk reduction and Crestor effect versus class effect but in the end here is the way things seems to work. When you have a large randomized clinical trial that demonstrates a benefit for a given medication and when many well known medical thought leaders endorse it and when it is then approved by the FDA you know that guidelines will be written and quality rule driven medical practitioners will follow and many patients will take the medication and likely insurance companies will pay for some or all of it.So in this case many folks will have their hs-crp checked and they will be prescribed Crestor ( a few will be given lower price statin cousins) and there will be- for a while- talk about crp at parties.
My first prediction for the new year: Look for a surge of CME-oid meetings and articles on the value of CRP for cardiac risk assessment and as basis for statin therapy.Yes, we have heard about CRP for quite a while but soon we will probably have the blessing of the FDA and things will really take off.
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I cannot recall what site I read it on, but I thought something just came out that said CRP was not a predictor of events, and perhaps is just a symptom. I could be wrong.
- Michael Kirsch, M.D. said...
CRP is a surrogate, an event which can take on a life of its own. Cardiologists went gaga over the CRP and the statin manufacturers were salivating. It's quite a leap to connect the dots between an elevated CRP and an impending cardiac event. Yet, the therapeutic locomotive steadily moves forward. www.MDWhistleblower.blogspot.com
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German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz expects to sell a record number of vehicles this year in the United States, a crucial growth market now that demand for the brand in China has tailed off sharply.
A rejuvenated model range led by the next-generation S-Class flagship sedan and the new CLA compact four-door coupe, both of which debut around September, should lift volumes to an all time high in 2013, according to a Mercedes executive.
"This brand is absolutely on a roll here in the United States. The issues we might be dealing with in Europe with recession and with China really have absolutely no spillover here," said Stephen Cannon, president of Mercedes-Benz USA, in an interview on Tuesday prior to next week's auto show in Detroit.
His sales region leapfrogged Germany last year to become the brand's single biggest market. Mercedes meanwhile saw its sales in China drop nearly 19 percent in December, leaving annual volumes largely stagnant.
Barring policy risks from the upcoming debt ceiling standoff in Washington, Cannon expects the overall U.S. passenger car market to continually improve this year, rising to around 15-15.5 million this year from 14.5 million in 2012.
His optimism should relieve Daimler Chief Executive Dieter Zetsche, who is battling with significant structural problems particularly in China, where Volkswagen's Audi brand outsold Mercedes two to one last year.
Sales of Mercedes-Benz cars in the United States jumped nearly 12 percent to over 274,000 vehicles last year. In doing so, the brand eclipsed its previous 2007 record by more than 20,000 cars despite an overall U.S. market that shrank by 2.5 million cars from 2007 as credit dried up during the recession.
Rival BMW increased sales of its core BMW brand by 13.5 percent to about 281,500 last year, surpassing Mercedes thanks to the launch of the BMW X1 compact SUV - a segment which Mercedes will enter next year at the earliest.
A former U.S. Army Airborne Ranger and West Point grad, Cannon is looking to refresh or replace 19 models and launch 11 more in entirely new segments by the end of this decade.
"We think that there is substantial growth opportunity for Mercedes-Benz here in the United States over that 2020 time frame, so we're very bullish about the prospects but that's as specific as I'll get," he said, when asked about concrete sales targets.
"I will stack our product pipeline against any in the business," he said.
While this year will end on a strong note with the launch of the S-Class and CLA, Cannon said business will also be supported earlier on by the refreshed E-Class, his second best-selling model which soon will receive a mid-cycle facelift.
"We also could have sold 10,000 more MLs and GLs (SUVs) together had we gotten that extra production ... So in addition to the E-Class we've got huge pent-up demand for both the ML and GL-Class, which will help us get off to a good start in the first half of the year," he said.
Cannon added that he expected great things from the CLA that will be priced to poach customers from mass market brands selling fully-equipped compacts, rather than strictly going after premium rivals like BMW and Audi.
"Why enter a volume segment and do niche volumes? It doesn't make sense ... We think this can be a really important vehicle for us - it's going to be our primary conquest vehicle," he said.
So far competitor offerings have met with muted demand. Sales of the BMW 1 Series compact fell about 13 percent to 7,700 cars last year, for example, while Audi sold even fewer A3s.
"We're not looking to take any 1 Series market share because they (BMW) don't have any ... But think about a high trim level Passat, think about an Acura (7267.T), think about the near-luxury category where you can option up a car into the high 20s and low 30s (thousands of dollars)," Cannon said.
"If we can bring its entry point to within a few thousand dollars of those higher-trimmed mass market vehicles, we think there is significant volume potential for the CLA," he added.
Major U.S. model lines for the Mercedes brand contribute currently anywhere from 30,000 to 80,000 cars per year.
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Key to the success of the CLA will be whether Gorden Wagener's design studio at Mercedes can pull off an athletic exterior dynamic enough to appeal to today's youth, following years of dull styling that failed to impress critics.
"We're now really starting to find our stride in design language that connects with those attributes," Cannon said.
In fact, the only thing that seemed to dampen the spirits of the Mercedes manager was the ongoing gridlock in Congress.
"They haven't dealt with the fiscal cliff, they just kicked it down the road. So it was a very dissatisfying compromise but one that at least calmed the financial markets," he said.
"That does impact the psychology of our customers."