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I knew when I posted The New Prostitution: Surrogate Pregnancy that I would get a flurry of indignant responses and lies from people who buy and sell women's bodies in this new, medical form of prostitution.
I've been to this particular rodeo before. What I encountered then and now is what people who stand up for the human rights of women always encounter: Lying attacks from their exploiters, self-destructive defenses of their own dehumanization by self-hating women, and stories of the "benefits" of the prostitution from their purchasers.
Just for the record, I don't put pimps' testimony on this blog. That includes pimp husbands who take money from their wives selling their bodies to medical science and doctors who buy and sell women's bodies. I also don't put johns' excuses for their behavior on this blog. You're wasting your time, trying to comment here.
My experience with this began when I went through infertility treatment to have my first child. I know a lot of about these drugs they give people. I know about their side effects and how they make you feel. I do not have first-hand knowledge of the irresponsible medical practice of egg harvesting.
My doctor was treating me for a diagnosed medical condition. The dangers and miseries I endured were part of a legitimate treatment for a bodily disfunction. She never over-stimulated my ovaries to try to make as many eggs as she could. She also never lied to me about the risks. She told me everything before we ever started, including the fact that the treatment could kill me.
The doctors who perform egg harvesting in Oklahoma lie about the risks. I know they lie because when I introduced a bill to stop them from paying women to undergo egg harvesting, they lied to other legislators and to the press. One of them said that egg harvesting was no more dangerous than riding in a car, among other flat-out lies.
They also claimed that they had not ever had a single complication. Another lie. One of these docs was part of the infertility clinic I went to. He wasn't my doctor, but I knew him. While I was undergoing treatment, one of his patients lost an ovary. Call me crazy, but I think that qualifies as a complication.
These doctors are misrepresenting the risks and exploiting young women, endangering their lives, future health and fertility. They are reducing women and children to things to be bought and sold on the marketplace. They are also turning medical practice into an exploitative and dangerous profession that people cannot trust.
If doctors can subject people to dangerous treatments that the patients have no medical need of in order to make money, if they can lie about the risks and use their professional associations' political clout to create an environment that allows them to do this with impunity, then how can anyone ever trust their doctor?
We rely on these medical people to tell us the truth. We rely on them to give us treatments that we need because we are sick and need those treatments to get well. We rely on them not to inflict unnecessary medical treatments on us to make money.
These doctors are preying on women. They are buying and selling babies. All the lies in the world won't change that.
There is one simple solution. Take the money out of the equation. If a woman wants to undergo a surrogate pregnancy for someone out of the goodness of her heart and she knows the risks and freely undertakes them, ok. But do not allow anyone to pay her to do this. The same should go for egg harvesting.
There is a reason we have laws that do not allow people to sell their bodily organs. The same laws should to apply to egg donation and surrogate pregnancies.
What I want to do is,
- First-time surrogates receive a base payment of $23,000, paid in installments throughout the pregnancy.
- Additional payments total $4,000 or more, which increases the total compensation to $27,000. These payments include money for maternity clothes, payment for completing the embryo transfer, and a monthly expense allowance beginning when the surrogate signs the contract with the intended parents.
- Surrogates who carry twins receive an additional $5,000, raising their total to at least $32,000.
- Women who become surrogates a second time have their base payment increase to $28,000. This means they receive at least $32,000 total, or $37,000 if they carry twins. (see here.)
Give women and children their human dignity under the law.
Otherwise, stop lying and call it what it is: The new prostitution.
The story below comes from a young doctor. She gave me permission to use her testimony when I was working to pass a bill to make it illegal to pay for egg harvesting in Oklahoma. I never used it, even though she gave me permission. She was still a student and afraid of what public use might do to her medical career. I didn't think she understood how vicious and slandering these people really are, and I did not want to harm her in any way. I left her out of that fight.
However, she is in a different place in her career now. She has offered her story as testimony to the Kansas State Senate and it is published at the Eggsploitation web site.
I reprint it here with permission. From Eggsploitation:
Sindy's Testimony
Testimony by Sindy, M.D., Ph.D. to Kansas State Senate on Senate Bill 509, "Women's Health and Embryo Monitoring Program Act," March 2010
My name is Sindy. I have an M.D. and a Ph.D. in Biology with specialization in the field of real-time live imaging of the early immune response. With my strong background in basic science research and publications in top scientific journals such as Nature and Science, I have always been an avid supporter of biological research using live subjects and donated tissue, both animal and human. However, my experiences have taught me that at times, even a scrupulous medical scientist may be tempted to make erroneous assumptions, cut corners, or risk safety in order to save time or achieve success. In my medical and research training I have learned the importance of certain principles whenever attempting a procedure or study. These include: 1) ethics, 2) subject safety, 3) informed consent, and 4) patient autonomy. I am testifying today as a former egg donor on the dangers posed to women by the egg harvesting industry. I believe that all four of the above key principles had been violated in my case. Even though I suffered immediate life-threatening complications from the process, it wasn't until many more years of medical training that I was able to understand the full scope of how I had been taken advantage of, mislead, and abandoned by the egg harvesting industry. As a medical professional it is still difficult to accept that such abuses are allowed to exist in my profession. Meanwhile, players "behind the scenes" such as the egg donation agency and the egg brokers have left the issues of ethics, health, and safety to the doctors, so that they can concentrate on profit. It is my assessment that the egg donation industry cannot be allowed to continue without regulations aimed at preventing unethical recruitment, substandard practices, and inadequate monitoring of women for the purpose of egg harvesting.
The goal of my testimony is to illuminate the importance of placing regulations on the way that the egg harvesting industry is run — from ethical, legal, and medical standpoints. 1) The health and safety of women must be protected first and foremost in any procedure related to ovum production, and should never be superseded by concerns of profit, costs of screening and monitoring the subject, quantity of eggs produced, quantity of eggs retrieved, or completion of the cycle. 2) Furthermore, like any other industry, the egg harvesting industry must be held accountable for reporting adverse effects and for tracking the long-term health of donors. 3) Ethically, informed consent must be properly obtained, with an admission that more research is needed to illuminate the long-term risks to donors. It is also an ethical responsibility for those who profit from egg harvesting to track the health of donors, including conducting large scale research in order to study risks.
I will now relate my experience. In 2001, while still in the combined MD/PhD program, I signed up for egg donation after seeing a university newspaper advertisement for egg donors. The monetary compensation of $6,500 seemed like a lot to me at the time, as I made barely enough to live on. Though I had a desire to help an infertile couple, money was definitely a major driving factor in my decision. Before I started, I searched the medical literature with a fine-tooth comb to verify that this procedure was indeed as harmless as advertised by the egg donation agency. I did not find any hard evidence in the literature of future infertility and cancers, and it seemed that the risks of other complications were extremely low. However, I was not told that the egg donors were rarely followed after the donation, and that doctors were under no obligation to report adverse events.1 Like many other women egg donors, I was bound by legal contracts to remain anonymous and therefore even if late complications occurred, they would be difficult to report.
At this point I had a normal gynecologic history, including normal age at first menses, regular menstrual cycles, and nothing significant on pelvic ultrasounds. It was assumed that I was healthy enough to undergo the egg harvesting protocol. Then I submitted my photographs, passed my genetic screening as a "quality assurance" for the tissue purchaser, and submitted myself to a psychological screen and IQ test administered by a psychiatrist. Based on these results I was chosen as the egg donor, from whom a "designer offspring" would be created.
The legal contract stated that the creation of these eggs were for the purpose of in vitro fertilization. The recipients of my eggs would retain all rights to my eggs and any subsequent embryos created from my eggs, "including but not limited to the ability to make all decisions regarding disposition of embryos." The literature given by the egg donation agency outlined the possible risks of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS), as well as some other theoretical risks that they assured me were rare. What I did not realize at this time was that there were other hidden players in the egg industry who could potentially make money off my eggs, and that there were no laws in place to discourage hyperstimulation of many more eggs than reasonably needed for the goal of helping the infertile couple. My contract did not guarantee that third parties would not be involved in the trading or selling of these eggs, though it specifically forbade donations to other infertile couples without the donor's consent. My eggs could have been a high-value commodity for profiteers who had nothing to do with the infertile couple, and I was not made aware of this possibility in a forthcoming and direct manner.
The below was part of the information provided to the public by the egg donation agency:
Q: How many eggs are removed during the retrieval? A: The average is 10-15 eggs aspirated per cycle, but donors can produce 16 or more eggs.
Q: Can a donor not produce enough eggs in a stimulated cycle? A: Yes, if the doctor cancels the cycle for poor response the donor will be compensated between $650.00 — $750.00.
According to my agency, failure to produce more than 4 eggs qualifies as "not enough eggs". Four is typically higher than the target for women who are receiving fertility treatment using oral medications. However, note that there is no upper limit for the number of eggs a donor may safely "produce", indicating that safety of ovum overproduction is being ignored. This illustrates that the drive to produce a higher number of eggs is extremely high, and failure to produce "adequate" eggs is linked with reduced financial compensation for the donor. Needless to say, this concept of "more is better" brings up ethical questions concerning the use of financial compensation for the recruitment of egg donors. This is especially alarming when no standards are in place to prevent an agency from overproducing eggs. The agency also told me that if I had a successful donation and become a proven donor, I may receive more compensation for future cycles, upwards of $8,000 (on paper) to $20,000 (verbally) – more than I would make in a year of intensive lab work. When "successful" production cycles are linked to increased financial compensation and "failures" are linked to a decrease in financial compensation, women will become more likely to tolerate untoward side effects, including those of OHSS, for fear of losing this compensation. This payment structure poses an obvious ethical conflict.
After signing my legal contract I began to administer all the medications as directed by the egg donation agency. These medications arrived by mail. I already knew how to mix and administer the medications but I don't recall being instructed by medical personnel. At no point did they adjust my dosage. I remember receiving follow-up early on with a local doctor, and more exams after I travelled by plane to Northern California for the harvesting. Imagine my surprise when they told me that I was producing approximately 60 egg follicles! A mature follicle measures ~2 cm in diameter. The normal ovary measures approximately 4 x 2.5 x 1 cm, and is analogous to the testes. Therefore, you can imagine how 30 mature follicles of 2 cm diameter clustered within each gonad must look like and feel. I was concerned, but the doctors and nurses assured me that this was within the reasonable range for a fertile young woman.
A couple of days before the retrieval the nurse emailed me that my blood estrogen (estradiol) levels came back much higher than they had anticipated (~10,000 pg/ml). A woman in her 20s has an average estrogen level of ~150 pg/ml, with a peak of ~400 pg/ml prior to ovulation. In late pregnancy, the levels may rise 100-fold, but this rise normally occurs over a 6 month period. I asked the fertility specialist to consider altering the timing and course of this process. I was concerned because the drugs I received were probably tested on Caucasian women of average weight. I am a thin non-Caucasian woman. Studies have shown genetic differences in liver drug metabolism for ethnic populations; the examples are too many to reference and are beyond the scope of this topic. Despite my concerns, the doctor told me that even though my hormone levels were extremely high, they would not make any adjustments to the protocol because they did not want to risk failure. I continued to follow all their directions, as it stipulated in my legal contract that I "[understood] it [was] imperative" that I "not deviate from [the protocol] unless instructed to do so by the IVF physician." Therefore, I proceeded to finish my ovarian stimulation, finishing off with a shot of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) to help release the eggs for the harvesting. The next morning, I underwent transvaginal needle retrieval of the eggs.
What was unknown after the surgery was that the doctor had punctured an artery during the harvesting. When I woke from the anesthesia I became weak, nauseous, and dizzy. I was scheduled to catch a plane that afternoon, to return home. They told me that I looked good and was ready to go home, even though I had problems maintaining my blood pressure. At this point I refused to leave, because I could not stand without getting dizzy – orthostatic hypotension after an invasive procedure typically raises the suspicion of blood loss. A few hours later they started giving me intravenous fluids because they thought that the anesthesia was causing my low blood pressure. Then I developed pain and difficulty breathing. An ultrasound showed that everything was fine except for fluid in my pelvis, which they said was normal (later, this was documented as "fluid pocket near the right kidney". During this entire time the doctor and nurse persisted in trying to get me to leave, which would mean hours of traveling by car and plane. The pain in my belly became unbearable and I became convinced that I was bleeding internally; something was irritating and pushing on my diaphragm. When I asked if I could be bleeding internally, they told me that it was unlikely. My blood pressure was even lower at this time, so they gave me medication to raise it. Unfortunately giving pressors in a bleeding patient increases the bleeding rate. At 6pm, after 8 hours of slowly and painfully bleeding out, they FINALLY admitted me to the hospital. To me it seemed like they had done just about everything to get rid of me up until that point. The fertility doctor ordered me to eat something. As soon as I sat up in bed to eat, I developed sudden distress and difficulty breathing. They took my blood pressure and called out "40/20″. At that moment I feared that I was going to die. In my medical records the blood pressure reported was 61/29. At this point they finally began to realize that something was terribly wrong, that I was going into shock from blood loss, so I was taken into the operating room for an emergency exploratory laparotomy to find the source of bleeding. The surgeons flipped through my bowels three times to ensure that no other organs were punctured.
During the harvesting of ~60 eggs, which I assume required 60 passes of the needle through my ovaries, the fertility doctor had punctured a high pressure artery in my right ovary. This tiny bleeder was easily fixed with a touch of electrocautery. I had an emergency blood transfusion to replace the 1.5 liters of blood lost. There is absolutely no reason why they should have waited so long to properly diagnose me, thus turning this into an emergency surgical situation when they could have done a small laparoscopic procedure to diagnose and fix a small bleeding artery. Had I followed their directions and gone home, I would have died. Unfortunately their disregard of the signs of OHSS, low index of clinical suspicion for post surgical complications, and their extremely slow response resulted in a horrific clinical outcome.
After the surgery, I had to be kept on a breathing machine in the intensive care unit (ICU) and treated for acidosis throughout the next day. After I was stabilized enough to move to the regular medical wards, the fertility doctor came to see me. She told me that the bleeding was probably due to a genetic bleeding disorder (i.e. my own fault) and that this has never happened before. Then she proceeded to check me for rare genetic bleeding disorders – nothing. I found the doctor's reluctance to accept that a simple, clear-cut complication had occurred to be highly disturbing. A few days after I was admitted, the 9/11 attack occurred and all planes were grounded for a week. Despite not being able to walk or tolerate a 10 hour car ride home, the doctor told me I needed to free up medical resources and go home now. She tried to get me to leave by stating that when she had her C-section it only took her 3 days to start walking again. However, she neglected the fact that I had gone into prolonged shock caused by her own negligence, spent time in the ICU, underwent a massive surgical procedure, and had emergency blood transfusions. There were no apologies from beginning to end. I was shocked by this dismissive attitude from a top doctor of a top fertility treatment center, a medical expert who has published many articles on safety evaluation and recommendations for egg harvesting. At the same time, I was afraid to launch any complaints because I was a student in the same hospital system with plans to pursue the same field – Ob/Gyn; years later I decided on another medical specialty for unrelated reasons.
I am thankful to be alive, but I know that it was not because the doctor caught the post surgical complication. It was because I finally took a stand, and refused to go home when I knew that something was wrong. If I had died I would not be here to tell my story. I fear that cases like mine are buried deep by the fertility centers who do not want to lower their reputation. While I was in the hospital the fertility doctor told me that she would write a case report on the complication I had. When I searched the medical literature for all of her publications some years later, I wasn't surprised to find that there was no such report. I have no way of knowing if this incident even made it into a statistical analysis somewhere in the medical literature. It makes sense that an industry thriving on profits and reputation has little incentive to report adverse events, for fear of driving away potential IVF clients and egg donors.
The $6,500 I was given has long since evaporated into medical treatments for multiple late complications caused by this incident. I developed an infection inside my incision site and required multiple steroid injections into the scar to stop it from growing out of control. I suffered from post traumatic stress for months because of my near-death incident, and was unable to work for two months due to both physical and mental deterioration. When I came off birth control a few years later I discovered that my previously normal menstrual cycles and hormone levels had become irregular. My previously normal ovaries took on a polycystic appearance, with more than 25 small follicles in each ovary. I developed occasional incontinence and pelvic pain likely as a consequence of the emergency surgery causing adhesions (fibrotic bands, analogous to scarring) around my organs.
The worst part of this is my current struggle with infertility, requiring continued exposure to the very same types of fertility drugs that I had already been overexposed to in the past – exposure whose link to cancer has not been adequately studied and may take decades to emerge.1 I may need more surgeries in the future to determine if the emergency surgery that was done had damaged my reproductive organs. I fear that the procedure may have harmed the quality of my eggs, even if the fertility experts are certain (at least theoretically) that quantity of eggs remains unaffected. Because of the high hormonal exposure during my egg donation cycle and multiple anecdotes from other egg donors, the development of early cancer is always in the back of my mind. Though a large study has found no evidence linking IVF to ovarian cancer, there is a generalized, undeniable causal relationship between transient exposure to female hormones and transient risk of rapid-growth gynecologic cancer.2 I believe that is absolutely necessary for egg donors to be followed and studied, especially if they had experienced hyperstimulation during the process. No follow up has ever been offered to me. Nobody from the egg donation agency, fertility clinics, or hospital has contacted me since, except to obtain my insurance information so that they could pass my hospital bill to my own health insurance company.
Summary and Conclusion:
1) Ethical considerations:
Financial compensation for eggs disproportionately targets college women with financial hardships. These women usually have long academic careers ahead of them and have not considered childbearing yet, so any infertility caused by the procedure would cause more psychological and physical damage to these women. Docked pay for failure to produce a target number of eggs and escalating pay scales for subsequent cycles are factors that may encourage underreporting of adverse side effects by the egg donor.
2) Subject safety:
Subject safety is variable, being highly dependent on the individual clinician's practice. This is why there needs to be standardized safety practices and mandatory reporting of complications. In the article "Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research: Workshop Report (2007)", one fertility expert advocated the following:3
By working from such information as a patient's age, weight, and follicle count… a doctor can begin with an FSH dose based on those factors and then modify it as necessary. We monitor during the course of the stimulation to further decrease the dose if too many follicles are developing or the estradiol levels are too high.
To reduce risk of hyperstimulation, these actions were also recommended:
- •Modify stimulation protocol
- ◦Decrease gonadotropin dosage
- ◦OCP/Lupron/Low dose gonadotropins
- •Reduce the ovulatory dose of hCG
- •Delay administration of hCG: "Coast"
- •Cancellation of cycle eliminates the risk of OHSS
- •Withhold hCG administration
Basically the safety recommendations for egg donors include determining the initial dosing of these powerful drugs on the weight and age of the patient. If there is any evidence of producing more eggs or hormones than expected during routine monitoring, then the drug dosage should be reduced, the administration of stimulating medications delayed, or the cycle cancelled. None of these recommendations were followed in my case. In fact, it was one of my own egg donation doctors who was consulted and quoted in the above article.
Regarding the risk during surgical retrieval of the eggs, the perceived negligible risk of complications is likely due to incomplete data:2
It is difficult to know, however, exactly how often such complications occur . . . Although excellent statistics are kept on such things as how many viable eggs each procedure produces, the statistics are not so complete on the complications that ensue during and after.
As my case illustrates, this perceived near-zero risk is inherently dangerous because it will not raise red flags when complications do occur, resulting in delayed intervention and a poorer-than-expected outcome. When a complication does occur, the denial of medical responsibility based on statistical rarity is a faulty and circular argument. This denial of responsibility would also prevent egg donors from obtaining monetary compensation for treatment of complications and appropriate follow-up. As my case illustrates, poor management of retrieval complications can be a problem even in the hands of the most experienced clinician.
Lastly, I received no follow up after my procedure. It is the ethical duty of the fertility industry to conduct timely follow-up and research studies in order to promote safety. This is true of any other industry especially pharmaceutical – so why make fertility an exception?
3) Informed consent:
Many are improperly informed about the risks of the egg harvesting process. Verbally I was told that risk was virtually non-existent and that studies have not linked the procedure to cancer and infertility. I should have been told that there were not enough studies or long-term follow up to determine risk.
It should be made abundantly clear if embryos or stem cells may potentially be secondarily sold, traded, or gifted. The amount of profit potentially generated from each transaction and the purpose of each transaction should be transparent to everyone involved, especially the donor. Without this information, the egg donor cannot possibly make an informed decision.
4) Patient autonomy:
I was hyperstimulated with approximately 60 eggs retrieved. During the procedure I expressed concerns about not using weight-based dosing of fertility medication, the excessive number of follicles produced, and skyrocketing estradiol levels. Nothing was done to personalize my procedure based on clinical findings, which is clearly incongruent with the standard of care. After the procedure my concerns about internal bleeding were not adequately acknowledged until I went into shock and had to undergo an emergency laparotomy. In my experience, the pressure to complete a successful cycle became stronger as I became more invested in the process, and thus I progressively lost my right to make decisions regarding my own body.
Final thoughts:
Even the tiniest risk of complication needs to be taken seriously especially when dealing with perfectly healthy young women, who have no need to undergo a potentially life-threatening procedure. Procedures with risk are performed on sick patients with the understanding is that the benefits of the procedure outweigh the risks or the consequences of doing nothing. In egg donation there is no medical benefit, only risk. It represents a conflict of interest when the physician does not perceive the egg donor as a patient for whom they have the responsibility to minimize risk. This aspect must be considered when treating healthy young women with everything to lose.
1. Nature. 2006 Sep 7;443(7107):26. Health effects of egg donation may take decades to emerge.
2. American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 153, No. 11 : 1079-1084.
3. Assessing the Medical Risks of Human Oocyte Donation for Stem Cell Research: Workshop Report (2007).


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A man riding a snowmobile has died after he apparently triggered an avalanche in the Sierra Nevada mountains in Alpine County.
The Sierra Avalanche Center reports that the slide happened around 3:30 p.m. Friday after a late-season storm dumped more than 6 feet of snow in the area.
The center says the wave of snow carried the victim downhill, into trees and buried him. His companions found him dead but were unable to pull him out.
Searchers recovered his body Saturday after the Kirkwood Ski Patrol used explosives to clear the area of further avalanche danger.
The Alpine County coroner has not yet released the victim's name.
The slide near Carson Pass came a day after a skier also died in a human-triggered avalanche about 40 miles to the north, near the Alpine Meadows Resort.
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The company already employs over 550 people across two sites. Most of the new jobs will be for high value customer support and sales specialists, the company said.
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I'm a minimalist when it comes to bikes. I don't need the latest and greatest, just reliable transportation and proven technology, the rallying cry of two young bike companies I came across at Interbike – Linus and All-City.
Linus, started by South Africans Adam McDermott and Chad Kushner in Venice, Calif., is a company after my heart. Their website describes their philosophy of how they see the bike in our high-tech world. It takes a page out of my cycling manifesto:
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Their excellent website has all the details about their bikes, and check out all the great press they've been receiving: Today Show, Harper's Bazaar, LA Times, and more. Impressive.
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All-City reflects its origins in Minneapolis, Minn., where bike racing tracks can be found nearby. It's reflected in the design of their two frames – Big Block and Nature Boy – both of which have rear track dropouts.
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The beginning lines of today's New York Times article titled "As State of the Union Nears, Congress Plays Musical Chairs" provided me with a set of interesting acronym, word, and idiom new to me, such as "BFF," "play musical chair" and "good hair," whose meanings I was able to find out by UrbanDictionary. However, UrbanDictionary defines BFF as 'an abbreviation mostly written on binders or notes by girls in grade school, however, over the last few years, people who use to use the term in grade school have actually started saying ...' Is it appropriate or natural to apply an acronym (BFF) being used primarily by gradeschool girls to dignitaries like Senators as exampled by the following sentence. In addition, do you use "BFF" in your colloquial conversation?
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Three reporters tell CPJ about the dangers of reporting from Iraq.
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- Additional comments by Bobby Ghosh, Time magazine, world editor
- Additional comments by James Glanz, New York Times Baghdad bureau chief
- Additional comments by Jehad Nga, freelance photographer
New York, March 18, 2008--Five years after the start of the war in Iraq, reporting "has become a much more complicated proposition," says James Glanz, Baghdad bureau chief for The New York Times. Glanz is one of three reporters the Committee to Protect Journalists interviewed about their experiences covering the conflict for a Web-based video report, Dateline Iraq.
Glanz, Bobby Ghosh, Time magazine's world editor, and freelance photographer Jehad Nga have all spent many months reporting in Iraq over the past five years. They talked to CPJ about the increasing obstacles and dangers journalists have faced covering the war in Iraq, the deadliest for the press ever recorded by CPJ.
Obtaining reliable information is so difficult inside Iraq, Ghosh explains, that "you only get a sort of kaleidoscope; you get little bits and shards of information." Nga describes the difference between reporting in Iraq in 2003 and in 2008 as "night and day."
Transcripts containing highlights of the three interviews are available on CPJ's Web site.
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Have you ever heard TV weather forecasters talk about ozone levels? They might say: "Ozone and air pollution levels will be very high." Those levels matter to people who have asthma or other breathing problems. Let's find out why.
Ozone (say: OH-zone) is a gas that is a part of the Earth's atmosphere (say: AT-muss-feer). The atmosphere is made up of the gases (like oxygen) that surround the Earth, like a shell. Ozone that is found 10 to 30 miles (16 to 48 kilometers) above the Earth protects us from the sun.
But the ozone that is closer to the ground pollutes the air and is the main ingredient in smog. This ozone is created when the exhaust given off by cars, power plants, and factories mixes with sunlight. That's why ozone tends to be higher in sunny places or during hot, still weather.
Particle pollution (say: PAR-tih-kul puh-LOO-shun) also makes the air dirty. Particle pollution is created when tiny bits of dust, dirt, smoke, soot, chemicals from factories, and droplets from aerosol (say: AYR-uh-sol) cans hang in the air we breathe. The smaller the particles, the deeper they can get into the lungs.
Low-lying ozone and other things that pollute the air can cause breathing problems for anyone, even if they have healthy lungs.
As you have probably guessed, people with asthma have an even tougher time dealing with air pollution. The airways (the breathing tubes in the lungs) of someone who has asthma are already swollen and may contain lots of mucus.
Air pollution can make this worse. It can be a trigger, like pollen or cigarette smoke, for people with asthma. It can make someone's asthma symptoms worse and it can lead to a flare-up.
In fact, when ozone and other air pollution levels are high, more people with asthma end up at the hospital.
If you find that air pollution worsens your asthma, ask your mom or dad to keep an eye on the weather report for you. On days when the air pollution level is high, run the air conditioning. If you plan to be outside, do it early in the day. The rest of the time, stay inside. And avoid places where there is a lot of traffic.
If you play a sport that has outside practices during hot weather, talk to the coach about what you can do to stay out of dirty air. This may mean you need to work out in an air-conditioned gym or miss some practices. If you do end up working out, inside or out, make sure that you have your quick-relief medicines (also called rescue or fast-acting medicines) with you.
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All of us have or have had Mothers… unless any of you are "cloned." I'm pretty sure I was born the old fashioned way.
Typically, Mother's Day is a time to give Mom a day off! Mother's Day makes us think of flowers, breakfast in bed, and writing heartfelt cards. This is the one day of the year that we celebrate good old (or new) Mom. To commemorate Mother's Day on May 11th, help someone become a mother!
Celiac disease can cause serious reproductive health problems and yet many women (and their mates) with celiac disease are out there suffering, unaware of the steps they can take for healthy pregnancies. Some of you have spoken to me about your difficulties becoming pregnant or have told me heartbreaking stories of tragic loss. These histories often bring tears of pain. But, we can heal ourselves and we can help others heal.
Here is how! Help others become mothers and share your story with the NFCA. (www.beyondceliac.org).
I want to reach out to you in any way I can. If you would prefer to dictate your story to someone in the office, call us! We want to hear from YOU!
Did you have infertility problems until you changed to a gluten-free "lifestyle?" Have any of you become pregnant after reading NFCA's DoIHaveCeliac checklist?
So, the world is changing. Celiac disease and a gluten-free lifestyle are becoming main stream. We need to help our friends get diagnosed so they too can restore their health, reclaim their lives and become "Moms."
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By Vanessa MaltinNFCA Director of Outreach & Programming
When I think about playing a round of golf, I picture sunny skies, beautiful green grass, crystal clear lakes and the occasional sand trap. I think about breathing in the fresh air and hopefully finding the perfect club to hit a hole-in-one. I think about good times on the course with family and friends and of course, the 19th hole (aka eating and drinking after the round).
Although it would incredible to only have these warm and fuzzy thoughts about golf, people with celiac disease have to be a little bit more careful and plan ahead. And that's exactly what LPGA Tour Professional Sarah-Jane Kenyon does every day before heading to the golf course.
NFCA is proud to introduce a new member of our Athletes for Awareness Team.As a spokeswoman for the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness, Sarahwill be sharing her story and keeping us posted of her gluten-free diningexperiences while on the professional golfers tour!
So, who is Sarah-Jane Kenyon???
Sarah is a native Australian and started playing golf at the young age of 12. She quickly showed promise and by age 13 she was competing in tournaments all across Australia. In 2002 she was the Australian Junior Champion and in 2003, winner of the Queensland 72-hole Championship. She finished 10th in the 2004 Australian Open and competed in the 2006 U.S. Women's Open Championship. Now, at 23, Sarah is competing as a member of the LPGA tour.
Pretty impressive isn't it?! What's even more impressive is that she manages to keep up with the rigors of the LPGA tour all while managing a gluten-free diet!
Sarah only recently began experiencing symptoms of celiac disease. Her symptoms included gastrointestinal discomfort, headaches and severe fatigue, none of which allowed her to perform at her best while on the professional golfers tour. Luckily, Sarah knew what might be happening — her mother, Sharon, has celiac disease, so when the symptoms appeared, it took no time at all to figure out the cause!
"I started feeling poorly whenever I ate 'normal' foods, like bread and pasta," said Kenyon. "Since my mother has celiac, I knew right away that I might be susceptible because the disease is genetic. Since I started on a gluten-free diet, I've felt much better."
With a cure to her problems in place, Sarah is speaking out to help other athletes in the United States get diagnosed and manage a successful gluten-free diet while on the go!
How does she do it? Before Sarah knew what was causing her distress, she says she lived on Panera and Quiznos while traveling to tournaments. Now she says she has to plan ahead. She always keeps fresh fruit, vegetables and rice cakes with her on the golf course and says she is lucky that the LPGA tour organizers always keep healthy foods on hand for the players to eat.
However, Sarah was sure to say that the United States is nothing like her home country of Australia.
"In Australia, there are tons of gluten-free options! There are bakeries and restaurants and even Starbucks has gluten-free food!"
The bottom line she says, is that people in Australia truly understand the disease and in turn there are an abundance of delicious gluten-free food options.
As the Athletes for Awareness Spokeswoman, Sarah will wear the NFCA logo on her apparel and golf bag throughout the LPGA tour season and will work to promote awareness among fans and at events sponsored by the NFCA.
Hopefully the gluten-free diet, coupled with support from the NFCA will help Sarah play even better golf!
To learn more about NFCA's Athletes for Awareness, read AJ Clemens' Personal Story.
By Chef Edgar Steele NFCA Chef Spokesman
Restaurant menu development may be one of the most difficult tasks in the professional world due to the balance between what the chef wants to feed you and what you actually want to eat. A chef will come to the restaurant early in the morning, and walk through the refrigerator wondering what to prepare for the days special, what changes to make on the dinner menu, or what the staff will eat that day. It is common to target a main ingredient for any one of these answers, and, hailing at a mere $3.00 a pound, cauliflower will prove to be a delicious, nutritious and budget-friendly vegetable.
As a sometimes overlooked staple to any earth-shattering dish, cauliflower can be one of the best tasting things ever placed in one's mouth and it is equally beneficial to the health-conscious the whole way down. Semi-firm yet a bit spongy in texture at its raw state, and sinfully smooth when cooked and pureed beyond recognition, either way you slice it, the tree shaped cauliflower can add a creamy bump to a spectrum of dishes. In my experience at Café Atlantico, this seemingly modest vegetable is grilled in steak-like form, pureed to a rich custard, and snipped into tiny pebbles and sautéed amongst the finest of grains and starches.
At this mouth watering moment of despair, address of the healthy properties that cauli brings to the table seems appropriate. If orange juice isn't your thing, a phenomenally high amount of vitamin C is found in cauliflower. For those of us who with to avoid the dreaded cancers of the colon, cauliflower gifts us with a natural source of sulforaphane and the compound indole 3 carbinole, which has been found to slow down and in some cases even prevent the formation of harmful cells. Enabling and assisting the liver to ward off harmful carcinogenic substances, cauliflower also aids us as a detoxifier.
Cauliflower has also been linked to protection against rheumatoid arthritis and has several cardiovascular benefits, due to its ability to fight against proteins which can cause plaque buildup in blood vessels.
To retain the maximum health benefits of cauliflower, it is best eaten raw, or lightly steamed just to the point of being done. However, one may execute a number of cooking techniques to the vegetable. In my experience, applications such as roasting, sautéing, grilling, steaming or frying work very well to yield a tasty outcome. Butter and cauliflower turn out to have a magical bond when married into a creamy puree.
Steam your cauliflower for about 10 minutes in a double boiler, and then puree it with approximately 9% of its weight in cream. For instance, if you are steaming a pound of cauliflower, puree it with 1.5 ounces of cream and a bit of salt. What you will have after this is something you may have never expected from cauliflower… a fascinatingly smooth and creamy rich custard that you won't be able to stop eating, so prepare yourself.
One of the many ways we consistently create amusement in our lives is to perform magic tricks, and one of those is making things seem to be something they are not. Take a head of cauliflower, and snip the tip. Continue to make small "snips" at the very edge of the cauliflowers head's surface and you will have something that resembles small white pebbles. Prepare some of these snips, pack it into a small cup and show it to a friend… tell them this is a new vegetable that you just discovered at a distant market that comes from a distant land. 99% of people will believe it. Heat a little oil in a sauté pan, add some shallots, garlic and salt, and cook those cauli pebbles and call it anything you want to. This can be an interesting alternative to someone who wishes to refrain from a starchy diet, and with varieties available in various colors of orange, green and purple will be pleasing to the eye as well. The following recipes will expound on the vast usage of this miracle of a vegetable.
Cauliflower and Parmesan Soup
Cauliflower Steak
By Abby Schwartz, NFCA Volunteer
This summer will be my daughter's fifth year returning to the same day camp. As a child, I spent eight weeks of every summer at day camp, so when my daughter became too old to continue going to her former preschool's summer program, I knew it was time to investigate "real" camps. The accredited ones with sports and swim programs, arts & crafts and the ubiquitous "bug juice". I wanted her to experience the same joys I grew up with, despite the fact that she has celiac disease.
What is different about camping for today's kids is that there is so much more awareness of food allergies and intolerances. When I was a kid, there were jars of peanut butter sitting open on every lunch table. Today, camp directors are much more savvy about meeting all types of special needs and are willing to work with parents to ensure a safe and positive experience for all campers.
Each year, this is how my family prepares for a gluten-free summer camp experience. A few days before the official season starts, our camp holds their annual "meet the counselors" day for campers and their parents. Camp counselors, the nursing staff, and camp directors are all available that day to meet parents and answer questions. The kitchen staff is also available for parents like me who show up with paper and pen in hand, ready to ask questions and take notes about the menu items and food ingredients.
Prior to this visitation day, the camp mails out a packet of information, including the lunch menu for the summer. In addition to a daily hot lunch, the camp keeps a selection of cold staples on hand, including a full salad bar, cold cuts, fresh fruit and packaged yogurts. Each year, I review the menu and make a list of all items that could potentially be gluten free. Here is a typical example:
I know off the bat that rolls are off-limits. Everything else could possibly be GF, so I write it down with the intention of researching brands and ingredients on my visitation day.
On the day we arrive to meet the counselors, I visit the camp kitchen and ask to speak with someone in charge to go over the menu items. I strongly recommend alerting the camp in advance so they have someone on hand to walk you through and answer your questions. For us, this has become an annual routine, but one that bears repeating, as food vendors do change and menus are updated.
Walking through the camp kitchen, I look at ingredient labels on giant cans of vegetables, baked beans, pudding, ketchup and more. I write down all safe items on my list. Next we visit the refrigerated area, where I write down the names of the yogurts, cold cuts and salad dressings that appear to be gluten-free. If there are any questionable ingredients (like modified food starch) I jot down a note and include the brand name and any contact information I can find on the label so I can do some Internet research back home.
Next up is the deep freezer, a walk-in torture chamber when you are dressed for summer (the sacrifices we make for our kids). In the freezer are boxes of frozen hamburger patties, steak sandwich meat, hot dogs, French fries and ice cream treats. Working quickly, I write down brand names, check labels and gather the clues I need to compile my gluten-free list.
Back home, I mark up the camp menu, circling all items that are gluten-free. Some days it may just be the canned corn, but other days (hooray taco Wednesday!) the entire lunch is gluten-free. Most days my daughter prefers to create her own salad, complete with shredded cheese and a scoop of canned tuna. We keep some bottled dressing in the camp refrigerator, along with a case of chocolate Ensure (for backup). We also send in boxes of popsicles and ice cream treats, labeled with her name, to be kept in the camp freezer for afternoon snack.
The good thing about camps is that they order food in bulk. That reduces the risk of an unknown food item showing up unexpectedly, though there are days when the menu changes without notice. For that reason, it is important to prepare your child and go over the food items together so he or she knows what is safe to eat. There is also the option of packing a lunch. If you choose to do so, make sure to arrange with your child's counselor to put the lunch in the camp refrigerator each morning, or your child may end up with spoiled food (camp cabins are not air conditioned).
"What about overnight camp?" you may be wondering. Just as you would do with day camp, your investigation of an overnight camp must begin with a conversation with the camp directors. Ask how they handle food intolerances. Find out if they are able to make special meals for your child or willing to keep several backup food choices on hand. Spend an afternoon visiting their kitchen to review ingredients and brands, as I do for day camp.
Finally, you may want to check out one of the specialty camps for celiac kids that are popping up all over the country. They are just a click away if you do an online search for celiac camps. Most range in duration from a weekend to a full week. Some will allow you to send a non-celiac sibling as well. These camps promise peace of mind and a sense of camaraderie for your child, as he or she meets other celiac kids, perhaps for the first time.
As with any new adventure with your child, ask your questions, do the prep work, and enjoy watching your child take a healthy bite out of life.
The National Foundation for Celiac Awareness and the Philadelphia Phillies are working together to raise awareness about Celiac Disease. Join NFCA and Celiac Groups in the Delaware Valley when the Phillies play the Atlanta Braves on Sunday, July 27th at 1:35 PM at Citizen's Bank Park in Philadelphia. Gluten-free food and beverages will be available at a designated concession stand.
Purchase tickets by logging onto phillies.com/celiac or calling 215-463-5000, extension 5304. Enter the code "CELIAC" on the website or mention it when placing a phone order.
Proceeds from those specially purchased tickets go to raising awareness of celiac disease and funds for research. So, join the fun and help raise awareness of celiac disease. We can restore health and reclaim lives!
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By Christina Gentile,NFCA Volunteer
Does the idea of traveling while being on a gluten-free diet and far away from home make you stressed, anxious or worried about what you will have to do in order to survive in a new environment? Are you one of the many who calls hotel after hotel and restaurant after restaurant to see if they offer gluten free menus before you go on vacation?
What if I told you that there is a way to save time, relax, and reduce any anxiety you may have while planning your trip? Well I have excellent news for you! Gluten Free Travel, LLC has just launched a website that focuses on travel reviews that provide different first-hand experiences about successful gluten-free traveling in all over the United States, as well as different countries!
The reviews are personal accounts from different users who provide information such as gluten free lodging experiences, gluten-free menu options and dining, the names of chefs that accommodated the diet, suggestions of what foods to bring with from home and tips on how to order or find food while traveling.
The website is www.glutenfreetravelsite.com and offers a multitude of resources right from the start. And it is very easy to use! The home page gives an overview about the website and how it will help you plan a trip. Their motto, Take a Vacation from Worry, is very appealing and makes you want to dive in to see what they have to offer in order to reduce any extra planning or worrying. They offer a link to search reviews of hotels, resorts, and restaurants from nine world regions. From there, you can pick exactly where your travel spot would be and see what the area has to offer.
For fun, I searched in California and found reviews that were about a Bed & Breakfast that offered a gluten-free menu, a Disney themed café that offered a variety of options from pizza to cake, and a pizzeria that offered a gluten-free menu containing pizza, pasta, and meatballs.
You can search through the many reviews and find if your travel destination contains any helpful reviews on dining or lodging. There is even an area in which you can submit a review if you have any information to provide other travelers. The website offers a featured review where it currently addresses the gluten-free successes on a Disney Wonder Cruise and every month they will highlight a new featured location.
The site also has a section entitled "Travel Resources," which gives links, tips, and descriptions for planning a gluten-free trip. There is information regarding an overview of trip planning and finding information from a local Celiac association from where you are planning to travel, links for hotels, resorts, cruises, and airplanes that have gluten free meals or menus available, and suggestions for gluten-free restaurant books, grocery guides, cookbooks, and magazines.
Overall, the website is very interactive and informative. There are many travel reviews from all over the world—the possibilities of traveling gluten-free seem endless according to this website! And again, it is simple to use! All you have to do is click "search reviews", choose your geographic location, and find all the relevant information you can!! There is even a place on the homepage where you can join the e-mail list to get updates on featured hotels, travel offers, and restaurants.
So if you are one of the many people making plans this summer for a relaxing trip, a weekend getaway, or traveling on business, make sure you go to www.glutenfreetravelsite.com to help plan your trip and see what your destination spot has to offer! It is a clever tool that I know I will use from now on when I plan any trips and I hope you do to!
On May 3, 2008, the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness partnered with Speaking Up For Women's Health, a national non-profit, to participate in a day of awareness at Wal-Mart stores across the country. NFCA volunteers were in more stores in more than 20 states distributing "Do I Have Celiac" brochures, educating the public about both the disease and the gluten-free diet and showcasing Wal-Mart's many gluten-free products. On this one day, thousands of people were educated about celiac disease and if it results in even one new diagnosis, we will have been successful. Thank you to all the volunteers who represented NFCA – you guys truly are celiac awareness rock stars!!!
By Nancy GinterNFCA Director of Operations
What is an NFCA Gluten-Free Cooking Spree without the Kuhn Family?
NFCA has had the great good fortune to have Harriet and Adam Kuhn, along with their sons Jacob and Abe, participate in three Gluten-Free Cooking Sprees. Whether it be manning the Pamela's Products booth, the Bob's Red Mill table or selling raffle tickets, this awesome foursome is always there to lend a helping hand. While they may have attended the Sprees to enjoy the gluten-free food and the camaraderie with the celiac community, they also helped to make each one of them a success. Each member of the Kuhn Family truly is a fabulous NFCA volunteer!
It's all because of Abe!
The entire Kuhn family has been involved in the celiac community and in maintaining a gluten-free diet since Abe was diagnosed at age three. Looking back, Harriet and Adam believe that Abe's journey with celiac disease began when he was 2 1/2 years old. Before that, he was a thriving boy in the 75th percentile for growth. Quite suddenly, he began to display the classic symptom of celiac disease, including a distended stomach and anemia. As Adam reports, "You could just look at this kid and know it." By Abe's third birthday, he was failing to thrive.
The Kuhns consulted with Paul Peebles, a pediatric gastroenterologist, who administered a blood test and followed up with an endoscopy that determined that Abe had celiac disease. Their first reaction was to ask "how do you spell that!" The next step was to learn that there were big dietary changes ahead for Abe and, as a result, for his family.
The first stop on Abe's gluten-free journey was Trader Joe's where the Kuhns bought gluten-free egg-free waffles. Abe ate waffles and never looked back. Thrilled, the Kuhns bought a case of waffles and started learning about gluten-free food. After months of illness, Abe began eating voraciously and gained lost ground. As time went by, more and ore good gluten-free products became available and life became easier for this family.
Those familiar with celiac know that complications abound on the path to diagnosis. Abe had developed a heart murmur as a result of his severe case of anemia. After adopting the new diet, this problem was solved. Along the way, Abe and Jacob's pediatrician has become a strong advocate for celiac disease. In fact, Dr. Dana Kornfeld also participated in the Washington DC Gluten-Free Cooking Spree!
The Kuhns maintain a gluten-free household. Harriet has adopted a 100% gluten-free diet out of solidarity with Abe. While Jacob, age 7, and Adam are gluten-free at home, they do vary their diet when eating out. Adam has become the family baker, specializing in gluten-free pizza and cakes. At school, the Kuhns keep an eye on the menu and, to be safe, Abe usually takes his gluten-free lunch to school each day.
The Kuhns enjoy Washington's great restaurant scene. These days, there is much more awareness of celiac disease and the importance of the gluten-free diet so eating out is easier than ever, Abe's favorite restaurant is China Pavilion in Bethesda, MD. He loves the crispy beef!
The Kuhns are very active in the celiac community in the Washington/Bethesda area. They are members of the Washington Area Celiac Support Group. Adam helps maintain the group's website and has managed the 300-member listserv for this group for six years. Abe is in grade 4 and looks forward to volunteering when he is a bit older.
As a precaution, Jacob, age 7, was given the genetic test for celiac disease. It was negative. Nonetheless, Jacob is a strong supporter of his brother as he manages his celiac disease. After all, this is a family affair!
Adam applauds NFCA's work in raising awareness of celiac disease. Adam would like to see a continuation of awareness programs and an increase in testing.
The Kuhn Family enjoys the gluten-free culture that has developed over the past few years. As more people are diagnosed, they know that the demand for gluten-free products will grow, generating an increased supply of excellent products in all stores, including the small chains and health-oriented stores that the Kuhns favor. Like many others, Adam would like to see the integration of gluten-free food into the mainstream of everyday life.
Thank you to the entire Kuhn Family—Harriet, Adam, Abe and Jacob. See you at the next Gluten-Free Cooking Spree!
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EW welcomes end to bus dispute
Environment Waikato says it is pleased bus services in Hamilton are now back to normal following the end of a pay dispute between bus company Go Bus and drivers who belong to the Northern Distribution Workers Union.
Environment Waikato says it is pleased bus services in Hamilton are now back to normal following the end of a pay dispute between bus company Go Bus and drivers who belong to the Northern Distribution Workers Union.
Environment Waikato says it is disappointed Go Bus and locked out union member drivers have still been unable to agree to more face-to-face pay talks (as at 4.30pm Monday).
Environment Waikato says Hamilton bus services are expected to operate to their normal timetable over the weekend, despite a planned lock out of union member drivers by their employer Go Bus.
Defendants in the Wallace Corporation PCB toxic waste burial case in the Waikato have collectively been hit with fines of $120,000, the highest total ever handed down in a prosecution brought under the Resource Management Act.
A celebration of 40 years of central North Island soil conservation work is being held in Taupo this weekend, with people coming from as far afield as Papua New Guinea to attend.
Hamilton bus passengers are facing significant disruption to normal services tomorrow due to a 24-hour strike by drivers who are members of the Northern Distribution Workers Union.
Environment Waikato says it is disappointed some Hamilton bus services are due to be disrupted tomorrow by industrial action by bus drivers.
Farm operators can minimise the environmental impact of dairy conversions by getting expert advice;on infrastructure design, says Environment Waikato's catchment services committee chairman Andra Neeley.
The land around Lake Taupo may soon be dotted with dairy goats and sheep, blueberries, grapes and willows for biofuel as farmers look for alternatives to current;pastoral farming practices, the main source of nitrogen leaching into Lake Taupo.
Maungatautari School students were so excited to achieve a silver Enviroschools award this month they "just screamed and screamed", principal Rosemary Hendrikse said.
Twelve Waikato schools and a Hamilton kindergarten have achieved Enviroschools awards this year.
Morrinsville-based New Zealand Mushrooms has been fined a total of $32,000 after admitting six charges brought by Environment Waikato related to the discharge of objectionable odours from the company's composting operation.
Environment Waikato is welcoming significant fines of more than $60,000 handed out to those responsible for illegal and environmentally damaging earthworks at a 129-hectare dairy conversion near Tokoroa.
Environment Waikato chairman Peter Buckley says he has been impressed by the commitment shown by agricultural sector leaders to better managing farming's impact on water and soil health in the Waikato.
Lake Taupo's pristine water quality will be protected into the future following a landmark decision released by the Environment Court today finding in favour of Environment Waikato's new rules.
An independent commissioner has backed an Environment Waikato recommendation that a Rotorua farmer cannot use a steel shipping container as a makeshift stock crossing.
Leaders from sectors involved in managing the impact of agriculture on water and soil health in the Waikato are gathering for a summit in Hamilton on Wednesday.
Dairy giant Fonterra and Environment Waikato officials have met ahead of next week's Waikato Agriculture Summit to start developing an agreement about what future environmentally sustainable dairying in the region should look like.
Helicopter operations targeting rooks are taking place in Cambridge, Matamata and Mangakino over the coming week.
Hamilton residents Barry and Dulcie Cowley have been waiting more than 40 years to hear a chorus of tui in their garden – and it's finally happened.


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* Noah has recreated this dino-navity over and over again this week. "The dinosaurs just want to see the baby Jesus" he says. Dude- if I was the baby Jesus, dinosaurs hovering over me would freak me all the way out. But Noah has spent hours and hours making up these scenes. It's been a great way for him to beat the 110 degree heat index.
* I bought something off of Craigslist this week. The seller was making her first Craigslist sale and she was a nervous wreck. I think she was completely convinced that she was going to be murdered during the transaction. We had only communicated by text so for all she knew, I could have been a 4000 pound man eating shark (cause sharks are great texters, you know). Anyway- we met in a parking lot and she got out of her van and actually hugged me and thanked me for being a "normal" person. *ha!* She has no idea.
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TRAINING: My typical day of training involves some pad work. I've been focusing on sharpening up my striking these last few months. I get in some BJJ drilling a couple times a week and live spar once a week.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I got into MMA in May of 2005, because I wanted to compete again and I was bored with going to work and coming home every day.
Do you have any heroes? My parents and my siblings, they are all amazing people.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? To me, it means I really need to start working even harder. I'm fighting for the organization that I have always wanted to, and I plan on staying for a long while.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? I went to Virginia Tech, but never completed my degree.
What was your job before you started fighting? I did construction with my father and brother.
Specific accomplishments in pro competition? I have held five different titles in organizations on the East Coast.
Ranks in any martial arts styles: Black belt in BJJ
Favorite grappling technique: Any choke
Favorite Striking technique: Straight left cross
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Washington: Researchers at Portland State University have found a way to preserve viruses in a glassy, dissolvable substance – a technique that could extend the shelf life of vaccines and allow for storage at room temperatures.
The discovery by PSU biology professor Ken Stedman and graduate student James Laidler shows that viruses — which form the basis of many vaccines — can be covered with a silicate coating that keeps them in a state of suspended animation. The coating harmlessly melts away when it's ingested by or injected into a living host. Stedman nicknamed the process "zombification" because the "undead" viruses come back to life once the coating has been removed.
Vaccines are often extremely fragile and will spoil quickly if they're not stored at cold temperatures. Up to 50 per cent of vaccines spoil due to inadequate refrigeration during transport. The new preservation technique could drastically reduce spoilage and allow for easier, more inexpensive transport and storage within the developing world.
"It's really hard to put a fridge on the back of a donkey," Stedman said. "This process has the potential to stabilize vaccines so that they can get to more places and more people more often. Six million people per year — mostly children — die from diseases that could be helped with vaccination." The process could save the pharmaceutical companies that make vaccines about $2.3 billion per year by cutting product losses, Stedman added. It would also reduce the cost of shipping and encourage the development of new markets.
Stedman and Laidler discovered "zombie" viruses while taking samples from bubbling hot springs in the American West. Silica from the hot springs protected the viruses from drying out, and allowed them to stay viable outside their natural environment. Their study, published in the Journal of Virology, was partially funded by NASA because the survivability of the viruses could give clues to the origins of life on earth and the possibility of life on other planets, Stedman said. He estimates another five to 10 years of research will be required before the technique can go into widespread use.
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Lod lōd [key], city (1994 pop. 51,200), central Israel. It is also known as Lydda. Its manufactures include paper products, chemicals, oil products, electronic equipment, processed food, and cigarettes. Nearby is Ben-Gurion airport, the nation's chief international airport and the center of its large aircraft industry. The city is a railroad and road junction. Lod was probably of Hebrew foundation and is frequently mentioned in the Bible. It was destroyed (AD 66–70) by the Romans in the Jewish-Roman war and, after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem (AD 70), became the temporary seat of many famous Jewish teachers. Hadrian rebuilt the city and named it Diospolis. It is the traditional home and place of burial of St. George (4th cent.?), England's patron saint, and has a church in his honor. In the 5th cent. it was the seat of a bishop; a synod of bishops met there in 415. Lod was occupied by the Crusaders in 1099, destroyed by Saladin in 1191, and rebuilt by King Richard I (Richard Coeur de Lion) of England. After the Arab-Israeli War of 1948 most Arabs were expelled from the city, which was then settled by Jewish immigrants.
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Canton Municipal Court Administrator Michael Kochera was among the officials throughout the state who recently completed the Court Management Program, said a news release from the Ohio Supreme Court.
The program was developed by the Institute for Court Management, part of the National Center for State Courts, the release said. Kochera received the national Certified Court Executive credential at a recent graduation ceremony.
The multiple-year program focuses on management skills. Kochera was part of the first class of Ohio students to graduate from Level II of the program, according to the release.
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New York Yankees executive George Steinbrenner dies at 80
Thursday, July 15, 2010
George Michael Steinbrenner III, businessman, owner and former principal executive of the New York Yankees, died at 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 UTC) Tuesday of a massive heart attack at St. Joseph's Hospital in Tampa, Florida, at age 80.
His family issued a statement saying, "It is with profound sadness that the family of George M. Steinbrenner III announces his passing. He was an incredible and charitable man....He was a visionary and a giant in the world of sports. He took a great but struggling franchise and turned it into a champion again."
Born on July 4, 1930, Steinbrenner, a former shipping magnate, bought the Yankees from CBS in 1973. As owner of the Yankees, he led the team to eleven American League pennants and seven World Series titles. Nicknamed "The Boss," Steinbrenner pursued free agents with great fervor, signing Reggie Jackson to a five-year, US$3.5 million deal after the 1976 season. He also frequently changed managers, including firing and rehiring Billy Martin five times. Steinbrenner was banned from baseball in 1990 for paying US$400,000 to get information to discredit former Yankees outfielder David Winfield, but was reinstated in 1993.
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered flags at City Hall Plaza to be lowered to half mast, saying, "Our hearts and prayers go out to the entire Steinbrenner family. This is a sad day not only for Yankee fans, but for our entire city, as few people have had a bigger impact on New York over the past four decades than George Steinbrenner."
Fred Wilpon, Jeff Wilpon, and Saul Katz, owners of the Yankees' crosstown rival Mets, said, "The passing of George Steinbrenner marks the end of an era in New York City baseball history."
Yankees legend Yogi Berra said, "George was The Boss, make no mistake. He built the Yankees into champions and that's something nobody can ever deny. He was a very generous, caring, passionate man. George and I had our differences, but who didn't? We became great friends over the last decade and I will miss him very much."
Current Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig said that he is "very saddened" to hear of the loss and added, "George was a giant of the game and his devotion to baseball was surpassed only by his devotion to his family and his beloved New York Yankees....We will miss him, especially Tuesday night when the baseball family will be gathered at Angel Stadium for the All-Star Game."
Steinbrenner is survived by his wife Joan, two sisters, four children, including Hank and Hal, who took over Yankees operations in 2007, and his grandchildren. The Steinbrenner family said that he will have a private funeral and a public service would be held at a later date. His death comes at a time of great sadness for the Yankees, as two days earlier longtime Yankees public announcer Bob Sheppard died at 99.
- Bill Madden. "George Steinbrenner, owner of New York Yankees, has died in Tampa at age of 80 after heart attack" — New York Daily News, July 13, 2010
- Bryan Hoch. "Steinbrenner dies from heart attack" — MLB, July 13, 2010
- "Commissioner's statement regarding George Steinbrenner" — MLB, July 13, 2010
- Ken Rosenthal. "There won't be another owner like The Boss" — FOX Sports, July 13, 2010
- "Yankees' Steinbrenner dies at 80" — ESPN, July 13, 2010