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For gay men of a certain age -- this reporter's age, for example -- you could not live in New York in the 1970s and consider yourself cool without reading Edmund White's two novels. Nabokov1 raved. Sontag2 cheered. But for us Forgetting Elena and Nocturnes for the King of Naples meant more than high art by a heretofore unknown. They meant smart, deep, probative prose by an avowed homosexual who had no time for guilt, remorse, or maudlin maunderings toward self-awareness.
White went on to map the ins and outs of gay sex (in The Joy of Gay Sex with Charles Silverstein3), to map the routes of gay travel (in States of Desire), and to snag a National Book Critics Circle Award for his landmark biography of gay lit's ur-rebel, Jean Genet.4 But White's four autobiographical novels -- starting with the breakthrough A Boy's Own Story -- define his legacy.
For many gay men White's nameless hero holds a flawless mirror to our lives, yet one that is sharper, subtler, droller than our own nonfictive bios. We follow that hero through the years of gay repression, gay rebellion, gay liberation, and inevitably AIDS. Like many gay men who thrived in the 70s, White picked up HIV himself and watched his friends die ugly deaths. Unlike most, he wrote about it beautifully from hard experience. He lost his best friend, a cherished editor, and his lover to AIDS.
Since White just finished his real autobiography, My Lives, it seemed a good time to ask him to reflect on AIDS, gays, prose, and prospects for gay culture in the age of HIV -- and even to ask for some clinical pointers. Not that he has retired to the armchair of graybeard reflection. After he launches My Lives, White will continue work on a novel about Stephen Crane5 and fine-tune his play Terre Haute at the Sundance Theater Workshop.
The third novel in his tetralogy, The Farewell Symphony, takes its name from the Haydn6 opus in which the entire orchestra vacates the stage one by one, leaving only a lonely violin to carry the tune. The novel tapped it as a rueful image of an AIDS survivor -- not unlike White. But one may also see Haydn's solitary concertmaster as the image of a dauntless artist, fiddling furiously.
IAPAC Monthly: You've written a great deal, and you don't seem to be slowing down. Would you have written with less urgency if you hadn't been infected by a deadly virus?
|Edmund White in 1984 while visiting his friend, the critic David Kalstone,8 who died of AIDS shortly thereafter. (Photo © Robert Giard.)
Edmund White: I found out I was positive in 1985, though I'm sure I was positive for five years at that point because most of my contemporaries were. My initial response was depression and not working. I just pulled the covers over my head for a year and didn't do anything.
I had a Swiss lover when I was living in Paris and we took the HIV test together. I said to him, "I'm a good enough novelist to know what's going to happen -- you're going to be negative, I'm going to be positive, and you're going to drop me." That's just what happened, although we're still good friends. But he was afraid of me.
So it was all very depressing and I didn't work well at all initially. Then I began to work on this mammoth project, the Genet biography,7 which took seven years. And I kept thinking, "this is the height of folly if I only have two years to live." But I didn't know then that I would be a slow progressor.
I'm not a nonprogressor. My T cells have drifted down over the last 20 years from 700 to 600 to 500 to 400. Pretty soon I guess I'll have to go on meds; my doctor wants me to go on now. But because some of the meds are hard on your heart and I have some heart problems, it's kind of a toss-up about what to do as long as I remain asymptomatic.
Only when I thought -- "Gee, I guess I'm not going to die right away" -- did I come out of my depression and begin to write at this feverish pitch. The first two novels I wrote after I learned I had HIV -- The Farewell Symphony9 and The Married Man10 -- and my book of short stories, Skinned Alive,11 all dealt with AIDS. And I did write them with some urgency, partly because I was living in France where, at that time, there wasn't much of an AIDS community.
I felt isolated there. In New York I'd been one of the founders of the Gay Men's Health Crisis [GMHC] and I'd known people involved in AIDS activism early on. But I left New York in 1983, so that was still early days. I was in on the early meetings of the French counterpart to Gay Men's Health Crisis, AIDES, because after Michel Foucault12 died in 1984 his lover Daniel Defert13 asked me to help him with the first meetings.
When I finally got around to writing those novels and the short stories I did feel an urgency -- but for my own sake, not for anybody else's -- to communicate with people about what it was like to be positive and what it was like to live this way.
IAPAC Monthly: You confront AIDS head-on in The Married Man, but AIDS is more a shadow hanging over The Farewell Symphony until that last sad chapter. How do you decide how tightly to focus on AIDS in your fiction?
Edmund White: It's like trying to get a child to swallow cod liver oil. Nobody wants to read about AIDS. People who have it don't want to read about it because it's depressing. People who don't have it but are susceptible to HIV don't want to read about it because it's bad news. The only thing people want to read about AIDS is the headline that says they've found a cure. You can walk into bookstores and see piles of AIDS book remainders: Nobody wants to read them.
So anyone writing about HIV faces a commercial and technical problem. The commercial problem is that we have to sell enough copies to stay in business and get another contract to write another book. The technical problem is how to lure people into a novel that seems innocent and then get them to think about AIDS. For instance, The Farewell Symphony certainly announces from the title on that it's going to be a downer, but the epidemic doesn't arrive until late in the book.
After I'd written A Boy's Own Story,14 my original plan was to write two more stories -- one about the sex-mad 70s, then one about AIDS. The trouble was I waited so long because of the Genet biography that when I finally got around to this I thought it would be intolerable to write a book about everyone having fun and fucking each other, then a few years later to publish another book in which everybody dies of AIDS.
People wouldn't want to read either book. They'd see the first one as totally irresponsible and cuckoo and the second one as a total downer. So I thought I'd fuse them and write a much longer single volume than I'd intended, and that became The Farewell Symphony. I thought foreshadowing AIDS and talking about the good old days at the same time was a strategy that would make people read on.
IAPAC Monthly: I'm surprised there's that much premeditation in planning a novel.
Edmund White: I'm very reader oriented. The only kind of criticism I like is reader-response theory, developed by Wolfgang Iser.15 To me it's as though the writer is playing the piano and the piano is the reader. You're trying to get sounds out of it; you're trying to get responsiveness -- to please and entertain him enough to keep him reading -- then also to force him a little to deal with hard issues.
IAPAC Monthly: What other works of fiction, drama, or poetry do you esteem for the way they address the epidemic?
Edmund White: I like quite a few French books. For example, I am a big admirer of Hervé Guibert,16 as I explained in my essay "Sade in Jeans."17 What I like about Guibert is that he was tough. It seems to me that in the English-speaking world the problem in AIDS writing has been sentimentality -- a tearful, victimized, medicalized approach to AIDS and not enough defiance, anger, gutsiness. I don't want to name names, but we've had everything from AIDS deathbed weddings to angels descending.
Of course this has been vastly admired by most people, and I feel like a cad not liking it. But I don't like its sentimentality. It's not that different from the death of Little Nell18 in Dickens. I think people living through AIDS probably get a lot of consolation from that kind of writing. But I think, as literature, it's dubious.
Among writers in English, I'm a big fan of Alan Hollinghurst.19 I feel he's dealt with AIDS extremely well. It's a real factor in his most recent book, The Line of Beauty, although it's not center stage. But again I think that's a good tactic for getting people to read. And I think that by taking that approach he was able to win the Man Booker Prize, which I don't think a straight AIDS novel could ever win.
In Hollinghurst's second book, The Folding Star, a character named Dawn is dying of AIDS. And it's all miraculously well written. I think he's one of the greatest writers alive.
IAPAC Monthly: Several years ago on my way to an HIV neurology meeting I picked up The Man With Night Sweats, a book of poems by Thom Gunn20 -- quite by chance because I'd never heard of him. When I wrote about the meeting I quoted from Gunn's poem "Lament," which has a few lines that I thought might strike a chord with neurologists:
You tried to stay the man that you had been, Treating each symptom as a mere mishap Without import. But then the spinal tap.21
And a few neurologists who went to that meeting and read the article wrote to me, asking about Gunn and asking for a copy of the whole poem. Experiences like that make me wonder whether HIV doctors can learn from the AIDS literature. And that makes me wonder whether people with AIDS learn from the AIDS literature.
Edmund White: I think people do -- but not in great numbers. The first thing I ever wrote about AIDS was The Darker Proof22 with Adam Mars-Jones,23 an English writer who's been a friend of mine forever. We decided we'd do a paperback original of stories about AIDS that would come out quickly. And it did come out fairly early, in 1987, which was early for AIDS literature.
Our idea was that because it was paperback we could get it in print right away, and it would be cheap to buy. We felt that the only people talking about AIDS in the 1980s were doctors and that problems gays had faced for a hundred years were that they were a subject of medical enquiry and they were considered a medical category. The whole discourse had been medicalized.
One of the many tasks of gay liberation, starting with Stonewall in 1969,24 was to reverse that way of thinking and declassify homosexuality as a medical condition by the American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychological Association. We succeeded in those battles. But AIDS seemed to push everything backwards to an age when the only ones who were talking about male homosexuals were doctors who weren't gay or didn't identify as gays. They were discussing us in a very clinical way as though we were guinea pigs -- "subjects."
Adam and I both felt it was important to show the inner life of people dealing with AIDS. Either they were caretakers or they had the disease themselves or were worrying about it. I don't think that book sold many copies but it caused quite a stir in England. I incorporated my stories into Skinned Alive.
But I don't think you have to write specifically about AIDS to foster deeper thinking about gay culture and our response to this disease. When Larry Kramer25 discovered I was writing the Genet biography in 1987, he flew into a rage in print, saying the only thing anyone who's gay should write about is AIDS -- and how dare Edmund White (who's supposed to be a good writer) take on this ridiculous historical subject that's totally irrelevant to our concerns?
My feeling was that if we're in danger of being reduced to a single issue, AIDS, and if we're in danger of being seen mainly as victims of a fatal medical condition, then it's part of my AIDS work to write about a great cultural figure who stood outside of the whole AIDS discourse. I thought it was important to write about this towering literary figure to remind people of all these great cultural accomplishments achieved by gays that had nothing to do with AIDS -- and to remind them that we'd get back to that.
IAPAC Monthly: Your essay on AIDS writing, "Journals of the Plague Years,"26 ends with a series of questions about where HIV literature is headed now that people of means can take effective regimens. So let me read those questions, which you posed in 1997, and ask if you think any of them has been answered:
Will all those people who died be forgotten?
Because lesbians and gays seldom hand their sexual identity down to their children, will what we are suffering be lost?
Will we continue our fight to help the poor suffering from AIDS here and abroad?
Or will we succumb to instant amnesia, pop an Ecstasy and return to the dance floor?
Edmund White: Pretty good questions, huh? Oh, God. What do you think?
IAPAC Monthly: You worked as a journalist -- you know the interviewer never answers questions.
Edmund White: Oh, right. I think the truth is that even for people who can afford the drugs, there are still a lot of inconveniences in taking them. Everybody knows someone who's just had some implant in his face because of wasting or the guy upstairs who's dealing with a hump on his back. For such a body-oriented culture, it's very dismaying.
I always felt that the next generation of ads warning people against unsafe sex should concentrate on those things. What people learned about the antismoking campaign is that if you mentioned death people didn't read on, because a little curtain comes down to protect them from the idea of death. You needed to mention things like smelly breath, hacking cough, burning holes in your clothes and sofa -- those were things people could register and react to. But death, no.
By the same token good anti-AIDS advertisements now should emphasize things like lipodystrophy -- not death.
IAPAC Monthly: The narrator of your autobiographical novels battles a dialectic familiar to many gay men -- hedonistic adventure versus "true love" -- meaning monogamous love. At least that was true of many gay men I knew when I was young, but I wonder if young gay men feel that way today.
Edmund White: I think they definitely do. At least the official rhetoric is that they should get a partner, and they oftentimes do, perhaps planning to be faithful as a way to avoid HIV. If they're both tested and both negative, they can have "unsafe sex" together. But that puts tremendous pressure on them to be honest, and they can't always live up to that. Then the consequences can be fatal.
My own feeling is that it's better to go into a back room and have safe sex with 20 unknown people than to have unsafe sex with your lover -- because you can't really believe what he says.
I know of one highly successful gay scholar who "married" his lover in a formal ceremony. Though they pledged eternal fidelity to each other, neither of them was faithful. But they could never bring themselves to admit they weren't faithful. So one of them picked up HIV and transmitted it to the other. They both died. But they never admitted they had AIDS because that would have blown their cover as this ideal faithful couple.
I think there are an awful lot of young people who have a lover but are also cruising on the Internet. I cruise on the Internet and it's just clogged with thousands and thousands of people. There's an extraordinary amount of activity of every variety.
IAPAC Monthly: Do young gays ask you questions about sexuality?
Edmund White: No, they don't. Most young people don't even know who I am because they don't read me. If you look in Gaydar or other places where people are asked to list their favorite author, it's never me. (It's always David Sedaris.27) Maybe my work is too sad, or too unpleasant, or too literate. But when I was young I didn't ask anyone questions about sex either.
IAPAC Monthly: In an essay on the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe,28 you wrote that "art and passion are the two supremely irresponsible modes of experience." Do you regard your autobiographical novels -- which span gay repression, liberation, and AIDS -- as either responsible or irresponsible?
Edmund White: I think they're more responsible than not. Even though I was criticized for "glamorizing" sexual promiscuity in The Farewell Symphony, my own feeling is -- wait a minute: everyone dies in the book. So it's not denying or ignoring the consequences of unsafe sex. But I also am a romantic, and people who think sex is worth dying for -- or that art is worth dying for -- have all my sympathy. I understand what they're talking about.
There's been a weird natural selection whereby the people with my beliefs tend to have died. And the people who are kind of cautious and prudish and pleasure-phobic are the ones who survived, so you hear a lot from them. They preach to everybody and give a lot of lessons.
I feel there's always been a strong moral strain in my writing. The single best essay about me appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and was written by a straight English critic who compared me to [Ralph Waldo] Emerson.29 I loved that because I feel, first of all, that I am a great American writer and, secondly, that I have that moral preoccupation that somebody like Emerson had.
Yes, I'm very pro-pleasure, but I don't think that makes me irresponsible.
IAPAC Monthly: Through The Joy of Gay Sex,30 States of Desire,31 your novels, your essays, you've defined gay culture and behavior for lots of gay men. You did for me. Do you see yourself as a definer -- or would you prefer some other word to describe your legacy?
|Edmund White in 2000, the year he published the last of his four autobiographical novels, The Married Man, which unflinchingly examines how AIDS affects a gay couple. (Photo © Barbara Confino.)
Edmund White: "Definer" is fine. I hope it's true. I mean it's a very optimistic view of my work.
One thing that people forget when they frame categories like that is that the person himself probably wasn't aspiring toward any such thing. There may be a tendency to say, "White set himself up as an authority on gay culture, and look at all the mistakes he made -- A, B, and C." But the truth lies somewhere else. JD Salinger32 probably thinks he's a fairly minor writer, yet he was crowned then dethroned.
We do that a lot in this country. Even in a minor way with a writer like me there's a tendency to set someone up as an authority, which he himself never claimed to be. Or if he puts himself in the running, he's very happy if lots of other people have their own ideas and publish them.
I think at a certain moment I was sort of prominent, and some people tend to imagine that I set myself up as an authority. For instance, people blame me for encouraging gay people to have sex in The Joy of Gay Sex, but that was written in 1976. When AIDS struck, Charles Silverstein and I tried to withdraw the book instantly, but the publisher wouldn't listen to us. Finally we were able to publish a revised AIDS-conscious version. It took too long, but that wasn't our fault.
Anything that touches on gay sexuality is very fraught now because of AIDS. People tend to be ahistorical in thinking of past books as being somehow guilty of promoting something that happened five years later.
IAPAC Monthly: You turned up at some of the watershed events in recent gay history -- the Stonewall riot, the founding of the Violet Quill33 and GMHC -- and you wrote the archetypal coming-out novel. I won't ask about the worst memories these events left, but what was the best?
Edmund White: The odd thing is that I've never seen myself as a team member in gay life. I feel that I never repeated anything. I would go to Fire Island in the 60s and 70s, then I stopped going. I would go to back rooms and baths, but then I'd stop it. In other words I feel that I've never been one to acquire habits or persist in something very much. In my writing I feel that I've tried to avoid doing the same book over and over. My most recent book, Fanny,34 was a straight historical novel. So I don't want to present myself as someone who identified with the gay movement and was there to crow over its triumphs, because I don't think I did that much.
Stonewall I sort of stumbled into. I was walking with a friend past the Stonewall at the time it was raided. We got involved and very excited by the demonstration. But it wasn't as though we were in the bar when the police raided it.
I don't think any of us took Violet Quill very seriously. We met only eight times. It was mainly about who could prepare the best dessert. But it's remembered because people like movements and because historians like to write about movements more than they like to write about individuals -- and because it did actually coincide with a triumph of gay culture.
Somebody should write a book about the 70s in New York -- straight and gay -- but it would turn out to be mainly a gay story. I feel that was one of the high points in human culture. There were all these great people -- Jasper Johns35 in painting, John Ashbery36 in poetry, [George] Balanchine's37 last years in ballet, many great novelists -- there was a tremendous amount of activity and a New York aesthetic that was very powerful.
IAPAC Monthly: Lots of HIV clinicians read this journal. Do you have anything to say to them?
Edmund White: I would say don't have too rigid a notion of who the at-risk groups are. As I've gotten older and moved out of the prime gay category to resemble more the family dentist, I've found that I have sex with all kinds of people who wouldn't want to have sex with "a gay man." I have a tremendous repertoire of people in my address book who are married, bisexual, discreet, in their 50s, 60s, 20s, 30s, who have a dread of the gay culture.
I always practice safe sex, but what if I didn't? I could have infected a whole bunch of people by now. Because they don't think of me as being gay or likely to have HIV infection, they're comfortable having sex with me.
So on the basis of my own experience I believe there's a tremendous underground of people having gay sex -- often unprotected sex -- whom a clinician would never identify as being gay. Maybe it would be useful for more clinicians to be a little more alert to how fluid and open human sexuality is.
Mark Mascolini writes about HIV infection (email@example.com).
Charles Silverstein (1947- ): American psychologist, author.
White E. The Farewell Symphony. New York: Random House; 1999.
White E. Sade in jeans. In: The Burning Library. New York: Knopf; 1994.
Little Nell (aka adolescent orphan Nell Trent) was a character in Charles Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop.
Gunn T. Lament. In: The Man With Night Sweats. London: Faber and Faber; 1992.
White E, Mars-Jones A. The Darker Proof: Stories From a Crisi. London: Faber and Faber; 1987.
The Stonewall riot on June 28, 1969 -- the first time gay bar patrons resisted a police raid -- marks the beginning of gay liberation for many. This signal event closes the second installment in White's autobiographical tetralogy, The Beautiful Room Is Empty.
Larry Kramer (1935- ): American activist, author, dramatist.
White E. Journals of the plague years. The Nation. 1997;264:13-18.
White E. The irresponsible art of Robert Mapplethorpe. In: The Burning Library. New York: Knopf; 1994. The work of Robert Mapplethorpe, a gay photographer who died of AIDS, ranges from exquisitely objective shots of flowers, to steamy photos of men, to self-portraits chronicling his own illness.
Silverstein C, White E. The Joy of Gay Sex. New York: Simon and Schuster; 1977.
White E. States of Desire: Travels in Gay America. New York: Dutton; 1980.
The Violet Quill consisted of seven gay New York writers who met to discuss each others' work: White, Christopher Cox, Robert Ferro, Michael Grumley, Andrew Holleran, Felice Picano, and George Whitmore. When White returned from Paris to New York in 1990, Cox, Ferro, Grumley, and Whitmore had died of AIDS.
White E. Fanny: A Fiction. New York: Ecco/HarperCollins; 2003.


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By Michael Lai '14
This week, the Harvard Men's Golf Team traveled to New Haven, Connecticut to compete in the annual MacDonald Cup hosted by Ivy League rival Yale. The Yale University Golf Course is a par 70, 6749-yard track designed in 1924 by golf course architect, player, and USGA co-founder Charles Blair McDonald. Because of its blind tee shots, penal bunkers, and massive, sloping greens, the course always proves to be a strong test. This week, heavy rains dramatically altered course conditions, flooding the fairways and softening the greens. In fact, due to torrential rains on Saturday morning, the tournament was shortened from 54 holes to 36 holes.
On Day 1, after a 90-minute rain delay, the Crimson marched onto the rain-soaked course in full rain gear to kick off the 9:30 a.m. shotgun start. With parts of the course flooded, lift clean and place was in effect, setting up prime scoring conditions for attacking pins. Unfortunately, the team failed to take advantage of the soft greens, posting a mediocre 294 to finish tied for 6th place out of 14 teams, 14 shots behind leader Yale.
Theo Lederhausen '14 and Mark Pollak '12 led the squad with a pair of 2-over par 72's. Captain Tony Grillo '12 and Seiji Liu '14 rounded out the counting scores with 5 over par 75's, while Kevin McCarthy '14 posted a 76. Michael Lai '14, playing as an individual, shot 78.
Ominous rain clouds cleared early morning Sunday, letting through the first rays of sun and spots of blue sky during the weekend. While the weather was stellar for the entire second round, the course was still soaked from overnight rains, with greens proving to be significantly slower than Saturday. When all was said and done, the Crimson posted a 5-stroke improvement over round one with a 289 to finish at 583 and move up the leader board to fifth, beating Ivy League rivals Columbia and Penn, but falling well short of tournament winner Yale.
Once again, Lederhausen and Pollak led the squad with matching one-over par 71's, both finishing solidly in the top ten. Grillo followed up his first round 75 with a 73, highlighted by a hole in one on the par 3 5th with a flush 7-iron from 150 yards. Despite early round putting woes, Liu buckled down and finished his last 6 holes 2 under par to shoot 74. McCarthy struggled with his putter Sunday, finishing at 8 over par 78, while individual Lai improved on his score Saturday, posting 71.
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29 Tony Grillo Harvard 75 73 148 +8
37 Seiji Liu Harvard 75 74 149 +9
37 Michael Lai Harvard 78 71 149 +9
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LOS ANGELES — Apps to improve photos are among the most used by smartphone users. Here's a look at a photo app that focuses on an important need often neglected: facial retouching.
Facetune ($3.99, Apple) takes the simple tools used in big computer programs like Photoshop — skin softening, teeth brightening and removing circles from eyes — and brings them to the masses.
The world's most popular photo app, Instagram, and others like it have filters to pretty up an image, with black and white, sepia and other moody looks.
But since we tend to take many more images of our friends than landscapes, focusing on facial retouching makes a lot of sense and is highly useful.
I took a picture of my friend Liz, for instance, opened it in Facetune, and with a few simple swipes, used the skin soften feature to wipe out some facial lines.
If I wanted to go to the extreme, I could have used the "reshape" tool to make another friend a little thinner (it's called "Liquify" in Photoshop) — the sort of stuff done in fashion magazines all the time. And those are just two of the options.
Facetune has been out for the iPhone since March and recently added an iPad app as well. Both have been at the top of Apple app charts.
I prefer the iPad app to the iPhone version, only because when you're dealing with photos, larger is always better. And on the phone, it's hard to see the labels for the various tools.
For mobile, there are so many photo apps it's hard to keep track. But again, most deal with everything but facial features. And let's face it — with more and more of us taking the majority of our photos on the phone, for all those selfies and group photos, we need more apps like Facetune.
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Syria: Foreign Ministers gather in Paris
Paris, April 19, 2012
On April 19, French Foreign and European Affairs Minister Alain Juppé hosted an international ministerial meeting dedicated to the situation in Syria and the implementation of the peace plan put forth by United Nations Special Envoy, Kofi Annan. The attendees included U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Catherine Ashton, and ministers of foreign affairs from 14 countries including Tunisia and Qatar.
"After a 13-month-long, indiscriminate, bloody crackdown that has claimed more than 11,000 lives and is destabilizing the entire region, the Security Council finally agreed, last Saturday, on a resolution supporting Kofi Annan's mission and calling for the deployment of blue helmets in Syria," said Mr. Juppé in a press conference. "It must be implemented completely; any backtracking would be disastrous."
"We can't wait - time is running out," the French minister warned. "The observers must be deployed quickly and must be able to operate without any hindrance. If that's not the case, we should examine what other options are open to the Security Council and the international community."
"This is a crucial moment in the Syria crisis, one that requires determined commitment from the friends of the Syrian people," he added. This meeting "should send a very strong message to Syria, the Syrian people and the United Nations," said Mr. Juppé, who then detailed several ways to "ensure Bashar al-Assad fulfills his international obligations."
Read Mr. Juppé's whole speech here.
On the sidelines of the ministerial meeting devoted to Syria, the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs' Crisis Center brought together French NGOs on April 19 for a meeting chaired by Eric Chevallier, Ambassador of France to Syria, to discuss the humanitarian situation in that country.


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Sophomore Taylor Bassett went 5-of-7 with a double, two home runs and four RBI to lead Birmingham-Southern(9-7) to a doubleheader sweep of Covenant College(1-13) Thursday at the BSC Softball Park.
After claiming game one 8-2, the Panthers found themselves tied 8-8 following a Covenant seven-run rally in the top of the sixth.
BSC answered in the bottom of half of the sixth with four runs. Danielle Rucker tripled and scored on an Alyssa Statham ground out to give BSC a 9-8 lead. Bassett followed with a solo home run and Deanna Creps doubled home Katelyn Murray and Bethany Fronk for a 12-8 advantage.
The Panthers scored three runs in the first and second innings to stake to an early 6-0 lead. Bassett belted a two run home run and Murray delivered an RBI double in the first and Rucker had an RBI single in the three-run second.
Covenant cut the lead to 6-1 in the fourth before BSC pushed two more runs across the plate in the fifth to extend the lead to 8-1. Elizabeth Ballew had an RBI double and Joanna Jernigan singled home Ballew in the inning.
In game one, the Scots grabbed a 1-0 lead in the top of the first only to see BSC tie the game when Brittany Berkopec scored on a Fronk ground out in the bottom of the frame.
The game remained tied until the Panthers' seven-run fourth inning to take an 8-1 lead. Rucker tripled to left center to score Berkopec and Jernigan. Statham and Creps had run scoring doubles while Murray and Fronk had RBI singles.
Bethany Fronk was the winning pitcher in both games for the Panthers, improving to 8-5 overall. Fronk pitched a complete game with six strikeouts while yielding two runs, one earned, and scattering eight hits in game one. Fronk entered game two with the bases loaded and one out and would eventually stranded two runners on base to keep the game tied, 8-8.
Jernigan finished the doubleheader 4-for-7 with two runs scored and an RBI while Murray was 3-for-5 with two runs scored and two RBI. Rucker went 3-for-7 with three RBI and two runs scored and Statham was 3-for-7 with two runs scored and two RBI. Fronk was 3-for-8 with three runs scored and two RBI.
Cori Hilt (1-5) allowed eight runs, no earned on 11 hits with one strikeout to suffer the game one loss for the Scots. Hannah Rogers gave up 11 runs on 14 hits with a strikeout as CC's game two pitcher of record.
The Panthers return to Southern Athletic Association play against Centre College on Saturday at 11 a.m. and Sunday a 1 p.m.


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There is no evidence to support the claim that mercury from dental fillings can make MS symptoms worse. Any reduction of MS symptoms after removal of mercury amalgam fillings is most likely a coincidence. It likely occurs because the person has entered a period of remission that is not related to the dental treatment. The placebo response in people who have MS may be as high as 70%. This makes it very hard to know that treatment caused an improvement in symptoms.
Some alternative medicine practitioners say that vapor that escapes from the mercury in dental fillings can lead to changes in blood composition. They think that this may contribute to multiple sclerosis (MS) symptoms. They claim that removing the fillings can benefit people who have MS.
Treatment involves removing mercury amalgam fillings. The person is tested for the best replacement filling material. Then that material is used to replace the mercury fillings. The person also gets detoxification therapy. This may include nutritional support to balance body chemistry. It may also include the use of compounds to remove mercury from the body (chelating agents), vitamin C supplements, and psychological counseling.
The National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS) has warned against the removal of amalgam fillings from people who have MS. NMSS considers it an unethical practice to remove fillings to treat MS.
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The studies showed that two female and one male coyote attacked 22-year-old Andrew Dickehage on North 73rd Street near Niwot Road.
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Have you noticed how expensive fuel costs are these days? Of course you have. No matter where you live in the country, the price for the lowest octane unleaded gasoline is well over $3.00 per gallon; for premium grades, it's even higher. And in many places, diesel fuel prices are about the same as gasoline.
As a landscape contractor, you use a lot of fuel. It's one of your major overhead items. In fact, for many of you, the cost of fuel has outstripped the cost of labor.
Price, however, isn't the only consideration. Many cities have "ozone days," when the use of gasoline-powered tools is limited or even banned.
A growing number of landscape company owners—and their customers—are concerned about the environment and the effect their practices have on it.
The manufacturers of commercial mowers are well aware of all these facts. Because you are demanding it, many more models using alternative fuels are now available, and more are on the way. Let's look at each of these fuels and see how they stack up, both cost-wise and in terms of being ecologically compliant.
Propane The most popular and widely used alternative fuel for mowers is propane. It's inexpensive and can be obtained practically anywhere. Many mower manufacturers have propane-powered commercial models, or sell conversion kits that are compatible with them.
Propane has a lot of advantages over gasoline or diesel. One of them is its lower emissions; another is its ability to be used when and where the use of gasoline-powered tools is restricted. Having propane-powered machines allows your crews to keep working.
One of propane's biggest proponents is John Watson, owner of Knoxville, Tennessee-based Common Grounds Landscape Management, Inc. You could say that, in the beginning, his interest in the fuel was academic.
"About five years ago, we were asked to participate in a study conducted by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, to compare gasoline and propane-powered mowers," said Watson. "They said, 'We're going to give you two mowers. All you have to do is run them, monitor the fuel usage and we'll come out and test them every week. You just buy the fuel.'" "I said, 'I get two free mowers, and all I have to do is buy fuel and operate them? I think I can handle that.'" At the conclusion of the study, Watson was a believer. "We determined that we wanted to start converting some of our other mowers. We did 15 of them at that time."
He's done the math. "Our mowers run about five hours a day, four days a week, 34 weeks per year. The gallons-per-hour usage per mower comes out to 1.1 average gallons per hour for fourteen mowers; that's a total of 9,520 hours for 10,091 gallons."
The current price for gasoline in East Tennessee at this writing was $3.25 per gallon. Contrast that with the price Watson last paid for propane, $1.67 per gallon. The fuel cost per year, had they used gasoline at $3.25 per gallon, would have been $32,796.40. Watson's bill for one year of propane was about half that amount: $16,862.59.
Watson was impressed by the quick return on investment. "Gasto-propane conversion costs about $800 to $1,000 per mower. The cost savings pays for the conversion in the first year, and you start saving money in the second and third year." Maintenance costs are also less for propane mowers, boosting the savings even higher.
Common Grounds has its own filling station, built and maintained by the propane distributor. "We'll have one propane bottle on the mower, one on the truck and one that our mechanic fills during the day. The crews just swap the bottles out," says Watson.
Each bottle holds approximately four gallons. "When you change a bottle, you just screw the hose on and off. You're not pouring, so you're not spilling it on the ground."
Other benefits include no more trips to the gas station, cleaner mowers and longer-lasting engines. "Plus, there's no ethanol in propane," says Watson. "And we don't have to winterize these mowers. You sharpen the blades, tune them up, and then set them down for the winter."
Still another plus is that there's no pilferage. There can be a temptation for crew members to fill their own vehicles with the company's gas when the boss isn't looking. Since none of Watson's crew owns cars or trucks that run on propane, this isn't a problem. The bottles won't fit barbecue grills, either.
One of the common objections to propane-powered mowers is that they don't have the "oomph" that diesel or gasoline-powered models do. Troy Butolph, co-owner of Butch and Troy Landscaping in Bend, Oregon, agrees. "They just don't have the power. Sometimes that's not a big deal, but it is when you've got a crazy client who only wants you to mow every two weeks, and then you've got a forest to mow down. They bog down a lot easier, because they don't have the power to muscle through all that growth."
Jim Coker, director of Metro Lawn, part of Valley Forge, Pennsylvania-based Amerigas, says that the lack of power may be due to the use of cheap aftermarket adapters bought off the Internet. "You will get a power loss if you use one of these adapters. They can actually harm the engine." (It should be noted that these adapters are not the same as the propane conversion kits sold by mower manufacturers themselves for their particular machines.)
Watson says that contractors can benefit from propane companies' eagerness to sell gas year 'round.
"Propane is a traditional heating source. But nobody uses it much during the summer. They have to promote it to keep the pipeline moving, so they'll sell it to you at wholesale rates. The propane companies even provide extra bottles, so you don't have to buy them. It's a win-win for everybody."
Compressed natural gas
Currently only one manufacturer, Dixie Chopper in Coatesville, Indiana, has a commercial mower that runs on compressed natural gas (CNG). Territory manager Rob Mullins says, "This mower was a little before its time, but the people who have them, love them."
The city of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, (a suburb of Tulsa with about 22,000 residents) has them. It bought three with 72-inch cutting decks earlier this year with a $36,000 grant from Tulsa Area Clean Cities. They're being used to maintain more than 400 acres of city park facilities, including two cemeteries and a golf course. "We bought them around the end of May," said John Waytula, Sapulpa's director of Parks and Recreation. "We're really happy with them."
Unlike propane bottles which can be switched in and out, CNG tanks, per EPA regulations, are not removable. Waytula says that hasn't been a stumbling block. His crews run the CNG mowers every day, "pretty much all day long, six hours. By the time they have to fill the tanks back up, the day's pretty much over. We don't have to go back and forth to the filling station." He's heard no negative comments from his staff about power loss or anything else. Another positive is that "when we have 'ozone days,' we can keep mowing."
Waytula's had no complaints on the maintenance front, either. "When you take apart a gasoline engine after several years of use, you see the wear," said Mullins. "With propane, you'll see it, but not as much. But on the CNG engines, you don't see any."
During the months of June, July and August, the per-gallon price for CNG fuel ranged between $0.76 to a high of $1.46, according to Waytula. Contrast that with the going price for diesel fuel in the same area, currently about $3.50 per gallon. "In those three months, we used 150 gallons of CNG, for which we paid $141."
This brings up an important issue.
CNG mowers probably won't grow that much in popularity until there are more CNG stations. "In Oklahoma, there's a CNG fueling station on every corner," says Mullins. "But if you drive to Nebraska, Arkansas or a lot of other states, the availability's just not there." While the mower itself, according to him, is "an extreme success," the lack of places to buy the fuel hurts sales.
You've heard about the controversy over ethanol and its deleterious effect on small engines. E10 fuel, gasoline containing ten percent ethanol, has been around awhile; you may have been pumping it without even noticing. Recently, E15 was introduced; although currently available in only a handful of states, it's being pushed more and more, as is an even higher blend, E85. Pump one of these into your mower, and you just might damage it and void your warranty.
John Deere seems to have solved the high-ethanol-content problem. Their Flex Fuel commercial mower, introduced this past July, can operate on any fuel blend up to E85. Chase Tew, product marketing manager with the company, explains the decision. "It started several years ago in the automotive industry, and with the rising trend of electronic fuel injection (EFI) engines in the outdoor power equipment industry. When you look at the larger picture of rising fuel costs, and increased ethanol availability, it just made sense."
Battery power
When you talk to landscape company owners and mower manufacturers, the consensus is that battery power "just isn't there yet." The batteries are too heavy, the thinking goes, and they just don't provide enough power to keep up with the demands of a mower that must run six to eight hours a day, five to six days a week.
The Toro Company, headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota, makes battery-powered mowers, but only for the golf course turf market. Dana Lonn, managing director of Toro's Center for Advanced Turf Technology, explains that greens mowers are reel mowers, which take a lot less power than rotary mowers. "For commercial mowers, the challenge is to get the runtime up where we want it; it's not there yet. And I'm not sure that we have a technology in our sights that will quite get us there."
Clean Air Lawn Care in Fort Collins, Colorado, isn't going along with the conventional wisdom.
"We're the Whole Foods (an organic grocery chain) of lawn care," said owner, founder and CEO Kelly Giard. "That's the customer we're targeting, and that's the service we're trying to deliver—a premium service for people concerned about the environment and their health."
The company uses mostly lithiumion battery-powered mowers, blowers, trimmers and other tools, charged by an array of solar panels on their trucks. "The great thing about the lithium-ions is that I can have a guy on a commercial crew using a blower or trimmer go all day long with just two batteries, and that's it," says Giard. "We don't need anything else." Some of the mowers use lead-acid batteries, but those are "heavy and slow to charge."
The lithium-ion batteries charge so quickly that crews always have one in use and one on the solar charger. When a mower or tool runs out of power, it's swapped for the other one, and the unit with the spent battery is put back on the charger, in a process repeated all day long. Giard says the work they can accomplish with their battery-powered machines is very comparable to what gas-powered equipment can do.
The company's mowers are on the small side, however. "We use 20-inch deck machines on our residential routes," said Giard. "Sometimes we'll use an in-between sort of mower, like a Hustler Zeon or a Kubota." He admits that they're not as powerful as the big zero-turns.
"We also use a self-propelled homeowner-type mower. A lot of commercial landscape guys think that's a low-power, rinky-dink sort of product. In some ways, that's true, but if you know how to use the piece of equipment, and what the limitations are, it works."
More might is needed for maintaining properties larger than one acre, or where mowers must run six to eight hours a day. For those jobs, the company uses machines with 60- inch decks powered by either a canola oil- or algae-based B100 biofuel. The price for the B100 fuel is "somewhere between gas and diesel."
Giard says, "The design of our solar system is special; the actual panels are stock." His father, an electrical engineer, was one of the co-designers. "I worked with him back in 2006 through 2008, although we've tweaked the design over the years."
"The electric equipment has come a long way, in terms of power and battery efficiency, since 2006," says Giard. "I'd say we're 95 percent as fast or powerful as our gaspowered competitors. Out in the field, with our solar charging system, not needing a gas can saves us a lot of time and money."
Giard says that battery management and maintenance are key elements to working this way. "It's a whole different operational world; it's not as simple as just going out and buying a battery-powered mower," warns Giard. "There's a learning curve. The decks are a little shallower, so they have to be cleaned a lot more. And the blades have to be sharpened more often."
Mean Green Mowers in Ross, Ohio, makes battery-powered commercial mowers that run on LiFePO4 (lithium iron phosphate) batteries, good for 1,500 charging cycles. CEO and president Joe Conrad says their machines' advantages include "zero emissions, and about half the noise of gas-powered mowers. There's no fuel to buy and no oil to change, plus no spark plugs, belts, pulleys, hydraulics or hydrostatics like you have on other zero-turn mowers."
Conrad claims that the mowers, which can run about five hours before needing a charge, literally pay for themselves. "We've got the calculations on our website," says Conrad. "You'd be saving $5.00 an hour with one of our walk-behinds. If you use it for 2,000 hours, you'll save $10,000 in gasoline over the life of that mower, which cost you $5,000 to $6,000."
Diesel and Biodiesel
If you own a diesel-powered mower, you may already know that you're able to use biodiesel in it. Biodiesel is a biodegradable, nontoxic alternative fuel derived from biological sources. Emissions from biodiesel and biodiesel blends are lower than those from petroleum-based diesel fuels, making biodiesel fuels more environmentally friendly. There are various blends of biodiesel fuels, including B2, B5, B10, B20 and B100. Some biodiesel is made from used cooking oil. Some landscape contractors, like Scott Walker, owner of Pleasant Green Grass in Durham, North Carolina, make their own.
Starting with the 2008 model year, Toro announced that all its diesel-powered commercial mowers would be "biodiesel-ready," equipped to operate on biodiesel fuels up to B20.
They also started making biodiesel conversion kits available for diesel-powered Z Master mowers produced prior to the 2008 model year.
John Deere also offers biodiesel conversion kits. Currently, some of their commercial products are certified to run on differing levels of biodiesel, from B5 to B20. From 2014 on, all of their commercial diesel-powered products will be certified to use B20 biodiesel from the factory.
Hydrogen? Maybe later…
A couple of companies outside the green industry have built hydrogen-powered mowers, but they're quite far from mass-marketing them. Toro built some hydrogen-powered prototypes—two utility vehicles and a greens mower—about four years ago. "The prototype mower worked very well, actually better than our gas-powered machines," says Lonn. "We mowed 18 holes with one fill-up of fuel. The challenge is cost and infrastructure; where do you get hydrogen? And the components were very expensive. It's not viable in today's economics."
The future
Not all manufacturers are jumping wholeheartedly on the alt-fuel bandwagon. Tim Cromley, marketing manager for Fort Collins, Colorado-based Walker Manufacturing Company, stands by EFI. "We've found great success with EFI. We're seeing people saving fuel. It's a smaller carbon footprint than carbureted gas, obviously, and more so even than some of the alternative fuels. Versus propane, EFI actually has an overall 40 percent better carbon footprint." He adds, "We've taken a look at this, taking the lead from the automotive industry. Overall, the question would be, 'Where are all the propane cars?' We don't see 'em."
The industry is still trying to figure out what's going to be the winning strategy in this game. "I think everybody is trying to figure out what the clear direction is going to be, whether that will be propane, or electrical power, or CNG," said Brad Unruh, senior product manager at Excel Industries in Hesston, Kansas. "I don't believe anybody knows exactly what that is yet. Everyone is apprehensive about being the one who sticks his neck out, picks one, and then turns out to be wrong."
The future may offer a smorgasbord of technologies to pick from.
"We're going to be a much more multi-fueled world than we are today," says Lonn. "It'll be a mixture of batteries, biodiesels…even hydrogen might have a place. There's going to be a whole bunch of fueling choices that'll make sense, based on what region you're in."
Watson says that having a landscape company that uses a clean, alternative fuel has helped him attract customers. But he has a philosophy which supersedes commercial considerations. "We're the original green industry, so we shouldn't be the industry that pollutes. I tell our friends in this business not to let the rest of the world co-opt our green standing. That's my mission in life."
You may or may not share Watson's passion, but as a business owner, alternative fuels deserve your careful consideration.


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It turns out that my fondness for gobbling up the peanuts was not matched by my ability to spend money. I did not turn out to be the spendthrift like my mom feared. If anything, my friends feel I am a little bit too careful with my money.
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However, I still keep going back to my favorite way of eating peanuts since childhood. In Indore, where I grew up, mungfalliwalas (peanut sellers) would make the rounds of the dusty lanes in my town during peanut harvest. He would have pre-boiled the tender peanuts pods in salty water. They would then be slow roasted in woks, filled with hot sand, set atop a coal stove placed at the end of his thela (push cart).
Boiled, shelled and roasted for Susan's BWW
He would serve them by the kilo in paper cones and we would all sit on the floor, after dinner, and devour the peanuts, splitting the shell by applying pressure on the beak. Biting down on the crunchy, salty outer layer we would savor the sweet, soft meat inside. Fresh, green chickpea shells suffered a similar fate but that story is for another post.
Today, I give you salted, boiled and roasted peanuts of my childhood.
There is no real recipe to boiling peanuts. Fill a big stockpot or a pressure cooker with enough water to cover the peanuts. Add about a tablespoon of salt for every one and a half cup of peanut pods. Boil the peanuts till tender.
Let cool and shell the peanuts. In a heavy bottom pan or wok, roast on medium low flame till the peanuts change color from a tender, pink to a crusty, salty smoky red. Cool a little bit before digging in.
Note: I have, in the past, tried to roast the peanuts in their shells. It takes a long time and a lot of stirring to get the peanuts the right consistency. Shelling the peanuts and roasting them is faster and the texture is similar to the one the mungfalliwala sold.


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Americas columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady on the latest jobs report and why the unemployment rate remains stubbornly high at 6.7%. Photo: Getty Images
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... I ... I ... I ... the Mary Kissel ... thus the knee created the hundred and seventy five thousand jobs in February ... but the unemployment rate ticked up to six point seven percent from six point six ... can we really call this a recovery I've got America's columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady joining me now married ... this of the Street's expectations said that he we call this a normal recovery ... I guess it didn't meet the expectations there and and it's a decent number ... I'm it's higher ... than the one forty nine that they were I've that analysts expected and its lower ... than the two hundred thousand you would normally have unit in a decent recovery so that I would say you know ... don't ahve don't knock it is that they're not terrible but not awesome ... the best thing about it though is the higher unemployment rate ... and that's because um you know more people joined the workforce ... in ... the last month and that's really important I think you know when the reasons plan a plan has been going down is because people been dropping out of the workforce and the fact that labor participation rate league put that up on the screens of people and the you know that's a very troubling ... not just looking at the numbers but these are human beings who are giving up and when you see that number getting bigger and bigger use the nation heads in despair ... and so I would encourage that people actually you know started looking for work again and came back into the workforce ... that made that the rate go up a little bit but I think it's actually a good sign up now uses ... to send a signal to the Federal Reserve to say look ... on YouTube you can keep rolling back its extraordinary mom monetary policy that the Fed has been pursuing ... well I e I don't think that on the unemployment rate is too connected to how the arena being at this point ... I mean in fact you know they've talked about the six point five percent rate being ... the odd target rate and now that we're going back up I mean ... you know if they were really tied to that team you might think that they would stop tapering ... they're not going to stop tapering and I think the reason they're not going to stop tapering is because they are finally admitting than not to say it outloud ... that shutting all this money into the economy it sends two thousandnine is doing nothing has done nothing ... and I've now they have a problem hands because it in half to clean up that balance sheet at some point ... that's the main reason why they're not going to stop the tapering ... in is that good news for the average American would ... need ... if the Fed continues to taper and may even eventually and it's back to normal interest rate how well you know Mary I don't get any good five out of that all I mean the main problem with the Fed at this point is that thinks it can control the economy ... and so the idea that a you know it's it's behaving this way this week and some other way next week ... and I don't find that encouraging I think I would be encouraged when the Fed begins to ... I've ... put down I've rules discretion and and and give up its discretion concerned saying you know were to stay within these balance ... and not try to be ... you know the central planners that the economy I I think until we see that ... I wouldn't pay too much attention the pickle King too much attention still six point seven percent to ... up the number of troops in the near future ... here's hoping America's columnist Mary Anastasia O'Grady thank you so much for joining us ...


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Big Green Bus teaches environmental sustainability
Powered by vegetable-oil and biodiesel, Dartmouth College's Big Green Bus pulled into Harveys Resort and Casino on Tuesday to spread the word about environmental sustainability and going green.
The vehicle also has 315 solar panels onboard that provide electricity to the computers, refrigerator, lights, television, air conditioning and the engine's veggie pumps.
The bus arrived in South Lake Tahoe for the first time about halfway through its 12,000-mile journey that began in New Hampshire and will end there on Sept. 5. This year, 10 students are living onboard the retired, veggie-powered Greyhound and hold talks and demonstrations at schools, biodiesel plants, gardens and casinos across the country.
"It's been great. I live an hour away from school so I haven't seen that much of the country," Kate Desrochers said.
Desrochers recently graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in geography and economics, and is one of the drivers of the bus.
It was Desrochers' first time in Lake Tahoe, and she said she's interested in areas where big business, such as ski resorts, and delicate natural resources coexist.
"It's cool. I really like being here. There is a high-intensive resource industry here, like the ski industry, but those people are usually really interested in protecting that resource," Desrochers said.
According to Matt Krystofiak, regional vice president of human resources and management for Caesars Entertainment, the Big Green Bus mission fits in well with his company's own environmental commitment, Code Green. It's one of the reasons why Caesars decided to sponsor the group for the past two years.
"Part of it is passion, part of it is that some of our executives are (Dartmouth) alumni, and it fits very well with Code Green," Krystofiak said.
Code Green is an international environmental sustainability initiative that focuses on renewable energy, reduction of carbon emissions and water consumption, alternative fuels, recycling and LEED building standards, Krystofiak said.
For John Lund, a retired Greyhound mechanic who happened to wander by the lot where the bus was parked, learning about the student-designed technology onboard that makes the bus run was the most interesting part of the demonstration.
"I think this is great. It's incredible. A lot of people would be interested in this," Lund said.
Next stop for the students and the bus is Oakland and San Francisco, where they'll spend a week before continuing north along the coast.


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Seib & Wessel: The Missed Handshake
WSJ's Colleen McCain Nelson explains why President Obama and Iran's President Rouhani didn't meet at the U.N., amid signs of a warming in U.S.-Iran relations and possible progress on ending Iran's nuclear-weapon program.
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the ... meanwhile while ... was busy not worry about these fiscal and debt issues this week he was busy at the UN ... trying to not really succeeding meeting is on the grants ... it so there was a lot of bill that ... heading into the U N General Assembly and a lot of questions that will they or won't they ... meet at ... present Obama and President blindly she can lead not into it that it will ... be exchange a word and ... an interestingly any and Obama was willing to do that money was not and so ... at the ... United States expressed a willingness to have a meeting on the margins and ... hear any Iranian said ... we can do that we ... have to answer to the hardliners back oh we're not ready to get that uses robot Brighton then reveals an interesting thing which is the truth is that for years now cross both Republican and Democratic administrations the US is active and willing to be with the Iranians ... um it sometimes eager to have a ... conversation ... it's been the Iranian side can pull off that that the idea of even shaking hands for president ... so repulsive the summit people back home that you can't do it ... but there's an interesting analysis that says that's actually a good sign because ... because rough on the is serious about wanting to have some kind of rapprochement ... he didn't want to lead a symbolic thing like a shoo in for the president ... dropping of for Ryo up all the hard liners back onto the re couldn't proceed on the more substantive things which involve for example having the sector's State ... John Kerry ... talked to the Iranian foreign minister about three ... am which which happen ... to get the word has been a mistake by calling them with attention to ... well I mean you do you ever thought on this to be honest they were trying to draw much attention to that as we were all ... shot at employment so I think it that when the snow the White House and that was always that easy ... but the McClellan the White House wanted it to happen would of been happy had occurred that we've been seeing a sentencing moment no changes to ... my and ... their Selim was sent back and forth and and that there was the possibility that could happen ... and that any end to Obama which the slides as ever I need it not a and I and these have the backup they've been interestingly President honey the next eight ... to ten with an American media folks and gave an interview and the pants and bad ... skin that can basically acknowledge the Holocaust which is an interesting development which ... some people noted should not be considered a cute frog yes but it's still interesting ... they're like this ... so I mean I think what he is doing as he is first in some these bubbles ... that got away ... you know that was the Holocaust ... due to charges of Holocaust was one ... of the the refusal to talk about their nuclear program until then been agreed to back sanctions will not cede to and from ... I think there's gonna be diplomacy ... because ... potentially meaningful diplomacy ... but how are just a good start is a sign ... of difficult in this this whole wrote this can be ... aam and I suspect the Israelis are watching with


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We are looking for a designer to come up with a template for integrating into one our search feeds. In simple terms, we need a layout for a search engine with a home page, a search results page, and a theme/logo that can be applied to a few supplementary pages. We usually do these in-house and typically only spend a few hours on each theme. On this occasion, we want something a bit different so have put it out to the Sitepoint community.
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'Tis the season for speculation and rumors in baseball. One that popped up in recent days has the Rockies involved in contract talks with free agent outfielder Cody Ross.
The idea intrigued me. With Troy Renck, our Rockies beat writer, on vacation, I decided to find out for myself. So I asked around making some calls to contacts I had when I worked the beat.
Here's what I found. An excellent Rockies source said: "There is absolutely no truth to the Cody Ross stories. The Rockies have always liked Cody as a player but we have no fit at all in our outfield."
Ross, the former Giant, would seem like a good fit at Coors Field and in the Rockies' clubhouse. But to make room for him, the Rockies would have to trade Seth Smith. Plus, the Rockies would likely have to offer more than a one-year contract, and they aren't likely to do that.


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Topic Overview
Valve replacement surgery is typically performed as an open-heart procedure in the operating room of a hospital. Less commonly, it may be done as a minimally invasive surgery or a catheter procedure .
Although valve surgery is an intricate procedure, it is also common. In the majority of cases, valve replacement surgery is a straightforward procedure with a high rate of success and a low risk of complications. A cardiac surgeon, who specializes in heart surgery and has had years of training, will do the surgery. A team of nurses, an anesthesiologist, and possibly a surgical resident will assist the surgeon.
Prepare for surgery
Preparing for valve replacement surgery is similar to preparing for other major surgeries. You will be asked to not eat before surgery to prevent the risk of vomiting while you are under anesthesia. Your doctor may also have you stop taking certain medicines temporarily.
When you are in the operating room, a nurse will attach a number of monitoring devices, such as an EKG, to monitor the function of your heart and other vital signs during surgery. The nurse also will insert an intravenous (IV) line into your arm to deliver fluids and any necessary medicine. Finally, the nurse will place sterile drapes over your body, shave your chest if needed, and sterilize the area.
To help you breathe during surgery, you will be placed on a respirator, which involves placing a tube down your throat and into your lungs. This tube may be uncomfortable, but you will not be awake for most of the time that the tube is in your throat.
An anesthesiologist will place you under general anesthesia so that you do not see or feel anything during surgery. After you are unconscious, a transesophageal echocardiogram, which is a type of ultrasound device, will be inserted into your esophagus to display images of your heart during surgery.
Open the chest
The surgeon will use a marker to outline the incision on your chest before making it. To gain access to the heart, the surgeon will typically cut straight down the middle of your chest, from the top of your rib cage to just above your belly button. The incision goes through your sternum, or breastbone.
Establish heart-lung bypass
When your heart is visible, the surgeon will place you on a heart-lung machine, which will take over the function of your heart and lungs for the remainder of the operation by circulating oxygen-rich blood throughout your body. To attach you to the heart-lung machine, the surgeon will insert a tube into your right atrium, which receives oxygen-depleted blood from your body. Instead of going to your lungs to receive oxygen, the blood travels to the heart-lung machine to exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen. The blood then travels through a tube back to your aorta, which supplies blood to your entire body.
During bypass, your aorta is clamped near your valve to prevent blood from interfering with the surgery. To stop your heart temporarily, the surgeon will flush it with cold salt water or with a medicine. The surgeon will then bathe the heart in a solution that allows it to survive being deprived of blood for a short time.
This bypass is needed because it is difficult to work on your heart while it is beating. The bypass allows the surgeon to stop your heart temporarily without interfering with the circulation of oxygen-rich blood to your body. Bypass also reduces the risk of serious bleeding (hemorrhage).
Remove the old valve
After blood flow is diverted to the heart-lung machine, the surgeon will make a cut to expose the valve that is going to be replaced. For example, for an aortic valve replacement, the surgeon will make an incision in the aorta to expose the aortic valve. The surgeon will cut out the parts of the valve that will be replaced.
Attach the new valve
After parts of the old valve are removed, the surgeon will use a device to measure the size of the valve opening to select the proper size for the replacement valve. In general, the surgeon will choose the largest possible valve to ensure the best possible blood flow through the valve. The surgeon may then place the valve in the opening to make sure it fits correctly. After properly aligning the valve, the surgeon will sew it in place.
The surgeon will then check the placement to make sure there is no room for leaks. The stitches are then tied off and trimmed.
Remove heart-lung bypass
When the new valve is in place, the surgeon will allow some blood to flow through the valve to check for leaks. The surgeon will sew up the aorta, remove air bubbles from your heart, and restore blood flow. When blood flows through your heart, it will typically start beating again. Sometimes, though, the heart begins to beat erratically (fibrillate), and the surgeon will give it an electrical shock to induce normal beating patterns.
Close the chest
When your heart is beating normally, your surgeon will close your rib cage using heavy-gauge steel wire to sew the breastbone (sternum) together. The surgeon then will use stitches to close the incision in your chest. In most cases, you will have a visible scar on your chest.
Recover in the hospital
In the ICU
When you first wake up after your operation, you will be in an intensive care unit (ICU) so that your doctor can monitor your heart function to make sure that there are no complications. You will also find many wires and tubes inserted into different body parts. Most of these wires and tubes were inserted while you were in surgery. But they were kept in place to help your body perform vital functions and to provide you intravenously with medicine (primarily painkillers) and nutrients.
The purposes of the wires and tubes include checking your heart and blood pressure, getting blood samples, draining fluid from your chest, and draining urine from your bladder.
At first, you will feel drowsy and disoriented while the anesthesia wears off. You may also experience some pain, though you will be given painkillers. For the first few hours after surgery, you will be kept on a respirator or ventilating machine to help you breathe. The breathing tube usually will be removed from your lungs soon after you wake up.
In your hospital room
When your condition stabilizes and you have been moved to a regular hospital room, you will continue to rest and recuperate while your doctor monitors your recovery. Your care will also include physical and respiratory therapy, emphasizing breathing exercises and simple exercise such as walking. You will also receive counseling about a heart-healthy diet and exercises that you should maintain after you leave the hospital.
You will likely be able to eat solid foods within 24 hours after surgery and will be able to get up and walk around within 48 hours after surgery. Your chest will, of course, be sore for some time.
Related Information
Other Works Consulted
- Nishimura RA, et al. (2014). 2014 AHA/ACC guideline for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. Circulation, published online March 3, 2014. DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000031. Accessed May 1, 2014.
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Primary Medical Reviewer Rakesh K. Pai, MD, FACC - Cardiology, Electrophysiology
Martin J. Gabica, MD - Family Medicine
Specialist Medical Reviewer Stephen Fort, MD, MRCP, FRCPC - Interventional Cardiology
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In the case of a Linux server, you would upload your Linux web application using FTP. Then you connect to your server using SSH and start your app from the command line.
Here's a quick example:
- Create a new Real Studio Web Application project.
- Add a label to the default page that says "Daemon Test".
- In the App.Open event, add this line of code:
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- Change the Linux App name to DaemonWebTest.
- Change the build settings so that the build type is Standalone. You should also change the port to something that is not used like 8100.
- Save the project.
- Build your web application for Linux.
- Using your favorite FTP software (I use ForkLift), upload the app to your Linux server. I put it in a folder called "daemontest".
- Connect to your server using SSH from the terminal:
ssh email@example.com
- Navigate to the location that contains your web application (this varies depending on the Linux distribution you use):
cd /var/www/vhosts/myserver.com/httpdocs/daemontest
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- You will immediately be returned to the command line because the app is running as a daemon.
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Cambridge, Mass.- UMBC face-off specialist Phil Poe (Harwood, Md./DeMatha) has been named America East Conference Player of the Week, the league announced today.
Poe tied a school record by winning 22 face-offs in the 17-16 overtime victory over Albany. Moreover, his 15 ground balls recorded are the most since Nick Brownlee scooped a school-record 18 vs. VMI in 1997.
Poe won 9 of 11 fourth quarter draws to lead the UMBC comeback from five goals down in the final six minutes. He also scored a fourth-quarter goal which shaved the deficit to 16-13.
The 22 face-off wins are tied for the sixth-most in a Division I single game in 2012.
Poe's 65 ground balls on the season is the most for a Retriever since Taylor Marino had 78 in 2008. He has won 147 draws in 2012 (147-115, 55.5%), which is already the ninth-most in a single season in school history and is winning at a 61.4 percent clip (70-44) in league play.
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Commerce City, Colo. (August 22, 2011) - It was an early morning for the 19 players and nine members of the staff Monday as they met at Dick's Sporting Goods Park at 5:45 am before leaving for Denver International Airport to begin the long journey to Honduras. The Rapids play their second Group B match of the Champions League against Honduran Apertura champion Real España on Tuesday, August 23 at Estadio Morazan in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
"Like I've said all along I want to stay competitive," head coach Gary Smith said Saturday night. "I've got to make sure that the guys in the squad are capable of fulfilling a good job, which I'm sure they can achieve. Now, if I get the balance right we'll be competitive, if I get the balance wrong we won't be. It's a big challenge for me to make sure that we stay fit healthy and competitive on two fronts now. Teams have done it before and they've done a very good job, and I'm now appreciating what they went through."
With the late announcement of the Group play schedule which added a match in Central America in between two league game - one in Colorado (last Saturday) and in Chicago next Saturday - the team will arrive into Honduras on Monday night after a long connection in Miami, Florida. Only goalkeeper Matt Pickens and defender Marvell Wynne did not travel who played in the 3-2 win over Isidro Metapan last week in Commerce City. Pickens was replaced by Chris Sharpe and Wynne for Omar Cummings, who sat out last week with a sore ankle.
RAPIDS ROSTER FOR HONDURAS TRIP (only 18 dress on match day):
GOALKEEPERS: Stew Ceus, Chris Sharpe
DEFENDERS: Tyrone Marshall, Drew Moor, Kosuke Kimura, Danny Earls, Mike Holody, Scott Palguta.
MIDFIELDERS: Jeff Larentowicz, Brian Mullan, Sanna Nyassi, Joseph Nane, Ross LaBauex, Wells Thompson.
FORWARDS: Omar Cummings, Mac Kandji, Caleb Folan, Quincy Amarikwa, Andre Akpan.
Note: Chris Sharpe is an MLS pool goalkeeper that trains regularly with the Rapids. CONCACAF and MLS agreed that Sharpe could be added to the Rapids 30-man Champions League roster for the group stage of the tournament. Colorado 'keeper Matt Pickens is being rested after playing every minute of every game this season with a sore groin and reserve Ian Joyce has been challenged with a sore back.
Note 2: The roster includes players that represent 10 countries: Ceus (Haiti), Sharpe (Australia), Marshall and Cummings (Jamaica), Kimura (Japan), Earls (Ireland), Folan (England), Kandji (Senegal), Nyassi (Gambia), Nane (Cameroon), and the rest from the United States. Ceus has been called in by Haiti for World Cup Qualifying matches on September 2 and 6.