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Oklahoma City bombing survivors and victims' family members are set to observe the 18th anniversary of the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building.
A ceremony is planned Friday near the former site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building for the 168 victims of the terrorist attack. Gov. Mary Fallin and U.S. Rep. James Lankford are scheduled to speak.
Similar to previous years, 168 seconds of silence will be observed at 9:02 a.m., when a truck bomb detonated outside the federal building. The names of those killed will be read by family members and survivors.
Organizers say the ceremony, normally held on the grounds of the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, will be inside the nearby First United Methodist Church due to expected poor weather.


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Bizarre Illustrations by Redmer Hoekstra Merge People and Animals with Everyday Objects
Netherlands-based artist Redmer Hoekstra draws fascinating composite illustrations that merge animals and everyday objects or machines, from a lizard with computer keyboard scales to an owl with books for wings. At times he even brings three or more forms together, as with a whale emerging from a submarine, the entirety of which has the appearance of a banana. Whether you regard the pieces as humorous or slightly disturbing, it's hard to deny the ingenious way each creature is formed.
Hoekstra has more work over on Behance and you can pick up postcards, prints and other things in his shop.


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The new Simplicam do-it-yourself security camera claims it can only send alerts when it sees a human face. Personal Tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler puts it to the test with a cat.
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Although Microsoft is beginning to acknowledge that the rich ecosystem of open source software can bring a lot of value to Windows users, the most popular open source software projects are largely developed on other platforms, which means that they aren't always easy to deploy on Windows. A relatively complex open source server stack can be rolled out on Linux with a few clicks, but it might take hours to get the same software installed and properly configured on Windows.
Microsoft developer Garrett Serack has identified a compelling solution to this problem. He is launching a new project to build a package management system for Windows with the aim of radically simplifying installation of popular open source software on Microsoft's platform. He calls it the Common Open Source Application Publishing Platform (CoApp).
Much like the package management systems that are a standard part of popular Linux distributions, the CoApp project will provide a delivery platform for packaged open source software libraries and applications, with support for dependency resolution and automatic updates. It could be a powerful tool for system administrators who want a WAMP stack or developers who want to port Linux applications to Windows.
Serack wants to use Microsoft's MSI format for the packages and intends to take advantage of WinSxS in order to deliver parallel binaries so that users will have access to multiple builds of the same library generated by different compilers. The project will also seek to establish some basic standards for filesystem layout so that files are put in consistent places.
He is coordinating the project with Microsoft's blessing, but the actual development effort will be community-driven—an approach that will hopefully enable CoApp to evolve in a way that best serves its users rather than being directed by Microsoft.
"The folks here at Microsoft have recognized the value in this project—and have kindly offered to let me work on it full-time. I'm running the project; Microsoft is supporting my efforts in this 100%," he wrote in a blog entry about the project on Wednesday. "The design is entirely the work of myself and the CoApp community, I don't have to vet it with anyone inside the company."
Making open source development on Windows suck less
Having ported several of my own Linux applications to Windows, I know from personal experience how insanely difficult it can be to set up a proper environment for developing open source software on Microsoft's operating system. For the last Qt application that I ported, the process of getting all of the dependencies installed took hours. I had to install CMake, find just the right version of Automoc, and compile OpenSSL from source.
My current Windows VM has a half a dozen different build systems and three separate sets of version control tools, all of which had to be installed individually. I also have two completely separate installations of MinGW and a rather heavy Cygwin setup. I need all of this crap in order to port my software to Windows, but it's a nightmare to maintain. I have to meticulously document every step of the setup process if I ever want to be able to do it again on a different Windows installation.
These headaches are enough to deter many open source software developers who would otherwise be releasing Windows versions of their applications. Spending a few hours developing on Windows often serves as a painful reminder of how much I depend on my distro's super cow powers. That is why I'm convinced that CoApp is a very good idea.
Cygwin arguably constitutes a package management system by itself, but it tends to be somewhat insular and isn't very native. Serack believes that CoApp offers an opportunity to do it the right way and close the gaps that isolate ported open source software components from the rest of the Windows ecosystem. If it's done properly, that could be very significant.
Although Linux enthusiasts tend to disdain Windows, porting Linux applications to Microsoft's operating system can open up a lot of opportunities. A Windows port can expose your application to a whole new audience, making it possible to attract new contributors. We have seen a number of prominent open source software projects benefit in that manner from Windows compatibility in the past.
A positive side effect of that phenomenon is that it introduces Windows application developers to open source frameworks and technologies. Broader adoption of cross-platform Linux-friendly software and toolkits on Windows would obviously help boost the availability of software for Linux.
Although I'm really impressed with Serack's vision, I'm a bit skeptical that a task of such magnitude and complexity can be fulfilled to an extent that would truly deliver on its potential. Such an undertaking will require considerable manpower. Ars readers who want to participate in the project or learn more can check out the CoApp page on Launchpad.


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Having spent November in the UK visiting family and friends I'm now back in New Zealand ready to take on Christmas and record new cemeteries in Canterbury.
It's been an 'interesting' year and a busy one, too. I hope the efforts of Hunting Kiwis have given you some helpful family history hints and piqued your interest in our rural New Zealand cemeteries.
Did you catch my article on memorial roses in Inside History magazine? If not, you can read through it via a post on their Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/InsideHistoryMagazine
The magazine itself is a great read, featuring fascinating Australian and New Zealand genealogical and local history articles, and beautifully presented. Their main webpage can be found here.
Thanks also to those readers who have freely provided background information on various burials and for your kind comments and contributions. It's also been a joy to hook up various family members who found each other via Hunting Kiwis.
I'd like to wish all my readers and genealogy friends a very Merry Christmas and a happy, research-filled New Year and thank you for all your support.
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The Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory received the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) Mid-Continent Regional Laboratory Award for Outstanding Laboratory. Drs. J. Allen Miller and J. Mathews Pound accepted the award for the laboratory on September 14, 2005, at the FLC Far West and Mid-Continent Regional Conference, held at Monterey, California. The award highlights the laboratory???s efforts to transfer the '4-Poster' technology for control of ticks that transmit diseases to humans. This is the second time the Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory has received this special award.
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Suspended Sentences
In Home Invasion
SNOW HILL – A Berlin man and a Whaleyville man accused of invading a home in Bishopville, threatening the resident and stealing her money last August pleaded guilty last week to malicious destruction of property and were each sentenced to 90 days in jail, all of which was suspended in favor of fines, restitution to the victim and probation.
Last Aug. 15, Maryland State Police troopers responded to a residence in Bishopville for a reported home invasion in progress. The troopers met with the victim who said she was home doing laundry when she heard cars screech into the driveway. She then heard loud voices and a pounding on the front door, which she ran to ensuring it was locked.
She then heard loud voices on the side of the house and ran to make sure the rear door was locked. She then called 911, but while she was on the phone in the kitchen, a window above the kitchen sink shattered and several suspects outside were observed throwing objects at the house. According to court reports, the 911 dispatcher heard glass shattering and heard the victim scream for help over the phone.
The victim then heard the suspects trying to force open the side door. After several attempts, the door flew open and shattered the frame and lock mechanism. The five suspects entered the house yelling profanities and threatening the victim, who ran upstairs to a bedroom and blocked the door with a bed. Before fleeing upstairs, the victim was able to identify some of the home invaders.
The victim said she heard the suspects moving around downstairs before the house suddenly went quiet. The victim then heard vehicles peeling out of the driveway and looked in time to identify a black Ford Explorer and a gray SUV leaving the residence.
The victim came back downstairs and found her purse lying on the floor with a $100 bill missing. The side door to the house was shattered and four lights along the driveway were destroyed. Shortly after the state troopers arrived on the scene, the Ford Explorer and the gray SUV were stopped on Collins Rd. not far from the residence. In the gray SUV were Bryan Lee Wersten, 18, of Berlin, and Michael Jacob Fultz, 19, of Whaleyville, along with two juveniles. Another juvenile was driving the Ford Explorer.
Wersten, Fultz and the juveniles were taken into custody and charged with first-, second-, third-, and fourth-degree burglary as well as assault and malicious destruction. Last week, both Wersten and Fultz entered an Alford Plea to the malicious destruction of property charge and each received the same sentence- 90 days in jail, all suspended, a $500 fine, $961 in restitution to the owner of the house and two years probation.
Missing Pair Arrested
For Pot On Assateague
ASSATEAGUE – A Pennsylvania man and a juvenile girl turned up early in the morning last Sunday in the Assateague State Park just in time to face possession of marijuana and paraphernalia charges.
Maryland Natural Resources Police (NRP) located an abandoned vehicle partially blocking Route 611 at the entrance to the park around 7:15 a.m. last Sunday morning. An investigation revealed the vehicle belonged to Alan Robert Spencer, 22, of Sherman's Dale, Pa., who was believed to be traveling with a 17-year-old girl from Dillsburg, Pa.
NRP officers learned the juvenile's parents were unaware of her whereabouts. Several additional officers from NRP as well as the National Parks Service arrived on the scene and began searching the area. Both Spencer and the juvenile were located a short time later without injury about four miles north of the state park boundary and were brought back to the vehicle. A subsequent search of the vehicle turned up marijuana and paraphernalia and both Spence and the juvenile were then arrested and charged with possession of CDS and paraphernalia. Spencer was later released on his own recognizance and the 17-year-old girl was released by Juvenile Services.
Campground Break-In
BERLIN – Two homeless people who broke into the Fort Whaley campground last week looking for a place to sleep were arrested and charged with burglary and malicious destruction of property.
Last Thursday, March 16, Maryland State Police troopers responded to the Fort Whaley campground on Route 50 near Whaleyville for a reported break-in. The troopers met with employees who informed them two people, later identified as Phillip Justin Burgess and Rebecca Lynn Bacs, both of no fixed address, had gained access to a cabin by breaking a window and had been sleeping there for two days because they were homeless.
The investigation revealed Burgess and Bacs also broke into the facility's time clock room and had attempted to break into the camp store. Burgess and Bacs were soon located and told police they broke into the cabin because they needed a place to sleep. They had been observed in the area of the campground for about two days.
A warrant check revealed Burgess was wanted on outstanding warrants in Worcester County and Salisbury. Both Burgess and Bacs were arrested and charged with burglary and malicious destruction of property. Burgess was held on a $28,000 bond while Bacs was held on a $25,000 bond.
First Case In Stabbing
Over Noise Cleared
SNOW HILL – An Ocean City man arrested last fall for stabbing another man during a fight over noise at a downtown apartment building was cleared of all charges last week in Worcester County Circuit Court while the second combatant who severely stabbed the first awaits trial early next month.
Vernon Knox, 34, of Ocean City, was in Circuit Court last week facing first-degree assault, second-degree assault and reckless endangerment charges stemming from a fight with another Ocean City man, Ambrose Rawls, Jr., 27, after a fight over noise last fall that left both men with stab wounds. The charges against Knox were "nolle prossed," or not prosecuted, while Rawls still awaits trial set for April 9.
Last November, Ocean City Police responded to the Kitchen Apartments on Wicomico Street for a reported fight in progress involving knives. Upon arrival, the officers located Knox, who had been stabbed several times about the face and neck. The officers determined the man who attacked Knox was Rawls, who also received a stab wound in the arm during the altercation.
Both men lived at the apartment building and the incident started over a complaint about noise. Knox was taken to PRMC and later Shock Trauma in Baltimore for treatment of his injuries. Rawls was treated at the scene but refused transfer to the hospital.
NYE Trespasser Fined
OCEAN CITY – A New Year's Eve party patron paid the price for getting too inebriated and losing his friends during the holiday evening, ultimately becoming disoriented, when he plead guilty to trespassing last week in District Court.
Justin David Lawrence, 22, of Chesapeake Beach, Md., found himself wandering into the Princess Bayside early in the morning on Jan. 1 in an attempt to find a bathroom. Having become separated from friends earlier in the night, Lawrence found himself alone at the main entrance of the hotel.
Becoming disorderly due to his amount of intoxication, hotel security escorted him off the premises once and gave him a warning, according to court records. Soon after, Lawrence was back and was subsequently arrested for trespassing.
At District Court last week, Lawrence's lawyer said his client was sorry for being "beyond normal intoxication levels" and had since completed a 26-week counseling program and 30 hours of community service. Judge Daniel R. Mumford said he was pleased with how Lawrence had conducted himself since the incident and fined him $100.
Whaleyville Fire
WHALEYVILLE – A fire at a two-story residential structure last Thursday afternoon completely destroyed the home and all of its contents, however, no injuries were reported.
The fire at the residential structure on Long Ridge Lane in Whaleyville was reported shortly before noon last Thursday. Firefighters from Berlin and Showell in Worcester County and Willards in Wicomico County quickly extinguished the fire, but remained on the scene for about three hours.
The initial investigation determined the fire was accidental and began behind a wall in the kitchen. No injuries were reported, but the blaze destroyed the structure and its contents.
10 Days In Burglary Case
SNOW HILL – A Berlin man arrested last July for stealing a case full of money for his girlfriend's mother's home was found guilty last week of third-degree burglary and was sentenced to 10 days in jail.
On July 21, 2006, a West Ocean City woman reported someone stole a case containing money and other belongings from under her bed in a location few people knew about. The victim suspected her daughter's boyfriend, Shawn White, 20, of Berlin, because he knew about the case. The day after the report was filed with police, the case was returned to the victim's place of employment. Everything was returned but $400 in paper currency and about $200-$300 in change.
Police interviewed White who initially denied stealing the case, but later admitted the theft. White told police he used a keypad to gain entry to a storage shed where he knew a spare key was hidden. He then used the spare key to enter the house and steal the case. White told police he returned the case to the victim's workplace because "he felt sorry for her."
White was arrested and charged with multiple counts of burglary. Last week in Circuit Court, he was convicted on third-degree burglary charges and sentenced to 10 days in jail, which he is serving on consecutive weekends.
Belgian Man To Do Time
OCEAN CITY – Although a man from Belgium was looking to head home as soon as possible to be with his family, he will have to wait a bit longer after he was found guilty of theft Monday morning in District Court and ordered to serve jail time.
Keith Hared Sigafoose, 37, of Belgium, was arrested back in January after it was found that he stole the credit card of a person he was living with to purchase cigarettes and gas at a local Wine Rack.
The crime when unnoticed until the victim received her credit card bill in the mail and later contacted police. It wasn't until officers used the Wine Rack's archived video surveillance to match Sigafoose as the subject with the times of the purchases.
Sigafoose plead guilty to the theft charge and Judge Daniel R. Mumford sentenced him to 90 days in jail, with 56 of those days suspended for time served since January.
Man Fined For Drug Charges
OCEAN CITY – A Salisbury boy who was arrested back in May after an off-duty Baltimore officer called OCPD dispatchers regarding two males in a suspicious vehicle that was later found to contain marijuana, was in court Monday to face his drug charges.
According to police records, it was back on May 21 when OCPD Officer Mark Wolinski and Officer Michael Stoner were in the area of 49th Street when they received a communications dispatch regarding a vehicle in their area with two subjects believed to be smoking marijuana. According to dispatchers, the call came when an off-duty Baltimore police officer noticed the slight smell of burnt marijuana emanating from a silver Honda parked next to him at a red light.
The officers soon spotted the car and made a traffic stop, noting the slight smell of marijuana as they spoke with the occupants. The driver of the car was identified as Joshua Noel Smith Canopii, 19, of Salisbury. According to police records, when the passenger of the vehicle opened the glove box to get the car's registration, officers noticed a baggie that looked to contain marijuana.
A closer look confirmed their suspicions and both subjects were then arrested. Although Canopii plead guilty to the charge Monday morning, Judge Daniel R. Mumford determined it was not the plea Canopii wanted to make and changed it to a not guilty, ensuring a trial.
However, Canopii followed the testimony of Wolinski without a rebuttal and was ultimately found guilty and fined $500.
Guilty To Marijuana Charge
OCEAN CITY – A Jarrettsville man who was pulled over back in January for a routine traffic stop concerning a malfunctioning headlight and later found to be in possession of marijuana plead guilty to the charge Monday at District Court.
It was approximately 11 p.m. on Jan. 5 when Troy Earl Burriss, 20, was driving northbound on Pennsylvania Avenue when OCPD Officer Edward Newcomb noticed the oncoming car only had one functioning headlight. Newcomb pulled Burriss over, and after checking his license and registration, began to issue Burriss a repair order when Officer Earl Campbell arrived on the scene with his K-9 partner Charlie to conduct an exterior search of the vehicle.
K-9 unit Charlie alerted fellow officers twice in two scans of the vehicle. Newcomb had Burriss and his three passengers exit the vehicle for an interior search. According to police reports, Newcomb found several partially smoked cigars containing marijuana and continued to search the car.
Upon further inspection, Newcomb also came across a BB/pellet gun under the driver's seat that was said, according to police reports, designed to look and operate just like a real gun, however, the gun was not loaded. Burriss was charged with carrying/concealing a gun replica and possession of marijuana.
The gun replica charge was dropped and Judge Daniel R. Mumford fined Burriss $400 for the possession of marijuana.
Woman Detained
In Bust Sentenced
OCEAN CITY – Following the arrest of two Delaware residents found to be selling drugs from a room at the Holiday Inn on 66th Street back in February, one of the subjects, Jaime Beth Lewis, was in District Court Monday for her trial.
According to police records, OCPD detectives had been tracking a man by the name of Darrell Brooks Belle, 41, of Frankford, Del., for several days before learning about the place at the Holiday Inn. Based on the type of case, a "No Knock" search and seizure warrant was then signed.
The Ocean City Police Quick Response Team (QRT) served the warrant Feb. 9 at approximately 10:15 p.m. Upon entry, members of the QRT saw Belle running away from an entertainment system in the living room as well as a female, later identified as Jaime Beth Lewis, 25, of Laurel, Del., standing in the kitchen.
A search behind the entertainment system revealed a Crown Royale bag containing three individually wrapped bags of crack cocaine, as well as a bag of marijuana and a digital scale.
Belle admitted that everything belonged to him and was placed under arrest for intent to distribute a controlled deadly substance (CDS), possession of a CDS, possession of marijuana and possession of CDS paraphernalia. However, since hotel receipts showed that Lewis was the registrant of the room, she was arrested as well and charged with possession of a CDS and possession of marijuana due to the fact that the drugs were in her immediate control.
Judge Daniel R. Mumford suspended all but 38 days of a six-month jail sentence for time she had already served awaiting her trial and placed Lewis on three years of supervised probation instead.
Shoplifters Arrested
For Selling Stolen Tools
OCEAN CITY – Two men who stole numerous saw blades from the Ace Hardware store were recently arrested when local construction workers tipped off the OCPD about two individuals trying to sell the blades at various construction sites around town.
According to a press release from the OCPD, officers began to interview construction workers in the resort when contractors told the owner of the Ace Hardware store that two men were going around the island in an attempt to sell the blades cheaper than their retail value.
The officers soon found two men matching the descriptions others had given them and with the help of a gentleman who purchased 19 blades for $40, they were able to positively identify the suspects.
Officers recovered the stolen saw blades and returned them to the owner and arrested Mark A. Meekins, 53, of Ocean City, and David J. Pierce, 29, of Frankford, Del., for misdemeanor theft.
Five Years For Sex
Assault On 4-Year-Old
SNOW HILL – A Parsonsburg man was convicted on second-degree assault charges last week in Worcester County Circuit Court for a sexual assault on a 4-year-old girl at a farm in Berlin and was sentenced to five years in jail.
Edward James Maycock, 20, of Parsonsburg, was found guilty last week in Circuit Court of second-degree assault after being arrested last fall for sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl at a farm in Berlin. Maryland State Police troopers began an investigation into the allegations of the victim last October. The victim told her mother, a doctor and eventually police about a pattern of sexual assault and abuse dating back to the end of last summer.
At the end of August, the victim told her mother that Maycock, whom she called Eddie, had taken her to his "secret place" and shown her his private parts and touched the victim's private parts. When confronted by the mother about the allegations, Maycock said the victim has simply walked in on him while he was in the bathroom.
Again in September, the victim told her mother Maycock took her to the "secret place" where he kissed her and touched her backside. The secret place turned out to be a shed on the farm in Berlin used for butchering deer. This time, the mother reported the offenses to police, who began an investigation. On Oct. 4, the victim was taken to her pediatrician for an examination, which revealed physical evidence consistent with the victim's story.
When police interviewed the victim, her story was consistent with the stories she told her mother and the doctor. Maycock was arrested and charged with second-degree assault, second- and third degree sex offense and child abuse. Last week in Circuit Court, Maycock pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and was sentenced to five years in jail.
Berlin Assault Suspect Sought
BERLIN – Berlin police are looking for a suspect in an apparent assault at an apartment complex on Tuesday night that drew the attention of Maryland State Police and Worcester County Sheriff's deputies.
Around 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Berlin Police responded to the area of Flower Street for a reported disturbance involving several subjects. Worcester County Sheriff's Deputies responded to the scene as did Maryland State Police troopers. Several state police cruisers were seen racing down Assateague Rd. en route to the disturbance at a high rate of speed.
Upon arrival, Berlin police found an ambulance had already responded to the scene. Berlin police found the victim, Dewayne Ballard, lying unconscious on the ground suffering from an apparent head wound.
Witnesses told police Ballard was punched and kicked in the head by an unknown black male. Ballard was taken to Peninsula Regional Medical Center by the Berlin Fire Company where he was treated and released. Berlin police are still seeking the unknown suspect and the investigation is ongoing.


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J/35c Sailing World Review
The Sailor's Cruiser: The Versatile J/35c.
No, the "c" in J/35c does not stand for "chord," though designer Rodney Johnstone has shown a remarkable talent for striking the right one, at the right time, in his ever-growing, ever-evolving compendium of work. It's not his "range," or a knack for displaying fresh vision with each successive new launching that makes Johnstone the important American designer that he indisputably has become. Indeed, Rod Johnstone's great strength is that he has remained true and consistent to the One Great Tenet that has been the backbone of his best boats: First and last, they must sail very, very well.
Each is graced with a smart, sensible cockpit layout that presents all the major sail trimming devices - dual self-tailing mainsheet winches, traveler, and self-tailing primary winches - at the driver's fingertips. It's a smart, time-tested idea that works particularly well for short-handed crews.
"Not just a reworked J/35," notes Pat Clark, "this is a whole new hull and keel which in concept owes much to the J/44. Rod has included much of the innovative thinking from that boat: accessible (deck) locker for those impossible-to-store Danforth anchors, keeping the weight off the bow; good nav station; intelligent interior layout."
"The huge cockpit locker that you can also get at from the galley is good," said Sheila McCurdy. "For a cruising boat to essentially have an attic, or a basement, is really great. If you're going to do your own maintenance you have to have a place to put all that stuff, and this boat does."
"This is a nice design, but don't forget how well it's put together," added Herb McCormick. "Johnstone draws fine boats, but he's got unsung support and assistance from TPI."
"It's a good cruising boat for ex-racers," said Gerry Douglas, in perhaps the definitive J/35c assessment. "It's for people who have come to really appreciate performance."


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The Velomann 16 is a well-made unit with plenty of useful functions, and it's fairly simple to set up. It's easy to use and doesn't disappoint in terms of performance, although it didn't really stand out from the crowd.
Fitting the computer was straightforward enough, though oddly the supplied zip ties were too wide for the holes in the computer mount. Once I retrieved some thinner ones from the shed, it attached easily to the stem; you can also mount it on the bars. The magnet was a fiddle to fit: it's in three pieces, and was difficult to tighten. Once it was positioned though there were no initial problems, and the sensor seemed fairly tolerant of the distance to the magnet: you don't need to have them almost touching to get a signal which is a definite plus.
On our first test computer the signal pickup of the unit was intermittent at best. Some rides were fine, on others the computer dropped the signal so many times that I was forced to turn the head unit round to face the ground just so I didn't get so angry that I threw it into a hedge. This seems to have been an issue with the sample we had though, rather than the computer itself: we've received another one and there's been no problems this time around.
The Velomann gives you readouts of current speed, average speed, speed comparison, maximum speed, trip time, trip distance, odometers for two bikes, clock, lap times up to 20 laps, distance per lap, average speed per lap, stop watch and temperature. There's a cadence version too for an extra £14 if cadence is your bag. There's plenty of options for this kind of money, computer-wise: the Velomann is a very decent computer and worthy of the spend, but if you don't need the lap functions – and you don't care too much about the temperature – you could save yourself £12 and get the V1.10
Good quality computer that's simple to use
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Velomann V1.16 bike computer
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Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes, if this was the mix of functions the wanted, for something more basic I'd point them at the V10
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Age: 36 Height: 190cm Weight: 98kg
I usually ride: whatever I\'m testing... My best bike is: Trek 1.5 with Ultegra 6700
I've been riding for: 10-20 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Experienced
I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, commuting, sportives, general fitness riding, fixed/singlespeed, mtb, Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling, track
Dave is a founding father of road.cc, having previously worked on Cycling Plus and What Mountain Bike magazines back in the day. He also writes about e-bikes for our sister publication ebiketips. He's won three mountain bike bog snorkelling World Championships, and races at the back of the third cats.


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Wednesday, March 27
Good morning, TexMessagers! Does the Endangered Species Act need to be further limited?
Texas lawmakers have introduced legislation in the House and Senate to establish a new and improved procedure for claims against the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) based on the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
The legislation will prevent environmental groups from using ESA lawsuits for economic gain, which representatives from Texas say is prevalent.
Rep. Michael Conaway, R-Midland, says FWS has been forced to settle a "barrage of lawsuits" from "shadowy environmental organizations" who are manipulating the justice process for their own gain.
Organizations are allegedly abusing the conservation system by flooding the FWS with requests, and then filing lawsuits when the office cannot meet it's deadline. These lawsuits, often funded by taxpayer dollars, are settled behind closed doors. Rep. John Carter, R-Round Rock, said the "bogus lawsuits from fly-by-the-night environmental groups" are damaging development in local economies.
"It is time that we stop these closed-door settlements that are abusing the Endangered Species Act and costing American taxpayers millions of dollars, both of which are hurting the American economy," Rep. Bill Flores, R-Bryan, said.
Sen. John Cornyn introduced the "ESA settlement reform act" in February. Yesterday, Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Clarendon, Flores, Conaway, and Carter introduced the House companion bill.
The legislation will give impacted local parties a say in the settlements, limit taxpayer dollar use, and preserve the FWS regulatory authority.
"I am proud to support this bill, which would protect Texas communities and landowners from unaccountable bureaucrats and overzealous environmentalists. For too long, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has been forced to settle a barrage of lawsuits brought by shadowy environmental organizations who manipulate our justice system to change federal environmental and land-use policies," Conaway said.
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This card has some valuable information that I did not have earlier such as a specific birth date and the place of birth complete with town. Unfortunately I am not able to locate this town as it is named.
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Why I give to GAIA and I would like to ask you to give too: It is no secret that I am one of the founders of GAIA Vaccine Foundation. What you may not know is that I gave $500 per month to GAIA Vaccine Foundation in 2012, and just as much the year before (and before that). And in 2013, I plan to give even more. Why is that? GAIA is one of the best investments that I have ever made with my donation dollars. See more about that below.* I believe in GAIA's vision. GAIA's goal is to "support the development of a globally relevant, globally accessible HIV/AIDS vaccine". It takes a long time (over 20 years) to make a vaccine, so it should come as no surprise that we're still working on that mission. In fact, just this year, GAIA (and scientists at EpiVax) published a few papers on the vaccine (see here if one of several scientific reports on the vaccine). I believe that we will get there, because, as one of the founders, I believe in our mission. I give to GAIA because I want to end AIDS in our lifetime, and GAIA has a history of delivering on promises. What's an example of that? Well, we built an HIV clinic to provide mother-to-child HIV transmission prevention to a village called Sikoro in 2006. We expanded it to include all patients (moms, dads and children) with HIV in 2008, and we're still providing HIV care there, today. That's commitment. We build relationships. We have created a solid foundation of support among West African physicians and scientists for our work. And we are building the scientific foundation for testing our HIV vaccine in the future. We have performed HIV vaccine readiness research and we publish it. We have concrete goals. Over the next year we plan to leverage innovative HIV management techniques, expand village-level HIV care and increase HIV knowledge throughout West Africa. [For more information read here]. So why should you support GAIA Vaccine Foundation? Because you know that ending AIDS in Africa is one of the things that you would like to do, in your lifetime, too. Giving to GAIA is a really great way to do that. So please click on this link, or go to http://www.gaiavaccine.org/donate and send in your contribution, today.
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John McEwen
Canadian, b. 1945
Marconi, 1978
steel, leather
80 x 97.2 x 6.8 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Acquired with funds donated in memory of J. Bruce Goodhand, 1959-1983, and with funds from the Canada Council
Sculpture, Canadian Modern (1910-1979)
John McEwen has consistently explored the nature of communication between animals, between animals and people, and between artworks and viewers. He creates silhouettes of animals, mainly dogs or wolves, most of which are flame cut from sheets of 6 cm-thick steel. At times, depending on the angle from which they are viewed and the speed of passersby, these silhouettes seem to snap to life. For McEwen the one constant in the human imagination is the animal. Marconi—a sculpture of a German shepherd sitting and staring at a steel cable—was the first in a long series to explore this concept. With this work McEwen's intent was to establish a narrative stripped to its bare essentials, yet full of speculations.
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Bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, may be among the world's most vilified chemicals. The compound, used in manufacturing polycarbonate plastic and epoxy resins, is found in plastic goggles, face shields, and helmets; baby bottles; protective coatings inside metal food containers; and composites and sealants used in dentistry. As animal studies began to show links between the chemical and breast and prostate cancer, early-onset puberty, and polycystic ovary syndrome, consumer groups pressured manufacturers of reusable plastic containers, like Nalgene, to remove BPA from their products. Warnings went out to avoid microwaving plasticware or putting it in the dishwasher. On May 6th, the President's Cancer Panel issued a report deploring the rising number of carcinogens released into the environment—including BPA—and calling for much more stringent regulation and wider awareness of their dangers. The panel advised President Obama "to use the power of your office to remove the carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase health care costs, cripple our Nation's productivity, and devastate American lives." Dr. LaSalle Leffall, Jr., the chairman of the panel, said in a statement, "The increasing number of known or suspected environmental carcinogens compels us to action, even though we may currently lack irrefutable proof of harm."
The narrative seems to follow a familiar path. In the nineteen-sixties, several animal studies suggested that cyclamates, a class of artificial sweetener, caused chromosomal abnormalities and cancer. Some three-quarters of Americans were estimated to consume the sweeteners. In 1969, cyclamates were banned. Later research found that there was little evidence that these substances caused cancer in humans. In the nineteen-eighties, studies suggesting a cancer risk from Alar, a chemical used to regulate the color and ripening of apples, caused a minor panic among parents and a media uproar. In that case, the cancer risk was shown to have been overstated, but still present, and the substance remains classified a "probable human carcinogen." Lead, too, was for years thought to be safe in small doses, until further study demonstrated that, particularly for children, even slight exposure could result in intellectual delays, hearing loss, and hyperactivity.
There is an inherent uncertainty in determining which substances are safe and which are not, and when their risks outweigh their benefits. Toxicity studies are difficult, because BPA and other, similar chemicals can have multiple effects on the body. Moreover, we are exposed to scores of them in a lifetime, and their effects in combination or in sequence might be very different from what they would be in isolation. In traditional toxicology, a single chemical is tested in one cell or animal to assess its harmful effects. In studying environmental hazards, one needs to test mixtures of many chemicals, across ranges of doses, at different points in time, and at different ages, from conception to childhood to old age. Given so many variables, it is difficult to determine how harmful these chemicals might be, or if they are harmful at all, or what anyone can do to avoid their effects. In the case of BPA and other chemicals of its sort, though, their increasing prevalence and a number of human studies that associate them with developmental issues have become too worrisome to ignore. The challenge now is to decide a course of action before there is any certainty about what is truly dangerous and what is not.
In 1980, Frederica Perera, a professor at Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health and a highly regarded investigator of the effects of environmental hazards, was studying how certain chemicals in cigarette smoke might cause cancer. Dissatisfied with the research at the time, which measured toxic substances outside the body and then made inferences about their effects, she began using sophisticated molecular techniques to measure compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAH—which are plentiful in tobacco smoke—in the body. Perera found that after entering the lungs the compounds pass into the bloodstream and damage blood cells, binding to their DNA. She hoped to compare the damaged blood cells from smokers with healthy cells, and decided to seek out those she imagined would be uncontaminated by foreign substances. "I thought that the most perfect pristine blood would come from the umbilical cord of a newborn," Perera said.
But when she analyzed her samples Perera discovered PAH attached to some of the DNA in blood taken from umbilical cords, too. "I was pretty shocked," she said. "I realized that we did not know very much about what was happening during this early stage of development."
Perera's finding that chemicals like PAH, which can also be a component of air pollution, are passed from mother to child during pregnancy has now been replicated for more than two hundred compounds. These include PCBs, chemical coolants that were banned in the United States in 1979 but have persisted in the food chain; BPA and phthalates, used to make plastics more pliable, which leach out of containers and mix with their contents; pesticides used on crops and on insects in the home; and some flame retardants, which are often applied to upholstery, curtains, and other household items.
Fetuses and newborns lack functional enzymes in the liver and other organs that break down such chemicals, and animal studies in the past several decades have shown that these chemicals can disrupt hormones and brain development. Some scientists believe that they may promote chronic diseases seen in adulthood such as diabetes, atherosclerosis, and cancer. There is some evidence that they may have what are called epigenetic effects as well, altering gene expression in cells, including those which give rise to eggs and sperm, and allowing toxic effects to be passed on to future generations.
In 1998, Perera initiated a program at Columbia to investigate short- and long-term effects of environmental chemicals on children, and she now oversees one of the largest and longest-standing studies of a cohort of mothers and newborns in the United States. More than seven hundred mother-child pairs have been recruited from Washington Heights, Harlem, and the South Bronx; Perera is also studying pregnant women in Kraków, Poland, and two cities in China, and, since September 11, 2001, a group of three hundred and twenty-nine mothers and newborns from the downtown hospitals near the World Trade Center. In all, some two thousand mother-child pairs have been studied, many for at least a decade.
This March, I visited Columbia's Center for Children's Environmental Health, where Perera is the director, and met with a woman I'll call Renee Martin in an office overlooking the George Washington Bridge. Martin was born in Harlem, attended a community college in Queens, and then moved to 155th Street and Broadway, where she is raising her five children. She entered the study eleven years ago, when she was pregnant with her first child. "I was asthmatic growing up," Martin said. "And I was concerned about triggers of asthma in the environment. So when they asked me to be in the study I thought it would be a good way to get information that might tell me something about my own health and the health of my child." She showed me a small black backpack containing a metal box with a long plastic tube. During her pregnancy, Martin would drape the tube over her shoulder, close to her chin, and a vacuum inside the device would suck in a sample of air. A filter trapped particles and vapors of ambient chemicals, like pesticides, phthalates, and PAH. "I walked around pregnant with this hose next to my mouth, but, living in New York, people hardly notice," she said with a laugh.
The Columbia team also developed a comprehensive profile of Martin's potential proximity to chemicals, including an environmental map that charted her apartment's distance from gas stations, dry cleaners, fast-food restaurants, supermarkets, and major roadways. They took urine samples and, at delivery, blood samples from her and from the umbilical cord, along with samples from the placenta. Nearly a hundred per cent of the mothers in the study were found to have BPA and phthalates in their urine. Urine and blood samples are taken as the babies grow older, as well as samples of their exhaled breath. "We have a treasure trove of biological material," Perera said. The researchers track the children's weight and sexual development, and assess I.Q., visual spatial ability, attention, memory, and behavior. Brain imaging, using an M.R.I., is performed on selected children.
Martin was still breast-feeding her two-year-old daughter. "I bottle-fed my first child," she told me. "But when you learn what can come out of plastic bottles and all the benefits of breast-feeding—my other children were nursed." The Columbia group regularly convenes the families to hear results and discuss ways to reduce their exposure to potential environmental hazards. At one meeting, Martin found out that some widely used pesticides could result in impaired learning and behavior. "I told the landlord to stop spraying in the apartment" to combat a roach infestation, she said. On the advice of the Columbia researchers, Martin asked him to seal the cracks in the walls that were allowing cockroaches to enter, and Martin's family meticulously swept up crumbs. This approach has now become the New York City Department of Health's official recommendation for pest control. "You don't need to be out in the country and have compost," Martin said. "This has made me into an urban environmentalist."
In 2001, using data from animal studies, the E.P.A. banned the sale of the pesticide chlorpyrifos (sold under the name Dursban) for residential and indoor use. Many agricultural uses are still permitted, and farming communities continue to be exposed to the insecticide. Residues on food may affect those who live in urban areas as well. In 2004, the Columbia group published results in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives showing that significant exposure during the prenatal period to chlorpyrifos was associated with an average hundred-and-fifty-gram reduction in birth weight—about the same effect as if the mother had smoked all through pregnancy. Those most highly exposed to the insecticide were twice as likely to be born below the tenth percentile in size for gestational age. The researchers found that children born after 2001 had much lower exposure levels—indicating that the ban was largely effective.
For those children who were exposed to the pesticide in the womb, the effects have seemed to persist. The children with the greatest exposure were starting to fall off the developmental curve and displayed signs of attention-deficit problems by the time they were three. By seven, they showed significant deficits in working memory, which is strongly tied to problem-solving, I.Q., and reading comprehension. Another study, published this month in Pediatrics, using a random cross-section of American children, showed that an elevated level of a particular pesticide residue nearly doubled the likelihood that a child would have A.D.H.D.
"The size of this deficit is educationally meaningful in the early preschool years," Virginia Rauh, the leader of Columbia's research, said. "Such a decline can push whole groups of children into the developmentally delayed category."
First used in Germany, in the nineteen-thirties, bisphenol A has a chemical structure similar to that of estrogen, but was considered too weak to be developed into a contraceptive pill. Recent animal studies have shown that, even at very low levels, BPA can cause changes that may lead to cancer in the prostate gland and in breast tissue. It is also linked to disruption in brain chemistry and, in female rodents, accelerated puberty. Japanese scientists found that high levels of BPA were associated with polycystic ovary syndrome, a leading cause of impaired fertility.
Phthalates are also ubiquitous in cosmetics, shampoos, and other personal-care products. They may have effects on older children and adults as well as on neonates. A study at Massachusetts General Hospital found an association of high levels of certain phthalates with lower sperm concentrations and impaired sperm motility; young girls in Puerto Rico who had developed breasts prematurely were more likely to have high levels of phthalates in their blood. Immigrant children in Belgium who exhibited precocious puberty also showed greater exposure to the pesticide DDT, which has estrogenlike effects and has been banned in the U.S., but is still used in Africa to help control malaria.
Long-term studies have provided the most compelling evidence that chemicals once considered safe may cause health problems in communities with consistent exposure over many years. Researchers from SUNY Albany, including Lawrence Schell, a biomedical anthropologist, have worked over the past two decades with Native Americans on the Mohawk reservation that borders the St. Lawrence River, once a major shipping thoroughfare, just east of Massena, New York. General Motors built a foundry nearby that made automobile parts, Alcoa had two manufacturing plants for aluminum, and the area was contaminated with PCBs, which were used in the three plants. Several Mohawk girls experienced signs of early puberty, which coincided with higher levels of PCBs in their blood.
The Albany researchers also observed that increased levels of PCBs correlated with altered levels of thyroid hormone and lower long-term memory functioning. Similar results have been found in an area of Slovakia near heavy industry. "Folks have complained about reproductive problems," Schell said, of the residents of the Mohawk reservation. "They talked a lot about rheumatoid arthritis, about lupus, about polycystic ovary syndrome. And, you know, you hear these things and you wonder how much of it is just a heightened sensitivity, but, when you see elevated antibodies that are often a sign of autoimmune disease of one kind or another, it could be the beginning of discovering a biological basis for their complaints about these diseases."
Beginning in 2003, Antonia Calafat, a chemist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Russ Hauser, of the Harvard School of Public Health, set out to evaluate the exposure of premature infants to certain environmental contaminants. The researchers hypothesized that infants treated in the most intensive ways—intravenous feedings and delivery of oxygen by respirators—would receive the most exposure, since chemicals like phthalates and BPA can leach from plastic tubing. They studied forty-one infants from two Boston-area intensive-care units for BPA. Calafat told me, "We saw ten times the amounts of BPA in the neonates that we are seeing in the general population." In several children, the levels of BPA were more than a hundred times as high as in healthy Americans.
Calafat, who came to the United States from Spain on a Fulbright scholarship, developed highly accurate tests to detect BPA, phthalates, and other compounds in body fluids like blood and urine. This advance, she explained, "means that you are not simply doing an exposure assessment based on the concentration of the chemicals in the food or in the air or in the soil. You are actually measuring the concentrations in the body." With this technology, she can study each individual as if he or she were a single ecosystem. Her studies at the Centers for Disease Control show that 92.6 per cent of Americans aged six and older have detectable levels of BPA in their bodies; the levels in children between six and eleven years of age are twice as high as those in older Americans.
Critics such as Elizabeth Whelan, of the American Council on Science and Health, a consumer-education group in New York (Whelan says that about a third of its two-million-dollar annual budget comes from industry), think that the case against BPA and phthalates has more in common with those against cyclamates and Alar than with the one against lead. "The fears are irrational," she said. "People fear what they can't see and don't understand. Some environmental activists emotionally manipulate parents, making them feel that the ones they love the most, their children, are in danger." Whelan argues that the public should focus on proven health issues, such as the dangers of cigarettes and obesity and the need for bicycle helmets and other protective equipment. As for chemicals in plastics, Whelan says, "What the country needs is a national psychiatrist."
To illustrate what Whelan says is a misguided focus on manufactured chemicals, her organization has constructed a dinner menu "filled with natural foods, and you can find a carcinogen or an endocrine-disrupting chemical in every course"—for instance, tofu and soy products are filled with plant-based estrogens that could affect hormonal balance. "Just because you find something in the urine doesn't mean that it's a hazard," Whelan says. "Our understanding of risks and benefits is distorted. BPA helps protect food products from spoiling and causing botulism. Flame retardants save lives, so we don't burn up on our couch."
Several studies also contradict the conclusion that these chemicals have deleterious effects. The journal Toxicological Sciences recently featured a study from the E.P.A. scientist Earl Gray, a widely respected researcher, which indicated that BPA had no effect on puberty in rats. A study of military conscripts in Sweden found no connection between phthalates and depressed sperm counts, and a recent survey of newborns in New York failed to turn up an increase in a male genital malformation which might be expected if the effects from BPA seen in rodents were comparable to effects in humans. Richard Sharpe, a professor at the University of Edinburgh, and an internationally recognized pioneer on the effects of chemicals in the environment on endocrine disruption, recently wrote in Toxicological Sciences, "Fundamental, repetitive work on bisphenol A has sucked in tens, probably hundreds of millions of dollars from government bodies and industry, which, at a time when research money is thin on the ground, looks increasingly like an investment with a nil return."
With epidemiological studies, like those at Columbia, in which scientists observe people as they live, without a control group, the real-life nature of the project can make it difficult to distinguish between correlation and causation. Unknown factors in the environment or unreported habits might escape the notice of the researchers. Moreover, even sophisticated statistical analysis can sometimes yield specious results.
Dr. John Ioannides, an epidemiologist at the University of Ioannina, in Greece, has noted that four of the six most frequently cited epidemiological studies published in leading medical journals between 1990 and 2003 were later refuted. Demonstrating the malleability of data, Peter Austin, a medical statistician at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, in Toronto, has retrospectively analyzed medical records of the more than ten million residents of Ontario. He showed that Sagittarians are thirty-eight per cent more likely to fracture an arm than people of other astrological signs, and Leos are fifteen per cent more likely to suffer a gastrointestinal hemorrhage. (Pisces were more prone to heart failure.)
To help strengthen epidemiological analysis, Sir Austin Bradford Hill, a British medical statistician, set out certain criteria in 1965 that indicate cause and effect. Researchers must be sure that exposure to the suspected cause precedes the development of a disease; that there is a high degree of correlation between the two; that findings are replicated in different studies in various settings; that a biological explanation exists that makes the association plausible; and that increased exposure makes development of the disease more likely.
When epidemiological studies fulfill most of these criteria, they can be convincing, as when studies demonstrated a link between cigarettes and lung cancer. But, in an evolving field, dealing with chemicals that are part of daily life, the lack of long-term clinical data has made firm conclusions elusive. John Vandenbergh, a biologist who found that exposure to certain chemicals like BPA could accelerate the onset of puberty in mice, served on an expert panel that advised the National Toxicology Program, a part of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, on the risks of exposure to BPA. In 2007, the panel reviewed more than three hundred scientific publications and concluded that "there is some concern" about exposure of fetuses and young children to BPA, given the research from Vandenbergh's laboratory and others.
Vandenbergh is cognizant of the difficulty of extrapolating data from rodents and lower animals to humans. "Why can't we just figure this out?" he said. "Well, one of the problems is that we would have to take half of the kids in the kindergarten and give them BPA and the other half not. Or expose half of the pregnant women to BPA in the doctor's office and the other half not. And then we have to wait thirty to fifty years to see what effects this has on their development, and whether they get more prostate cancer or breast cancer. You have to wait at least until puberty to see if there is an effect on sexual maturation. Ethically, you are not going to go and feed people something if you think it harmful, and, second, you have this incredible time span to deal with."
The inadequacy of the current regulatory system contributes greatly to the atmosphere of uncertainty. The Toxic Substances Control Act, passed in 1976, does not require manufacturers to show that chemicals used in their products are safe before they go on the market; rather, the responsibility is placed on federal agencies, as well as on researchers in universities outside the government. The burden of proof is so onerous that bans on toxic chemicals can take years to achieve, and the government is often constrained from sharing information on specific products with the public, because manufacturers claim that such information is confidential. Several agencies split responsibility for oversight, with little coördination: the Food and Drug Administration supervises cosmetics, food, and medications, the Environmental Protection Agency regulates pesticides, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission oversees children's toys and other merchandise. The European Union, in contrast, now requires manufacturers to prove that their compounds are safe before they are sold.
According to the E.P.A., some eighty-two thousand chemicals are registered for use in commerce in the United States, with about seven hundred new chemicals introduced each year. In 1998, the E.P.A. found that, among chemicals produced in quantities of more than a million pounds per year, only seven per cent had undergone the full slate of basic toxicity studies. There is no requirement to label most consumer products for their chemical contents, and no consistent regulation throughout the country. Although the F.D.A. initially concluded that BPA was safe, some states, including Massachusetts and Connecticut, either have banned it or are considering a ban. (In January, the F.D.A. announced that it would conduct further testing.)
There has been some movement toward stricter controls: in July, 2008, Congress passed the Product Safety Improvement Act, which banned six phthalates from children's toys. But so far removal from other products has been voluntary. The President's Cancer Panel report advised people to reduce exposure with strategies that echo some of what the mothers in Frederica Perera's study have learned: choose products made with minimal toxic substances, avoid using plastic containers to store liquids, and choose produce grown without pesticides or chemical fertilizers and meat free of antibiotics and hormones.
Mike Walls, the vice-president of regulatory affairs at the American Chemistry Council, a trade association that represents manufacturers of industrial chemicals, agrees that new laws are needed to regulate such chemicals. "Science has advanced since 1976, when the last legislation was enacted," he said. But Walls notes that some eight hundred thousand people are employed in the companies that the A.C.C. represents, and that their products are found in ninety-six per cent of all American manufactured goods. "The United States is the clear leader in chemistry," Walls said. "We have three times as many new applications for novel compounds as any other country in the world. We want to make good societal decisions but avoid regulations that will increase the burden on industry and stifle innovation."
Academic researchers have found that the enormous financial stakes—the production of BPA is a six-billion-dollar-a-year industry—have prompted extra scrutiny of their results. In 2007, according to a recent article in Nature, a majority of non-industry-supported studies initially deemed sound by the National Toxicology Program on the safety of BPA were dismissed as unsuitable after a representative of the A.C.C. drafted a memo critiquing their methods; experimental protocols often differ from one university lab to another. Researchers are now attempting to create a single standard protocol, and a bill introduced by Representative Louise Slaughter, of New York, would fund a centralized research facility at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Other legislation aims to completely overhaul the 1976 law. "It's clear that the current system doesn't work at all," Ben Dunham, a staffer in the office of Senator Frank Lautenberg, of New Jersey, who crafted the bill now before the Senate, told me. Henry Waxman, of California, and Bobby Rush, of Illinois, have released a companion discussion draft in the House. Lautenberg's bill seeks to allow the E.P.A. to act quickly on chemicals that it considers dangerous; to give new power to the E.P.A. to establish safety criteria in chemical compounds; to create a database identifying chemicals in industrial products; and to set specific deadlines for approving or banning compounds. The bill also seeks to limit the number of animals used for research. (Millions of animals are estimated to be required to perform the testing mandated under the E.U. law.) How much data would be needed to either restrict use of a chemical or mandate an outright ban is still unclear. Lautenberg's bill resisted the call of environmental groups to ban certain compounds like BPA immediately.
Dr. Gina Solomon, of the Natural Resources Defense Council, said that the Lautenberg bill is "an excellent first step," but noted several "gaps" in the bill: "There is what people call lack of a hammer, meaning no meaningful penalty for missing a deadline in evaluating a chemical if E.P.A. gets bogged down, and we know from history that it can be easily bogged down." The language setting a standard for safety is too vague, she added. "You could imagine industry driving a truck through this loophole."
Linda Birnbaum, the director of the N.I.E.H.S. and its National Toxicology Program, helps assess chemicals for the federal government and, if Slaughter's bill passes, could become responsible for much of the research surrounding these safety issues. Birnbaum's branch of the National Institutes of Health is working with the National Human Genome Research Institute and the E.P.A. to test thousands of compounds, singly and in combination, to assess their potential toxicity. Part of the difficulty, she points out, is that "what is normal for me may not be normal for you. We all have our own balance of different hormones in our different systems." When it comes to development and achievement, incremental differences—such as the drop of five to ten I.Q. points, or a lower birth weight—are significant. "We're all past the point of looking for missing arms and legs," Birnbaum said.
"I know of very little science where you will ever get hundred-per-cent certainty," Birnbaum says. "Science is constantly evolving, constantly learning new things, and at times decisions have to be made in the presence of a lot of information, but maybe not certainty. The problem is we don't always want to wait ten or twelve or twenty years to identify something that may be a problem."
Perera, who is keenly aware of the potential pitfalls of epidemiological research, told me that her team employs rigorous statistical methods to avoid falsely suggesting that one chemical or another is responsible for any given result. And she objects to the characterization of her research as fear-mongering. "Our findings in children increasingly show real deleterious effects that can occur short-term and potentially for the rest of the child's life," Perera said. In January, the Columbia group published data from the mothers and infants it studied following September 11th. Cord-blood samples saved at the time of birth had been analyzed for the presence of flame retardants. Each year, the children were assessed for mental and motor development. As a point of reference, low-level lead poisoning results in an average loss of four to five I.Q. points. Those children in Columbia's group with the highest levels of flame retardant in their blood at birth had, by the age of four, I.Q. scores nearly six points lower than normal.
How do we go forward? Flame retardants surely serve a purpose, just as BPA and phthalates have made for better and stronger plastics. Still, while the evidence of these chemicals' health consequences may be far from conclusive, safer alternatives need to be sought. More important, policymakers must create a better system for making decisions about when to ban these types of substances, and must invest in the research that will inform those decisions. There's no guarantee that we'll always be right, but protecting those at the greatest risk shouldn't be deferred. ♦


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It's little more than a glimmer of hope, but a comprehensive new report suggests that a trend toward healthier habits may have halted the rise of obesity among the nation's teens.
In 2009 and 2010, American adolescents exercised more, watched less TV, ate more fruits and vegetables and drank fewer sugar-sweetened beverages than did children of the same age in 2001 and 2002, the national study found. The research was published online Monday in the journal Pediatrics.
Despite steady improvements in behaviors linked to excess weight, rates of overweight and obesity among children in grades six through 10 continued to rise until 2005.
But against a backdrop of urgent efforts to get children off the couch, improve schools' nutritional offerings and drive down soda consumption, something happened between 2005 and 2010 that's scarcely been seen for more than 30 years among the nation's young teens: Obesity rates held steady at 12.7% for this age group nationally. And the proportion of teens in grades six through 10 who were overweight ticked downward slightly from 17% in 2005 to 16.6% in 2010.
The report falls in line with a wide range of indicators suggesting that rates of obesity among the nation's children may at least have stabilized and could, with continued efforts, be poised for a reversal.
In California, the proportion of children in grades five, seven and nine who were overweight or obese dropped a modest 1.1% between 2005 and 2010. In Mississippi, obese and overweight children went from 43% of the state's pediatric population in 2005 to 37.3% in 2011. Major cities such as Philadelphia and New York reported significant declines in excess weight among schoolchildren.
"It may be that current public health efforts are succeeding," wrote Ronald J. Iannotti and Jing Wang, coauthors of the analysis, which gauged the health habits and weight status of close to 35,000 American teens between 2001 and 2010. "The trends from 2001 to 2009 are encouraging."
But, the authors added, "this leveling of the obesity trend may be somewhat unique to the United States, and continued improvements in physical activity, sedentary behaviors and dietary behavior may be necessary before the trend begins to turn downward."
Experts in child obesity hailed the report as encouraging, but cautioned that there was little cause for celebration.
"This is a nice finding that suggests that what we've seen in children of younger ages might be starting to have an effect in adolescents, who can assert more control over their choices than younger children can," said Dr. James Marks, senior vice president of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Group. That the study finds the trend toward healthier behaviors nationally, and not just in subgroups of American kids, "is what is most exciting," Marks said.
At the same time, he added, "we do have a long way to go."
Indeed, the authors of the study cautioned that "there is considerable need for improvement." Most adolescents failed to get the daily 60 minutes of physical activity recommended for their age group, and watched more than the maximum two hours of television recommended for good health. A small minority consumed five-plus servings of fruits and vegetables that are considered the standard for a nutritious diet, and few could be said to "minimize" their intake of sweets or sugar sweetened beverages.
Moreover, the averaged indicators of better habits hid some significant holdouts: African American youth continued to report the highest consumption of sweets and sugar-sweetened soft drinks; Latino children were less likely to report increased levels of physical activity than were non-Latino white adolescents, and they spent more time in front of a screen.
Girls were more likely to eat fruits and vegetables than boys, but they also were less likely to get an hour of physical activity daily. And while TV viewing fell overall, children appear to have compensated by spending more time in front of video games or on social media.
The study also comes amid evidence that the number of children with severe obesity is growing at a steady clip. "I don't think we have any evidence of a similar trend - an adoption of healthy behaviors - occurring among severely obese children and adolescents," said Aaron S. Kelly, professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School and author of a recent study on such children.
The ideal would be if the trend of healthier behaviors expanded into populations that may be difficult to treat, Kelly said. "Perhaps fewer of them will reach the level of severe obesity in the first place," he added.
The Pediatrics study suggests the pediatricians, who should already be urging children to move more and eat better, might tailor their messages differently so that kids' healthy behaviors improve across the board. For boys, whose gains in physical activity have come with an increase in video gaming, physicians might praise the exercise and caution against screen time. For girls, who are eating more fruits and vegetables but acknowledge they still eat lots of sweets, they might focus on the health costs of added sugar.
But having pediatricians step up their advice to children and their families "is not sufficient," said Rand Corp. analyst Dr. Deborah Cohen, author of the forthcoming book "A Big Fat Crisis: The Hidden Influences Behind the Obesity Epidemic - and How We Can End It." If we want children to get more exercise, school districts and states should "create more opportunities for physical activity," Cohen said.


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Winter Wonderland Baby Shower Invitation Suite Templates
Baby, it's cold outside! When the weather gets chilly we still love to party. For the perfect winter baby shower, host a Winter Wonderland party. It works for either a boy or a girl. You will make the perfect announcement with this Winter Wonderland baby shower invitation suite with rustic background and white snowflakes.
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