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In an era of H1N1 (swine flu), MRSA and other contagious illnesses that can be transmitted environmentally, and directly or indirectly by surfaces, disinfectants clearly have a place in our clean-for-health toolbox.
Still, the use of disinfectants presents several pressing questions, such as: Since these products are pesticides, are they just too toxic to use routinely? Do disinfectants cause antibiotic resistance? What about the recent report from the Society for General Microbiology stating that disinfectants can make bacteria resistant to treatment?
The following questions and answers look to address these issues.
Q: Since disinfectant products are pesticides, are they just too toxic to use routinely?
A: No doubt about it, we are often "trigger happy" when it comes to trying to destroy germs or microbes, since most are essential to and part of life.
We do not want to poison or attempt to routinely destroy all germs.
As Philip M. Tierno Jr, Ph.D, director, Clinical Microbiology & Immunology, New York University Medical Center, and associate professor, Departments of Microbiology & Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, referenced in his book, The Secret Life of Germs:
"First, we must understand the important role germs play as recyclers of complex organic matter on planet Earth, and in the maintenance of our own health. Germs in the normal human flora can prevent establishment of pathogenic germs in our bodies and also provide us with nutritive materials. Therefore, we must never entertain the notion that all germs are bad and should be eliminated. That is neither possible nor desirable. Because germs are ubiquitous (including in and on human beings), we must learn to live with them. Hence our protective strategy should be focused on reducing the risks of infection."
Moreover, overuse of disinfectants in our facilities definitely poses risks to human and environmental health, just as overuse of bug spray does in our homes — plus it wastes money.
Thus, "routine use" should be restricted to "where needed" to control dangerous pathogens.
However, we should not underestimate the importance of "where needed."
Think of discovering a black widow spider infestation in your home — a species resistant to many pest control methods.
Would you want to experiment with non-toxic and less effective means of control and risk someone being bitten and injected with highly toxic spider venom?
Sometimes the benefits of a "quick kill" far outweigh the risks of proper use of an EPA-registered pesticide — or disinfectant.
Q: Do disinfectants cause antibiotic resistance?
A: It"s misleading to imply or state outright that antibacterial products (i.e., Triclosan) and disinfectants (quats, phenolics, etc.) can — like antibiotics — routinely produce resistant bacteria or "super germs" that endanger public health.
While bacterial-resistance has been proven to develop with antibiotics (they work inside or on the body, and therefore cannot be as immediately lethal as antibacterial and disinfectant products used outside the body) — generally speaking, antibacterial products and disinfectants, unlike antibiotics, directly kill germs, without the strong possibility of resistance developing.
At the risk of oversimplifying, while antibiotics impair the functioning of germs leaving some to survive and develop resistance, the consensus among scientists is that disinfectants work somewhat like "sledgehammers" and there is simply nothing left alive to develop resistance.
Triclosan (used in antibacterial hand soaps and to impregnate certain products) is more controversial and the debate goes on as to its actual ability to create dangerous antibiotic resistant bacteria with significant impacts in the real world.
With properly-used disinfectants in the context of JanSan operations, bacterial resistance apparently never happens — at least as far as we know.
According to Dr. Chuck Gerba, professor of Environmental Microbiology in the Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Soil, Water and Environmental Science at the University of Arizona, "No resistance to chlorine has ever occurred despite its use for over 100 years. The same can be said for quats. While you do see some tolerance to quats develop by some microorganisms, it still has not prevented the widespread use of quats since they are still effective at the dosages used. Actually, in our studies of disinfectant use in daycare centers we saw a reduction in the number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the daycare and a reduction in the antibiotic use among the children. I think the bottom line is that cleaning and disinfectant use saves lives, and actually reduces the use of antibiotics."
According to Benjamin D. Tanner, Ph.D., president, Antimicrobial Test Laboratories, "Cross-resistance to antibiotics from disinfectants is not easily demonstrable outside of lab settings, but is a possibility nonetheless. Still, the risks of not disinfecting contaminated surfaces far exceed any possible cross-resistance risks … cleaning without disinfectants may not solve today"s infection control problems (MRSA, VRE, C. diff) like it helped to solve yesterday"s. In fact, it could actually make them worse if pathogens were to be spread around a facility during the cleaning process."
Q: What about the recent report from the Society for General Microbiology stating that disinfectants can make bacteria resistant to treatment?
A: The report states, "Chemicals used in the environment to kill bacteria could be making them stronger, according to a paper published in the October issue of the journal Microbiology [reporting on a study by Dr. Kaatz]. Low levels of these chemicals, called biocides, can make the potentially lethal bacterium Staphylococcus aureus remove toxic chemicals from the [bacterial] cell even more efficiently, potentially making it resistant to being killed by some antibiotics."
The key point, stated later, is this: "At the correct strength, biocides kill bacteria and other microbes. However, if lower levels are used the bacteria can survive and become resistant to treatment."
The moral?
Use the right disinfectant and dilution, and apply it correctly.
According to Dr. Jay Glasel, professor emeritus in the Department of Microbial, Molecular and Structural Biology at the University of Connecticut Medical/Dental School in Farmington, Connecticut, "Resistance does not develop in bacteria exposed to sufficient doses of biocide … The cautionary tale that the Kaatz paper relates is that biocides used in disinfection to remove Gram-positive microbials should be of sufficient concentration to kill them quickly."
On balance, and in light of current evidence, antibacterial and disinfectant products have their proper place in our quest to reduce the risk of infection and protect health.
Cleaning is still the best first line of defense, but due to the effectiveness of disinfectants used properly and where needed, it is not the only one.

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February 3 – Happy Birthday Larry MacPhail Sr.
Larry MacPhail Sr. was anything but an ordinary guy. The son of a prominent banker, Larry attended private schools, went on to get his law degree and then enlisted in the army to fight WWI as an artillery captain. As the armistice was being negotiated, he accompanied his commanding officer on an unsanctioned and unsuccessful mission to kidnap the Kaiser. After the war, he practiced law, ran a department store and became part owner of a minor league baseball team. That team was affiliated with the St Louis Cardinals and through that affiliation, Larry developed a working relationship with the Cardinal's chief executive, the legendary Branch Rickey. A few years later, the Cincinnati Reds were looking for a new GM and Rickey recommended MacPhail for the job and the game of baseball was never the same. MacPhail was an innovator. He introduced night baseball, air travel and television to the sport and for good measure, he gave the game Red Barber. After leaving the Reds he became GM of the Dodgers and turned a very bad Brooklyn team into a pennant winner within two seasons. Then in 1945, he was brought into a partnership by Dan Topping and Del Webb that purchased the New York Yankees from the estate of Jacob Rupert. Neither Webb or Topping knew anything about running a baseball team and after witnessing MacPhail's success with Brooklyn, they figured he was the right guy to make baseball decisions.
The problem with MacPhail was he loved the booze as much as he loved running a baseball team and he too often let the two mix. Yankee manager Joe McCarthy quit the team when MacPhail became its President and so did his successor, Bill Dickey. One night while drinking with Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey in Toots Shoor's restaurant in Manhattan, MacPhail actually traded Joe DiMaggio for Ted Williams. When Yawkey sobered up the next morning, he called old Larry and nixed the deal. After both McCarthy and Dickey quit as Yankee skippers, MacPhail started courting Leo Durocher, who was being investigated by the Commissioner's office for his association with known gamblers. It soon became clear to Webb and Topping that MacPhail was not a good fit. The situation came to a head after the Yankees beat the Dodgers in the 1947 World Series. MacPhail was already drunk before the final game ended. During a team celebration that followed at Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, the seriously inebriated executive insulted every one in his path including Topping. Author Roger Kahn later wrote that MacPhail was actually suffering a nervous breakdown during the event. Whatever the case, Topping and Webb quickly forced him out of the partnership. He never again ran a big league ball club.
MacPhail passed away in 1975 at the age of 85. Three years later he was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. His son Lee was also a Yankee GM and joined his Dad in the Hall of Fame in 1998, becoming the only father-son tandem in Cooperstown. Larry Sr. shares his February 3rd birthday with this former Yankee pitcher, this one too and this one-time Yankee third-baseman.


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Tuesday, December 06, 2011
The Senduduk buds....
6 comments:
- JALAN REBUNG said...
salam pak idrus,
pokok senduduk ni masa kecik-kecik mak saya selalu sebut ..Anyway , a very nice macro shot ...cantik gambar ni
- 12:51 pm
- srisemantan said...
Salam Pak Idrus or rather Tuan Haji Idrus. I feel very uneasy to address you as Pak Idrus cos you are my former boss in JBS WPKL in the 80s. Actually I have been following your blog for quite sometimes. Buah senduduk is one of my favourite during my young days besides buah Letup-Letup & buah Kemunting which are so rare in kampung areas nowadays.I really don't know that the buah senduduk can be used as bullets with bamboo gun or bedil buluh cos during our days backed in the 60s we used buah cenderai. Anyway,I am glad to have written something here after being so malu-malu for years. Mudah2an Tuan Haji akan terus diberikan kesihatan yang terbaik serta limpahan rahmat dari Allah swt.
- 4:58 pm
- Temuk said...
Assalamualaikum PAK IDRUS
A lovely shot!
I like senduduk flowers a lot. I have 2 white senduduk trees in my compound now that attract a lot of bees. But I think these bees love the pink flowers more.
- 10:34 pm
- Pak Idrus said...
JALAN REBUNG, Rizal thanks for the visit and sharing your thoughts on the subject of this posting.
Well the Senduduk have always been associated with the growing up period of my generation. It is a wild flower that grow on its own but kids love it for its fruits.
Thanks too for the good words on my Macro Photography. I am continuing to learn all the times the way of getting the best shots.
Have a nice day.
- 8:19 pm
- Pak Idrus said...
srisemantan, thanks for the visit and sharing your thoughts on the subject of this posting. Well at this age and with grand kids around I am happy to be address as Atok and in cyberspace as Pak Idrus.
I cannot recollect you so do please write to me using my email address which is at my blog. I am glad to get to meet you again and perhaps go for Lunch or a TT if you happens to live in the Kelang Valley. Anyway I travel often and if you live somewhere else we could meet too. So do write to me so that we could get connected again.
As for this Senduduk, this plant have always been part of our generation growing up period except for those whose growing up period was in the town. An example is Salehan Suru when I told him about this plant, he seem not to know at all. Later I found that he was brought up in Kampong Bahru KL.
Hope that we do get to meet. Have a nice day.
- 8:27 pm
- Pak Idrus said...
Temuk, Thanks for the visit and sharing your valuable thoughts on the Senduduk. Well I have the white verities in my little garden and it did flowers well in the pot.
Thanks too for the good words on my Macro Photography. I am still learning the way of good photography and would gladly share my experience with others, so that others may enjoy it too.
There are so much of nature that we would have missed had it not been for photography. In Macro Photography we get to see of the wonder of nature at closeup.
Have a nice day.
- 8:34 pm


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Aussie Walker gets invite to Capitals rookie campby Mike G. Morreale
The dream of becoming the first Australian to play in the NHL continues to motivate forward Nathan Walker.
Despite the fact he didn't hear his name announced for the second straight year at the NHL Draft in June, the 19-year-old will be given a chance to earn a professional contract in September.
Walker will be entering his first full season with the Youngstown Phantoms of the United States Hockey League in 2013-14, unless he impresses the Washington Capitals enough during the organization's rookie camp in September.
Walker has been invited to the Capitals' camp with the possibility of receiving an added invite to the team's full training camp. The Capitals then would determine whether Walker deserves a professional contract at this stage in his career.
If the Capitals don't sign him, he'll have one more chance to be drafted, at the 2014 NHL Draft in Philadelphia.
Walker joined the Phantoms in January 2013 after playing six seasons of junior and professional senior hockey in the Czech Republic. Born in Wales, his family moved to Sydney, Australia when he was 2 years old. To further his hockey career he moved to Ostrava, Czech Republic, and spent six years in the country playing for several clubs and among men.
He drew attention from scouts while playing in the top Czech professional league as a 16-year-old in 2011-12, with HC Vitkovice Steel in Ostrava. In parts of two seasons in the top Czech league, he had four goals and six assists in 54 games.
In 29 games with the Phantoms last season, Walker had seven goals, 27 points and a plus-5 rating to help the club overcome a 5-11-0 start to finish third in the USHL's Eastern Conference. He also earned a spot at the 2013 USHL/NHL Top Prospects Game at the L.C. Walker Arena in Muskegon, Mich. His season ended April 5 when he injured his neck during a game against the United States National Team Development Program.
"Walker is a great skater and works hard on every shift," NHL Director of European Scouting Goran Stubb told NHL.com.
With a 5-foot-10, 180-pound frame, Walker has earned the nickname "Stormy" for his aggressive and relentless puck pursuit each shift. He had been training in the Czech Republic early this summer before going home to Australia. He's expected to return to Youngstown next month to prepare for Capitals rookie camp.
He played for Australia in the 2011 IIHF World Championship Division II tournament and finished second on the team with four goals in six games. The following year he played for Australia at the 2012 World Championship Division IB tournament and finished with four goals and six points. He was recognized by the tournament coaches as Australia's best player.


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When and why did you start training for fighting? Age 9 – to escape the usual routine.
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mlcsales necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 7 diseños de 4 diseñadores freelance.
Need website design for home builder and will ultimately need to transform into a Drupal template/theme. SPECIFICALLY we want designs for three (3) pages as explained in detailed design brief:
1.) Home page
2.) Community page
3.) Plan page
Winner may be awarded early if a great design is submitted.
UPDATED July 7th, 2007: Updated detailed design brief to include information on menus. Sorry to everyone for lack of feedback. It will be forthcoming soon, hopefully this weekend.
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UPDATED July 7th, 2007: Updated detailed design brief to include information on menus. Also sorry to everyone for lack of feedback. It will be forthcoming soon, hopefully this weekend.
We are web marketing consultants are in need of a website design for a specific home builder client and we will ultimately need to transform the winning design into a Drupal template/theme.
SPECIFICALLY we are looking for you to present designs for three (3) pages as explained in the detailed design brief (see below):
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It's been 20 years since the world lost Jim Henson, and I still can't think about it without tearing up a bit. His death at age 53 was sudden and catastrophic, like being hit by lightning on a cloudless day. Along with countless others around the world who had never met him, I felt like a close friend was gone.
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Five of my fellow GeekDads and I have put together this article as a tribute to his memory. On the following pages are our thoughts on this anniversary of his passing, and at the end are videos from his memorial service in 1990, which are some of the saddest and most wonderful things you are ever likely to see. Please take a few minutes to read and watch, and then add your own tribute in the comments.
This is my now-six-year-old, back when she was about 2 1/2, at the Children's Museum in Portland, Oregon. They were having a Sesame Street exhibit, and in one of the stations, kids could dress as a furry Muppet. There was also a bit with a blue screen behind a brick half-wall, so you could appear on the TV with various Muppets, just like other little kids from the show. My daughter at this point hadn't watched much TV before, but she loved being on TV and it didn't seem to bother her at all that there wasn't an actual Muppet next to her.
I remember growing up with two Sesame Street books in particular: The Monster at the End of This Book (starring Grover) and Cookie Monster and the Cookie Tree. I managed to find copies of both books when my daughter was little, and I loved reading it to her and doing the voices. (I can manage a pretty good Grover and Cookie Monster, sometimes Ernie, and I get by on the rest.) More recently, when I was helping with an after-school program and trying to read books to second- and third-graders, I discovered one day that the only thing that got them to sit still and listen was when I read a book as Grover. They were immediately hooked.
— Jonathan Liu
When I think about Jim Henson, I think about my childhood, Muppets and his '70s sense of style. I think about his voice, which he changed slightly (or more than slightly) for Kermit, Ernie, The Swedish Chef and others. I grew up watching Sesame Street and The Muppet Show, Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas, and later Fraggle Rock, so I knew Jim Henson's work very well. We even had two Sesame Street records that we listened to until they were filled with skips. I still have them to this day.
As a grown-up, I bought some Sesame Street music on CD. Knowing that Jim Henson died far too early in life, the song "I Don't Want to Live on the Moon" never fails to bring me to tears. It is an interesting song, and doesn't have particularly sad lyrics. But the music is so melancholic, and it is sung by Jim Henson, so it always makes me sad, but in a happy way. He left behind so much beautiful work, and he brought joy to so many millions of children. Fortunately, his company continues to do so.
Now that I have kids of my own, I've been delighted to share my love of Jim Henson's work with them. We get The Muppet Show from Netflix, we watch Fraggle Rock on the DVDs I bought many years ago. But at the same time, the older I get, the more sad I get about Jim Henson's death. I realize more and more just how much we have missed out on all these years, not having him with us to make more wonderful things. He was such a champion for kids' television programming, and he created such wonderful worlds for us and our children. Thank you, Jim Henson. Your life touched mine, and countless others.
— Jenny Williams
I was born in 1976, the same year The Muppet Show premiered on CBS. It was a simpler time; we had no commercial internet, an almost obscene number of telephones were still rotary and television was limited in most areas to around a half-dozen measly channels. We Gen Xers prefer to paint this era as the golden age of children's entertainment, but, as is often the case with nostalgia, we delude ourselves.
Still, Jim Henson's Muppets were one of a few blessed exceptions. Whether they were teaching us about life (and death) on Sesame Street or dazzling us with parody skits in prime time, the Muppets truly connected with viewers. They spoke to us.
Every kid of my generation had a favorite. Some related to the good-natured but neurotic Kermit the Frog; others, the affable second banana Fozzie Bear, and even relatively underexposed characters like The Swedish Chef had their rabid fans. While I was (and remain) more of a Gonzo the Great kind of guy in real life, my Muppet of choice was understated wise-ass Rowlf the Dog.
Though Rowlf is likely remembered as the cast's pianist and occasional soap opera star, his defining moment, for me at least, occurs in 1979's The Muppet Movie.
Therein, this humble canine, cast as a player at a piano bar, sings a duet with Kermit entitled "I Hope That Somethin' Better Comes Along." It's a simple scene meant to introduce Rowlf as a secondary character as much as it is to expound upon the romantic problems inherent in a frog-pig relationship, but it does so much more. It doesn't merely paint Rowlf as a sympathetic ear for our green hero; it establishes him as a complex character with a strong (if slightly misogynistic) personal philosophy.
Performed and voiced by Henson himself, Rowlf disappeared from the land of Muppets after his master's death, and, when he returned, was sadly silent. In recent years, he has once again began to speak and have an active role in that special brand of madness that only Muppets can create, but longtime fans realize that the Rowlf of old is truly no more.
Still, we make do with this new iteration. At least until somethin' better comes along.
I've only got two words to say about Jim Henson. Actually, it's one word repeated:
Mahnà Mahnà!
I remember when the episode was on TV back in the day, sitting with my younger sister giggling along beside me, as the two pink fluffy things and orange-haired dude ran through the number.
I remember the school playground the next day, everyone running around singing it — it's not like the lyrics were hard to learn. I remember hearing the song on the radio a few weeks later and being so excited when I learned that you could buy a "record" and be able to play it whenever you liked. I hounded my parents non-stop until they brought it. I never knew then that it was originally from a film about "wild sexual activity and other behaviour in Sweden." I remember watching The Muppet Show whenever it was on in the vague hope that the episode would be repeated, these were the dark ages before home video and multichannel cable or satellite.
Years later, when The Muppet Show was finally released on video and then DVD, I finally got to relive the experience. The "best of" DVD has been staple viewing for my little girl now since she was born. I'd much rather put it on for her to watch than Fifi or even Shaun the Sheep. And thanks to YouTube, we can pull it up at a moment's notice if we're away from the house.
Whenever we go on a car journey longer than 10 minutes, I always hear a request from the backseat for mahna, mahna, closely followed by, "you be the boy and I'll be the girls" and then we sing a lovely duet as we go along, bobbing our heads — I dread to think what any onlookers might make it, but that doesn't stop us. The MP3 is the most played track in my iTunes library and I can now sing along with the ad-lib stylings of the main man. And we even do the Statler and Waldorf skit on the end of the track, too.
So, thank you Jim Henson, for "Mahnà Mahnà," "Put Da Lime in the Coconut" and all of the other great songs on the most sensational, celebrational, muppetational Muppet Show!
— Nathan Barry
The Dark Crystal was one of the first fantasy films I ever saw, and one that portrayed an alternate world — with unique creatures and flora and fauna — to a degree I never had imagined possible. I can still remember sitting on our plaid couch sometime in the mid-'80s, leaning over, hearing and watching the humming Mystics shamble across the screen, recoiling in horror at the Skeksis, and cheering for Jen and Kira the entire way. The film really affected me, it resonated deeply on an emotional level, and no matter how many times I watch it, I feel the same way. It simply moves me. What's even more important is that it has all the perfect ingredients for children's fantasy and never shies away from elements of horror and deeper philosophy.
That I'm a speculative fiction writer today is not surprising. Between Henson's The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth (a good film, but not as great as The Dark Crystal, in my mind) I learned very early on just how powerful fantasy can be, just how remarkably it can remove us from the world we know and place us somewhere else — and I wanted in.
For his time, Henson's vision was immense. We can harp on and on about special effects of today, but Henson was nothing short of genius, given what he had access to. And that's not even to point out the sheer quality of his storytelling, his willingness to question our perceptions of good and evil — something that many blockbuster science fiction and fantasy films today can't (and don't) even touch.
— Natania Barron
The Muppets have been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I grew up watching Sesame Street, and later The Muppet Show and the various movies and other series. I can't imagine how different my life now would be without them, because I can only picture figurative holes in it shaped like Kermit, Ernie, Rowlf and the Swedish Chef.
I can't even imagine what Jim Henson would have done if he'd grown up before television came along. The Muppets began as a TV show and sketches on variety shows, moved into commercials, and then of course blossomed into the phenomenon they still are today. Their staying power has been proved time and again, with their incredible cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody" taking the internet by storm.
I was 17 when I heard Jim Henson had died. It seemed impossible: He was Kermit, and Kermit was always there. He was only a few years older than my parents, so what kind of world was it where someone that young and that brilliant could die? I was, truly, as sad as I would have been if a friend had died suddenly, and felt the loss as keenly. I was angry, too, when I heard that he had died of untreated pneumonia, angry that he hadn't gone to the doctor. Angry that the Muppets would never be the same.
I'm not angry any more, but the sadness is still there. I feel it every time I see — or, more accurately, hear — any of the characters he used to play. I don't envy Steve Whitmire his job: How hard must it have been to pick up Kermit the first time after Henson's death, put his hand inside the sleeve, and try to sound as much like Henson as possible? I'm glad that the Muppets, and Henson's former characters, are still around. But they will never quite be the same.
— Matt Blum


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Free IconsFebruary 22, 2011
I've decided to slap a Creative Commons license on the entire darn Chalkwork Family and make them completely free for personal use, starting right now.
I've been considering doing this for quite a while. These icons represent a lot of hard work for me between 2006 and 2009, so you can imagine I've thought through the implications of making them available for free download without a pay barrier: will people use them commercially and not pay? Will they abuse the license terms? Will some redistribute them elsewhere? Will they modify them and claim them as their own?
The answer to each of those questions is, inevitably, yes. I've been on the web long enough to know that no matter what you intend to happen, someone will always find a way to do the complete opposite of that sooner or later. But you know what? I can live with that.
I'm of the opinion that DRM and increasingly consumer-hostile content protection laws are kludgy ways of protecting outdated business models. By offering a product for download, I've effectively been treating the pay barrier as a form of copy-protection all along. Which has worked well enough for my purposes, but if I'm being honest with myself I don't think I really need that protection.
People who appreciate your work do the right thing. Just as those who download music are more inclined to buy it, my bet is that those who download these icons for personal use may one day come back and pay for commercial use. If they don't, were they ever likely to buy them in the first place? I doubt it.
It's not all philosophy and rhetoric, I'm genuinely curious to see what happens next with the commercial sales since they've been on a steady decline over the years. I tried an AdWords campaign for a while, but that didn't do much to reverse the trend. Will opening them up under a free license provide an extra boost? Maybe, but then maybe I just killed all future sales. Hard to say.
Most of the money I was ever going to make happened at the beginning, the long tail isn't proving that profitable. Sales over the years have at least paid for the time I spent creating the family so I'm happy with the overall return, but there's clearly not much left to lose now so I'm willing to experiment a little.
Share and enjoy.
if you're having trouble downloading the full files, it's not just you. Downloads appear to be getting cut off halfway through. Lots of data transfer is making weird things happen; I'm looking into it.
Probably a good choice considering the point you made about music. If people download these icons now that they're free, and they find themselves considering them for a client project, they're more likely to come back and buy a license than they were without getting them for free for personal use.
Regardless, thanks for making these available. I'm not sure I'll use them myself, but it's always nice to have another set of quality icons ready to download at will.
@Patrick - that's pretty much my thinking too. We'll see what happens, that scenario means any sales boost would likely happen over the long haul, not immediately.
Thank you so much! I love these icons.
Wow, that is a bold move. As one of your customers I really appreciate it. This is a step in the right direction.
"my bet is that those who download these icons for personal use may one day come back and pay for commercial use. If they don't, were they ever likely to buy them in the first place? I doubt it."
Spot on! I find myself in this camp often for music, software, and (perhaps now) icons.
I'm interested to see what comes of the move.
Interesting that you equate personal with non-commercial. I work with web-projects at a large public (non-profit) university (in Brazil), can I use them?
Thanks a lot mate. These are my favorite alongside famfamfam :)
I think this is a bold and wise move, and I admire your decision as this very excellent icon set has clearly cost you a lot of work and time.
I agree on your position that DRM in general is becoming increasingly user-unfriendly, and am also of the view that this method of providing high-quality content for free personal use with the aim/hope that this will encourage users to pay for commercial use (or may lead to commissions) is the way forward for work like this.
Kudos, sir.
That's a really nice set of icons and glad to hear you've made something back for all your hard work. I feel you've made a good decision to offer them as a free download for personal use as designers will use them in mock-ups and if their clients like them, then they will include commercial use costs within the budget. Personally I tend to use online stock photo libraries and happy knowing that a percentage of each sale goes back to the designer. If you need my help in selling these to a wide audience, please do not hesitate to contact me.


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... I was walking up the ramp, I swung the corner, took the ledge and went back to the second tree to belay as we'd seen done. Incredible rope drag...
Sounds fun, I love those kind of exposed belays. Beautiful view and it it stretches the calves. I use a PAS but I'm going to start doing a clove hitch to back it up. I trust the PAS but when I lean back I always feel like a little redundancy would help.
... I agree that a PAS is not bombproof, so I ONLY use one (actually a NYLON daisy chain) on aid; when free climbing for fun and/or guiding my dynamic ROPE is clove-hitched to the master point and I'm Off Belay
Summer belay should not take more than 2 or 3 min to set up.
Interesting, non of the seasoned climbers seem to opt for the PAS although we go out on a limb for em (literally) Not sure if I could convince my climbing partner to ditch her PAS for the clove (can't get her to go for the traditional prusik over the heavy Shunt)...
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Food52's Editorial Assistant (and college student) Brette Warshaw is curating her very own first kitchen -- and she needs your help. Today: how to choose the right cutting board.
Sometimes, I wish I were a cutting board.
Think about it. Cutting boards – good-quality ones, ones made out of the right material – can be bruised, slashed, and riddled with blemishes. They can be whacked with a hammer or a cleaver, or sliced into again and again with an unforgiving blade.
And then, just like magic, they close right back up again. They heal themselves.
Pretty badass.
Up until now in my kitchen research, the beauty of a blank slate has been lost. A blank slate sounds attractive -- until you start building a First Kitchen, the ultimate blank slate. Some pans, it seems, are best seasoned. Some cookbooks, it sounds like, are best tattered and stained.
But now, I want the blankest slate for my first kitchen – a cutting board that will get dirty with the beets and the garlic and the raw chicken I'll be slicing, that will get stained and slicked and slashed with use. And then, after the wear and the tear, after the breakfasts and lunches and dinners that will be prepared on it, I want it to be blank again.
Wood, plastic, or bamboo?
When deciding between a wood, plastic, or bamboo cutting board, researching the self-healing properties of each material is key. I want a blank slate that will stay blank for years to come, not one that will splinter and crack after one, heartfelt whack.
Hard woods, like acacia, teak, and maple, are the highest-quality wood boards; since they are less porous than other materials, they absorb less water and bacteria. They also have special bacteria-fighting properties; according to this study at UC Davis, disease bacteria are fought off from the surface soon after they're applied.
Bacteria-fighting superpowers? Again, pretty badass.
Wood and bamboo have both these properties: they self-heal and fight bacteria. However, wood surfaces, such as the Proteak Edge Grain Teak Cutting Board, are easier on knives; they give more to the blade without dulling them. Bamboo, though, has the whole environmentally-friendly thing going on – and good-quality bamboo boards, such as the Schmidt Brothers Bamboo Wiki Board, can have the long, healthy life of a wood board.
Plastic boards, like the OXO Good Grips Carving & Cutting Board, may seem to be safer than wood or bamboo – they're easier to clean, they can go in the dishwasher, and they're lighter and easier to maneuver around the kitchen. But since they have no self-healing or bacteria-fighting properties, they don't last as long – and they're less safe. Having an extra one or two around the kitchen is helpful, but according to the study at UC Davis, knife-scarred plastic surfaces are impossible to clean and disinfect manually, especially when food residues like chicken fat are present.
Chicken fat-infected, knife-scarred surfaces? Far from the blank slate I'm looking for.
End-grain or edge-grain?
If I'm springing for a wooden board, I have an extra decision to make: do I go edge-grain, where strips of wood are laid side-by-side and grafted together (like a famous Boos block), or do I go end-grain, where the board is grafted from many short pieces of hard wood laid vertically (making a checker-board pattern, like this)? End-grain boards are supposedly easier on knives, but as Jared Schmidt from Schmidt Brothers Cutlery told me, the decision is really more about the look that I want. With the right maintenance, both kinds of wood boards will last for years – and will still look handsome on my countertop.
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Critical care and trauma in adult and pediatrics, sudden cardiac arrest, cardiac electrophysiology sudden cardiac arrest. Methodology: qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods.
2007 Ph.D. Nursing, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Worcester, MA; Doctor of Philosophy; May 2007
Area of research: Young Adults/Cardiac Electrophysiology
1999 Master of Science Nursing - Adult/Pediatric Trauma/Critical Care
Educator/Specialist – University of Massachusetts, Boston. Clinical fellowship under supervision of Dr. Irwin Hirsch-Chief of Trauma Surgery, Boston Medical Center. Responsibilities during this fellowship included quality improvement initiatives, code review committee, compliance of policy mandates, trauma follow-up, and critical care consultant. 1997-1999; Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
1995 Bachelor of Science Nursing - Atlantic Union College, Lancaster, MA
McDonough's doctoral studies were partially supported by a grant from the American Association of Critical Care Nurses. Her doctoral research utilized a qualitative descriptive approach to examine the perceptions of young adults living with an implanted cardiac defibrillator (ICD) due to sudden cardiac arrest or cardiac abnormalities (congenital or electrophysiological).
She was employed as an educator and visiting faculty for over 10 years at various universities and most recently at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. While completing her Master's Degree, McDonough received the Professional Nurse Traineeship Grant (1998) for excellence in teaching in underserved communities. She was an assistant professor and coordinator of RN-BS completion program at UMass Lowell.
McDonough lectured in areas related to critical care and trauma in adult and pediatrics and offered NCLEX review classes in many universities in Massachusetts, as well as tutored in health sciences and nursing. She was a subject expert in pathophysiology for Wolters Kluwer Health, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, and recently completed an online pathophysiology course.
McDonough was pursuing her research interests as an external faculty nurse scientist with the Yvonne L. Munn Center for Nursing Research at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA. She was an active member of the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, American Heart Association, and Heart Rhythm Association. She had planned to work with the sudden cardiac arrest awareness campaign and to focus her efforts on educating high school and college students on signs of sudden cardiac arrest.
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According to legend, the Greek general Achilles used yarrow to stop the bleeding of his soldiers' wounds during the Trojan War: hence the scientific name Achillea and the common names "soldier's wound-wort," "bloodwort," and " herbe militaire"
Yarrow has also been used traditionally as treatment for respiratory infections, menstrual pain, and digestive upsets.
Like osha, yarrow tea is commonly taken at the first sign of a cold or flu to bring on sweating and, according to tradition, ward off infection. Crushed yarrow leaves and flower tops are also applied directly as first aid to stop nosebleeds and bleeding from minor wounds. However, there has not been any formal scientific study of how well yarrow works.
To make yarrow tea, steep 1 to 2 teaspoons of dried herb per cup of water. Combination products should be taken according to label instructions.
No clear toxicity has been associated with yarrow.1 The FDA has expressed concern about a toxic constituent of yarrow known as thujone and permits only thujone-free yarrow extracts for use in beverages. Nonetheless, the common spice sage contains more thujone than yarrow, and the FDA lists sage as generally recognized as safe.
Safety in young children, pregnant or nursing women, or those with severe liver or kidney disease has not been established.
1. Newall CA, Anderson LA, Phillipson JD. Herbal Medicines: A Guide for Health-Care Professionals. London, England: Pharmaceutical Press; 1996:272.
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Title: Sidney Hollander Collection
Creator: Sidney Hollander Jr.
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See also: Sidney Hollander Photograph Collection, PP256
Administrative summary
Repository H. Furlong Baldwin Library
Maryland Historical Society
201 W. Monument St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
Access restrictions: Access to this collection is unrestricted
Use restrictions: Permission to publish transcriptions, quotations, or citations must be received in writing from the Special Collections Librarian.
Provenance: The items in this collection were acquired from Sidney Hollander's son Mr. Sidney Hollander, Jr.
Processing note Original finding aid created in 1974, revised in 1981, and 2008, 2011
Scope and Content Note
Sidney Hollander was a Baltimore (Md.) businessman (owner of the Maryland Pharmaceutical Company) who devoted most of his spare time and much of his retirement to volunteer work in the fields of social welfare and social reform. He served numerous private and public philanthropic organizations as an officer and board member and gained prominence on both the local and national welfare scenes. This large collection deals almost exclusively with his long career as a social activist and reformer - a career which spanned the years from 1938 to 1971 and which led Hollander to grapple with a wide variety of American social problems.
The collection was originally divided into nine series: Militia Enlistments, Maryland Line Enlistments, Accounts of Provisions, Pay Accounts and Payrolls, Oaths of Allegiance, and miscellaneous records. An addendum was added as a tenth series which consists of additional speeches, correspondence, and clippings.
Series 1, Miscellaneous Biographical Material
(One folder in Box 1 of Series 2) - Miscellaneous biographical material collected in part by Sidney Hollander, Jr. after the death of his father. This section includes copies of an article which was to appear in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, lists of positions held and awards received by Hollander, and a small amount of material gathered from the archives of the Council on Social Work Education and the National Conference of Social Work pertaining to Hollander's work with these organizations. Also included are Sidney Hollander, Jr.'s reminiscences about his father.
Series 2, Speeches and Interviews
(6 Boxes, 1932-1969) - This section consists of Hollander's formal addresses, acceptance speeches, prepared introductory remarks, and an interview conducted by WBAL-TV. Also see boxes 92- 95 which contain many more speeches and addresses given by Sidney Hollander.
Series 3, Correspondence
(76 Boxes, c.1926-1972) - Alphabetically arranged correspondence file which includes those letters (both incoming and copies of outgoing ones) exchanged between Hollander and numerous individuals and organizations with which he worked. Hollander corresponded with representatives of the following social welfare or social action agencies: American Civil Liberties Union (Md., N.Y.), American Foundation for the Blind (N.Y.), American Friends Service Committee (Pa.), American Jewish Committee (Md., N.Y.), American Jewish Congress (Md., N.Y.), American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (N.Y.), American Public Welfare Association (Ill.), Americans for Democratic Action (Md., District of Columbia), Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore, Baltimore City, Department of Social Services, Baltimore Fellowship, Baltimore Jewish Council, Baltimore Neighborhoods, Inc., Baltimore Urban League, Business Executives Move for Vietnam Peace (B.E.M.) (Md.), Catholic Interracial Council (N.Y.), Child Welfare League of America (N.Y.), Citizens' Crusade Against Poverty (District of Columbia), Citizens Planning and Housing Association of Baltimore, Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.) (Md., N.Y.), Coordinating Committee of Jewish Organizations dealing with Employment Discrimination in War Industries (N.Y.) Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds (N.Y.), Council on Social Work Education (N.Y.), Family Service Association of America (N.Y.), Fellowship Commission (Pa.), Graduate School for Jewish Social Work (N.Y.), Highlander Center (Tenn.), Interracial Music Council (N.Y.), Jewish Children's Society (Md.), Jewish Family and Children's Bureau (Md.), Jewish Labor Committee (Md., N.Y.), Large City Budgeting Conference [of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds] (N.Y.), League for Industrial Democracy (N.Y.), Maryland Conference of Social Concern, Maryland State Department of Employment and Social Services, National Assembly of National Health and Social Welfare Organizations (N.Y.), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N.Y., Md.), National Budget and Consultation Committee (N.Y.), National Committee for the Day Care of Children (N.Y.), National Committee to Abolish the Poll Tax (N.Y.), National Conference of Jewish Communal Service (N.Y.), National Conference on Social Welfare (Ohio), National Council of Senior Citizens (District of Columbia), National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council (N.Y.), National Health and Welfare Retirement Association (N.Y.), National Public Relations Council of Health and Welfare Services (N.Y.), National Recreation Association (MD., N.Y.), National Refugee Service (N.Y.), National Urban League (N.Y.), Non-Sectarian Foundation for Refugee Children (N.Y.), Planned Parenthood Association of Maryland, Russian War Relief (Md.), Social Legislation Information Service (District of Columbia), Southern School for Workers (Va.), Training Bureau for Jewish Communal Service (N.Y.), Union for Democratic Action (District of Columbia, Md., N.Y.), Union of American Hebrew Congregations (N.Y.), United Community Defense Services (N.Y.), United HIAS Service (N.Y.), United Negro College Fund (Md., N.Y.), United Service for New Americans (N.Y.), United Service Organizations (Md., N.Y.), United States Committee for the Care of European Children (N.Y.), Wiltwyck School for Boys (N.Y.), Young Women's Christian Association - National Board (N.Y.), and the Zionist Organization of America (various offices).
Individuals with whom he corresponded include: Paul Baerwald (N.Y., b.1871), Jacob Blaustein (Md., 1892-1970), Isaiah Bowman (Md., 1878-1950), Alice Cope (Mrs. Oliver Cope; Mass.), Grace Coy (Mrs. Wayne Coy; D.C.), Mathilde Dreyfous (Mrs. George A. Dreyfous; La.), [Bert] H. Duschnes (N.Y.), Ludwig Edelstein (Md., N.Y., 1902-1965), Elton C. Fax (N.Y.), Eugene M. Feinblatt (Md.), Marie Louise Friedenwald (Md.), Elisabeth Gilman (Md., 1867-1950), Arnold Gurin (Mass., b.1917), Maurice B. Hexter (N.Y., b. 1891), Gustav Hirshman (Md.), Minna Hirschman (Mrs. Gustav; Md.), Jane M. Hoey (N.Y.), Donald B. Hurwitz (Pa.), Renée Hurwitz (Mrs.Donald B. Hurwitz; Pa.), Albert David Hutzler (Md., 1888-1965), Agnes Inglis King (D.C., d.1975), Mary S. Ingraham (Mrs. Henry A.; N.Y., b.1887), Edward L. Israel (Md.), Marion E. Kenworty (N.Y.), Freda Kirchwey (N.Y., b. 1911), Lawrence S. Kubie (Md.), William Wallace Lanahan (Md.), Irving Levick (N.Y.), [Jack] L. Levin (Md.), Alexander Levy ([Md.]), Eleanor Levy (Mrs. Lester S. Levy; Md.), Lester S. Levy (Md.), James Edward Lewis (Md.), Carolyn Lisburger (Mrs. Sylvan J. Lisburger; Md.), Sylvan J. Lisburger (Calif., Md.), Joseph P. Leob (Calif.), Lillian A. Lottier (Md.), Solomon Lowenstein (N.Y., 1877-1940), Herbert Mallinson (Texas), [Betty] Mayersohn (Mrs. Stanley Mayersohn; N.Y.), Adelaide H. Mitchell (Mrs. Broadus Mitchell; Md., Conn.), Broadus Mitchell (Md., Calif., N.J., b.1892), Henry Monsky (Neb., 1890-1947), Carl Murphy (Md., d. 1967), Howard H. Murphy (Md.), Robert S. Nyburg (Md.), Sidney L. Nyburg (Md., 1880-1957), Herbert R. O'Conor (Md., 1896-1959), [Kate] Ostwald (Calif.), Clarence E. Pickett (Pa., 1884-1965), Justine Wise Polier (Mrs. Shad Polier; N.Y., b.1903), Bertha B. Proctor (Mrs. Wm. Proctor; Md.), Caroline Ramsay (Mrs. John B. Ramsay, Jr.; Md.), David Rosenstein (N.Y., 1895-1963), Else Rosenthal (Mrs. Leo Rosenthal; N.Y.), William Rosenwald (N.Y., b.1903), Jean Rubin (N.Y.), [Ben] Sadowski (Canada), Paul S. Sarbanes (Md., b.1933), Gloria Walinsky Schaffer (Conn., b.1930), Ernest Schwarz (D.C.), Gladys Secoles (N.Y.), Pauline Sherashefsky (Mrs. Leon Sherashefsky; D.C., Md.), Evelyn Sherwin (Mrs. Vernon Sherwin; Md.), Vernon Sherwin (Md.), Carlton R. Sickles (Md., b.1921), Abba Hillel Silver (Ohio, 1893-1963), Asbury Smith (Md.), Bessie C. Stern (Md., b.1880), Maurice Taylor (Pa., 1895-1955), Alvin Thalheimer (Md., 1894-1965) Norman Thomas (N.Y., 1884-1968), Joseph D. Tydings (Md., b.1928), Elinor Ulman (Md.), Joseph N. Ulman (Md., 1878-1943), Ilza Veith (Mrs. Hans Veith; Calif., b.1915), [Peggy] Waxter (Mrs. Thomas J. S. Waxter, Sr.; Md.), Thomas J. S. Waxter, Sr. (Md., d.1962), Joseph L. Willen (N.Y., b.1897), Pearl Willen (Mrs. Joseph Willen; N.Y.), Lawrence M. Williams (La.), and Stephen S. Wise (N.Y., 1874-1949).
Also included in this section is correspondence exchanged between Hollander and members of his family.
See the addendum tenth series for additional correspondence. Notably some letters between the Jewish community and the NAACP in regards to segregation at Hutzler's Department Store.
Series 4, Charitable Contribution Records, Estate Records
(3 Boxes and 1 vol., c.1938-1972) - This section consists mainly of receipts, membership cards, letters of acknowledgement, and invoices which pertain primarily to Hollander's charitable contributions and, infrequently, to personal business transactions. Also included are a few miscellaneous items relating to the estates of Sidney Hollander and Clara Drey Hollander and a ledger which records contributions made by Hollander during the period from 1957 to 1972.
Series 5, Invoices, Receipts, and Other Miscellaneous records
(1 Box, c.1960-1971) - This section consists of invoices, receipts, and other miscellaneous records of transactions between Sidney Hollander, his medical advisors, Maryland Blue Cross, Inc./ Maryland Blue Shield, Inc., and
Series 6, Awards and Tributes
(3 Boxes, c.1951-1972) - This section is composed of some of the awards (REMOVED TO THE GRAPHICS DIVISION - SEE THE SIDNEY HOLLANDER GRAPHICS COLLECTION) and tributes received by Sidney Hollander. Included is a volume of letters of tribute presented to Hollander on the occasion of the joint celebration of his 70th birthday and the 20th anniversary of his association with the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds. Included also are two volumes of letters delivered to Hollander on his 90th birthday, some miscellaneous materials such as newspaper clippings and programs which pertain to the awards he received, and materials which commemorate the presentation of the Sidney Hollander Award to the Congress of Racial Equality (C.O.R.E.) in 1954.
Series 7, Hollander Vacation Plans
(2 Boxes, 1938-1971) - The material in this section pertains to the holiday plans and travel arrangements made by Sidney Hollander along with Clara Drey Hollander and assorted members of the Hollander family.
Series 8, Passports, Calendars, Miscellaneous
(1 Box, 1927-1972) - A collection of miscellany composed of passports and visas (1927-1972), Sidney Hollander's desk calendars (1953, 1954, 1956, 1962), Christmas gift lists (1929-1970), a notebook recording personal expenses kept by Clara Drey Hollander, and a report card from the University of Wisconsin belonging to Emily D. Hollander (1939-1940
Series 9, Letters of Condolence and Tribute , Death of Sidney Hollander
(2 Boxes, 1972) - Letters of condolence and tribute sent to Mrs. Clara Hollander and the Hollander family upon the occasion of Sidney Hollander's death in 1972.
Series 10 – Addendum (labeled 2044.1), Additional Speeches, Correspondence, and Clippings
See pdf of item level container list


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We have to get them back, the official said in an interview.
So began a deliberate effort on the president's part to court the swing voters who helped him win the White House in 2008. He made deficit reduction a priority, while unnerving core Democrats with pledges to pare entitlement costs in pursuit of a budgetary "grand bargain."


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When I heard powdered metals I presumed they were for the eyes but these are actually more all rounders – hair, skin, eyes, face.
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I got Bebhionn:
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ALBANY - After several years of education, outreach and enforcement of the state Department of Environmental Conservation's firewood regulation, DEC Commissioner Joe Martens Tuesday announced that the 2009 regulations have been revised to help ease regulatory compliance and enforcement.
The basics and purpose of the revised regulation remain the same and still prohibit untreated firewood from entering the state and restrict intrastate movement of untreated firewood to no more than 50 miles from its source.
"Without the existence of this regulation, firewood infested with invasive insects such as emerald ash borer and Asian longhorned beetle could be transported throughout the state spreading infestations from one place to another," Martens said in a press release. "To help reduce damages to New York's forests and community trees, New Yorkers and visitors are urged to comply with the state's regulations, which restrict the major vector for the introduction of these pests."
The revised regulation focuses enforcement on untreated firewood that is in transit, and any firewood possessed on state lands. The revisions also articulate DEC's authority to confiscate and destroy non-compliant firewood under the Environmental Conservation Law.
The updated definition of "firewood" now specifically excludes logs being moved to manufacturing facilities for processing (sawmills, pulp and paper mills, biomass power plants, etc.) from regulation as "firewood," as this regulation is intended to regulate firewood specifically.
Other regulations exist for log transport, which are enforced by state Department of Agriculture and Markets, including transport restrictions from the 20 counties in New York that are under state and federal emerald ash borer quarantines.
For information on the restrictions on transporting firewood, visit the DEC website at www.dec.ny.gov/animals/28722.html. The DEC?urges New Yorkers to take the following steps to keep invasive species from spreading to other areas of the state:
It is best to leave all firewood at home - do not bring it to campgrounds or parks.
Get firewood at the campground or from a local vendor - make sure to receive a receipt or label that lists the firewood's local source.
If transporting firewood within New York state:
It must have a receipt or label that has the firewood's source and it must remain within 50 miles of that source.
For firewood not purchased (i.e., cut from your own property) you must have a Self-Issued Certificate of Origin (the new certificate is on the DEC's website), and it must be sourced within 50 miles of your destination.
Only firewood that meets New York's heat treatment standards (heated at 160 degrees F for 75 minutes) to kill pests and labeled as "New York-Approved Treated Firewood/Pest-Free" may be transported into the state and farther than 50 miles from the firewood's source.
For more information on invasive forest pests, visit www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7253.html or call toll free 1-866-640-0652.


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Larger-than-life Statue to Celebrate One of the Leading Philanthropists of the 20th Century and Commemorate the Launch of the George Eastman Circle
George Eastman may be best known as the founder of Eastman Kodak Company, which revolutionized photography by making it broadly accessible, but he was also one of the great philanthropists of his century. As Kodak built the world's leading imaging company, Eastman quietly donated tens of millions of dollars to such institutions as MIT, the Tuskegee Institute, and the University of Rochester. He also founded the University's renowned Eastman School of Music and helped start its School of Medicine and Dentistry.
Now, 77 years after his death, George Eastman's legacy of innovation and philanthropy is being marked at the University of Rochester by the installation on the Eastman Quadrangle of a greater-than-life-size bronze statue created by Marc Mellon, one of the nation's foremost representational sculptors. Mellon most recently created the inaugural medal for President Barack Obama, and his other work includes portrait busts of former President George H. W. Bush and Pope John Paul II, as well as the NBA MVP trophy. Mellon is also a former University of Rochester student.
The statue is a gift from Trustee Laurence Bloch, a 1975 graduate of the University and a trustee since 1998, and his wife, Cindy. Among the Blochs' many previous gifts to the University is the Larry & Cindy Bloch Fitness Center.
"We made this gift to celebrate George Eastman and the new generation of donors, the Charter Members and future Sustaining Members in the George Eastman Circle," said Larry Bloch. "Gifts to the George Eastman Circle provide critical unrestricted support to the University, to meet its greatest needs and opportunities. George Eastman provided a wonderful example of philanthropy directed at just those purposes. The members of the George Eastman Circle perpetuate the tradition of intergenerational giving that sustains the excellence of this University."
Larry Bloch and fellow Trustee and Alumnus Tom Sloan are the national co-chairs of the George Eastman Circle.
"George Eastman's legacythe Eastman School, Eastman Theatre, the School of Medicine and Dentistryplayed a major role in shaping the University of Rochester," said President Joel Seligman. "We are thrilled to honor it in this tangible and highly visible way. Larry and Cindy Bloch have inspired us by their generous tribute to George Eastman and the example he set for all of us."
Eastman gave more than $50 million to the University of Rochester during the first decades of the 20th century. That is fully half of the $100 million he donated to all causes over his lifetime.
His legacy still has influence today. When the University of Rochester established the George Eastman Circle in 2007, it was hoped that as many as 250 donors would sign on by pledging five-year gift commitments ranging from $1,500 annually to $50,000 and more a year. But when the initial Charter Phase closed as scheduled on Dec. 31, 2008, 1,087 Charter members had joined George's circle.
"Eastman was our greatest exemplar of visionary philanthropy and our great hero," said James D. Thompson, senior vice president and chief advancement officer. "This statue is an enduring tribute to his example and the George Eastman Circle created in his honor." Thompson added that the Blochs are themselves Charter Members of the George Eastman Circle, and Mr. Bloch serves as the Circle's National Co-Chair.
Thompson noted that the lasting legacy of the greatest innovators in business is often as much a result of their philanthropy as their commercial success. That was famously true of John D. Rockefeller, Leland Stanford Jr., James B. Duke, and Andrew Mellon. It is equally apparent in the work of Eastman, whose gifts have helped educate, train, and heal hundreds of thousands of students, musicians, researchers, and patients over the last century.
"The stunning success of the George Eastman Circle proves that George Eastman's vision still has great capacity to inspire," Seligman said. "Even in a time of economic uncertainty, more than a thousand of our friends have made longer-term commitments than even during previous periods of much greater economic stability. I am delighted that so many share his vision of shaping the future by their own generosity. I think he would be very proud of what he began, and what we are celebrating here."
Eastman's legacy is also being celebrated this week with the opening of the newly renovated and renamed Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, which is used for concerts by both the University's Eastman School of Music and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mellon said that in his work he tries to focus on "the qualities that represent a leader's personal achievements, qualities that have over time become associated not just with the individual, but with his or her contribution to society." In the case of the eight-foot tall, 1,050-pound George Eastman statue, he said that he designed it "to convey Eastman as a man of action, an innovator, a visionary, and one of our nation's greatest philanthropists."
Eastman followed something of an evolution in both his commercial success and his philanthropy. Judged "not especially gifted," he left school at an early age to support his mother but went on to become a giant of the technology industry of the early 20th century. And he changed his opinions about education as well, declaring in 1898 "I am not interested in education," but by 1924 famously stating "The progress of the world depends almost entirely on education."
Note to editors: A high-resolution image of the George Eastman statue will be available Saturday evening, Oct. 10, at www.rochester.edu/news/show.php?id=3463.