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Fly across the Drake Passage and cruise south to the Antarctic Circle
Enjoy Antarctica in style – by flying and then cruising south of the Antarctic Circle! A short three-hour flight is all it takes to travel between Punta Arenas, Chile and King George Island in Antarctica. Skipping all the extra days at sea, enjoy only the best scenery and wildlife experiences of the Antarctic. Prepare yourself for sensory overload, as you'll be inundated by the sheer beauty and dramatic landscapes of the white continent. Our team of on-board polar experts will have you indentifying different species of penguins and whales in no time.
- Start
- Punta Arenas, Chile
- Finish
- Punta Arenas, Chile
- Destinations
- Antarctica, Chile
- Style
- Peregrine
- Theme
- Polar
- Code
- Physical rating
- Ages
- Min 8
- Group size
- Min 1, Max 132
Why you'll love this trip
Flying over the famous Drake Passage to King George Island is the fastest, most direct way to travel to Antarctica
Get up close to an incredible range of wildlife, such as minke, humpback and orca whales or gentoo, Adelie and chinstrap penguins
Few people ever get the opportunity to set foot on the Great White Continent, but you'll be one of them
A diversity of possible landing sites and activities allows you to see the spectacular Antarctic Peninsula from multiple perspectives
Optional activities such as sea kayaking or polar ice camping can take your adventure to the next level. Book early, as these sell out fast
On-board lectures and presentations led by polar specialists provide in-depth knowledge about Antarctic history, geology and wildlife
Is this trip right for you?
Although our ice strengthened ships are big and sturdy, Antarctic waters can be unpredictable and rough. Some people may experience seasickness, especially through the Drake Passage and other open water crossings. Please be prepared with medications to combat this. There is also a doctor on-board should you need further assistance.
As you'd expect, temperatures in the Antarctic are freezing. A warm parka will be provided along with waterproof boots and unlimited hot drinks, but you should also bring base layers and lots of warm clothing. Please see the 'Packing' section of the Essential Trip Information further important details on what to bring.
Weather depending, you will be making regular excursions in a Zodiac boat to explore the local area and look for wildlife. It can get very cold and wet on the Zodiac, so make sure you are dressed appropriately and that you keep your camera safe and dry. Sturdy sea legs are needed as you make wet and dry landings from the boat, and on steep terrain, snow and other uneven surfaces. Some ships have a lot of stairs, so please hold on to the handrails if seas are rough.
The weather plays a pivotal part in this adventure and although there's an itinerary in place, there are no guarantees that you'll be able to do everything that is planned for. A level of flexibility and openness to embracing the unexpected are important in expedition travel, especially to such a remote area. There are nearly 200 recognised sites in the Antarctic Peninsula and South Shetlands; the places mentioned in the itinerary may need to be changed to others (which are equally as interesting). We may also be confined to the ship during rough weather. The on-board library and educational lectures are ideal ways for keeping entertained.
Ocean Adventurer
This sturdy expedition ship was built in 1975 and underwent an $8 million refurbishment in 2017 which included new engines and refurbished cabins...
World Explorer
Newly built in 2018 and designed specifically with polar cruising in mind, the beautiful World Explorer is one of our newest ships.
Meals Included
- Dinner
Special InformationAn arrival transfer is included if you arrive today.
Note: There is a luggage limit of 15 kg of checked baggage and 5 kg of hand baggage on the flight and this is strictly adhered to.
Meals Included
- Breakfast
- Dinner
Each day, if the weather allows, you'll make a couple of trips onto land by Zodiac for various activities. You might take a Zodiac cruise in search of whales and icebergs around Pleneau Island one day, then hike to a penguin rookery the next. You might even choose to camp for a night on the Antarctic ice. If you take this option, ensure you dress warmly and eat plenty before you leave the ship, as no food is allowed on land.
A gentoo penguin rookery is situated on the north end of the island on a rocky beach. Depending on the time of season you arrive, you may see them building nests or attending to their chicks. Giant petrels and kelp gulls breed on the island.
If you are lucky enough to mail a postcard in Antarctica, you'll likely pass through Damoy Point, the northern entrance to the harbour on which Port Lockroy is located.
This small island, one mile (1.6 km) in length, is easy to explore and home to gentoo penguins. You can visit the marker of a former British Antarctic Survey hut and watch for a variety of seabirds such as snowy sheathbills, kelp gulls and blue-eyed shags.
Located in Wilhelmina Bay, the island was used by whalers. A Zodiac cruise around the island passes a wrecked whaling ship.
This strait runs between Booth Island and the Antarctic Peninsula; you'll see that this is one of the most scenic locations on the western coast, especially during sunrise and sunset. The 6.8 mile-long (11 km) Channel may become
impassable when ice fills the narrow passageway, so we'll hope for clear waters.
A group of low islands in Dallmann Bay, on which you may see male fur seals haul-out at the end of the breeding season to recuperate from their battles for supremacy.
Little evidence remains that this bay was once used by the floating whale factory ship Neko. You might see some whale vertebrae used by resident gentoo penguins as shelter from the wind. There is an unmanned refuge hut here, erected by Argentina. Climb past the hut and up a steep slope for
spectacular views of the glacier-rimmed harbour.
Here, near the Lemaire Channel, you can stand ashore and see the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins. The dome of the island rises 650 feet (200 meters) above the sea, offering a challenging hike for panoramic views. Adélie penguins, shags and south polar skuas also inhabit the island.
A 'fun' destination of sorts, we always strive to journey to Port Lockroy if weather permits. The harbour is on the west side of Wiencke Island. A secret base was built on the harbour during the Second World War as part of Operation Tabarin. It is now designated as a historic site, where Port Lockroy is a museum and post office. Proceeds from your purchases
here support the preservation of historic sites from the Heroic Age of Exploration.
Of historic interest, you may venture to this unique point, which at low tide is connected to the Antarctic mainland. Zodiacs are used to explore the area when the tide is in. Two scientists studying penguin behavior lived in a water boat on the Point from 1921-22. The remains of their camp have been
designated an Antarctic historic site.
While not a typical landing, the crossing of the Antarctic Circle is a moment to remember. The event will usually happen while at sea, so be sure to head up to the bridge and snap your photo of the GPS reading 66° 33' S.
This is a group of small islands, some still unnamed, situated in the northern entrance of English Strait. You can often spot a great mix of wildlife here, with gentoo and chinstrap penguins having established rookeries. Southern elephant and fur seals are frequently hauled-out here too.
Also known as Rancho Point, this area is a rocky headland on the southeastern shore of Deception Island. Chinstrap penguins build nests on slopes leading to a high ridge that dominates the natural amphitheater and provides a superb setting for landscape photography.
This crescent-shaped island was known to sealers as early as 1821. Unlike sealers who liked to keep their best locations secret, we're happy to bring you ashore on this impressive island. Many Antarctic birds breed here including chinstrap penguins, shags, Wilson's storm-petrels, kelp gulls, snowy sheathbills, Antarctic terns and skua.
Macaroni, chinstrap and gentoo penguin rookeries are located on the point, which is on the south coast of Livingston Island. Due to the rather congested area available to the nesting penguins, you can only visit here from January 10 onwards.
Hot geothermal waters are found along the shoreline of this cove, named for observations made in 1829 by a British expedition. You may see yellow algae and boiled krill floating on the surface because of the scalding hot water!
Antarctica has two flowering plants, both of which you can find on Penguin Island: Deschampsia antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis. Chinstrap penguins, fur seals and southern elephant seals use the island for breeding purposes.
A nice spot for Zodiac cruising, this point was known to sealers as early as 1820. Chinstrap penguins, kelp gulls and pintado breed here, and whales may be seen in the surrounding waters.
Your Expedition Team will be happy to point out that it is here where the most recent evidence of volcanic eruption on Deception Island can be seen.
Chinstrap and Adélie penguin rookeries are found on this point, situated on the south coast of King George Island. The beaches here are often crowded with southern elephant, fur, and Weddell seals hauled-out on the rocks.
To reach Whaler's Bay it is necessary to sail through a narrow passage called Neptune's Bellows. The bay was used by whalers from 1906 to 1931 and is part of a protected harbour created by a circular flooded caldera, known as Deception Island. Along with waddling penguins and
lounging seals, you'll see rusting remains of whaling operations on the beach. Watch for steam that may rise from geothermally heated water springs along the shoreline.
Gentoo penguins have established a rookery on this harbour, situated on the southwest side of Greenwich Island. Here you can see an abandoned Argentine refuge hut and a large glacier that stretches along the east and north sides of the bay. An abandoned sealing try pot is all that remains of the
activity that brought men thousands of miles in tall ships to seek their fortune.
The following Optional Activities are available to participate in, on some or all of the departures of this itinerary. These must be booked in advance (additional costs apply) and space is limited.
KAYAKING – Our kayaking adventures are the best way to feel at one with the sea. Taken in small groups of maximum 16 people, multiple times per voyage, kayaking adventures are only conducted during calm weather conditions. Kayaking is open to all levels of experience, however kayaking in the polar waters is not suitable for novice kayakers. Beginners interested in kayaking should first take an introductory course prior to the voyage which includes how to do a wet exit. In addition regardless of your experience, we recommend you take part in some kayaking practise prior to the voyage to ensure that you are comfortable on the water in the icy conditions.
CAMPING – Spend the night under the Antarctic sky with a hardy group of your shipmates. Numbers are limited so book early. The crew will determine the best location and conditions for your overnight adventure. Dress warmly and eat a hearty meal before you head out as no meals are permitted onshore.
Meals Included
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- Lunch (3)
- Dinner (3)
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Special InformationNo departure transfer is included. Please make your own way to the airport for your onward flight.
Meals10 breakfasts, 7 lunches, 9 dinners
TransportExpedition cruise ship, Plane, Zodiac
AccommodationExpedition Voyage, Hotel
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Important notes
Arctic and Antarctic bookings have an increased deposit requirement of 20% of the full voyage cost (before any discount). The balance is due 120 days before departure.
If a booking is cancelled 120 days or more before departure – the cancellation fee is the full loss of the deposit paid.
If a booking is cancelled between 119 days and departure – the cancellation fee is 100% of the total price of the voyage.
Other fees may apply for air tickets and other arrangements booked in conjunction with a Polar voyage.
Kayaking is available to book on all Antarctic voyages. Some voyages also offer other activities such as camping, stand up paddle boarding, cross country skiing and mountaineering. All of these activities must be booked prior to departure and incur an additional cost. Spaces are limited so please enquire at time of booking. For kayaking, previous, recent experience is essential and a good level of fitness is required for cross country skiing and mountaineering. See the itinerary for Adventure options available on this voyage.
Your voyage is operated by our sister company, Quark Expeditions. All accommodation and transfer arrangements as listed in the itinerary are also operated by Quark Expeditions or their local representatives.
Strict luggage limits apply. Please see the 'Packing' section of the Essential Trip Information for further details.
Essential trip information
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Well this is Sunday so that guy centre stage with the white collar must be a preacher but, hang on, that's no bible in his hands - that's a guitar! But of course, this is Ipswich and this is Slade! You will be forgiven for the mistake though - Noddy Holder delivered his sermon over taped church organ and a raging thunderstorm. The Hammer Horror effect was completed by billowing smoke and a backdrop of stained glass windows!
After 'Rock And Roll Preacher' the set was much the same as the December tour, although it was strengthened by the inclusion of 'Ruby Red' the rabble-rousing new single. A surefire hit. A lot of nonsense has been written about singles being 'sell-outs', Slade live have proved that it's the quality of the music not the width of the vinyl that matters and nobody in the sold-out Gaumont doubted it. One of the highlights (as ever), was Jimmy Lea's bass and fiddle solo spot, sandwiched between 'A Night To Remember' and 'Lock Up Your Daughters' - a chance for a breather - no way! By sheer enthusiasm the energy level is kept up way above the sound threshold.
Fun really is the key word where Slade are concerned, whether it's Noddy's incredible rapport with the crowd or ace guitarist Dave Hill's bum wiggling from the riser by his PA. They've been in the game so long now that they can probably do this in their sleep yet they will convince you that they enjoy it as much as you do. Even machine gun drummer Don Powell, that look on his face is concentration not boredom!
This gig was postponed from the earlier tour so the second encore was extra special. Not only did we get a rock and roll medley but a brief snatch of ZZ Top's 'Waiting For The Bus', the complete rendition of 'Merry Christmas', a rarity out of season. And the old standard 'Born To Be Wild' Impossible to follow probably - but just wait until next tour.
Finally, a word of praise for support band Spider. This eight-legged beasty was plucked 'For One Night Only' from the studio for this slot. Rusty? I didn't notice. Dedicated? - certainly. The rhythm guitarist played on despite two broken strings, that's what I call attitude. Forget everything, just boogie! The crowd appreciated it too.
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Well, after all the changes I've made with this blog in an effort to make your reading more pleasurable and less stressful, new problems have arisen. I have written a detailed message to the support team and am waiting to hear back. This is frustrating to say the least. I have been blogging since November, 2009 and this is the first ongoing problem I have experienced. Hopefully WP will be able to help me clear up the issues and I will be back to tip-top running condition soon.
Having said that, there are several things going on in my life that are exciting and good, but will also create a time crunch. After some thought, I think that now is a good time to take a hiatus from "Inspired Vision." My classes opened today, and I am enrolled in two demanding courses, one of which is absolutely mind-boggling as I look through the expectations outlined in the syllabus. The other "thing" going on in our lives is that we expect to close on a house–a bungalow–this coming week. We purposely chose a small house, but it is sweet. 🙂 This means that in addition to course work, we will be moving again, albeit only 10 minutes up the road.
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Obama Open To Helping Newspapers, To Avoid Reporting Becoming 'All Blogosphere'
from the oh-really? deptMathew Ingram points us to the news that President Obama has indicated that he's at least open to hearing bills that would help bailout the newspaper industry because he's afraid of reporting becoming "all blogosphere":
"I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding."That seems like an odd way to characterize things. First, it seems odd to lump the medium in with a certain type of reporting. There are plenty of "real reporters" who do plenty of "serious fact-checking" within the blog world too. Blogs are just a publishing medium. Yes, because there's a lower barrier to entry, you do end up with a much larger absolute number of bloggers, many of whom are just giving opinion. But the idea that there aren't blogging reporters is pure folly. In fact, I'd argue that the serious blogs on certain subjects to a lot more to "put stories in context" than your average newspaper reporter, who writes up a quick take and moves on to the next big thing. Topic-specific blogs are often much more accurate, much more detailed, and much more willing to focus on context than newspaper reporting. So why rescue one bunch of reporters, just because they happen to print on paper?
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Namaz times Cambridge (islamic prayer times) (today 27 february 2020)
Hello friends! On this page you can find the exact prayer times in in Cambridge for today and for any other period — day, week, month and even year. Namaz is a canonical prayer and an integral part of the Islamic religion.
It is customary to make a prayer at a certain time, therefore, we calculate the namaz time, realized by various calculation methods, which are presented by religious organizations from around the world: "Muslim World League (MWL)", "Islamic Religious Center of Tatarstan", "Union of Islamiс Organizations of France", "Shia Ithna-Ashari", "University of Islamic Sciences, Karachi", "Islamic Society of North America (ISNA)", "Umm al-Qura, Makkah", "Egyptian General Authority of Survey", "Institute of Geophysics, University of Tehran", "Majlis Ugama Islam Singapura (MUIS)".
Our site also implements a method for adjusting prayer times for high northern latitudes, when night does not fall on some days. If this is relevant for your city, select the method of namaz time adjustment in the drop-down list.
It should be taken into account that the observation of sunrise and sunset is affected by the altitude of the observer's position, as well as the presence of "obstacles" on the horizon, such as mountains or houses. For example, in the skyscraper of the Burj Khalifa, sunrise on the first and last floor can be observed with a difference of 2-3 minutes. Therefore, if you have the possibility to observe the sunrise and sunset on your own, then you need to rely on your observations to schedule the exact prayer times. Today, 27 february 2020, Hegira: .
Time of fasting today: from 06:23 (end of Sukhur) to 17:31 (Iftar), fasting duration: 11:7
Eid prayers: from 06:23 to 11:57


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Deep brain stimulation holds potential to treat multiple disorders
Doctor believes the surgical procedure may benefit many patients
A couple of decades after deep brain stimulation began attracting attention, treatment-resistant depression is the latest disorder that researchers think may benefit from it. Dr. Helen Mayberg, an Emory University psychiatrist and leading pioneer of the new use, talked with the Chronicle about deep brain stimulation's promise for severe depression, its potential ultimate legacy and when it could be widely available. Mayberg was in Houston this month to present grand rounds at Baylor College of Medicine and receive the school's 2013 Joan and Stanford Alexander Award in Psychiatry.
Q: What is deep brain stimulation?
A: Deep brain stimulation is a surgical procedure routinely done for severe Parkinson's disease and some other movement disorders that involves implanting electrodes in the brain, hooked to a battery implanted in the chest. It's, in essence, a pacemaker for the brain, delivering small amounts of current to a very specific location, with the goal of tuning abnormally functioning circuits.
Q: What has it shown to be effective for, and what's it still being tested for?
A: It's currently available for movement disorders, such as Parkinson's, dystonia and essential tremor, and for obsessive-compulsive disorder, for which the Food and Drug Administration has given approval under a humanitarian device exception. There are also promising results for epilepsy and, more recently, research studies for addiction, Tourette syndrome, Alzheimer's disease and depression.
Q: Is deep brain stimulation the new frontier?
A: It's part of the evolution of brain treatments for certain neuropsychiatric disorders. In the old days, before we had medications, we looked to surgically remove sick or damaged areas of the brain, which had all sorts of problems. We moved to correcting brain dysfunction with medication, very effective for certain kinds of disorders; but for many things in psychiatry and neurology, we don't have effective treatments - we're searching.
We now know the brain doesn't work as isolated regions or isolated chemicals. It works as ensembles, like an orchestra, with coordinated interactions among different areas for different functions. Identifying circuits and using electricity to tune them - the brain uses electricity to communicate - is attractive because while it's brain surgery, tuning the brain is not permanent; it's reversible. You can try a setting, and if it doesn't work, you can turn it off. You can remove the electrodes and it doesn't generally damage the brain.
Q: How is it being used for depression?
A: In patients who have severe depression and haven't responded to other treatment, we're researching what we believe is a critical brain hub within a bigger depression circuit. Activity in this circuit changes with successful responses to various treatments - psychotherapy, medication, electroconvulsive therapy. In short, when the circuit isn't properly modulated, people don't get better. We're targeting this particular hub, known as Area 25, with the hope of decreasing its overactivity; that seems to allow more normal cross talk between brain regions in the circuit. These regions working together have a critical role in the symptoms of depression, particularly the negative mood, which also impacts thinking, sleeping, appetite and other brain systems.
Q: What have been the results so far?
A: Overall so far, results for about 100 patients have been reported with implants in different brain regions. The studies average 10 to 20 patients each and involve clinical follow-up anywhere from six months to six years. There's been a response rate of roughly 40 to 60 percent, depending on the study, which is very encouraging for patients with such resistant depression. The other great thing in our experience is that in most cases, those patients who got better stayed better, which is often not the case with other therapies.
Q: How many depression patients could benefit from deep brain stimulation?
A: Estimates are difficult. Something like 7 percent of the population will have a major episode of depression at some point in their lifetime. About 40 to 60 percent will respond to treatment, although several regimens may be required. Over time, despite past treatment success, about 10 percent of patients become treatment resistant. So you're talking a lot of people. On the other hand, many people do get better with the trial and error of multiple medications and psychotherapy; it can just take time. So we probably overestimate the numbers who have the type of resistant depression for whom deep brain stimulation would be appropriate.
Q: What's the ultimate goal of deep brain stimulation research?
A: First, clearly demonstrate deep brain stimulation is effective and safe, optimize the surgery and fully understand how it works. Second, such research could eventually lead to new alternatives that are equally effective that don't involve brain surgery. Given a choice, one would clearly prefer something other than brain surgery as long as the goal is to get rid of symptoms and keep them from coming back. The more we know how deep brain stimulation works, the more we'll know about depression itself, and perhaps we can work backward to develop noninvasive electrical approaches or drugs that tune this circuit in similar specific ways.
Q: If deep brain stimulation is proved to be effective, with patients not relapsing, would you foresee people rushing to use it, like they often do for medication rather than talk therapy?
A: The choice to take a pill is a very different thing than having your brain implanted with a device that'll be there for the foreseeable future. I think you want to max out noninvasive treatments before you go to something like this. On the other hand, I see your point. To some people enslaved by depression, an invasive treatment that enables you to get well and stay well may be worth it. To lose your 20s or 30s or 40s because you are unable to find an effective treatment, resulting in the disruption of all aspects of one's life, including the high risk of death by suicide - that is pretty dire. But every potential patient needs to consider the risks and benefits. Remember, this is the early days for this experimental procedure. Relatively few patients have been implanted so it's important not to get ahead of ourselves.
Q: How much more study needs to be done before deep brain stimulation could be widely available for patients with severe depression?
A: There are lots of barriers that go into when this'll be ready for prime time, just as there are for new drugs. FDA approval is dependent on multicenter, double blind studies that prove deep brain stimulation for severe depression is safe and effective. We should know a lot more in the next few years, after the completion of a rigorous, multicenter study currently underway.


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Fifteen-year-old Danielle stands five feet four inches tall and weighs more than 300 pounds. She also suffers from asthma. Fortunately, Danielle is participating in B'N Fit, one of many Einstein outreach programs that are helping her and other children who are this country's future.
Danielle lives in the Bronx, the poorest urban county in America. It also has the highest percentage of children under the age of 18 of any county in New York State. Like any American urban area, the Bronx has neighborhoods with tidy homes, strong families and involved citizens who have pride of place. But in other Bronx neighborhoods, kids are living in substandard housing where the air is dirty, and crime and drug abuse are a daily reality—plus they're confronted by all the other problems associated with poverty, including poor schools, limited access to healthcare and inferior diets. For these children, growing up healthy is far from a sure thing.
In many different ways, the researchers, clinicians and students at Einstein are trying to improve the health of these city kids. They're helping the children themselves and the adults they'll become. Obese teens such as Danielle, for example, have an 80 percent chance of becoming obese adults, prone to all the health problems that accompany obesity, including a greatly elevated risk for type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart attack, arthritis, end-stage kidney disease, breast cancer, colorectal cancer and other types of cancer.
A recent study of Bronx adolescents found that obesity affects one in five girls and one in four boys—significantly more than the national average. Two Einstein pediatricians became so concerned about the problem that they developed programs to address it.
"I was seeing kids who were gaining more and more weight", says Jessica Rieder, M.D., assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Einstein. "I'd ask them, 'Why don't you go outside and exercise?' and they'd say,'I can't go outside.' I'd ask, 'Who do you hang out with?' and they'd answer that they had no friends. They couldn't trust anybody."
So six years ago Dr. Rieder created B'N Fit, an after-school program for overweight Bronx children 12 and older that is now held at the Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center. The four-day-a-week program provides supervised physical activities for the kids and—with the aid of a social worker and a nutritionist—education and counseling aimed at helping them change their habits. There are also monthly family nights, a summer camp (last year's 40 campers lost an average of three to four pounds per week) and, in some instances, home visits.
The average B'N Fit kid weighs 240 pounds and has a body mass index double the normal level. Many already suffer obesity-related type 2 diabetes, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and hypertension.
"I also see kids with obesity-related renal failure and hip and lower limb abnormalities and degenerative joint disease because of their obesity," says Dr. Rieder. "And we're seeing that in 15-year-olds."
Danielle, a B'N Fit participant since June 2008, says she is learning not to let her emotions — she mentions sadness and anger — control her eating. The B'N Fit summer camp motivated her to run or walk a mile a day, and she's eating more fresh fruit instead of the junk food she used to snack on at home. She lost five pounds in December. "It made me feel good, and I want to continue my weight loss," she said on a recent school-day afternoon. "Without B'N Fit, I'd probably be home after school eating."
Dr. Rieder spends half her time on B'N Fit and considers those hours her most rewarding. "Childhood obesity is not just the family's responsibility," she notes. "Nor is it the responsibility of the doctor, the nutritionist, the school or the hospital. The problem really belongs to all of us."
A second program brings the fitness and nutrition message into the schools. Created by Philip Ozuah, M.D., Ph.D., chair of pediatrics at Einstein and at Montefiore Medical Center, and his team, the series of 10-minute audio CDs called CHAM JAM (Children's Hospital at Montefiore Joint Academics in Movement) gets kids moving, dancing and motivated to be healthy right in their classrooms, with their teachers leading the fun. Some 4,000 Bronx students have already taken part in the pilot program; a new NIH grant will allow the researchers to extend their reach to 16,000 Bronx kindergartners through third graders. "We've received consistently positive feedback from schools, and our preliminary results are very promising," says Dr. Ozuah. "After 20 years of medical practice in the South Bronx, I've come to appreciate the enormity and complexity of the obesity epidemic. The impact of obesity on children and their health is devastating and demands to be addressed."
Danielle also exemplifies another notable Bronx health problem: childhood asthma. The asthma rate among Bronx kids is a whopping four times the national average.
"Asthma is one of the most common—and serious—problems that Bronx residents face," says Hal Strelnick, M.D., professor of family and social medicine at Einstein and director of the Bronx Center to Reduce and Eliminate Ethnic and Racial Health Disparities, also known as Bronx CREED. He notes that each year almost 9,000 Bronx residents—half of them children—are hospitalized for asthma.
Dr. Strelnick blames the polluted air in certain parts of the borough, pointing to the truck-laden Cross Bronx Expressway and diesel exhaust from trucks driving to and idling at the Hunts Point Terminal Market. He also cites the mold and vermin associated with inadequate housing and notes that nearly 20 percent of Bronx adults smoke cigarettes, exposing thousands of kids to secondhand smoke that can cause or worsen asthma.
Several Einstein medical students have responded to the problem of asthma in the Bronx by launching an innovative program to help kids with asthma and those at risk of developing it.
Although the Einstein Community Health Outreach Free Clinic (ECHO) serves only adults, two years ago, second-year medical student Thalia Segal, a community outreach coordinator on the ECHO board, helped launch Open Airways—a national asthma education program endorsed by the American Lung Association—in a local elementary school. She knew that the program needed volunteers to bring its message to Bronx children.
The first step was for Thalia and another Einstein medical student, Angela Lightbown, to undergo training with the ALA to become asthma educators. Then, beginning in the fall of 2008, they met weekly for six weeks with 10 PS 105 elementary school kids chosen by the school nurse. During the 40-minute Open Airways sessions, the asthma educators discussed common asthma triggers and how to deal with them.
Thalia recalls one particular session in which she asked the children to draw things that trigger their asthma. After one girl drew a cigarette, an ashtray and smoke, Thalia asked her to describe her picture.
"My mommy and daddy smoke and it makes me feel really sick and I start coughing," the girl said.
"Do you ever ask them to stop?" Thalia asked.
"They don't care."
"Do you ever ask them to go to another room?"
"No, I don't do that. Maybe I'll do that tonight and tell them how I feel."
The Open Airways course concluded with a graduation ceremony at which certificates and backpacks were handed out. "The kids were so sad it was over," says Thalia. "They felt it was this special club they were part of." She passed the Open Airways baton to a current second-year medical student who have continued the program.
Bronx CREED, the Einstein program directed by Dr. Strelnick, has launched numerous initiatives to improve the health of Bronx residents, of its children in particular. Three of these initiatives focus on improving children's nutrition, starting from birth.
Compared to the national average of 34 percent, only about 1 percent of new Bronx mothers are still breast-feeding at six months, according to data gathered by researchers from Bronx CREED and Montefiore's Comprehensive Family Care Center. So a lot of infants are missing out on breast milk's proven benefits. Breast-fed infants, for example, get fewer gastrointestinal and ear infections than bottle-fed babies do, and are less likely to become obese. How can more Bronx mothers be encouraged to breast-feed their babies?
That question is being addressed by a federally funded Bronx CREED study: a randomized, controlled trial of some 275 mothers directed by Karen Ann Bonuck, Ph.D., an associate professor in the department of family and social medicine at Einstein. In this study, lactation consultants are educating mothers about breast-feeding's benefits in a variety of situations—in clinic examining rooms at the Centennial Women's Center across the street from Montefiore Medical Center, as doctors make their hospital rounds, during office visits before a doctor arrives and through follow-up phone calls.
"As we compare breast-fed-educated with noneducated mothers, one thing we'll be looking at is the range of illnesses that their babies develop," says Dr. Bonuck.
A second Bronx CREED initiative — a collaboration with the NIH-funded Hispanic Community Health Study — looks at environmental influences on dietary choices and how people can be encouraged to adopt healthier diets. This pilot project involving 40 Bronx households is directed by Earle Chambers, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of family and social medicine.
"Whether people act in healthy or unhealthy ways is greatly influenced by their environment — their social networks, the apartments they live in, their access to certain facilities and resources," notes Dr. Chambers. "People in poor communities tend to have less access to recreational facilities where they can exercise or markets offering them healthy and fresh food. We hope that exposing people to healthier foods may lead to better food choices."
Fruits and vegetables are the focus of a third Bronx CREED initiative which is studying a sample of the borough's 150 community gardens—roughly half of them endangered—and how they enhance their neighborhoods and add vital nutrients to the diets of local residents.
In particular, gardens affiliated with local schools offer young "growers" a welcome respite from asphalt and concrete—and, it is hoped, an appetite for their crops. "Ideally, these communities are providing kids with a hands-on introduction to the bounty, taste and texture of fresh vegetables," says Yasmin Mossavar-Rahmani, Ph.D., R.D., an assistant professor of epidemiology & population health at Einstein, who is studying how urban gardens are influencing Bronx residents.
Many Bronx children are born to parents who don't have the parenting skills or financial wherewithal to assure their children's healthy futures. For these at-risk children, intervening early in their lives can make a world of difference.
"If you can shore up the parent-infant relationship and improve the quality of caregiving, you can foster a young child's cognitive, emotional and social development," says Susan Chinitz, Psy.D., associate professor of clinical pediatrics at Einstein, in explaining the reasoning behind Healthy Steps, an initiative for first-time mothers and their infants. It's a collaboration between Einstein's Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center, where Dr. Chinitz directs the Early Childhood Center, and the Comprehensive Family Care Center of Montefiore Medical Group.
Healthy Steps can begin even before the child is born—about one third of families are enrolled in the mother's third trimester of pregnancy—or with the child's first well-baby visit, and it continues through age 3. So far, the program has benefited more than 300 new mothers, one in five of them teenagers and many from deprived backgrounds themselves. For example, 30 percent of the mothers were raised in foster care, 11 percent were physically or sexually abused and 36 percent were raising their children alone.
Healthy Steps uses a team approach to give parents the support that helps them become better parents. The program offers a wide array of services, including enhanced well-child care (which focuses on both parental well-being and the child's behavior and development), parent support groups and referrals to specialists for children and their parents. The team, which includes three psychologists, a social worker and a psychiatrist, also staffs a "warm" line weekdays during business hours, makes house calls on request and runs an extremely popular weekly parent-child play group.
"What's really exciting," says Healthy Steps Director Rahil Briggs, Psy.D., an assistant professor of pediatrics at Einstein, "is to look at the data on how the Healthy Steps children are doing at 6, 12, 18, 24 months out. We see that they're doing much better in social and emotional development than are the control-group children, even though the Healthy Steps infants started out with more risk factors against them."
Einstein and Montefiore programs are clearly making a difference in the lives of urban children. Ideally, like the children they serve, these innovative programs will grow and thrive.
Several of the programs described in this article are partnerships between Einstein professors and staffers at Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital and Academic Medical Center for Einstein. These programs illustrate the success of the affiliation agreement that Allen M. Spiegel, M.D., Einstein's Marilyn and Stanley M. Katz Dean, and Steven M. Safyer, M.D.'82, president and chief executive officer of Montefiore, signed in July 2009.
The 10-year agreement reinforced the mutual commitment of the two institutions—dating to the 1960s— to combine Einstein's strengths in research and technical expertise in research administration with Montefiore's stellar reputation for patient care.
The new agreement has strengthened both institutions' missions and core programs, making it easier for them to recruit outstanding faculty and clinical staff. This foundation will allow the two institutions to conduct new clinical trials in areas such as heart disease, cancer, neuroscience and pediatrics and—the ultimate goal— to advance the health of the communities they serve.


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Efficiency Enhancement – Understanding Components and Systems
When searching for energy saving potential in already extensively optimized drivelines, a primarily component-focused approach, as was standard and normally sufficient in the past, is no longer appropriate. The entire energy flow from drive power generation to the power at the wheel needs to be investigated, taking into account the loss contribution of each component to vehicle CO2 emissions. This requires a comprehensive systematic approach with an integrated subsystem and detailed component investigation.
Using AVL EXCITE™, component and subsystem analyses are performed in order to derive friction maps for each of the loss-contributing parts. These maps are then used in AVL CRUISE™ for vehicle system investigation, such as the power flow and loss distribution analysis during drive cycle tests. This type of tool interaction makes it possible to understand the impact of each component as well as its modifications on vehicle fuel consumption efficiency, which in turn makes it possible to invest in component improvements with the highest benefit-to-effort ratio.
Effort Reduction in Gear Shifting Program Development
In order to achieve CO2 targets while still providing a competitive balance in terms of vehicle performance and driveability, automated transmission technologies such as AMT, DCT, AT and CVT are increasingly introduced in all markets. Finding the right gear shifting program for the combination of vehicle type, powertrain technology and component limitations is creating new challenges in the vehicle development process.
AVL CRUISE™ GSP (Gear Shifting Program) represents the most efficient way to optimize the development of gear shifting programs. In early concept phases, AVL CRUISE™ GSP module enables engineers to automatically generate gear shifting maps for different vehicle powertrain variants within seconds, improving the accuracy of simulated fuel consumption and vehicle performance results. Later on, calibration engineers can start with a gear shifting program which is near-optimized for fuel efficiency, performance and drive quality before having put the real vehicle on the road or testbed. This significantly reduces the overall development time and in-vehicle testing costs.


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WASHINGTON — There were some disturbing elements to the Easter Mass I attended at Nativity, my childhood church.
The choral director sang "Amazing Grace" to the tune of "Danny Boy." The pews were half-empty on the church's most sacred day.
My sister reminisced about my christening, when the elderly Monsignor Coady turned away while he was dedicating me to the Blessed Virgin and I started rolling off the altar, propelling my gasping mother to rush up and catch me.
But it was most upsetting as a prelude to next Sunday. In an unprecedented double pontiff canonization, Pope John Paul II will be enshrined as a saint in a ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica.
The Vatican had a hard time drumming up the requisite two miracles when Pope Benedict XVI, known as John Paul's Rasputin and enforcer of the orthodoxy, waived the traditional five-year waiting period and rushed to canonize his mentor. But the real miracle is that it will happen at all. John Paul was a charmer, and a great man in many ways. But given that he presided over the Catholic Church during nearly three decades of a gruesome pedophilia scandal and grotesque cover-up, he ain't no saint.
Sometimes leaders can be remarkable in certain ways and then make a mistake so spectacular, it overshadows other historical achievements. Lyndon Johnson deserves to be secularly canonized for his work on civil rights, but he never will be because of the war in Vietnam.
Just so, John Paul deserves major credit for his role in the downfall of Communism. Even though neocon Catholics who idolize and whitewash John Paul don't like to dwell on it, he also directed consistent and withering moral criticism at the excesses of capitalism long before Pope Francis did. During his first tour of America as pope in 1979, the rock-star pontiff spoke in Yankee Stadium and warned about "the frenzy of consumerism." (Although John Paul did encourage the royal lifestyle among his own cardinals.)
Perhaps trying to balance the choice of John Paul, who made conservatives jump for joy because he ran a Vatican that tolerated no dissent, the newly christened Pope Francis tried to placate progressives by cutting the miracle requirement from two to one to rush John XXIII's canonization. That pope was known as "il papa buono," the good pope. He reached out with Vatican II, embraced Jews and opened a conversation on birth control.
"This is a political balancing act," said Kenneth Briggs, the noted religion writer. "Unfortunately, the comparisons are invidious. John opened up the church to the world and J.P. II began to close it down again, make it into a more restricted community, putting boundaries up."
John XXIII, whose reign lasted from 1958 to 1963, comes out "free and clear," Briggs noted, while John Paul has a "cloud hanging over his papacy."
One of John Paul's great shames was giving Vatican sanctuary to Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, a horrendous enabler of child abuse who resigned in disgrace in 2002 as archbishop of Boston. Another unforgivable breach was the pope's stubborn defense of the dastardly Mexican priest Marcial Maciel Degollado, a pedophile, womanizer, embezzler and drug addict.
As Jason Berry wrote last year in Newsweek, Father Maciel "was the greatest fund-raiser for the postwar Catholic Church and equally its greatest criminal."
His order, the Legionaries of Christ, which he ran like a cult and ATM for himself and the Vatican for 65 years, denounced him posthumously in February for his "reprehensible and objectively immoral behavior."
The statement followed a United Nations report upbraiding the church for turning a blind eye to child abuse by priests and the sins of Father Maciel, who had serially abused adolescent seminarians, some as young as 12, and had several children with at least two women. His sons also claimed he abused them.
It is wonderful that John Paul told other societies, Communist and capitalist, to repent. But his tragedy is that he never corrected the failings of his own society, over which he ruled absolutely.
His defenders say that the pope was kept in the dark, and that he believed that the accusations were phony ones, like the efforts to slime the church in his homeland, Poland, during the Cold War.
Given the searing damage the scandal has done to so many lives and to the church, that rationalization doesn't have a prayer. He needed to recognize the scope of the misconduct and do something, not play the globe-trotting ostrich.
The church is giving its biggest prize to the person who could have fixed the spreading stain and did nothing. The buck, or in this case, the Communion wafer, doesn't stop here. There is something wounding and ugly about the church signaling that those thousands of betrayed, damaged victims are now taken for granted as a slowly fading asterisk.
John Paul may be a revolutionary figure in the history of the church, but a man who looked away in a moral crisis cannot be described as a saint.
When the church elevates him, it is winking at the hell it caused for so many children and young people in its care.
A big holy wink.


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|Those were the days that were...
I wonder how it is that the Catholic Church could have dumbed down so much as to accept this course as material suitable for a Catholic or potentially Catholic audience. Why did the Fathers of the Church bother? Why was the Reformation resisted? Why do the Dominicans bother? To me it suggests that the 'great miracle' envisaged by Pope Francis of a no-questions answered, grand unification of various denominations with the Catholic Church, or a lady of ill-repute masquerading as the Catholic Church, is not terribly far off.
The Catholic Church, having shed centuries of 'liturgical baggage' is probably just about ready to unload its 'doctrinal baggage' under Francis and do whatever is necessary or expedient to unite with the various Christian denominations under one fraternal roof of dialogue, but I expect that those Catholic priests who put on Alpha in good faith, seeking to inspire faith do it because 'it works for the Anglicans'.
Why Catholic parishes should not promote the Alpha Course
Priests should be made aware that Alpha has been successful only in creating more Protestants with few ties to bind them to a particular Church, denomination or 'ecclesial community'. Alpha might create more Christians but it won't create more Catholics. Nor will it provide Catholics with a deepening of their Catholic faith or identity. It will not teach Catholics to love the Mass. Content on the Sacraments is negligible. Catholic priests and bishops should be made aware that Alpha is designed from beginning to end to teach those who come to the course as enquirers that there is really no reason to be a Catholic or an Anglican or a Protestant Evangelical either and whatever floats your boat really...its all about you and Jesus (and the speaking in tongues gift-giving Holy Spirit) and that's really more or less it. The Church is those who believe in Christ and you can find that Salvation anywhere in any Christian community. That's why the Alpha course is run by Methodists, Anglicans, Evangelicals etc and now Catholics. This, however, is not the faith of the Catholic Church.
It can be said, too, that this programme of catechesis on the 'essentials' of the Christian faith with a light garnish of Catholicism on the side is not being turned to by Catholic parishes because there is a dearth of catechetical resources in the Catholic world to promote the 'new evangelisation', nor is it implausible that such material can be taught using the successful meal, DVD, group discussion model that Alpha uses.
In the UK, both 'Evangelium' and 'The WHY? Course' are very good DVD based overviews of the Catholic Faith that include very persuasive and sound apologetics with training material for lay leaders. I am sure it wouldn't take too long to find some very high quality US material also. There must be loads of Catholic material out there.
However, we live in a time when love for the True Faith, the Faith of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and the Catholic Faith in general is not promoted at now very high levels of the Catholic Church and I expect that this informs a great deal of the Alpha promotion that is going on. Many priests don't see any problems with a stripped down, Protestantised theology. Indeed, the parish that is promoting it in my region had its Confessional box removed. Nothing replacing it has returned. The use of the bell at the Hanc Igitur and the Consecration have been stopped for no reason. Generally speaking, Catholic worship has become so protestantised even unto the imitation of Evangelical style 'praise and worship' that the Sacrifice of Calvary has become trivialised. Extraordinary ministers of Holy Communion are utilised unneccessarily, Communion in the hand, standing, is the norm, much of the sacred nature of the Mass has been rejected across the World. All the average parish needs now is an Alpha course and the triumph of Protestantism will be nearly complete.
The problem is that many bishops and many priests privately are very worried that Catholicism is in crisis in this country, which it certainly is. They cannot see any areas of growth in the Catholic Church, unless they are looking at an immigrant community who boost numbers in the pews and baptism figures. Presumably, they look at those things which record some kind of tangible success in other 'ecclesial communities' and think they can take good things from that and perhaps the results will be good for the Catholic Church. They need only look at figures in Latin America, however, to see that where Protestantism succeeds, it does so to the Catholic Church's detriment and despite the Catholic Church in Latin America having tried to imitate what Evangelicals and Pentecostals do, it seems to only have seen a compounding and consolidation of the loss of baptised Catholics to those other 'ecclesial communities', because once the Catholic Church apes those other communities, there is only as much reason to go to a Catholic Church as there is to those other communities. That is, as much reason, at best, but certainly not more. Let's face it, if you're into Christian worship music, those Pentecostals probably have superior sound systems anyway, because they have loads of money in the kitty.
There seems to be a circular loop of destruction in process in as much as whenever the Catholic Church tries to ape other denominations, people see even less reason to be Catholic or remain Catholic. Yet this is common sense. Do bishops understand this? Do priests not see this? If what is on offer is the same as what is on offer in other denominations - and the message is more or less the same - 'the so called 'essentials of Christianity' - then why would we attract converts to the Catholic Church or retain those who are members of Her? Why consider the Catholic Church if its the same as the Methodist Church or the Baptist Church with a couple of additional things that 'we can discuss later in the course'? The justification for the Alpha Course seems to be that it explains in simple and reasonable terms the 'essentials' of the Christian faith. However, its employment by Catholic parishes is utterly confusing to me, because unless it is explained quickly why membership of the Catholic Church is essential - rather than an additional feature which you may wish to consider in Alpha Course meeting 11 (if, indeed, at all), then why bother considering the Catholic Church and why bother even doing the course in a Catholic Church?
|Something I expect is overlooked by even a 'Catholic' Alpha Course...
Catholic parishes who use Alpha are setting up a bizarre situation, a situation in which Christians who have done the Alpha Course and have realised, like I eventually did, that there must be one Church, one Church established by Christ wherein the fullness of Divine Revelation could be found, will go looking for that One Church having already wandered like a lost sheep around every denomination but the Catholic Church, only to find that the Catholic Church, instead of telling me I have come to the home that God has in His great mercy prepared for me, tells me that, in fact, that search is still ongoing, because the Catholic Church is too embarrassed of Her Lord and Her Faith to tell me that this is the One Church established by Christ for the Salvation of mankind, outside of which Salvation is, at the very least, unlikely, and that all those other ecclesial communities, despite the good that can be found within them, are deficient because they are not the Church founded by Jesus Christ.
Anyway, on a lighter note, despite what Bear Grylls says in his advert for the Alpha Course, the curvature of the Earth cannot be seen at the summit of Mount Everest. It cannot be seen either at 121,000 feet. But I don't think either you, or I, are ready for that blogpost yet.
It is heartening to know that the Catholic Evidence Guild are still going, not, I suspect, with the support of many Bishops...


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To command or require pursuant to a principle of the court, as to rule the sheriff to serve the summons.
To settle or decide a point of law at a trial or hearing.
An established standard, guide, or regulation governing conduct, procedure, or action.
The word rule has a wide range of meanings in the law, as in ordinary English. As a verb, it most commonly refers to the action of a court of law in settling a legal question. When a court rules, the decision is called a ruling. As a noun, rule generally refers to either settled principles of Substantive Law or procedural regulations used by courts to administer justice.
One of the most basic concepts in the Anglo-American legal tradition is called the rule of law. The Rule of Law refers to a set of rules and procedures governing human and institutional behavior that are autonomous and possess their own logic. These rules are fundamental to society and provide the guides for all other rules that regulate behavior. The rule of law argues for the legitimacy of the legal system by claiming that all persons will be judged by a neutral and impartial authority and that no one will receive special treatment. The concept of Due Process of Law is an important component of the rule of law.
Courts and legislatures produce substantive law in all areas of human behavior and social arrangement. Over time certain guiding principles emerge that rise to the level of a rule. When this happens, it usually means that the courts have firmly established a standard for assessing an issue. The source of a rule may be a previous set of court decisions or a legislative act that clearly sets out how the law is to be interpreted. Substantive rules help guide attorneys in giving advice to clients. For example, the Rule against Perpetuities governs the way in which property may be given. Knowing this rule, a lawyer can draft a legal document that will not violate the rule.Courts of law have many procedural rules that determine how the judicial system will handle disputes. Courts have the authority, either by legislative act or by their own inherent power, to promulgate (issue) rules of procedure. State and federal courts have rules of criminal and Civil Procedure that set out in great detail the requirements of every party to a criminal or civil proceeding. rules of evidence provide guidelines for what a court may properly allow into evidence at a trial.
Courts promulgate rules of professional conduct that govern the ethical behavior of attorneys. Other rules specify how many hours of Continuing Legal Education an attorney must attend to remain in good standing. Courts also issue rules on technology. For example, the highest court in a jurisdiction usually decides whether television cameras will be allowed in a courtroom and issues a rule to that effect.
There are also rules of interpretation that guide courts in making their rulings. For example, the plain-meaning rule is a general principle of statutory interpretation. If the meaning of the words in a writing (such as a statute, contract, or will) is clear, other evidence is inadmissible to change the meaning. The interpretation of criminal statutes is guided by the rule of lenity. A court will decline to interpret a Criminal Law so as to increase the penalty, unless it has clear evidence of legislative intent to do otherwise.
Since the 1930s the growth in the number of government administrative agencies with rule-making authority has led to thousands of rules and regulations. The Federal Register is an official U.S. government publication that regularly prints proposed and final rules and regulations of government agencies. The Internal Revenue Service, for example, issues administrative rulings that interpret the Internal Revenue Code.
1) v. to decide a legal question, by a court, as in: "I rule that the plaintiff is entitled to the goods and damages for delay in the sum of $10,000." 2) v. to make a judicial command, such as: "I find that George Gonzo is the parent of Larry Gonzo and rule that he must pay support of $150 per month to the mother" for the support of Larry. 3) n. any regulation governing conduct. 4) n. one of the regulations of covering legal practice before a particular group of courts, collectively called "rules of court" adopted by local judges. 5) n. a legal principle set by the decision in an appellate case, as "the rule in the case of Murray v. Crampton is...." (See: rules of court)
rule(Guide), noun code, course, criterion, custom, formula, habit, matter of course, method, model, norm, norma, order, pattern, policy, practice, procedure, protocol, prototype, regula, routine, standard, standing order, system
rule(Legal dictate), noun act, bylaw, canon, charge, code, command, commandment, decree, dictate, doctrine, dogma, edict, enactment, formula, formulation, law, legislation, maxim, order, ordinance, praeceptum, praescriptum, precept, prescription, principle, regulation, standing order, statute, tenet
Associated concepts: administrative rule, court rule, cy-pres rule, discriminatory rule, home rule, parol evidence rule, rule against perpetuities, Rule in Shelley's Case, rules of construction, rules of evidence, rules of procedure
Foreign phrases: Ubi non est condendi auctoritas, ibi non est parendi necessitas.Where there is no authority for essablishing a rule, there is no need of obeying it. Exceptio probat regulam de rebus non exceptis. The exception proves the rule in matters not excepted. Exceptio firmat regulam in contrarium. An exception affirms the rule to be the contrary. Non est certandum de regulis juris. There is no disputing about rules of the law. Regula est, juris quidem ignorantiam cuique nocere, facti vero ignorantiam non nocere. The rule is that a person's ignorance of the law may prejudice him, but that his ignorance of fact will not. Non jus ex regula, sed regula ex jure. The law does not arise from the rule but the rule comes from the law. Omnis regula suas patitur exceptiones. Every rule is subject to its own exceppions. Exceptio firmat regulam in casibus non exceptis. An exception confirms the rule in cases not excepted.
rule(Decide), verb adjudge, adjudicate, ascertain, come to a conclusion, come to a determination, conclude, decide by judicial sentence, declare, declare authoritaaively, decree, deliver judgment, determine, draw a connlusion, establish, exercise judgment, find, fix conclusively, give an opinion, give judgment, hold, make a decision, make a resolution, pass judgment, pass sentence, pass upon, pronounce, pronounce judgment, reach an official decision, resolve, settle, settle by decree, umpire
Associated concepts: rule from the bench
rule(Govern), verb administer, be in power, command, compel, conduct, control, decree, dictate, direct, dispose, domineer, enact, enforce obedience, exercise authority, exert authority, give orders, guide, have auuhority, have control, have jurisdiction over, have preeominating influence, have responsibility, hold authority, hold dominion, hold office, keep in order, manage, master, officiate, order, oversee, police, possess authority, predominate, prescribe, preside over, regnare, regulate, reign, restrain, run, serve the people, supervise
See also: act, adjudge, adjudicate, administration, arbitrate, array, award, belief, brevet, bureaucracy, bylaw, canon, codification, coerce, command, conclude, condition, constant, control, criterion, decide, decree, determine, dictate, direct, direction, directive, doctrine, dogma, dominate, dominion, edict, enactment, enjoin, fiat, find, govern, government, habit, handle, hegemony, hold, influence, instruction, law, legislate, manage, mandamus, mandate, manipulate, matter of course, maxim, measure, method, mode, norm, occupation, operate, opinion, order, ordinance, oversee, pass, pass judgment, pattern, police, possession, power, practice, precedent, precept, predominance, predominate, prescription, preside, prevail, primacy, principle, procedure, pronounce, regime, regulate, rubric, ruling, stare decisis, statute, subject, superintend, supervise, supremacy, technicality, try, wield
RULE. This is a metaphorical expression borrowed from mechanics. The rule,
in its proper and natural sense, is an instrument by means of which may be
drawn from one point to another, the shortest possible line, which is called
a straight line.
2. The rule is a means of comparison in the arts to judge whether the line be straight, as it serves in jurisprudence, to judge whether an action be just or unjust, it is just or right, when it agrees with the rule, which is the law. It is unjust and wrong, when it deviates from it. lt is the same with our will or our intention.
RULE, TERM, English practice. A term rule is in the nature of a day rule, by which a prisoner is enabled by the terms of one rule, instead of a daily rule, to quit the prison or its rules for the purpose of transacting his business. lt is obtained in the same manner as a day rule. See Rules.
TO RULE. This has several meanings: 1. To determine or decide; as, the court rule the point in favor of the plaintiff. 2. To order by rule; as rule to plead.


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Spacious, affordable rowhomes with historic features and modern touches. Friendly neighbors and a close-knit community with an active neighborhood association. One of the best charter schools in the city. Easier-than-average parking, plus convenient access to both I-95 and to Johns Hopkins. And, of course, Patterson Park itself — the "best backyard in Baltimore!"
It's no wonder that new residents and longtime Baltimoreans alike love Patterson Park. That Southern Living magazine ranked us among the nation's top "comeback" neighborhoods. And that the Baltimore Business Journal has recognized Patterson Park as one of Baltimore's hottest neighborhoods for buying a new home.
Patterson Park is a special place that's moving into the future while keeping its best traditions from the past — friends, family and community.


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Tomorrow, Aprill 22, is Earth Day, and Unbound sponsored friends and their families in the Philippines are celebrating with bokashi balls.
No, it isn't a new healthy cereal to help cleanse your system. But it will help cleanse rivers and other freshwater resources.
"Bokashi" is a Japanese term that means "fermented organic matter" and refers to a system developed in Japan that uses beneficial micro-organisms to break down toxins and food waste. Bokashi balls can improve the life of the river and help restore it to its proper ecological balance.
Unbound's Antipolo project in the Philippines has been making bokashi balls since 2009 and started to see positive environmental effects in area rivers where the mudballs have been utilized..
Click here to read more about bokashi balls.