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Andy Warhol created a silkscreen portrait of Sen. Ted Kennedy in 1980 as a way to raise money for his presidential campaign. Now, that portrait is being used to remember him.
The National Portrait Gallery has installed the portrait of Kennedy in a remembrance gallery at the museum in Washington.
Gallery spokeswoman Julia Zirinsky said the silkscreen print by Andy Warhol, which was acquired in 2000, will be on view starting Thursday.
Kennedy died Tuesday at age 77 after a yearlong battle with brain cancer. He will be buried Saturday evening at Arlington National Cemetery.
The Portrait Gallery only recently began displaying portraits of prominent figures who have died. The remembrance gallery opened after Michael Jackson died in June.
Warhol used colors of the American flag and diamond dust as special features in the print. Warhol raised $300,000 by selling posters of the portrait.
While the portrait remains, Kennedy's campaign to be the Democratic presidential nominee was short-lived. He lost to Jimmy Carter.


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Sparta police put out a bulletin at the end of January that they were looking for an older couple that used a stolen credit card to make several purchases in the Village of Sparta on January 7, including groceries and gas. They were caught on surveillance tape at the Sparta Family Fare, and media outlets, including the Post, published a photo of the couple on their websites asking people to identify them.
According to Sparta Chief of Police Andrew Milanowski, they received numerous calls telling them who the couple was, and Officer Cook made contact with them. On February 9, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Juan Carlos Morejon, 57. He was arrested and lodged in t he Kent County Jail on February 10, and arraigned on February 11 on one charge of fraud—illegal use of a credit card. Bond was set at $4,000 cash or surety bond. At press time, he was still in custody.

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The University of Arizona is exploring a veterinary school that's faster with more intensity. If the plan passes, students could obtain a degree in four or five years instead of eight-and potentially halve their debt.
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Eight years. Four hundred sixteen weeks. Two thousand, nine hundred and twenty days. That's the average time it takes a student to make the journey from high school graduate to doctor of veterinary medicine. Now imagine taking that trip in roughly half the time. Would it work?
The University of Arizona thinks so, and it's asking its state to fund an initial $250,000 study to find out. Shane Burgess, BVSc, PhD, is a veterinarian, vice provost and dean of the University of Arizona's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He's taken the university's plan to House and Senate committees. If the Legislature includes money for the study in this year's budget, Burgess would like to complete the economic study in time for the next legislative session.
"We're looking at a model that will decrease the cost of a degree dramatically and also be a positive economic stimulus to the state's economy. So everybody wins," Burgess says. "If the study shows our plan works and makes sound business sense, we'll pursue it, and if not, we won't."
Three factors are driving the University of Arizona's plan. The first is its concern that every veterinary student in Arizona becomes an out-of-state student. Burgess says that's the most expensive way to become a veterinarian. "The total direct costs for an Arizonan to obtain a veterinary degree are between $225,000 and $250,000 from high school to qualification," Burgess says.
A small fraction of these students receive state assistance, which means the government is sending that money out of state. Plus, the state is not generating the revenues it could be by having its own veterinary education program. "So we believe not only is this good to decrease the students' cost, but it will also be an economic driver for the state of Arizona," Burgess says.
The second factor, Burgess says, is the mismatch in the veterinary profession between salaries and the cost of education—which they plan to address by decreasing the time it takes a student to obtain a degree. The third driver is the need to create a program that broadens veterinary students' focus to include opportunities beyond companion animal medicine, such as bioeconomy, food safety, border safety and large animal medicine, Burgess says.
Almost all the infrastructure needed for the school exists already. Burgess says the university's multimillion-dollar research program, medical school, public health school, pharmacy school and the multiple farms and ranches the university owns would easily allow the school to add a veterinary college. "We are confident, based on other models doing this on a similar time frame that are also AVMA-accredited—and we have talked to the AVMA already—that we will be able to find a way within our system," Burgess says. "Now, we may be wrong, and if that's the case, we won't go any further. But I don't suspect we'll be wrong."
One degree at a time
The plan the University of Arizona is proposing isn't a new approach. Colleges like Massey University in New Zealand, an AVMA-accredited program where Burgess obtained his veterinary degree, offer five-year or 10-semester programs to receive a bachelor of veterinary science (BVSc) degree. Using a similar approach at the University of Arizona, students could complete undergraduate coursework in one to two years. If admitted to the College of Veterinary Medicine, they could complete their veterinary degree in three years if the program runs year-round, without a summer break.
Noble Jackson, DVM, is an associate professor of practice with the Department of Veterinary Science and Microbiology at the University of Arizona. He says the length of time it takes to obtain a veterinary degree is a national issue. A typical veterinary student spends eight years in school to get her doctorate in veterinary medicine, he says, and most of the schools are publishing statistics that show the average graduate owes $130,000 to $140,000.
"That's a tough debt load when you compare that to starting salaries in practice, in the $60,000 to $70,000 range," Jackson says. "In a way, that part of the veterinary training system is broken. The market forces out there that offer salaries for these students aren't going to immediately increase those salaries. So we've got to look at how can we get students educated in a quicker amount of time with less debt."
Undergraduates enrolled in food safety and microbiology at the University of Arizona learn how to conduct microbial analyses on various food products. Photo by John Marchello/Courtesy of the University of Arizona.
About 40 years ago, students didn't need to obtain a four-year undergraduate degree to be eligible for veterinary medical school, Jackson says. And internationally, they still don't. The change from veterinary school candidates obtaining two-year to four-year undergraduate degrees may have been dictated by the high level of competition among applicants for places in veterinary school, he says. Now most U.S. students go to school four-plus years before they're admitted to veterinary school, he says.
"Realistically, that's too long," Jackson says. "They don't need to have a bachelor's degree to become a veterinarian. So our plan is designed to cut that time down significantly. Our plan could get students through the classes we think are important in two years. That's going to require a pretty science-intensive undergraduate education, but if we go back 40 years in time, that's what was done."
Jackson says cutting off two years of undergraduate school will likely save the average student at least $25,000 a year, going by the cost of undergraduate education in Arizona. Plus, the Arizona plan proposes following the model of many international veterinary schools and running the program year-round, without summer breaks. While this wouldn't actually lower tuition costs, it could save students a year's worth of living expenses.
Jackson says that by cutting two years of undergraduate expenses and a year of living expenses in veterinary school, students could save anywhere from $60,000 to $70,000, which is right around half of what's quoted nationally for veterinary student debt. "By doing this, we wouldn't cut down the quality of education, we'd just cut down the time frame involved with getting that degree," Jackson says. In addition, this program would put graduates in the workplace sooner, which in turn could do more to improve their earning power.
"Lifetime earnings could easily go up a couple hundred thousand compared to the system we have currently in the United States," Jackson says.
Another novel element of the University of Arizona plan is that it does not include a teaching hospital. Instead, students would be distributed to private veterinary practices in the state to meet residency requirements.
"I personally think it's a very good way to educate students," Jackson says. "One, you're putting them out in the real world—not to say academia isn't the real world. But in reality, students who go through the traditional system see cases that are referred to their hospital. Whereas in the private practices, in the feed lots, they're actually seeing the common cases an average veterinarian would see."
Another advantage of the distributive model, Jackson says, is that the school could send students to areas where they see potential veterinary jobs. These might include the biomedical industry and animal research activities. "In a university like ours with a medical school, there's a lot of research going on that veterinarians are already involved in," he says. "We have tremendous assets here on campus. We've got an actual working ranch as part of the college, we've got a feed lot here, we've got the animal research center that's already doing work with the medical school. And we're situated in a unique spot in the United States. We're sort of a sentinel for any potential foreign animal diseases that might come north to the United States. And there's a tremendous amount of agriculture that's going on currently in Mexico that crosses back and forth to the United States."
Room for more?
If the University of Arizona's plan goes through, the earliest veterinary students would be admitted would be August 2015. But by then, it might not be the only veterinary school in the state. Midwestern University, a private, not-for-profit university that focuses on healthcare education, announced plans to open a veterinary medical school in Arizona with an inaugural class of 100 students in 2014.
Kathleen Goeppinger, PhD, is the president and CEO of Midwestern University. She says the school features 19 different masters and doctorate-level health sciences programs across the nation. "We feel the true picture of healthcare includes veterinarians and the One Health concept," Goeppinger says. "There is not a veterinary school in the state of Arizona at this time. And we feel that by bringing in a class and having them look toward rotations in rural areas and other areas that are short veterinarians, we will help the population. We also think there's so much synergy in research between veterinarians and our other scientists that it's a very strong linkage."
Midwestern is committing about $120 million to build the facilities and hire faculty and an administrative team. "We spent at least two full years investigating before we made the decision to have it approved by our board of trustees," Goeppinger says. "Our driving factor was the ability to expand the healthcare team, but we also knew that the state did have a shortage."
However, Midwestern's new school has not influenced the University of Arizona's plans to investigate a college of veterinary medicine, Burgess says.
"Every state that has more than one veterinary school—and in most cases that's private and public—is benefitting from those two entities," he says. "Midwestern's plan hasn't changed anything we're thinking of doing."
Giovanna Martinez, a research technician in the bacteriology section of the Arizona Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory at the University of Arizona, examines a bacterial culture plate. Photo by Sara Plevel/Courtesy of the University of Arizona.
A veterinary shortage?
In 2012, the National Academy of Sciences released its "Workforce Needs in Veterinary Medicine" report. The study identifies no personnel shortages in veterinary medicine. But many Arizonans disagree, citing underserved rural areas of the state.
Midwestern University points to an American Association of Veterinary Medical Colleges projection that there will be a shortage of 15,000 veterinarians over the next 20 years (a 10-year-old report many experts have questioned considering more recent research). Perhaps to confuse matters further, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicts 36 percent growth in the employment of veterinarians from 2010 to 2020—a much-faster-than-average growth rate for all occupations. (But again, many of those within the veterinary field have questioned the BLS's methodology and results.)
The debate doesn't end there. Research indicates that a key reason for open jobs in large animal medicine is that the jobs don't offer enough financial compensation. A 2011 report from American Association of Bovine Practitioners indicates these areas of underserved rural America exist because it's not financially feasible to make a living in these parts of the country.
Goeppinger says that when Midwestern was exploring the idea of launching a veterinary school, she met with some of the people representing the various animal groups, including members of the cattlemen's association and state senators from rural areas, who reported they did find a shortage of veterinarians in their areas.
While Goeppinger says it's too early in the school's planning stages for her to comment on potential tuition costs and student debt loads for veterinary students, the school has explored whether it's possible to offer students incentives to serve in rural areas. And she says the university will use its established team of counselors to help with financial aid and encourage students to keep their student debt as low as possible.
"I saw the article in The New York Times [about veterinary student debt], and I've read a lot of position papers on this. I think that if you help manage the student's burden, it becomes a much more doable project for them to pay back their loans," Goeppinger says.
Mark Killian, a 14-year veteran of the Arizona state Legislature and a member of the Arizona Board of Regents, says the system has to change to make jobs in rural areas of the state viable. He supports the University of Arizona's plan for a veterinary school, due in large part out of concerns about biosecurity."My big concern, looking beyond Arizona, is that we're going to wake up with a shortage of large animal veterinarians in the next 15 years," says Killian, who is a managing partner in family ranching operations in Arizona and New Mexico. "Because of biosecurity, I think rural America is going to be in big trouble. We need to focus on trying to create as many large animal veterinarians as possible—we've got plenty of small animal veterinarians."
Jackson and Killian agree that these jobs may be more viable for new graduates if they're starting out their careers with less debt. And Burgess says one of his goals is to make it more financially feasible to be a working veterinarian. "The question of whether it's economically viable is not something I can control," he says. "But I can contribute to making it more economically viable."
Killian says a key is to drive down the cost of all college tuition. "Saddling students with all this debt is unconscionable," he says. "It's not only a state problem, it's a national problem. And it's something we're going to have to deal with. It makes no sense to me to have these young people come out of college with hundreds of thousands of dollars of indebtedness. It's just not right."
He would also like to see veterinary graduates incentivized to go into large animal medicine. Killian served in the Arizona Legislature from the early '80s to the middle '90s and recalls several states using incentives to encourage medical students to locate in rural areas after their residencies. He says these programs might be a starting point to develop similar programs in veterinary medicine.
"It would require an act of the Legislature to do that, and again it gets back to the biosecurity of our food products," he says. "People need to wake up and understand that's a very important thing and it is something we need to pursue."
Killian says he's frustrated that Americans haven't created more publically owned veterinary schools. Because of the resulting competition making it more expensive to get into veterinary school, "I think we've precluded a lot of kids in the rural areas who normally may have been able to go to veterinary school," he says. "I think we lost out on a lot of potential veterinarians."


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The annual Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) is currently underway in Vienna. Session 1 was held today, and the topic was "Freedom of Association: obstacles to the full realization of this right and ways to overcome them".
Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff spoke at the session as a representative of Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa (BPE). As I understand it, video will eventually be available.
BPE filed the following statement about the suppression of Die Freiheit in Germany by leftists and Muslims. One technique used by the mob is to intimidate venue owners so that Die Freiheit is effectively silenced by being denied a place to hold their events.
Statement by Bürgerbewegung Pax Europa
OSCE supplementary Human Dimension Meeting
Working Session 1
Freedom of Assembly and Association
Vienna, November 8, 2012
BPE refers to an event in Munich organized by the German political party DIE FREIHEIT in September 2012. The topic was "Is Euro-Islam possible?". The owner of the local restaurant, the chosen venue, was intimidated by massive telephone threats. The owner of the restaurant was forced to cancel the discussion, citing pressure from political authorities in Munich.
The organizers were the forced to find a new venue within hours; however, this new location was again surrounded by so-called antifascists who disturbed the peace by shouting slogans like "There is no right to Nazi propaganda."
Ladies and gentlemen, these are the methods of a totalitarian society. Police did show up, but did not interfere or remove the crowd intent on disturbing the meeting.
Recommendation to OSCE participating States
That public events properly registered with the authorities are always granted sufficient and neutral police protection to ensure that the events can proceed according to plan, without the organizers or participants having to fear violence prior, during or after the event.
Recalling and reinforcing BPE's statement made at HDIM in 2009 in this regard and remind participating States that [they] "… are accountable to their citizens and responsible to each other for their implementation of their OSCE commitments", BPE thus
- Calls on the OSCE participating States to ensure that OSCE guidelines to freedom of assembly as well as its human dimension commitments are followed and implemented by governments in all instances of legal assemblies, thereby ensuring the continued legal right to the very freedoms that should be inherent in liberal democracies.
- Recommends that ODIHR reaffirm the right to peaceful assembly for everyone regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with the views of the demonstrators.
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FDA Expands Advice on Statin Risks
- Liver Injury Called Rare
- Reports of Memory Loss
- The Risk of Diabetes
- The Potential for Muscle Damage
If you're one of the millions of Americans who take statins to prevent heart disease, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has important new safety information on these cholesterol-lowering medications.
FDA is advising consumers and health care professionals that:
- Routine monitoring of liver enzymes in the blood, once considered standard procedure for statin users, is no longer needed. Such monitoring has not been found to be effective in predicting or preventing the rare occurrences of serious liver injury associated with statin use.
- Cognitive (brain-related) impairment, such as memory loss, forgetfulness and confusion, has been reported by some statin users.
- People being treated with statins may have an increased risk of raised blood sugar levels and the development of Type 2 diabetes.
- Some medications interact with lovastatin (brand names include Mevacor) and can increase the risk of muscle damage.
This new information should not scare people off statins, says Amy G. Egan, M.D., M.P.H., deputy director for safety in FDA's Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology Products (DMEP). "The value of statins in preventing heart disease has been clearly established," she says. "Their benefit is indisputable, but they need to be taken with care and knowledge of their side effects."
FDA will be changing the drug labels of popular statin products to reflect these new concerns. (These labels are not the sticker attached to a prescription drug bottle, but the package insert with details about a prescription medication, including side effects.)
The statins affected include:
- Altoprev (lovastatin extended-release)
- Crestor (rosuvastatin)
- Lescol (fluvastatin)
- Lipitor (atorvastatin)
- Livalo (pitavastatin)
- Mevacor (lovastatin)
- Pravachol (pravastatin)
- Zocor (simvastatin).
Products containing statins in combination with other drugs include:
- Advicor (lovastatin/niacin extended-release)
- Simcor (simvastatin/niacin extended-release)
- Vytorin (simvastatin/ezetimibe).
Liver Injury Called Rare
FDA has found that liver injury associated with statin use is rare but can occur. Patients are advised to consult their health care professional if they have symptoms that include unusual fatigue, loss of appetite, right upper abdominal discomfort, dark urine or yellowing of the skin or whites of the eyes.
Statins work in the liver to reduce the production of cholesterol, a waxy substance that can form plaque on the walls of the arteries and keep the heart from getting the blood it needs.
Egan explains that there had been signals in early clinical trials of possible liver damage tied to statin use, so health care professionals were advised to regularly test their patients' liver enzyme levels. However, she says, such damage is rare, and the tests are not effective at predicting or preventing who will develop this rare side effect.
So FDA is now recommending that liver enzyme tests be performed before statin treatment begins and then as needed if there are symptoms of liver damage.
Reports of Memory Loss
FDA has been investigating reports of cognitive impairment from statin use for several years. The agency has reviewed databases that record reports of bad reactions to drugs and statin clinical trials that included assessments of cognitive function.
The reports about memory loss, forgetfulness and confusion span all statin products and all age groups. Egan says these experiences are rare but that those affected often report feeling "fuzzy" or unfocused in their thinking.
In general, the symptoms were not serious and were reversible within a few weeks after the patient stopped using the statin. Some people affected in this way had been taking the medicine for a day; others had been taking it for years.
What should patients do if they fear that statin use could be clouding their thinking? "Talk to your health care professional," Egan says. "Don't stop taking the medication; the consequences to your heart could be far greater."
The Risk of Diabetes
Diabetes occurs because of defects in the body's ability to produce or use insulin—a hormone needed to convert food into energy. If the pancreas doesn't make enough insulin or if cells do not respond appropriately to insulin, blood sugar levels in the blood get too high, which can lead to serious health problems.
A small increased risk of raised blood sugar levels and the development of Type 2 diabetes have been reported with the use of statins.
"Clearly we think that the heart benefit of statins outweighs this small increased risk," says Egan. But what this means for patients taking statins and the health care professionals prescribing them is that blood-sugar levels may need to be assessed after instituting statin therapy," she says.
The Potential for Muscle Damage
Some drugs interact with statins in a way that increases the risk of muscle injury called myopathy, characterized by unexplained muscle weakness or pain. Egan explains that some new drugs are broken down (metabolized) through the same pathways in the body that statins follow. This increases both the amount of statin in the blood and the risk of muscle injury.
FDA is revising the drug label for Lovastatin to clarify the risk of myopathy. The label will reflect what drugs should not be taken at the same time, and the maximum lovastatin dose if it is not possible to avoid use of those other drugs.
Patients and health care professionals should report negative side effects from statin use to FDA's MedWatch Adverse Event Reporting Program.
This article appears on FDA's Consumer Update page, which features the latest on all FDA-regulated products.
Updated: January 31, 2014


text: Seller: plantprojectaquatics ✉ (1,006) 95.2%, Location: Chandler, Arizona, US, Ships to: US, Item: 314525276387 Red Oscar (Astronotus ocellatus) - Live Freshwater Fish. The Red Oscar is a color variation of Astronotus ocellatus Oscar. It is also known as the Marble Cichlid or the Velvet Cichlid and is a colorful addition to a large aquarium. The Red Oscar is orange-red with dark gray shading and an eyespot on the dorsal fin. They will form a pair, make a nuclear family and are generally peaceful in nature. It is hard to tell the difference between the male and females, but during spawning the female has obvious genital papilla. The Red Oscar requires a large aquarium of at least 70 gallons with a deep sand bottom and a few large rocks. They will dig up plants; so any that are in the tank should be potted with the root surfaces covered with rocks. Using floating plants is a good compromise to this problem. Tiny Oscars form a tight cluster for protection and this is normal behavior for juvenile fish. Large Oscars are not as territorial as most other cichlids when full grown but will consume anything they can fit into their mouths. A large tank should be used for breeding, as much as 100 gallons if possible. The Red Oscar will spawn in soft or hard water as long as it is clean and clear and has a temperature between 79-86°F. The female will lay from 1,000-2,000 eggs on rocks that have been carefully cleaned. The eggs are opaque at first, turning transparent in 24 hours. The brood will be carefully guarded and cared for and the fry will be kept in pits and may even be covered. When they are free-swimming, the fry should be fed Cyclops. Sometimes the fry will cling to their parents. The Red Oscar is a carnivore that is a predaceous and hearty eater. Oscars will eat a variety of meaty foods, including small fish and earthworms, Cichlid pellets, larger flake food, ocean plankton, bloodworms, and tubifex worms. Approximate Purchase Size: 2" to 3-1/2". Please Note: Due to variations within species, your item may not look identical to the image provided. Approximate size range may also vary between individual specimen. Item Shipped via 2 Day USPS Priority Mail Condition: Premium Freshwater Fish, Water Type: Fresh, Water Temperature: Tropical, Species: Oscar Fish, Temperament: Peaceful


text: Ashley Tauchert, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Accent of the Feminine Submitted by rc-admin on Sun, 03/20/2005 - 10:10 Ashley Tauchert, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Accent of the Feminine. New York: Palgrave, 2002. ix + 169pp. $52.00 (Hdbk; ISBN: 0-333-96346-6). Reviewed by Harriet Devine Jump Edge Hill College Is there anything new to say about Mary Wollstonecraft? Mary Wollstonecraft and the Accent of the Feminine offers a sophisticated theoretical approach, based on Luce Irigaray's philosophy of sexual difference and subjectivity. In her introduction, Ashley Tauchert rightly identifies "three distinct waves of interest" (4) in Wollstonecraft's life and works since her death. First-wave feminists--nineteenth century campaigners for women's rights--claimed her as a founding mother in their struggle for women's suffrage; the second wave, academic feminists of the 1970s, reclaimed her works and thought from the shadows; and the third wave ("symptomatic of the identity crisis of millennial feminism" [5]) has shifted the focus from celebration to identifying the flaws and inconsistencies in her feminism. Tauchert offers a refashioning of Wollstonecraft, emerging from a consideration of Irigaray's model of Western culture as replicating masculinist subjectivity and thus forcing those women who wish to write intelligibly into a crypto-masculinist subjectivity. She proposes a new category for women's writing, the Athenic mode, in which masculinist forms are disrupted by "figures of excess, lack, and hysteria . . . gestures towards a lost, and mourned, female embodiment" (8). She argues that Wollstonecraft's texts document a struggle between this mode and Matrilineal subjectivity, but believes that her later works point to a resolution of the struggle. Read more about Ashley Tauchert, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Accent of the Feminine


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(Also AMORIUM), a titular see of Phrygia in Asia Minor, now known as Hergen Kaleh. It was a see as early as 431.
LEQUIEN, Oriens Christ, (1740), I, 853 sq.; GAMS, I, 447.
APA citation. Amorios. (1907). In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01433b.htm
MLA citation. "Amorios." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01433b.htm>.
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Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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IPod Yocto
The iPod yocto is Apple's 1,337th digital audio player this year. It was introduced Tomorrow* as a part of the company's newest line of fun-time gadgetry**.
The yocto is the smallest possible iPod: any smaller iPod wouldn't make sense physically. It is based on yoctotechnology, which is smaller than nanotechnology. Its width and length are physically impossible to measure simultaneously, and it is the first known digital audio player to weigh less than air. We cannot properly say the universe began until one iPod yocto had been manufactured.
The iPod yocto was launched under the slogan "You have got to be kidding me... No seriously we have a lot of time on our hands"
Not only this, but the player holds such a high amount of songs (0.5 song) that our whole lives couldn't be spent listening to them all. Apple are known for making machines with gobsmackingly useless capacity which is hardly dented by your entire music collection, so this is an innovation. It is the first iPod ever made that can fit inside of a bellybutton and still leave room for the yocto recharge kit, yocto amplified speakers, and yocto cell phone conversion kit.
It was launched in two colors: burnt sienna and mustard.
* This author does NOT engage in insider trading.
** May not actually be fun. Sell! Sell! Sell!
The iPod yocto boasts many new features:
- Mega audio: For the first time, users can listen to the songs on his/her iPod using mega audio, which is far superior to normal audio. The only difference is relative volume.
- Mini headphones: These extremely tiny headphones absorb into your eardrum, much as an iPod Yocto goes into your skin. They connect to the iPod Yocto via your bloodstream, and when that fails (usually during heart attack or stroke), Bluetooth Wireless technology.
- Easy transport: Users no longer have to deal with clunky iPods that can barely fit in their contact lense cases. Now iPods can be taken anywhere, including submarines, contortionists' containers, and clown cars!
- Self-attachment: The iPod Yocto halfway osmoses onto your skin, so it won't ever come off.
- Full-color 3-D holographic display: the yocto uses a new "screen" (possibly a play on "yoctoscreen") to project the song that the iPod is playing onto any of the 120 compatible iBillboards that have been constructed across the world. Or, if Ted Danson is nearby, it will project on his forehead. Inside sources claim that the next generation will be called "eye pod" with displays directed to the neuron connecting the cornea to vision centre of the brain***
- Fission batteries: The yocto may weigh less than your grandma's eyelash, but thanks to Einstein's atomicalious formula: E=mc2, you can be sure it has the radioactive juice to power a small city.
- New click wheel: The click wheel now merges with the grooves that make up your thumbprint. This doesn't really do anything except tell the police that you were listening to Cher when you knocked over that 7-11.
- Super Shuffle Technology: Super Shuffle Technology randomly replaces songs with ragtime tunes covered by William Shatner. Never hear the same boring song twice!
- Osmosis recharge: The iPod yocto can actually fit itself through the user's plasma membrane, using ribosomes to charge up its batteries with protein, or something about biology.
- DNA immersion: The yocto immerses itself in the user's DNA and automatically downloads iTunes based on the user's genes! If the required music cannot be found, the users genes can be altered to better reflect iTunes' selection.
- Armour Plating: The iPod Yocto, when placed alongside any number of its counterparts, will forge an ionic link with them, increasing the volume by around 1000 times. When combined with enough Yoctos, the giant iPod suit can be worn as armour, proven to be able to absorb shorts from even the strongest of day-old kittens, and withstand temperatures up to, not including, 24 degrees celsius. Forge an army of Yocto wearing fanatics, and invade the nearest supermarket in the latest of musical style!
- Wireless communication : As a result of the Bluetooth Wireless Technology, the iPod yocto can be used as a cellular phone in case you get bored with your music. This is a huge step in technology because for the first time, it allows people all around the world to have their phone conversations on full blast whilst using public transport.
- Easy to read screen: The salmonella making its home on your hand can now easily see what mindless rubbish you now listen to.
*** May not work if you are called George W. Bush or if you love pretzels
The reaction was extremely positive at the announcement, and over three billion units were sold, generating over 19 quadrillion pesos in revenue for Apple. eBay took a hit, as several million old iPods went unsold. Market analyst Steve Ballmer noted, "I love iPod yocto. I love puppies. I love all people. We need more love, and less hate. Spread peace!" He also wishes death on many people.
The IPod yocto is the best consumer device ever created.
The Chinese government banned this player due to Apple's alleged plan to overthrow the existing regime by selling the yocto cheaper than the chinese copycats.
Most customers wondered why they could not see their iPod, which would be different than the picture on the box. Apple responded with a press release stating, "Box images not to scale." About 99.192% of costumers complained of losing their iPod within seconds of opening the package. A few customers reported accidentally eating their iPods, and only knowing of the ingestion when diagnosed with silicon poisoning.
Some customers also reported minor cracking of the screen during the osmosis process.
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Demonstrating continued momentum for Apple's iOS platform for mobile devices, the Objective-C language for building iOS applications bested other languages when it came to growth in popularity last year, according to monthly assessment of languages.
Market share for Objective-C for this month is nearly 6.92 percent; it had been slightly more than 3 percent in January 2011, according to the Tiobe Programming Community index for January, which was released over the weekend. "The major cause of this is the continuing success of the iPhone and the iPad, which both are mainly implemented in Objective-C," Tiobe said in its bulletin. Objective-C was given Tiobe's programming language award for 2011, determined by the language gaining the most market share for the year. The language had been a close runner-up for two years.
[ Despite Objective-C's rise, Java has remained the most popular language in Tiobe's surveys. | Get the latest insights and news on software development from InfoWorld's Developer World newsletter. ]
Tiobe also found significant growth for C#, C, and JavaScript in 2011. C grew to 16.98 percent, up from 15.83 a year ago. C#'s market share was 8.78 percent (it had been 6.23 percent in January), while JavaScript grew from 1.59 percent market share a year ago to a 2.32 percent share for January. As anticipated by Tiobe a month ago, C# overtook C++ this month, with C++ registering a market share of 8.06 percent.
While JavaScript certainly has plenty of mind share in the software development space, the language has a lower rating than might be expected for several reasons. "You can't build complete applications with it. JavaScript is always used in conjunction with other programming languages," said Tiobe CEO Paul Jansen. "Nowadays a lot of JavaScript is generated instead of programmed, for instance in Google's GWT (Google Web Toolkit)."
While still the top programming language overall, Java dropped from 17.77 percent in January 2011 to 17.48 percent this month. Java was used by 17.56 percent of developers last month, according to Tiobe. Python, with 6.27 market share a year ago, saw its share diminish to 3.22 percent for January 2012. PHP saw its share drop from 7.84 percent a year ago to 5.7 percent, while Visual Basic dropped from a 5.9 percent share to 4.5 percent. The overall top 10 languages for the month in order were: Java, C, C#, C++, Objective-C, PHP, Visual Basic, Python, Perl, and JavaScript.
Perl, which saw a 0.08 percent drop in 2011, is being superseded by newer scripting languages like Python and Ruby, Jansen said. PHP appears too slow and insecure for larger websites, said Jansen. He described the drop for Python as surprising.
While Tiobe doubts a new language will hit the top 10 in 2012, it cites possible candidates, including F#, Groovy, and R. "For instance, the R language entered the top 20 this month for the first time. This language for statisticians is becoming the major programming language in its field," Tiobe said.
Tiobe's index is based on an assessment of the number of skilled engineers worldwide, courses, and third-party vendors pertaining to particular languages, with popular websites like Google, Bing, Yahoo, Wikipedia, and Amazon used to calculate the ratings.
This article, "Apple's iOS strength prompted Objective-C language's growth in 2011," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in business technology news and get a digest of the key stories each day in the InfoWorld Daily newsletter. For the latest developments in business technology news, follow InfoWorld.com on Twitter.


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When William Sherr and his partner's teenage son, Jared, was in kindergarten, his classmates just didn't understand his drawing of his family. With two stick figure daddies and no mommy to be found on the page, the other 5-year-olds were confused.
"I remember my son being very adamant in school that [his siblings] had two dads; they didn't have a mother," Sherr, a former kindergarten teacher himself, said. "A lot of kids back then were very confused by that."
However, times have changed and now his daughter, 7, has a very different experience. Her classmates are unphased that she has two daddies, and that other kids have two mommies, one parent, or a mommy and a daddy.
"It just shows the culture is getting more open and understanding it… it's interesting to watch the evolution of acceptance of gay families," he said.
Sherr is a board member on the Family Equality Council, based in Boston, and this is a welcome change for the agency. A voice for LGBT parents who want to expand their families through adoption, the council has gone to federal and state governments to pass adoption laws and to have same-sex relationships be recognized, promote safer school, access to healthcare, equality opportunities in the workplace and much more.
On the federal level, the council is working with 90 other agencies to promote the Every Child Deserves a Family Act, which would remove laws that ban LGBT adoption.
"Family Equality is our voice," said Gabriel Blau, executive director. "This is the organization that works to ensure that my family can live with dignity and safety."
Blau and his husband, Dylan, adopted their 6-year-old son, Elijah, as a newborn in Illinois. Living in New York, they experienced a smooth adoption as both states allow gay couples to adopt.
"It was the best, most incredible, most important moment of our lives," he said.
Florida, Mississippi and Utah explicitly outlaw gay individuals or couples from adopting, while the rest of the 47 states have different variations differing legal opinions,, according to the Liberty Counsel. Some states allow gay adoption while others allow one person to adopt as a single parent while denying second-parent adoption for gay couples.
Still, for Sherr and his partner, Dr. Estevan Garcia, a pediatrician, adoption didn't come easily. They adopted Jared while living in Texas under Garcia's name, but state law wouldn't allow Sherr to be listed as the a second parent on the birth certificate.
"I was a nanny in a way," Sherr said. "It was difficult and it was hard for people in Texas to understand that he wasn't going to be my son."
It wasn't until they moved to Washington state that he was legally recognized as his father.
Since then, the two have adopted another boy, Miles, 11, and the "princess" of the family, 7-year-old Bette. Garcia grew up with four adopted siblings, so the two were eager to give other children homes. It was in Washington that they also were convinced to help even more by fostering high-risk children. Altogether, the couple have fostered 20 children, all infants except for a 4-year-old and a second grader.
"There are plenty of kids who need homes," Sherr said. "We were always very well liked by the foster care system, and so we never really faced any discrimination in that sense."
Besides working at the legislative level, the Family Equality Council works directly with families. A new initiative has been working with families in the South, particularly Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. At the end of the year, a new, free clinic will be opening in Mississippi to help LGBT families.
Also, the council has partnered with Living in Limbo to create a documentary film, "State or Union," to chronicle the struggles of lesbian families adopting.
With more states providing some sort of protection or laws in favor of gay adoption than not, the tides are changing for gay families. Culturally the change is evident; take for instance the hit television show "Modern Family" featuring a gay couple with an adopted daughter as a part of the main cast.
Mitchell, a high-strung lawyer, and Cameron, a free-spirited lover of musical theater and sports, adopt a baby from Vietnam and go through the motions of parenthood — searching madly for her missing stuffed rabbit, convincing her the Tooth Fairy didn't mean to give her 100 dollars, and taking time for a date night.
"It shows a glimpse into life as a gay family, and it kind of shows that we're all the same," Sherr said. "There's funny moments and there's serious moments and we're more similar than not."
Domestically, there are hundreds of thousands of children waiting for someone to adopt them and the more rights gay couples are given, the more homes that can be given to children. According to the US Department of Health & Human Services, as of November 2013, over 300 thousand children were in foster care and 100 thousand plus were waiting to be adopted.
"[I hope] the kids in foster care that are sitting there, looking for a forever home, are going to be able to go to a forever home no matter what the family dynamic or make up looks like," Sherr said.
Visit FamilyEquality.org to learn more about the Family Equality Council


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Upcoming features of the mod, special events or tournaments will be posted here. Do not post any tournament of your own, I "Segolia" will post it myself.
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Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Marx, Allen, Brooks. Writing-performing comedy auteurs. Is it me or has it been a while since Hollywood has welcomed a comedy auteur to get down to business? Steve Martin and Albert Brooks have made films in recent memory, but both work at least as often for hire as for themselves. Others do their thing, but succeed more as performer than writer (the unsinkable Adam Sandler comes to mind). The latest entrant in the comedy auteur sweepstakes is Chris Rock, whose celebrated writing and performing prowess in the field of stand-up comedy compares unfavorably to the flaccid political comedy Head of State.
In Head of State, Rock plays Mays Gilliam, a wise-guy D.C. alderman who wants the same things any Capra hero ever wanted: social justice, personal pride, and a little romance. When a campaign fatality leaves the Democrats in need of political cannon fodder (in a purportedly no-win situation, James Rebhorn's opportunistic senator hopes to lay the groundwork for a future victory), Gilliam steps up to fill the bill. When his straight talk gains support, Gilliam threatens to topple the autocratic bureaucracy of record (Gilliam's Republican opponent, in timely fits of pique, blurts the motto "God bless America, and no one else!"). The story lurches onward, with each photo "op" providing a scene "op."
Rock does himself no favors by casting the more seasoned and consistently hilarious Bernie Mac (the TV maestro of The Bernie Mac Show) as his brother and running mate. First-time director Rock's on-screen candidacy seems to reflect his bid to control his own creative destiny and the future of screen mirth. But Rock remains so clearly beholden to the movie-making machinery that he fails to give the scenes and gags the subtle, loving attention to detail they so evidently require.
Instead of "trying anything," Rock "tries" the safe and the proven. The film's best touch is Nate Dogg as a hip-hop/R&B narrator, but the Farrellys memorably pulled the same trick with Jonathan Richman in There's Something About Mary. Rock also occasionally spins into fantasy, like an ephemeral running gag about government "super-whores," but the cutaway gag of their training camp only serves to remind us that the Zucker brothers filled whole movies with such absurdist gags, while this one must lean heavily on Mac's attitudinal toss-offs for laughs--had Mac been the star, we might have had a movie here. A fleeting appearance by Saturday Night Live funny-man Tracy Morgan also suggests missed opportunity.
As it is, Head of State is a wan inversion of Bulworth, with the lovably straight-talking candidate transgressing race boundaries to win the day. Here again are the same lazy jokes about white people turning black--a snooty party morphs into Soul Train and grannies sling slang--which power the unaccountable hit Bringing Down the House. Here again is the stereotype--and casual endorsement--of familial African-American whuppings, most notably in frequent on-screen slap and punch-fests involving Rock, his harridan ex (a teeth-gritting Robin Givens), and Mac. As if by way of apology, Rock gives himself one serious-minded monologue addressing the burden of symbolically representing his race.
Rock's erratic, slack screen persona has fallen on fallow ground as of yet, unlike the calibrated exaggeration of the geniuses of yore. Those comic authors knew how to filigree their movement and syntax to dizzying, exhilharating absurdities in a "reel" context as well as in a "real" one. As for the "state" of comedy auteurs, producers would do well to take more chances in cultivating new talent. Perhaps a female auteur is the next logical step--certainly overdue--to restore energy and purpose (and laughs) to screen humor. Rock shouldn't have to bear the burden of screen comedy with his current film, but it is emblematic of our national failure to just make a funny movie.


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The BBC web site has clips from some of their shows, news, history and tons of resources for educators and students.
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Eugene: Alexander Sergeev
Parasha: Yekaterina Osmolkina
Peter I: Vladimir Ponomarev
The Queen of the Ball: Oxana Skorik
Ibrahim the Blackmoor: Yevgeny Deryabin
Columbine: Anastasia Lukina
Harlequin: Vasily Tkachenko
Balakirev the Jester: Vladislav Shumakov
Premiere of Rostislav Zakharov's version: 14 March 1949, Kirov Opera and Ballet Theatre (Mariinsky Theatre)
Premiere of the ballet, staged by Yuri Smekalov: 31 March 2016, Mariinsky Theatre
Running time 3 hours
The performance has two intervals
Music by Reinhold Glière
Libretto by Pyotr Abolimov after the poem by Alexander Pushkin
Choreography by Rostislav Zakharov, Yuri Smekalov
Staged by Yuri Smekalov
Production Designer: Andrei Sevbo
Costume Designer: Tatiana Noginova
Lighting Designer: Alexander Naumov
Video Graphics Designer: Alexander Logvinov
A bare shore. Peter I is immersed in thought about the future of Russia and the construction of his new city on the River Neva.
Act I
St Petersburg, 1824. There is a popular fete on Senate Square near the monument to Peter I. Wandering artistes are giving a performance. The dance of Columbine and Harlequin is interrupted by the sounds of a military orchestra – a regiment marches across the square. The lovers Yevgeny and Parasha meet at the monument. In the growing gloom the monument to Peter the Great appears triumphantly threatening. Yevgeny delightedly tells Parasha about Peter...
The port in St Petersburg. At the wharves the construction of a ship is complete and preparations are underway for its grand launch. Founder of the Russian fleet Peter I proudly examines the new ship and gives the final instructions. Visitors from overseas arrive. Everything is ready for the festivities. Peter chops the rope and the ship slowly moves down the slips.
The visitors pass along an alley in the Summer Garden towards Peter I's palace for a ball. Peter introduces his god-son Ibrahim who has returned from France to a dazzling beauty who has been acclaimed by the assembly as the "queen of the ball". The Emperor opens up a globe gifted by Dutch sailors that contains a model of the new ship. At the height of the general dancing, Menshikov organises a game – whoever is left without a woman must empty a "grand eagle cup". The guests depart long after midnight.
Left alone, Peter dreams of what the city he has founded at the mouth of the River Neva will be like.
Act II
Autumn 1824. Parasha is living with her mother in a small house on the shore of Vasilievsky Island. In the garden in the shade of the willow tree she and her friends are performing a round dance. Parasha's mother demonstrates how they used to dance in the old days. The girls tell each others' fortunes. Yevgeny, who is hiding behind the willow tree, admires their dancing.
Yevgeny and Parasha dream of quiet domestic bliss. The girls give the lovers wedding garlands made from autumn leaves.
Suddenly the wind rises and dark clouds fill the sky – bad weather is approaching. Yevgeny bids farewell to Parasha and hurries home before the bridges across the Neva are washed away.
Yevgeny's room. Yevgeny recalls his meeting with his beloved; all his thoughts are of the wedding.
Outside the weather is dreadful and the flood is ever nearer. Worried about Parasha, whose house is on the very banks of the gulf, Yevgeny hastens off to his beloved.
Act III
On the shore a crowd of frightened citizens observes how quickly the waters of the Neva are rising. The river has burst its banks. Yevgeny despairs – his path to Parasha is cut off. Climbing onto a stone lion, with horror he views the scene of the flood. Mad with longing and fear, Yevgeny jumps into the water in the hope of swimming through the seething Neva to Parasha's house.
The storm has passed. Where yesterday Parasha lived, today the old house, the gate and the people have all gone – only the broken willow tree stands, drooping. Grief-stricken, Yevgeny imagines he can see his beloved once more. Yevgeny loses his reason.
Boys are making fun of the insane Yevgeny. On the site of his recent rendezvous with Parasha, Yevgeny looks with loathing at the Bronze Horseman, believing that Peter, who founded the city on the Neva, is the cause of his grief. Behind him Yevgeny hears the clatter of hooves from the horseman's steed and enters a fatal encounter with him. Too weak to fight, Yevgeny drops down dead.
The city founded by Peter has been transformed and its residents, as before, dream of love and happiness...
The revival of forgotten but once-loved productions has been a trend of the Mariinsky Theatre over the last seventeen years. The appearance The Bronze Horseman is a continuation of this course. But if previously old ballets were revived and scrupulously reconstructed from archive materials or from personal memories of performers who danced in them, then here we have an antique adapted to the modern day. In the new Bronze Horseman we still have the choreographic structure of Rostislav Zakharov's production, created in 1949: those who appeared in the ballet in the 1980s have demonstrated their roles to today's performers. And it was Yuri Smekalov who has brought the dance modesty of that drama-ballet to match contemporary interests of today's performers and the habits of today's audiences – there are more leaps and complex pirouettes in the choreographic text. "In my production I am trying to retain Zakharov's choreographic idea, but I want to show it in a different light so that the ballet has meaning for the audience today", Yuri Smekalov said. If the dances have been only partially revived then the stage décor of the Stalinist era has been fully rejected, and much of what mid-20th century audiences contemplated, submitting to the pathétique of Glière's music, has today been executed using computer graphics. The patina of time an antique souvenir has been removed, giving The Bronze Horseman a modern gloss. Olga Makarova
The highlighting of performances by age represents recommendations.
This highlighting is being used in accordance with Federal Law N436-FZ dated 29 December 2010 (edition dated 1 May 2019) "On the protection of children from information that may be harmful to their health"


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Health news and blog
Hamstring Injuries
By Intermountain Healthcare
Jun 20, 2014
Updated Jul 13, 2023
5 min read
The United States Men's National team was victorious in their first match of the 2014 World Cup on Monday. But the victory came with a price as starting striker, Jozy Altidore, suffered a hamstring injury and will not play in Sundays match against Portugal. It is still uncertain if Altidore will be back for later matches should Team USA advance. While hamstring injuries are very common in sports, especially sprinting sports like soccer, they unfortunately can shut you down. Even very minor injuries will keep you from performing your best until they are healed.
The hamstring muscles are a group muscles that sit right behind the thigh. As the muscles travel down the back of the thigh they diverge. One called the biceps femoris attaches to the fibula (the smaller bone in the leg on the outside part) and the other two called the semitendinosus and semimembranosus attach to the Tibia or shin bone. These muscles work together to straighten the hip joint and bend the knee joint.
A hamstring strain is an injury to one of these muscles or to one of the tendons of these muscles. An injury can be very high and even so severe that the tendon pulls off the bone. The injury can also be in the muscle belly or even lower near the knee.
When you injure your hamstring you feel sudden pain at the sight of their injury, as was evident when Altidore suffered his injury, immediately pulling up and grabbing at the back of his leg. You may feel a pop when it occurs and the pain and weakness of the muscle makes it very difficult to continue playing.
The big question for the UTMNT is if Jozy can recover in time to play in their final match of group play against Germany on June 26h. Treatment for hamstring injuries involves rest, ice and stretches in the short term. Anti-inflammatory drugs can help with the pain. Images like an ultrasound or MRI are often helpful in assessing the severity and location of the injury, which intern can help with treatment. Often, the closer the injury is to the hip, the longer the recovery may take. Recovery time is variable and can be as short as one week (so there is a chance Altidore could return) but is often more near 4-6 weeks.
Sometimes injections in or near the injured area are performed in attempt to get an athlete back in play; however, going back to play too soon can increase the risk of reoccurring injuries in the future. I like to perform a test called the Askling H test prior to return to full activity. If that test is completely pain free then you are ready to play.
As you participate in sports or activities, hamstring strengthening exercises are thought to be the best way to prevent hamstring injuries, most importantly eccentric strengthening exercises. An eccentric exercise is one when the muscle is contracting while elongating. Two examples are illustrated below.
From: Petersen. Preventive effect of eccentric training on acute hamstring injuries in men's soccer a cluster randomized controlled trial AJSM 2011
And if you are alone you can do them on a stability ball
When dealing with injuries, the future health of the athlete should always be a top priority. We wish Jozy a quick recovery and will be cheering on Team USA throughout the rest of the World Cup.


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What are Dental Crowns?
A crown is a prosthetic positioned over a tooth to create a smoother look and enhance strength and durability.
The placement of a crown is often recommended when:
- a tooth is cracked
- has an old filling
- is severely decayed
Crowns strengthen and protect the remaining tooth structure and can improve the appearance of your smile.
Types of crowns include the full porcelain crown (ideal for use on the front teeth), the porcelain-fused-to-metal crown and the all-metal crown (ideal for use on the back teeth).
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- Before placing the crown on the tooth, the tooth will be shaped to make room for it.
- Then an impression of the tooth and the surrounding teeth is taken.
- A temporary acrylic crown is placed on the tooth.
- When the permanent crown is ready (1-2 weeks normally), the temporary crowns are replaced.
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I corresponded with the Streits company four years ago suggesting they make their matzos in smaller sizes to sell as cheese crackers. Carr's Water Crackers, a popular British brand of cheese crackers, are nothing more than small, thin matzos.
I also like Streits onion-poppy seed flavored matzos called Moon Strips, after mohn, the Yiddish word for poppy seeds. So I suggested the Streits Company make their Moon Strips into snack crackers the size of a quarter with moon faces on them.
Kids love to eat things with faces and shapes. I remember Animal Crackers when I was growing up. I still see them around but they seem to have lost their appeal. Moon Crackers could be a year-round seller for Streits.
I like to give nutritious snacks at Halloween, because I like to eat the leftovers and don't want to eat candy. One year I gave away little bags of Gold Fish which started out as soup crackers and morphed into a healthy cheese snack. Last year I gave away small boxes of raisons. I thought flavored matzos packaged in small bags with funny faces, would be neat treat to give away on Halloween.
Streits was considering selling their original building in New York City and moving to a larger, more modern plant in New Jersey where they could buy new equipment and expand. The movie about Streits is about why they changed their mind about doing this, largely to keep their connection with the neighborhood in Manhattan and their long-time employees. It's a movie with a heart, and shows that not all business owners are only in it for the money.
I have some connection with the Matzo business, although it isn't one I know much about. My sister sent me some information she got from my paternal Grandmother on her father, Lieb Nanes, who emigrated from Poland to American in 1878. His wife and four older children came over in 1880. Grandma Lilly was the youngest of six. She and an older brother were born here.
My sister said that Great Grandpa Nanes was a matzo maker. I couldn't imagine how anyone could make a living making matzos. After all these are only used during Passover, which restricts eating leaven bread for 7 days. Matzos, which are flat, crunchy crackers made of flour and water, without the fluffiness of Challah or bread, represent the bread the Jews ate in the desert when they escaped out of Egypt as described in the Old Testament.
My sister thought there are other uses for matzos during the rest of the year. My maternal Grandmother Ida who lived with us, used to make matzo brei, which are matzos mixed with milk and eggs and fried like a pancake. It never looked very good to me, but Grandma would eat that year round.
Grandma Lilly made matzo balls out of matzo meal. These are supposed to be light, airy dumplings in chicken soup, but hers were more like hockey pucks. So I guess there are year-round uses for matzos.
After I contributed to the matzo movie I received a thank you email from the producer and director. I replied about my contact with Streits and to my surprise received a very interesting reply.
"Rivington Pictures says:
Hi Rosalind,
Thanks so much for writing - these are definitely questions we've been asking as we film at Streits!
It's true, as early as mid-2008; rumors were coming out that they would be selling the factory. In fact, this is when I first considered making a film about the business. As they've explained it to me, they had real estate speculators knocking on their door every week with higher and higher offers - this just before the real estate market dropped. I believe the highest offer was over $25 million. And it was an extremely difficult decision for them. The cost to move to a plant in New Jersey that would be more efficient with a smaller workforce would have been less than a quarter of the asking price for their real estate - a tough offer to refuse, even given their obviously deep commitment to their neighborhood and their workers. In fact, it got to the point where there was a contract on their desks, when at the last minute; they just couldn't bring themselves to do it, and decided to stay. Getting to understand what it was that made them leave that offer on the table is a huge part of this film for me. They're very open about talking about it, but I think they're still trying to understand it, too, so we're kind of figuring it out together, I'd say. I can tell you this, though: their commitment to staying at the current factory is stronger than it has ever been. I think it's almost like they looked over the edge, saw the alternative, and never want to go back. Each of the owners has said basically the same thing: that they simply could never bring themselves to be the generation that leaves the family's home for the past 90 years - the connection is very deep for them.
Now, as far as smaller, cracker sized matzos of various flavors, this is a subject of discussion there on a regular basis. Apparently there was a short period of time in the 1940s or 1950s where they did make smaller, cracker sized matzos, but they've haven't done so since. They'd like to, but all their equipment and their workforce is set up for the full-sized matzos. They would have to build new cutting machines to cut the smaller crackers. Also, the matzos come out of the over in large sheets of 8 matzos each, which the workers break at the perforation points by hand into individual matzos, and then place them in cooling baskets that circulate around the factory to the packing room. Separating them by hand, it would take twice as long to break them into quarter-sized pieces, and they don't break as cleanly either into small pieces, so they'd have to run at most at half speed. Plus, the cooling baskets are wire baskets with big gaps to allow w the large matzos to cool properly. Thousands of these would have to be replaced to hold onto the smaller crackers, and stacking them in the baskets by hand, as they do, would take even more time. So, it's tough - it's doable, but it would take some doing. It's definitely on their minds though, so we'll see what happens!
And if you're having trouble finding moon strips where you live, my recommendation would just be to give them a call (212-475-7000). Rabbi Kirshner, the Supervising Rabbi at Streits, spends a good part of his day packing orders for people who can't find their products at their supermarket, and I'm sure they'd be happy to send some Moon Strips your way!
Rosalind, thank you so much again for being a part of this film. It really means so much. We're so excited to be working on this project, and learning new things every day. If you have any other questions, feel free to write anytime - I'm happy to ask the owners anything I don't know the answer to - you just happened to mention a few things that are constant topics of discussion there!
And of course, (I've gotta say it!) feel free to share the project with anyone who might be interested - things are coming along really well, thanks to amazing people like you, but it's going to take many, many people to make this project a success and we need to make sure they know about it. I'm so thrilled to have you involved, and I love it when I can answer questions - keep them coming!
All the Best,
Michael Levine"
I continue to correspond with Michael Levine. I asked if he could find out about my Great Grandfather Lieb Nanes, who died in 1922 at 84. Aron Streit started his matzo company in 1925, so there appears to be no overlap between the two matzo makers. Mr. Levine said he would check Streits' records to see if he could find anything in the archives about my Great Grandfather, but so far he hasn't uncovered any connection.
The Streit film sounds like a heartfelt story about capitalism, success, and staying with your roots instead of going for the money. This film is getting a lot of attention including a recent article in the Wall Street Journal.
I'm writing this to help the producers reach their Kickstarter goal of $60,000. They have six days to go, and are only up to $36,090 pledged so far. They need the other $24,000 by May 31, at 2 am EDT or they will lose the $36K already pledged.
I hope some deep pocket contributors will invest in this movie. Whether you care about Streits or matzos or don't even know what they are, this movie will show a family business that treats its employees and neighbors as family. That's worth making a movie about.


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NSF International Acquires the INASSA Group LLC, a Peruvian Leader in Analytical Testing, Certification, Inspection and Training for the Seafood/Fishing, Food and Pharmaceutical/Medical Industries.
Acquisition helps further expand NSF's existing certification services and operations in Latin America
ANN ARBOR, Mich., and LIMA, Peru, (January 29, 2013) – NSF International, an independent global public health and safety organization which develops standards, and tests and certifies products for the food, water and health sciences industries, has acquired the INASSA Group of Lima, Peru, which is comprised of three segments: technical analysis, laboratory and sanitation. It is known as International Analytical Services S.A.C., (INASSA), Environmental Laboratories Peru S.A.C. (Envirolab) and Servicios Integrales de Saneamiento S.A.C. (Servisanea). (http://www.INASSAgroup.com.
pe/). The INASSA Group will now be known as NSF-INASSA, NSF-Envirolab and NSF-Servisanea.
Founded in 1981, collectively the NSF-INASSA Group is a leader in the Peruvian market in quality control, analytical testing, certifications, inspections, training and consulting. The NSF-INASSA Group provides services across the seafood, fish meal, pharmaceutical products, drinking water and mining sectors, and also works closely with regulators and government agencies. The NSF-INASSA Group employs over 220 scientists, auditors and environmental health professionals.
NSF International (www.nsf.org), which has existing offices in Peru, Chile, Brazil, Mexico and Costa Rica, will make NSF-INASSA Group its primary Latin American base for the full range of laboratory testing and technical services that NSF provides for the food, water, pharma and seafood sectors. Carmen Catter and Luis Bueno, founders of the INASSA Group, continue in their leadership role as General Managers of the NSF-INASSA Group.
"NSF-INASSA's, NSF-Envirolab's and NSF-Servisanea's excellent reputation in both national and international markets for testing accuracy, turn-around time and customer service is a perfect complement to NSF International's independence and integrity," said Mrs. Catter. "Together, we will continue to help improve food and environmental safety and quality in Latin America."
This acquisition expands NSF International's reach in Latin America to include NSF-INASSA Group's established seafood and pharma markets. Both NSF and INASSA Group clients benefit, as NSF's global clients will now have access to INASSA Group's fish/seafood and pharma services, and INASSA Group's clients will gain access to NSF's wider range of pharma, seafood and other services. It also provides additional laboratory services for NSF customers from this expanded presence in Latin America.
Fish Meal, Fish Oil and Seafood Services. NSF-INASSA Group's 30 years of expertise in fish and seafood inspection, sanitation, container fumigation and analytic services complements NSF's global seafood programs, which include NSF Seafood operations in Asia, Europe and the Americas.
In addition to its analytical services, NSF-INASSA Group established NSF-Servisanea to provide fumigation and general sanitation for property, buildings, cleaning tanks and cisterns as well as to offer sanitation consultation and training. NSF-Envirolab was created to perform water, soil and air analysis as well as environmental impact studies, statements and analysis. NSF-INASSA Group is also approved to provide several types of audits for the fish/seafood industry, including fish meal and fish oil plants (IFFO-RS) and chain of custody (CoC IFFO) standards. NSF-INASSA Group is authorized on behalf of Product Authentication International (PAI) to provide Feed Materials Assurance Scheme (FEMAS) audits and is the only business accredited in Peru to certify fish meal, fish oil and other feed ingredients exported to the EU.
Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Services. Peruvian law now requires imported pharmaceuticals and medical devices to be tested before they are released into Peru or used in a Peruvian hospital. The testing includes active pharmaceutical ingredients, microbiology and chemical testing. NSF-INASSA Group is one of only two national laboratories in Peru to be authorized by the National Health Service for the Quality Control of Medicines. This expands the geographic reach of NSF's analytic and testing capabilities including over-the-counter medicines (OTCs), dietary supplements and medical devices. NSF also offers GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) audits in Latin America to the pharmaceutical, medical device and dietary supplement industries.
Drinking Water Distribution Services. NSF-INASSA Group extends NSF's leadership in testing and certification of drinking water distribution products, such as plastic pipe, as the market leader in Peru. It also is authorized as a support company in Official Sanitary and Quality Certification for water distribution pipes. This is a perfect complement to NSF's global testing and certification for water distribution systems, pipes and components, and residential and commercial water filtration systems.
"NSF International's acquisition of the INASSA Group will expand the services we are able to provide to NSF's customers in Peru and Latin America. In particular, NSF's seafood, pharmaceutical/medical device and drinking water product customers will benefit significantly from NSF-INASSA Group's analytical technical expertise and accredited laboratories," said Kevan Lawlor, President and CEO, NSF International.
"Additionally, other NSF-INASSA Group clients and companies in the Peruvian and Latin American market will benefit from NSF services in the areas of food safety, health sciences, sustainability and wastewater systems testing, certification, auditing and training. This further affirms NSF International's commitment to providing our clients with expanded global service capabilities and resources."
Accreditations. Along with NSF's more than 50 internationally recognized accreditations, the NSF- INASSA Group maintains several national and international accreditations. Nationally, it is accredited by the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and Intellectual Property Protection (INDECOPI) and to ISO 17025 for testing, ISO 17020 for inspection management, ISO 14001 for environmental management and ISO Guide 65 for product certification. Internationally, NSF-INASSA Group is accredited by the Standards Council of Canada (SCC).
Contact sales: Raul Juscamaita Medina at email@example.com or 511.372.6638
U.S. media contact: Greta Houlahan at firstname.lastname@example.com or 734.913.5723
Peru media contact: Ana Torvisco at anator@creativaempresarial.
To view news release in Spanish, visit NSF's website.
Photos: NSF USA Headquarters and NSF-INASSA Logo
About NSF: NSF International, headquartered in Ann Arbor, MI, USA, has a 68-year history in protecting public health and safety, and operates global seafood, food safety and pharmaceutical/medical divisions (www.nsf.org). NSF Seafood programs and personnel have an unsurpassed reputation for technical and scientific expertise and service in the seafood industry. NSF Seafood conducts product inspections, provides facility auditing services to the Marine Stewardship Council Chain of Custody certification and performs audits for the Global Aquaculture Alliance under the Best Aquaculture Practices Standard.
The NSF Global Food Division provides expertise and accredited services across all supply chain sectors, from agriculture, produce, processing, distribution and dairy, to seafood, retail and restaurants. Services include Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) certification (SQF, BRC, GLOBALG.A.P., FSSC, IFS), plus expert auditing, consulting and technical services, HACCP validation and inspection, and organic and gluten-free certification through QAI (Quality Assurance International). NSF is also the leading certifier of foodservice equipment, nonfood compounds and bottled water/beverages.
NSF Health Sciences has more than 25 years of pharmaceutical, medical device and dietary supplement expertise and includes NSF Pharmalytica, a GLP and GMP contract laboratory, FDA-registered and DEA-licensed; NSF-DBA, a consulting, auditing and training company; Becker & Associates, which helps clients meet FDA compliance guidelines and offers global quality systems; NSF Reference Standards, which supplies pharmaceutical secondary reference standards traceable to USP and EP; and the NSF Dietary Supplements Certification Program, which tests and certifies supplements and provides GMP registrations.
The NSF Water Division certifies products that come into contact with drinking water such as plumbing components, water treatment chemicals and drinking water filters, as well as pool and spa equipment. NSF led the development of the American national standards for all materials and products that treat or come in contact with drinking water. In 1990, the U.S. EPA replaced its own drinking water product advisory program with these NSF standards. Today, all major plumbing codes require certification to NSF standards for pipes and plumbing components in commercial and residential buildings.
Additional NSF International services include management systems registrations delivered through NSF International Strategic Registrations (NSF-ISR); environmental and sustainability claims verification services through NSF Sustainability, and training and education programs through NSF Training and Education.


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The Origin Of The Term: Fiscal Cliff
The Origin Of The Term: Fiscal Cliff
The fiscal cliff has economists and politicians in a tailspin. The term is used to describe what will happen if Congress fails to come to an agreement on budget cuts or tax increases by the end of the year. Some say the term is inaccurate, and somewhat alarmist. Linda Wertheimer talks to linguist and Boston Globe language columnist Ben Zimmer about the origin of the term fiscal cliff.
Turn on any news program and you're likely to hear something about the fiscal cliff. Politicians have been using the term to describe the combination of budget cuts and tax increases that will take place automatically on January 1 and could potentially wallop the economy if Congress doesn't reach an agreement before then. Some pundits have suggested that the term fiscal cliff is inaccurate, that it really should be downgraded to the less menacing term fiscal slope.
Here to explain the origins of the term fiscal cliff is linguist and Boston Globe language columnist Ben Zimmer.
Good morning, Mr. Zimmer.
BEN ZIMMER: Good morning.
WERTHEIMER: So where does the term come from, fiscal cliff?
ZIMMER: Well, fiscal cliff was first popularized last February when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned of the coming fiscal cliff that would take effect with these spending cuts and tax increases. But the term itself has actually been used for a few decades to refer to various types of budget crises.
There was a Dallas Morning News editorial in 1975 when New York City was on the verge of bankruptcy. And it was talking about what would happen if New York City went over the fiscal cliff. So it's been a powerful metaphor for a while now.
WERTHEIMER: It's rather dramatic. I would even say cinematic.
ZIMMER: Indeed. If you think of cinematic cliffhangers, we certainly have a lot of images. Thelma and Louise going out in a blaze of glory over the cliff is one powerful image. But it actually goes back to the silent movie era. The original cliffhangers were in serial films like "The Perils of Pauline," where the heroine Pauline would find herself dangling off a cliff at the end of one installment and you'd have to tune into the next one to find out what happened to her.
WERTHEIMER: Do you think that using a term like this - a scary term like this - actually reflects the situation or maybe causes the situation to get worse?
ZIMMER: Well, there's a lot of discussion about this right now among economists and pundits. Is this really an apt term? Is it a kind of alarmism about this particular moment? And even if it is a bit alarmist, is that useful?
Some have said, well, it's not really a cliff. There's no point of no return. We can always sort of recover, even if we miss certain deadlines at the beginning of next year. Perhaps it's just a slope or a hill. But of course those terms don't pack the same punch as the cliff or the precipice, the precarious situation that is evoked by that metaphor.
WERTHEIMER: Now, there are some rumblings that fiscal cliff might be a contender for word of the year. I understand you chair the new words committee of the American Dialect Society. Does this fall into your purview?
ZIMMER: It certainly does. And we're keeping track of which words and phrases are being used in 2012 and which might best sum up the zeitgeist of the year. Four year ago, when bailout was on everybody's lips, that was the word of the year. We might be in a similar situation, where an economic crisis somehow sums up the year in terms of the language we're using.
So fiscal cliff could beat out other contenders, like, for instance, YOLO, the acronym for you only live once. Or Frankenstorm for Hurricane Sandy. And various other terms that people have suggested as possible words of the year.
WERTHEIMER: That's Boston Globe language columnist Ben Zimmer. He joined us from our New York studios.
Mr. Zimmer, thank you for speaking to us.
ZIMMER: Thank you.
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