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Water in many parts of Russia is sourced underground and has a high iron content plus traces of manganese and silicic acid. These contaminants present a two-fold challenge for water treatment plants: they must of course be removed but in the process of that they cause damage to purifying equipment – aeration systems in particular.
Tyumen City's water-treatment plant in south Russia is one example of a site where equipment has suffered from pumping such water. Previously, the plant relied on a pressurised aeration system of polyethylene pipes and air blowers. But the system failed to meet the latest industry standards and was susceptible to blockages. The air blowers also needed a large power supply and introduced more than four times the required amount of air, which generated surface foam. Plus the system needed cleaning at least once a month to ensure a good level of efficiency.
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Retrofitting the TRNs was quite simple. They are installed quickly and cheaply as free-standing units, and are easier to maintain. They also deliver a more balanced mix of oxygenated water compared to air blowers that deliver a high concentration only in the areas in which they are positioned.
TRN aerators have a further advantage. Other aerators are susceptible to sediment that builds up during the aeration process because of rising pH levels. But Tsurumi's aerators avoid this problem thanks to their unique design, which includes an Air-Seal-Principle. This ensures that the double mechanical seal never comes into contact with the aerated water, prolonging its operation without maintenance.
Tsurumi's TRN series is its most advanced range of pumps. The auto-suction submersible aerators are used for communal industrial wastewater clearance and treatment with power outputs from 0.75 kW to 40 kW.
The BER series combine many of the TRN's features with an ejector so that both agitation and aeration can be performed simultaneously. Power outputs range from 0.75 kW to 5.5 kW.


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This page is part of the PCRE HTML documentation. It was generated automatically from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, please consult the man page, in case the conversion went wrong.
The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl, with just a few differences. The current implementation of PCRE (release 6.x) corresponds approximately with Perl 5.8, including support for UTF-8 encoded strings and Unicode general category properties. However, this support has to be explicitly enabled; it is not the default.
In addition to the Perl-compatible matching function, PCRE also contains an alternative matching function that matches the same compiled patterns in a different way. In certain circumstances, the alternative function has some advantages. For a discussion of the two matching algorithms, see the pcrematching page.
PCRE is written in C and released as a C library. A number of people have written wrappers and interfaces of various kinds. In particular, Google Inc. have provided a comprehensive C++ wrapper. This is now included as part of the PCRE distribution. The pcrecpp page has details of this interface. Other people's contributions can be found in the Contrib directory at the primary FTP site, which is: ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre
Details of exactly which Perl regular expression features are and are not supported by PCRE are given in separate documents. See the pcrepattern and pcrecompat pages.
Some features of PCRE can be included, excluded, or changed when the library is built. The pcre_config() function makes it possible for a client to discover which features are available. The features themselves are described in the pcrebuild page. Documentation about building PCRE for various operating systems can be found in the README file in the source distribution.
The library contains a number of undocumented internal functions and data tables that are used by more than one of the exported external functions, but which are not intended for use by external callers. Their names all begin with "_pcre_", which hopefully will not provoke any name clashes. In some environments, it is possible to control which external symbols are exported when a shared library is built, and in these cases the undocumented symbols are not exported.
The user documentation for PCRE comprises a number of different sections. In the "man" format, each of these is a separate "man page". In the HTML format, each is a separate page, linked from the index page. In the plain text format, all the sections are concatenated, for ease of searching. The sections are as follows:
pcre this document pcreapi details of PCRE's native C API pcrebuild options for building PCRE pcrecallout details of the callout feature pcrecompat discussion of Perl compatibility pcrecpp details of the C++ wrapper pcregrep description of the pcregrep command pcrematching discussion of the two matching algorithms pcrepartial details of the partial matching facility pcrepattern syntax and semantics of supported regular expressions pcreperform discussion of performance issues pcreposix the POSIX-compatible C API pcreprecompile details of saving and re-using precompiled patterns pcresample discussion of the sample program pcrestack discussion of stack usage pcretest description of the pcretest testing command
In addition, in the "man" and HTML formats, there is a short page for each C library function, listing its arguments and results.
There are some size limitations in PCRE but it is hoped that they will never in practice be relevant.
The maximum length of a compiled pattern is 65539 (sic) bytes if PCRE is compiled with the default internal linkage size of 2. If you want to process regular expressions that are truly enormous, you can compile PCRE with an internal linkage size of 3 or 4 (see the README file in the source distribution and the pcrebuild documentation for details). In these cases the limit is substantially larger. However, the speed of execution will be slower.
All values in repeating quantifiers must be less than 65536. The maximum compiled length of subpattern with an explicit repeat count is 30000 bytes. The maximum number of capturing subpatterns is 65535.
There is no limit to the number of non-capturing subpatterns, but the maximum depth of nesting of all kinds of parenthesized subpattern, including capturing subpatterns, assertions, and other types of subpattern, is 200.
The maximum length of name for a named subpattern is 32, and the maximum number of named subpatterns is 10000.
The maximum length of a subject string is the largest positive number that an integer variable can hold. However, when using the traditional matching function, PCRE uses recursion to handle subpatterns and indefinite repetition. This means that the available stack space may limit the size of a subject string that can be processed by certain patterns. For a discussion of stack issues, see the pcrestack documentation.
From release 3.3, PCRE has had some support for character strings encoded in the UTF-8 format. For release 4.0 this was greatly extended to cover most common requirements, and in release 5.0 additional support for Unicode general category properties was added.
In order process UTF-8 strings, you must build PCRE to include UTF-8 support in the code, and, in addition, you must call pcre_compile() with the PCRE_UTF8 option flag. When you do this, both the pattern and any subject strings that are matched against it are treated as UTF-8 strings instead of just strings of bytes.
If you compile PCRE with UTF-8 support, but do not use it at run time, the library will be a bit bigger, but the additional run time overhead is limited to testing the PCRE_UTF8 flag in several places, so should not be very large.
If PCRE is built with Unicode character property support (which implies UTF-8 support), the escape sequences \p{..}, \P{..}, and \X are supported. The available properties that can be tested are limited to the general category properties such as Lu for an upper case letter or Nd for a decimal number, the Unicode script names such as Arabic or Han, and the derived properties Any and L&. A full list is given in the pcrepattern documentation. Only the short names for properties are supported. For example, \p{L} matches a letter. Its Perl synonym, \p{Letter}, is not supported. Furthermore, in Perl, many properties may optionally be prefixed by "Is", for compatibility with Perl 5.6. PCRE does not support this.
The following comments apply when PCRE is running in UTF-8 mode:
1. When you set the PCRE_UTF8 flag, the strings passed as patterns and subjects are checked for validity on entry to the relevant functions. If an invalid UTF-8 string is passed, an error return is given. In some situations, you may already know that your strings are valid, and therefore want to skip these checks in order to improve performance. If you set the PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK flag at compile time or at run time, PCRE assumes that the pattern or subject it is given (respectively) contains only valid UTF-8 codes. In this case, it does not diagnose an invalid UTF-8 string. If you pass an invalid UTF-8 string to PCRE when PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK is set, the results are undefined. Your program may crash.
2. An unbraced hexadecimal escape sequence (such as \xb3) matches a two-byte UTF-8 character if the value is greater than 127.
3. Octal numbers up to \777 are recognized, and match two-byte UTF-8 characters for values greater than \177.
4. Repeat quantifiers apply to complete UTF-8 characters, not to individual bytes, for example: \x{100}{3}.
5. The dot metacharacter matches one UTF-8 character instead of a single byte.
6. The escape sequence \C can be used to match a single byte in UTF-8 mode, but its use can lead to some strange effects. This facility is not available in the alternative matching function, pcre_dfa_exec().
7. The character escapes \b, \B, \d, \D, \s, \S, \w, and \W correctly test characters of any code value, but the characters that PCRE recognizes as digits, spaces, or word characters remain the same set as before, all with values less than 256. This remains true even when PCRE includes Unicode property support, because to do otherwise would slow down PCRE in many common cases. If you really want to test for a wider sense of, say, "digit", you must use Unicode property tests such as \p{Nd}.
8. Similarly, characters that match the POSIX named character classes are all low-valued characters.
9. Case-insensitive matching applies only to characters whose values are less than 128, unless PCRE is built with Unicode property support. Even when Unicode property support is available, PCRE still uses its own character tables when checking the case of low-valued characters, so as not to degrade performance. The Unicode property information is used only for characters with higher values. Even when Unicode property support is available, PCRE supports case-insensitive matching only when there is a one-to-one mapping between a letter's cases. There are a small number of many-to-one mappings in Unicode; these are not supported by PCRE.
Philip Hazel
University Computing Service,
Cambridge CB2 3QG, England.
Putting an actual email address here seems to have been a spam magnet, so I've
taken it away. If you want to email me, use my initial and surname, separated
by a dot, at the domain ucs.cam.ac.uk.
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Honey Bunnies
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|Servings: 15 bunnies
Perfect for Easter, have the kid's help shape and decorate the bunnies.
4 1/2 - 5 cups all-purpose flour
2 envelopes (1/2 oz./14 grams total) quick rise yeast
1 tsp. salt
2/3 cup evaporated milk
1 cup clear honey, divided
3/4 cup butter or margarine, divided
1/2 cup water
2 eggs
Raisin or candy, for decoration
Reserve 1 cup flour. In large bowl, mix remaining flour, yeast and salt. Heat evaporated milk, 1/2 cup honey, 1/2 cup butter and water until 125°F (50°C). Stir into dry ingredients. Mix in eggs and enough reserved flour to make soft dough that does not stick to bowl.
Knead until smooth and elastic, about 8 minutes. Place in greased bowl. Grease top, cover tightly and refrigerate for 2 hours (or up to 24 hours).
Punch dough down. Divide into 15 pieces; ran each to 20 inch (50 cm) rope. Divide each rope into: 1-12 inch (30 cm), 1 - 5 inch (13 cm) and 3 -1 inch (2.5 cm) strips. Coil 12-inch (30 cm) strip to make body; coil 5-inch (13 on) strip to make head; shape remaining strips into ears and tail and attach to the body and head
Place bunnies on greased baking sheets. Cover; let rise until double in size, about 25 minutes. Bake at 375°F (190°C) for 12-15 minutes.
Honey Glaze:
Stir remaining 1/2 cup honey and 1/4 cup butter over low heat until melted. Brush each bunny with glaze while warm. Decorate with raisins or candies, etc. Brush again with honey before serving.
Makes 15 bunnies.
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(Gluten Free) Buttermilk Donut Holes
Why I Love This Recipe
I've never been happier to have a donut. Really. Who knew that gluten free doughnuts would actually be delicious? In fact, this is better than some other donut recipes I've tried previously! I prepared this last week for a kiddie donut party I hosted for my son's playdate with friends. Next to the regular baked donuts I made, these were quite popular. They're so popular that I'm making them again this weekend for a gluten free friend who's been craving donuts for quite some time. (Fear not Colin, your donut cravings will soon come to an end!) These Gluten Free Buttermilk Donut Holes are not only delicious but so easy to make. No rolling, cutting or forming involved. Simply combine the ingredients in a bowl, stir and scoop out donut holes for frying. Breakfast bliss I tell you...
I've been enjoying the prepared gluten free all purpose flour mixes for baking and other recipes calling for flour. But I've taken some baby steps. I recently purchased a few different flours - sweet rice flour, glutinous rice flour, potato starch, tapioca flour, and masa flour. Although I haven't figured out flour ratios quite yet, I'm still hanging on to my GF all purpose flour training wheels. With a recipe like this to use it in, it may be hard to let go of all the convenience the prepared flour blends provide.
The flavor and texture of these donuts reminded me of the donut holes, aka "Munchkins", at Dunkin Donuts. Once you've made them, they're pretty much a blank canvas for you to play with. Roll them in cinnamon sugar, dip them in chocolate, drizzle on some glaze, or enjoy them plain. The sky's the limit and being gluten free doesn't mean you can't have your donut... because you can eat it too!
Ingredients You'll Need
1 eggs, beaten
1 cup buttermilk
1/8 cup butter, melted
2 1/2 cups gluten-free all purpose flour mix (I used Bob's Red Mill brand)
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/4 cup white sugar
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
Beat the eggs, buttermilk, and melted butter in a 2 cup measuring cup with a fork.
In a separate large bowl, combine dry ingredients. Slowly fold in the wet ingredients, mixing by hand with a wooden spoon until fully incorporated.
Let the dough rest for 15 minutes.
Heat 2-3 inches of canola oil in the bottom of a pot until very hot (375 degrees F).
Using a small scoop, scoop out a few balls of dough and carefully drop each donut in hot oil, being cautious not to splash oil.
Cook until golden brown on both sides (just a few minutes). You will need to cook just a few at a time, but the cooking doesn't take long at all so this goes quickly.
Remove donuts from oil with a slotted spoon or spatula, and place on a plate lined with two layers of paper towel or brown paper to absorb oil.
In a small bowl, combine the sugar and cinnamon for the donut coating.
While still warm, roll each donut in the bowl of cinnamon sugar to coat fully. Alternately, you may omit this step and enjoy plain or dipped in chocolate! Serve while warm.
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In South Africa on Sunday, President Obama touted a "new model" of United States-Africa relations, vowing to help boost the continent economically, strengthen democracy, and etcetera.
One of the central components to this promise of improved ties was an ostensible plan to not simply continue to throw foreign aid at the largely economically beleaguered continent, but to "invest" billions of dollars in helping along Africa's energy infrastructure and bringing electricity to more and more Africans, via The Hill:
President Obama promoted his new, multi-billion dollar "Power Africa" initiative to expand electricity access in Africa on Tuesday, calling it a benefit to Africans and the U.S. alike.
He spoke in Tanzania after touring a formerly idled power plant brought online with aid from the U.S. government's Millennium Challenge Corp., as well as General Electric and Symbion Power.
"[T]his is a win-win. It's a win for Africans – families get to electrify their homes; businesses can run their plants; investors can say if we locate in an African country, that they're going to be able to power up in a reliable way. All this will make economies grow," Obama said, according to a White House transcript.
"It's a win for the United States because the investments made here, including in cleaner energy, means more exports for the U.S. and more jobs in the U.S.," he said.
Here are some of the details from the White House's official fact sheet on the plan, with the initial partner countries including Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, and Tanzania:
Power Africa will bring to bear a wide range of U.S. government tools to support investment in Africa's energy sector. From policy and regulatory best practices, to pre-feasibility support and capacity building, to long-term financing, insurance, guarantees, credit enhancements and technical assistance Power Africa will provide coordinated support to help African partners expand their generation capacity and access.
The United States will commit more than $7 billion in financial support over the next five years to this effort, including:
The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide $285 million in technical assistance, grants and risk mitigation to advance private sector energy transactions and help governments adopt and implement the policy, regulatory, and other reforms necessary to attract private sector investment in the energy and power sectors.
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) will commit up to $1.5 billion in financing and insurance to energy projects in sub-Saharan Africa.
The U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) will make available up to $5 billion in support of U.S. exports for the development of power projects across sub-Saharan Africa.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) will invest up to $1 billion in African power systems through its country compacts to increase access and the reliability and sustainability of electricity supply through investments in energy infrastructure, policy and regulatory reforms and institutional capacity building.
OPIC and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) will provide up to $20 million in project preparation, feasibility and technical assistance grants to develop renewable energy projects. These efforts will be coordinated through the U.S. – Africa Clean Energy Finance Initiative (US-ACEF) and supported by the recently launched U.S. – Africa Clean Energy Development and Finance Center (CEDFC) in Johannesburg, South Africa. …
Hmmm. On the one hand, it is absolutely true that crushing energy poverty is obviously a hugely problematic economic barrier for Africa. It is impossible to match the level of economic productivity and living standards of the developed world when a huge chunk of your already meager cost of living goes toward energy, if you are even lucky enough to have energy access beyond inefficient and labor-intensive sources like candles, kerosene, charcoal, or firewood.
But on the other, much more questionable hand, I firstly have the gravest doubts that the Obama administration is going to use the lion's share of this proffered money to elevate the proven routes to prosperity with inexpensive and efficient oil and gas energy, and will not instead be spending a lot of that cash on the romanticized renewable ventures that are having trouble taking hold even in the economically developed United States and Europe without skyrocketing energy prices. Environmentalists often have a deplorable tendency for trying to turn third-world countries into laboratories for their green ambitions while denying them the known means of affordable energy.
Secondly, merely building up energy infrastructure, using U.S. government incentives to spur private-sector investment, and helping out with regulatory and administrative duties might help alleviate some of the symptoms of Africa's energy problems, but it not the same thing as curing the disease — i.e., why has there been so relatively little private-sector investment in many parts of Africa until now? Parts of this plan might be a start and the situation has been improving in recent years, but the political conditions — such as poorly enforced property rights, corruption, and patchy enforcement of the rule of law — that have deterred investment up until now are not going to be suddenly and magically solved by the United States' monetary interference.
What's more, this sounds like yet another convenient opportunity for the Obama administration to throw a bone to their cronyish business buddies while flying beneath the banner of a purely magnanimously charitable job well done, and largely out-of-sight, out-of-mind of regular U.S. consumers and voters.
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But if you're impatient for Froyo, or if your phone will never get it, there's something you can do -- give Android 2.1 some of the features of 2.2.
Even without the update, you can tether your computer to your smartphone, control your phone with your voice, get additional home screens and more.
Note: This article was written based on tests using a Droid X, so there might be slight differences when you try them on your Android phone. In addition, because Android's interface has been tweaked for some smartphone models, the tips in this article might not all work on all Android 2.1 phones.
Tether your laptop
Probably the niftiest new feature of Froyo is its ability to tether an Android phone to a laptop -- in other words, it can give your computer broadband wireless access through your smartphone.
Are you an Android 2.1 user (or an owner of the original Droid, which will not be given this feature)? Don't fret -- you can do all this without Froyo.
And in some ways, it's even better, because you may not have to pay the $20 or so fee that carriers tack on for the rights to tether a smartphone. Service contracts are often not clear about whether you are allowed to tether this way free of charge. But I've known several people who do it without paying the fee, and their service providers haven't said a word.
It's exceptionally easy, thanks to an app called PDAnet. Just install PDAnet on an Android phone, and load the accompanying software on a computer running Windows 7, Vista or XP or Mac OS X 10.5 or later. Then connect a USB cable between the computer and the smartphone, and then run the software on both devices. The computer will be connected to the Internet via the smartphone.
When you're connected, the PDAnet app on your phone gives connection information such as the amount of data you've transferred.
Instead of using a USB cable, you can connect your laptop to your smartphone via a Bluetooth connection, although in that case you'll have to go through the sometimes problematic steps of Bluetooth pairing.
There are two versions of the software. The free version has one limitation -- you can't visit secure Web sites that use the HTTPS protocol, such as the ones you use when you pay for something you buy online. To visit secure Web sites, you'll have to buy the paid version for $23.95. (According to the PDAnet Web site, there currently is a limited-time price of $18.95.)
If you use this software, you'll need to check the terms of service with your wireless provider, because your contract may not allow tethering.
Note: You may have problems using this software on a Droid X phone with a Mac, as I did. Here's the fix: When you connect the Droid X to a Mac via USB, you'll need to go to your notifications list on the Droid X and select "USB Mass Storage." You may also need to turn off the screen on the Droid X but leave the power on.
Speed up Android
By all accounts, one of the best things about Froyo is that it makes Android phones faster and more responsive. While there's no direct way to speed up an Android 2.1 phone, there are some steps you can take to make it move a bit more quickly.
The first isn't a surefire solution. I'm including it here because some people report that it works, but others say it doesn't work. I'll leave it up to your discretion to try it if you want.
Android multitasks, and many people don't close down an app in Android when they no longer want to use it. They just head back to the main screen and run another app. So that first or second or third app might still be running, sucking up memory and processor time.
Android includes routines for cleaning up apps that you no longer use, but some people believe it doesn't work as well as it should. So they use a task killer that lets them view all of the currently running apps and background services, and they kill any they don't want to run -- either automatically (for example, when the phone isn't being used) or manually.
There are several task killers you can get for free from the Android Market. I tried two of them: Task Manager from Adao Team and Task Killer from ReChild. Both work similarly -- they display all the apps currently running with a checkbox next to each, and they let you kill any app you no longer want to use by unchecking the box. I found that Task Killer displayed more tasks and services to kill than did Task Manager, although to be honest I didn't notice any speed difference after using either of them.
Will either of these speed up your Android 2.1 phone? The only way to find out is to try them out yourself.
There are others steps you can take if you want to speed up Android 2.1 -- they mainly involve shutting down background services and apps you don't often use. For example, having your smartphone constantly check for e-mail may slow it down and certainly sucks up battery life. You can have your phone check less frequently, or you can do the checking yourself manually.
To change the polling interval for e-mail, tap the Email app, press the Menu key, and select Email settings --> Email delivery. From the screen that appears, tap the down arrow next to "Fetch schedule" and select Manually.
You may also want to turn off other features you don't use all the time, such as GPS or Wi-Fi. Most Android phones have a power widget for doing that. You can use that widget to turn off any features you don't need, and to turn them back on when you want to use them.
It's also a good idea to uninstall downloaded apps that you no longer use, in case any of them automatically run background services you don't need. And if after downloading an app you notice your phone slows down, uninstall it. It's surprising how frequently badly behaving apps can hurt your phone's performance.
Get voice control
Google's Voice Actions for Android is a great free app that lets you control your phone using vocal commands to do things such as load Web pages, send text messages and call contacts. The bad news: although it doesn't ship with Froyo, only phones with Froyo can use it.
But Android 2.1 users need not feel left out -- the free Vlingo for Android lets you use your voice to dial contacts, send e-mails, text messages and tweets, and more.
Vlingo can't do everything that Google's Voice Actions can do. It can't, for example, load a Web page or tell your Android device to play music. But it can do a few tricks that Voice Actions doesn't do, such as launch apps. And it includes a text-to-speech feature that will read e-mails and text messages to you.
Vlingo is remarkably easy to use: Run the program and talk into your phone, and it does what you tell it. When I tried it, I could dictate a text message or e-mail and tell it who I wanted to send the message to; Vlingo opened the appropriate app and popped in my text, waiting for me to either send it or edit it. When I told it to find coffee shops in Cambridge, or Italian restaurants in Boston, it searched local listings via Google Maps and displayed the results. It properly opened apps when I asked it to.
As with all voice apps, don't expect Vlingo to properly recognize all the names you speak into it, and you may have to do some editing of text you send. But still, it does a remarkable job.
Get Flash on Android 2.1
One of Froyo's most notable features is its ability to run Adobe Flash. If you don't have Froyo, you won't be able to play Flash -- or will you?
A site called AddictiveTips claims to have found a way to run Flash on some Android 2.1 phones. The process involves downloading a zipped Flash app to your PC, copying it to the SD card of your Android 2.1 phone, using an app called Apps Installer to install the Flash app, and then rebooting.
However, that doesn't work on every Android phone. I couldn't get it to work on my Droid X, for example. People have reported that it works on the HTC EVO, the Nexus One and the Droid Eris. It may or may not work on your phone, but if you feel the need for Flash now, it might be worth a try.
Get more home screens
Many phone manufacturers tweak the Android interface -- in fact, one reason Froyo is coming to different phones at different times is because those manufacturers need to tweak Froyo for their phones. For example, the number of home screens users can have with Android 2.1 varies from phone to phone. The original Droid came with three home screens; with Froyo that number increases to five. The Droid X, on the other hand, came with seven of them.
If your phone doesn't have as many home screens as you want, you don't need to wait for Froyo to get more of them. You can get up to seven now using a free app called LauncherPro, which is available in the Android Market.
LauncherPro does more than give you up to seven home screens. It also animates certain actions -- when you tap the Application Tray, for example, the app icons fly into place -- and then they fly out of place when you leave the Application Tray. You can hide apps in the Application Tray as well. And if you have a trackball, you can use it to scroll through your screens.
Depending on your phone, you may have problems running LauncherPro. At first, I couldn't get it to work with my Droid X. I was able to fix that by downloading an app called Home Switcher from the Android Market after I downloaded LauncherPro. Home Switcher lets you choose whether to use your normal home screen or a home screen replacement app like LauncherPro.
Preston Gralla is a contributing editor to Computerworld.com and the author of more than 35 books, including How the Internet Works (Que, 2006).
This story, "5 ways to make Android 2.1 work like Froyo" was originally published by Computerworld.


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Social Security Pioneers
"The man who runs the biggest retirement and insurance system in
the world is calm, helpful, friendly, caring, immensely competent and
virtually anonymous even to most of the Americans he helps."
IT IS TO ROBERT M. BALL'S "great credit
that the Social Security Administration has, indeed, become
a model for other government agencies in discharging its responsibilities
to the American public."
This is how President Nixon appraised Commissioner Ball's record when he accepted his resignation as Commissioner of Social Security. The President went on to say that Mr. Ball has "every reason to be proud" of the broadened scope of social security and the "finest in administrative implementation" of legislative amendments which have taken place during his service as Commissioner. The President's encomiums add to the long line of those Mr. Ball has won over the years and continues to receive as he plans his new role in the development of national social policy.
Mr. Ball first became interested in the social security program in his senior year at Wesleyan, which was 1935. "The thing that has appealed to me most about the program, Mr. Ball once remarked, "is that it supplies a continuing income to groups who without it would be most susceptible to poverty, yet it does this through their own effort-the protection grows out of the work they do and contributions they make. I've always been glad I made the choice of career I did."
Rapid promotion to more and more responsible positions, both in the field and at headquarters, showed that Mr. Ball's strong interest in social security was matched by his abilities. Starting out practically at the bottom of the ladder, he has commented, was probably the best thing that could have happened to him: "I think I learned more about social security in those days of working at the grass roots than I could have learned in any other way."
Although he left the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (forerunner of the present Social Security Administration) for 3 years in the late 1940's, Mr. Ball continued to work in the social security field. A book which includes a chapter on Mr. Ball's career* (*Adventures in Public Service, New York, 1963.) mentions the opinion held by many people that his work as staff director for the 1949 Advisory Council on Social Security "was the best thing that could have happened for American social security."
Over the years, Commissioner Ball has been recognized for a number of qualities and abilities, such as: Tireless worker, inspiring leader of staff, persuasive champion of principles of social security, outstanding administrator, and dedicated humanitarian.
Tireless dedication to duty was one of the qualities recognized in the 1954 Distinguished Service Award of the Department of HEW, an award based on Mr. Ball's performance as Acting Director of the Bureau of OASI in the early months of the Eisenhower administration. His great capacity to endure, even thrive, under extreme work pressures and many long hours of exacting effort has been testified to over and over by the many SSA staff members who have worked with him and attempted to maintain his pace. The 1958 Career Service Award of the National Civil Service League cited both his standing as a distinguished authority on social security and his "notable ability to lead and inspire those who work with him."
Commissioner Ball is widely known, both in this country and abroad, as an eloquent, persuasive advocate of contributory social insurance. Among those conversant with the history of social security in the United States he is recognized as one of a handful of men most influential in the remarkably successful development of the social security idea into a working reality for the American family. His reputation was well established in his work with the 1949 Advisory Council on Social Security, whose recommendations marked a major turning point in the program's history. The 1950 amendments, which grew out of the Council's recommendations, firmly established the program's principles and were the starting point for the long series of progressive improvements that have continued through the 1972 amendments. There can be no doubt that Mr. Ball's influence was fundamental to the reaffirmation of program goals and direction that the Council's work and subsequent legislation represented.
Not long after his late-1949 return to BOASI, Mr. Ball served as a staff director for the National Planning Association's pioneering study, published in 1952 as Pensions in the United Stales. The report still serves as a basic reference source on the subject.
Soon after the 1952 elections, the new Administration appointed consultants from outside the Government to study the coverage of the social security program. As one account of the period said, "These consultants, after making a thorough study of the program, recommended still further extensions of coverage." As staff director for the study, Mr. Ball again played the lead role in stimulating confidence in both the principles and the administration of the program.
In 1953, a subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee (which is responsible for social security legislation in the House of Representatives) began a searching and detailed inquiry both into the administrative practices and policies of social security and into the principles of the program. Mr. Ball was a key witness, answering a stream of detailed questions for several days. To him belongs a major part of the credit for a stout defense of the principles and policies of social security.
Mr. Ball had lead roles in the history of social security throughout the 1950's, the 1960's, and into the 1970's as the program continued to be extended and otherwise improved under four Presidents. Perhaps the most significant of the program extensions was Medicare. Mr. Ball appeared time after time as witness before congressional committees. These committees, as well as every Secretary of HEW, have cited him for his competence. The tributes Mr. Ball has received for performance as a witness consistently mention that he impressed Congressmen and Senators with his mastery of facts, figures and details, and with his clear, convincing, and patient presentations.
As an administrator, Commissioner Ball has also received much praise. The citation on the Arthur J. Altmeyer Award presented to him in 1968 reads: "His Leadership, Dedication, and Administrative Ability Have Brought Hope and Dignity to Millions of Americans." Mr. Ball was the first person to receive the Rockefeller Public Service Award for "distinguished service in the field of administration."
In a 1972 letter to Mr. Ball, President Nixon praised him for "reducing costs in the Social Security Administration without sacrificing the quality of services." The letter said that this achievement not only reflects your admirable concern for the public well-being but also testifies to your highly effective leadership."
Chairman Wilbur D. Mills of the House Ways and Means Committee was recently quoted as describing Mr. Ball as "a near genius in administration." And former HEW Secretary Wilbur J. Cohen told a reporter in 1966 that he thought of Mr. Ball as early as the 1940's as "a simply superb administrator." The same reporter gave this impression of the Commissioner: "The man who runs the biggest retirement and insurance system in the world is calm, helpful, friendly, caring, immensely competent and virtually anonymous even to most of the Americans he helps."
While Mr. Ball would be the first to say that the administrative success of social security is largely attributable to its dedicated and competent staff, the fact remains that be was at the helm. As the second in command for 10 years and the top man for 11 more, Mr. Ball had major responsibility on administrative policy questions, including the organization of SSA and selection and placement of key staff.
In the 1950's, Commissioner Ball carried the primary responsibility for dealing with committees appointed to investigate the administration of social security. In each case the committees concluded that the organization was, in fact, efficiently carrying out the provisions of the law. For example, the Secretary of HEW in 1957 appointed a consulting committee of businessmen, led by Reinhard A. Hohaus, vice-president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, to investigate the administration of BOASI. The committee investigated for a year and reported to the Secretary that "The Bureau is carrying out its mission in a sound and vigorous manner. . . . The consultants were impressed with the effective and competent manner in which the staff of the Bureau appeared to be managing their responsibilities . . . with the way the Bureau personnel met and dealt with the public and with the impression of both efficiency and friendliness created by the typical OASI district office."
|Commissioner Ball carried the primary responsibility for dealing with committees appointed to investigate the administration of social security. In each case, the committees concluded that the organization was efficiently carrying out the provisions of the law.
In 1959, a subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee
began an investigation into the administration of the disability
program. The subcommittee was reported to believe that the program
was being administered poorly. According to the account in the
book, Adventures in Public Service, "Those who were present
at the initial hearings still recall Ball's explanatory statement
to the Committee as a model of clarity. Day after day, Robert
Ball, Victor Cristgau, Arthur Hess, and others faced the investigating
committee. . . . This went on for months." By the end of
the hearings, the Committee had changed its tone: the subcommittee
chairman said "We have some appreciation now . . . of what
a tremendous task the Congress had imposed on you and the diligence
and intelligence with which your Bureau and its officials have
gone about in trying to carry it out. . . . On the whole, the
program has been administered very fairly and with great capacity
by excellent public officials. We are particularly grateful
to Mr. Ball, who has demonstrated his great capacity and his
dedication to performance of these services with his great ability."
Investigating committees have not been the only bodies before which Mr. Ball has testified. Year after year he has had to present and defend the SSA administrative budget before HEW officials, Office of Management and Budget hearings, and the Appropriations Committees of the Congress. He has frequently testified on various aspects of social security operations before other congressional committees, such as Government operations and the Senate Committee on Aging. And he has maintained a high reputation with Department officials for his competent presentations of SSA administrative policy recommendations to the Secretary.
One of the factors sometimes cited in analysis of the success of social security administrative policies is the existence of a clearly defined set of objectives for the entire agency-originally known as the "Statement of Bureau Objectives" and now entitled "The Objectives of the Social Security Administration." Mr. Ball devoted much time and attention to the formulation of this expression of administrative goals and principles. As HEW Secretary, Arthur S. Flemming (now Consultant on Aging to President Nixon) said after reading the pamphlet, "This is the finest statement of its kind by a government agency that it has been my privilege to read."
When the implementation of the Medicare program got underway, the agency's objectives and administrative capacities were tested to what then seemed to be their limits. President Johnson described setting up Medicare as the most massive administrative operation in peace time. Today, Medicare is a well-established program, paying out last year about $8.8 billion to help meet the health costs of older people.
Many other landmarks in social security history could be cited to illustrate that SSA has met challenge after challenge in making social security one of the most widely approved of all Government programs. Commissioner Ball has consistently emphasized that the success social security has achieved is due in large measure to the dedicated men and women who have worked as employees of SSA. It was with gratitude and considerable good feeling toward all those employees, past and present, that Mr. Ball recently wrote, "I believe, Mr. President, that the social security program and the organization that administers it are in excellent shape."
During a recent television interview, the Commissioner said that the test of whether he has been a good administrator will be in whether the Social Security Administration can perform well without him. In a message to SSA employees on January 5 he said, "The Social Security Administration will be faced with a very considerable challenge in putting into operation the major social advances contained in H.R. 1, but I have every confidence that the organization will perform well; we have always been at our best under pressure."
Mr. Ball now plans to devote himself to study and writing to help in the development of long-range national policy in health insurance, social security, welfare, and the organization of government for dealing with social programs. It is clear that he is already searching out new challenges. And this was predictable. As one observer of current events and of Mr. Ball has written, ". . . there are always men with a great capacity for self-renewal, continuing growth, and adaptability to altered circumstances and problems. Such men not only can meet new challenges, but have a way of searching them out."
Myers Ball was born March 28, 1914, in New York City.
Raised in the New York City area, he received a B.A. in
English from Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1935
and an M.A. in economics from Wesleyan in 1936. He was
elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
He joined the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (predecessor to the present Social Security Administration) in 1939 as a field assistant, grade 3, in the Newark, N.J. District Office. Mr. Ball worked in other Social Security field jobs, including manager of the Bayonne, N.J. District Office, before coming to the central office in 1942. His early service in the central office included that of training specialist and unit chief in the Analysis Division (forerunner of today's Office of Program Evaluation and Planning).
In 1946 he left Government service and became Assistant Director of the American Council on Education's Committee on Education and Social Security. In 1947 and 1948 he served as staff director of the Advisory Council on Social Security established by the Senate Finance Committee.
Mr. Ball returned to the Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance in 1949 as an Assistant Director of the Bureau, responsible for what was then called the Division of Program Analysis. He became Deputy Director of BOASI in 1952, and in 1962, upon nomination by President Kennedy and confirmation by the United States Senate, he became Commissioner of Social Security.
He is the author of many published reports in the field of social security and social welfare and has served in top positions of the American Public Welfare Association, the International Social Security Association, The National Council on Aging, and other professional organizations. His awards include the HEW Distinguished Service Award (1954), the National Civil Service League's Career Service Award (1958), the Rockefeller Public Service Award (1961), and the Arthur J. Altmeyer Award (1968).
Mr. Ball is married, has two children, and lives in Baltimore County near the Woodlawn headquarters of the Social Security Administration.


text: Artist: Mystikal Album: Ghetto Fabulous Song: Keep it Hype Typed by: OHHLA Webmaster DJ Flash Testin testin testin You can hear me, what what what? MIC, check one, check, check check You can hear me? YO! I'm loud enough? Yo! Mic mic, micraphone, check, check Yo, can you hear me? Yo! Chorus: repeat 2X (w/ variations throughout) YIKES!!! You know what I like? (What?) I keep it hype, the words that I write (Oh) I rock the whole crowd, I don't need a mic (Huh?) I say my rhyme LOUD, with all of my might Verse One: People say that nigga CRAZY, I'm throwin off I raise my voice up then, GO OFF!! The king of different, titan of screamin chantin louder than a hundred people clappin (GO) keep them fuckin speakers crackin Rockin it, about to ROLL The sticker on the tag can't make it ragged Vocals that'll blow horns til your ass in traction Disgusting like that valve on your bike with the basket BLING BLING comin through, not excuse me I'm the nigga that's makin this loud ass music Chorus Verse Two: The doctor slapped my ass, so I've been hollerin since an infant Gotta make sure they hear me cause I wants my attention! Disturb the class, so I stayed in detention Couldn't whisper when I was talkin so they sent me to the office The principal say, "Young man what seem to be the problem?" Said, "I try to be quiet but I just can't seem to lower the volume" "Hmm, what's your name?" -- "Michael Tyler" "Perhaps you'd be interested in joining our school choir?" Said, "Nah that's for funny boys" "Either that or a suspension," while you roll, HERE I COME BOY I wanna holla, but I gotta try: *clears throat* DOE RAY MI FAH SOH! Ahh no! That ain't gonna cut it, that ain't gonna get it Then the teacher said, "Maybe you can try something ath-letic" But I'm too clumsy so I went to the band But I made more noise honkin than I did when I was playin! YIKES!!! That ain't workin so I'm leavin The very next day I was in ROTC Had no problems soundin off like I had a pair, THREE FOUR But I just ain't like them tight ass green pants that I had to wear All this ? made me tired, on top of that one of my teachers wanna see my ass outside I went downstairs to the yard When I got there I seen my teacher with about eight fine broads I said, "You lookin for me? I'm the one who be talkin loud" She said, "Damn, nigga we need you on our cheerleadin squad" HELL NO, never ever Trevor Either that or a report card filled with the F letter GO, TEAM, FIGHT, WIN Nah this shit ain't cool, FUCK THESE TEACHERS AND THIS SCHOOL Got a loud mouth but I don't know what to use it for 'til they told me that they was gon' put me in the TALENT SHOW Chorus * lots of repetitions of YIKES!!! Y-Y-Y-YIKES!!! *


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Well, here is our September porch. You can also see we moved our dining room table out here now that we have the new farmhouse table in our dining room. It's a bit tight but it's so much easier eating out here on this table than it was on the one that was out there before and we really do enjoy eating as many meals as we can out on the porch - especially this time of year!
Because the armoire is blue now, I didn't want to use the orange that I have incorporated in the past out here. I liked how it looked last year when the armoire was ivory but it just didn't look right this year so I stuck with a lighter color scheme for now, especially seeing how it's still quite warm here. In another month or so when the weather starts to get chillier I will add in some more tans and chocolate colors, I think, to warm it up a bit. I also have a few fun things I'd like to do out here for Thanksgiving. I just finished drawing some pilgrim silhouettes that I plan on using both inside and out here and that we plan on selling in our shop as well. For now, though, here's what it looks like:
I hope you all have a wonderful week! And if you missed yesterday's post we announced all FIVE winners of our big giveaway. Just scroll down to the post below.


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The cracker jack that bites you back.
Made this last night. Awesome.
Athough it's a staple at Asian food markets, Sriracha (sometimes called by its street name, "Rooster Sauce") is an all-American product, manufactured in a suburb of Los Angeles.
It is also a masterpiece in the world of condiments. (See also: 16 Cheap, Low-Cal Condiments to Brighten Up Boring Food)
The Sriracha recipe most of us know and love was cooked up in 1980 by David Tran, a Vietnamese refugee who wanted to replicate the flavor of Sriraja Panich, the most popular chili sauce in Thailand, which wasn't available in the U.S.
(Sriraja Panich was invented in the 1930s by a woman named Thanom Chakkapak, who lived in the port city of Si Racha, Thailand. Sriraja's original purpose was as a condiment for fish, kind of like the Thai version of cocktail sauce).
Luckily for Mr. Tran, Angelinos are adventurous eaters, and they immediately recognized that Sriracha had all sorts of off-label applications. The sauce that began as a just another ingredient in Vietnamese Pho has become ubiquitous because of its versatility.
Unlike hot sauces such as Tabasco, which are vinegar sauces that are infused with chili peppers, Sriracha is mainly pureed chili peppers with a little bit of vinegar thrown in to make things interesting. What makes Sriracha magical, however, is the addition of sugar, salt, and garlic, giving it a flavor profile that can slide into just about every cuisine. It's my secret weapon against bland cooking.
In addition to using Sriracha as a substitute for cocktail sauce, I sneak Sriracha into all sorts of dishes. For example, my go-to speedy lunch is a peanut butter and Sriracha sandwich with a glass of milk. How else do I use Siracha? Let me count the ways.
Are you a Sriracha lover or a Sriracha hater? If you are on Team Rooster, what's your favorite Sriracha recipe hack? If you are a Sriracha hater, what is wrong with you?
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Made this last night. Awesome.
I'm totally trying out your recipe this weekend! Even with your "candy fail" (which is impossible, candy never fails), this looks amazing.
Did you use cane sugar or beet sugar for your recipe? If you used beet sugar, that might have caused the crystalizing. This is why most professional recipes for frosting specify cane sugar. Less chance of getting a gritty texture!
I love Sriracha and use it on nearly everything. I like Tobanjang chili paste too, maybe even better, but it's not carried in the stores where I live. Try making Pad Thai with Sriracha. Delicious!
Wow, I can't believe I came across this post! I am an avid Sriracha eater and use it on almost everything I eat! I'm on Team Rooster :-)
I love Sriracha and use it to help me eat my veggies.
Warning though all Sriracha is not created equal. Some add a lot of sugar and make it not a good choice. Roland is a brand that does this. For example the sriracha I'm using right now (Huy Fong Foods Brand) has 5 calories per tsp and 1 gram of sugar. Roland brand has 100 calories a tsp (300 a tablespoon!!!!) and 18 grams of sugar.
I just happened to glance and see the label on the roland brand I had purchased without reading the label. So moral of the story read the label. I included links to the two I was referring.
Chili, Sugar, Salt, GArlic, Distilled Vinegar, potassium sorbate, sodium bisulfite and xanthan gum.
This is on my Huy Fong Foods brand that I leave at my desk at work..... see I LOVE this stuff.
How about mashing up two ideas -- mason jars / sriracha peanut butter sandwich, and create a sriracha peanut butter sandwich in a jar!
There's a really great short documentary on Sriracha that I saw at a film festival in Oregon:


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Laptop computers and other digital devices carried into the U.S. may be seized from travelers without a warrant and sent to a secondary site for forensic inspection, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled last week.
The ruling is the second in less than a year that allows the U.S. government to conduct warrantless, offsite searches of digital devices seized at the country's borders.
A federal court in Michigan last May issued a similar ruling in a case challenging the constitutionality of the warrantless seizure of a computer at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport. The defendant in a child pornography case also contended that a subsequent search of the device at a secondary computer forensic facility violated the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.
Several other courts, including the Ninth Circuit itself, have ruled that warrantless, suspicion-less searches of laptops and other digital devices can take place at U.S. border locations.
The issue of border searches is an important one for businesses because corporate travelers often carry laptops holding sensitive company data across U.S. borders.
Privacy advocates and travel groups have expressed concern that searches of such laptops could expose such sensitive corporate or customer information, especially citing the Department of Homeland Security's policy of copying or downloading the data if necessary.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said that according to government documents it has obtained, U.S. customs officials searched electronic devices belonging to about 6,600 travelers between October 2008 and June 2010. The ACLU also said that U.S. officials confiscated more than 220 devices between October 2008 and June 2009.
The Ninth Circuit court ruled on an appeal filed by the government in a case against Howard Cotterman, who was charged with producing, shipping and transporting child pornography based on evidence gathered from his laptop computers.
Cotterman's laptops were seized at a border crossing in Lukeville, Ariz., upon his return to the country from a visit to Mexico. Custom officials decided to inspect Cotterman's computers because their computer systems showed he was a registered sex offender in California.
Officials found no incriminating data in an initial inspection of Cotterman's computers and a digital camera at the border. However, because many of the files on the computers were password protected, the agents decided to transport the systems to a digital forensics laboratory 170 miles away in Tucson.
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Cotterman was later arrested and indicted on several charges related to child pornography.
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A magistrate judge and a district court judge concurred with Cotterman and held that the government needed to have a specific suspicion to conduct such an extended search. The judges ruled that since customs agents did not have any reasonable suspicion that contraband would be found on Cotterman's computers, they violated his Fourth Amendment rights.
In its appeal, the government contended that the border search doctrine allows such actions even without reasonable suspicion or cause.
In upholding that argument, the Ninth Circuit court noted that several other courts and even the U.S. Supreme Court have consistently recognized that all border searches are reasonable simply because they occur at the border.
"The sticking point is whether the inherent power of the Government to subject incoming travelers to inspection before entry also permits the Government to transport property not yet cleared for entry away from the border to complete its search," Judge Richard Tallman wrote for the majority opinion.
In this case, Tallman ruled that such transportation is justified because the forensic tools need to adequately search the computers were located at another facility.
"The border search doctrine is not so rigid as to require the United States to equip every entry point -- no matter how desolate or infrequently traveled -- with inspectors and sophisticated forensic equipment," Tallman said in his ruling.
In situations where "logic and practicality" may require equipment presented at the border to be transported to another location, the government needs to show no "heightened suspicion" to justify it, the court ruled.
Jaikumar Vijayan covers data security and privacy issues, financial services security and e-voting for Computerworld. Follow Jaikumar on Twitter at @jaivijayan, or subscribe to Jaikumar's RSS feed . His e-mail address is email@example.com.


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That may be a disturbing undercurrent question for healthcare authorities to consider in Israel where Mother and Child Healthcare Centers nurses refused to get vaccinated against pertussis. Why would nurses, who vaccinate infants and children, refuse to get vaccinations for themselves even when a directive went out that all MCHC nurses must be vaccinated against pertussis? Only two percent got those vaccinations by the end of three months. That left healthcare authorities not only scratching their heads in amazement, but also apparently suggesting—and getting—a study performed to analyze the problem. The results of that study are published in the journal Vaccine. [1]
The authors of the paper "What lies behind the low rates of vaccinations among nurses who treat infants" are 'heavy-hitters' from Israel's School of Public Health and the Haifa District Health Office, Ministry of Health. It appears from the authors' pedigree that Israel health authorities are determined to do a shake down and probably "kick butt" to get vaccinations up to par among nurses, above all people. So what did they find? VacTruth readers probably won't be surprised.
After reading the report, this author decided to classify the findings into several breakout reasons for easier and a more comprehensive interpretation of the study.
Reason 1: Nurses lack of trust in health authorities
Their lack of trust apparently was grounded in the H1N1 pandemic fiasco that had every thinking person questioning what all healthcare authorities were doing and mandating on a global basis. Does that make those Israeli nurses bad nurses or bad people? Heck no! I'd say they were correct in their mistrust. Even the World Health Organization was called on the carpet for its part in misjudging a health crisis pandemic that never panned out.
Reason 2: Mistrust of health information
So why should nurses be different from parents and researchers—other than Big Pharma's paid science performers—who see, know, and experience what's going on with children after receiving vaccinations. The nurses felt the information they received was inadequate, plus it did not answer their professional needs in helping them counsel families. Perhaps that is not unique to the Israeli situation. Many contend the same thing happens in the United States, i.e., doctors don't know what the vaccine package inserts say.
Reason 3: The nurses right to autonomy
Nothing this author could say about that speaks more clearly than what one nurse is quoted as saying, "…what are we? –in Soviet Russia?…on principal I am not getting vaccinated this year." Furthermore, the nurses feel that they don't want to be told what to do regarding their personal lives, which should not be mixed in with their profession. The Israeli nurses claim they should not have to be role models.
Reason 4: A fear of side effects
The article states that nurses have reported on their experiences with side effects of vaccinations, and "they felt the authorities were using them as guinea pigs."
Furthermore, their claim that vaccines were not in use long enough to know what side effects to expect or were reported was valid reason for their fear. This author is totally in agreement with that assessment.
Reason 5: Risk perceptions
Even though the nurses dealt daily with infants and children, they did not consider themselves to be at risk for contracting pertussis. Furthermore, they wanted something that this author has been pitching for, for years, which is testing for levels of immunity response before vaccination, and not blindly assuming everyone has to be vaccinated. This author thinks the important factor in testing infants, in particular, would be to check for mitochondrial proclivities that would increase a child's vaccine adverse reactions that impact the brain with such anomalies as convulsions, febrile seizures, ADD, ADHD, and the autism spectrum disorder, e.g., health issues—some of which were never discussed in medical journals—except after children were mandated to get vaccinations in the 1980s.
Overall, the nurses expressed in the survey "the importance of having autonomy in the decision to be immunized against pertussis." Personally, I think that is every thinking person's concern, desire, and inborn, God-given right: Autonomy not mandates.
The other issue the nurses were vocal about and that authorities everywhere don't like hearing is, "their clients had the same right to decide for themselves whether or not to immunize their children and respected this." Such consensus must "bust the chops" of healthcare authorities and Big Pharma lobbyists everywhere, just not in Israel.
Interestingly, the Israeli MCHC nurses were not unique in their refusal to vaccinate. There are several studies voicing similar concerns. They include:
- Seasonal and Pandemic A(H1N1) 2009 influenza vaccination coverage and attitudes among health-care workers in a Spanish University Hospital, Vaccine 2009;28(July) 30)):4751-7.
- Influenza vaccination compliance among health care workers in a German university hospital. Infection 2009;37(June(3)):197-202.
- The reluctance of nurses to get vaccinated against influenza. Vaccine 2010;28(June(29)):4548-9.
- The age-old struggle against the antivaccinationists, New England Journal of Medicine 2011;364(January (2)):97-9.
- Influenza vaccination of health care workers in hospitals—a review of studies on attitudes and predictors. Vaccine 2009;27(June(30)):3935-44.
What apparently comes out of this is that nurses and other healthcare professionals question many issues that health authorities seemingly want to shove down the throats, literally speaking, of children, parents, and adults regarding vaccines and vaccination safety issues. Very few are willing to take for granted that safety studies have been done because either they know what they see happening as adverse events or they know all too well the skullduggery that transpires in medical science to prove points. Class action lawsuits against Big Pharma sometimes speak volumes.
Again, I must reiterate that nurses are no different from oncologists, those medical doctors who give chemotherapy to cancer patients. The very MDs who push chemo on cancer patients said in a survey that they would NOT take the very drugs they give to their cancer patients. What does that tell you?
Something definitely is very wrong in medicine, and pharmacology in particular with vaccines as a huge moneymaker in the healthcare market place. Medicine and health authorities really need to assess that the healthcare consumer is smarter than they think. Authorities also need to revamp not only their thinking but also their science to a factual basis if they want to be taken seriously not only by the public, but also by healthcare professionals.
References[1] O Baron-Epel, et al. What lies behind the low rates of vaccinations among nurses who treat infants? Vaccine 30 (2012):3151-3154


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