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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. derivatives regulator is within reach of a compromise over how its rules apply to foreign companies dealing with U.S. banks, a source close to the negotiations told Reuters.
Friday is the last day the Commodity Trading Futures Commission (CFTC) can decide on the issue, as a broad temporary relief for foreign companies expires. Having no rule in place would cause regulatory chaos and invoke the wrath of already critical politicians.
The issue has split the commission, pitting Chairman Gary Gensler against a fellow Democrat, Commissioner Mark Wetjen, who wants the agency to rely more on foreign regulators.
But the two were now close to a deal, the source said.
"It looks very positive, there's agreement in principle on most of the major issues," the source said.
"To (Gensler's) credit and to Mark's credit they were able to get in a room together over several days and we all knocked this out," the source added.
Still, important detail needed to be ironed out in the coming days, the source stressed.
Gensler has insisted foreign companies comply with the CFTC's new rules to prevent risk abroad from hitting America, while foreign regulators had said the agency should rely on similar rules being drawn up in Europe and Asia.
Without Wetjen's vote, it would be virtually impossible for Gensler to win the required three votes for his plan.
The stakes for a deal are high, with banks heavily lobbying against new rules to rein in the lucrative market, dominated by Wall Street banks such as Citigroup Inc, Bank of America Corp and JPMorgan Chase & Co..
Big foreign banks such as Deutsche Bank AG, Credit Suisse Group AG and Barclays Plc fear they will have to deal with the cost of both U.S. rules and those from their home countries.
The CFTC's latest proposal will allow foreign banks some flexibility when trading with U.S. clients and remove some of the toughest regulatory requirements, two people briefed on the matter had told Reuters earlier this week.
The source declined to elaborate on what changes were made to the text to reach the deal.
"I think this will be a very well-received document. It's aggressive in some respects, but it's I think supported by a lot of really good public policy," the source said.
The CFTC is implementing many of the new rules the United States has drawn up after the 2007-09 credit meltdown, to make the $630 trillion derivatives industry safer, and prevent a repeat from costly bank bail-outs.
Separately, Gensler is also negotiating with the European Union about the issue, Reuters reported this week. A deal with Europe could give him a powerful bargaining chip to reach a deal within his own agency.
The issue has attracted huge political attention in the United States and abroad. Gensler has been repeatedly chided by members of the U.S. Congress over his aggressive stance, and foreign regulators have done the same.
Last month, for instance, a group of U.S. Senate Democrats expressed concern to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew about a lack of coordination between the CFTC and its sister agency, the Securities Exchange Commission.
Gensler had called for a vote on the issue on Friday, but it was far from clear until now whether the four commissioners - three Democrats and one Republican - would agree.
"Progress is being made and we are hopeful for a meeting on Friday," CFTC spokesman Steve Adamske said.
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Bisphosphonates have a reasonably safe renal profile in the treatment of osteoporosis, as long as they're used in the right patients, researchers found.
In a review of the literature, clinical trials and post-marketing data for both oral and intravenous bisphosphonates showed no long-term effects on kidney function, Paul Miller, MD, of the University of Colorado Health Sciences, and colleagues reported online in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.
Bisphosphonates "have historically been associated with a low incidence of renal adverse events," Miller and colleagues wrote. "This review of clinical trial and post-marketing surveillance data has shown that, if used with care and in accordance with the prescribing information, these agents can be administered to patients with various degrees of renal impairment, with no long-term decline in renal function."
Bisphosponates are used widely to treat osteoporosis, but they carry a warning label that they're contraindicated in patients with severe renal impairment. The drugs have also been linked with femoral fracture, although the mechanism behind that risk is unclear.
In their review, Miller and colleagues found that pivotal clinical trials of oral bisphosphonates -- alendronate (Fosamax), risedronate (Actonel), and ibandronate (Boniva) -- for postmenopausal osteoporosis showed no short-term or long-term effects on renal function.
For intravenous forms of the drug -- ibandronate and zoledronic acid (Zometa, Reclast) -- studies showed transient post-infusion increases in serum creatinine. However, those trials showed no long-term impact on kidney function, the investigators said.
Similar incidences of renal adverse events, impairment, and function were reported for zoledronic acid and placebo groups over the duration of the trials, even in an older study population and in those who'd been taking the drug for up to 6 years, the researchers noted.
There were no data comparing the renal effects of IV ibandronate with IV zoledronic acid in a randomized population -- but there's no evidence of any differences in renal effects between these two bisphosphonates, they added.
"Clinical trial results have shown that even in elderly, frail, osteoporotic patients with renal impairment, intravenous bisphosphonate therapy administration in accordance with the prescribing information did not result in long-term renal function decline," they wrote.
They advised that clinicians follow guidelines for bisphosphonate therapy at all times, and given the prevalence of kidney impairment in patients with osteoporosis, "it is critical that clinicians know which patients are suitable for treatment with specific bisphosphonates."
For instance, physicians should check patients' creatinine clearance (CrCl) and estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) before they start them on treatment. And in patients with marginal eGFR values, physicians should perform a "well-hydrated 24-hour CrCl for eGFR calculation before clinical management decisions are made with regard to bisphosphonate use."
Miller and colleagues concluded that their work shows the risk-benefit ratio for all bisphosphonates "is very favorable when they are used according to the label in the right patient populations for the right duration, and that IV bisphosphonates ... can even be used in the majority of patients, including those who are elderly, as long as their eGFR is >35 mL/min."
The researchers reported relationships with Warner Chilcott, Genentech, Eli Lilly, Merck, Novartis, Amgen, GlaxoSmithKline, Genzyme, Shire, ONO Pharma, Fonterra, Alere, Janssen, Johnson & Johnson, Immuno Diagnostic Systems, AstraZeneca, Alexion, and Servier.
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Alternate Names
Feeding - jejunostomy tube; G-J tube; J-tube; Jejunum tube
What to Expect at Home
Your child?s jejunostomy tube starts outside your childs belly, goes through their stomach, and into the midsection of their small intestine. The tube delivers food and medicine. With this help, your child will grow stronger and healthier.
It is important to take good care of the skin around the tube so that your child does not get an infection or skin irritation.
You will also learn how to change the dressing around the tube every day. Try to make this part of your daily routine.
Make sure you keep the tube protected by taping it down under a t-shirt. Do not let your child pull on the tube.
Your doctor may replace the tube every now and then.
Cleaning the Skin around the J-tube
To clean the skin, you will need to change the bandages once a day or more if the area becomes wet or dirty.
The skin area should always be kept clean and dry. You will need:
- Warm soapy water and a washcloth
- Dry, clean towel
- Plastic bag
- Ointment or hydrogen peroxide (if your doctor recommends)
- Q-tips
Follow these guidelines every day for good health and skin care:
- Wash your hands for a few minutes with soap and water.
- Remove any dressings or bandages on the skin. Place them in the plastic bag, and throw them away.
- Check the skin for redness, odor, pain, puss, or swelling. Make sure the stitches are still in place.
- Apply soap and warm water to a washcloth, or dip the Q-tip in half strength hydrogen peroxide (1 tsp. hydrogen peroxide and 1 tsp. water) or other ointment that your provider recommends.
- Gently wash the skin all around the tube with the washcloth or Q-tip. Try to remove any drainage or crusting on the skin and tube. Be gentle. Dry the skin well with a clean towel.
- If there is drainage, place a small piece of gauze under the disc around the tube.
- Do not rotate the tube. This may cause it to become blocked.
Replacing the Dressings around the Tube
You will need:
- Gauze pads, dressings or bandages
- Tape
Your nurse will show you how to place the new bandages or gauze around your tube and tape it securely to your abdomen.
Usually, split gauze strips are slipped over the tube and taped down on all four sides. Tape the tube down as well.
Avoid using creams, powders, or sprays near the site unless your child?s doctor tells you to.
Flushing the J-tube
To flush the J-tube, use the syringe to slowly push warm water into the side opening of the J-port.
You may rinse, dry, and reuse the syringe later.
When to Call the Doctor
Call your child?s doctor or nurse if:
- The tube is pulled out
- There is redness, swelling, smell, pus (unusual color) at the tube site
- There is bleeding around the tube
- The stitches are coming out
- There is leaking around the tube
- Skin or scarring is growing around the tube
- Your child is vomiting
- Your child?s stomach is bloated
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are times when we canĺt help going in the red, especially in the current
economy, but then there are those who are of a different variety altogether.
These are the overspendersŚpeople who find themselves in overdraft even though
they theoretically have enough money to live comfortably.
statistics estimate that as many as 43 percent of American consumers spend more
than they earn each year, according to Christs Comeaux, Assistant Vice
President with Lakeside Bank.
certainly true that many people currently donĺt earn enough to cover their
bills. Thatĺs a different issue entirely. The problem with overspenders isnĺt
that they donĺt make enough money. Itĺs that they spend too much of the money
they have and donĺt have an adequate budget or spending strategy,ö said Comeaux.
"Overspenders often believe that their problems would be solved if they earned
more money, but overspending is a financial habit. Itĺs not an issue of
dollars. You can earn two-hundred thousand a year and still go in the red on a
consistent basis if you havenĺt developed sound financial habits. Spending too
much money is a habit just as Ĺpenny-pinchingĺ is considered a habit.ö
to Comeaux, there are several reasons why overspenders consistently send their
bank accounts into overdraft:
Poor budgeting skills.
Most modern consumers understand the validity of having a household budget, yet
few maintain one, Comeaux said. "Some customers, in moments of stress and
frustration, will sit down and write out a budget. Obviously, thatĺs a good
approach. Unfortunately, the budget may only last a day or two before things go
back to normal,ö Comeaux said. "They key is to write out a budget and stick to
it. Tell yourself that youĺll stick to the budget for a week and when that week
is over, tell yourself youĺll do it for another week.ö According to Comeaux, becoming
a responsible spender is a lifestyle change and it will take time for the new
habits to take hold.
Keeping up with the Joneses.
Luckily, things have changed with this phenomenon as the economy has taken big
hits over the past several years, but some continue to have a belief that they
need to have a new house, new car, new gadget, and so on. "Whatĺs ironic is
that while youĺre keeping up with the Joneses, the Joneses are trying to keep
up with someone else,ö Comeaux said. "Thatĺs how consumers in this country
developed such an overburden of personal debt in the first place. You should
only have to keep up with yourself and your budget. If you truly want to live
comfortably, thatĺs how you do it.ö
Poor Knowledge of Personal
Finances. This plays into the budgeting scenario. According to Comeaux,
many consumers donĺt have a solid concept of how much they earn versus how much
they spend. "With so many people living paycheck to paycheck, itĺs easier to
see tomorrow rather than next month or next year,ö Comeaux said. "This
sometimes leads to impulsive spending. Sometimes itĺs a wake-up call to sit
down with your financial statements and take a good, hard look at what youĺre
spending your money on. The results may surprise you and jolt you into
developing a better budget.ö
Spending now for future windfalls.
One of the biggest errors in judgments that overspenders make is spending money
today for money theyĺll have tomorrow. If you know youĺll get paid on Thursday,
it doesnĺt mean you should spend more money on Tuesday, Comeaux said. If youĺre
expecting a payout of some sortŚbonus from work, financial settlement, tax
refund, loan moneyŚdonĺt include it in todayĺs budget if you donĺt have it yet.
"As the old saying goes, donĺt count your chickens before they hatch,ö Comeaux
said. "Make a budget for money you have, not money that you think youĺll have.
As we know all too well, things donĺt always work out the way we plan. The tax
refund check may get sent to the wrong address. The settlement money may get
held up. The work bonus may not be the same as it was last year. If you have
the money, incorporate it in your budget. If you donĺt have the money,
thenŚwell, you donĺt have the money.ö
Focusing on getting more money,
rather than spending less. Itĺs common for overspenders to
focus on how to make more money to avoid going in the red, rather than focusing
on how to curb spending. "If you donĺt make enough money, thatĺs one thing. If
youĺre spending every penny you have every paycheck on things you donĺt need,
thatĺs another. The only way to know for sure is to pick through your
statements with a fine-toothed comb. That way youĺll understand your personal
habits and youĺll see where you can make vast improvements,ö Comeaux said.
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Science Friday® and SciFri® are registered service marks of Science Friday, Inc. Site design by Pentagram; engineering by Mediapolis.
In his new book The Future of the Mind, physicist and futurist Michio Kaku imagines a world where science and science fiction collide. A brain pacemaker for Alzheimer's patients? An Internet of human emotions? Kaku surveys advances in neuroscience that could make these sci-fi dreams a reality.


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Old store building in Christian County, KY
This building appears to have been a store at one time. It's located in the little community known as Beverly, near the intersection of Lafayette Road and Old Palmyra Road, a few miles south of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Thus, I believe it was the Beverly Store in earlier days.
Edgar Cayce, the "Sleeping Prophet", grew up in this immediate vicinity. His father, Leslie Cayce, ran the Beverly Store during the 1870s. I don't know if the building in the photo was around in the 1870s, or if the store was in a different building then.
I mention Edgar Cayce only because that's what Google brought up when I searched for "Beverly Store Christian County Kentucky". Edgar Cayce is a famous figure in local history, but I have decided not to learn much about him. I think his psychic powers came from Darkness whether he acknowledged it or not, and the less I study him, the better. That's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it.
A gazetteer published in 1880 describes Beverly as a "post-hamlet of Christian co., Ky., 8 miles from Hopkinsville." It mentions a high school and a church, which would have been the Beverly Academy and the Liberty Church. Along with the Beverly Store, all were located within a mile or so along the Palmyra Pike.


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A tiny pest brought the U.S. honey bee industry to its knees, but a Louisiana scientist found a remedy in remote Russia.
Two different types of mites were detected in American honey bees in the mid-1980s. "Tracheal mites showed up in 1984. Then shortly after that we had varroa mites," said professional beekeeper Charlie Harper of Carencro. "Before then, beekeeping was a lot easier."
For a few years, pesticides could control varroa populations — the biggest threat to honey bees — but eventually the mites became immune to chemicals, Harper said, using graphic but effective terms to describe how varroa mites harm bees. "A varroa mite on you would be like a tick the size of a rat sucking your blood."
In addition, he said, varroa mites transmit diseases to bees.
Varroa mites are capable of 10 to 15 generations in a year, according to Tom Rinderer, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Bee Lab in Baton Rouge, La., and an adjunct LSU AgCenter entomology professor.
"People were losing 80 percent of their colonies during the winter," Rinderer said.
LSU AgCenter entomologist Dale Pollet said honey bees have a significant role in agriculture, providing $400 million in pollination in Louisiana, $4 million in honey production and $300,000 in sales of apiary supplies.
"About 60 percent of the food we eat is directly or indirectly due to bees," Pollet said of the bees' roles in pollination and honey production.
The demand for a solution prompted Rinderer to find an area where honey bees had adapted to mites. He knew of a Siberian area of Primorsky in Russia where Ukranian emigrants brought bees with them when they migrated there in the mid-1800s.
Originally the bees weren't exposed to varroa mites until being moved to their Siberian home, Rinderer said. The bees that could survive the harsh winters and endure varroa mites were the only ones to prosper, he said, and beekeepers probably used no breeding techniques.
"I think there was an opportunity for natural selection to take place," he said.
After the USSR was formed, the Primorsky naval port of Vladivostok was closed to outsiders because of its military activities there, Rinderer said, but military officers assigned to the seaport enjoyed beekeeping as a hobby.
After the USSR collapsed, Rinderer ventured to Primorsky to explore the possibility of bringing Russian honey bees to the United States as a possible solution to the varroa problem.
The Primorsky beekeepers didn't seem to be worried about the mite problem, Rinderer said. "They were much more casual about it," he said.
But getting the honey bees from Russia to Rinderer's lab in Baton Rouge wasn't a casual endeavor. "It took two years just to get bees in Vladivostok to a bee yard here," he said.
After that, experimental colonies were established at an isolated location in Louisiana near Grand Isle.
Breeding was aimed at taking only the best colonies before releasing a line of queens.
The breeding program is even more intensive now, Rinderer said, with selections made to obtain the best queens. Russian queens are being produced in Iowa to subject them to harsh winters, and in Mississippi and Louisiana, with the best chosen for breeding lines.
"That will be a continuous effort," Rinderer said. "It's got huge potential left. It's not a finished project."
Beekeepers are making the transition from Italian bees to Russians, but the change takes some adjustment. "They're a different bee," Rinderer said. "They look pathetic in the springtime."
After winter, the colony is small — with no brood being produced until late spring, he explained. "They look like they're on the verge of death."
The Russians aren't fooled by the sudden warm-ups of Louisiana's early spring, he said, but once the pollen flow begins, the Russian bees shift into high gear. "They sit back until it's obvious spring is here," Rinderer said.
In fact, beekeepers have to prepare extra hive space for expansion, he said.
Russian bees suffer only a third to half of the mites that plague Italian hives, Rinderer said, and the new lines have enabled some beekeepers in New York to forego using chemicals to control mites. "I have some confidence in the next few years we will be producing bees that don't need chemicals at all," he said.
Harper said his beekeeping operation depends less on chemical defenses. "I'm going without chemical treatment on the Russian hives I have," said Harper, vice president of the Louisiana Beekeepers Association.
Harper sells Russian breeder queens to other queen bee breeders. This year he shipped queens to New York, California, Florida, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, both Carolinas and Georgia. After Canada opened its border for U.S. queen shipments, he sent an order there for six queens.
To make a queen, a larva is placed in a plastic cell, positioned vertically in the hive, unlike the other cells in a hive that are horizontal, and worker bees feed the larva royal jelly.
The queen mates with drones, then starts laying up to 2,000 eggs per day. "That's all a queen is — an egg-laying machine," Harper said.
His customers will use the $500 breeder queens to produce new queens that will be sold for $10 to $15 each to beekeepers.
The Russians are immune to tracheal mites that block bees' airways, and they have resistance to parasitic varroa mites.
Russian hives also aren't as conducive for mites to reproduce.
Pollination from honey bees is essential for many agricultural crops that aren't self-pollinating. Harper said the almond industry in California relies heavily on honey bees, and almond farmers had to cope with a bee shortage this year. Crops such as pears, cherries, apples, melons and cucumbers also require pollination.
In southern Louisiana, honey bees get most of their honey from tallow trees, also known in some areas as chicken trees, he said. "A lot of people don't realize tallow trees are good for something," Harper said.
All honey bees in the New World were imported, Rinderer said, with Italian bees becoming the preferred breed.
The Bee Act of 1911 prohibited importation of honey bees into the United States, but someone apparently violated that law, inadvertently introducing the varroa mites into American hives, Rinderer said.
A study conducted by the USDA Bee Lab indicates Louisiana may be spared from the spread of Africanized bees, commonly known by the exaggerated name of "killer bees." The study indicates that in more than a decade the bees have not been able to migrate to areas with more than 55 inches of annual rainfall.
"Africanized bees seemed to have reached their limit of spreading," Rinderer said. "They seem to be stuck in east Texas, and the ones that are stuck there are hybridized and not anything like pure African."
Bruce Schultz writes for the LSU AgCenter. e-mail: email@example.com.


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China's Leadership: One Out of Three Isn't Good
The wait for China's new leadership roster is over-now a return to business as usual. Tom Orlik discusses on Markets Hub. Photo Getty Images.
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Building up a custom race bar for my north kites. want it fast, smooth and no extension knots
What material is the white center strong line that connects to the 2 front flying lines and the 5th?
What sort of breaking strain does this have?
Using a "safe" method for estimating what I should use it connects 3 x 800 lbs flying lines = 2400 lbs
That's getting into 1/8" dyneema. Which is alot thicker than stock and will likely create a lot of drag. in the air especially on longer lines.
I guess 2 x 600lb line holds the load on most 4 line kites so maybe 1200lbs would do it but then would likely be the weakest link in the chain
Anyone in the know that can comment? I would feel much more comfotable knowing I'm using stock or higher load rating
Thanks in advance


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|Before you begin publishing a newspaper or magazine, you should be able to describe coherently your publications theological, political, and cultural perspective. Merely saying that your publication is Christian is not enough: Liberal denominations have so devalued verbal theological precision that the glorious word Christian can mean little more than, "We hope to be nice."
A better place to start is with J. I. Packers succinct definition of biblical faith: "God saves sinners." Our holy God saves; man is totally incapable of saving himself; neither government nor any other institution can save us. Our righteous God saves through his sovereign grace, not because of anything we do but out of love for those He calls and covers over with Christs blood. Our compassionate God saves sinners; we are not essentially good and brought down by a flawed social environment. We are sinners.
You may differ from other Christian journalists on some doctrinal matters, but there is no point in being a Bible-based editor or reporter unless you agree that sinful man needs Christ as Savior and also as Lord. Christian publications lose their punch unless the journalists in charge understand that the Bible is useful not only for salvation but also for application to all aspects of current events as well. Bible-based magazines and newspapers, like individual Christians, should be in the top right-hand quadrant of the adjacent graph (Figure 1), witnessing to Gods saving power but also to ways in which transformed sinners can take Christ-centered dominion over parts of Gods creation.
Some people and publications, however, are at top left, praising Christ as Savior but trusting in worldly rather than biblical wisdom to live their lives and cover the news; they emphasize moments of justification but pay less attention to years of perseverance. Others emphasize the Lords rules but not his saving grace and thus practice a disciplined but joyless Christianity that rapidly becomes legalistic (the bottom-right quadrant). And non-Christians, of course, are in the lower-left quadrant, just saying no to Christ as either Savior or Lord.
This book is addressed to those who are or want to be in the top-right quadrant, and to all of you I speak emphatically: If you are serious about putting out a theologically sound publication, you should also be committed to the final authority of the Bible as the inerrant written Word of God.
Some hard-edged reporters might contend that ideas do not have practical consequences, but biblical commitment or lack of it will radically affect your publications posture in every area. Some evangelicals have tended to become otherworldly, and others in recent years have compromised with secular liberalism, the dominant cultural trend of recent decades. Courageous Christian journalists, however, need a biblical understanding of this world; only then can their analysis go far beyond the conventional wisdom.
Furthermore, sound theology has consequences in political philosophy: An understanding of sin and a willingness to battle government-supported sin will place you, in the current American political spectrum, right of center. Some Christians are political liberals, but they should realize that the liberal emphasis in twentieth-century America has been on liberation from traditional institutionsfamily, church, businessin the belief that these institutions are oppressive. They should also see that liberals repeatedly have used governmental power to batter the walls of those institutions: Some of the battering has been unintentional, but the assault is increasingly deliberate. They should see that liberal culture, which emphasizes government rather than family and stresses subjectivity (as in the freedom to choose abortion) rather than objective truth, is becoming the established religion, one that Christians should oppose.
An understanding of sin will even lead you to become what could be called a "biblical conservative." The word conservative, of course, carries a heavy burden. Many blacks during past decades have associated it with racism, and the Social Darwinist variety of conservatismhumanity evolves economically through survival of the financially fittest and elimination of the poorhas turned its back on the needy. Nevertheless, conservatives generally believe that limitations on human progress come out of human nature, not external forces. Furthermore, conservatives who fight for limited government may privately defend sin, but they do not use governmental force to push others to sin.
Although non-Christian conservatives do not understand the origins and true nature of sin, they see its consequences and are unlikely to buy government-surplus stain removers that in practice grind the evil deeper into the social fabric. The next four-quadrant graph (Figure 2) distinguishes from left to right those who emphasize unbounded human potential and those who understand the limitations of sinful man, and from top to bottom a reliance on the Bible versus a first turning to mans wisdom.
You must grasp the depth of sins ravages if you are to understand the full need for Christs sacrifice: If man is essentially good, Jesus did not have to die. At the same time, an understanding that God saves sinners will push you toward biblical compassion, which means suffering with those in need and offering a Christ-based challenge to sinful practices. (True compassion is very different from the liberal, social universalist variety that assumes natural goodness and thus offers merely a pat on the back and coins in the pocket.)
A stress on biblical compassion also separates Christians from those secular conservatives who twist the biblical understanding of mans limitations into scorn for tender mercies. Those differences can be expressed graphically in a way that also depicts the position of Marxists who take liberal ideas of mans goodness and, hoping to speed up the move to utopia, exalt ruthlessness.
The secular left and the secular right are both wrong, but at least those who emphasize private rather than governmental action are less likely to seize power and spread mass misery, as Figure 3 suggests.
My hope is that you will develop or support a biblically conservative publication that combines a stress on mans sinfulness with a concern for others that is based in Gods holy compassion. I hope that you will criticize liberal evangelicals but not see them as the chief opponents; rather, you should concentrate on the aggression of secular liberals and help to turn back that aggression by forming coalitions with secular conservatives on issues such as governmental control of welfare, education, and health care.
In short, you can be most useful if you fight a limited war against secular liberal culture, which is the dominant social, political, and philosophical force in America today. Your goal should not be the creation of a new Israel or the winning of total victory, for we know that God has placed us in Babylon, and that Christian triumph will come only when Christ returns. Your goal should be faithful perseverance in the containment of evil. Other Christians may have different objectives, in part because there are differing understandings as to whether evangelicals should oppose liberalism, in part because some of our brothers hope to create a new Israel out of American society. Figure 4 notes agreements and differences.
My proposal is that we fight a limited war. We cannot destroy sinChrist will take care of that when He comes againbut through Gods grace we can contain it, and regain lost ground when possible. All Christians try to contain sin through prayer, through building strong churches and strong families, and through worshipping and taking action in many different ways. Some Christians are called to particular strategies of containment; for example, some work politically, and others establish crisis pregnancy centers, adoption agencies, or biblically based homeless shelters. Your particular calling may be to work journalistically; our weapons are not guns but biblical ideas prayerfully applied to public issues.
How will youor any of usknow the right applications? Only by realizing that this is the world that the Lord has made, and that only He understands it fully. The Christian journalistic goal, then, is true objectivity: presentation of the Gods-eye view. We acknowledge our inability to do that, since we are sinners with fallen wills and very limited understanding. Nevertheless, we do not give up. The Koran calls Allah "inscrutable," but the Bible shows that God reveals his thoughts to man. Much remains hidden, as Job learned, and much we see darkly, as the apostle Paul pointed out. Still, we do have some sight, and when we study the Bible to see what God says about issues, we can come closer to that Gods-eye view.
The opportunity to approach true objectivity also depends on the nature of the issue. White-water rafters speak of six classes of rapids: class-one rapids are easy enough for a novice to navigate, and class-six rapids whisper death. The issues that journalists report are rapids; providentially, the Bible is clear enough so that many of them fall into class one or two. Here are the classes and examples:
Class one: explicit biblical embrace or condemnation. The Bible condemns homosexuality so clearly that only the most shameless of those who twist Scripture can try to assert the practices biblical acceptability. Biblical objectivity means showing the evil of homosexuality; balancing such stories by giving equal time to gay activists is ungodly journalism. Similarly, in an article showing the sad consequences of heterosexual adultery there is no need to quote proadultery sources.
Class two: clearly implicit biblical position. Even though there is no explicit biblical injunction to place children in Christian or home schools, the emphasis on providing a godly education under parental supervision is clear. Biblical objectivity means supporting the establishment and improvement of Bible-based education, and criticizing government schools, in the understanding that turning education over to "professionals" who have no regard for God is an abdication of biblical parental responsibility.
Class three: partisans of both sides quote Scripture but careful study allows biblical conclusions. On poverty-fighting issues, partisans from the left talk of Gods "preferential option" for the poor, but the biblical understanding of justice means giving the poor full legal rights and not treating them as more worthy than the rich by virtue of their class position. Since even widows are not automatically entitled to aid, broad entitlement programs are suspect. Biblically, provision of material help should be coupled with the provision of spiritual lessons; the poor should be given the opportunity to glean but challenged to work.
Class four: biblical understanding backed by historical experience. Even though there is no indisputable biblical commandment that strictly limits government, chapter 8 of 1 Samuel describes the dangers of human kingship, and it is clearly bad theology to see government as savior in areas such as health care. The historical record over the centuries is clear, and in recent American experience we have particular reason to be suspicious of the person who says, "Im from the government and Im here to help you."
Class five: biblical sense of human nature. On class-five issues there is no clear biblical mandate and no clear historical trail, but certain understandings of human nature can be brought to bear. For example, those who believe that peace is natural emphasize negotiations and disarmament. A biblical understanding of sin, however, leads to some tough questions: What if war is the natural habit of sinful, post-Fall man? What if some leaders see war as a useful way to gain more power in the belief that they can achieve victory without overwhelming losses? History is full of mistaken calculations of that sortdictators have a tendency to overrate their own powerbut they may still plunge ahead unless restrained by the obvious power of their adversaries. Objectivity in such a situation emphasizes discernment rather than credulity: If we do not assume a benign human nature concerning warfare, we need to plan for military preparedness and raise the cost of war to potential aggressors.
Class six: Navigable only by experts, who might themselves be overturned. On a class-six issue there is no clear biblical position, no historical trail for the discerning to apply, and not much else to mark our path. On an issue of this kindNAFTA is a good exampleyou should balance views and perspectives.
This six-fold definition suggests a framework for biblical objectivity that will enable you to push hard but avoid twisting Scripture. When you take a very strong biblical stand on a class-one or class-two issue, you will be objective. When you take a more balanced position on a class-five or class-six issue by citing the views and approaches of a variety of informed sources, you also are being biblically objective, because we cannot be sure on an issue when the Bible is not clear. Objectivity is faithful reflection of the biblical view, as best we can discern it through Gods Word. When there is no view that we can discern, then we cast about for wisdom where we can find it.
It is important to keep in mind throughout this process that many rapids are class one or two. One of the great contributions of the Protestant Reformation was its emphasis on the perspicuity (literally, the "see-through-ableness") of Scripture. All Christians are commanded to search the Scriptures (John 5:39, Acts 17:11, 2 Tim. 3:1517). It is bad to mistake hard rapids for easy ones, but experienced Christian journalists who read the Bible faithfully can have confidence in their ability to paddle aggressively through most rapids without being thrown into freezing water.
Accuracy and fairness are always essential for journalists; fear is not. There is no need to approach every issue as if it were a class six. At the same time, arrogance is ungodly and also unproductive: If a Christian journalist pulls a Bible verse out of context in order to tell readers that God commands a specific action in relation to Bosnia or Korea, he generates sneers among those disposed to think that all biblical application is of the here-a-verse, there-a-verse variety. There is nothing wrong with cautiously approaching a truly dangerous section of the river.
In summary, biblical objectivitycommitment to proclaiming Gods objective truth as far as we know ithas different applications on different kinds of questions. Biblical objectivity does not fall into relativism or situational ethics, however, because its sole ethic is to reflect biblical positions. In that way its philosophical base is diametrically opposed to the prevailing liberal theory of objectivity, which assumes that there is no true truth on any issue and that every issue must thus be approached as if it were a class six. Christ did not die for us so that we would be captives of fear.
Liberal theory emphasizes the balancing of subjectivities: Specific detail A, which points a reader in one direction, should be balanced by specific detail B, which points the reader in another. A prosomething statement by Person X is followed by an antisomething statement from Person Y. In practice, this objectivity has limitations: Reporters have never felt the need to balance anticancer statements with procancer statements. In recent practice, secular-liberal reporters have seen pro-life concerns or homophobia as cancerous, and many other Christian beliefs as similarly harmful. But you should be aware that many reporters still publicly maintain their so-called objectivity.
The balancing act in recent years has become farcical: Many reporters privately acknowledge that they put their hands on the scales, but try to do so in subtle ways unnoticed by readers. Christian journalists, in situations where the Bible shows us the right path (and it does so most of the time), should reject both the theory and the farce. Biblically, there is no neutrality: We are either God centered or man centered.
Christian reporters should give equal space to a variety of perspectives only when the Bible is unclear. Editors who see leftist evangelicals as misled should still give them a chance to respond to questionsbut a solidly Christian news publication should not be balanced. Its goal should be provocative and evocative, colorful and gripping, Bible-based news analysis.
The kind of approach suggested hereeven novices can aggressively hit those class-one and class-two rapids, and more experienced reporters can shoot through class threes and fours as wellis also liberating for Christian reporters, who should not have to pretend: Readers deserve to know the whole story and the perspective from which it is being told, and writers do their best work when they are allowed to tell what they know and believe.
Again, it is vital to distinguish between journalism and propaganda. In navigating tricky rapids, Christian journalists should try not to ignore boulderlike facts that may be shocking enough to force a change in course: Through crisis God teaches us. Later chapters will also note the need to avoid propagandizing, but the crucial need always for Christians is discernment, the ability to apply the Bible to specific situations as they arise, and for humility when it comes to the tougher problems, as Figure 5 suggests:
In practice at World, I roughly categorize probable stories by rapids class, with the proviso that the classification may change as we gain more insight. For example, a World analysis of anti-addiction organizations began with the assumption that tough Bible-based programs could succeed, and governmental programs that by law exclude God would fail. (This would not be a class-one story because the Bible does not say explicitly that secular antidrug programs will have low success rates. It might be a class two in that "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom"; but I had looked into other programs in the past and had seen the difference that Christ makes, so I was proceeding on a biblical sense backed up by history.)
Often assumptions prove inaccurate, but in this case the evidence backed them up. Here are excerpts from the story,"A Government Cure for Sin," that resulted:
Mogan eases his lanky 6-feet-3-inch frame under staple-suspended wiring that would have brought an adrenaline rush to any building inspector; he steps through doorways that seem to be shedding paint and structural integrity each time his heavy footfalls shake the dubious wooden floors.
Following the descriptive lead came a look at the disjunction of Washington theory and street practice. First came the official story.
President Clinton traveled to a Maryland prison on Feb. 9 to announce his new strategy in the war on drugs. Citing his cocaine-abusing brother and his alcoholic stepfather, the president told prisoners he wants to spend $13.2 billion beginning Oct. 1 to fight this "threat to the stability of our society and the economic future of our country."
Then the streetwise reality:
Pastor Mike Hernandez inspected on Feb. 14 a possible new recovery house and reflected on the presidents plan, wondering what kind of treatment Clinton was talking about.
After presenting the disjunction, reporter Roy Maynard brought in additional evidence.
The debate is on. Clinton showed his desire to move away from a war on drugs and cling more tightly to the concept of drug addiction as a disease: "I know treatment works." But the track record of government programs has been, Hernandez knows, simply dismal. For example, the Minneapolis Star Tribune published a stinging evaluation last year of Minnesotas government programs, which are widely copied and commended.
Maynard then took on a pet government-funded program.
And although its a drug preventionas opposed to drug rehabilitationprogram, Drug Abuse Resistance Education (better known by its acronym, DARE) is by far the largest antidrug effort in the nation, with $700 million per year being spent to send police officers into fifth-grade classrooms across the nation. It, too, is a failure, according to a slew of studies.
Maynard further examined the governments "disease model" and then presented more testimony from the streets.
Mike Hernandez, himself a former drug dealer who now pastors Victory Outreachs Houston chapter, agrees. "If it was a disease, then science could find a cure," Hernandez says. "But science cant. What science has come up withfor example, methadone, which I was on even when I was still taking heroinhas failed. This hasnt. Thats because were letting God do the work, letting God do the healing." . . .
Here, then, was a picture of a shoestring program that worksand, unsurprisingly, it ran afoul of government authorities.
In Santa Paula, California, a Victory Outreach chapter bought a farm and incorporated organic farming into its daily regimen of prayer, Bible study, and hard work. More than two dozen men were working the farm and Pastor Bob Herrera converted the barn into a dormitory. County health officials threatened the group with criminal charges for what it termed an illegal conversion. Herrera and his supporters worked to correct that; they eventually moved the men into an old hotel, which Victory Outreach members now manage.
The storys conclusion then brought us back to its beginning.
Mogan, the 43-year-old former addict, is visibly proud of the fading, 1940s-era house, although he knows Houston city officials would nail the door shut if they were to ever venture out into that part of the 3rd Ward. When the house was given to the ministry a few months ago, Mogan slept on the rotting wooden floors each night to keep out the crack users, dealers, and prostitutes. It will take thousands of dollars to repair and remodel the house, but Mogan isnt intimidated by the job. The house is now livablebarely.
Christian journalists who can pound the pavement to pick up specific detail concerning antidrug programs and approach them biblically are needed not only someday, but right now.
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Khloe Kardashian is all about her family's business -- the money-making side of it and the personal side of it.
But that doesn't mean she changes who she is to adhere to either. The reality TV star, the youngest of the three Kardashian sisters, doesn't buy into the persona that people have boxed her into, nor the "toxic" media attention her family gets, she told the Associated Press.
"Once you start living in [that fame world], you can start believing it, and it's just so bad for you. That's not the real world. All of this one day will go away no matter who you are, and I need to be OK with who I am as myself and this doesn't make or break me. This is wonderful and I love this ride but I'm also so blessed without it as well," the 28-year-old fashionista said.
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Her family's claim to fame is the juggernaut E! series "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" and its many offshoots that showcase the clan's over-the-the top lifestyle. Much of their initial media attention came in the mid-1990s from her late father Robert Kardashian's involvement on the defense team in the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, and later from her older sister Kim Kardashian's infamous sex tape in 2007. Talent manager Kris Jenner, Robert Kardashian's ex-wife, managed to parlay all that media attention and tabloid fodder into a million-dollar franchise of TV shows, clothing lines, cosmetics, fragrances and books. (She'll also have her own talk show this fall.)
But Khloe wouldn't mind if it all went away.
"You always want what you don't have, and you have to be really careful what you wish for. I genuinely love what we do. When that day comes, it will give me more time to do other stuff but I'm not begging for that day to come. I'm content either way."
The spotlight has garnered her her fair share of false stories and "dumb" stories.
"There are literally millions to choose from!" she recently told the Huffington Post. "But I would say the dumbest thing I have heard, is that my dad isn't my real dad." (This bit of gossip resulted in a DNA test conducted on the E! series.)
Kardashian starred in her own TV spinoff series with husband Lamar Odom, the L.A. Clippers forward, and younger brother Rob Kardashian. And she says there's more "Khloe & Lamar" to come even though she's protective of how people think the show negatively influenced her husband's basketball career.
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"When my husband and I filmed Season 1, Lamar won Sixth Man of the Year, was the first [Los Angeles] Laker to do so, he won a gold medal, and he also won a championship ring for the Lakers. But the year he got traded [to the Dallas Mavericks], people wanted to say, 'Oh, it's because of the show.' So, I was really irritated. This is my husband's career, and I just didn't like that someone would use this tool in a negative way, so I was like, 'You know what? For the better of my husband's career, I'm not going to let anyone use this against him.' But, yes, it will hopefully come back sooner [rather] than later. Lamar loves doing the show."
She and Odom tied the knot after only 30 days of dating and planned a wedding in nine days. It is a union many thought wouldn't last, but this September they'll be celebrating their fourth anniversary.
"Lamar and I say, 'We don't know what came over us. We can't even explain it.' Because we can't explain it. I never understood when someone said 'I just knew.' And with every fiber of my being you couldn't have told me no. ... I just felt it — and same with Lamar. Thank God it worked. It very well could've gone the other way."
AP writer Alicia Rancilio points out that Kardashian and her sisters Kourtney and Kim are all currently involved with men who don't have any siblings. Perhaps that's what makes them more easily enveloped by their larger-than-life new family?
"We've known Kanye [West] for years, so he's known what our family is like. He definitely does his own thing. Scott [Disick] works with us. Lamar is away a lot [with basketball], and Kanye has his own career. But, Kanye's there for holidays and all the stuff that matters," she said of the rapper, who has been criticized for seeming absent during much of her sister's pregnancy.
Eldest sister Kourtney has two children with longtime boyfriend Scott Disick and Kim is expecting her first child, a baby girl, with rapper West this summer. This current season of the reality series has expanded by adding stepbrother Brody Jenner and promising to also delve into stepfather Bruce Jenner's family ties.
Khloe, who has been doing the media rounds to promote the new season of "Keeping Up With the Kardashians," which premiered last weekend, has been busy demystifying rumors about the clan, including whether her mom was splitting from her stepdad.
"Well, they're not having problems but they still like to live apart, which is definitely different," she said during a Wednesday appearance on "The Tonight Show."
"In my house, there is a man room for Lamar. A room, not a different house. So I think they took my idea and ran with it and they got another house. And Bruce stays there sometimes..." she added. "It's in the same state, yes, different city," the outspoken, youngest sister in the trio clarified. "I'm not for that, but you know, to each their own."
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PORTSMOUTH — A box of nails and a set of 4x4s sitting in front of a generator caught fire on Saturday morning on the I-95 bridge.
Lieutenant Peter Gordon of Portsmouth Fire Station 3 said the dispatcher received a call from a cell phone of someone driving southbound who had seen flames near a construction area on the bridge at 11:49 a.m. near exit 7. Gordon said New Hampshire State Police had also seen the equipment on fire at the same time of the call.
"It is under investigation at this time," Gordon said. "We don't know what happened, whether the generator was overlooked or kept on to keep something from freezing, we don't know. There was a cord running near the equipment, but no idea as to what happened."
The station 3 dispatcher called the construction company to notify them and to find out additional information, but they were unable to be reached. Gordon said due to the holiday weekend, they most likely will not have any answers until next week.
No one was injured on the scene. Portsmouth Fire Station 3 had the fire out by 12:16 p.m.
New Hampshire Department of Transportation was also unavailable for comment.
Construction site catches fire on I-95 in Portsmouth
PORTSMOUTH — A box of nails and a set of 4x4s sitting in front of a generator caught fire on Saturday morning on the I-95 bridge.


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swept, in your own house. whats the excuse this time, bitches.
xbay wrote:Yeah, seriously. No need for that. My Giants got beat, the A's are the better team. So what? You guys won, no need for the language. Show some class.
yeah..no need. then again, he is an oakland fan. i dont think this way of all oakland fans, but im not surprised.
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rslproductions wrote:swept, in your own house. whats the excuse this time, bitches.
hey dude... i lived in Oakland and i am A's,W's &R's fans but there is no need to 'attack' Giants' fans...we have no problem with them and so far i knew they respect A's ...so plz don't continue with this thing again...
rsxracer wrote:nd xbay says im immature around him.
Care to elaborate, my beloved cousin whom I decided to bring in after getting kicked out of his own house several months ago for essentially all of eternity and I would just absolutely hate to kick out of MY HOUSE?
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RobDIKUM wrote:No need for that man, nobody has been makin excuses for this years Giants, and nobody has really been trashing the A's. Show a little more respect for the members of the board please
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You thought Bob Costas was stupid? You clearly didn't know how stupid human beings could get when discussing end zone celebrations. That apotheosis belongs to Jets tackle Sione Pouha, who's convinced that Stevie Johnson was out to mock the death of thousands.
Most of the moralizing has focused on Johnson's "shoot myself in the leg" pantomime, which was clearly a jab at Plaxico Burress. Johnson called up Burress and apologized, and we're moving on. Then Johnson segued into his version of Santonio Holmes's "flight boys" celebration—arms out like a Jet—only to crash to the turf. It was obviously, obviously just a poke at his opponents. Not so obvious if you're Sione Pouha.
"Us being from New York ... that airplane thing, in my opinion, was kind of a dagger a little bit, concerning the circumstances we just remembered — Sept. 11," Pouha said. "We all stand for pride in this region and that's a sacred moment. For a lot of people, it's a sobering moment."
Oh good. As if an uproar over nothing wasn't enough, now we've invoked the tallest lightning rod for manufactured outrage there is.
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By Dr. Mercola
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble, hormone-like vitamin, and many therefore believe that if you're obese you need more of it because body fat acts as a "sink" by collecting it.
However, muscle and fat may well act the same when it comes to storing vitamin D for future use.
New research using mathematical models has shown that a heavily muscled man and an obese man who weigh exactly the same would need the same amount of vitamin D.
The key to determining how much vitamin D is appropriate for an individual appears to be body weight rather than body fat.
This was not previously widely appreciated by most experts.
Your Body Weight May Dictate How Much Vitamin D You Need
If you're overweight or obese, you're therefore likely going to need more vitamin D than a slimmer person -- and the same holds true for people with higher body weights due to muscle mass.
Your best source for this vitamin is daily exposure to the sun, without sunblock on your skin, until your skin turns the lightest shade of pink.
While this isn't always possible due to the change of the seasons and your geographic location (and your skin color), this is the ideal to aim for as it will optimize your vitamin D levels naturally.
To use the sun to maximize your vitamin D production and minimize your risk of skin damage, the middle of the day (roughly between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.) is the best and safest time. During this UVB-intense period you will need the shortest sun exposure time to produce the most vitamin D.
If sun exposure is not an option, using a safe tanning bed (one with electronic ballasts rather than magnetic ballasts, to avoid unnecessary exposure to EMF fields) is the next best option. Safe tanning beds have far less of the dangerous UVA than sunlight, while unsafe ones have more UVA than sunlight. If neither of these are feasible options, then you should take an oral vitamin D3 supplement – and this is where the dosage becomes of crucial importance.
What's the Correct Dose of Vitamin D?
Based on research published by GrassrootsHealth from the D*Action study, the average adult needs to take 8,000 IU's of vitamin D per day in order to elevate his or her levels above 40 ng/ml -- the bare minimum requirement necessary for disease prevention. Ideally, you'll want your levels to be between 50-70 ng/ml. As Carole Baggerly, director and founder of GrassrootsHealth, noted:
"We just published our very first paper. We have about 10 people in this study now that are taking 50,000 IU a day and they're not reaching a potential toxicity level of 200 ng/ml. It should be noted, however, that this is not a recommended intake level. The study reported data on about over 3,500 people. … One very significant thing shown by this research was that even with taking the supplement, the curve for the increase in the vitamin D level is not linear. It is curvilinear and it flattens, which is why it's even hard to get toxic with a supplement."
This means that even if you do not regularly monitor your vitamin D levels, your risk of overdosing is going to be fairly slim -- even if you take as much as 8,000 IU's a day. (As an aside, there is evidence that the safety of vitamin D is dependent on vitamin K, and that vitamin D toxicity (although very rare with the D3 form) is actually aggravated by vitamin K2 deficiency. So if you take oral vitamin D, ideally you should take vitamin K2 as well or use organic fermented foods that are high in vitamin K2, as you need about 150 mcg per day.)
That said, 8,000 IU is only a ballpark estimate of what most people likely need -- it is simply impossible to make a general recommendation that will cover everyone's needs. For instance, the lighter your skin, the more vitamin D you will produce from sun exposure, and the closer you live to the equator, the more vitamin D the sun on your skin will produce. Similarly, the more you weigh, the more vitamin D you need.
So it is an inexact science trying to figure out how much vitamin D your body is able to produce naturally and balancing that with how much you need in supplement form. You really need to be your own vitamin D level sleuth, and I strongly suggest you do the necessary work, because this is truly one of the most powerful vitamins available for your health, and one that the majority of people currently are deficient in.
The only way to truly optimize your own vitamin D levels is to work with your doctor, take the 25 OH D blood test and then get sun exposure and/or supplement with a dose somewhere in the range of 5,000-40,000 IU, retesting your blood levels after a few months of supplementation.
For children below the age of 5 I recommend 35 IU per pound per day and for pregnant women I recommend anywhere from 5,000 to 10,000 IU per day. But again, there really is no "right" amount unless you take the time to have your blood levels checked, as the amount it takes to keep your levels within the below optimal range is the one that is right for you.
Is There a Link Between Low Vitamin D Levels and Obesity?
There is a connection, yes. Vitamin D levels tend to be low in obese individuals as well as in those who are physically inactive,i and one researcher even went so far as to state that vitamin D deficiency is the cause of common obesity and metabolic syndrome:ii
"There is evidence for a central control mechanism which maintains body-weight to a set-point by the regulation of energy intake and energy expenditure through homeostatic pathways. It is suggested … that common obesity occurs when the set-point is raised and that accumulation of fat mass functions to increase body size. Larger body size confers a survival advantage in the cold ambient temperatures and food scarcity of the winter climate by reducing surface area to volume ratio and by providing an energy store in the form of fat mass.
In addition, it is suggested that the phenotypic metabolic and physiological changes observed as the metabolic syndrome, including hypertension and insulin resistance, could result from a winter metabolism which increases thermogenic capacity. Common obesity and the metabolic syndrome may therefore result from an anomalous adaptive winter response. The stimulus for the winter response is proposed to be a fall in vitamin D.
… It is here proposed that a fall in vitamin D in the form of circulating calcidiol is the stimulus for the winter response, which consists of an accumulation of fat mass (obesity) and the induction of a winter metabolism (the metabolic syndrome) … It may be possible to reverse the increasing prevalence of obesity by improving vitamin D status."
Several studies have also confirmed a link between vitamin D deficiency, abdominal obesity and visceral fat, while research even shows that increasing your vitamin D levels may improve weight loss if you're following a reduced-calorie diet.iii Interestingly, new research also found that weight loss among overweight and obese women is associated with increased vitamin D levels,iv so there appear to be strong links between vitamin D status and your weight, through various mechanisms working on multiple levels.
Why is Vitamin D So Important, Anyway?
We've addressed ways to optimize your vitamin D levels … but you may be wondering why this is so important, especially if you're still under the impression that vitamin D is mostly a nutrient for your bones. Many people think that vitamin D is really a vitamin, but in reality, the active form of vitamin D is one of the most potent hormones in your body, and regulates more genes and bodily functions than any other hormone yet discovered. Vitamin D is produced as a pro-hormone in your skin after sunlight exposure, and is then converted to the potent hormone form.
Without adequate levels of this hormone, you could die, and indeed, many do die from vitamin D deficiency-related causes. Vitamin D could rightly be described as a "miracle nutrient" for your immune system, as it enables your body to produce well over 200 antimicrobial peptides, which are indispensable in fighting off a wide range of infections. Furthermore, when your organs convert the vitamin D in your bloodstream into calcitriol, which is the hormonal or activated version of vitamin D, they can then use it to repair cellular damage, including damage associated with cancer cells and tumors.
Theories linking vitamin D to certain cancers have been tested and confirmed in more than 200 epidemiological studies, and understanding of its physiological basis stems from more than 2,500 laboratory studies, according to epidemiologist Cedric Garland, DrPH, professor of family and preventive medicine at the UC San Diego School of Medicine. Other research has linked vitamin D to a number of chronic and acute health conditions including heart disease, infertility, influenza, colds, respiratory tract infections, depression and more.


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Aten VanCryst VM0404H HDMI Matrix Switch Review
How many times have you had to get up and switch around cables for your TV or other devices? It seems no matter how many connections a vendor makes on a media device or television you never have enough. I have done it time and time again: forgot what device is plugged in after getting comfortable only to have to get up and jumble cables to get the right setup. On my HDTV I have two HDMI inputs and four media devices which I use to view content. Having to constantly switch cables around each time my family or I want to watch something gets really annoying.
Aten has designed an intuitive device to battle these problems with the VanCryst VM0404H HDMI Matrix Switch. The HDMI switch simplifies life by allowing you to connect not only multiple input devices but to also transfer the video and audio sound to multiple televisions and monitors. The VM0404H provides a simple operation that is so easy a child can select the correct devices with little effort. If you have ever suffered from lack of high def connectivity this review will open your eyes to a whole new world. Without further delay how about we dig into the Aten HDMI Matrix Switch.
Closer Look:
The Aten VanCryst VM0404H HDMI Matrix Switch comes packaged in a plain looking box with the Aten logo on the front and rear. On the side of the packaging there is a product label which identifies the contents and lists what is included. There is also a diagram of the type and voltage of the power plug that is used for the unit depending on the country and requirements. In this case (for the US) there is a standard vertical prong type plug rated at 120v/220v.
When you open the packaging it shows how well Aten wanted to keep your product protected. The company encased the ends in foam to prevent damage from movement and wrapped it in a protective sleeve to keep it from being scratched or dented from the accessories. Included with the Aten HDMI Matrix Switch is an IR remote control, four rubber feet, manuals, rackmout kit and the power adapter in the white box. Below is a diagram showing how the device can be configured for use according to Aten.
Now that everything is unpacked we can get a better look at the switch itself.


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Nests throughout Chesapeake Country are full of baby birds. Fluffy young osprey are learning to tear their fish into bites in nests topping nearly every channel marker and many utility poles. Mom and Pop Osprey are still delivering the fish to their fast-growing babies.
These youngsters have big things ahead of them, starting with learning to feed themselves. Their parents' care ends sometime over the next two months. By September, the fledglings will be on their own, finding their way down the Chesapeake and across the Caribbean. If they survive their first migration — and no more than half do — they'll hang out in Central or South America for two years before returning to our Bay.
Zoo nests are full, too. In D.C.'s Smithsonian National Zoo, two burrowing owl chicks — members of America's smallest owl species — are a month old and preparing to take their first short flights.
Two kori bustard chicks hatched June 9 and 10 are being hand-fed a mash of pellets, crickets, peas, greens and fruit every two hours. For now, they're safe — and out of sight — inside the Bird House. They'll join their parents outside late in August, around the same time osprey chicks are on their own.


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Bright Statements: Colorful Kids Furniture
When I decided to write about "kids' furniture that pops", I had no idea it would be so difficult to find vivid statements. Most of us, and I count myself guilty, are sticking with white, wood, or grey for the big pieces and taking more risk on the walls. But it doesn't have to be so! Click through to see the lucky few who have brightly hued furniture:
Just to be clear, I'm not advocating painting gorgeous rosewood or that brand new Duc Duc crib. Paint is for the pieces that aren't so precious or that beg for new life. Vintage, already painted dressers, beds, and shelves are a great start. Good luck!
1. Sofia and Mila's Magical Space
2. Esme Jane's Colorful, Modern, and Dragonfly-Filled Room
3. Olivia and Emma's Shared Room Gets Personal
4. Leo & Luke's Orange Vision
5. Natalie's Candy-Colored Big Girl Room
6. Jake's Happy Hodgepodge
7. Pippi's Whimsical Wonderland
8. Emmeth's Attic Nook
9. Ben's "Welcome Home" Room
10. Keane's Less-Is-More Modern Woodland
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Note that some of the ideas mentioned can be already used by imaging tools, but the idea of this page is to determine how useful these features could be for next-generation of imaging tools. The scope is mainly a software-based imaging tools, but not limited to. Some features might not be doable, because of limitations of certain image file formats.
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- Compression
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- Pre-processing during imaging
- User suspend/resume, resume after failure
- Remote imaging
- Reduces the amount of data that needs to be written; improved the overall imaging speed.
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Despite the improvement in the overall jobs picture in the U.S— non-farm payrolls grew by 195,000 in June—employment in American manufacturing is still bleak, as the sector lost jobs for the fourth month in a row.
According to the Bureau of Labor, the manufacturing sector lost 6,000 jobs in June.
That follows the loss of 8,000 manufacturing jobs in May and 9,000 in April. March had a loss of 4,000 manufacturing jobs.
"The economy is producing jobs, but they are, generally-speaking, lousy ones," said Scott Paul, president of the Alliance for American Manufacturing, in a press release Friday.
(Read more:Top US States for New Manufacturing Jobs)
"Goods-producing, family-supporting industries like manufacturing are falling behind," Paul said.
"Manufacturing jobs are important to the economy but they're never going to be what they once were," said Tony Cherin, a finance professor at San Diego State University.
There are some 12 million manufacturing jobs on record in the United States. And since January of 2010, the United States has added 520,000 manufacturing jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
But overall, manufacturing has lost a net 21,000 jobs since its last peak this February when the sector gained some 14,000 jobs, according to figures from the BLS.


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NEW YORK, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- German Chancellor Angela Merkel, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Brazilian President Dilma Roussef head this year's Forbes list of powerful women.
The trio at the top of annual list of the 100 most powerful women in the world hold traditional positions of power of the kind that until recently were all-male preserves, the magazine said. Two others in the Top 10, Melinda Gates at No. 4 and Michelle Obama at No. 7, became powerful by marrying men who attained high positions and used that base to become powerful themselves.
Others in the Top 10 include Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times at No. 5; Sonia Gandhi, widow of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and now a political force in India herself, No. 6; Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, No. 8; U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, No. 9; and Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook, No. 10.
Oprah Winfrey in the No. 11 position was the highest-ranking figure from entertainment this year. Winfrey combines power as an entertainer who has created a media empire and as a philanthropist.
This year's list also includes 25 chief executive officers, seven of them newly appointed to the position.
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, a decidedly constitutional monarch, is in the No. 26 spot, 12 places behind U.S. pop singer Lady Gaga and just ahead of Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, conservative wife turned liberal media entrepreneur Arianna Huffington and Nancy Pelosi, minority leader of the U.S. House of Representatives.


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LANSING — Michigan is one of three states chosen to pilot a new initiative intended to help military veterans find jobs.
Michigan will join Iowa and Tennessee as the first states participating in the Hiring our Heroes program's All Vet States program. State officials say participating in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation's initiative will give Michigan more visibility as a destination for active-duty members transitioning to civilian life.
Hiring our Heroes will feature Michigan on its website and link to the state website. Gov. Rick Snyder made the announcement today at his economic summit in Grand Rapids.
The state expects 30,000 to 50,000 veterans to move to Michigan in the next three to five years. Hiring our Heroes' director credits Michigan for being "very active" in recruiting veterans to the state.


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11 U.S. Code § 332 - Consumer privacy ombudsman
§ 332.
Consumer privacy ombudsman
If a hearing is required under section 363(b)(1)(B), the court shall order the United States trustee to appoint, not later than 7 days before the commencement of the hearing, 1 disinterested person (other than the United States trustee) to serve as the consumer privacy ombudsman in the case and shall require that notice of such hearing be timely given to such ombudsman.
(b) The consumer privacy ombudsman may appear and be heard at such hearing and shall provide to the court information to assist the court in its consideration of the facts, circumstances, and conditions of the proposed sale or lease of personally identifiable information under section 363(b)(1)(B). Such information may include presentation of—
the potential losses or gains of privacy to consumers if such sale or such lease is approved by the court;
the potential costs or benefits to consumers if such sale or such lease is approved by the court; and
A consumer privacy ombudsman shall not disclose any personally identifiable information obtained by the ombudsman under this title.
(Added Pub. L. 109–8, title II, § 232(a), Apr. 20, 2005, 119 Stat. 73; amended Pub. L. 111–16, § 2(3), May 7, 2009, 123 Stat. 1607.)
2009—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 111–16 substituted "7 days" for "5 days".
Effective Date of 2009 Amendment
Amendment by Pub. L. 111–16 effective Dec. 1, 2009, see section 7 of Pub. L. 111–16, set out as a note under section 109 of this title.
Effective Date
Section effective 180 days after Apr. 20, 2005, and not applicable with respect to cases commenced under this title before such effective date, except as otherwise provided, see section 1501 of Pub. L. 109–8, set out as an Effective Date of 2005 Amendment note under section 101 of this title.
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Ultrasound is a useful procedure for monitoring the baby?s development in the uterus. Ultrasound uses inaudible sound waves to produce a two-dimensional image of the baby while inside the mother?s uterus. The sound waves bounce off solid structures in the body and are transformed into an image on a monitor screen.
Solid structures, such as bones and muscles, reflect sound waves and appear as light gray or white. Soft or hollow areas, like the chambers of the heart, don?t reflect sound waves and appear dark or black.
An ultrasound can supply vital information about a mother?s pregnancy and her babys health. Even though there are no known risks for ultrasound at present, it is highly recommended that pregnant women consult their physician before undergoing this procedure.
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Thank you! Very helpful I'm actually writing something (in Swedish) and that's why I'm asking.
I just need to find out how to say it in Slavonic!
Do you live in Sweden?
The Syriac Orthodox do not have a synaxarium?
Quote from: Alpo on September 10, 2012, 05:20:36 AMDo you live in Sweden?Yup.
My dear brother,yes the title should be that, because indeed all the glorious saints of the Syrian Church are also Saints to the Ethiopian Church.The answer to your first question is yes they are indeed in the calendar( January 01) the three of them Saints Abba Samuel, Abba Simon and Abba Gabriel along with the history of how the monastery is founded. Mar Jacob of NisibisMor EphraimMor Jacob of sarug Mar IsaacMar Philoxenus of MabbugSaint John Saba/ the Spiritual elder or Aragawi menfesawi/The writings of the above three saints are collectively called the book of the monks/ metshafte manekosat/ in Ethiopia, beginners are advised to read Mar Philxenous, those who have reached the state of the solitary to read mar Isaac, those who have tasted sweetness, to read Aragawi menfesawi.Saint Abba Barsoma Father of the monks of SyriaSaint Abba Aaron the SyrianThe Martyr Saint Paul the SyrianSaint Abraham the Syrian the 62nd Archbishop of the City of AlexanderiaSaint Abba Daniel the SyrianSaint Ladimadiyos the Syrian.Great spiritual Elders are mentioned along with the telling of the stories of other saints, Monks renowned for their holiness such as Saints Abba Joseph the Syrian, and Abba Sisikos the Syrian.My dear suryoyutho, I hope this has been a little bit helpful. May the Prayers of the Saints of Syria be with all the people of Syria in this time of their need. May the Prayers of all the Saints be with us all. Amen.
Quote from: Suryoyutho on September 10, 2012, 05:46:49 AMQuote from: Alpo on September 10, 2012, 05:20:36 AMDo you live in Sweden?Yup.Nice. I didn't know we have Swedes with or without immigrant backround in here.
Lol, Sweden is the second homeland of the Suryoyo/Oromoyo/Chaldoyo/Whatever-else-they-want-to-call-themselves-oyo people.
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Changing Your MAC Address
First let me explain a few things about MAC addresses. MAC stands for Media Access Control and in a sense the MAC address is a computers true name on a LAN. An Ethernet MAC address is a six byte number, usually expressed as a twelve digit hexadecimal number (Example: 1AB4C234AB1F).
IPs are translated to MAC address by a protocol called ARP (Address Resolution Protocol). Lets say a computer with and IP of 192.168.1.1 wants to send information to another computer on the LAN that has an IP of 192.168.1.2 . First 192.168.1.1 will send out a broadcast to all stations on the LAN asking who has the IP 192.168.1.2. Then the box that has 192.168.1.2 will respond to 192.168.1.1 with its MAC address which is cached in 192.168.1.1s ARP table for later use.
You can see the ARP table of a box by dropping out to a command prompt and typing arp a in Windows or just arp in Linux. ARP can also work the other way by a host on the LAN sending its MAC address to another machine on the LAN for preemptive caching unless the host is configured to not accept un-requested ARP replies.
A person might want to change the MAC address of a NIC for one of many reasons:
1. To get past MAC address filtering on a router. Valid MAC addresses can be found by sniffing them and then the deviant user could assume the MAC of a valid host. This can cause some network stability problem.
2. Sniffing other connections on the network.
3. So as to keep their burned in MAC address out of IDS and security logs, thus keeping deviant behavior from being connected to their hardware.
4. To pull off a denial of service attack, for instance assuming the MAC of the gateway to a sub net might cause traffic problems.
To change your MAC address in Linux (and most *nix system) is easy as pie. All it takes is two easy to script commands:
These two little commands would set you eth0 interface to use the MAC 00:00:00:00:00:01. Just plug in the NIC you want to set and the MAC address you want to use into the commands above and your done. Changing your MAC address is one of those things that is much easier to do in Linux then under Windows.Code:ifconfig eth0 down hw ether 00:00:00:00:00:01 ifconfig eth0 up
Windows: The Hard Way
In XP you can use the regedit to edit the registry from a GUI or the reg command to edit it from the console, Ill be using regedit. Information on all your NICs can be found the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\ . Under this key you will find a bunch of sub keys labeled as 0000, 00001, 0002 and so forth. We can assume any MAC address we want by finding the key that controls the NIC we want to change, putting in a string value called NetworkAddress and setting it to the MAC address we want to use formatted as a twelve digit hex number (example: 000000000001). To find out which key is which we can search through them for the value DriverDesc until we find the one that matches the NIC we wish to alter. After you set NetworkAddress to the address you want just restart the NIC by disabling it then enabling it (or in the case of PCMCIA cards, just eject and reinsert). You can confirm the MAC address change by using the getmac or ipconfig /all commands.
Windows: The Easy Way
Use Smac ( http://www.klcconsulting.net/smac/ ) or Etherchange (http://ntsecurity.nu/toolbox/etherchange/ ). Smac has a nice GUI and was free but has since gone commercial. Since GUIs are for wimps and Im cheap I use Arne Vidstrom Etherchange. Etherchange is completely free and easy to use, just walk though the interactive dialog, restart your NIC and your done.


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This week on Sunday With Sarah, I answer a viewer's question, and share some ideas on how to encourage healthy eating and to discourage picky eating by children and toddlers.
In addition to the ideas discussed in the video, here are some other ideas:
Do not bribe children to eat!
Why? It doesn't work in the long run. Children will do what you ask only to get the reward. When the reward is no longer offered, they lose their motivation. We want healthy eating to become a habit.
Here's an article from the New York Times on why bribery isn't an effective way of modifying a child's behavior.
Never offer dessert as a reward.
This gives children the message that sweets are more desirable than more nutritious foods, and that more savory foods are only to be endured in order to get the dessert.
Serve healthy desserts.
Try offering desserts such as yogurt, fruit, baked goods with whole grains, or applesauce, and limit desserts to only a couple of evenings a week.
If your child dislikes vegetables, try serving more fruit.
If your child turns up his or her nose at certain vegetables, try offering a wider variety of fruits instead. Colorful fruits offer most of the same vitamins and nutrition as vegetables.
Try saying "Are you still hungry?" rather than "Are you full?."
If you are trying to encourage a picky eater to eat more, this can change a child's mindset. If s/he is still hungry, offer more of the food choices s/he likes.
Have you found effective ways to encourage a picky eater to eat more? Please share your successes and challenges here!


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New York on Friday became the 23rd state to pass a bill legalizing medical marijuana, and the governor is expected to sign it.
The legislation comes 18 years after the first medical marijuana bill was proposed in the state Assembly and after a week of push-and-pull between legislators and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo about the details of the program.
The bill had already cleared the Assembly and on Friday passed the Senate, 49-10, after two hours of debate.
"It's taken a lot of time, a lot of work, a lot of compromise, but we think it strikes the right balance," Cuomo said Thursday afternoon as he announced that he and lawmakers had reached an agreement on the...


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Leidos has won a $16 million contract with Boston Properties and Konterra Realty to provide information technology, security and facilities support for a multi-tenant secure facility that houses government agencies.
Boston Properties is a self-administered and self-managed real estate investment trust. Konterra Realty develops, builds, manages and leases exceptional commercial properties in the Washington, D.C. region, Leidos said in a release. The two formed a joint-venture to mange the propoerty.
Leidos didn't disclose the customers at the Annapolis Junction, Md., facility but the company sees it as an important win.
"This is a key win that strategically positions Leidos for future classified IT, security and facility support contracts in the national security sector," said Sam Gordy, Leidos group president, in a company statement.
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Staten Island, NY – The co-founders of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign, the nation's largest network of women hurt by abortion, said today that a new Arkansas abortion law is needed nationwide.
The newly adopted measure requires abortion businesses to post a sign stating that women cannot be forced to have an abortion they don't want.
"I can't tell you how many women I know who've been pressured into aborting by a boyfriend, husband, or parent," said Georgette Forney of the SNMAC. "This Arkansas statute is really just a gentle reminder to women that no one has the right to threaten or intimidate us into terminating our children. Everyone in every state should support this type of legislation. After all, how could someone who says he's pro-choice oppose a law that tells a woman she has a choice?"
SNMAC co-founder Janet Morana added that the law is needed because abortion clinics have a financial interest in women having abortions. "No abortionist is voluntarily going to post a sign telling women that they can't be forced into an abortion," said Ms. Morana. "He's doing abortions to make money and part of his livelihood depends on women who are being pressured into doing something they really don't want to do. For the abortionist, the bottom line is the bottom line. Anyone who thinks the abortion industry will do something that might reduce the number of abortions and, thus, its profit margin, is deluding himself."


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