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MIDDLEBURY — Porter Medical Center administrators and representatives of the nurses' union announced on Wednesday they had reached a tentative deal on a three-year contract for nurses.
Terms of what would be the first-ever contract for Porter nurses were not included in a brief press release issued by Porter spokesman Ron Hallman on Wednesday. More details will be available after the union members officially ratify the pact, according to Hallman.
Nurses union members are set to vote on ratification on Monday, Dec. 22.
MIDDLEBURY — An impartial federal mediator will help Porter Medical Center and the new nurses' union negotiate a first-ever contract.
This week's writer is Lincoln resident Mari Cordes, president of the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals. She has been a nurse for almost 27 years, most of that at Fletcher Allen Health Care. She was most recently the nurse educator for the FAHC Vascular Access Department, and co-led nationally award-winning efforts to reduce central line infections.
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MIDDLEBURY — Porter Medical Center nurses have officially unionized under the banner of the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals. That confirmation comes in light of the fact that union supporters and Porter administrators have resolved 16 challenged ballots that were cast in the vote held on Nov. 7.
"The hospital and the nurses have come to an agreement on the challenged votes," Registered Nurse Alice Leo, a union supporter and co-organizer, said on Monday.
MIDDLEBURY — The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) will be asked to hold a hearing to reconcile 16 challenged ballots that could determine whether Porter Medical Center's nurses form a union.
An impressive 146 of PMC's 150 nurses turned out on Thursday, Nov. 7, to cast ballots on whether to form a union under the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals.
MIDDLEBURY — Porter Medical Center's combined total of around 130 nurses could vote as soon as next month on whether to form a union.
"I am confident it has a good chance," Porter Hospital RN Alice Leo, one of the union organizers, said on Monday. "Nurses are feeling good about this, that it is the right thing to do."
Leo cited staffing concerns as the motivating factor behind the union drive. She said many nurses are concerned that some units are shorthanded.
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NASCAR's Modifieds Hit The High For The Very First Time
In 25 years of NASCAR Whelan Modified Tour competition, the series had never visited Bristol (TN) Motor Speedway until the landmark race in August 2009. Primarily a New England-based circuit, the Tour does have a rich history of venturing south. Virginia has held 44 all-time races, and the Tour has gone as far south as North Carolina on three occasions, but the UNOH Perfect Storm 150 was its inaugural visit to Bristol.
In a format first introduced at Martinsville (VA) Speedway in 2005, the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour was joined at the "World's Fastest Half-Mile" by the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour for a combination race. The two tours were to run for one checkered flag and one purse, but drivers claimed chase points for their respective championship standings.
Quick to adapt and always eager to master a new track, Teddy Christopher unofficially shattered Bristol's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series qualifying record while turning laps in a February 2009 test of the concrete high banks. It was just the kind of white-knuckle ride Christopher was hoping for.
"It's crazy. It's intense," said Christopher at the time. "I've never been anywhere you can drive without lifting." Despite speeds and adrenaline levels being higher than normal, Christopher didn't anticipate the race would be run completely wide-open. "We will have to have some give-and-take," Christopher said. "I think it's going to be a very technical race."
Come raceday, 40 ground-pounding, fire-breathing Open Wheel monsters showed up, with 27 hailing from the Whelen Modified Tour and 13 from the Southern Mod Tour. Starting positions 1-30 would be set through time trials, while the remaining six positions were to be filled through the provisional process, making up a 36-car starting field.
Of the three early practice sessions Christopher was the fastest in the first two with laps of 14.951 and 14.957 in excess of 128 mph. In the third and final practice session 2007 Mod Tour Champ Donny Lia moved up the ladder with a top lap of 14.924. However, getting qualifying in was another story, told by Mother Nature.
The rain arrived just as cars had hit the track and lasted just long enough to force NASCAR and track officials to cancel qualifying for the UNOH Perfect Storm 150.
The starting lineup was set in accordance to the rule book, which meant NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour points leader Ted Christopher would start on the pole. He was joined on the front row by NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour points leader George Brunnhoelzl III. Todd Szegedy and Andy Seuss made up the second row for the race, as Ryan Preece and Brian Loftin would be in the third row, followed by Donny Lia and Frank Fleming, and Rowan Pennink and L.W. Miller filling out the top five rows.
The rain would have sent four drivers home but track and NASCAR officials agreed to start all 40 entrants. NASCAR Sprint Cup Series regulars drivers Ryan Newman and Kasey Kahne who both had rides for the event started 38th and 39th, respectively.
The cars NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour cars, both divisions, are substantially different from their Sprint Cup counterparts or any other car for that matter. Today's cars are based on tubular chassis built by fabricators such as Troyer Engineering, Chassis Dynamics, Spafco, and Raceworks. Bodies are partial versions of passenger cars, largely fabricated from sheetmetal, with the front wheels and much of the front suspension exposed. A NASCAR Modified is 11 inches shorter in height and more than 23 inches wider than a Cup car. By rule, Tour-type Modifieds must weigh at least 2,610 pounds (with additional weight for engines 358 ci and larger) and have a wheelbase of 107 inches.
The cars are powered by small-block V-8 engines, usually of 355 to 368 cubic inches displacement, although both larger or smaller engines can be used. Engine components are largely similar to those used in the Sprint Cup Series, but the Mod Tour engines use a small four-barrel carburetor rated at 390 cubic feet per minute, about half the airflow of previous Modified carburetors, which limits their output to 550 to 650 horsepower. On large tracks the engines must have a resrictor plate between the carburetor and intake manifold, reducing engine power and car speed for safety reasons.
The tire brand of choice is Hoosier. These 14-inch-wide massive tires consist of a compound that sticks like glue to the racing surface. For the Bristol event, however, Hoosier developed a special tire with a little harder compound for the concrete surface.
To withstand the g-forces associated with Bristol's high banks NASCAR required the cars to run heavy-duty hubs and heavy-duty upper shock mounts.
SAFETY The modifieds have undergone a number of safety advancements over the years. The 1985 death of racing Champion Ritchie Evans at Martinsville Speedway, along with other fatalities led to questions about the cars' rigidity. As a result, the straight framerails were phased out, and a new chassis design was developed with a step in the rails which could bend in hard impacts rather than passing the force to the driver.
After a severed wheel caused a fatality at an Indy Racing League race, NASCAR, in July 1999, required the Modified Series teams (and eventually all NASCAR teams) to add steel cables as tethers linking each front spindle to the chassis, the steel cables were later replaced with marine rope which weighs less.
The death of Tom Baldwin Sr. in 2004 led to more safety modifications, with HANS devices (or equivalent) and left-side headrests becoming mandatory. For the 2008 season, rear bumpers have been shortened in response to the 2007 death of John Blewett III.
This season a metal plate was added onto the four door bars that run along the whole driver-side compartment. While the steering column is not collapsible, it does feature a scissor like drop down lever.
Many thought that these safety requirements would be put to the test on Bristol's super fast, unforgiving surface.
PRE-RACE DRIVER COMMENTS From Rookie to Veteran and from North to South, racers all seemed to have similar opinions as to how the race would go down.
Seventeen-year-old Erick Rudolph, who became the youngest winner on the NASCAR Whelen Modified tour in July 2009, came into the race with a lot of confidence. "The horsepower-to-weight ratio is really the biggest thing with these cars," stated the youngster. "The really big tires make these cars easy to move around."
The 2008 Featherlite Most Improved driver on the Whelen Modified Tour, Ron Silk, said, "This place is a thrill, it's faster than any other track we have raced on. This is going to be a lot of fun; hopefully we will put on a good show and get invited back."
With 69 career wins and nine total Championships, tying him with the late Ritchie Evans, Mike Stefanik was taking it all in stride during the three practice sessions.
"I have been here on three other occasions with the Nationwide cars and the trucks," said Stefanik. "I think there was a little misunderstanding between Hoosier and NASCAR, from what I understand [NASCAR] originally wanted a tire that would go the complete 150 laps, but they must have changed their mind and threw in a halfway break. We ended up with a really hard tire so the car was loose. We even had some small blisters on the right rear last night, but it was driving pretty well. Hopefully the track will rubber in, it usually does. It always gets easier on race day."
Southern series competitor Bobby Hutchins was quite intrigued with the Bristol concrete. "This is going to be quite a show," stated the accomplished NASCAR engineer. "With these new tires on the car it will be trial and error. However, we will get a scuff session for our tires. This is all new to me, in the South series we do not get scuff sessions, so we will see. The biggest thing is how the Camping World Trucks' tire rubber will affect our Hoosiers, it could make a difference."
Even 10-time NASCAR race winner Kasey Kahne weighed in, "It's going to get pretty wild. I will just have to watch what is going on and figure out how to get up in the field. This is definitely a little bit different, but it is a pretty fun car to drive, I mean I really enjoy it but I have no idea how things are going to go."
150 wild laps at Bristol What some looked at as being a possible crash fest turned out to be a great, fast-paced event right down to the checkered flag. With edge-of-the-seat speeds, these rockets on wheels thundered through 150 white-knuckle laps, with a halfway break, in just over one hour and three minutes. Only four caution flags would fly on this event including one from laps 131-137 for light rain. It was just the kind of clean competitive race you love to see.
At the drop of the green flag, Ted Christopher took off from the pole in his Al-Lee Installations Chevrolet and led the entire first half of the race. He got to the halfway break with Todd Szegedy and the UNOH/Wisk/Snuggle Ford right on his back bumper.
During the break virtually every car took on four tires and fuel as well as other assorted adjustments. When the green dropped for the money half of the race Christopher once again shot out to the point from the double-file restart. And again Szegedy was right there in second.
A caution flew on lap 88 that set a chain of events in motion. This time on the restart Szegedy stayed right with Christopher running the top groove. The pair ran side by side for a handful of laps until Szegedy gave up the charge and dropped back in line. While those two where battling it out, Donny Lia in his Mystic Missile Dodge was gaining ground from the seventh starting position.
Shortly after Szegedy gave up the charge for the point, Lia moved in and dusted him off setting his sights on his old adversary Christopher. At lap 108 Lia mounted a charge and took the front spot away from TC for the next 31 laps, including the rain slowed caution laps. After the rain delay, Lia suffered a slight setback when he jumped the restart and was ordered by NASCAR officials to give the position back to the red No. 36 of Christopher.
That didn't stop Lia though. Just three laps after a clean restart, he blasted past Christopher and opened up a big lead, winning the race by 3.126 seconds.
After leading 110 laps of the event Christopher was relegated to Second followed by Ryan Preece in Third, top Southern Whelen Modified finisher George Brunnhoelzl III was Fourth, and Woody Pitkat rounded out the Top 5.
Szegedy faded to Sixth followed by Rowan Pennink, Ed Flemke Jr., and Burt Myers. Youngster Erick Rudolph rounded out the Top 10 after starting in the 21st spot. The race speed averaged just over 75 mph. Lia led 40 laps on his way to the big win and his share of the posted $91,575 purse.
"It was pretty intense, just an awesome race with Teddy there, we had such a good race car," said the race winner. "I just couldn't believe how good we were. They said I jumped the restart there, I guess I might have so I let him back by. Fortunately, I was able to get back by him."
Pre-race tire worries turned out to be a non-factor in the outcome of the race. "The tires where awesome," said Lia. "Hats off to Hoosier, we did not beat any tires up, and times did not fall off that much."
Bringing the Tour-type Modifieds to Bristol continues a tradition of showcasing race cars not normally seen on the half-mile eastern Tennessee track. Bristol management says it's all about giving the fans something extra and Lia couldn't agree more.
"This was a great race for the fans to watch, coming here for the first time, to Bristol," said the Long Island, New York, native. "Winning any race is special, but this one-Bristol-is a bonus."
The successful running of the UNOH Perfect Storm 150 along with other events like Frank Kimmel's Street Stock Nationals cements Bristol's standing as one of the most innovative and forward-thinking NASCAR tracks in the country.
A Little Nascar Modified History
The NASCAR Modified division was formed as part of NASCAR's creation in December 1947. NASCAR held a Modified race as its first sanctioned event on February 15, 1948, on the beach course at Daytona Beach. Red Bryon won the event and 11 more races that year. He would go on to win the first NASCAR Modified Championship that same year. The Strictly Stock division, which evolved into today's Sprint Cup Series, did not race until 1949.
The modern-day NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour began in 1985 with 29 races, and was named the NASCAR Winston Modified Tour. It switched sponsorship in 1994, and was renamed the NASCAR Featherlite Modified Series. Two major changes to the tour came in 2005. Whelen Engineering took over sponsorship of the series, and NASCAR introduced a new Modified division in the Southeastern United States known as the Whelen Southern Modified Tour. That same year the two tours ran a combination race at Martinsville Speedway.
Lengendary Modified racer Ritchie Evans really put the division on the NASCAR fan map. The holder of a record nine NASCAR Modified championships, Evans won his last championship in 1985, the first year of the Winston Modified Tour. Driving cars built and maintained in his own shop, Evans won 12 of his 28 starts on the Tour, including five consecutive victories in July and August.
In October, the season ended in tragedy when Evans was killed in a practice accident in preparation for the final race of the season, the Winn-Dixie 500 at Martinsville. He had already clinched the title.


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Fox News: Opening the door for the town of Fremont to begin enforcing its law and offering implications for other cities with similar ordinances, a federal appeals panel on Friday upheld an eastern Nebraska city's ban on renting to people who aren't in the U.S. legally.
Fremont voters handily approved a measure in 2010 that bans hiring or renting to people who can't prove they are in the country legally.
Last year, U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp ruled that parts of the ordinance denying housing permits to those not in the country legally were discriminatory and interfere with federal law. But the city has been enforcing its requirement that businesses use federal E-verify software to check on potential employees.
On Friday, two judges of a three-member panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected that reasoning, leading the majority to reverse the ruling and vacate the lower court's injunction against that part of the ordinance. Judge James Loken wrote that the plaintiffs failed to show the law was intended to discriminate against Latinos or that it intrudes on federal law.
Lawyers for the plaintiffs said they will confer with their clients before determining whether to ask the full 8th Circuit to review to the case.
The ruling appears counter to decisions in other courts on similar local laws, said Aaron Siebert-Llera, an attorney with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund who represented several U.S.-born Latino home renters and a Fremont landlord who challenged the ordinance.
Siebert-Llera noted that two other federal appeals courts ruled against the communities of Farmers Branch, Texas and Hazelton, Pa., which have similar laws targeting landlords and employers to dissuade them from renting to or hiring people in the country illegally. Both cities have appeals pending before the full federal circuit courts.
"You've got the U.S. Senate passing sweeping immigration reform. You've got this huge, nationwide change going on," he said. "Then you have a decision like this coming out."
The American Civil Liberties Union, which also sued over Fremont's ordinance, bashed the 8th Circuit opinion. "The court majority failed to recognize that Fremont's attempt to exclude
undocumented illegal immigrants from the city's borders is not only un-American, it's unconstitutional," said Jennifer Chang Newell, an attorney for the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project.
Eighth Circuit Judge Steven Colloton agreed with the reversal and vacating of the injunction, but said the plaintiffs lacked standing in the case, meaning they did not show how they had been or could be harmed by Fremont's law.
Siebert-Llera took issue with that opinion, noting that one of the plaintiffs showed she was forced to buy a mobile home, because she could not find anyone who would rent to in Fremont.
In a dissent, Judge Myron Bright agreed with the lower court that parts of the ordinance interfere with federal law.
"The ordinance will impose a distinct burden on
undocumented persons illegal immigrants by preventing them from renting housing in Fremont," Bright wrote. "This denial of rental housing is paramount to removal from the city. And, as the Supreme Court has made clear, removal is entrusted exclusively to the federal government."
Kris Kobach, a Kansas attorney who represented Fremont and helped draft its ordinance and others around the country, lauded Friday's opinion and said it will have implications for both Farmers Branch and Hazelton as appeals courts look at their ordinances.
"And I think it has indirect implications for cities all across the country, and certainly cities in Nebraska, that may wish to take similar steps to stop the negative effects of illegal immigration," Kobach said.
Kobach said as soon as next week, the city will begin enforcing the part that requires all renters in the city to apply for an occupancy permit and denies those permits to people not legally in the country.
The ordinance stirred a whirlwind of controversy in June 2010, when roughly 57 percent of Fremont voters who turned up at the polls supported it. The measure catapulted the city into the national spotlight and spurred comparisons with Arizona and other cities embroiled in the debate over (illegal) immigration regulations.
Fremont, about 35 miles northwest of Omaha, has seen its Hispanic population surge in the past two decades, largely due to the jobs available at two meatpacking plants just outside the city. Census data show the number of Hispanics soared from 165 in 1990 to 3,149 in 2010.
It's unknown how many immigrants not legally in the country may live in Fremont. According to census figures, 1,259 noncitizens live there, but that figure includes people living in the U.S. legally.
Fremont city officials declined to comment Friday, saying they wanted time to review the ruling.


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Muscle Mustangs & Fast FordsNews & Views
2015 Ford Mustang from "Need for Speed" Headed to Auction
Ford Mustang Hero Car From Upcoming "Need for Speed" Movie Headed to Barrett-Jackson Auction Block
Movie cars have always been a big with Mustang and Ford enthusiasts and now the Ford-designed and built custom wide-body Mustang used in the new movie Need for Speed will be auctioned for charity. In addition, the all-new 2015 Ford Mustang and 2015 Ford F-150 will be on display at the Barrett-Jackson auction in West Palm Beach, Florida on April 12th.
More than just an auction, Ford will offer ride-and-drives at the auction in vehicles from its 2014 lineup; Shelby GT500, Focus ST and Fiesta ST.
Building on the excitement of the movie, premiering March 14, this Mustang will be offered at no reserve, with proceeds benefiting the Henry Ford Health System, a not-for-profit group founded by Henry Ford to "improve the health and well-being of a diverse community."
Need for Speed is the latest of more than 3,200 film and television appearances for Mustang over the past 50 years. The Mustang being auctioned is one of a handful developed purely for the movie to appear on the silver screen and at promotional stops. The movie car boasts a custom-designed wide-body rolling on unique Forgiato 22-inch alloy wheels. Other design elements include an enlarged lower grille with new air intakes, extended rocker panels, a twin-snorkel hood and low-profile mirrors. The visual sizzle is amplified by custom silver paint with Kona Blue racing stripes and angel-eye fog lamps in the grille.
"Mustang was cast in a leading role of the movie with screen time equal to many of the actors," said Steve Ling, North America car marketing manager for Ford. "Director Scott Waugh challenged our team to give this central character enough personality and American masculinity to take on some of the world's most exotic cars, just like in the popular Electronic Arts video game that inspired the movie. "The new owner of this particular Mustang will take home a rare vehicle, and their bid will increase access to critical health care services."
According to Black, the Henry Ford Health System was founded in 1915 and is one of the nation's leading comprehensive, integrated health systems. It provides health insurance and health-care delivery, including acute-, specialty-, primary- and preventive-care services, backed by excellence in research and education. Additional information is available at http://www.henryford.com.
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Furthermore, Need for Speed is one of the most successful racing video game franchises in the world, with more than 140 million games sold since the original edition debuted 20 years ago. The Dreamworks Studios film stars Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad), Dominic Cooper (Captain America), Imogen Poots (Fright Night) and Michael Keaton (Batman), and is directed by Waugh (Act of Valor).
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Honda Racing is back for another season in the Endurance World Championship, replacing the OEM's lineup of "TT Legends" is a group of French endurance specialists — tipping Honda's hand to make a serious bid for the Championship title.
Gearing up for the EWC's first round this weekend, the Bol d'Or at Magny-Course, Julien Da Costa, Freddy Foray, and Sebastien Gimbert will be riding the 2014 Honda CBR1000RR SP.
The trio have a bevy of EWC experience under their belts, and HRC seems to finally have its logistics and team sorted out for EWC duty. Endurance fans, expect to see strong results from Honda this year.


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In this issue:
OECD estimates economic impact of shutting down Internet and mobile phone services in Egypt
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The current shutdown of Internet and communications services in Egypt will have a pronounced economic impact. It is estimated to have incurred direct costs of at minimum USD 90 million in lost revenues due to blocked telecommunications and Internet services. However, this amount does not include the secondary economic impacts which resulted from a loss of business in other sectors affected by the shutdown of communication services e.g. e-commerce, tourism and call centres.
The OECD (ICCP/WPIE) was engaged in a country review of Egypt's ICT policies when news broke about the Internet shutdown in Egypt. For more information, see
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OECD-NSF Workshop "Building a Smarter Health and Wellness Future", to be held in Washington, 15-16 February 2011
This invitation-only workshop to be held in Washington, DC will review how new high-speed and mobile applications, connected devices, social networks, and related cutting-edge smart technological developments can provide unique and unprecedented opportunities for developing an environment and services that can help address the health and wellness challenges of our ageing society, stimulating collaboration and innovation on a global scale.
Workshop on Consumer Protection in Online and Mobile Payments, Paris, OECD 15 April 2011
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Level Meeting on "The Internet Economy: Generating
Innovation and Growth" in Paris, OECD on 28-29 June 2011
The ICCP Committee will be holding a High Level Meeting on "The Internet Economy: Generating Innovation and Growth" in Paris on 28-29 June 2011. The aim of the meeting is to reach a consensus on how best to ensure the continued growth and innovation of the Internet economy. The agenda includes sessions on: broadband access; the role of broadband in innovation , economic growth and social development; balancing policy goals to strengthen growth; and policy making principles for an open Internet. Website to be launched shortly at: www.oecd.org/internet/innovation.
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Disseminator of Personal Data (II) Aggregation, Analytics, Identity and
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Incidence of Symptomatic Hyperlactatemia With FTC
July 14, 2003
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Mitochondrial toxicity has been shown to be associated with the development of SH. Studies previously performed have suggested that FTC was less likely to produce mitochondrial toxicity than other NRTIs. This was based on in vitro studies involving the effect of FTC on human polymerase gamma. Human polymerase gamma is the enzyme responsible for mitochondrial DNA synthesis; FTC has been shown to have a lower rate of incorporation into polymerase gamma, which indicates a lower risk for mitochondrial toxicity and SH.
For this study, the FTC research database was searched for adverse effects, including elevated lactate levels and investigator reports of lactic acidosis and lactatemia. This database included 13 long-term studies of FTC for both HIV and hepatitis B virus treatment.
There were 2,227 patients identified with 3,013 total person-years of exposure. In this data set there were 22 cases of SH identified for a total case rate of 7.3 cases per 1,000 person years (7.3/1,000 PY). Notably, all of these cases of SH occurred in patients who had received d4T (stavudine, Zerit) together with FTC. Another important observation was the absence of SH reports when patients were on FTC monotherapy and when FTC was a component of dual-NRTI therapy with AZT (zidovudine, Retrovir) or didanosine (ddI, Videx). These data were consistent with a number of other studies that have implicated d4T as the major culprit in NRTI-associated SH.
One other issue presented in this poster was a comparison of the SH rates with regimens containing 3TC versus regimens containing FTC. Cross-study comparisons are not always reliable, but may highlight areas of interest for prospective studies. With that said, there was a lower rate of SH in otherwise similar regimens that contained FTC (7.6/1000 PY) compared to 3TC (16.9/1,000 PY).
The take-home message from this study was that FTC both represents a new NRTI for HIV combination therapy and has a low rate of SH. The rate of SH is certainly lower than d4T and possibly lower than 3TC.
FTC has just been approved by the FDA and is now available for clinical use. Since it is produced by the same company that makes tenofovir (TDF, Viread), we will likely see FTC used in combination with tenofovir in the future and will have the opportunity to follow rates of SH in a much larger population of patients.
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Crimes Against Dada
Oliver Watts
detail, 'Barres Trial - Barres Mannequin', 2008
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The 'blank' force of Dada was very salutary. It told you "don't forget you are not quite as blank as you think you are!" Duchamp
In 1921 the Dadaists held a mock trial slash cabaret performance. They used the court to fictitiously pass judgement on a writer who they thought had become too conservative and a traitor to their cause, Maurice Barrès. Barrès himself did not turn up but was represented in effigio by a shop mannequin. Breton served as presiding judge, and in a very un-Dadaist manoeuvre took the trial incredibly seriously. On the other side, Picabia absented himself and Tristan Tzara refused to be called to the Bar as an advocate or judge on the grounds that "I have no confidence in justice, even if this justice is made by Dada." He only took part as an aggressive Dadaist witness who finished his testimony with a Dada song, embodying the spirit of revolt. Watts' show and animation relate to this testimony.
The difference in perspective between the two parties can be seen in David Fincher's movie Fight Club. At its end the schizoid Tyler Durden/Narrator character blows up the skyline as the culmination of his Project Mayhem. Why were the buildings blown up? The answer is ambiguous, and reflects the unresolved battle in the film (and Chuck Palahniuk's book) between the anarchist Tyler, who would blow them up for the sheer joy of destruction, and the idealist Narrator, who would destroy them as a means of overthrow capitalism in favour of a morally superior alternative. In the film especially, it is left up to the audience to decide which character they side with most, the nothingness of random destruction or the beautiful vision of redemptive violence. The destructive nihilism of Dada similarly had two sides. Some, like Tzara and Picabia, were nihilists. Breton and the others would end up as communists and surrealists. The two faction came to a head in 1921.
For Tzara, the accused and the accusers were "a bunch of bastards... greater or lesser bastards is of no importance." This anomic attitude, the questioning of what lies outside the law which also forms the basis of Kafka's The Trial, is a pressing question to ask. And it resonates in our age of terrors and kingly presidents. For Tzara it was only in carnival, play and poetry that a place could be found from which you could critique the law and society. Tzara believed only in himself, in an anarchic individualism with no connection to social prohibitions. Watts has emulated this playful spirit to question the limit of the law with work that is part legal treatise and, part South Park. And Trey Parker and Matt Stone's cartoon, of course, also alternates between criticizing the world as it is and rejoicing in sheer anarchic destruction.
The Dada trial ended in the dissolution of the Dada movement because Breton refused to endorse such a complete disavowal of the social conscience. The trial of Barrès reminds us of with what difficulty we define ideas such as freedom and individualism, and the tension between the demands of the law and individual liberty.
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Harding Stops All 19 Shots, Wild Beat Devils 4-0
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Josh Harding stopped 19 shots for his second shutout of the season and the Minnesota Wild beat the New Jersey Devils 4-0 Sunday night.
Mikael Granlund, Torrey Mitchell, Dany Heatley and Jason Pominville scored for the Wild, who have won five of six. Nino Niederreiter had three assists.
Cory Schneider, back after missing three games with a sore groin, finished with 16 saves for New Jersey. The Devils were blanked for the second straight night and fourth time in 14 games.
Looking to forget about Saturday's 1-0 home loss to Philadelphia when it managed just 14 shots, New Jersey dominated early with six shots on goal in the opening 5 minutes. However, the Devils went nearly 8 minutes before their next shot, including two power-play opportunities.
The Devils began the night ranked 25th in scoring at 2.00 goals per game, and rarely tested Harding, who came in leading the league in goals-against average (1.22) and save percentage (.946).
The early missed chances proved costly as Granlund gave Minnesota a 1-0 lead at 13:20 of the first period.
Pominville's shot from the left circle was saved by Schneider, and a bad-angle rebound attempt by Niederreiter trickled out to the slot where Granlund was alone for his first goal of the year to go along with a team-leading 10 assists.
Mitchell's first goal of the season put Minnesota up 2-0 at 7:35 of the second.
Schneider got a piece of Zach Parise's shot from below the right circle, but the puck fluttered to the crease where four players were crashing the net and Mitchell deflected the puck across the line.
Parise, who had 194 goals and 410 points with the Devils, signed a 13-year, $98 million contract with the Wild on July 4, 2012, and was playing against his former team for the first time. The teams did not meet last year because of the NHL lockout-shortened schedule.
Heatley scored his first non-empty-net goal of the season early in the third, redirecting Keith Ballard's shot behind Schneider. Pominville added an empty-netter with 2:25 to play, his sixth goal in the past four games.
New Jersey defenseman Jon Merrill left his first NHL game after sliding hard into the boards in the first period.
Merrill was skating into the corner to the right of Schneider when he was tripped up by Mitchell. He went into the boards face-first, and it looked as if he sustained at least one cut on his face.
With blood on the ice, Merrill looked wobbly as he was helped to the locker room. The team said he had lacerations on his face and would not return.
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VINE AGE: 16 Years
ELEVATION: 270m
SOIL PROFILE: Red Brown Earth or Stoney Clay
The Holy Grail Shiraz vineyard is found in the sub-region of Seppeltsfield, in the Barossa Valley.
The first part of this site was purchased in 2008 and included 52 acres of vacant land. The vision was to wait until resources permitted and plant this ares of land as specifically as possible. Just before the 2015 vintage a further 37 acres of land were purchased, which included 16 acres of established shiraz vines. This vineyard produced 27 tonnes in its first vintage, with fruit going into My Hands, Ares, Single Vineyard and a few barrels to Bella's Garden. Development of the unplanted site began in April 2016, with planting to commence in the spring.
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Two Hands Wines have become a beacon for artisan, single vineyard Shiraz in Barossa Valley as well as other premier regions in South Australia. Winning admiration from leading critics around the globe such as Robert Parker, James Halliday and Jancis Robinson demonstrates that the wines are far from one-dimensional in their outstanding balance, structure and elegance. Further testament of this came in 2012 when the estate was named in Wine Spectator's Top 100 for the 10th consecutive year.
Both from negociant fruit in McLaren Vale, The Lily's Garden and Bella's Garden Shiraz are single vineyards expression of Shiraz combining ripe black fruit wrapped in chocolate and smoky richness. Lily's Garden is widely regarded as the more approachable of the two when young with Bella's Garden having the staying power of a premium red Rhone, avoiding the often jammy character found in other examples from the region.
Taking things a notch higher is the Zippy's Block 99% Shiraz from a prime Barossa single vineyard boasting immense power and intensity. The 2005 vintage was awarded an outstanding 99 points from critic Jay Miller with an estimated drinking window of 20-25 years. Also part of the estate holdings but managed separately is the Branson Coach House that was purchased in 2001. Here the deep clay soils aid the ripening of mostly Shiraz fruit grown in rare single vineyard sites. The Shiraz has rich fruit with spicy notes on the finish in a hedonistic yet controlled delivery.
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Mary Shelley scholar Nora Crook sends us this report on last Friday's Blue-Plaque ceremony in London. (See post for Sept. 29 below.)
The unveiling of a Blue Plaque on 24 Chester Square, Mary Shelley's London home from 1846-1851, took place on Friday 3 October 2003 at 12 noon. About fifty people were present on a typical London autumn day, overcast but mild. Loyd Grossman spoke for English Heritage, which puts up Blue Plaques marking the residences of celebrated London-dwellers. (There are now nearly 800 such plaques, literary figures being well represented. Another be-plaqued house in Chester Square belonged to Matthew Arnold. ) Number 24, overlooking the leafy private square, is a handsome, stuccoed Grade II listed building in one of the most desirable residential districts of London. [cont'd]
Loyd Grossman was followed by the actor Gayle Hunnicutt, who read beautifully from Mary Shelley's letter of 1846 saying why she bought the lease (as a base to further the political career of her unmarried son, Percy Florence), what she hoped from it (a congenial set of acquaintances) and voicing what she feared (that it might prove too large). The house would have been convenient for getting to the Houses of Parliament. Before the nearby Victoria Station was built in the 1860s it was also reasonably handy for getting to London Bridge and thus by train to the Shelley mansion, Field Place, and to the South Coast.
Miranda Seymour, Mary Shelley's latest biographer, made a short, graceful speech, pointing out that while 24 Chester St was where Mary Shelley died of a painful brain tumour in 1851, it was also where she had first received her future daughter-in-law, Jane St John, who made her extremely happy during her last years. Tribute was paid to the late Beatrice Hanss, who in 1977 had a private marble plaque put up rather than nothing at all, a previous attempt to place a blue plaque having failed, owing to a refusal by the then owner to permit the words "Author of Frankenstein." (This plaque, we understand, has been preserved and is now in the hands of the present owner.) At last, however, Mary Shelley was being given this much overdue public recognition as the author of her most famous work. The Blue Plaque (still behind scaffolding, which will be removed) was then unveiled by Miranda Seymour to cheers.
See the unveiling here (photos courtesy Keith Crook):
Among others present were Lady Abinger, widow of the late Lord Abinger, Dr Bruce Barker-Benfield (representing the Bodleian Library), Angus Graham-Campbell and Harriet Cullen (representing the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association), Peter Cochran, Keith Crook and myself, Maurice Hindle, Richard Holmes, Zachary Leader, William St Clair and Rose Tremaine. Many more well-wishers would have been present too, had they been able get away from work and up to London. The event was well publicized in the broadsheets, the TLS and local papers. After the ceremony, William St Clair invited as many as could squeeze into his flat in Eaton Square, just round the corner, for champagne and sandwiches. There we were shown some choice items from his Mary Shelley collection and met Michael Foot, grand old man of Byronism and admirer of Frankenstein. It was an enjoyable ending to a most satisfying occasion.
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Next, pull off wisps of top and lay them in a row. In this example, I wanted the striping to make short color repeats, so I pulled off a very narrow bit of the top. If you want longer repeats, just pull off wider bits of top. You're the boss.
This one has angelina and black alpaca added.
Here is a photo which better shows the "two knitting needles" thing -
Whatever you've rolled up in there will draft out when you spin. Use as heavy or as light a hand with the "extras" as you'd like. Only experimentation will tell if your blend is actually draftable.
Here are some wacky tests - I had lots of fun with these.
Wool and already-spun yarns and string. The grey yarn in the middle was already knitted, so it's all ziggy zaggy. Of course, this would be lost the instant that the finished yarn got wet, but still, it was fun to play with.
I like to lay a very thin layer of wool on top of the "odd stuff" - it makes it a little bit easier to roll up.
Picked Mohair...
I didn't take the photo, but I laid wool on top of the mohair, then rolled. The yarn ended up sort of boucley
Wool, Cottswold locks..
Another fine layer of wool laid on top of the locks...
This one was fun. As I recall, it was tricky to midwife the locks through the plying stage, but they drafted out of the P-Rolag just fine. My notes tell me to remember to fluff out the butt end of the locks first, so now you know, too.
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BARTENDERS, listen up.
This year's Global Peter F Heering Sling Award is ramping up. The contest starts April 22, and here are the details…
First, start with the Singapore Sling. You know the one: gin, Cherry Heering, lemon juice, a hint of sugar, and a splash of soda. Doctor it up, and make your own interpretation of it. The drink must include Cherry Heering – no homemade syrups or other infusions are allowed.
Name the drink and take its picture. For a gold star, include the Heering bottle in the picture.
Starting April 22, you'll be able to enter the drink at Heering.com, or on the company's Facebook page. Registration ends May 25. One winner per country will be announced in early June. The quarter-finals will take place on Facebook, where the public will vote for their favorites. Then a jury will select 15 semi-finalists, who will receive a tablet computer.
The semi-finals will take place in London in mid-August. Five finalists will then move on to Berlin in early October. All finalists will receive a trip to Berlin for the finals. The winner gets 500 euros, a fancy cocktail shaker, and the adulation of the masses.


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'Insanely good' AVB persuades Holtby to accept Spurs
Tottenham's latest recruit, Lewis Holtby, says he snubbed interest from Arsenal in order to play under the "insanely good" Andre Villas-Boas.
Holtby, 22, has signed a deal reportedly worth £67,000 per week and is set to join Spurs in the summer upon the expiry of his current contract.
Arsene Wenger had approached the Schalke midfielder last year, but Holtby declared the decision to instead move to White Hart Lane next season was a simple one to make.
"[Tottenham] are not a small club and have an insanely good manager," Holtby explained.
"I simply had to take the offer from Tottenham. New things don't scare me, they excite me. In my opinion Tottenham is a big club in Europe.
"Tottenham have belonged to the top five in England since many years and they only missed out on the Champions League because Chelsea won the cup last year.
"Without Tottenham's offer I would have signed at Schalke. I can only repeat that [club chief] Horst Heldt made a very good offer.
"I believe that I have a good relation to the fans, because I have always been authentic and honest. Now they can decide on their own how to react."
Holtby may yet complete his switch in January, with Schalke confirming they are willing to negotiate an early release for the player.


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The Hi-Tone is a few weeks away from coming back. At the end of March, owner Jonathan Kiersky signed a lease for new space in the Crosstown neighborhood that will resurrect the recently shuttered music venue into a facility that's essentially two connected spaces.
Jonathan Kiersky works on the back bar for the new Hi-Tone, which is moving to 414 N. Cleveland St. The new club will feature two separate stages and a lounge area, and is expected to open in May.
(Photo: Lance Murphey)
The new club is set to reopen in early May at 412-414 N. Cleveland St. The Hi-Tone now will include a smaller performance space, a second space that's comparable to the size of the original Hi-Tone, plus a lounge in front of 412 N. Cleveland St.
Altogether, the new venue measures about 4,500 square feet. The old Hi-Tone had, according to Kiersky, lots of nooks and crannies that took away from its overall size, which was about 4,200 square feet.
Kiersky, who has been the owner for six years, rattled off a list of improvements brought on by the relocation. He said the new Hi-Tone will have about five times the amount of air conditioning as the old venue, about four times the amount of restroom facilities and 350 parking spaces.
The club closed because its lease was up, and Kiersky decided not to renew. Among the reasons he cited were issues with the building.
Disappointment among many local music fans – especially those who took to social media – was palpable. The Hi-Tone had a community of music fans around it, just like other shuttered local venues like the Antenna and the Map Room did in their day.
Kiersky's idea at first had been to simply put on shows elsewhere in town after the announcement of the closure a few months ago and after the final concert in February that signaled the end of the music at the venerable nightclub.
"Then I came to Crosstown," said Kiersky, as he was flecked with dust from construction amid the sounds of renovation that buzzed and banged around him. "I didn't realize at first how great of a community had sprung up around here.
"I was shown these buildings and right away knew it would be a perfect fit. I was really impressed. I'm looking forward to this being part of a community around us that doesn't have to get in a car to get here. Stuff like that matters."
–Jonathan Kiersky Owner, Hi-Tone
The smaller of the two connected spaces will have a capacity of up to about 100. The bigger room likely will host the majority of bands that come through.
Kiersky has brought on some help from Goner Records to assist him in co-booking the spaces. The Devil Makes Three is scheduled to play the Hi-Tone in early May, which Kiersky said likely will serve as a kind of opening bash for the new venue.
The club's new home is a neighborhood that's seeing a groundswell of activity, driven by the adaptive reuse of the 1.5 million-square-foot, circa-1927 Sears Crosstown building. Leased space already has been committed to tenants including the Church Health Center, ALSAC/St. Jude – the fundraising arm of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital – and Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare.
The project is about more than rehabbing a building, though. It's part of a $175 million effort that will turn the building into a hive of activity involving the arts, education and more, which in turn is intended to serve as a catalyst to spur a revitalization of the rest of the Crosstown neighborhood.
That possibility is what Kiersky said he saw after visiting the area, and it's what led him to reach a deal.
"The Hi-Tone was always one of my favorite venues," Kiersky said, referring to the time before he got the chance to own it. "And, as the reaction (to the closing) showed, there's a decent-sized segment of people who are into the kinds of stuff that we do. We're also on national touring routes, so it's important for the Memphis music scene.
"After the closing, we thought at first we'd just throw shows. We didn't think we'd ever get another venue. But thankfully it's worked out."
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Mary Pat Myss never has to paint her Chaska, Minn., home, mow the lawn or shovel her driveway. That's because her ranch house is in Pioneer Point, a subdivision of single-family homes maintained by a homeowners association.
"It's one of the best-kept secrets," said Myss. "It's amazing that more people don't know about it."
Before moving to Chaska, Myss and her children lived in a big house in Wayzata, Minn., with an equally big yard that she was fine with tending — until she wasn't.
"What put me over the edge was coming home from work in the winter after a snowfall and I couldn't get up the driveway," she said.
At Pioneer Point, she still has her own entrance, her own yard and her own deck, but none of the work to care for them. Her $220 monthly association fee covers lawn care, snowplowing, exterior repairs, maintaining the common grounds and even blacktopping the driveway.
"When I'm home, I'm sitting on my deck barbecuing and playing with my grandchildren rather than dealing with maintenance issues," she said.
This type of housing — called manor homes, villas, cottage homes or detached town houses — is tailored to people who want the privacy of a traditional single-family home with the convenience of a condo. And although it accounts for only a tiny slice of the real estate pie, builders and developers are cautiously optimistic that this hybrid style of house will grow in popularity, partly because it's designed for a growing population: retiring baby boomers.
"Many of my buyers are people who just want to lock the door and leave to go to the lake or to a second home in the winter," said builder Forrest Harstad, whose 69-lot development, the Fields of St. Michael, offers homes ranging from $200,000 to $400,000.
In the past, Harstad has built twin homes and town houses, but he said customers were looking for "homes that don't share a common wall but everything was taken care of."
K. Hovnanian Homes, a national builder based in New Jersey, is aiming at the 55-plus crowd with its Four Seasons at Rush Creek in Maple Grove, Minn. Homes range from $260,000 to $400,000. Owners pay $260 a month for the tennis courts, clubhouse, pool and fitness center, as well as lawn care. According to John Nelson, Minnesota division director of marketing, many of the buyers are snowbirds.
"We've done more than 100 of this type of housing developments across the country," said Nelson. "But it's more common in the Southern market and East Coast, where there are more retirees."
Empty nesters and retirees aren't the only ones attracted to the low-maintenance housing. Some builders have discovered that busy young professionals and families with young children are interested, too.
"We started with (ranches) for empty nesters, but now we're doing two-stories for families with young kids who like that kind of atmosphere," said Tom Budzynski, owner of TJB Homes, whose St. Andrews Village in Blaine, Minn., offers a community pool and a park. About half of the 60 homes, which start at $300,000, have been sold.
Budzynski said the "no snow, no mow" amenity is giving his development a competitive edge in a tough housing market. "We have a model in a nearby development that's not association-maintained," he said. "We're getting a lot more action at St. Andrews."
The upscale Crosby Cove, a collection of $2 million-plus mansions on a channel leading to Lake Minnetonka, has attracted a mix of young families and seniors, said Jennifer Cramer-Miller, vice president of L. Cramer Builders, who also owns a home there.
"There's so many inherent benefits, such as noise reduction, and it also unifies the neighborhood because they maintain it together," she said.
In most developments, the homeowners association hires a management company to take care of services or contracts the work out themselves. One of the perks is that all the mowing, trimming and weed-whacking is done on the same day, leaving the rest of the week quiet. Monthly fees range from $95 for basic mowing and snowplowing to $260 depending on the range of services and neighborhood amenities such as community pools, docks and parks.
But not everyone wants to live in a managed subdivision. Associations have guidelines and often reserve the right to approve landscaping, exterior modifications, even paint colors. Some don't allow fences or swing sets, and gardens are scrutinized in case they impede mowing.
Myss has no issues with the restrictions. "I do have to get permission to do anything," she said. "I can't paint my house purple, but I view that as an advantage. And everyone's lawn looks fantastic."
Mark Gergen, president of Miles Development in Bloomington, Minn., said his company recognizes some buyers might feel that associations pose too many restrictions. At their 28-lot project Rosewood of Northfield, residents can put in a garden or put up a fence if they wish.
"Our goal was to create the best of both worlds — bigger lots than a town house that allow for a three-car garage," he said. "Owners get lawn care and snow removal, but they don't have anyone telling them they can't put a tomato in a pot."
Despite the growing interest in association-maintained single-family homes, builders are proceeding with caution.
"We'll watch how the market develops," said Bjorn Freudenthal, vice president of sales and marketing for College City Design-Build. "Right now we're focusing on selling the homes in Liberty Park," a 22-home maintained development in Northfield, Minn.
And Pulte Homes, which built Myss' home in Chaska, is targeting a different group of buyers. The company is offering 177 home sites in five new Twin Cities projects this summer. None is association-maintained.
"We're getting back to fundamentals," said Marv McDaris, Pulte division president. "We feel location, schools and communities are driving the housing demand. Our clients have said they'd rather use their purchasing power to buy a good location and nicer home features versus having their lawn maintained."
But for Jim and Holly McGill, who own a ranch house in the Fields of St. Michael, their monthly fee of $95 is money well spent. "We enjoy sitting on the deck every Tuesday and watching someone else cut the grass," said Jim. "When we run up North during the winter and come home, we know we can drive right in the garage," he said. "It feels really good."


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Senate Years of Service: 1816-1819
Party: Federalist
HANSON, Alexander Contee, (grandson of John Hanson), a Representative and a Senator from Maryland; born in Annapolis, Md., February 27, 1786; attended local private schools and graduated from St. Johns College, Annapolis, in 1802; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Annapolis, Md.; member, State house of delegates 1811-1815; established and edited the Federal Republican, an extreme Federalist newspaper, in Baltimore, and on June 22, 1812, four days after war was declared, a mob, irritated by his articles denouncing the administration, destroyed the office; when he issued the paper from another building in late July, he was seriously injured by a mob; moved the paper to Georgetown, D.C., where he published it unmolested; moved to Rockville, Md.; elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses and served from March 4, 1813, until his resignation in 1816; unsuccessful candidate in 1816 for election to the State house of delegates; elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Robert G. Harper and served from December 20, 1816, until his death on his estate, Belmont, near Elkridge, Howard County, Md., April 23, 1819; interment in the family burial ground.


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Chris Mooney | August 25, 2011
By Chris Mooney • Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 07:31
In May of 2005, a few months before Hurricane Katrina, I wrote an article that nobody noticed. It was entitled "Thinking Big About Hurricanes: It's Time to Get Serious About Saving New Orleans." In it, I talked about how devastating a strong hurricane landfall could be to my home city:
In the event of a slow-moving Category 4 or Category 5 hurricane (with winds up to or exceeding 155 miles per hour), it's possible that only those crow's nests [of lakefront houses] would remain above the water level. Such a storm, plowing over the lake, could generate a 20-foot surge that would easily overwhelm the levees of New Orleans, which only protect against a hybrid Category 2 or Category 3 storm (with winds up to about 110 miles per hour and a storm surge up to 12 feet). Soon the geographical "bowl" of the Crescent City would fill up with the waters of the lake, leaving those unable to evacuate with little option but to cluster on rooftops—terrain they would have to share with hungry rats, fire ants, nutria, snakes, and perhaps alligators. The water itself would become a festering stew of sewage, gasoline, refinery chemicals, and debris.
Afterwards, the article was passed around furiously and I was hailed for having some sort of deep insight. I didn't: The danger was staggeringly obvious and I was only channeling what many experts at the time knew.
With all eyes now focused on Hurricane Irene, which threatens a series of U.S. east coast landfalls, it is time to think seriously once again about worst case scenarios—and also, about how global warming could amplify them. And no, I am not saying that Irene threatens to bring about a worst case, that global warming caused Irene, or taking any other silly reductionist position.
Rather, I'm saying that Irene focuses our attention on our serious vulnerability, and we need to seize that moment–because too often our default position is to act like nothing bad is going to happen.
There are several places in the United States, besides New Orleans, where a strong hurricane landfall could be absolutely devastating. These include the Florida Keys, the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area, Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg, and Houston/Galveston. But they also include some east coast locations, and chief among these is New York/Long Island.
This last is currently within the forecast cone for Irene. That's not saying that the storm portends anything like a worst-case scenario for New York City—it seems likely to be pretty weak by then, forecast tracks often change, etc—but it still could be bad if it goes directly at Manhattan. Simply put, there is a lot of wealth and personal property along that path.
The precise impact of any storm depends upon innumerable factors that cannot be known in advance. This include the storm's size, speed, angle of approach, and much else. So I am not forecasting anything about Irene–I'm just saying it's time to look at worst cases in general.
What's the worst case for New York City, as the world warms and sea levels rise? Here's what I wrote in my 2007 book Storm World:
Even as we act immediately to curtail short term vulnerability, every exposed coastal city needs a risk assessment that takes global warming scenarios into account….Scientists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York have been studying that city's vulnerability to hurricane impacts in a changing world, and calculated that with 1.5 feet of sea level rise, a worst-case-scenario Category 3 hurricane could submerge "the Rockaways, Coney Island, much of southern Brooklyn and Queens, portions of Long Island City, Astoria, Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, lower Manhattan, and eastern Staten Island from Great Kills Harbor north to the Verrazano Bridge." (Pause and think about that for a second.)
We live in a presentist country that rarely pays attention to long term risks or worst case scenarios, until it is too late. That's what happened to poor New Orleans—and it's only a matter of time until it happens somewhere else. When it comes to hurricane disasters in particular, rising sea levels make the risk steadily worse over time, whether or not hurricanes themselves get much stronger.
So what are our major coastal cities doing to protect themselves? That's the question we should all be asking right now.
Sandy Rosenthal replied on Permalink
Levees breaking
Actually, no one had a reason to predict that the levees could fail. Even the most dire warnings to residents to evacuate in the face of Katrina did not suggest that the levees might break.
"…while many of those who remained behind had little choice in the matter, many others reasoned that they could ride out the hurricane in their own homes. It is another easily overlooked fact that those people were, for the most part, quite right in their calculations. No one ever ever asked them to evacuate on the grounds that the levees and flood walls were about to fail, and those who concluded that they could withstand the storm were essentially correct in their thinking. Unfortunately, they were struck low by events that had not been foretold in even the most desperate of warnings"
Freudenburg et al, "Catastrophe in the Making" (Island Press, 2009) 19-20.
GingerLadySlipper replied on Permalink
Irene is being compared to the 1938 New England hurricane. It went far inland with substantial power. Many trees in my grandfathers" forest fell. They lived north of the White Mountains. the town of Peterborough flooded and then burned to the water line (stoves fueled with wood fires were common then). Millions of board feet of timber were stored in Long Pond and gradually retrieved and sawed up. The scope and scale of the devastation was enormous.
Irene appears to contain a lot of water and is very large. The potential for widespread disruption and damage on the East Coast is strong. Think of Hurricane Agnes.
My check list:
1. Learn to text on my cell phone.
2. Assemble battery-operated light, check it works.
3. Buy canned meat and vegetaables that can be eaten raw.
4. Figure out what to do without the internet.
anonymous replied on Permalink
"Irene is being compared to
"Irene is being compared to the 1938 New England hurricane."
How is this possible? I thought Global Warming was to blame for these things called hurricanes that have obviously NOT been happening since the beginning of time as we previously thought.
Sandy Rosenthal replied on Permalink
Unprecedented Weather
As noted by Gaye Tuchman, distinguished sociologist and author of Wannabe U, "one should always look behind language that would seem to attribute calamity to unpreventable weather. This vocabulary," she warned, "denied human agency. It minimized the individuals and institutions whose actions could often be found hiding behind all the talk of water and wind."
recyclenot replied on Permalink
Not only does such language
Not only does such language they deny "human agency" behind climate catastrophes, it completely ignores the real cause of hurricanes: Witchcraft!
Or Cthulu.
If only there were some… "natural" explanation for falling and rising temperatures.
Such a hypothetical source of warming would have to be massive, however. On the order of magnitude of our own Sun.
Naaaah, definitely witches.
RickJames replied on Permalink
...or the universe may be a
…or the universe may be a figment of your imagination - no wait my imagination.
Tony O'Brien replied on Permalink
If you live in a low lying
If you live in a low lying area be ready to evacuate and evacuate early. While this storm is not unprecedented, it is an unusual event and will catch people unprepared.
Preparation for this and future events would lessen their impact. Denying reality simple leaves people exposed and makes for greater tragedy.
It is unlikely to be seventy years until the next, change the building codes now.
Just think of it.
So, it looks like much extra fresh(ish) water will be joining that sea water already affecting the footings of the new construction at NY Ground-Zero because of rising sea levels.
Indeed - be prepared to take action.
For those who don't know it here is a blog worth paying attention to:
Irene's eyewall collapses; further intensification unlikely
But for those with short attention spans - read beyond the headline.
However, since Irene is such a huge storm–tropical storm force winds extend out up to 290 miles from the center–it has set a massive amount of the ocean's surface in motion, which will cause a much larger storm surge than the winds would suggest. At 9:30am EDT this morning, a wind analysis from NOAA/HRD (Figure 1) indicated that the potential storm surge damage from Irene rated a 5.1 on a scale of 0 to 6. This is equivalent to the storm surge a typical Category 4 hurricane would have. While this damage potential should gradually decline as Irene moves northwards and weakens, we can still expect a storm surge one full Saffir-Simpson Category higher than Irene's winds. Since tides are at their highest levels of the month this weekend due to the new moon, storm surge flooding will be at a maximum during the high tidal cycles that will occur at 8 pm Saturday night and 8 am Sunday morning. At those times, Irene is expected to be near the NC/VA border, then close to Long Island, NY, respectively. Thus, storm surge damage rivaling that experienced during Hurricane Isabel in 2003 is likely in northern NC, southern Maryland, and up Chesapeake Bay on Saturday night.
Irene likely to bring destructive fresh water flooding
In addition to storm surge, flash flooding and river flooding from Irene's torrential rains are the main threats. The hurricane is expected to bring rains in excess of 8" to a 100-mile-wide swath from Eastern North Carolina northwards along the coast, through New York City. The danger of fresh water flooding is greatest in northern New Jersey, Southeast Pennsylvania, and Southeast New York, where the soils are saturated from heavy August rains that were among the heaviest on record. <–endquote–>
Bern replied on Permalink
Weather is not climate, but climate is weather?
That is really quite appropriate, when one thinks about all the "what global warming?" statements that went around during the snowstorms early in the year.
And its quite right, of course. Weather is not climate.
However, climate can, and does, affect weather. Surely that concept is easy enough to understand?
Hurricanes in New York are currently very rare beasts indeed.
Should global warming give New York a climate more like South Carolina or Florida, things might be a little different. After all, hurricanes are driven by warm sea surface temperatures (or SST).
Lets ask an expert - "the trend in tropical SST cannot be explained by natural internal variability and/or volcanic eruptions or solar variability, and the observed trend is consistent with model simulations associated with forcing from greenhouse gases".
From J. A. Curry, P. J. Webster, AND G. J. Holland (2006) Mixing politics and science in testing the hypothesis that greenhouse warming is causing a global increase in hurricane intensity Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc. Aug 2006, 1025-1037.
Yes, *that* J. Curry…
Bern - you made a most pertinent statement
'However, climate can, and does, affect weather. Surely that concept is easy enough to understand?'
Indeed or as attributed in comment 19 at:
'The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Deke Arndt puts it more colorfully: "Weather throws the punches, but climate trains the boxer," he says.'
I repeat:
"Weather throws the punches, but climate trains the boxer,"
Irene brings back memories of
Irene brings back memories of Yasi here in Australia with the armchair experts criticizing the New York Mayor for telling them to evacuate.
Here in Australia we had a couple of false alarms in QLD before cyclone Yasi arrived on the scene. The mayor of Brisbane QLD asked residents in low lying flood prone areas to evacuate.
The floods never eventuated that time & the residents were furious.
"Why did you tell us to evacuate when nothing happened? You idiot!"
Then cyclone Yasi a cat 5 cyclone hit not long afterwards & again the mayor said evacuate. Many chose to ignore the warnings & lost everything including their lives. Most were given 2-3 days warning that the waters coming towards Brisbane city would be massive. Many chose to ignore the warnings.
After the massive damage & lives lost people were asking why there wasn't sufficient warnings?! There was 3 DAYS warning ! Likewise, with Irene, Chris Mooney posted this post on the 25th, with predicted trajectory. It's now 3 days later, the 28th, when it finally hit New York & lives are lost.
Climate change , Irene & Yasi share a common problem. Even when people are warned repeatedly, they CHOOSE to dismiss the warnings.
moongophers replied on Permalink
So what are you saying? What
So what are you saying? What does Katrina and Irene have to do with climate change? There are powerful hurricanes every year, always have been. Katrina was a catastrophy because it happened to make a direct strike in the exact "perfect" area of New Orleans and the systme never was strong enough for a hurricane of that force.
Irene just happened to skim it's way up the east coast affecting the highest concentration of our population.
Both hurricane scenarios happened before and will happen again. The only thing we can change is our preparedness. So, you are right about that
RickJames replied on Permalink
Katrina and Irene are the
Katrina and Irene are the offspring of human ghg pollution. Primarily the meat industry. Those chickens are coming home to roost!!!!!
Isn't it about time desmog went after the meat barons?
"Katrina and Irene are the
"Katrina and Irene are the offspring of human ghg pollution. Primarily the meat industry. "
Primarily the meat industry?
Mate, where do you get your facts & figures? From a Dr Seuss book? The meat industry is a contributor, but it's way down on the list of suspects. We attack the biggest offenders first, not the smallest. Sheeesh.
RickJames replied on Permalink
My main point is that there
My main point is that there is a serious disconnect here. Environmental concerns are always directed at big oil and big coal. Ultimately the western consumer is big oil and big coal and well… Big meat too.
The basic argument is that change needs to come from the individual and when it does corporations will follow along.
The point is it's all your fault so do something about it … Or not - your choice.
moongophers replied on Permalink
I didn't do anything about
I didn't do anything about it, but my forefathers did. They moved off of the Virginia coast (due to the common storms AND abundant farmland)eventually to Ohio in the mid 1800s. No hurricanes here, but plenty of tasty animals and methane.
I summise that your conclusion about colonial hurricanes was too much tobacco, madera wine, slave labor.. I give?
Rick, if you have cancer & an
Rick, if you have cancer & an ingrown toenail, you don't prioritize the toe.
Yes, the toe should,'t be ignored, but there cancer needs to be priority 1.
"The point is it's all your fault so do something about it … Or not - your choice."
It's not as simple as that Rick, hence why websites like this are here & why you are trying to defend fossil fuels. It's one thing to change your dietary habits, it' another thing to have your beliefs on a scientific matter directed by fossil propaganda & lobbying, as well as the myriad of website that are out there to defend the conservative narrative of USA, Can & Oz because they are funded by fossil fuel companies.
People are tricked all the time. We see & hear it everyday on the net alone. Similarly, fossil fuel lobbyists & their backers try to sway votes by tricking the public into not trusting the science & scientists that they have come to trust over hundreds of years.
Smoking? It's good for you. Here are 26,000 physicians that can testify to the fact. This doctors & scientists favourite smoke is camel…. etc etc. Even when it's so obviously bad. People can be tricked into disbelieving the scientists.
anonymous replied on Permalink
Remember, folks: WEATHER IS
Remember, folks: WEATHER IS NOT CLIMATE!
(… except when they can use it to prop up their failed narrative.)
[d'Smogblog: Still censoring comments, still blocking IP addresses. What are they trying to hide?]
joshlautner replied on Permalink
Many have been greatly
Many have been greatly affected by hurricane Irene. Homes, establishments,properties and even lives have been lost. I have heard that one of businesses affected is car sales. Automotive News reports that regardless of the projections of some experts, August auto sales dropped. The explanations for this were primarily two-fold, according to experts: dropping consumer confidence and the disturbance brought on by Hurricane Irene along the East Coast. Article resource: August auto sales fall below expectations, post-Irene. Whether natural or manmade, extreme events often tell us something important about human beings, revealing their priorities and reflecting their character. This is also the perfect time to share what you have and help other people.


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He is the author of Telephone Calls from the Dead, contributor/editor to Conversations with Ghosts (by Dr Alex Tanous), and the co-editor of Paracoustics (with Steve Parsons) - soon to be released. He has produced over two dozen published articles and papers in parapsychology and holds a host of research awards including the Eileen J. Garrett Scholarship (Parapsychology Foundation, USA) and the Alex Tanous Scholarship Award (Alex Tanous Foundation for Scientific Research, USA). He frequently guest lectures in parapsychology throughout the UK and USA, as well as contributing to radio and TV as a representative for parapsychology.
His is a member of organizations such as the Society for Psychical Research (and on the Survival Research Committee), the Parapsychological Association (Student Member) and the Centre for the Study of Anomalous Psychological Processes (CSAPP, University of Northampton).
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Zenskas created a topic in Hard Drive and Removable Media
January 3, 2009
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 Troubles
EDIT: Wooah, so this thread got a lot of attention over the years! Hopefully it was a good starting point for those that figured out how to fix the issues. To this day I have not bought another Seagate drive, not really due to this issue but I generally find WD and Samsung drives are slightly better value and I have not had one die on me yet which is a start! Well guys I know MSFN will not take this thread down like Seagate so kindly did on their own forums so here goes. This thread was created by a user on the Seagate forums and the first post read like this: Good day. I've been using Seagate hard drives for 8 years.And that's why when, being in Beijing (Olympycs'08) and feeling a lack of space for photos, i've purchased a ST3500320AS. It was working ok as a reserve-hdd for 2.5 months, when, suddenly, did not appear in the morning after the PC started... The problem is: -the motor is started (the power is ok) -not detected by bios -not detected by winxp -after winxp boot from an other drive - the PC is very slow for 5-7 minutes (maybe detecting the drive) - and then works fine - the hdd is not detected by any win' programm Searching the internet i've found that: -it should be (probably) the firmware problem called "CC" (SA-problem - LED:000000CC FAddr:0024A051) -about 20-30% of 7200.11 have such problems(not detecting or "0gb space":smileywink: -seagate knows about this problem -such drives are still selling all-around-the-world So' i have some questions: 1)can it be fixed at home (by myself) - wia firmware update or something else 2)can i restore some data 3)as the drive was purchased in China and i live in Belarus - can i hope for some kind of warranty? ps Sorry for posting this message in the forum - i cant create a question case at seagate's site - it writes that there is a "missed xml" or smth like this. END So the URL for this thread is here: http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/messag...;thread.id=3283 A member called Fatlip was making extremely good progress on the problem and had almost solved it when it was shut down. Hardly anyone on the thread had yet heard back from Seagate about the problem including myself. So I would like this thread to continue on from the other one as here we won't have moderators editing and deleting posts. Read the Seagate thread in full (yes I know its 19 pages) and you will get what I mean. Hopefully someone here can get help somehow for the large amount of people affected by this terrible firmware problem.
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