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If you're expecting to have to use long-term-care services for yourself or a loved one anytime soon, here's a bit of good news: Three types of services that could help you stay at home, and postpone moving into an assisted-living facility or nursing home, cost the same this year as last year, according to a survey of long-term-care costs released today by Genworth Financial Inc., Richmond, Va., one of the country's largest long-term-care insurers. Genworth has conducted a nationwide survey of such costs since 2004.
In-home services are important to understand, since families often pay for them out of pocket to postpone moving a loved one into institutional care. And even if you're lucky enough to have long-term-care insurance that helps pay for home care, you can often make it stretch over a longer time period by shopping around for more affordable care.
Genworth grouped in-home services into three categories: Homemaker services, such as cooking and errand-running, for which the national median rate is $18 an hour; home-health-aide services, which is hands-on personal care including bathing and dressing, with a national median rate of $19 an hour; and adult day health care, which provides social and support services in a community-based setting, at a national median rate of $60 a day.
The financial picture is grimmer for institutional care. The national median monthly rate for a one-bedroom assisted-living unit is $3,261 – a 2.4% increase from last year. Such facilities typically provide hands-on personal care and medical care for those who cannot live by themselves but do not require the constant care provided by a nursing home. The national median daily rate for a semi-private (in other words, shared) room in a nursing home that provides skilled nursing care 24 hours a day is $193, a 5.7% increase from last year. And a private room costs $213 a day, up 5.1% from 2010.
It's important to keep in mind that these costs range widely from place to place, even in different cities in the same state. Genworth has a map online of the costs by state and metro area at www.genworth.com/costofcare that can help you compare costs in various places – a particularly helpful feature for families trying to decide whether to move a loved one who needs extra care.
Matthew Sharpe, a Genworth senior vice president and long-term-care product manager, suggests using the financial data it has collected to negotiate care costs. "People don't think twice about asking for a deal when checking into an apartment rental," he says. "You should feel the same way when researching an assisted-living facility or a nursing home."
Knowing the range of prices for various long-term-care services in a specific place "is a great way of empowering people," he adds.
Here are some bargaining tips from Genworth that we found interesting:
- Assisted-living facilities often charge a one-time move-in fee. But if facilities have high vacancies, they may discount or waive the fee. They may also let you choose a more expensive room at a lower price.
- Home care agencies may lower their hourly rate for services that are easy to staff and long-term, such as a weekday schedule expected to last several months.
- A home-care agency with rates at the high end of the local range may lower them if it learns that you're interviewing several agencies and cost is a factor you're taking into consideration. Let it know if you've gotten a lower quote elsewhere.
- Agencies usually charge extra for weekend work. But if you also use significant weekday hours, you may be able to get that fee waived.
- Nursing homes generally don't discount rates, which are influenced by why Medicare and Medicaid pay. But you may be able to negotiate for extra amenities, or a private-room upgrade, if paying out-of-pocket or with long-term-care insurance.
Have you or your family tried any of these tactics? Did they work? And how does the "median" rate for long-term care stack up against what you're paying?

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cast7326 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 52 designs submitted by 15 freelance designers.
Salsa Dance Gear
I am an avid salsa dancer. I travel all over the country to take classes, workshops and attend socials where thousands are in attendance and ALL of us love salsa and think about it night and day. My company is Salsa Dance Gear, an e-commerce store for salsa dancers to purchase shoes, t-shirts, dvds, and accessories.
This logo should portray a few things. It should be elegant and at the same time have some street, hip hop type influence.
Elegant - This is what a lot of salsa dancers view the 'scene' as. Ballroom dancing, nice dresses, classy attire, etc. This is the traditional view of salsa. Here is a youtube video with more formal dancing - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u65A…re=related
Hip hop/street - There are also many dancers (like myself) that view the 'scene' as more informal, street, just having fun, casual time. Wearing converse old school sneakers and jeans. Here is a youtube video with these more informal dancers - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3AV_GIDADA
The logo needs to contain the words "Salsa Dance Gear". You can decide whether it needs to be capitalized, the font stylized, whether it needs different colours or any additional small graphics (people dancing, etc), but keep it relatively simple. The logo needs to look good when placed on the web site and it will also be used in printed materials, online documentation, banners, envelopes and letterheads.
We prefer the colour scheme to contain at least red (but it doesn't have to be limited to that).
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Charles E. Ragus founded AdvoCare in 1993. He chose the name AdvoCare to communicate his commitment to be an advocate who cared.
"AdvoCare is about leadership..
AdvoCare is about who you
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things in life that you want."
Charles E. Ragus developed 10 principles that guide our direction and are the basis of our success:
From left to right: Debbie, Peggy, Jenni and Stacey Ragus
At AdvoCare, We Build Champions. As Chairman and CEO, Brian Connolly brings an intensity and passion for empowering entrepreneurs and business innovation to an already highly successful company.
The Independent Distributors at AdvoCare are some of the best in the industry. Charles E. Ragus knew through hard work, dedication, mutual loyalty and respect, AdvoCare would be best-in-class. Through Brian's hands-on leadership style and dedication to AdvoCare and its people, he will protect Charles' legacy and continue to guide future generations of Champions. Brian brings more than 30 years of experience at Avon Products, Inc., as well as Board seats on the Avon Foundation for Women and the Direct Selling Association. He is committed to high-quality products and customer service, transparency and doing things the right way. The son of Irish immigrants with seven siblings, Brian's favorite motto is, "Do the right thing when no one is looking," a tenet he picked up from his parents and continues to pass on to his three sons.
In 1993, Charles E. Ragus founded AdvoCare, a health and wellness company, with the commitment to be an advocate who cared. Today, AdvoCare has taken that commitment to the next level by establishing the AdvoCare Foundation. The foundation focuses on the life-destroying epidemic of childhood obesity in an effort to help fulfill its larger mission – to help all children be happy, healthy and safe.
The AdvoCare Foundation is attacking obesity by supporting organizations across the country whose work directly impacts the safety and health of children in need. With the help and generosity of the AdvoCare Foundation founders, our supporters and our communities, we've been able to make a huge impact in only a few years, and this is only the beginning. Our initial goal is to grant $1 million dollars by 2020 to support long-term solution to help the next generation survive and thrive.
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Worker hurt dismantling ride at North Carolina State Fair
RALEIGH, N.C. – A worker dismantling a ride at the North Carolina State Fair has been hurt.
Agriculture Department spokesman Brian Long says the man was injured when a piece of a ride called The Vortex fell on him around 3:30 a.m. Monday. The ride is not the same version of The Vortex where five people were hurt last week.
The fair ended Sunday night.
Officials say the 35-year-old man suffered a leg injury. His name hasn't been released and there was no word on his condition. He was taken to WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh.
Long said the Wake County Sheriff's Office is investigating the incident.
A ride operator on the other version of The Vortex is scheduled to be in court Monday to face criminal charges after last week's injuries.


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Home » Our Services » Clinical Services » Cardiac Catheterization
Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center has officially opened its new Cardiac Catheterization Lab to advance our work in providing the finest heart care available in our area! Now, local residents have access to life-saving diagnostic procedures using the most advanced equipment and technology – right here in our community.
The new Cardiac Catheterization Lab features the most advanced diagnostic equipment available and highly-skilled physicians and staff to perform the latest in diagnosing heart disease, utilizing the state-of-the-art Siemens Artis Zee camera and 55-inch screen for viewing images. In addition to Cardiology, the new lab also serves to diagnose and treat vascular issues in the legs, carotid arteries, abdominal aneurysms, with balloons or stents, or other technology. Interventional Radiology procedures will also be performed in the lab as well.
For more information, please contact Michele Impreveduto, MPA, RN-BC, Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Lab, at (201) 854-5142.
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Amidst the wide array of services provided at Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center devoted to fostering unparalleled cardiovascular disease prevention, there is none more essential than our Cardiac Catheterization Unit. Simply put, we have the finest clinical teams and the best state-of-the-art equipment available to both diagnose and intervene. When it comes to the health of the heart and providing cardiovascular care, Palisades Medical Center is one of the elite hospitals in all of New Jersey.
Cardiac catheterization (heart cath) is the insertion of a catheter into a chamber or vessel of the heart. This is done for both investigational and interventional purposes.
An experienced and dedicated team will provide you with the highest quality care available. Your medical team includes proven, board certified invasive Cardiologist, and highly skilled invasive cardiology registered nurses, cardiovascular technologists and monitor technicians.
Every professional staff member of the department is certified in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and all nurses are certified Advanced Cardiac Life Support.
Palisades Medical Center offers an unparallel array of services in cardiovascular disease prevention, diagnosis, medical and surgical treatment, complementary medicine and follow up care. As a patient, you will have access to the latest resources in diagnostic imaging, conservative and innovative treatment options, progressive cardiovascular medicine and hands on care. This is because of our partnership with the New York Presbyterian Hospital and the physicians on faculty at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
The office of your referring cardiologist or physician will schedule your cardiac catheterization procedure. They will inform you of the date and time of your scheduled procedure and will also arrange your pre-admission testing.
Also, ask your physician about any prescription medication considerations and whether you should stop or continue taking those medications prior to your procedure.
It is particularly important for patients on blood thinners to be advised by their physicians on precautions to take prior to the procedure. In addition, you will have been sedated during your procedure. As a result, you must have someone with you to drive you home. However, you should pack a small bag of overnight essentials in the event you do stay overnight. Most patients who undergo a routine angiography will be able to go home the same day after spending some time in the cardiac recovery unit.
A small area of the groin or arm is shaved and cleansed where the catheter will be inserted. Patients are given a mild sedative to help them relax but will remain awake during the procedure to allow them to answer questions regarding their comfort level, any chest pain or shortness of breath. Medication will then be used to anesthetize (numb) the area so a small incision can be made where the catheter will be inserted.
Your procedure is nonsurgical and is performed under X-ray guidance where a long, thin, flexible tube called a catheter is inserted through a small incision made by the physician in the artery (blood vessel) in the thigh up into the heart. Occasionally, an artery in the arm is used.
Once the catheter is in place, a colorless dye is injected through the catheter, and X-ray pictures are taken of the heart and coronary arteries with special imaging equipment. The special imaging equipment allows the specialist to view certain functions of your heart and arteries, diagnose and recommend the appropriate treatment.
The test takes approximately 45 minutes to one hour to perform, and because patients are awake, they'll be able to view the procedure on the monitor (if they want to) while it takes place.
Details and results of the cardiac catheterization procedure will be explained to you in the recovery room. Information will also be provided on the type of cardiac catheterization which was performed.
During recovery, A bandaid or pressure dressing will be placed over the area where the catheter was inserted. You will lay down flat with your head elevated slightly for approximately 6 to 8 hours.
If the insertion site was your groin, you will be asked to not move your leg in order to prevent bleeding. A sandbag may also be placed at the insertion site to apply pressure and prevent internal bleeding. During your 6 to 8 hour recovery time, a nurse will observe you and monitor you heart rate, blood pressure and pulse near the insertion site, and check frequently for signs of bleeding. Try to avoid coughing or sneezing. However, if you can't avoid it, apply pressure at the insertion site when you cough or sneeze.
Most patients are discharged in 8 hours with minimal activity restrictions. It is very important that you drink plenty of fluids during recovery and upon discharge to flush the dye out of your body.
You should immediately inform your nurse if you feel weak or dizzy; are short of breathing; begin bleeding; or experience any discomfort or pain at the insertion site or in the chest, neck, jaw or upper back.
Bruising to the area where the catheter was inserted may occur but is only temporary. Some patients experience nausea and vomiting or an allergic reaction. More serious complications are rare and include damage to blood vessels, blood clots, abnormal heart rhythms, heart attack or stroke.
The Cardiac Catheterization Lab at Palisades Medical Center utilizes the latest, most technologically advanced diagnostic equipment for our patients cardiac catheterization procedures. The Series IV Physiomonitoring and Information System is the premier system for DICOM cine and gio imaging allowing your cardio team to effectively collect extensive and accurate data at your point-of-care.
The Series IV's digital front-end system takes advantage of the latest Digital Signal Processing Technology to tailor image quality and acquisition parameters to best meet our patients clinical needs, and provide the best diagnostic analysis and solutions available.
Most importantly for you, the technology offered to our patients in our cardiac catheterization lab keeps pace with the limitless evolution of cardiovascular medicine.
Data that is rendered in the coronary tree or peripheral diagram during the catheterization procedure is instantly captured and automatically registered into a hyper-linked database. This graphical representation and data becomes a permanent part of the patient's historical record and will always be available for future review, analysis and integration into relevant medical reports.
A coronary angiography is a diagnostic tool during which a cardiac dye is injected through a catheter into the heart. An image of the coronary arteries is then displayed on a monitoring order to reveal any narrowing or blockages.
Physicians providing care may or may not be employees of Palisades Medical Center. — they may be independent contractors. Always ask physicians to identify themselves and whether they are employed by the hospital.
Palisades Medical Center
7600 River Road, North Bergen, NJ, 07047 | (201) 854-5000
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These strings are the best Argentine alternative I've come across. I do find them a tad bit stiffer but that's to be expected with any hex core string. What I really like about these strings is the very strong fundamental they produce. Argies have more overtones ringing out which you may or may not like. If you have a very wet, ringy guitar then the Bosset strings may be the antidote as they tend to suppress excessive overtone ringing. Also, they seem to produce somewhat thicker mids for a more "meaty" sound. Nice strings!
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California Department of Transportation
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August 29, 2008
STANISLAUS COUNTY - The Department of Transportation (Caltrans) hosted the State Route 219/Kiernan Avenue Widening Project's groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, August 29, 2008.
Speakers included: Will Kempton, Director, Caltrans; Kome Ajise, Caltrans District 10 Director; Kirk Lindsey, Commissioner, California Transportation Commission; Vince Harris, Executive Director, Stanislaus Council of Governments; Mayor Jim Ridenour, City of Modesto; Lisa Mantarro, Representative, United States Congressman Dennis Cardoza's Office; Wendy Rodman, Representative, State Senator Dave Cogdill's Office; and Bob Phelan, District Director State Assembly Member Tom Berryhill's Office.
"This Proposition 1B funded project will improve safety, decrease congestion, and keep California's economy moving," said Governor Schwarzenegger.
The $49.5 million project, made possible with funding from Prop 1B, will widen 2.5 miles of State Route 219 from a two-lane conventional highway to a four-lane expressway from State Route 99 to just west of Dale Road and provide a west-east corridor for eastern Stanislaus County residents.
"This is an important project to the City of Modesto and Stanislaus County," said Caltrans Director Will Kempton, "because it will relieve current and future traffic congestion and support the movement of goods and people along State Route 219 to access State Route 99 the life line of the central valley."


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Andy Geiger knows all about the benefits of leaving the Atlantic Coast Conference for the Big Ten.
In the spring of 1994, Geiger resigned as the athletic director in College Park to take the same job at Ohio State, going from a program that was in financial distress to one that seemed to be printing money.
As much as Ohio State's riches that helped fully fund 36 varsity sports at the time had to do with the passion of its fans, it also had to do with the support it received from the Big Ten.
"The Big Ten is wired with the ability to change programs and grow things," said Geiger, who earlier this year came out retirement to become the athletic director at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
For that reason, Geiger believes that Maryland ending what will next year be an a 60-year association with the ACC should be embraced by Terps fans.
"It's very good for Maryland and it's very good for the Big Ten," Geiger said. "Maryland will be afforded the kind of revenue stream it doesn't have in the ACC. The Big Ten will now be in the Baltimore-Washington market with tens of thousands of its graduates."
Geiger said moving to the Big Ten, particularly for football, is going to be challenging, not only for Maryland's teams, but also for a fan base whose interest is typically directed to the pro teams on either side of College Park.
When it comes to filling Byrd Stadium when the Terps join the Big Ten in 2014, Geiger said that should not be a problem. But it will be interesting to see who is sitting in the seats.
"The Big Ten is probably the best travelling league in the country," Geiger said. "It's going to be a wakeup call for Maryland. If Maryland fans don't buy the seats at Byrd, somebody else will be sitting in them."
Geiger said Big Ten basketball should not be overlooked either, and that it doesn't pale in comparison to the ACC in terms of its fan support.
"The Big Ten has bigger buildings with stronger fan bases," Geiger said.
Looking ahead, Geiger said that "Maryland will be challenged, but it's a challenge they need."


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Hewlett-Packard on Dell: Good Luck!
Hewlett Packard doesn't sound like it's envious of Dell Inc. and its $24.4 billion deal to go private.
"Dell has a very tough road ahead," Hewlett-Packard said in a statement. "The company faces an extended period of uncertainty and transition that will not be good for its customers. And with a significant debt load, Dell's ability to invest in new products and services will be extremely limited.
"Leveraged buyouts tend to leave existing customers and innovation at the curb. We believe Dell's customers will now be eager to explore alternatives, and H-P plans to take full advantage of that opportunity," H-P concluded.


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You guys are joking about the diapers, right?
Anybody try out the LSACatheter?
You could always practice bladder control. My approach was to drink 3 gallons of water a day and set smaller and smaller goals for the number of times you relieve yourself. I got it down to twice a day.But then, I'm insane. And possibly full of something other than those 3 gallons of water...


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You'd think MIT students would know better, but I guess they're just letting anyone in these days. Or maybe they're just not studying Newtonian physics anymore. Either way, it's pretty embarrassing when you try to pull a boat out of the water with a pickup truck and then have to get the truck towed out of the water.
Massachusetts State Police posted these photos on their Facebook page with what happened Sunday night in Somerville, Mass.:
The MSP Dive Team was called out to the Mystic River tonight to assist with getting a Ford Ranger out of the Mystic River. MIT students had been testing out a remote controlled boat, weighing over 1,000 lbs. Apparently this Ford Ranger could not easily pull the boat out.
Oh well, live and learn.
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Although Syl's recent article on Guild War 2's end-game have absolutely nothing to do with my subject, they did remind me that this is a post I wanted to write. I've seen the argument (sorry I'm link poor on that one) that the on-the-fly-fellowship model improves the social life of the MMO.
How does that work? How does not having to communicate make you more social? How does it make you connect with other players? It doesn't. In the *almost* month I've been playing GW2, I can count the total number of things I've said in a chat channel on one hand.
Now, I'm willing to take the bulk of the blame. I'm very happily wandering around the world and discovering little nooks and crannies. I'm sure there *is* some way to actually scroll in my text box, but I haven't taken the time to figure it out. What can I say, I'm a little anti-social on a good day. When I have been social in MMOs, it's primarily been the result of group content. I had to communicate to function in a group setting.
While I don't have any quibbles about not having to be social in order to enjoy an MMO, I do have a major quibble with saying that I'm enjoying the "social life" of an MMO. Auto-grouping doesn't encourage me to do group activities and it sure doesn't encourage me to actually interact with my fellow players. While I have enjoyed the group encounters I've taken part of, the absolute self-reliance that players are encouraged to embrace has left gaping holes in the mentoring you often see in new MMOs.
Let's look at one of the encounters I took part in. The boss did a stomp. If you weren't dodging during the stomp, you died. Pretty simple. You could spot the new people by the ring of death surrounding the boss. Since we're not a "group" in the traditional sense, it doesn't really matter to the bulk of people that these folks are dying. We're all self-reliant, they'll figure it out or just die a lot, right?
Chatter in the area was either:
- Melee can't do this fight (lies! I was melee!)
- Rez me (it doesn't matter that I'm right under the boss and you won't actually have time to rez me before the stomp again)
It was rather frustrating to be a part of. Since it was my second time at the boss, I'd figured it out, and actually had enough time to look around and see the circle of death. I realized how nice it would have been if someone else would have done what I did: explain how the fight works. Moving on to new zones and new encounters, I saw this pattern repeated again and again. Sure, people were talking, but it was generally the same crappy bullshit you get in any forced group. As much as I've complained about having to struggle to form groups, or to keep groups together, the very fact that I must depend on other group members for a minimum set of time made me want them to succeed. As a result,because I was invested in my fellow players, I've formed a lot of great relationships in a multitude of different communities. Now that's what I call being social.
The GW2 model, at least for outdoor auto-group type raiding doesn't make me invest in others, which means I have less reason to want to talk to them, help them, or form relationships with them. As a result, I fail to see how we can say that the GW2 model encourages socialization. It might encourage you to enjoy "group" content, but that's a story for another day.


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Children's Wing
Early Childhood: Quality, age-appropriate curriculum and activities for children birth – pre-K provided by carefully screened volunteers partnering with parents to guide children in a lifelong journey of faith. Meets in Children's wing upstairs.
Elementary: Drama, worship, media and small group lessons for grades K-3. Meets in Children's wing downstairs.


text: Dear Beowulfers, Today is sad day for our 25 nodes cluster: I decided to improve its performance and as a result I crippled it quite a lot. The story is that for some reason many nodes started loosing connection with the NFS server node, I started looking for a solution and decided to try NFS over TCP. After I've adjusted configs across the cluster (cfengine rulez), even rebooted the nodes (besides the main one) for the sake of it, and put a slight load on a cluster (occupied 6 nodes with intensive I/O which rw data from the NFS server) pretty much all of 60 nfsd instances start occupying CPU on the main node, so load reached around 20 or 30 which is star hitting number... main node (NFS server) start to behave unresponsively and start killing applications due to reason of "running out of memory". So what is wrong in the next config: vana:/raid /raid nfs defaults,tcp,hard,rw,nosuid,wsize=8192,rsize=8192 ? later I've adjusted it with bg,timeo=60,noatime to reduce the load but it didn't quite help. details about cluster: 23 active nodes at the moment running 188.8.131.52 SMP, main node with 8GB, RPCNFSDCOUNT=70, nfs-kernel-server What would be the best NFS config for it if we provide two directories from the NFS server: /raid as rw,sync and /share/apps as ro,async Thank you in advance P.S. BTW - here is the dump from "killing mess" Fixed up OOM kill of mm-less task oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0 DMA per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 cpu 1 hot: low 2, high 6, batch 1 cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 2, batch 1 Normal per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 cpu 1 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 HighMem per-cpu: cpu 0 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 cpu 0 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 cpu 1 hot: low 32, high 96, batch 16 cpu 1 cold: low 0, high 32, batch 16 Free pages: 2969440kB (2966528kB HighMem) Active:506964 inactive:611412 dirty:461 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:742360 slab:193835 mapped:269296 pagetables:2983 DMA free:1048kB min:16kB low:32kB high:48kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:16384kB protections[]: 8 476 732 Normal free:1864kB min:936kB low:1872kB high:2808kB active:32632kB inactive:21288kB present:901120kB protections[]: 0 468 724 HighMem free:2966528kB min:512kB low:1024kB high:1536kB active:1995096kB inactive:2424488kB present:7471104kB protections[]: 0 0 256 DMA: 0*4kB 15*8kB 10*16kB 8*32kB 2*64kB 1*128kB 1*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1048kB Normal: 14*4kB 2*8kB 0*16kB 38*32kB 1*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 1*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 1864kB HighMem: 0*4kB 0*8kB 0*16kB 48126*32kB 16915*64kB 2081*128kB 109*256kB 57*512kB 20*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 2966528kB Swap cache: add 538373, delete 522525, find 54148646/54172304, race 0+5 Out of Memory: Killed process 17465 (gnome-settings-). -- .-. =------------------------------ /v\ ----------------------------= Keep in touch // \\ (yoh@|www.)onerussian.com Yaroslav Halchenko /( )\ ICQ#: 60653192 Linux User ^^-^^ [175555] Key http://www.onerussian.com/gpg-yoh.asc GPG fingerprint 3BB6 E124 0643 A615 6F00 6854 8D11 4563 75C0 24C8 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature URL: <http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/attachments/20050203/a3da36ad/attachment.sig>


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Back to School - Back to Work!
As a coordinator in the program I had faculty meetings to attend, scheduling conflicts to work out and, in the bustle of a campus that had suddenly come alive with activity, a million little unforeseen problems needed attending to.
With all of those responsibilities monopolizing my time I had to put the brakes on my plans for that week's TI topic.
Just the act of attaching names to all those fresh new faces in my classroom was a challenge, let alone actually teaching and supervising the start of their first assignments!
By the time we all packed up at the end of each day my voice was hoarse, my feet hurt, and my brain was fried.
All I wanted to do was get home and relax. After making dinner. And prepping the next day's lesson. And dealing with emails from administration. And, and, and... !
I want you to know I tried... I really did. I sat and scanned stuff and began transcribing an interview I'd done with a retired illustrator who I'd planned to feature - but I just couldn't get it done. I was just too tired! Those kids wore out! I was in bed at 9 o'clock every day last week!
Well, this week I'm determined to get back on track. I've got a wonderful series lined up and ready to go, which will start tomorrow morning. Meanwhile, I ask you to be patient. I'm really stoked about my courses at the college and have to make that my top priority. So if I drop the ball now and then, don't lose faith - I'm as passionate as ever about Today's Inspiration and your encouragement and support is what keeps me going.
* Incidentally, if you're at all curious about what I'm teaching, I started a blog for one of my courses (I'll be doing so for all of them eventually) where you can read about the assignments my students will be doing and follow their progress. Visit Promotional Illustration with professor Peng for more details!
* Ever wonder what I look and sound like? The college asked me (and a number of other new instructors) to participate in their current marketing campaign, called "Learn from Experience". Watch my video here.
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- Anonymous11:06 AM
Love your blog- I check it all the time.ReplyDelete
And as a middle school art teacher, it's nice to see that the college art teachers also are exhausted, horse, and brain dead by the end of the first week!
Hey, thanks Mike! Your comment made my day - thanks for writing! My wife teaches middle school and last week the two of us were practically catatonic by 8 p.m. Seems we all need a little time to get our 'sea legs' back under us, eh? ;^)ReplyDelete
Hi! I just found your blog today, and I think it's really interesting :-)ReplyDelete
I don't know how much time you have to work with it, but I have a couple of suggestions; Ib Thaning and Jane Bark from Sweden.
I also wonder if you'd like Martta Wendelin, from Finland, even though she worked in mostly in 30's and 40's... also check out Hannu Taina and Hans Arnold - both my favorites :-D
- Charlie Allen5:24 PM
Thanks for getting back on your horse this week, Leif. Mike, maybe it's good you're an art teacher....on the voice, it's spelled 'hoarse'. (Like I've never mis-spelled before!!) The first TI illustration, the family using the same bathroom, was done by an old friend, Lonnie Bee, who worked in our S.F. building on the floor just below us. We frequently visited, talked technique, competed for billboards, typical stuff. He did a lot of nice illustrations back east before moving to S.F.....a reverse of the usual move to N.Y. The 'family' illo was done in the 50's....when many homes had just one bathroom....as did ours at the time. Thanks again, and will look forward to seeing Professor Peng. Sock it to 'em, Prof!ReplyDelete
Charlie; Thanks for sharing some background info about Lonie Bee - an artist about whom I knew nothing, not even that he was a man! Like Lynn Buckham, one of those names that could be male or female...ReplyDelete
Thanks as well for your encouraging words! With you and all our other frequent contributors in my corner I have no fear that Today's Inspiration will continue to 'deliver the goods'!
Hey Leif, I love your blog and thanks for letting us see the face behind the art. I've heard your voice quite a few times on the excellent podcasts you've done with Thomas James at EFII, but it's nice to put the visual with the audio. I was pretty surprised to find you are the artist behind the turtle on Turtles chocolates, too. They are my husbands favorite sweet, so I'm familiar with the brand.ReplyDelete
Best wishes on a new school year and thanks so much for sharing all the wonderful interviews and such here on Today's Inspiration. I've been a fan of your mid-century collections on Flickr for a long time and am continually thrilled to see new work posted. Take care of yourself and get some rest!
Wow, Tami; Thanks so much for speaking up! I'm always surprised and delighted when someone who's been quietly following along decides to let me know they're enjoying the material I present. That's awesome - many thanks!ReplyDelete
You don't look anything like I imagined you. For a start you don't have horns.. and it looks like you stole my shirt.
Good to see that you're finding the teaching challenging and rewarding .. if exhausting.
All the best with you college courses.


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Schedule for Opera by Alexander Tchaikovsky "Chess King" opera (concert performance) 2019
General Director: Larisa GergievaComposer: Alexander TchaikovskyPrincipal Chorus Master: Pavel TeplovOrchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony OrchestraOpera company: Mariinsky (Kirov) OperaPerformed in Russian, with synchronised English supertitles
Music by Alexander Tchaikovsky Libretto by Lev Yakovlev
Musical Director: Larisa Gergieva
Ensemble of soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera SingersChorus Master: Pavel Teplov
The Mariinsky Orchestra
Mirko Czentovic, the world chess champion, is among the passengers aboard a steamboat headed for Buenos Aires from New York. Czentovic is reputed to be a dull-witted and greedy man. While trying to penetrate the enigma that is this strange, taciturn man, the protagonist tricks the champion into playing a game of chess against him. Czentovic faces one passenger after another, all of them trying to at least draw their game against the champion. All their attempts go in vain until one more mysterious gentleman appears among the players.
The composer Alexander Tchaikovsky decided to write his new opera on the basis of the famous Zweig's novella Schachnovelle and thus continued a century-old tradition of Russian operas about game-addicted characters. In Tchaikovsky's Chess King one can sometimes almost hear — especially in the energetic opening scene and the ostinato patterns of the tournament scene — the clear echoes of Prokofiev's The Gambler (Prokofiev was just as much a chess lover as Tchaikovsky). Once the story's focus shifts to chess and the xylophone starts to pulse – all of a sudden Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel ±omes to mind as it also mentions a "carved tafl set". There are some non-operatic references as well: at the very end, after the main events, the choir acts as a sportscaster and excitedly gives a running commentary of the game Anatoly Karpov vs Lajos Portisch, 1996. The opera Chess King premiered on the New Year's Eve 2017 at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, which had ordered the opera. The Saint Petersburg premiere of the opera will be presented by the soloists of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Opera Singers under the direction of Larisa Gergieva.


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HOUSTON - The debate over whether to take a chemical linked to cancer and diminished IQ out of our water supply has come to Houston.
According to the office of Houston City Council Member Helena Brown, the council has heard from a number of Houstonians who want to remove fluoride from our tap water.
During a public session this week, citizens voiced their concerns and Council Member Brown heard their pleas saying, "The city debt has been a key concern ever since I took office. Any way in which we can save funds when there are no funds is a good thing. Valid arguments beyond the financial one have been shared with us, such as: fluoride is a poison, a toxic substance which needs to be properly disposed (the city uses federally permissible levels in the water); fluoridating has had ill effects on citizens (such as the effect on teeth, bones, and the link to cancer); the city is in effect forcing medication; the original purpose decades ago is defeated with the increase of toothpaste/mouthwash usage and the decrease in the drinking of tap water."
Council Member Jones shared the concerns of the other constituents who are worried about the chemicals in our water, the health risks associated with fluoride and the large cost associated with fluoridating a city's water supply -- over half a million dollars a year in Houston.
"Now is a time when many cities are forgoing fluoridation due to the overall lack of any tangible benefit and with the consideration that the population is currently at potential risk of overexposure to fluoride chemical compounds," Jones said.
Council Member Brown's official press release went on to say, "Harvard University released a study in 2006 that linked fluoridation to bone cancer in young men. The process of fluoridating the water supply began in the 1960s, and the City of Houston began it in the 1980s. With time, science and society move forward."
If Houston were to stop adding fluoride to it's water supply, it would join a host of other cities already doing this. Cities like Santa Fe, NM, Pinellas County, FL, College Station.
According to the Fluoride Action Network, fluoridation of water has been banned across much of Europe for years. The FAN also says dozens of smaller cities in the U.S. have already stopped adding the chemical to their drinking water. FAN's website also reports at present, 24 studies have reported an association between fluoride exposure and reduced IQ.
Copyright 2012 by Click2Houston.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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by egiraudy
For Gmail "Compact" density display mode and for Google Reader.
The goal is to make those application with the new theme more space efficient.
- This extension can modify or add functionality to one or more websites.
Feedback from users
Reviews and ratings
How do I get out of compact mode in gmail, I've tried turning of the option, disabling-, uninstall extension and even reverting to a backup of opera - but I'm stock in compact mode ?
what is that screenshot supposed to be telling me? it's absolutely ridiculous how uninformative it is. were you drunk or high when you submitted this screenshot?
i really don't get how you can be like "Okay, I have to take a screenshot to submit with my extension to help people better understand what exactly my extension will do." and then you take your screenshot, edit it with some image editing program, save it, open it up and see what your final result is and go "Perfect!" and THAT is what you give us? That is what your brain constitutes as a good screenshot?
You either have incredibly low standards or you are incredibly stupid...
Please change the screen shot to make it more clear, easiest way to see the extension in work is by screen shot. IT is better to add more screen shots, or if you still prefer one, it must be fully explanatory.


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Replace your refrigerator using the four Cs
Is it time?
Unless your refrigerator stops running, you might not know if it's time to replace it. It's the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" philosophy. Some common mechanical issues that can indicate a refrigerator needs replacing include a constantly running motor or hot back coils. However, it's important to know that not all refrigerators that need replacing have a mechanical problem. The U.S. Energy Star program says that units made before 1993 use two to three times more energy than new models that are Energy Star certified. So sometimes they need replacing because they are inefficient, energy gobblers.
When looking for a new unit, Amy Clark, who works for Kenmore, says to think about it like shopping for diamonds, with a new approach to the well-known four Cs of shopping for diamonds. The four Cs in refrigeration are capacity, convenience, consumption and color.
Check the "cubic-foot capacity" which is the height, length and width of every part of a refrigerator. The higher the capacity, the more space you have. The Kenmore Elite Signature, for example, boasts 31-cubic-foot capacity — that's enough to hold 486 soda cans. However, keep in mind that the bigger the space, the more electricity you will use. Consider balancing your storage needs with your budget needs.
What to consider:
Bottom freezer units typically have more space for fresh foods than other configurations, but the freezer tends to be smaller. Refrigerators with top freezer configuration are typically more affordable and make it easy to find what you're looking for.
Side-by-side refrigerators have large freezer spaces and make it easier to find frozen items, while the narrower shelves limit the size of items for storing.
French door refrigerators have two doors for the refrigerator compartment with a freezer below. These can easily store larger items like party trays, and pull-out freezer drawers often feature two levels of storage.
As refrigerators always run, they often use more energy than other appliances. Energy Star says top-mounted freezers use 10 to 25 percent less energy than other freezer models. French door refrigerators tend to be more energy efficient because you can open a single door as needed instead of an entire compartment.
Today's appliance colors make it easier to choose one you won't regret in a few years. Amy Clark offers some tips based on Kenmore's available colors:
White is often the most affordable choice.
Black is also affordable, but not for every kitchen design.
Stainless steel is sleek and timeless, but shows fingerprints and does not accept magnets.
Metallic finishes show fewer fingerprints. They cost less than stainless steel — and you can use all the magnets you want.


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Etesh.mangray needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 63 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
We are building a real time deal engine. The way it works is an ecommerce site loads some javascript into their site and can configure offers that will show on any page - see sample here (http://vinolist.com/varietals/Petit…wines.html)
Problem - our home page needs a redo - its not clear about what we do.
Ecommerce sites looking to convert more visits to sales
- Logo stays the same
- Keep the current header and footer
- Color scheme should match the logo
- We need to explain in pictures what we do
- The three steps - (Add Javascript code, set up offers, increase sales)
- Big button for tour or sign up
- Going for elegantly simple and professional looking.
- I page HTML and CSS that we can implement and change the text as needed
Output update
- Need PSD files
- Need flattened layer of PSD
- all layers are flattened and fonts are rendered
Pleas see the home page of http://www.salesbump.com.
to log in and see how it works
username - testuser
pw - tunafish
some parts of the home page of http://www.fanminder.com


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Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)
Index of articles from Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP)
Index of articles from HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA)
CHAMP to Close, Networks to Continue
The Board and staff of the Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project (CHAMP) have made the difficult decision to end CHAMP's operations as an independent non-profit and to shift our existing active networks -- the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA) and Project UNSHACKLE -- to other institutional homes.
The reasons for this decision are many and varied, and reflect the challenges faced by many small grassroots organizations working for social justice.
Over the last seven years, CHAMP has made a significant impact on the framing of HIV prevention in the US and has pursued the goal of building a movement that bridges HIV prevention and other struggles for economic, social and racial justice. However, in the process, we were not able to build a sustainable organization in the current economic climate that could overcome the challenges of balancing movement building and leadership development with organizational administration and operations.
We are enormously proud of CHAMP's record of pushing for progressive HIV/AIDS policies that address the demands of communities most affected by the human rights abuses and structural inequalities in our country that continue to fuel the epidemic.
In the coming months, we will invite you to actively participate as we document these and other battles, along with successes, failures and major unsolved problems, with and for our supporters and members. We hope this record of our achievements and the lessons we have learned will serve as a tool for current and future activists who have and will take up the cause of HIV prevention justice.
While this marks an end to CHAMP as we have known and loved it for the last seven years, it also marks the beginning of a new phase in the development of the two networks that CHAMP carefully built and fostered.
The CHAMP Board and the broader HIV/AIDS community have recognized the critical importance of the HIV Prevention Justice Alliance (HIV PJA) and Project UNSHACKLE in pushing the HIV prevention justice vision forward, and we have already identified two organizations that are eager to provide them with the institutional support necessary to further their work.
The HIV PJA will be housed by one of its co-founding organizations, AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC). Founded by community activists and physicians in 1985, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago.
(AFC) is a catalyst for local, national, and international action on HIV/AIDS. In 2007, AFC was a key partner in CHAMP's HIV Prevention Justice Mobilization. One year later, AFC, CHAMP and SisterLove co-founded the HIV PJA as a coalition of organizations and individuals advocating for effective and just HIV prevention policies in the United States. Julie Davids will continue to coordinate the HIV PJA as a decentralized network under the auspices of AFC.
Project UNSHACKLE will continue as a project of the New York City AIDS Housing Network/Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (NYCAHN/VOCAL), a powerful model of grassroots community organizing and PWA leadership development. NYCAHN/VOCAL was CHAMP's fiscal sponsor for our first several years, and throughout CHAMP's existence, many NYCAHN/VOCAL members and staff have been involved as staff, members and Board members. Project UNSHACKLE fits well into their current work on healthcare in jails and prisons, and in the experiences of many of their members with imprisonment, probation, parole and re-entry.
The Board would also like to recognize the enduring contribution of two individual CHAMP leaders in particular -- Julie Davids, CHAMP'S visionary founder and current Director, and Waheedah Shabazz-El, CHAMP's long-term, volunteer Community Organizer/Trainer and powerful organizer on behalf of women and all people living with HIV. Julie has contributed inspirational leadership not only to CHAMP, but to the struggle against the epidemic in this country. We are very pleased that she plans to continue her role as a leader in the HIV PJA in its new home. Waheedah began as a CHAMP member, took on an increasing variety of organizing and leadership tasks and is the newest member of the CHAMP Board of Directors, helping to shape the concrete future of the prevention justice vision.
Board members Hadiyah Charles and Charles Long have also taken leadership in this transition and voiced their determination to sustain the vision and history of CHAMP through both local and national organizing. In addition, we thank board member and former co-chair Ben Maulbeck for his wise counsel throughout this difficult process. As a collective, the CHAMP Board is committed to do all that we can to support the transition of these and other leaders within CHAMP to new roles and homes.
Finally, we reach out with much respect and appreciation to the broad, diverse CHAMP Network across the United States. Together, we have reframed how HIV prevention is understood in this country. We have learned continuously from all of you and hope that we will be able to maintain the platforms through which we educate, agitate, inspire each other and amplify our voices. We are enormously grateful and we look forward to being in touch about the future of the HIV PJA and Project UNSHACKLE.
Julia Greenberg and Walt Senterfitt, Board Co-Chairs
How to Reach CHAMP80-A Fourth Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Phone: 1.212.937.7955
Fax: 1.401.633.7793
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Web site: www.champnetwork.org


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Andrelton Simmons' single drove in Justin Upton with two outs in the ninth inning to give the Atlanta Braves a 3-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers
ATLANTA — Andrelton Simmons' single to the gap in right-center drove in Justin Upton with two outs in the ninth inning to give the Atlanta Braves a 3-2 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday night.
Upton led off the ninth by hitting the first pitch from Donovan Hand (0-5) for a single to left. Freddie Freeman hit a fly ball to deep center for the first out before Evan Gattis, who had two hits, hit a grounder that Scooter Gennett bobbled behind second base for an error, leaving runners at first and second.
Brian McCann popped out to third base for the second out before Simmons' first hit of the night ended the game.
Craig Kimbrel (4-3), who leads the majors with 49 saves, struck out the side in the ninth. He has 96 strikeouts in 65 innings.
Shortstop Jeff Bianchi hit his first homer of the season in the fifth for Milwaukee.
Brewers rookie Tyler Thornburg set a career high with eight strikeouts while giving up two runs, seven hits and one walk in seven innings. Thornburg, 24, has allowed no more than two runs in any of his seven starts.
Freddy Garcia allowed two run, six hits and one walk in 6 2/3 innings for Atlanta. Garcia, 36, had seven strikeouts to set a season high in a combined 13 starts with Baltimore and the Braves.
Jonathan Lucroy gave Milwaukee a 1-0 lead in the first when his single drove in Norichika Aoki, who doubled. Lucroy leads the majors with 76 RBI as a catcher. He has driven in 82 runs overall.
Thornburg was helped by double plays in the second and third innings before giving up a run in the fourth. With two outs, Freeman singled and scored on a double to the base of the wall in center field by Gattis, who was thrown out trying to advance to third.


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On Demand Technology Training
UIS provides lynda.com online training for the entire campus community for their on-demand learning needs.
lynda.com Training Tutorials
Information Technology Services is expanding and enhancing its computer training workshops program by licensing the entire library of the lynda.com online training tutorials, campus-wide, on a yearly basis. Access is available today to all UIS students, faculty and staff and titles are broken down into manageable segments to accommodate busy schedules. These video based tutorials are taught by industry experts and available 24/7 for convenient, self-paced learning.
What is lynda.com?
lynda.com offers over a thousand video tutorials on leading software topics including Adobe products, Apple products, Microsoft products, Drupal, video editing, audio editing, operating systems and much more. Many titles are 7 or 8 hours of detailed information broken down into easy to manage 5 – 15 minute segments. You can always come back in at a later date to pick up where you left off. These video based tutorials are taught by industry experts and available 24/7 for convenient, self-paced learning.
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How do I access the tutorials?
Click the login link below and you will be directed to the lynda.com landing page for UIS. You will be asked to enter your UIS NetID and password before you reach the lynda.com site. Once you log in, click on any tutorial to get started. If you are using a public computer remember to logout of the lynda.com Web site once you are finished.
You can also access lynda.com on your mobile device. Simply browse your device's app store and install the free lynda.com app. When you launch the app, you will need to log in via the 'web portal access'. The URL is http://go.uis.edu/lynda. Log in with your NetID and password – and enjoy lynda.com on the go!
Also, please note that you cannot log into lynda.com direclty from the lynda.com website. You need to enter your credentials through our login page at go.uis.edu/lynda.
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April 3, 2008
NEW LONDON, Conn. - MIT cracked 17 hits and swiped a season-high 10 stolen bases en route to a 11-5 victory over Coast Guard in New London on Thursday. Freshman Ryne Barry moved to 3-0 on the year after a solid start on the hill.
MIT (8-8, 2-1 NEWMAC) scored twice in the first inning on an RBI single by Kevin Wheeler and a bases-loaded walk to Steven Nunez, and moved ahead 4-0 in the second following a run-scoring single by Thomas Phillips.
The Engineers extended their advantage to 9-0 in the third inning. Ten batters batted during the five-run frame, including an RBI double off the bat of Dan Hyatt and a two-run single by David Nole. Six of the nine runs yielded by Coast Guard (5-12, 0-5) were unearned as the Bears gave up an error in each of the first three innings.
A throwing error in the fifth pushed MIT ahead, 10-0, while Coast Guard answered with all five of its runs in the sixth. Ryan Milligan connected on his first collegiate home run and Kevin Higgins added an RBI double to pace the rally.
Although Barry was chased in the sixth to mar an otherwise terrific start, MIT's bullpen shut down the Bears over the final three innings to seal the win. Senior Mike Vasquez turned in another outstanding effort in relief by allowing just one hit in 2.2 innings of work while rookie Cameron Brown pitched a near-flawless ninth.
Ben Bersanti finished 3-for-4 with a walk and three stolen bases while Phillips also secured three hits. Freshman Brian Doyle tied an Institute record with four stolen bases, while sophomore Stewart Park moved to 20-of-21 on the season after stealing two bases of his own.


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One Billion Tanzanians, One Billion Ugandans
It struck me to find out that according to the UN's official projections, populations of Tanzania and Uganda would exceed one billion people by 2100 (up from 45 and 33 million, respectively, in 2010) if total fertility rates in each of these countries remain constant at their 2010 levels (5.6 and 6.4 children per woman, respectively).
To be sure, this "constant fertility scenario" is not a likely one. For a number of reasons, fertility rates tend to fall as economies develop, and the process of demographic transition from high mortality and high fertility to low mortality and low fertility is already under way in both countries. Still, even under assumption that total fertility rates will gradually decline to about 2 children per woman (and there is no international migration), the UN estimates that there will be 171 million Ugandans and 316 million Tanzanians in 2100.


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If you're looking for adventure at 4 Suyos (2727 W. Fullerton Ave. 773-278-6525), a new Logan Square Peruvian restaurant, ask for a Leche de Tigre – a drink made from ceviche marinade and a bit of booze.
Sound a bit scary? Co-owner Erin Slucter would have once agreed with you, but after two years of dating her Peru-born boyfriend, Humberto Trujillo, who is also the chef and co-owner, she's come around. If you're looking for a more traditional choice, the staff at this BYOB spot will be happy to mix a more standard option such as a pisco sour if you come with your own liquor in tow.
Open since late January, this restaurant is the mid-30s couple's first foray into the dining scene.
"[Humberto] would not stop talking about opening a restaurant, and eventually I started helping him scout locations, design a logo," said Slucter, who also works in communications.
The 34-seat table-service eatery is cozy and casual, drawing both neighborhood folks and those who are well-versed in Peruvian fare, such as Trujillo's soccer buddies. "I love serving the people that haven't had Peruvian food," said Slucter. "Those are the most fun to have dine with us."
Peruvian fare draws its eclectic influences from a wide global palate—Mexican, Cuban, Italian, French, Chinese and African—with unique ingredients that are spicy but curiously not that hot, says Slucter. The country's coastal location means its cuisine is heavy on seafood, featuring everything from steamed fish to deep-fried filets. Ceviche is a favorite, but unlike its Mexican counterpart, you won't find any tomatoes included; instead there are native peppers and seasonings such as garlic, ginger and cilantro.
It's also arguable more carb-heavy than other Latin cuisine. Take the lomo saltado, a dish of sirloin strip steaks sauteed with onion, tomatoes and fried potato wedges, served with rice, which Slucter likens to a Chinese stir-fry. Another favorite (and vegetarian-friendly) dish is tallarin verde con champinones, fettuccini tossed in a basil pesto sauce with sautéed mushrooms.
4 Suyos is open Monday-Thursday from 5-10 p.m.; Friday 5-11 p.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Look for breakfast in the future. Visit the website and view the menu at www.4suyos.com.


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text: NEW BATAAN, Philippines - Desperate families begged for food Sunday, days after a typhoon brought death and destruction to parts of a southern Philippine island, as the storm returned to the north of the country.Northern areas escaped with heavy rain after the storm weakened. But scenes of hardship were everywhere in southern areas that last week felt the full fury of the strongest typhoon to hit the country this year.Officials said 548 people are confirmed dead, most of them in the southern island of Mindanao.Civil defence chief Benito Ramos said the number of missing had shot up to 827 from previous figures of 500 unaccounted for, after reports of more missing fishermen came in.In the Mindanao mountain town of New Bataan, which took the brunt of the typhoon, families lined the roads holding signs begging for food."Have mercy on us, please donate," read one sign held by a group of ragged children."We need food," read another sign displayed by a group standing amid ruined banana plantations.Farmer's wife Madeline Blanco, 36, said her family was trying to make do while sheltering in a tent on a basketball court."We were given rations but it was not enough. Just rice, bread and noodles. It is not enough for me and my four children," she told AFP."All we can do is wait for donations. There are cars passing by and sometimes drivers give us something," she said.Another farmer's wife, Emma Toledo, 59, complained that the relief supplies from the national government had yet to arrive."We have not been given anything yet. Only the local government and the village officials gave us something, just some rice, noodles and dried fish," said the mother of three.Drivers of private vehicles also handed out donations but the lack of coordination led to more confusion.When a truck from a local power company arrived to distribute relief supplies, it was mobbed by hungry villagers and many children were almost trampled in the chaos."I've been here for a long time. I am hungry and my children need food," one angry woman yelled as she pushed her way to the front.Regional civil defence operations officer Antonio Cloma said many relief agencies, both government and non-government, were entering the area with supplies for typhoon victims."The government is doing its best to support the requirements for these victims," he insisted.The local head of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, David Carden said there was a pressing need for food, shelter and other basic items, but also for generators."People are scared at night and whenever it rains," in the darkness, he said.However he conceded that there were "huge logistical challenges" in bringing in the aid. "Bridges have fallen, roads have been blocked by fallen trees," he told AFP.Elsewhere, the main church of New Bataan finally reopened after roads leading to it were cleared but only a few of the faithful came to the first mass since the storm as many were too busy attending to their dead and missing."The others are too busy looking for their missing and attending to their dead," said church lay worker Florena Jimenez, 58,The church, dedicated to Saint Anthony de Padua, credited with miracles in finding missing people, will also be holding special prayers for the many who died without receiving last rites, she told AFP.In the northern Philippines, the typhoon had weakened to a tropical storm and only brought a few downpours with no reports of any floods. The government weather station said it would dissipate by Monday.Typhoon Bopha had been headed out to the South China Sea when it made a U-turn towards the north this weekend, initially raising fears of another disaster.


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A Treasure Chest of Oriental Pulp Fiction
Trashy novels are generally instantly recognizable by the garish picture on the cover. This usually depicts a gorgeous, scantily-clad maiden being rescued, or kissed, or clasped to the manly bosom of the posturing hero. Clearly, The Secret Son of the Sheikh is a cheap thriller of the same genre as thousands of other such romances.
However, when the reader is then confronted with The Secret Bride of the Sheikh, The Virgin Bride of the Sheikh, The Lover of the Sheikh and many other variations on the same theme, it all starts to come across as slightly bizarre. Suddenly the book before us no longer looks like an ordinary, cheap romance but an imperial political propaganda tool, one that blatantly affirms and reinforces the cliché of the backward 'Oriental' man.
The Sheikh series is on display as part of the Bidoun Library Project, a collection of around 1,000 printed works that either originated in the Middle East or take the region as their subject. The collection is almost entirely from the 20th century, with a particular focus on the period after the Second World War: a time of redefinition, both of the relationship between West and Middle East and in the assessment of recent historical upheavals.
Contemporary culture from the Middle East
The project was initiated by the people behind the quarterly art and culture magazine Bidoun. The Bidoun Organisation promotes contemporary Middle Eastern art and cultural productions. Alongside their magazine the editors also organize exhibitions, travelling libraries, video programmes, and much else besides. The Bidoun Library in Cairo is their latest project.
This library is a multifaceted, mobile collection of books, magazines and music videos that was up until recently on display in the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo. The Bidoun Library was first presented to the world in Abu Dhabi in the autumn of 2009. The idea was to make books and magazines about art and culture with a Middle Eastern focus available to an Arab public – publications it is otherwise very difficult, if not impossible, to obtain in this part of the world.
In addition, the initiators also wanted to establish an archive to preserve publications from the region that were no longer being printed, or which existed only in private collections and were thus inaccessible to the public.
It was clear from the outset that the Bidoun Library was to be a constantly changing project, a collection that was always assuming a different shape. The exhibition in Cairo cannot therefore be compared with the one in Abu Dhabi, or with those that followed in Dubai, Beirut and New York.
Rarities and curiosities
Since 2009 the Bidoun Library has shown various quite different things. The initiators' projects have included documenting the art boom in the Middle East since the start of the new millennium; collecting works published by Dar El Fata El Arabi, a primarily Egyptian publishing house financed by the PLO which produced children's books in the 1970s; and exhibiting avant-garde art magazines from the Arab world, such as Fonoon Al Arabeyya, which was published by Iraqi exiles in London in the 1980s.
For the Bidoun Library, the exhibition in New York was a turning point. Because it was now addressing a Western audience, the curators decided to play with the paradox of the Middle East, which as a construct exists far more strongly in the Western imagination than it does in Cairo, Beirut or Damascus.
The curators sat down in front of their computers and searched for material on the Middle East. They used different internet search engines and put in terms such as 'Arabs', 'Iran', 'oil' and '1970'. The results threw up a mixture of books on the veil, violence in Islam, the oil crisis, terrorist novels, and the legendary, 'orientalized' Michael Jackson music video 'Remember the Time'. The search terms provided the curators with information that was the most widespread, but not the most reliable.
Open interpretation
The search did not follow a particular pattern, and the objects on display are not intended to convey a particular message, explains Bidoun editor Negar Azimi. "We put these books together in a completely neutral way, based on pragmatic criteria. It's only when they're all brought together that something new and autonomous emerges, but it's down to the observer to make his or her own interpretation."
Many of the objects on display in New York can now also be seen in Cairo. Nonetheless, this exhibition too is special, and unique in its composition. It conveys the humanitarian idea that was the catalyst for the collection, as well as the discourse that took place with the public in New York.
On display in the Townhouse Gallery were Arab comics, art books, the official company magazine of the Saudi oil giant Aramco, countless books about the veil, and even a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf in Arabic. The curators intend that visitors should browse and explore the collection for themselves.
Creating cultural spaces
Around fifty books sponsored by art book publishers in Switzerland and Germany will remain in the Townhouse library as part of the permanent collection there, thus fulfilling part of the original concept of the Bidoun Library. It's a small gesture, but an important contribution nonetheless in a city where it is almost impossible to access such books in a public library.
The Bidoun collection will soon be travelling on, to London this time. The curators hope that it will continue to travel around the world. Other locations where they hope to put it on display include Palestine, Liverpool and Bahrain.
A magazine as an objet d'art
There was so much to see, read, and discover in this exhibition that one feels one simply doesn't have time to take it all in. So it's just as well that the autumn edition of the Bidoun magazine is devoted to this special library, functioning as a kind of catalogue of the exhibition.
It provides the visitor with the opportunity not only of browsing the collection at his or her leisure, but also to take home with them a one-off work of art. Each of the 5,000 printed copies of the magazine features a unique photo on the cover, released by the Egyptian collector Amgad Naguib from his collection for one US dollar apiece. Thus a magazine devoted to the book as objet d'art itself becomes a unique object.
Amira El Ahl
© Qantara.de 2010
Translated from the German by Charlotte Collins
Editor: Lewis Gropp/Qantara.de
Publishing Art from Three Corners of the World
With "Bidoun", the magazine's editors have created a forum where Middle East artists living in the region or abroad can publish their work. Interestingly, Bidoun has three editorial bases: New York, Berlin and Dubai. Youssef Hijazi spoke with Alia Rayyan, the magazine's editor.
Intercultural Theatre: "Radio Muezzin"
Otherness as a Fetish
Stefan Kaegi's latest production, Radio Muezzin, takes four Cairene Muezzins and puts them on stage so that they may demonstrate moments from their life and work. Hassan Khan, who attended the performance, found it to be a deeply flawed form of populist anthropology
International Theatre Forum in Alexandria
Silicone Bombs Hit the Stage
In the place where the largest library of the classical antiquity once burned to the ground, its spirit of openness and dialogue is now being revived. Young creative people from the theatre scenes in Europe and the Mediterranean region are performing their work in Alexandria. Susanne Schanda reports
Cultural Exchange between Egypt and Israel
Anti-Normalisation as a Way of Life
The flags have been flying over the respective embassies in Cairo and Tel Aviv for 30 years, but as far as culture is concerned there is as little sign as ever of any normalisation of relations between Egypt and Israel. Amira El Ahl takes a look at the problem from an Egyptian perspective
Website 'Bidoun'


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An Interview with Miss Shamrock [VIDEO]
Betsy McCarty, this year's Miss Shamrock, will be busy on Saturday. Betsy will participate in the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade in Sioux Falls.
The day's events are officially kicked off at 11:45 a.m. with the traditional Painting of the Shamrock at 9th Street and Phillips Avenue. The parade forms at 5th Street and Main Avenue at 12:30 p.m. and the parade begins at 2 p.m.
There is no entry fee to participate in the parade. The only requirement is that each participant in the parade 16 and older must purchase and wear an official St. Patrick's Day Parade button costing $3. The proceeds help cover parade costs and a portion is donated to Special Olympics. Buttons are available at the Chamber of Commerce office at 200 N. Phillips Ave., at various businesses and at the start of the parade.


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How to improve your 'sex life'
A study conducted on a couple has revealed that watching a sexy video or using massage oil can help having sex.
The study conducted on Celeste and Rob, who have been married nine years and are working parents of a 4-year-old kid, has found that like any other couple this couple also has intense, mismatched schedules, because of which they don't connect much on week nights, Fox News reported.
The researcher suggested that sex is a great way to relieve stress and reconnect and to make it pleasurable, one should take turns thinking of special treats for that night-food, a sexy video, massage oil or anything inspiring.
The research also claimed that Physical intimacy is an important and necessary part of bonding and is a great way to keep a relationship strong.
Source: ANI
Image: Thinkstockphotos.com


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Here's the hypothetical:
You're in St. Louis.
A friend offers you a ticket to 49ers @ Rams.
If the Rams win, the Seahawks clinch the NFC West.
The condition: you MUST wear a Rams jersey to the game.
It can be any Ram player, past or present.
Which jersey would you wear, or would you just watch the game on TV?


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June 21, 2011 -- Specific drugs used to treat inflammatory diseases like rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriasis may also help protect patients with these conditions from developing type 2 diabetes, a study shows.
Use of TNF-inhibitor biologic agents such as Enbrel, Humira, and Remicade, and hydroxychloroquine (Plaquenil, Quineprox) was associated with a lower diabetes risk among patients with the inflammatory conditions than use of other disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) in the study from Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital.
Reducing Insulin Resistance
It is increasingly recognized that patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other conditions driven by inflammation may have an elevated risk for heart disease, insulin resistance, and diabetes.
The early findings suggest certain DMARDs lower insulin resistance and help prevent diabetes in patients with these conditions, study researcher Daniel H. Solomon, MD, MPH, tells WebMD.
They also support a potential role for drugs that reduce systemic inflammation in the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes.
The study appears in the June 22/29 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
"We are not at the point where we can make clinical leaps and say that these are the drugs to choose for high-risk patients," Solomon says. "But if future studies support the conclusion that these drugs do decrease insulin resistance and diabetes risk, one could imagine a day when we make treatment decisions based on these comorbidities."
Analyzing Diabetes Risk
Solomon and colleagues analyzed the health records of close to 14,000 patients with rheumatoid arthritis or psoriasis enrolled in two large private health insurance programs -- one in Canada and one in the U.S.
The patients were followed from the time they started one of four categories of commonly prescribed DMARDs: biologic TNF inhibitors, methotrexate, hydroxychloroquine, and other non-biologic agents.
During the follow-up period, 267 new cases of diabetes were diagnosed among the patients.
After taking into account known diabetes risk factors, patients treated with hydroxychloroquine were 46% less likely to develop diabetes and those treated with a TNF inhibitor had a 38% lower risk than patients taking other non-biologic agents.
Methotrexate use was associated with a non-significant reduction in diabetes risk.
Matching Patients With the Right Drugs
Solomon and colleagues are currently conducting a study, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, that's designed to examine whether hydroxychloroquine improves glucose and insulin profiles in rheumatoid arthritis patients.
He says if this study and others prove positive, routine assessment of insulin resistance may become common in the management of patients with inflammatory diseases.
"We currently have about a dozen drugs that we give patients with rheumatoid arthritis, but we don't really have a clear way of determining which drug is best for which patient," he says. "Understanding how these drugs affect comorbidities like diabetes could help us make more informed treatment choices."
Rheumatologist Tim Bongartz, MD, agrees, but he says we are not there yet.
Bongartz is an assistant professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
"Basic research now tells us that inflammation plays an important role in the development of type 2 diabetes, as well as type 1 diabetes," he tells WebMD. "If randomized trials are promising, diabetes risk may prove to be an important consideration when choosing a treatment strategy for patients with systemic inflammatory disease."


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text: Michael Huntingdon wrote: > At 04:13 PM 8/15/2006, Mike Davis wrote: > >> I'm not 100% sure about that Mark. I care about big-A administration. >> I care about showing departments what resources are actually >> available. I care about what is the most efficient use of limited >> University resources. When I meet with researchers they often say that >> they had no idea that there were 500+ processors dedicated to research >> here. >> >> I know that other people have the same issues. Another is the funding >> model issue. Which is best overhead, direct, or central budget? Or how >> about knowing what resources we each provide our users. Does a given >> organization focus on hardware support, software support or both? >> >> Those are some of the Big-A issues. Here is one that is both Big-A and >> small-A. >> >> Running one of the new Sun x4100's with both dualcore processors at >> 100% uses <270 watts (as determined by kill-a-watt. That is Big-A >> because it means that we can be more efficient in our use of AC and >> power. It is small-a for the same reasons. For example spinning up a >> v20 uses 250 watts for both processors at full power. I can't discuss >> some of my application specific performance due to license >> constraints, but I can say that I like the 4100 in general for >> Computational Physics and Chemistry. > > > I often scratch my head wondering how certain decisions are make at the > "central IT" level, so a perspective from the campus that involves both > performance and up time (plug in the wall) costs is refreshing. We far > to often see a complete disconnect between the two, which very often > means that none of the invested parties (at either the > NSF/NIH/state/federal level) ever really enjoy the value of each dollar > they invest. My HPC efforts are now involving both cases of 'A' as we're trying to change the HPC paradigm on campus from almost solely SMP to a combination of memory paradigms to better serve the research community. And the 'we' is not directly in the Administration chain but is from a couple of on-campus players who are frustrated with the status quo. I look at infrastructure costs as well as per-node costs, maintenance and potential down-time vice spares. Also, I now have to consider networking costs, both on campus and in our commodity, Internet2 and NLR dealings. Bandwidth is no longer free, although a lot of researchers still think it is. > I appreciate that Sun may be suggesting (these days) that their systems > are more environmentally friendly; however, given the > price/performance/environmental/support...and really crazy extended down > time associted with engineering issues, logic at least for some, makes > distancing significant IT investment with Sun a decision that follows > very few conversations. Interesting: I've started buying a lot more Sun as their costs are comparable to the blade cluster prices I've gotten from other vendors, we have seen as good, or better up-times with v2100 through v4200 series hardware, and time-to-repair has been stellar, with the on-site Sun support. When we had problems flashing a BIOS upgrade and couldn't recover it ourselves, our last real Sun downtime, they had a new motherboard in within 6 hours and the system back up an hour later. I haven't suffered from the engineering issues you seem to have encountered. > My point comes honestly from your comments, which we hold dear.....the > growing number of research system/cpu's on campus affect each and every > one of us on a daily basis. Having spent this week at the LSS event at > Stanford, I am ever more convinced, how diverse the needs...and the > number of possible solutions. So that must be a big-A approach with a > huge tilt in a not so big-A direction. > > >> Another that is both is what submission systems we are using and Why? >> >> Same questions, that affect both administration and Administration. >> >> >> Mike davis >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Mark Hahn wrote: >> >>>> beowulf traffic itself is "noise"? If you are thinking of a "list for >>>> university deans" or members of research support offices or >>>> departmental >>> >>> ... >>> >>>> administerable and accountable should they get audited) -- then yeah, I >>>> think a new list or other venue would be very useful. >>> >>> >>> yes. the overlap is minimal, I believe - I'd say the two approaches >>> are even inimical. someone who is primarily interested in big-A >>> Administration will have values opposed to mine as a technologist. >>> as a random pot-shot, big-a people tend to have great faith in >>> negotiating special purchasing relationships with a vendor, or >>> believe that integration >>> is the high-road to success (or an end in itself). I know, OTOH, >>> that a vendor who makes a good desktop may make the worlds worst compute >>> nodes, and that, for instance, the service requirements are nearly >>> opposite. >>> here's my general conclusion about central-IT efforts: if the idea >>> (centralized storage, whatever) is so good, >>> people will beg to use it. if you have to force people to use it, >>> you are simply wrong in some way (perhaps subtly). Just to touch on this, I'm in general agreement, although our big-a have just negotiated a big-iron acquisition for a decent price. It'll go into the central IT core for shared computing resources... I'll see how well it works out. The central IT HPC folks were the proximate cause of me building my first cluster... gerry -- Gerry Creager -- gerry.creager at tamu.edu Texas Mesonet -- AATLT, Texas A&M University Cell: 979.229.5301 Office: 979.458.4020 FAX: 979.862.3983 Office: 1700 Research Parkway Ste 160, TAMU, College Station, TX 77843