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I was thoroughly impressed with PubNub, a publish/subscribe service, when I first read their articles and played around with it some in Javascript. But obviously I need an Erlang API if I'm going to really use it! So I've created ePubNub.
In the ePubNub README you'll find information on some basic usage of the application. You don't have to do anything more than use the epubnub.erl module to publish and subscribe (by either providing a PID to send messages to or a function handler to process each).
Here I've built a little more complicated app/release called epubnub_chat, and the source is also on github.
The first thing we need is the epubnub app as a dependency in the epubnub_chat.app file:
{applications, [kernel, stdlib, epubnub]},
We'll use a simple_one_for_one for supervising channel subscribed processes. In e_pubnub_chat_sup_ we have 3 API functions for the user to use (start_link is run by the _app.erl module on startup): connect/1, connect/2, disconnect/1:
connect(Channel) -> supervisor:start_child(?SERVER, [Channel]). connect(EPN, Channel) -> supervisor:start_child(?SERVER, [EPN, Channel]). disconnect(PID) -> epubnub_chat:stop(PID).
EPN is a record containing the necessary url and keys for talking to the PubNub service and is created with the new functions in epubnub:
-spec new() -> record(epn). new() -> #epn{}. -spec new(string()) -> record(epn). new(Origin) -> #epn{origin=Origin}. -spec new(string(), string()) -> record(epn). new(PubKey, SubKey) -> #epn{pubkey=PubKey, subkey=SubKey}. -spec new(string(), string(), string()) -> record(epn). new(Origin, PubKey, SubKey) -> #epn{origin=Origin, pubkey=PubKey, subkey=SubKey}.
You can pass none to connect/1 and it will send none to the chat gen_server and it will use defaults of pubsub.pubnub.com, demo and demo, for the url, publish key and subscribe key respectively.
Now in the epubnub_chat gen_server we need the following API functions:
start_link(Channel) -> start_link(epubnub:new(), Channel). start_link(EPN, Channel) -> gen_server:start_link(?MODULE, [EPN, Channel], []). message(Server, Msg) -> gen_server:cast(Server, {message, Msg}). stop(Server) -> gen_server:cast(Server, stop).
The start_link functions are run when the supervisor spawns a simple_one_for_one supervisor for the process. This returns {ok, PID}. This PID must be remembered so we can talk to the process we have started thats subscribed to a specific channel. We pass this PID to the message/2 and stop/1 functions, which we'll see at the and when we use the program.
start_link/1 and /2 call init/1 with the provided arguments:
init([EPN, Channel]) -> {ok, PID} = epubnub_sup:subscribe(EPN, Channel, self()), {ok, #state{epn=EPN, pid=PID, channel=Channel}}.
Here we use the epubnub_sup subscribe/3 function and not epubnub:subscribe because we want it to be supervised. We store the PID for this process so we can terminate it later.
The epubnub subscribe process was given the PID, returned by self/1, of the current process which is the gen_server process and will send messages that are published to the channel to that process. We handle these messages in handle_info/2:
handle_info({message, Message}, State) -> io:format("~p~n", [Message]), {noreply, State}.
Lastly, we have to handle the messages from message/2 and stop/1:
handle_cast({message, Msg}, State=#state{epn=EPN, channel=Channel}) -> epubnub:publish(EPN, Channel, Msg), {noreply, State}. terminate(_Reason, #state{pid=PID}) -> epubnub:unsubscribe(PID), ok.
The handle_cast/2 function published your message to the channel this process subscribed to with epubnub:publish/3 and terminate calls epubnub:unsubscribe/1 before this process ending which sends a terminate message to the subscibred process.
Now lets see this program in action:
[[email protected] ~/Devel/epubnub_chat] 09:55 (master)$ sinan dist starting: depends starting: build starting: release starting: dist [[email protected] ~/Devel/epubnub_chat] 09:55 (master)$ sudo faxien ir Password: Do you want to install the release: /Users/tristan/Devel/epubnub_chat/_build/development/tar/epubnub_chat-0.0.1.tar.gz Enter (y)es, (n)o, or yes to (a)ll? > ? y Replacing existing executable file at: /usr/local/lib/erlang/bin/epubnub_chat Replacing existing executable file at: /usr/local/lib/erlang/bin/5.8.2/epubnub_chat Replacing existing executable file at: /usr/local/lib/erlang/bin/erlware_release_start_helper Replacing existing executable file at: /usr/local/lib/erlang/bin/5.8.2/erlware_release_start_helper ok [[email protected] ~/Devel/epubnub_chat] 09:56 (master)$ epubnub_chat .... Eshell V5.8.2 (abort with ^G) 1> {ok, Server} = epubnub_chat_sup:connect("chat"). {ok,} 2> =PROGRESS REPORT==== 10-Apr-2011::09:57:14 === supervisor: {local,inet_gethost_native_sup} started: [{pid,},{mfa,{inet_gethost_native,init,[[]]}}] =PROGRESS REPORT==== 10-Apr-2011::09:57:14 === supervisor: {local,kernel_safe_sup} started: [{pid,}, {name,inet_gethost_native_sup}, {mfargs,{inet_gethost_native,start_link,[]}}, {restart_type,temporary}, {shutdown,1000}, {child_type,worker}] 2> epubnub_chat:message(Server, <"hello there!">). ok 3> <"hello there!"> <"I'm from the webapp!"> 3> q(). ok
You can go to the PubNub tutorial page to chat between yourself, or get someone else to join!
That's it! Simple and quick global communication that scales for you!
I've really enjoyed playing with PubNub and hope I get to use it for a real project soon.


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Polysciences was the first to develop a superior grade of glutaraldehyde suitable for immunochemical techniques. Each batch of vacuum distilled glutaraldehyde manufactured by Polysciences is analyzed to maintain consistent high quality and freedom from contaminants which destroy antigenicity.
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2. Mersey, B. & Mccully, M. E. Monitoring of the course of fixation of plant cells. Journal of Microscopy 114, 49–76 (1978). doi:10.1111/j.1365-2818.1978.tb00116.x
3. Kirkeby, S., Jakobsen, P. & Moe, D. Glutaraldehyde - 'Pure and Impure.' A Spectroscopic Investigation of Two Commercial Glutaraldehyde Solutions and Their Reaction Products with Amino Acids. Analytical Letters 20, 303–315 (1987). doi:10.1080/00032718708064567
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
My Very First Tea Party Rally..
Ever since I witnessed disgruntled octogenarians everywhere protesting the "socialist" heath care bill while their pockets swelled with social security cash, whiny bigots literally breaking down in tears while saying the words "I want my country back", and scores of people who would fail a High School Civics class holding misspelled signs with pride - I just knew that one day I would attend a Tea Party Rally. Some people hope to one day pilgrimage to Mecca, I had dreams of being surrounded by thousands of minor league Klansmen who want people to think that taxes are the real reason they have such a distaste for our 44th President. I mean, we can finally drop the "its just a bunch of concerned citizens" pretense, can't we? A couple of weeks ago shitloads of people around the country gathered to scream bloody murder about taxes despite the fact that federal income taxes on middle class families are at historic lows and Obama gave 95% of those ungrateful sons of bitches tax cuts. Not for nothing, but if it walks like a racist and talks like a racist, chances are they are holding a sign calling the President a "communist".
I know, broad generalizing is wrong, and I'm sure there are folks in the Tea Party who do indeed have legitimate concerns. I just contend that that number is relatively small, about the same minuscule percentage of strippers who are thrusting their glitter encrusted pelvises to actually pay for college courses. But hey, I've been wrong before. So after a year of fearing that attending a Tea Party rally would result in me going all Nat Turner on a motherfucker, I finally trusted myself enough to mingle with what I believe to be the most disgruntled people in America. Here is what happened when yours truly decided to enter the lions den.(Town Point Park, Norfolk Virginia)
I arrived on the premises around 5:30 or so, about an hour and a half late. Sure, I know that my penchant for tardiness has "subpar journalist" written all over it - but after I learned that I had just missed a speech delivered by Bishop E.W. Jackson Sr, I couldn't have been happier. See, nothing is wrong with black opposition of Obama, but the good Bishop is one of those self loathing black folks who incessantly shields republicans from the racism charge by claiming the ones making said charge are playing the "race card". Because him and black folks of his ilk are too stupid to know that Tea Party folks are just using them in a "I have a black friend, I can't be racist" sort way, I'm glad I missed him - the mere sight of him giving a rhetorical softshoe routine would have forced me to become rather indignant and break whatever cover I attempted to maintain.
The first thing I saw as soon as I entered the premises were these kids holding signs. Because I didn't want to bring any undue attention on to myself(I have a thick beard and long dreadlocks mind you) I refrained from yelling "Your parents really need their asses kicked you little shits!"(It was extremely difficult to hold that back) Using kids to peddle your flimsy political philosophy is rather unseemly. Then again, I'm the same guy who has every intention of using my niece this summer to meet rather flexible, low self esteem having women. Anyway, remember that scene in "Malcolm X" when Malcolm went to Mecca and he was being shadowed by those CIA agents with video cameras? As much as I tried to blend in, I always felt like the CIA agent in the aforementioned scenario.
This is Karen Hurd, the founder of the Hampton Roads Tea Party who was the person speaking as I walked up. The rampant misinformation that came out of this woman's mouth would have been laughable if the people in attendance weren't willfully eating it up like hungry pigs at a trough. As I stood there listening to an unrepentant liar whose main agenda was to scare the living shit out of every unenlightened bigot within the sound of her voice, you could tell that she was doing her best Michelle Bachmann impression. That said, this woman's rhetoric was so exceedingly clumsy that she made Michelle Bachmann look like Maya Angelou.
Um, Yeah. Whatever gets you through the night lady.
Here are a few crowd shots. I'd say there were roughly 300 people there, nowhere near Town Point Park's capacity.
Of course there were an abundance of signs referencing the Constitution and how the President is apparently wiping his ass with it. But Obama was a Constitutional Professor for Christs sake, lecturing him on that document is like holding a sign in front of Karinne Steffans' house that reads "Remember the Blowjob!". Or holding a sign in front of R Kelly's house that reads "Remember the Pre-teen". I asked one of these folks about the Constitution and it turns out that I know more about the mating habits of the Fossa than any of them know about the Constitution. If people like Andrew Breitbart are so concerned with people smearing the Tea Party, he should be more concerned with them making it so easy for assholes like me.
This is purely anecdotal, but the staff there seemed to hand out Tea Party materials to everyone except me. I smiled, said "hello!", I even distributed nods of approval. Nothing. To be quite honest, they seemed like they were actively avoiding me. Maybe my agenda was obvious, I dunno - its not like I was wearing a Public Enemy shirt with Che Guevara wristbands. Either way, what better way to silence the folks who think that you are movement motivated by racism than to embrace everything within a square mile radius with a pulse. It was just rather telling to me.
Yes, there was black people. Two things on that. 1.) I saw that there was a nationally coordinated effort to have more and more black people at Tea Party rallies that day. Which is nice optics, I'm sure, but it doesn't mean a goddamn thing. Like I always say, there are self loathing black people who would join the Klu Klux Klan if they were allowed to. 2.)The black people pictured above were brought in by a local candidate running for office, I found this out when I saw someone come by and relieve them of their sign holding duties. Not only is their whole movement astroturfed, so is their black support. To my brother and sisters, with the economy in the shape that it is, there is money in part-time conservatism. Get that paper homey, I won't judge you.
What's a Tea Party Rally without the "Obama as the Joker" sign? It's sort of like going to a Stevie Wonder concert, you know you're going to hear "Superstition" before the night is done.
This pair of tits is Bob Marshall. Not for nothing, but thank god for Wikipedia pages because otherwise I'd be spending an inordinate amount of time detailing the many varieties of shit that makes up this rather lackluster human being. He kept bragging about being the architect of Ken Cuccinelli's Health Care Lawsuit against the Federal Government, which is obviously frivolous, but that didn't stop him from lathering up the dopes with the pipe dream of Health Care repeal. The contempt that a lot of elected republican officials have for their constituents is amazing. The one thing that I noticed as I listened to Mr. Marshall attempt to stick the proverbial landing on what has become standard Teabagger boilerplate, is that these events are nothing more than third rate comedy roasts of President Obama by bigots - with each speaker desperately trying to outdo the other with their insults of the President. Coming from a guy who feels the need to get an STD test every time I even think about some of my past dalliances, the mere fact that I felt like taking a shower after Bob Marshall spoke is really saying something.
As I prepared to leave, I noticed a guy holding this utterly despicable sign. When he was saw me taking a picture of it he quickly dropped the sign to his side and folded it up. When he past me I just smirked, shook my head slowly and told him "Too late motherfucker!". At that point I could care less about maintaining any sort of cover.
But as I left the Tea Party Rally that day, I realized that the man holding the "Barry Soetoro Is our Terrorist" sign is a microcosm of the entire Tea Party Movement. When their tax arguments are proven to be fraudulent, when they don't seem to have the same critiques of "Big Government" when Arizona does it, their silence in the populism department when it comes to Wall Street - why don't they just admit that its all about racism already. Like the guy with the sign, own your racism for Christs sake - I'd at least applaud you for being honest for once.
6 comments:
- TheRiverWanders said...
An exceptionally well-written account of a first-hand experience. The photography is good and your perspective is invaluable. I'm glad you were able to witness that event and share it with the rest of us.
- Brother OMi said...
you are a funny brother...
what bothers me is that these folks kick it as if thousands of people in small cities are gathering when it is definitely not the case.
the MSM needs to stop giving these folks any light since they are really blown it out of proportion.
- AD said...
Thanks for sharing this, what would be to most, harrowing experience. lol. You, sir, are braver than I.
- BLESSD1 said...
Cosign w/Brother Omi. I recall seeing somewhere (not so ironically, I think it was The Daily Show) where they proved that Fox was bolstering the size of these 'events' by editing footage from Palin's vice-presidential campaign run into the Tea Party crowd footage...all in a lame effort to give credence to their inaccurate assertion that 'thousands' of Americans are pissed with the President's apparent raping of the Constitution. Sadly, we all know that most of them just hate the fact that he has Melanin. Great post, HC.
- Bigvic said...
These are some of the most uneducated, ignorant, and bigoted people. Whats worse is how stubborn they are to admit they understand have the shit that is being told to them. They eat all this along with that Ayn Rand crap that they're all fed. I don't know how you could go there and actually not feel like man-kind doesn't deserve a fate of extinction. That must have been depressing.
- E R Hull said...
Good job. Well done. You know,I'm getting to the point where I've stopped wondering about the tea partiers motivations:
if their motivation is not racial animus and they want to talk about their policy "ideas" that's a relatively short discussion (as you pointed out most of them don't know anything about the Constitution they wave around and the rest of the arguments about govt growth same at least one adminsitration late -I guess they just slept through the Bush admin).
On the other hand, if their motivation IS racial, well, we can't really talk about that with the tea partiers because they'll just deny it.
So at the end of the day, I'm moving towards ignoring them. We have ample evidence in pictures, video, and news accounts of racism in their movement. Their policies are bankrupt. We'll just have to let the voters figure it out.


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Myths of Weight Loss Are Plentiful, Researcher Says
If schools reinstated physical education classes, a lot of fat children would lose weight. And they might never have gotten fat in the first place if their mothers had just breast fed them when they were babies. But be warned: obese people should definitely steer clear of crash diets. And they can lose more than 50 pounds in five years simply by walking a mile a day.
Those are among the myths and unproven assumptions about obesity and weight loss that have been repeated so often and with such conviction that even scientists like David B. Allison, who directs the Nutrition Obesity Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, have fallen for some of them.
Now, he is trying to set the record straight. In an article published online today in The New England Journal of Medicine, he and his colleagues lay out seven myths and six unsubstantiated presumptions about obesity. They also list nine facts that, unfortunately, promise little in the way of quick fixes for the weight-obsessed. Example: Trying to go on a diet or recommending that someone go on a diet does not generally work well in the long term.
Obesity experts applauded this plain-spoken effort to dispel widespread confusion about obesity. The field, they say, has become something of a quagmire.
In my view, said Dr. Jeffrey M. Friedman, a Rockefeller University obesity researcher, there is more misinformation pretending to be fact in this field than in any other I can think of.
Others agreed, saying it was about time someone tried to set the record straight.
I feel like cheering, said Madelyn Fernstrom, founding director of the University of Pittsburgh Weight Management Center. When it comes to obesity beliefs, she said, We are spinning out of control.
Steven N. Blair, an exercise and obesity researcher at the University of South Carolina, said his own students believe many of the myths. I like to challenge my students. Can you show me the data? Too often that doesnt come into it.
Dr. Allison sought to establish what is known to be unequivocally true about obesity and weight loss.
His first thought was that, of course, weighing oneself daily helped control weight. He checked for the conclusive studies he knew must exist. They did not.
My goodness, after 50-plus years of studying obesity in earnest and all the public wringing of hands, why dont we know this answer? Dr. Allison asked. Whats striking is how easy it would be to check. Take a couple of thousand people and randomly assign them to weigh themselves every day or not.
Yet it has not been done.
Instead, people often rely on weak studies that get repeated ad infinitum. It is commonly thought, for example, that people who eat breakfast are thinner. But that notion is based on studies of people who happened to eat breakfast. Researchers then asked if they were fatter or thinner than people who happened not to eat breakfast and found an association between eating breakfast and being thinner. But such studies can be misleading because the two groups might be different in other ways that cause the breakfast eaters to be thinner. But no one has randomly assigned people to eat breakfast or not, which could cinch the argument.
So, Dr. Allison asks, why do yet another study of the association between thinness and breakfast? Yet, I can tell you that in the last two weeks I saw an association study of breakfast eating in Islamabad and another in Inner Mongolia and another in a country I never heard of.
Why are we doing these? Dr. Allison asked. All that time and effort is essentially wasted. The question is: Is it a causal association? To get the answer, he added, Do the clinical trial.
He decided to do it himself, with university research funds. A few hundred people will be recruited and will be randomly assigned to one of three groups. Some will be told to eat breakfast every day, others to skip breakfast, and the third group will be given vague advice about whether to eat it or not.
As he delved into the obesity literature, Dr. Allison began to ask himself why some myths and misconceptions are so commonplace. Often, he decided, the beliefs reflected a reasonableness bias. The advice sounds so reasonable it must be true. For example, the idea that people do the best on weight-loss programs if they set reasonable goals sounds so sensible.
We all want to be reasonable, Dr. Allison said. But, he said, when he examined weight-loss studies he found no consistent association between the ambitiousness of the goal and how much weight was lost and how long it had stayed off. This myth, though, illustrates the tricky ground weight-loss programs have to navigate when advising dieters. The problem is that on average people do not lose much 10 percent of their weight is typical but setting 10 percent as a goal is not necessarily the best strategy. A very few lose a lot more and some people may be inspired by the thought of a really life-changing weight loss.
If a patient says, Do you think it is reasonable for me to lose 25 percent of my body weight, the honest answer is, No. Not without surgery, Dr. Allison said. But, he said, If a patient says, My goal is to lose 25 percent of my body weight, I would say, Go for it.
Yet all this negativism bothers people, Dr. Allison conceded. When he talks about his findings to scientists, they often say: O.K., youve convinced us. But what can we do? Weve got to do something. He replies that scientists have an ethical duty to make clear what is established and what is speculation. And while it is fine to recommend things like bike paths or weighing yourself daily, scientists must make sure they preface their advice with the caveat that these things seem sensible but have not been proven.
Among the best established methods is weight-loss surgery, which, of course, is not right for most people. But surgeons have done careful studies to show that on average people lose substanial amounts of weight and their health improves, Dr. Allison said. For dieters, the best results occur with structured programs, like ones that supply complete meals or meal replacements.
In the meantime, Dr. Allison said, it is incumbent upon scientists to change their ways. We need to do rigorous studies, he said. We need to stop doing association studies after an association has clearly been demonstrated.
I never said we have to wait for perfect knowledge, Dr. Allison said. But, as John Lennon said, Just give me some truth.
Here is an overview of the obesity myths looked at by the researchers and what is known to be true:
Small things make a big difference. Walking a mile a day can lead to a loss of more than 50 pounds in five years.
Set a realistic goal to lose a modest amount.
People who are too ambitious will get frustrated and give up.
You have to be mentally ready to diet or you will never succeed.
Slow and steady is the way to lose. If you lose weight too fast you will lose less in the long run.
Ideas not yet proven TRUE OR FALSE
Diet and exercise habits in childhood set the stage for the rest of life.
Add lots of fruits and vegetables to your diet to lose weight or not gain as much.
Yo-yo diets lead to increased death rates.
People who snack gain weight and get fat.
If you add bike paths, jogging trails, sidewalks and parks, people will not be as fat.
Heredity is important but is not destiny.
Exercise helps with weight maintenance.
Weight loss is greater with programs that provide meals.
Some prescription drugs help with weight loss and maintenance.
Weight-loss surgery in appropriate patients can lead to long-term weight loss, less diabetes and a lower death rate.
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Calories in vs calories out... BOOM!
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Quote from: animal1991 on February 06, 2013, 10:31:46 PM
Calories in vs calories out... BOOM!
I think BMR is the bigger issue. People are so sedentary these days it's unreal.
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If schools reinstated physical education classes, a lot of fat children would lose weight.
Ha, ha...
I shook my head reading that first sentence, ready to pounce on the preposterous notion that a 40-min class
(less ten mins to change and another 7-8 to take role and organize the game)
meeting twice a week is adequate to improve any facet of fitness.
They don't reveal until the second paragraph that the first one is a mockery!
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Diet and exercise habits in childhood set the stage for the rest of life.
Wasn't quite the case for me. During my childhood my diet and exercise habits were non-existent. I had a sweet tooth and ate candy almost every day. Pop Rocks, Fizz Candy, Chocolate Bars, you name it. I also hated gym class. I hated running around. I was skinny with a fast metabolism, so my poor eating habits and lack of exercise didn't cause me to gain any weight, it just made me lethargic and plain old lazy as a kid. It wasn't until I saw the 80's movie DC Cab, where I saw the Barbarian Brothers for the first time on the big screen. Those two guys stole every scene they were in. I wanted to be just like them. The very next day I convinced my parents to buy me a York barbell and dumbbell set. And I started lifting my weights every single day before and after school. I remember stealing the tape measure from my mothers sewing kit, and running into my bedroom and measuring my flexed bicep each week to see how much my biceps had grown. Slowly but surely, month after month, year after year, the tape expanded. Been lifting ever since.
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If schools reinstated physical education classes, a lot of fat children would lose weight. And they might never have gotten fat in the first place if their mothers had just breast fed them when they were babies.
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The sedimentary areas, younger in age than the shield, represent the deposits of ancient seas. The surface sedimentary strata have been extensively eroded. The harder members, more resistant to erosion, now stand as westward-facing escarpments following the curve of the shield. The sedimentary province consists primarily of limestone, together with much sandstone and shale. The first deposits are early Paleozoic (about 400 to 540 million years old), which in eastern Arabia dip to almost six miles below the surface. In the Jurassic and Cretaceous limestone (about 65 to 200 million years old) oil and gas occur at depths of two miles or less. Some of the limestone strata take in rainfall at outcrops in the western highlands and carry it underground to the Persian Gulf coastal areas.
The Yemeni highlands are physiographically very different from those of the shield; they are not mountains but the deeply dissected edge of the Arabian plateau. From the west the formations rise abruptly from the narrow coastal plain in Yemen; they reach heights of about 10,000 to 12,000 feet above sea level, and eastward they decrease gradually in elevation. The highlands along the southern coast are basically sedimentary in origin. The Omani highlands are geologically more closely related to the Zagros Mountains of western Iran than to other mountains in Arabia. (The sea is only about 50 miles wide at the Strait of Hormuz.)
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A virtually unbroken escarpment runs the length of the peninsula above the Red Sea. The stretch from the Gulf of Aqaba to a point about 200 miles south of Mecca is called the Hejaz (Al-Ḥijāz, meaning "The Barrier"), and the higher stretch from there to the Najrān region near the Yemeni border has acquired the name of Asir (ʿAsīr; from the name, meaning "Difficult," of a prominent highland tribal confederation). In places the escarpment has two parallel ranges, with the lower range closer to the coast. In Midian (Madyan), the northernmost part of the Hejaz, the peaks have a maximum elevation of nearly 9,500 feet. The elevation decreases to the south, with an occasional upward surge such as Mount Raḍwā west of Medina (Al-Madīnah). Wadi Al-Ḥamḍ, an intermittent river drawing water from the Medina Basin on the inner side of the escarpment, breaks through the mountains to reach the Red Sea. Another pass leads to Mecca and Al-Ṭāʾif in the highlands. The mountains become higher again in Asir, where some peaks rise to more than 9,000 feet. The passes there are particularly difficult. A lava field descending from the mountains and reaching the sea near Ḥalī long formed the natural southern boundary of the Hejaz. The high plateau of Asir, within the area watered by the Indian Ocean monsoon, is more fertile than the rural Hejaz.
The Red Sea coastal plain is constricted throughout its length, attaining its greatest widths, 40 to 50 miles, south of Medina and south of Mecca. The name Tihāmah, used for the whole plain, is sometimes subdivided into Tihāmat Al-Ḥijāz and Tihāmat ʿAsīr. There are no natural harbours adequate for large vessels, but the many inlets are well suited for sailing craft. Islands are particularly numerous along the southern part of the coast, where the Farasān Archipelago lies, and coral reefs are common.
In the northwestern interior the sandstone plateau of Ḥismā has an elevation of about 4,000 feet. South of it are great lava fields such as the ʿUwayriḍ, while others ring Medina. Tongues of lava south of Medina, lapping over the mountains, descend almost to the coast. The sand plain of Rakbah unrolls south of the Kishb Lava Field, which is southeast of Medina. Among the lava fields east of Mecca is one surrounding the mountains of Ḥaḍan (Ḥiḍn), the traditional border area between the Hejaz and Najd.
The western part of Najd (Nejd, meaning "Highland"), known as Upper Najd, lies within the Arabian shield with an average elevation of 4,000 feet; the eastern part falls within the sedimentary province with the city of Riyadh (Al-Riyāḍ), near the eastern edge, having an elevation of about 1,950 feet. The principal drainage of Najd consists of a number of eastward-flowing wadi systems that carry water only seasonally.
In the north, the parallel ridges of Ajāʾ and Salmāh tower above the plateau to form Jabal Shammar (named after the Shammār tribe), the northernmost district of Najd. Just south of the Mecca-Riyadh road are the Al-Nīr Hills. East of the Hejaz highlands and Mecca lie the Subayʿ sand dunes (named after the tribe of Banū al-Subayʿ), which constitute the largest sand desert within the shield.
The broad mountain-studded plateau gives way in central and eastern Najd to a series of escarpments curving from north to south along the contour of the shield: Al-Khuff, Jilh Al-ʿIshār, the Ṭuwayq Mountains, and Al-ʿArmah. Of these the longest and highest are the Ṭuwayq Mountains, which with their length of 800 miles constitute the backbone of the most densely settled part of Najd. The steep western face of the Ṭuwayq, rising about 800 feet above the plains to the west, is pierced by half a dozen wadis, of which the most spectacular is Wadi Birk, a tributary of Wadi Al-Sahbāʾ. West of the Ṭuwayq a series of sand deserts (ʿirqs and nafūds) forms an almost continuous link between the great desert known as Al-Nafūd to the north and the Rubʿ al-Khali to the south; the sand deserts also conform to the curve of the shield.
Al-Nafūd (Great Nafūd)
The second largest sand desert in the Arabian Peninsula, Al-Nafūd, marks the northern limit of Najd. Lying just beyond the shield, it occupies an area of about 25,000 square miles. Its sands almost reach the oasis towns of Taymāʾ (Taima) in the west, Al-Jawf and Sakākah in the north, and Ḥāʾil in the south. The sands are gradually moving toward the southeast, where they enter either the Mazhur sand dunes, the first of the deserts lying west of the Ṭuwayq Mountains, or Al-Dahnāʾ.
Northern Arabia
The Wadi Al-Sirḥān, a depression rather than a true wadi, is about 200 miles long and 1,000 feet below the adjacent plateau. Northeast of Wadi Al-Sirḥān are wide lava fields and chert plains belonging to the southern part of Al-Ḥamād, the Syrian Desert. The basin containing Al-Nafūd is rimmed on the north by escarpments, down the northern slope of which run the ʿAnizah Wadis (the wadis of the tribe of ʿAnizah), to empty into the Euphrates valley; among the largest of these are Wadi ʿArʿar and Wadi Al-Khurr.
The Al-Dahnāʾ belt, separating Najd from eastern Arabia, is a sand stream moving slowly over 800 miles from Al-Nafūd to the Rubʿ al-Khali. Usually it is no more than 50 miles wide. The sands, frequently reddish in colour, vary greatly in form; particularly in the central stretches, long parallel ridges rise to heights of approximately 150 feet, while some dunes are three times that height. Al-Dahnāʾ also provides pasture in winter and spring. In 1957 the Khurayṣ oil field was discovered beneath its sands.
The Rubʿ al-Khali
The largest uninterrupted sand desert in the world, the Rubʿ al-Khali covers an area estimated at about 250,000 square miles. The name Rubʿ al-Khali is not commonly used by the few nomadic Bedouin who live there; they call it simply Al-Ramlah ("The Sand"). Shrub vegetation is widely spaced over the porous, sandy surfaces and is almost nonexistent on the occasional rock and salt surfaces. Only about 37 species have been identified, most of which are perennial. The desert has been intensively explored by oil companies since 1950.
Some areas of the Rubʿ al-Khali may have droughts of more than 10 years' duration, while others sometimes have thunderstorms or high summer humidity. In the west the gravel plains of Raydāʾ and Abū Baḥr separate the Rubʿ al-Khali from the southern end of Al-Dahnāʾ, while another gravel plain, Al-Jaladah, lies within the Rubʿ al-Khali. What appears to be a northern extension of the Rubʿ al-Khali, Al-Jāfūrah, is regarded by the Arabs as an independent desert. Southeast of Qatar the sands give way before the vast salt flat of the Maṭṭi salt marsh, which runs north about 60 miles to the Persian Gulf coast. East of the Maṭṭi the oasis hamlets of Al-Jiwāʾ (Liwāʾ in the United Arab Emirates) lie among the dunes on the desert's northeastern fringe. The largest dunes of the Rubʿ al-Khali are in the far east, where heights of more than 800 feet are reached and sand ridges extend for more than 30 miles, with salt flats as the usual floor in between. In the east, along the Oman edge of the desert, is the large salt flat of Umm Al-Samīm. In the southwest, sand ridges reach a length of 150 miles.
Most of the Rubʿ al-Khali falls within Saudi Arabia, but boundaries with Oman in the south and Yemen in the southeast have been disputed. In 1974 Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates reached an agreement over a disputed eastern boundary.
The Persian Gulf lowland
A low-lying region follows the Arabian shore of the Persian Gulf from Kuwait around to the Al-Ḥajar mountains of Oman at the mouth of the gulf. The gravel plain of Al-Dibdibah lies inland southwest of Kuwait. Adjacent to Al-Dahnāʾ is the low plateau of Al-Ṣummān; between it and the coast scattered hills rise a few hundred feet. Broad patches of sand occur here and there, and salt flats are numerous along the coast. The Persian Gulf on this side provides no good deep-draft natural harbours, but many inlets offer shelter to sailing craft, and modern ports have been built in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and Qatar. This lowland region is relatively well supplied with underground water from springs and wells. Deep in the sedimentary strata enormous accumulations of oil and gas are found.
Arabia's highest mountains occur in Yemen: Al-Nabī Shuʿayb, northwest of Sanaa, reaches 12,008 feet. The Tihāmah in Yemen, broader and more habitable than the Tihāmah farther north in Saudi Arabia, supports some towns. Monsoon rains make the mountains and high plateaus of Yemen the most fruitful region in Arabia. The easy slope from the highlands to the southwestern corner of the Rubʿ al-Khali was the principal home of the pre-Islamic civilization of southern Arabia, and the ruins of the Maʾrib dam, the greatest monument of that age, still stand there. The seaward descent from the mountains of Al-Kawr at the southern end of Yemen is precipitous.
The harbour of Aden is formed by two volcanic peninsulas of the lowland below the southern mountain face of Yemen. The coastal plain, about 30 miles wide behind Aden, is narrower nearly everywhere else. Along this coast the stream of Wadi Ḥajr, perhaps the only truly perennial river in Arabia, flows about 60 miles to the sea.
Eastward the mountains of Al-Kawr merge with the highlands of Hadhramaut known as the jawl ("plateau"). Hadhramaut, strictly speaking, is a great interior valley cleaving through the jawl, with its lower course reaching the sea under the name Wadi Al-Masīlah. In the interior the sand desert of Ramlat Al-Sabʿatayn lies on the slope descending from Al-Kawr to the Rubʿ al-Khali, which is gentle both here and going down from the jawl.
Dhofar (Ẓufār)
The Qarāʾ Mountains in Dhofar, the southern province of the sultanate of Oman, are about 3,000 feet high, with one peak higher than 5,000 feet. The monsoon keeps the seaward (southern) side of the mountains, as well as the coastal plain, fertile. A gradual slope leads northward from the water divide to the Rubʿ al-Khali; valleys from the slope converge on Ramlat Al-Mughshin at the desert's edge.
The Al-Ḥajar mountain range is divided into Eastern Al-Ḥajar and Western Al-Ḥajar. The range, which exceeds a height of 9,000 feet in places, differs from other Arabian coastal highlands in being steep on both sides. Plains at the foot of the mountains fall away almost imperceptibly from the numerous towns of interior Oman to the Rubʿ al-Khali basin. No mountains bar Oman's outlet to the Arabian Sea in the south; the plateau along the coast has an average elevation of about 500 feet.
The Tropic of Cancer virtually bisects the Arabian Peninsula, passing just south of Medina. The summer heat is intense everywhere, reaching as high as 129 °F (54 °C) in places. Much of the interior is dry, but along the coasts and in some of the southern highlands and deserts the humidity is extreme in the summer. Fogs and dews occur in the humid areas, dew often serving as a substitute for rain. In the dry zones the sun blazes fiercely throughout the summer. Spring and autumn are pleasant seasons, and biting cold and snow are rare in winter, except at high elevations and in the far north.
Rainfall is scanty in all parts beyond the reach of the Indian Ocean monsoon, averaging only 3 to 4 inches (77 to 102 mm) a year. The desert rains are torrential on occasion, causing flash floods in the wadis; sometimes these rains turn into hailstorms. It is not unusual for a drought to last several years. The monsoon increases the precipitation fourfold or more in the southwest and south. Lying within the trade wind belt, northern Arabia receives westerlies from the Mediterranean that blow toward the Persian Gulf and then south and southwest through the Rubʿ al-Khali toward Yemen. The monsoon strikes Arabia from the opposite direction. In midwinter and again in early summer the Persian Gulf experiences seasonal winds laden with dust and sand similar to the Egyptian khamsin; in Arabia these are called shamāl ("north"), though the prevailing direction is actually from the north-northwest. In contrast to the shamāl is the less frequent qaws from the southeast. The wind regimes of Najd and the Rubʿ al-Khali are complex, particularly during spring. The winds may come from any point of the compass and vary in intensity from zephyr to gale.
Plant life
The date palm grows almost everywhere, except at very high elevations and in Dhofar, on the coast of which it is replaced by the coconut palm. The date is a source of food, and uses are found for the trunk, branches, and fibre of the date palm. Among places noted for high-quality date palm production are Medina, Bīshah, and Al-Ḥasā. Alfalfa (lucerne), widely used as fodder, often fills the space between palms. The principal grains are wheat, sorghum, barley, and millet. Rice supplements wheat as a food, but little is raised locally. Cotton does well in a few places, such as Abyān near Aden. In general the people of Arabia have a greater fondness for fruits than for vegetables. Melons, pomegranates, and the jujube are particularly favoured, and Al-Buraymī is noted for its mangoes. Figs, grapes, bananas, prickly pears, and other fruits are also grown, and citron and Java almond flourish in the oases.
Although Arabia is no longer as renowned as formerly for its coffee, fair amounts are still cultivated on the terraced mountainsides of Yemen. In places coffee has given way to the more-profitable qāt (khat; Catha edulis), the leaves of which produce a stimulant. Tobacco is a product of the Hadhramaut coast.
The world's chief source of incense in antiquity, Arabia still numbers various aromatics among its herbs, though the trade in frankincense and myrrh has long been languishing. Mimosas and acacias are widespread, but little advantage is taken commercially of their gums. Indigo and other native dyes are used in the south, both for cloth and for personal adornment. Cactus, cactiform Euphorbia, and the aloe grow profusely in some areas.
Arabia is not the most hospitable of lands for flowers, but the roses of Al-Ṭāʾif are well known, the oleander thrives in a desert environment, and other flowers sometimes brighten the general bleakness of the landscape.
The peninsula is almost devoid of trees. Clumps of junipers in the southwestern highlands make the closest approach to true forests. The tamarisk, which grows well without much water, is often planted in rows to retard the encroachment of drift sand. Trees are so rare that the standard Arabic word for tree, shajar, is ordinarily used by the Bedouin for bushes in the desert that furnish grazing for his animals and firewood for his tent. The leaves of varieties called hamd have enough salinity to satisfy the camel's need for salt. The tough perennials are as essential to life as the tender annuals nourished by the rains of winter and spring. The rains also assist in growing the truffle, which the Bedouin dig out of the ground.
Animal life
The camel has traditionally been the chief support of nomadic life in Arabia. Without the camel, the Bedouin could never have moved far from water fit for human beings; with the camel, he could survive for months on its milk and penetrate deep into the deserts. The camel also furnished food, clothing, fuel (dung), transportation, and power for drawing water or for plowing. For the Bedouin the camel represented the best form of capital and the most valuable article of commerce. The noblest breeds of camel came from Oman, but some of the more plebeian breeds showed greater stamina. Today the camel, which has been for the most part supplanted by four-wheel-drive vehicles as a means of transport, is used primarily as livestock.
Sheep and goats, known collectively in Arabic as ghanam, are numerous, but they are kept in small numbers rather than in large herds. Mutton and lamb are the favourite meats, and goat's milk is used for making cheese. The Arabian horse, noted for its beauty and endurance, is a disappearing strain in Arabia, where only a few thousand remain, though the breed is now fostered in other countries. Many Bedouin own Salukis, a breed of speedy hunting dog; trained falcons are also used in the chase. Gazelles once ranged the plains in large numbers, but unrestricted hunting decimated them. Very few oryx are left in the Rubʿ al-Khali, their last stronghold, and the ibex has also become rare. Other large wild animals are the hyena, wolf, and jackal. The lion is frequently mentioned in early Arabic literature, but lions seem now to be extinct in the peninsula. Baboons were once abundant in the southern highlands. Among the smaller animals are the fox, ratel, rabbit, hedgehog, and jerboa.
Deadly desert snakes are the horned viper and a species of cobra differing considerably from the Indian. The striped sea snakes are also poisonous. Lizards include the large desert monitor and the smaller sand-swimming skink.
Ostriches have become extinct. Eagles, vultures, and owls are common, and the lesser bustard is often hunted with falcons. Flamingos, pelicans, egrets, and other sea birds frequent the coasts. Smaller birds found in the towns and oases include the pigeon, cuckoo, swallow, and hoopoe, while the sand grouse, lark, and courser inhabit the desert.
Swarms of locusts periodically descend as a plague, devouring every green plant in their path. Other common insects are the fly, which appears even in the depths of the desert, mosquito, tick, beetle, scorpion, and ant. In some places bees are kept for their honey.
The seas around Arabia contain mackerel, groupers, tuna, porgies, and other food fish, as well as shrimps. Sharks and sardines are plentiful off the southern coast, and whales occasionally enter the Persian Gulf.George S. Rentz Basheer K. Nijim
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Engine swaps are the essence of hot rodding. The Coyote swap is one of the more popular swaps these days, and Pascoag, Rhode Island's George Regan decided to do the deed on his '86 coupe. Not only did George add a Coyote engine, he also threw the Maximum Motorsports catalog at the car, added Cobra brakes, 31-spline axles, 4.10 gears, a Tremec TKO 600 transmission, and a JLT Performance cold-air intake. A pair of Corbeau leather seats provide the comfort while grabbing the Steeda Autosports Tri-Ax shifter. "This is by far the most fun Mustang I've owned," George says. He notes that he received a lot of help from D&B Performance.
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Tera Gay is bringing her son, Dawson, up right. While Mom cruises the streets in her '13 Gotta Have It Green GT, Dawson hits the pavement in his Boss Powerwheel. Mom's car is probably a little faster at this point, but give him a few years and he'll be draggin' Mom down the street. Tera plans to add a full exhaust, cams, a Boss intake, and probably a blower at some point. For Dawson, he's having trouble putting the power down, so his Boss will see a pair of drag radials to help improve that 60-foot time. Unlike the rest of us, Dawson loves cruising with his mom.


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Nearly one in three pedestrians is distracted by a mobile device while crossing a busy street, and texting appears to be the most distracting and potentially most dangerous activity, according to a new study.
The study, published Wednesday in the journal Injury Prevention,looked at pedestrians crossing 20 busy intersections in Seattle in the summer of 2012. It concluded that nearly one out of three pedestrians was engaged in some distracting activity, including taking on the phone, listening to music, talking with others, or dealing with children or pets.
Pedestrians who were texting took, on average, 2 seconds longer to cross busy streets and were less likely to pay attention to traffic while doing it.
Distracted drivers took the lives of more than 3,000 people in 2010, according to the National Traffic Highway Safety Administration, which has an ongoing initiative related to the issue. Cell phone use was reported in 18 percent of all distraction-related fatalities, according to the NTHSA.
State legislatures have taken notice.
Handheld cell phone use while driving is banned in 10 states and the District of Columbia and texting while driving is banned in 39 states, according to the Governors Highway Safety Association.
The authors of the distracted pedestrian study recommend studying intervention efforts to reduce the risk of pedestrian injury. They suggest an approach similar to the "don't drink and drive" campaign.


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BURNLEY defender Luke O'Neill has returned a day early from his loan spell with York City.
The right back has been recalled by the Clarets ahead of their FA Cup third round tie at Southampton, and will travel with the squad.
The 22-year-old former Mansfield defender has spent the last three months with the League Two Minstermen and was scheduled to return after tomorrow's games.
But Clarets boss Sean Dyche has opted to bring O'Neill back into the fold ahead of schedule following a number of knocks to defenders.
Michael Duff limped out of Sunday's goalless draw with Wigan Athletic, although was fit enough for the New Year's Day win over Huddersfield Town, but Ben Mee went off in the second half after returning from a two-game absence with a thigh problem.
O'Neill, who played 16 times for York during his loan spell, has made two appearances for the Clarets since joining from Mansfield Town in July 2012 - his last as a substitute in the final Championship game of last season, at home to Ipswich Town.


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Gustafson LLC's new Gaucho Grande insecticide seed treatment could be just what the doctor ordered for farmers who seem to be battling wet springs a lot more often than they used to.
Research shows that Gaucho Grande, which contains a higher rate of the active ingredient imidacloprid than Gaucho, appears to be giving growers longer control of thrips and aphids compared to that of competing products. It may also reduce plant bug numbers for up to 40 days after planting.
"I think farmers are going to find that Gaucho Grande can provide up to 35 days of thrips control, which is seven to 10 days longer than the competing seed treatments," said Bobby Hendrix, southern region sales manager for Gustafson. "By using Gaucho Grande, producers may be able to eliminate over-sprays for thrips."
"When you go out to the fourth or fifth true leaf is when you really see the difference with Gaucho Grande," said Chip Graham, product development manager for Gustafson's Southern Region. "At five weeks, that's when you start to see a separation in treatments."
Not having to spray a foliar insecticide in the first five weeks of the season can be a plus for farmers who have had difficulty getting back into their fields because of sporadic rains following planting. But it can also make a difference in the kind of insect pressure a producer faces for the remainder of the season.
"One of the hot topics at this year's Mississippi Entomology Association annual meeting was that plant bugs are getting more and more prevalent," said Graham. "Anything that delays insecticide applications and protects beneficials could help."
Farmers say they are seeing a difference in their fields.
"Gaucho held longer than anything else this year in controlling thrips," said Rusty Wright, a producer from Sledge, Miss. "Where I have root-knot nematode I used 5 pounds of Temik and two shots of Vydate. Where we don't have a nematode problem, I use Gaucho and generally don't have to spray for 20 days after planting."
"We use Gaucho on everything," said George Mankin, a grower from Watson, Ark. "Gerald Dean, our consultant, said Gaucho holds as good or better than anything else. This is our second year to use Gaucho. The first year we treated our cotton seed on the turnrow; this year we had Helena treat our seed."
Mark and Louis Fratesi, who farm near Leland, Miss., said Gaucho helped them reduce foliar applications of insecticides, helped assure their cotton grew off properly and was cheaper and easier to use than alternatives.
Research appears to be backing up those observations.
In a seed treatment demonstration conducted by Angus Catchot, Extension cotton entomologist with Mississippi State University, Gaucho Grande plots were rated at a 1 (on a scale of 1-5) compared to a 1.5 for regular Gaucho, 2 for a competing product and 3.5 for the untreated check at three weeks after planting.
A similar test by Glenn Studebaker, research entomologist at the Northeast Research and Extension Center, Keiser, Ark., put the thrips damage at 1.1 (1 being no damage) for Gaucho and Gaucho Grande vs. 1.4 for a competing product and 2.1 for the untreated four weeks after planting.
Similar findings were reported by Jack Reed, professor of entomology at Mississippi State University, and Gary Lentz, an entomologist with the West Tennessee Experiment station in Jackson, Tenn.
Gaucho Grande also increased yields in research entomologist Gene Burris' plots at the Northeast Research Station, St. Joseph La., and those of entomologist John Ruberson at the University of Georgia Experiment Station at Tipton, Ga.
Researchers have also reported significant activity on western flower thrips from Gaucho Grande. J.R. Bradley, research entomologist at North Carolina State University, conducted a study with caged western flower thrips on cotton that produced 75 percent mortality on adult western flower thrips compared to 47 percent for the same active ingredient of a competing product.
Gaucho Grande was born in response to the major seed companies' move to seed count packaging, according to Hendrix. "In recent years, distributors have played a more active role in seed treatments because growers have been making variety selections later than before.
"Our rate structure was based on an active ingredient per hundredweight, but the seed count can now vary greatly from one variety to the next," he said. "So we increased the rate of imidacloprid to make the treatments more uniform among the different seed counts."
The increased rate not only helps make sure farmers receive the proper amount of insecticide in their seed treatment, but it also provides longer protections against thrips and aphids, suppression of plant bugs and control of western flower thrips, said Graham.
We were seeing roadblocks, but we saw that farmers needed added flexibility in protecting their plants," he noted. "So we went through the roadblocks and came out with a better product for our growers."


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Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
On two days in the spring of 1959, after a string of critically acclaimed and successful albums, Miles Davis recorded what would become Kind Of Blue. Nothing would ever be the same – for Jazz or for Miles Davis. There's no real way to tell why a record captures the imagination and attention of the world. Some do, some don't. Miles Davis constantly recorded music, and almost all of it added to his popularity and critical acclaim. But over the years, Kind Of Blue found a larger and larger audience. Soon enough, it became the best selling Jazz album of all time. Through the host Josh Jackson and interviews with musicians Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Cobb, Jackie McLean, David Amram and others, listeners heard the story of the making of Kind Of Blue, as well as the lasting impact of this classic Jazz staple.


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Smallpox Vaccination Begins in U.S. -- Precautions Needed
December 20, 2002
A note from TheBody.com: The field of medicine is constantly evolving. As a result, parts of this article may be outdated. Please keep this in mind, and be sure to visit other parts of our site for more recent information!
On December 13 President Bush announced that the U.S. will begin a smallpox vaccination program. It will be mandatory for about 500,000 military personnel, with voluntary but recommended vaccination for over 400,000 civilian health-care workers most likely to encounter smallpox in case it is spread deliberately. A few in the military started receiving the vaccine immediately; the program for civilian health workers may start in January. Eventually, vaccination might be recommended for as many as 10 million health and emergency workers in the U.S.
People with HIV or certain other medical conditions -- probably millions of Americans -- cannot be vaccinated safely because the vaccine uses a live virus, called vaccinia. Vaccinia can cause a dangerous infection, especially in persons with immune deficiencies. Persons at risk from vaccination need to be aware of other precautions as well, since one can get this infection not only by being vaccinated, but also by close contact (especially household contact) with someone who has been vaccinated within about three weeks. Vaccinia can be spread by contact with someone's vaccination site, or contact with materials that have touched the site. If vaccinia infection does occur, there are recommended treatments -- VIG (vaccinia immune globulin), and cidofovir, an approved drug that can have serious side effects -- but the infection can be fatal despite treatment. Hospitals are concerned that their healthcare workers who get vaccinated could infect patients, many of whom have immune deficiencies. Some hospitals may send vaccinated staff home during the two to three weeks they could be contagious, some may decide just to keep them out of certain wards, and a few have refused to participate in the national vaccination program.
In case of actual exposure to smallpox, or cases found anywhere in the world, vaccination might be worth the risk even for many who would otherwise be screened out. Fortunately, vaccination does protect against smallpox even if it is given shortly after exposure (in the first three days if possible). Therefore most people can wait, and decide about vaccination only if a smallpox outbreak occurs.
New kinds of smallpox vaccines are being tested. Some of them may be safe enough for many people with HIV or others who should not get the current one.
A much smaller program is starting in England, vaccinating about 300 healthcare workers against smallpox. Israel recently vaccinated about 17,000 medical and rescue workers in preparation for a U.S. war on Iraq -- apparently with little problem from side effects. We have not heard of smallpox vaccination plans in other countries.
For More InformationThe U.S. government is planning a massive public education campaign about smallpox vaccination. This information is being prepared by leading experts and will probably be the best available. Until it is ready, those wanting recent information can check the following. (Note: We published these links on December 23, 2002. Be sure to look for more recent information.)
CommentSo far the vaccination program is mostly getting good medical reviews. Public health experts are especially relieved that it is not trying to vaccinate the whole population, as some had proposed.
No one knows the risk of an attack. The case for the program is that if smallpox does occur, there will be teams already vaccinated and ready to respond -- and equally important, some current experience in large-scale vaccination and a program that is ready to go, allowing many more people to be protected quickly if necessary. The U.S. already has enough doses to vaccinate everyone in the country, even before new vaccine is manufactured.
The world is not as lucky. "Last year epidemiologists were very concerned to learn that the WHO's vaccine safety net of 200 million doses had been destroyed in the late 1980s when the United States withheld funds and the agency was unable to pay $50,000 to refrigerate the supply." (Lawrence Brilliant, M.D., "Are We Safe? Halting the Next Plague," The Oprah Magazine, June 2002.)
It is strange to plan for smallpox in a vacuum, disconnected from how we got into this situation or how to avoid it in the future. But the vaccination program is a fact, and everyone with HIV or certain other medical conditions will need to consider precautions.
Be sure to get the latest information. This article, published in late December 2002, will soon be obsolete.
Copyright 2002 by John S. James. Permission granted for noncommercial reproduction, provided that our address and phone number are included if more than short quotations are used.
Copyright 2002 by John S. James. Permission granted for noncommercial reproduction, provided that our address and phone number are included if more than short quotations are used.
A note from TheBody.com: The field of medicine is constantly evolving. As a result, parts of this article may be outdated. Please keep this in mind, and be sure to visit other parts of our site for more recent information!
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Fluke fanzine
Fluke was created in North Little Rock, Arkansas in the summer of 1991, by Steve Schmidt, Jason White and Matthew Thompson.
Steve planned on doing a zine called Plaid, which never saw issue one. He did have a couple of interviews with the bands Fugazi and Plaid Retina, took photographs and wrote a slew of record reviews. This jump-started the first issue of Fluke. Jason interviewed Tim Lamb, who put out Lighten Up! zine and Trusty's first 7", on his Soma Records label. Jason also included some writing and record reviews. Matthew contributed some writing, photography, and record reviews as well. Steve, Jason and Matthew worked on the layout of the zine and, with the help of a few contributors, Fluke was born. #2 was printed the next year, in the Fall of 1992. The "Fluke Boys," as some called the three friends, ended their collaboration but Matthew continued to publish it sporadically, with the most recent issue, #9, 20th Anniversary, being released in May of 2011.
Steve now lives in Chicago and plays in the band Avenue Boulevard. Jason White now lives in the Bay Area and plays guitar for Green Day. Matthew Thompson now lives in Phoenix, Arizona and continues to publish Fluke.
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BOSTON – The Georgia College women's cross country team and sophomore Allison Lones (Kathleen, Ga.) paced their way to a 16th place finish at the 32nd Annual Codfish Bowl Cross Country Races in Boston Saturday afternoon.
Lones led all Bobcat runners for the fourth time this season with her 50th place finish, completing the 5K course in 20:50.
Following Lones were teammates Rebecca Shane (Lilburn, Ga.) and Victoria Dobson (New Hamburg, Ontario), finishing 84th and 85th, respectively.
Shane and Dobson finished the course simultaneously at 22:04, slightly ahead of a slew of 22:05 times.
Asthon Passino (Alpharetta, Ga.) came in 93rd place for the Bobcats, slightly behind her duo of teammates with a time of 22:16.
Rounding-out the scoring for GC was senior Karissa Ekstrom (Alpharetta, Ga.), who finished 113th with a time of 23:05.
Georgia College will enjoy a week off before competing in Augusta State Invitational Saturday, Oct. 8 in Augusta, Ga.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, two-time winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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