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Thanks for Lynn L. Bergeson for her Dec. 1, 2012 posting on the Nanotechnology Now website for the information about a Nov. 28, 2012 webinar that was held to discuss a Nanotechnology Work Plan developed by the joint Canada-US Regulatory Cooperation Council (or sometimes it's called the US-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council),
The RCC requested that industry provide more information on the commercial distribution of nanomaterials, as well as more transparency by claiming confidentiality of only that information absolutely critical to market advantage.
To compare risk assessment and risk management practices to highlight and identify best practices, data gaps, and differences between the two jurisdictions, the RCC sought nominations of a nanomaterial substance for a case study. Four nanomaterial substances were nominated: multiwall carbon nanotubes, nanocrystalline cellulose, nano silver, and titanium dioxide. The RCC has selected multiwall carbon nanotubes for the case study. The RCC intends to hold in March 2013 a workshop in Washington, D.C., to discuss information collected to date and approaches moving forward. In spring 2013, the RCC will hold one or two conference calls or webinars to discuss information gathered between countries and the path forward. Finally, in fall 2013, the RCC expects to hold a stakeholder consultation/workshop on results to date.
Here's some background on the RCC. First announced in February 2011, the RCC had its first 'stakeholder' session (attended by approximately 240) in January 2012 in Washington, DC. where a series of initiatives, including nanotechnology, were discussed (from the US International Trade Administration RCC Stakeholder Outreach webpage),
Agriculture and Food, Session A
- Perimeter approach to plant protection
Agriculture and Food, Session B
- Crop protection products
Agriculture and Food, Session C
- Meat/poultry – equivalency
- Meat/poultry – certification requirements
- Meat cut nomenclature
Agriculture and Food, Session D
- Veterinary drugs
- Zoning for foreign animal disease
Agriculture and Food, Session E
- Financial protection to produce sellers
Agriculture and Food, Session F
- Food safety – common approach
- Food safety – testing
Road Transport – Motor Vehicles
- Existing motor vehicle safety standards
- New motor vehicle safety standards
Air Transport
- Unmanned aircraft
- Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Dangerous goods means of transportation
Marine Transport
- Safety and security framework & arrangement for the St. Lawrence Seaway & Great Lakes System
- Marine transportation security regulations
- Recreational boat manufacturing standards
- Standard for lifejackets
Rail Transport
- Locomotive Emissions
- Rail Safety Standards
- Emission standards for light-duty vehicles
Personal Care Products & Pharmaceuticals
- Electronic submission gateway
- Over-the-counter products – common monographs
- Good manufacturing practices
Occupational Safety Issues
- Classification & labelling of workplace hazardous chemicals
- Nanotechnology
Led jointly by senior officials from Canada and the United States, the purpose of the various technical review sessions was to seek expert advice and technical input from the approximately 240 stakeholders in attendance.
Since the Jan. 2012 meeting, a Nanotechnology Work Plan has been developed and that's what was recently discussed at the Nov. 28, 2012 webinar. I did find more on a Canadian government website, Canada's Economic Action Plan Nanotechnology Work Plan webpage,
Nanotechnology Work Plan
Canada Leads: Karen Dodds, Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada (EC)
Hilary Geller, Assistant Deputy Minister, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch, Health Canada (HC)
U.S. Lead: Margaret Malanoski, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget
Deliverable Outcome: Share information and develop common approaches, to the extent possible, on foundational regulatory elements, including criteria for determining characteristics of concern/no concern, information gathering, approaches to risk assessment and management, etc. Develop joint initiatives to align regulatory approaches in specific areas such that consistency exists for consumers and industry in Canada and the US.
Principles: Identification of common principles for the regulation of nanomaterials to help ensure consistency for industry and consumers in both countries
3-6 months:
Canada provides initial feedback on US "Policy Principles for the US Decision-Making Concerning Regulation and Oversight of Applications of Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials".
6-12 months:
Countries complete an initial draft of shared principles for the regulation of nanomaterials.
12-18 months:
Update of draft principles informed from on-going stakeholder and expert consultations.
18th month:
Stakeholder consultation / workshop on results to date and future ongoing engagement.
Beyond 18 months:
Countries complete final draft of shared principles for the regulation of nanomaterials.
Workplan for Industrial Nanomaterials
Priority-Setting: Identify common criteria for determining characteristics of industrial nanomaterials of concern/no-concern
1-3 months:
- Define and finalize workplan (1st month)
- Develop mechanisms for stakeholder outreach and engagement (1st month)
- Conference call with relevant stakeholders to share and discuss workplan and call for Industry to volunteer nanomaterials for joint CAN/US review
3-6 months:
Share available scientific evidence regarding characteristics of industrial nanomaterials including that obtained from existing international fora (e.g. OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials [Canada is a lead in the OECD Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials]).
8th month:
Stakeholder workshop to discuss information collected to date and approaches moving forward.
6-12 months:
Initiate an analysis of characteristics of select nanomaterials: similarities, differences, reasons for them.
Initiate discussions on approaches to consider for common definitions and terminology.
12th month:
Second conference call with relevant stakeholders to discuss non-CBI information gathered between the Countries and to discuss path forward in terms of development of reports and analyses.
12-18 months:
Develop draft criteria for determining characteristics of industrial nanomaterials of concern/no-concern.
15th month:
Third conference call with relevant stakeholders to discuss progress and to prepare for the upcoming stakeholder consultation/workshop.
Here's information for the leads should you feel compelled to make contact,
(Lead) Karen Dodds, Assistant Deputy Minister, Science and Technology, Environment Canada (email@example.com; ph. 613- 819-934-6851)
Hilary Geller, Assistant Deputy Minister, Healthy Environments and Consumer Safety Branch (email@example.com; ph. 613-946-6701)
United States
(Lead) Margaret Malanoski, Office of Management and Budget (email@example.com)
I gather that the 'stakeholders' are business people, researchers, and policy analysts/makers as there doesn't seem to be any mechanism for public consultation or education, for that matter.


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Just to let you know, as of February 15th 2018, I will be retiring from Clinical Dentistry and focussing my career on providing soley Sedation Services for patients at Stratford Dental, Cotswold Dental Wellness and many other practices in the Warwickshire area, as well as helping patients overcome their dental phobias.
I have set up a new website www.midlandsdentalsedation.co.uk for patients and professionals alike.
If you require sedation for your treatment in the Warwickshire area, ask your dentist about sedation and ask them to get in touch.
I am not actually carrying out any dentistry myself on patients, just helping patients get the care they need at their regular practice, or directing new patients to a suitable dentist in their area who can help.
Friday 25th May 2012
My Interview on: BBC Radio Coventry + Warks
Have you ever had really painful injections?
Are you about to have lots of treatment done and want to make it easier?
Are you not that scared but about to have root canal or a tooth removed?
Have you ever had your teeth drilled by a dentist when the anesthesia or the injections didnt work properly and the dentist carried on?
Ever been stone-cold sober through a nerve-wracking dental appointment with clammy, sweaty, shaky hands and your cold, soaked shirt clinging to your back?
Does your jaw get tight and sore for days after from having to always "open wider"?
Have you ever put off dental work because the thought of a painful appointment tied your stomach in knots?
Have you ever put off treatment because you think youd left it so long, you were going to get told off or made to feel like an idiot?
Have you ever thought, "with all the advances in modern medicine, THERE MUST BE WAY to get my teeth fixed without pain and nerve shattering stress?"
My Name is Dr Rob Endicott and I am a Dentist who focusses on Dental Phobia and Dental Sedation , based at the amazing Stratford Dental right in the Heart of Warwickshire.
For years, I have been experiencing what its like to be nervous of the dentist. We, as dentists, know that what we are doing is really "not all that bad", but try being on the end of it, without any control over what is going on!!!!
I have been working as a Dentist for 15 years and have come across more and more people whose fear of the dentist has been made worse and worse by things like the "GUILT SPIRAL".
Its a very simple idea, you get a hole in your tooth, you knoe youve got to get it sorted out. But youve had a bad experience in the past so you delay.
The hole gets worse so the fear increases because you think its going to worse them when this thing started. You start to feel guilty that you never got it sorted out in the first place. An of course, most Dentists will tell you off for letting it get this way.
Other teeth then get affected, the fear increases, as so the guilt
The Cycle Continues!
I wonder these days how much the Phobia gets Fed by this Guilt Spiral. We do find that quite often, by breaking the spiral and getting the teeth sorted out Painlessly and Comfortably, the phobia lessens, meaning the patient is more likely to be able to seek regular care without needing drugs. If it doesnt though, we still dont mind giving you sedation!
If this makes sense to you and anything rings true, fill in your email on the right or book an appointment right away!
I offer Dental Intravenous Sedation in the Midlands for people who have dental phobias, are scared of the dentist or who just dont like going and would rather a more comfortable experience.
I also run a website linking patients all round the UK with caring dentists who are well used to dealing with people who have a fear of the dentist.
With best wishes
Dear Rob
Just wanted to say thank you for making Tuesday a stress free experience. The only stress was in the waiting room and my mum did have to hold on to me to stop me running out the door!!! I have only remember the start and standing up at the end which is good for me (oh and biting a couple of times which hopefully was under instruction!!). I will be back for the second round.....
Thank you again for being kind, caring and as I say making it an almost pleasant experience.
Dear Dr. Endicott
I just want to thank you for your patience and for saving my tooth. I am happy to tell you, after a couple days the tooth never hurt again.
Thank you so much
Hi Rob,
Just to say I'm so happy with new bridge; to think I wasted/worried all that time for nothing - I should know by now you're not anything like many previous dentists I've encountered over the years....that's a compliment by the way!!
Mrs L from Polegate
Just wanted to email you to say thankyou for today. I must admit it was a very close call to whether i was going to stay in the waiting room i did nearly leave! I was not convinced about the sedation and not being able to feel anything or remember very little.... BUT i cannot believe that
1. i stayed and went through with my treatment but
2. i actually can't remember much of what you did and didn't feel anything!!!
Thankyou so much and will be back on the 15th November, i can't promise i won't be nervous still, but you being so friendly,kind and not making me feel guilty about my teeth is making the appointments a little easier.
Mrs MW Brighton
I have to say I am simply stunned at how pain free my treatment was.
Apologies for the 'needle trauma' though I was soon in a land far far away. I don't know if I dreamed half the stuff I thought I was saying, or actually said it. I think I complained that something hurt, rest assured it was a lie because I didn't feel a thing.
Mr SC Brighton
Dear Rob
I just wanted to drop you a line to thank you so much for yesterday; I still can't believe how easy and unstressful it was! I've never had such a good experience at the dentist before; the after-effects were so minimal - just a bit of tiredness, again unlike previous occasions when I actually felt quite depressed for a while. Thank you also for a total lack of bruising/discomfort where the needle went in - again a first!
Mrs P from Brighton
I actually enjoyed that local anaesthetic! Never thought I'd say that.
Mrs S from Worthing
Dear Rob
Thank you once again, I feel lucky to have found such a human dentist!
Mrs L from Brighton
Dear Rob
Thanks for today, it was nowhere near as bad as I expected! Ill book the next visit for next month.
Mr G from Brighton
Hi Rob,
I hope all is well... many thanks for the good job pulling that tooth. It
had been a pain for years and thanks to my Dental Sedation I recall little of the operation!
Mr L from Hastings
Dear Rob,
Thank you for making me feel so at ease today. I am sending my husband to you now!
Mrs B from Brighton
Dear Dr Rob
I would just like to send my thanks through an email.
It was very difficult for me to come today, the thought of any dental work has previously been out of the question for me due to a fear of the dentist.
However you were very welcoming and understanding of my situation and for that i am very grateful.
Mrs N from Brighton
Hello Rob
I hope you were happy with how things went on Friday? I don't remember very much, which is a good thing!
Everything has been fine, apart from a bit of sensitivity, and I'm keen to organise my next visit hopefully before I go away? I can't believe I'm so keen!!
Mrs R from Brighton
My dental sedation was fantastic , i felt great with no pain whatsoever and would recommend it to anyone who is nervous about having dental work. I have been petrified about visiting the dentist for nearly 20 years then i met Rob! He has totally restored my confidence in having dental work carried out and i have complete 100% faith in him and he is a godsend to the dentistry profession. The whole team at Quayside dental practice are amazing and would like to thank you all for your hard friendly help you provide to myself. You guys are the best.
Mr R. Batty from Eastbourne
"Just wanted to say, once again, a huge thank you for yesterday. For making time, for your calming expertise and for your generosity. Above all was just nice to see you. I'm really pleased with the results.
Enjoy Chicago and I'll see you very soon! "
Rob S. from Clapham
I cant believe I went from shaking in the doorway to having 2 hours of dental treatment with dental sedation without noticing anything! it was so easy - thanks so much for your understanding.
Mrs B.T from Brighton
I had partial dentures done by Rob four years ago and bridge work done at the same time. He saved my life! The work, so far, has not gone wrong at all and I am really pleased with my smile. It has given me a lot more confidence generally as a person.
I would have no hesitation in recommending Rob Endicott to anyone who needed extensive dental works done, and moreover, I cannot think of a better person who deserves this award!
Many thanks and Kind Regards
Mrs Chris M. from Croydon
Just a note to say I am very pleased to hear that rob is being nominated for 'Young Dentist of the Year', he has been my dentist for the last 6 years and has always given an exceptional service, I have found him to be very professional but more importantly have a friendly approach to his clients, which automatically relaxes you and makes you feel very comfortable when having any work done.
Pass on my regards
Mr John M from Eastbourne
I felt that I must write to you as Practice Manager of the Quayside Dental Practice, to tell you how pleased I was with my recent dental treatment by Rob.
I was in considerable pain and was very grateful to be seen so quickly. I had a loose bridge and I was very apprehensive, as I was due to read a tape for Wealden Talking news and without treatment this wasn't going to happen!
Rob greeted me with his usual quiet assurance and soon explained to me what was going to happen. Twenty minutes later all was fixed and I went off to do my reading.
I'm sorry this is by e-mail and not hand written but I'm about to leave on a short holiday and wanted to send this before I left!
Kind Regards
Mrs Josie S. Eastbourne
I apologise for typing this letter, I really wanted to put pen to paper, but due to lack of time it has to be 'word processor to paper instead'.
We just wanted to say a big 'thank you' for all the kind attention we have received at the practice and that my husband really appreciates all the work that Rob Endicott ha s done for him.
Considering the fact that he had not been to a dentist for years, due to a very bad experience as a young lad, it is amazing how Rob has managed to put it all right for him after such a long time.
It is great for him to have his smile back, it has really restored his confidence and even though he will always be slightly nervous about any treatment he needs, at least he is now willing to go through with it and I know he will see the remainder of his treatment through to the end. He actually managed to fall asleep during a long appointment recently, so that says it all really.
Again, a big thanks to you all for the nice and courteous service and a lot of credit to Rob for making it all possible, he is truly a dental genius and we would not have got there without him.
Kind Regards
Mrs Pat P. from Eastbourne
I went to see Rob over a year ago as I had had such a bad time with my NHS dentist and they had put a bridge back in that they shouldn't have as my bones were too soft, they hadn't filled in a big gap that needed a bridge or plate to keep my teeth aligned, and left me with three broken teeth. He sorted me out with a plate as the teeth couldn't be re-bridged and also re-did the crowns that were past their sell by date, he placed a bridge in a gap on the bottom side, and I had that gap for 40 odd years!! He was always good at explaining what I needed and why, and checking that it was also what I wanted. I can honestly say that it is always a very pleasant experience visiting quayside, everyone is so very friendly and Rob never makes you feel silly when you are nervous.
I think he well and truly deserves 'Young Dentist of the Year', he's an excellent man! Kindest regards
Mrs Bev A. from Eastbourne
I also practice on Wednesdays at Cromwell Park Dental Centre in Chipping Norton
Find me on WhatClinic.com
Dr Robert Michael Endicott BDS (Birm 1997)
Stratford Dental, Aintree Road
Stratford upon Avon CV37 9FL
01789 292398
co-founder of the Warwickshire Dental Training Institute
co-founder of EmergencyDentistAppointments.co.uk
Winner of Private Dentistry 2007 South East Young Dentist of the Year
Registered with General Dental Council 73516
Private dentist independent of the NHS
In case of complaints, contact me directly or speak to the Dental Complaints Service www.dentalcomplaints.org.uk


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The Texas Women's Health Program has finally rolled out their brand new logo—tweeted breathlessly by Governor Rick Perry—and it's pretty hideous. Lindy West and Erin Gloria Ryan discussed the design via chat today.
Erin: The new logo for the Texas Women's Health program (the one where they exclude Planned Parenthood and reject millions in federal funding) is FUCKING AWFUL.
Lindy: GAAAAHHHHHH. Everything about it is awful.
Erin: Who aborted that graphic designer's talent?
Lindy: Heyo! Also, like, can I just have some dignified colors? For grown-ups?
Erin: Totally. Rather than giving us the packaging for UTERUS FUN BARBIE?
Lindy: TOTALLY. It looks like a knockoff drug-store-brand Uterus Fun Barbie valentine. Except since it's a knockoff it can't be Barbie. So it's like…Uterus Fun Burbie.
Erin: Uterus Fun Midge.
Lindy: Fuckin' Midge. Also, redness does not make me think of vagina health.
Erin: That's how my cunt looks. A big red Barbie head.
Lindy: And even though there isn't a cross in the logo it totally looks like there's a cross.
Erin: Because Texas looks like a cross.
Lindy: It can't be a coincidence that they obscured all the parts of Texas that don't look like a cross.
Erin: Did you see the replies? To the tweet? One person was like, "I'm not complaining but THAT LADY LOOKS BLACK."
Lindy: WTF. First of all, IN WHAT WAY. Second of all, BLACK PEOPLE ALSO HAVE VAGINAS THAT REQUIRE MEDICAL CARE.
Erin: Shut up.
Lindy: You're right. That was out of line.
Erin: I don't have a vagina. I have a husband hole.
Lindy: Oh, Texas.


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DUBAI (Reuters) - The installation of Patriot anti-missile batteries sent by NATO members to bolster Turkey's defenses against a possible missile attack from Syria will only harm Turkey's security, Iran's defense minister was quoted as saying on Saturday.
NATO approved Turkey's request for the air defense system earlier this month, in a move meant to calm Ankara's fears of being hit by Syrian missiles.
Iran has strongly supported its Arab ally President Bashar al-Assad of Syria as he attempts to suppress a 21-month-old uprising against his rule. Tehran opposes the installation of NATO missiles as Western interference in the region and has said it could lead to a "world war.
"The installation of Patriot missiles in Turkey plays no role in establishing Turkey's security and this harms the country of Turkey," Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said on Saturday, according to the Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA). "The West has always pursued its viewpoints and interests and we disagree with the presence of Western countries in regional interactions."
Vahidi also denied that Iran is training Syrian forces to battle the rebels, ISNA reported. Iran considers itself, Syria's rulers and the Lebanese Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah as part of an "axis of resistance" against U.S. and Israeli power in the Middle East, but has denied accusations that it helping Assad militarily.
"Syria has no need for the training of its forces by the Islamic Republic of Iran, because Syria has a powerful military which has prepared itself for involvement with the Zionist regime (Israel)," Vahidi said.
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The issue of raising and setting standards for personal trainers is coming to the front and center again after several recent actions. Certification agencies are meeting with the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA) on third-party accreditation, and Purdue University now offers a four-year degree program for personal trainers.
Some of the certifying agencies have been meeting since 2002 to discuss how to raise the standards of personal trainers by raising their own standards. However, other certifying groups came later to the discussion because they were initially unaware of the meetings. Regardless of when they joined in the discussion, the groups are dealing with a weighty recommendation from IHRSA that by December 2005 club owners hire personal trainers with certifications from a certifying agency that has been accredited by a third-party accrediting organization. IHRSA has named the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) as that third-party accrediting organization. As a result, many of the certifying agencies are pursuing accreditation through NCCA. However, some of the certifying agencies have taken exception to the use of NCCA and would like at least one more accreditation group to be accepted by IHRSA.
About 20 of the approximately 74 certifying agencies met with IHRSA in Chicago prior to the Club Industry show in October to discuss the issue.
"Accreditation is the foundation of the house that needs to be built," said Ron Clark, president and founder of the certifying agency National Federation of Personal Trainers. Clark attended the October meeting. "We need to get through this and establish some sort of coherent organization to address not just the selfish issues but to address serious industry issues that will forward our industry and attract people to our profession."
After all, Clark said, accreditation is not about the certifying bodies. "It is about the trainers and the public," he said. "The NCCA is responsible for certifying agency National Federation of Personal Trainers. Clark attended the October meeting. "We need to get through this and establish some sort of coherent organization to address not just the selfish issues but to address serious industry issues that will forward our industry and attract people to our profession."
After the IHRSA meeting, many of the certifying groups held a separate meeting in which they decided to research and write three study papers on topics of concern to them about accreditation, including the merits of NCCA, any modifications that should occur to NCCA policies, and the merits of additional accreditation bodies. The group would like the papers to be presented to a small panel that would make recommendations to IHRSA about the topics discussed in the study papers. While details about the panel haven't been set yet, the certifying agencies discussed the possibility that IHRSA would choose the panel, but the panel would be independent of IHRSA and the certification groups.
The certifying agencies discussed setting a schedule for presentation of the study papers to the panel, for panel recommendations to go to IHRSA and for a deadline for IHRSA to consider the panel's recommendations. The certification groups did not set a schedule for these deadlines at the meeting. The certifying groups also discussed establishing a consortium to look at broader health issues.
The reason for the certifying agency meetings and the need to set standards stem from several issues. As the weight of the general population continues to increase, Medicare has removed a sentence in its guidelines stating that obesity is not a disease. This opens up the possibility that Medicare may in the future deem that weight-loss methods (including health club memberships and personal training sessions) are reimbursable. Third-party insurers could follow that lead (or lead Medicare to it), especially since a growing number of private insurers are offering their members discounted health club memberships.
"By setting standards, it would be more likely that insurance companies would reimburse (for personal training)," said Mitch Schroder, owner of Better Bodies Inc., a personal training studio in Zionsville, IN. "We won't be reimbursed by insurance companies until we have real, viable, credible certifications — and that would include a degree as well."
Liability concerns are also moving the issue forward.
"Club owners are hanging out there," said Clark. "They are on a limb for liability purposes and insurance costs are getting higher. IHRSA has club owners out there that are trying to minimize their liability and IHRSA has a responsibility to their members."
Club owners are concerned about protecting their members, their personal trainers and themselves from injuries and liability issues that may stem from those injuries. Better-trained personal trainers with quality certifications can help decrease the possibility of injuries and resultant lawsuits, said Clark.
Schroder is concerned about liability issues, but he's more concerned about the perception that the public has of personal trainers.
"The profession will not grow if we have no accountability," Schroder said, continuing by saying that club owners should not settle for inferior certifications from their personal trainers. "It's critical for our future to do it right."
As a former physical therapist, Schroder saw people come in who had been injured working with a personal trainer.
"I know many people with certifications who don't have credible certifications," he said. "They cause injuries, and it injures our profession."
Schroder requires his trainers to have a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in a related field in addition to NSCA and until we have real, viable, credible certifications — and that would include a degree as well."
Getting those degrees may be easier now that some universities are offering degrees for personal trainers. Purdue University will offer a four-year degree for personal training starting in spring 2005.
"The faculty and staff here didn't at first understand the personal training business," said Ken Baldwin, a former health club owner and the assistant director of fitness at Purdue University. "When they learned that people don't need college programs to be certified, they were shocked."
The goal of Purdue's Health and Kinesiology Department is for the profession to become college and academic oriented.
"We did not sense that there was a set of guidelines of excellence or accreditation that was nationally accepted," said Roger Seehafer, professor of health promotion at Purdue University. "We were also aware of the increasing sensitivity to the legal and related implications in the field."
Students will walk out of the program with an undergraduate degree in health and fitness with a concentration in personal fitness training. During the students' junior and senior years, they will receive hands-on experience in the form of eight, six-week rotations in cardiac rehab, physical therapy, athletic training, senior fitness, commercial health clubs, children's fitness, corporate fitness and the non-profit sector.
Baldwin expects that within four years, the program will be overseeing 50-80 students, and the program's students will be some of the best trainers in the nation.
"Our hope is that as a better product is available at the national scene, this will attract the attention of the profession so that given a choice, they (club owners) will go with a more qualified professional and raise not only the levels or performance of professionals in the field but also begin to change the public image of personal trainers," Seehafer said.
Raising the image of personal trainers is something that the certification agencies agreed was important to them as well. In addition, some certifying agencies fear that if the industry doesn't set standards for itself, the federal government will step in to set those standards.
However, many of the certifying agencies and IHRSA agree that those standards are better set by those within the industry.
"Fundamentally, IHRSA is opposed to unnecessary government regulation in our industry," said Bill Howland, spokesperson for IHRSA. "That is not our ultimate goal on any front. We believe there is a way for clubs, the private sector to work so business goals are met and the public interest is protected."


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I don't know how related this is to my problem but after recently setting up Compiz and installing Wallch 4.0, I can't boot up Synaptic Package Manager in XFCE mode, but it does boot in MATE mode. Is there any way to repair this or must I uninstall Wallch even though I had it off while trying to boot Synaptic several times? It might have nothing to do with it either, but I updated Wallch from their Launchpad site via cut-pasting the line commands there into terminal.
As an aside, I just noticed that Compiz denies you a top button bar in your apps and windows and also affects the panel toolbar like keeping Workspace Switcher from opening workspace panels. Happens in both XFCE and MATE. For me at least. If this is normal Compiz behavior I can't see how it can be that useful by hampering features so. I don't see this issue under search here so I guess it'll Google it later.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Jim in NYC
I don't know about the Compiz thing but look at the Exec= line in synaptic.desktop and try the same command on the terminal to see which error it gives.


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Clay mineral
Clay mineral, any of a group of important hydrous aluminum silicates with a layer (sheetlike) structure and very small particle size. They may contain significant amounts of iron, alkali metals, or alkaline earths.
General considerations
The term clay is generally applied to (1) a natural material with plastic properties, (2) particles of very fine size, customarily those defined as particles smaller than two micrometres (7.9 × 10−5 inch), and (3) very fine mineral fragments or particles composed mostly of hydrous-layer silicates of aluminum, though occasionally containing magnesium and iron. Although, in a broader sense, clay minerals can include virtually any mineral of the above-cited particle size, the definition adapted here is restricted to represent hydrous-layer silicates and some related short-range ordered aluminosilicates, both of which occur either exclusively or frequently in very fine-size grades.
The development of X-ray diffraction techniques in the 1920s and the subsequent improvement of microscopic and thermal procedures enabled investigators to establish that clays are composed of a few groups of crystalline minerals. The introduction of electron microscopic methods proved very useful in determining the characteristic shape and size of clay minerals. More recent analytical techniques such as infrared spectroscopy, neutron diffraction analysis, Mössbauer spectroscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy have helped advance scientific knowledge of the crystal chemistry of these minerals.
Clay minerals are composed essentially of silica, alumina or magnesia or both, and water, but iron substitutes for aluminum and magnesium in varying degrees, and appreciable quantities of potassium, sodium, and calcium are frequently present as well. Some clay minerals may be expressed using ideal chemical formulas as the following: 2SiO2·Al2O3·2H2O (kaolinite), 4SiO2·Al2O3·H2O (pyrophyllite), 4SiO2·3MgO·H2O (talc), and 3SiO2·Al2O3·5FeO·4H2O (chamosite). The SiO2 ratio in a formula is the key factor determining clay mineral types. These minerals can be classified on the basis of variations of chemical composition and atomic structure into nine groups: (1) kaolin-serpentine (kaolinite, halloysite, lizardite, chrysotile), (2) pyrophyllite-talc, (3) mica (illite, glauconite, celadonite), (4) vermiculite, (5) smectite (montmorillonite, nontronite, saponite), (6) chlorite (sudoite, clinochlore, chamosite), (7) sepiolite-palygorskite, (8) interstratified clay minerals (e.g., rectorite, corrensite, tosudite), and (9) allophane-imogolite. Information and structural diagrams for these groups are given below.
Kaolinite is derived from the commonly used name kaolin, which is a corruption of the Chinese Gaoling (Pinyin; Wade-Giles romanization Kao-ling), meaning "high ridge," the name of a hill near Jingdezhen where the occurrence of the mineral is known as early as the 2nd century bce. Montmorillonite and nontronite are named after the localities Montmorillon and Nontron, respectively, in France, where these minerals were first reported. Celadonite is from the French céladon (meaning grayish yellow-green) in allusion to its colour. Because sepiolite is a light and porous material, its name is based on the Greek word for cuttlefish, the bone of which is similar in nature. The name saponite is derived from the Latin sapon (meaning soap), because of its appearance and cleaning ability. Vermiculite is from the Latin vermiculari ("to breed worms"), because of its physical characteristic of exfoliation upon heating, which causes the mineral to exhibit a spectacular volume change from small grains to long wormlike threads. Baileychlore, brindleyite, corrensite, sudoite, and tosudite are examples of clay minerals that were named after distinguished clay mineralogists—Sturges W. Bailey, George W. Brindley, Carl W. Correns, and Toshio Sudō, respectively.Ralph E. Grim Hideomi Kodama
General features
The structure of clay minerals has been determined largely by X-ray diffraction methods. The essential features of hydrous-layer silicates were revealed by various scientists including Charles Mauguin, Linus C. Pauling, W.W. Jackson, J. West, and John W. Gruner through the late 1920s to mid-1930s. These features are continuous two-dimensional tetrahedral sheets of composition Si2O5, with SiO4 tetrahedrons (Figure 1) linked by the sharing of three corners of each tetrahedron to form a hexagonal mesh pattern (Figure 2A). Frequently, silicon atoms of the tetrahedrons are partially substituted for by aluminum and, to a lesser extent, ferric iron. The apical oxygen at the fourth corner of the tetrahedrons, which is usually directed normal to the sheet, forms part of an adjacent octahedral sheet in which octahedrons are linked by sharing edges (Figure 3). The junction plane between tetrahedral and octahedral sheets consists of the shared apical oxygen atoms of the tetrahedrons and unshared hydroxyls that lie at the centre of each hexagonal ring of tetrahedrons and at the same level as the shared apical oxygen atoms (Figure 4). Common cations that coordinate the octahedral sheets are Al, Mg, Fe3+, and Fe2+; occasionally Li, V, Cr, Mn, Ni, Cu, and Zn substitute in considerable amounts. If divalent cations (M2+) are in the octahedral sheets, the composition is M2+/3 (OH)2O4 and all the octahedrons are occupied. If there are trivalent cations (M3+), the composition is M3+/2 (OH)2O4 and two-thirds of the octahedrons are occupied, with the absence of the third octahedron. The former type of octahedral sheet is called trioctahedral, and the latter dioctahedral. If all the anion groups are hydroxyl ions in the compositions of octahedral sheets, the resulting sheets may be expressed by M2+(OH)2 and M3+(OH)3, respectively. Such sheets, called hydroxide sheets, occur singly, alternating with silicate layers in some clay minerals. Brucite, Mg(OH)2, and gibbsite, Al(OH)3, are typical examples of minerals having similar structures. There are two major types for the structural "backbones" of clay minerals called silicate layers. The unit silicate layer formed by aligning one octahedral sheet to one tetrahedral sheet is referred to as a 1:1 silicate layer, and the exposed surface of the octahedral sheet consists of hydroxyls. In another type, the unit silicate layer consists of one octahedral sheet sandwiched by two tetrahedral sheets that are oriented in opposite directions and is termed a 2:1 silicate layer (Figure 5). These structural features, however, are limited to idealized geometric arrangements.
Real structures of clay minerals contain substantial crystal strains and distortions, which produce irregularities such as deformed octahedrons and tetrahedrons rather than polyhedrons with equilateral triangle faces, ditrigonal symmetry modified from the ideal hexagonal surface symmetry, and puckered surfaces instead of the flat planes made up by the basal oxygen atoms of the tetrahedral sheet. One of the major causes of such distortions is dimensional "misfits" between the tetrahedral and octahedral sheets. If the tetrahedral sheet contains only silicon in the cationic site and has an ideal hexagonal symmetry, the longer unit dimension within the basal plane is 9.15 Å, which lies between the corresponding dimensions 8.6 Å of gibbsite and 9.4 Å of brucite. To fit the tetrahedral sheet into the dimension of the octahedral sheet, alternate SiO4 tetrahedrons rotate (up to a theoretical maximum of 30°) in opposite directions to distort the ideal hexagonal array into a doubly triangular (ditrigonal) array (Figure 2B). By this distortion mechanism, tetrahedral and octahedral sheets of a wide range of compositions resulting from ionic substitutions can link together and maintain silicate layers. Among ionic substitutions, those between ions of distinctly different sizes most significantly affect geometric configurations of silicate layers.
Another significant feature of layer silicates, owing to their similarity in sheet structures and hexagonal or near-hexagonal symmetry, is that the structures allow various ways to stack up atomic planes, sheets, and layers, which may be explained by crystallographic operations such as translation or shifting and rotation, thereby distinguishing them from polymorphs (e.g., diamond-graphite and calcite-aragonite). The former involves one-dimensional variations, but the latter generally three-dimensional ones. The variety of structures resulting from different stacking sequences of a fixed chemical composition are termed polytypes. If such a variety is caused by ionic substitutions that are minor but consistent, they are called polytypoids.
Kaolin-serpentine group
Minerals of this groups are 1:1 layer silicates. Their basic unit of structure consists of tetrahedral and octahedral sheets in which the anions at the exposed surface of the octahedral sheet are hydroxyls (see Figure 4). The general structural formula may be expressed by Y2 - 3Z2O5(OH)4, where Y are cations in the octahedral sheet such as Al3+ and Fe3+ for dioctahedral species and Mg2+, Fe2+, Mn2+, and Ni2+ for trioctahedral species, and Z are cations in the tetrahedral sheet, largely Si and, to a lesser extent, Al and Fe3+. A typical dioctahedral species of this group is kaolinite, with an ideal structural formula of Al2Si2O5(OH)4. Kaolinite is electrostatically neutral and has triclinic symmetry. Oxygen atoms and hydroxyl ions between the layers are paired with hydrogen bonding. Because of this weak bonding, random displacements between the layers are quite common and result in kaolinite minerals of lower crystallinity than that of the triclinic kaolinite. Dickite and nacrite are polytypic varieties of kaolinite. Both of them consist of a double 1:1 layer and have monoclinic symmetry, but they distinguish themselves by different stacking sequences of the two 1:1 silicate layers.
Halloysite also has a composition close to that of kaolinite and is characterized by its tubular nature in contrast to the platy nature of kaolinite particles. Although tubular forms are the most common, other morphological varieties are also known: prismatic, rolled, pseudospherical, and platy forms. The structure of halloysite is believed to be similar to that of kaolinite, but no precise structure has been revealed yet. Halloysite has a hydrated form with a composition of Al2Si2O5(OH)4 · 2H2O. This hydrated form irreversibly changes to a dehydrated variety at relatively low temperatures (60° C) or upon being exposed to conditions of low relative humidity. The dehydrated form has a basal spacing about the thickness of a kaolinite layer (approximately 7.2 Å), and the hydrated form has a basal spacing of about 10.1 Å. The difference of 2.9 Å is approximately the thickness of a sheet of water one molecule thick. Consequently, the layers of halloysite in the hydrated form are separated by monomolecular water layers that are lost during dehydration.
In trioctahedral magnesium species, chrysotile, antigorite, and lizardite are commonly known; the formula of these three clay minerals is Mg3Si2O5(OH)4. Chrysotile crystals have a cylindrical roll morphology, while antigorite crystals exhibit an alternating wave structure. These morphological characteristics may be attributed to the degree of fit between the lateral dimensions of the tetrahedral and octahedral sheets. On the other hand, lizardite crystals are platy and often have a small amount of substitution of aluminum or ferric iron for both silicon and magnesium. This substitution appears to be the main reason for the platy nature of lizardite. Planar polytypes of the trioctahedral species are far more complicated than those of dioctahedral ones, owing to the fact that the trioctahedral silicate layer has a higher symmetry because all octahedral cationic sites are occupied. In addition, recent detailed structural investigations have shown that there are considerable numbers of hydrous-layer silicates whose structures are periodically perturbed by inversion or revision of SiO4 tetrahedrons. Modulated structures therefore produce two characteristic linkage configurations: strips and islands. Antigorite is an example of the strip configuration in the modulated 1:1 layer silicates. Greenalite, a species rich in ferrous iron, also has a modulated layer structure containing an island configuration.
Pyrophyllite-talc group
Minerals of this group have the simplest form of the 2:1 layer with a unit thickness of approximately 9.2 to 9.6 Å—i.e., the structure consists of an octahedral sheet sandwiched by two tetrahedral sheets (Figure 5B). Pyrophyllite and talc represent the dioctahedral and trioctahedral members, respectively, of the group. In the ideal case, the structural formula is expressed by Al2Si4O10(OH)2 for pyrophyllite and by Mg3Si4O10(OH)2 for talc. Therefore, the 2:1 layers of these minerals are electrostatically neutral and are held together with van der Waals bonding. One-layer triclinic and two-layer monoclinic forms are known for polytypes of pyrophyllite and talc. The ferric iron analogue of pyrophyllite is called ferripyrophyllite.
Mica mineral group
Mica minerals have a basic structural unit of the 2:1 layer type like pyrophyllite and talc, but some of the silicon atoms (ideally one-fourth) are always replaced by those of aluminum. This results in a charge deficiency that is balanced by potassium ions between the unit layers. The sheet thickness (basal spacing or dimension along the direction normal to the basal plane) is fixed at about 10 Å. Typical examples are muscovite, KAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)2, for dioctahedral species, and phlogopite, KMg3(Si3Al)O10(OH)2, and biotite, K(Mg, Fe)3(Si3Al)O10(OH)2, for trioctahedral species. (Formulas rendered may vary slightly due to possible substitution within certain structural sites.) Various polytypes of the micas are known to occur. Among them, one-layer monoclinic (1M), two-layer monoclinic (2M, including 2M1 and 2M2), and three-layer trigonal (3T) polytypes are most common. The majority of clay-size micas are dioctahedral aluminous species; those similar to muscovite are called illite and generally occur in sediments. The illites are different from muscovite in that the amount of substitution of aluminum for silicon is less; sometimes only one-sixth of the silicon ions are replaced. This reduces a net unbalanced-charge deficiency from 1 to about 0.65 per unit chemical formula. As a result, the illites have a lower potassium content than the muscovites. To some extent, octahedral aluminum ions are replaced by magnesium (Mg2+) and iron ions (Fe2+, Fe3+). In the illites, stacking disorders of the layers are common, but their polytypes are often unidentifiable.
Celadonite and glauconite are ferric iron-rich species of dioctahedral micas. The ideal composition of celadonite may be expressed by K(Mg, Fe3+)(Si4 - xAlx)O10(OH)2, where x = 0–0.2. Glauconite is a dioctahedral mica species with tetrahedral Al substitution greater than 0.2 and octahedral Fe3+ or R3+ (total trivalent cations) greater than 1.2. Unlike illite, a layer charge deficiency of celadonite and glauconite arises largely from the unbalanced charge due to ionic substitution in the octahedral sheets.
The vermiculite unit structure consists of sheets of trioctahedral mica or talc separated by layers of water molecules; these layers occupy a space about two water molecules thick (approximately 4.8 Å). Substitutions of aluminum cations (Al3+) for silicon cations (Si4+) constitute the chief imbalance, but the net charge deficiency may be partially balanced by other substitutions within the mica layer; there is always a residual net charge deficiency commonly in the range from 0.6 to 0.8 per O10(OH)2. This charge deficiency is satisfied with interlayer cations that are closely associated with the water molecules between the mica layers. In the natural mineral, the balancing cation is magnesium (Mg2+). The interlayer cation, however, is readily replaced by other inorganic and organic cations. A number of water molecules are related to the hydration state of cations located at the interlayer sites. Therefore, the basal spacing of vermiculite changes from about 10.5 to 15.7 Å, depending on relative humidity and the kind of interlayer cation. Heating vermiculite to temperatures (depending on its crystal size) as high as 500° C drives the water out from between the mica layers, but the mineral quickly rehydrates at room temperature to maintain its normal basal spacing of approximately 14 to 15 Å if potassium or ammonium ions are not present in the interlayer sites. It has been reported that some dioctahedral analogues of vermiculite occur in soils.
The structural units of smectite can be derived from the structures of pyrophyllite and talc. Unlike pyrophyllite and talc, the 2:1 silicate layers of smectite have a slight negative charge owing to ionic substitutions in the octahedral and tetrahedral sheets. The net charge deficiency is normally smaller than that of vermiculite—from 0.2 to 0.6 per O10(OH)2—and is balanced by the interlayer cations as in vermiculite. This weak bond offers excellent cleavage between the layers. The distinguishing feature of the smectite structure is that water and other polar molecules (in the form of certain organic substances) can, by entering between the unit layers, cause the structure to expand in the direction normal to the basal plane. Thus this dimension may vary from about 9.6 Å, when there are no polar molecules between the unit layers, to nearly complete separation of the individual layers.
The structural formula of smectites of the dioctahedral aluminous species may be represented by (Al2 - yMg2+/y)(Si4 - xAlx)O10(OH)2M+/x + y · nH2O, where M+ is the interlayer exchangeable cation expressed as a monovalent cation and where x and y are the amounts of tetrahedral and octahedral substitutions, respectively (0.2 ≤ x + y ≤ 0.6). The smectites with y > x are called montmorillonite and those with x > y are known as beidellite. In the latter type of smectites, those in which ferric iron is a dominant cation in the octahedral sheet instead of aluminum and magnesium, are called nontronite. Although less frequent, chromium (Cr3+) and vanadium (V3+) also are found as dominant cations in the octahedral sheets of the beidellite structure, and chromium species are called volkonskoite. The ideal structural formula of trioctahedral ferromagnesian smectites, the series saponite through iron saponite, is given by (Mg, Fe2+)3(Si4 - xAlx)O10(OH)2M+/x · nH2O. The tetrahedral substitution is responsible for the net charge deficiency in the smectite minerals of this series. Besides magnesium and ferrous iron, zinc, cobalt, and manganese are known to be dominant cations in the octahedral sheet. Zinc dominant species are called sauconite. There are other types of trioctahedral smectites in which the net charge deficiency arises largely from the imbalanced charge due to ionic substitution or a small number of cation vacancies in the octahedral sheets or both conditions. Ideally x is zero, but most often it is less than 0.15. Thus, the octahedral composition varies to maintain similar amounts of the net charge deficiency as those of other smectites. Typical examples are (Mg3 - y□y) and (Mg3 - y Liy) for stevensite and hectorite, respectively. [The □ denotes a vacant site in the structure. (Mg3 - y□y) indicates, therefore, that y sites out of three are vacant.]
The structure of the chlorite minerals consists of alternate micalike layers and brucitelike hydroxide sheets about 14 Å thick. Structural formulas of most trioctahedral chlorites may be expressed by four end-member compositions:
|(Fe52+ Al)(Si3Al)O10(OH)8
The unbalanced charge of the micalike layer is compensated by an excess charge of the hydroxide sheet that is caused by the substitution of trivalent cations (Al3+, Fe3+, etc.) for divalent cations (Mg2+, Fe2+, etc.). Chlorites with a muscovite-like silicate layer and an aluminum hydroxide sheet are called donbassite and have the ideal formula of Al4.33(Si3Al)O10(OH)8 as an end-member for the dioctahedral chlorite. In many cases, the octahedral aluminum ions are partially replaced by magnesium, as in magnesium-rich aluminum dioctahedral chlorites called sudoite. Cookeite is another type of dioctahedral chlorite, in which lithium substitutes for aluminum in the octahedral sheets.
Chlorite structures are relatively thermally stable compared to kaolinite, vermiculite, and smectite minerals and are thus resistant to high temperatures. Because of this, after heat treatment at 500°–700° C, the presence of a characteristic X-ray diffraction peak at 14 Å is widely used to identify chlorite minerals.
Interstratified clay minerals
Many clay materials are mixtures of more than one clay mineral. One such mixture involves the interstratification of the layer clay minerals where the individual component layers of two or more kinds are stacked in various ways to make up a new structure different from those of its constituents. These interstratified structures result from the strong similarity that exists between the layers of the different clay minerals, all of which are composed of tetrahedral and octahedral sheets of hexagonal arrays of atoms, and from the distinct difference in the heights (thicknesses) of clay mineral layers.
The most striking examples of interstratified structures are those having a regular ABAB . . . -type structure, where A and B represent two component layers. There are several minerals that are known to have structures of this type—i.e., rectorite (dioctahedral mica/montmorillonite), tosudite (dioctahedral chlorite/smectite), corrensite (trioctahedral vermiculite/chlorite), hydrobiotite (trioctahedral mica/vermiculite), aliettite (talc/saponite), and kulkeite (talc/chlorite). Other than the ABAB . . . type with equal numbers of the two component layers in a structure, many modes of layer-stacking sequences ranging from nearly regular to completely random are possible. The following interstratifications of two components are found in these modes in addition to those given above: illite/smectite, glauconite/smectite, dioctahedral mica/chlorite, dioctahedral mica/vermiculite, and kaolinite/smectite.
As the mixing ratio (proportion of the numbers of layers) for the two component layers varies, the number of possible layer-stacking modes increases greatly. For interstratified structures of three component layers, structures consisting of illite/chlorite/smectite and illite/vermiculite/smectite have been reported. Because certain interstratified structures are known to be stable under relatively limited conditions, their occurrence may be used as a geothermometer or other geoindicator.
Sepiolite and palygorskite
Sepiolite and palygorskite are papyrus-like or fibrous hydrated magnesium silicate minerals and are included in the phyllosilicate group because they contain a continuous two-dimensional tetrahedral sheet of composition Si2O5. They differ, however, from the other layer silicates because they lack continuous octahedral sheets. The structures of sepiolite and palygorskite are alike and can be regarded as consisting of narrow strips or ribbons of 2:1 layers that are linked stepwise at the corners. One ribbon is linked to the next by inversion of the direction of the apical oxygen atoms of SiO4 tetrahedrons; in other words, an elongated rectangular box consisting of continuous 2:1 layers is attached to the nearest boxes at their elongated corner edges. Therefore, channels or tunnels due to the absence of the silicate layers occur on the elongated sides of the boxes. The elongation of the structural element is related to the fibrous morphology of the minerals and is parallel to the a axis. Since the octahedral sheet is discontinuous, some octahedral magnesium ions are exposed at the edges and hold bound water molecules (OH2). In addition to the bound water, variable amounts of zeolitic (i.e., free) water (H2O) are contained in the rectangular channels. The major difference between the structures of sepiolite and palygorskite is the width of the ribbons, which is greater in sepiolite than in palygorskite. The width determines the number of octahedral cation positions per formula unit. Thus, sepiolite and palygorskite have the ideal compositions Mg8Si12O30(OH)4(OH2)4(H2O)8 and (Mg, Al, □)5Si8O20(OH)2(OH2)4(H2O)4, respectively.
Imogolite and allophane
Imogolite is an aluminosilicate with an approximate composition of SiO2 · Al2O3 · 2.5H2O. This mineral was discovered in 1962 in a soil derived from glassy volcanic ash known as "imogo." Electron-optical observations indicate that imogolite has a unique morphological feature of smooth and curved threadlike tubes varying in diameter from 10 to 30 nanometres (3.9 × 10−7 to 1.2 × 10−6 inches) and extending several micrometres in length. The structure of imogolite is cylindrical and consists of a modified gibbsite sheet in which the hydroxyls of one side of a gibbsite octahedral sheet lose protons and bond to silicon atoms that are located at vacant octahedral cation sites of gibbsite. Thus, three oxygen atoms and one hydroxyl as the fourth anion around one silicon atom make up an isolated SiO4 tetrahedron as in orthosilicates, and such tetrahedrons make a planar array on the side of a gibbsite sheet. Because silicon-oxygen bonds are shorter than aluminum-oxygen bonds, this effect causes that sheet to curve. As a result, the curved sheet ideally forms a tubelike structure with inner and outer diameters of about 6.4 Å and 21.4 Å, respectively, and with all hydroxyls exposed at the surface. The number of modified gibbsite units therefore determines the diameter of the threadlike tubes.
Allophane can be regarded as a group of naturally occurring hydrous aluminosilicate minerals that are not totally amorphous but are short-range (partially) ordered. Allophane structures are characterized by the dominance of Si-O-Al bonds—i.e., the majority of aluminum atoms are tetrahedrally coordinated. Unlike imogolite, the morphology of allophane varies from fine, rounded particles through ring-shaped particles to irregular aggregates. There is a good indication that the ring-shaped particles may be hollow spherules or polyhedrons. Sizes of the small individual allophane particles are on the order of 30–50 Å in diameter. In spite of their indefinable structure, their chemical compositions surprisingly fall in a relatively narrow range, as the SiO2:Al2O3 ratios are mostly between 1.0 and 2.0. In general, the SiO2:Al2O3 ratio of allophane is higher than that of imogolite.Hideomi Kodama


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I am looking for someone to play at night (around 7pm) on a free court near a metro (could be metro Cadillac parc Louis Riel) during the week. I am a level 3.0, looking to practice. Something fun and regular.
Thank you.
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i'm near St-Denis, but am down for a casual rally session or game. 2.5 to 3.0.
Cool, would you like to play tonight? Text me : 514-433-9159.
Thank you.
I haven't played at all this year, but if it's not far for you then sure. I can make it for 7:30pm
I'll text you after work to confirm around 6pm
Where exactly is the court you are talking about? Two things: it has to be a free court, and near a metro. The court that I like to play on is located near metro Cadillac (green line). It is ok if you haven't played this year, I just want to hit some balls and have fun, no worries.
Thank you.
Yes Louis Riel will work fine. I am close to Lafontaine but unsure about availability.
Lafontaine sucks because you have to pay. Will be waiting for your text.
Hi, Max,
I'm 2.0-2.5, I don't know if you want to try, but at 6:00 pm at Louis Riel would be perfect for me.
Hi Max,
I'm 2.5 - 3 but haven't play for a while. I'd love some rallies...I could play around 7 pm on Mondays or Wednesdays and weekends we could arrange other times.
Thank you,
Sure, let me know if you are free today, I'll be back around 3-4 pm.
Yes, I think we can play today. I'll be busy till about 4, so I think 5 or 6 would be a good time. I'll text you. Thanks.
Hi, Mauricio, Max,
One of you want to play today? I'm 2.5 too and live near Arthur-Thérien courts, free.
Hi Demetrius,
I cannot play this week...let's be in touch the next one.
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By John Goralski
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Stephen Barmore slipped the ball into Tyler Hyde's gut with the skill of a con man, and the Blue Knight quarterback drew one Glastonbury defender with a pantomimed pass play. Two linemen wedged through the Tomahawk front line and another crashed into a blitzing linebacker to make a hole for their senior co-captain.
Hyde seemed to glide through the melee and into the open field. Then…it was off to the races.
On Friday, Sept. 13, Southington's small lead vanished when Glastonbury broke a long touchdown with less than six minutes to go in the game. Not even a minute had passed, and Hyde was returning the favor.
Southington had nine months to dwell on last season's loss to the Tomahawks in the opening round of the Class L tournament. With a 57-yard run in the game's final minutes, the Knights were able to return the favor.
"The kids really circled this one during the off-season," said Blue Knight coach Mike Drury. "I know that it was a sort of sour taste for them, but this is a battle every year in and year out. It's two teams that both work incredibly hard in the off-season. We know that there's got to be a winner and a loser, but these are always going to be tight ones. We were fortunate that we made a couple of extra plays and came out on top."
Once again, it was a see saw battle decided by a late score. Once again, it was anybody's game until the final minutes.
"We're always confident going into our games when we prepare the right way," said Drury. "They do it in the off-season. They had a tremendous preseason and a tremendous week in practice. This is the result of that."
Many of Southington's preseason questions were answered in the week one battle, and Drury seemed relieved that his defense was able to contain Glastonbury's torrid attack. With much of their defense lost to graduation, Southington held their own in a game that was tied, 3-3, at the half.
"We had a lot of guys kind of filling shoes, but we really pride ourselves on our defense," said the coach. "We like to say that we don't rebuild. We're trying to reload for the next year. The guys stepped up, filled those roles, and played a great game. They tackled great, and they played with intensity the whole game."
Alex Jamele led the way with 12 tackles in the middle. Zach Maxwell scored 12 tackles, including three sacks of Glastonbury quarterback Jalen Ollie. Ollie managed to complete 17 passes for 215 yards, including a 70-yard pass in the fourth quarter to give the Tomahawks their only lead of the game, but Southington's defense held four Glastonbury runners to just 27 yards on the ground.
Maxwell said that the defense embraced the challenge. "This feels really good," he said. "Losing to them at home last year was a bummer, but I just wanted to start my senior season off right by it, taking it to this team in their house."
The first turning point of the contest came on the first play from scrimmage in the second half. Glastonbury took the field without their quarterback in a well-designed trick play, but Southington shifted into their wildcat defense and swarmed a bad snap to score two points with a safety.
"We're always pleased with a win at the end of the day, but there are definitely a lot of things that we can improve on and we'll definitely improve on them this coming week," said Barmore, one of a handful of Knights to play both ways for the Southington squad, " We gutted it out, and we have to be pleased with the victory."
Offensively, the Knights did enough to win, but Southington struggled at times to finish long drives. A 60-yard drive to open the game stalled just outside Glastonbury's red zone. The next one stalled outside the 10, but Southington took the lead with Kyle Smick's 35 yard field goal.
Southington was forced to punt in three of their next four possessions. Smick missed one field goal attempt, made another (32 yards), and with the safety the Knights eked an 8-3 lead before Glastonbury took the lead with a 70-yard play.
Still, it was the offense that Southington turned to for the win.
"The offensive line got it done today," said Hyde. "They were the offensive MVP, just like on Thanksgiving [last year]. They did a great job blocking against the linemen and at the secondary level. So did the receivers. They all did a wonderful job."
Hyde regained the lead, scrambling 57 yards for a score that quieted the Glastonbury fans. Then, the defense did the rest. Glastonbury turned the ball over on downs on their next possession, and Jamele recovered a fumble in the final minute that ended the Tomahawk's chance for a comeback.
"Each week is tough, week in and week out, but we knew that this one was going to be one of our toughest right off the bat," said Drury. "We knew that we had to come into this game in great condition and physical shape, and we did. Getting that W was huge for getting our season going."
Now, the Knights will try to carry the momentum into their home opener this Friday against Manchester. The Indians are looking to avenge last season's loss on the final play of the game, so the Knights will have no time to celebrate the Glastonbury victory.
"We know that it's not going to be a team that we just have to go out, have a good game, and beat. We have to practice the right way and prepare the right way. We need to get out and show up on Friday night," said Drury. "We can't look ahead. We can't take a single opponent lightly. If we do that, it will bite us."
Kick-off is scheduled for 7 p.m., and the Knights are urging fans to dress in blue for the homecoming contest.
To comment on this story or to contact sports writer John Goralski, email him at jgoralski@ southingtonobserver.com.
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text: If you know someone that wants to learn to program their own arcade games, check out: http://ProgramArcadeGames.com * 84 free tutorial videos * Start creating graphics by Chapter 5 * Full text of the book on-line. * Cookbook of 47 example programs * On-line multiple choice quizzes track your progress * Short-answer questions test your knowledge in more depth. * Labs – see if you understand by creating your own games. * Sample tests – Test your knowledge. * Program in Python * Track, grade, and mentor students' progress through the course I've put this book together and refined it from year-to-year based on student feedback during their first semester of programming at Simpson College. This is a first-semester course and assumes no prior knowledge of programming. I've successfully run hundreds of students through this course and had them create their own arcade games. Each time I refine the course and use their questions to make the book that much better. Plus, there are Russian and Turkish translations thanks to some volunteers!


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Almost as intriguing as the goings-on in Middle Earth has been the drama surrounding the "Hobbit" franchise itself. There was the fact that star director Guillermo del Toro walked off after a year of work. There's been a long-running lawsuit.
And then, of course, that when it was finally almost ready last year, the production grew so expensive — er, epic — that director Peter Jackson and studio New Line saw fit to take what they had and slice it into three movies. That enabled more revenue and a longer life for the franchise, which will now span three holiday seasons through 2014.
The second of those movies, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug," performed decently this past weekend. It garnered $73.6 million. That's good enough, if not necessarily good. The receipts make "The Hobbit" the ninth-best opening of the year--fine for, say, a midbudget comedy but a little more wobbly for an effects-driven holiday sequel from one of the most popular directors on the planet, adapting one of the most popular books on the planet.
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More to the point, the opening-weekend total is about 12% lower than the $84.6 million of the first film. "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey," which opened about the same time last year. Almost every successful sequel adds to the original as new fans come along, sometimes spectacularly so. (The second "Lord of the Rings" movie opened to 30% more than the first film.)
Internationally things were only slightly better for "Hobbit": The film was down from its roughly $170 million last year to about $135 million this year (though it opened in seven fewer markets, so in comparable markets it was up 3%, a modest if hardly earth-shaking gain).
All of which leads to the question — did New Line do the right thing by carving out a third film? Or should it have grouped some of what happens in "Smaug" in the first movie and some in next year's finale and gone with the original two-film plan?
Doing a hard-core cost-benefit on all of this is tricky, since it's tough to know how much a third film cost. The total price tag for the three movies is pegged between $500 million and $600 million, but given the fixed costs, a third movie did not actually cost a third of that total. Equally tough is figuring out if some of the "Journey" filmgoers who sat out last weekend did so because they knew this wasn't the end of the series — but it stands to reason they would.
Culturally, though, there's certainly an argument that three is lesser than two, especially since the building momentum we saw on "Lord of the Rings" has now given way to the yawning oh-another-movie-ness of "The Hobbit." People saw it, but was the water-cooler talking about it?
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Franchises like not only volume but consistency, a new movie that comes out the same time every year. Look at how "Twilight" and "Harry Potter" mined that later in its life cycle. But when it comes to something as beloved — and as long-in-development — as "The Hobbit," there's a case to be made that less is more. Seeing characters too regularly deprives it of its uniqueness; what's gained in the front-of-mind frequency department is lost in the magic rarity department. It's hard for something to feel like an event when it always seems to be hanging around.
Sure, "Lord of the Rings" did this, but that film a) came when it was still novel to see Tolkien on the screen and b) is a property based on three volumes to begin with, not one book stretched out to its triplicate breaking point.
(A colleague of mine, a major Tolkien-phile, does offer an alternate theory—that the first "Hobbit" movie is the one that contained too much exposition and could have been folded into this considerably meatier film; the lower box office for "Smaug," he proposed, is attributable to a lingering taste some fans had after that first movie.)
Cultural cachet is ineffable, and has much to do with when something hits as what it is that's hitting. This movie may yet have a long life, and don't underestimate the possibility of a strong rebound with the third film.
Still, one can't help thinking there's something to be said for, when it comes to film fantasies, too much of a good thing is a bad thing. "The Hobbit" has devoted fans, and you can release a new movie at the same time every day from now until kingdom come and still attract them. Many others of us, though, would prefer a more selective approach, less ribrock predictability and more of an unexpected journey.
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Pain de Campagne from FWSY, with increased whole grains
Continuing my explorations of Ken Forkish's Flour Water Salt Yeast, yesterday I baked his "Pain de Campagne" again, but with a difference. Forkish's formula for Pain de Campagne is, basically, a white bread. It has about 10% whole wheat. However, in his introduction to this bread, Forkish encourages the reader to experiment with increased whole wheat and rye and says that his own favorite version of this bread has 70% white flour, 20% whole wheat and 10% rye. Well, that sounded pretty good to me, so I did it.
For the 800% g of flour in the final dough, I used 100g KAF Medium Rye, 200g Organic Sprouted Whole Wheat flour and 500g of KAF AP flour.
This dough was quite sticky, and I was concerned whether I could develop enough dough strength. But the boules shaped up pretty nicely. They didn't expand much during proofing but had satisfactory oven spring.
I had some of this bread for dinner last night when it was almost completely cooled. It tasted okay, but with a lot of grassiness. The sourdough tang was quite mild. Today, the flavors had melded, and the bread was really delicious, both toasted for breakfast and un-toasted for lunch. The flavor was similar to the "Field Blend #2," not surprisingly.
I will happily make this bread again when I want a Pain de Campagne. I will try to remember to make it a day before I want to eat it though. It really improved a lot with an overnight rest.


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I love the beginning of the year. It's a chance for new starts and new opportunities. How did you do with your budget last year? Did you stick to it? If not, 2014 is an all new year and a fresh chance to do things right!
One area that I am especially passionate about when it comes to budgeting is grocery savings. There is just so much potential to save and unfortunately the majority of Americans have made overspending at the grocery store a regular practice. Let's work together this year to keep your grocery budget in check – so that you can use your hard earned money towards other areas of your budget! 😉
For starters, have you checked out the grocery savings mobile app called Favado yet? This year they are helping shoppers to save at the grocery store by offering step-by-step weekly goals from a few of the best money-saving brains in the business. It's the solution to keeping your 2014 resolution to save at the grocery store! Head on over here to get started with Favado!
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Emotional Learning Brings Real Hope to Schools
Most conversation about our schools today seems to revolve around their brokenness: underfunded classrooms, lagging test scores, and harried teachers. In Cleveland, Ohio, for example, the school district's 2010-2011 "report card" found it had failed to meet Ohio's education standards in 24 of 25 categories. In such environments, raising academic test scores is seen as the Holy Grail, and doing so while also improving students' attitudes and behavior a miracle.
Now, a fledgling movement to rethink what students need to thrive is proving that miracles can happen. An educational approach known as social and emotional learning (SEL), being implemented in individual schools—and now, for the first time, whole districts—has proven effective at simultaneously improving students' academic performance, behavior, and well-being.
SEL prescribes approaching students as complex human beings whose learning and behavior are just as impacted by their emotions—and their control over those emotions—as they are by the quality of instruction and discipline. Recognizing that intellectual and emotional faculties develop symbiotically, the approach involves teaching students how to recognize and talk about their feelings, empathize with others, and resolve conflicts peacefully as a way to strengthen both academic achievement and emotional stability.
For example, the PATHs (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies) program teaches self-regulation to early elementary students with the "Turtle Technique," which involves using self-talk to inwardly analyze emotions and come up with ways to express oneself other than acting out. Young students learn this technique through trainings on identifying and labeling emotions and using specific strategies to manage them.
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The RULER Approach, developed by the Health, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory at Yale University, uses a set of anchor tools to teach children and teachers to recognize, understand, label, express, and regulate their emotions. Each day, students and teachers plot how they are feeling on a color-coded "mood meter" and cover a developmentally appropriate, increasingly complex vocabulary of "feeling words" to express their emotions. This approach acknowledges that all people have feelings they bring with them to school or work, and it gives students a structured platform for appropriately articulating those feelings and appreciating those expressed by others.
The effectiveness of SEL programs like these is now well established. A meta-analysis of 213 independent social science studies, by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Loyola University Chicago—together involving more than 270,000 students—showed consistent gains among students whose classes adhered faithfully to SEL programs designed on proven principles. These students exhibited markedly improved social and emotional skills, attitudes, and behavior, compared to similar peers who were not enrolled in SEL programs. Not only that, but the academic test scores among students involved in SEL programs rose by an average of 11 percentile points.
Findings like these make school district superintendents take notice. Before this year, many schools—from high-rent private schools to inner-city public schools—were implementing SEL programming independently. But now that evidence of SEL's effectiveness has been established and broadcasted, three pioneering school districts (Anchorage, Alaska; Austin, Texas; and Cleveland, Ohio) have joined an effort called the Collaborating District Initiative, through which they are working to institute SEL curricula in pre-K through 12th-grade classrooms district-wide. All three large, urban districts have installed SEL directors at the cabinet level or just below, an indication of how seriously the superintendents are taking the new approach. The Initiative will add five additional districts in the next several months.
"These are districts that really want to be a part of a network of learning, and truly exemplify commitment in learning how to integrate the education of the whole child," says Dr. Libia Gil, Vice President for Practice with the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and the organizer of the Collaborating Districts Initiative. "[They want to] really understand the connection between the brain and the heart."
CASEL is guiding the districts through an intensive planning and implementation process. The priority is to build the districts' capacity to the point where superintendents and senior staff have internalized the SEL perspectives, chosen specific programs to implement, and can successfully administer and sustain SEL programming for years to come. CASEL has vetted 25 quality SEL programs among which participating districts can choose, offering superintendents the autonomy to design approaches that suit their students' specific needs.
Carol Comeau, superintendent of Anchorage School District, who has been implementing SEL programming for two decades, finds that bringing SEL to the entire district has had a sweeping and profound influence on students and teachers alike. "I believe that all of our students, and employees, benefit from this intentional work," she said. "SEL truly transforms the school climate and culture and prepares all of us for life in the 21st-century global society."
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Imagine what could happen if instead of focusing on worst-case scenarios and fears, we put our attention on what we deeply desire and are working toward?
But while impacting how students are educated in entire districts is indeed a victory for a still little-known educational movement, proponents of SEL haven't stopped there. CASEL was instrumental in inspiring U.S. Representatives Judy Biggert (R-IL), Dale E. Kildee (D-MI) and Tim Ryan (D-OH) to introduce the Academic, Social and Emotional Learning Act (H.R. 2437) in the House on July 7 of this year. The legislation proposed amending the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to allow funding for teacher and principal training and professional development to be used for training in SEL practices. As a result, on October 20, the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions approved the ESEA Reauthorization of 2011, which incorporates SEL priorities in two sections.
The passage of this federal legislation is great news for CASEL and its supporters, not to mention students and teachers across the country. Superintendent Comeau emphasizes that by improving the experience and outcomes of education for students, SEL has the potential to transform their lives and ultimately our society.
"If more students see the value in SEL work with their peers and in their classes and activities, then we will have fewer discipline issues, fewer special education referrals, and more students graduating with a high school diploma," she said. "They will leave as good people with a commitment to carrying on this important work as adults."
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Date: 2/7/2013; 10 minutes
In part three of this four-part series, Scripps Institution of Oceanography's Veerabhadran Ramanathan returns to India with an international collaboration to demonstrate that improving cooking methods in the developing world could slow global warming and improve public health along the way. (#23992)
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DATE OF SECOND PUBLICATION, IF ANY January 16, 2013.
You are hereby notified that a petition for the appointment of a temporary guardian has been filed regarding the above-named minor. All objections to the Petition described above either to the appointment of a temporary guardian or the appointment of the petitioner(s) as temporary guardian(s), must be in writing, setting forth the grounds of any such objections, and must be filed with this Court no later than 14 days after this notice is mailed, or 10 days after this notice is personally served upon you, or 10 days after the second publication of this notice if you are served by publication. All pleadings must be signed before a notary public or Georgia probate court clerk, and filing fees must be tendered with your pleadings, unless you qualify to file as an indigent party. Contact probate court personnel at the below address/telephone number for the required amount of filing fees.
***NOTE: If a natural guardian files an objection to the creation of the temporary guardianship, the Petition will be dismissed. If a natural guardian files an objection to the appointment of the petitioner(s) as guardian(s), or if a parent who is not a natural guardian files an objection to the petition, a hearing on this matter (shall be held on January 28, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. in the Probate Court of Appling County, courtroom, 36 South Main Street, Baxley, GA 31513.
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For the second time in as many months, razor blades were found embedded in the grass near a children's playground at Mission Bay Park near Bonita Cove.
Police officer James Johnson with Crime Stoppers said razor blades were found at the park on Aug. 10 and, most recently, on Sept. 5.
No one was injured the second time but a woman cut her foot slightly the first time blades were found in August, Johnson said.
"They (razor blades) were 1 to 1 1/2 inches long, something somebody would use in a cutting or scraping tool for a window," he said. "They were definitely placed there intentionally in the grass area surrounding a children's playground. It looks as if the two events could be linked, but we have nothing yet to say they are for sure."
In August, Johnson said a woman stepped on a razor blade in the park and got "a very minor cut." This last time, someone called police at 6:18 p.m. to report razor blades had been found in the park.
"People who discovered the blades stood in a group waiting for police to arrive," Johnson said, adding officers did a sweep of the area with a metal detector. "It's certainly safe now."
Detectives are investigating both incidents with the cooperation of the Park and Recreation Department.
"We want to make sure we don't have anything else anywhere else," Johnson said.
Anyone with information on either incident is urged to call San Diego Police Northern Division at (858) 552-1700 or Crime Stoppers anonymously at (888) 580-8477.
— Dave Schwab
Coach charged in PB cocaine arrest
A high school seasonal baseball coach awaits a Sept. 23 preliminary hearing on charges he was in possession of cocaine during a July 4 incident in Pacific Beach when he was arrested.
Jackson Lawrence Chapelone, 29, of Carlsbad, has pleaded not guilty to the charges, which also include resisting an executive officer with San Diego police in the 3 a.m. incident at Bayard and Hornblend streets.
Chapelone has posted $5,000 bond and remains free. The cocaine charge is a felony. Other charges that were initially reported were hit and run and trying to dissuade a witness, but those were not filed by the District Attorney's office in San Diego Superior Court.
He was a temporary employee at La Costa Canyon High in Carlsbad in the spring. He played baseball at Cal State San Marcos and Bonita Vista High School when he was a student there respectively, according to school websites.
— Neal Putnam
Cyclist dies in early-morning collision
A 21-year-old woman was struck and critically injured in an early-morning collision with a car on Sept. 1 while riding her bicycle in Mission Bay Park.
The woman was identified as Stela Hristova, a resident of Bulgaria who was visiting family in San Diego.
Hristova was riding her bike without a helmet headed southbound in the middle of the traffic lane about 3:30 a.m. in the 2500 block of Ingraham Street on Vacation Island. The driver of a sedan swerved when he saw her, but not in time.
She was taken to a nearby hospital, where she died at 2:05 p.m. from injuries she suffered in the collision, the Medical Examiner said.
— Dave Schwab