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Credit cards were formulated to ease the entire process of shopping. At the time of its inception, global business and commerce was in a very bad shape, and some dramatic steps were required to uplift the shopping spirit of the common man. However the growing inflation made it difficult if not impossible to lure the man from his home into the shopper's dens. To solve this acute crisis credit cards were formulated, with the core idea was to increase the shopping fervor among the people. And the plan worked only because of the unique way in which it functions. The cards are actually passes issued by the bank, which enables a customer to shop without ash. You can buy anything, eat anything at the restaurant of your choice, or watch the latest movie at the plex near you, without paying the fees in cash! If you but transact using your card. You definitely have to repay the credited amount, but not instantly, but at a later date, to your bank, at your very convenience. Now the credit cards also did another task, in addition to its primary job; it opened up another way of cash withdrawal, cutting short the amount of time wasted standing in the bank queue to withdraw money. Now using a credit card, a person can withdraw money from an ATM kiosk. From the very moment of its inception, the credit card created a mass craze. Infact it altered the entire public psyche from "I don't have money right now to shop", or "we can go shopping another day" to "Let's go shopping right away" and so on. This change of public mood was enough to increase the volume of commerce globally manifold. Very soon it began a global phenomenon, and the irreversible wheel that was once started, is still carrying on its job.
In the realm of credit cards- formerly there were two champion warriors. The Signature card and the Visa card. The Signature card was as exclusive as the metal it is named after, thus bringing huge benefits and discounts to its owner. And on the other hand the Visa card is like the passport to shop anywhere around the world. It is actually the license to a borderless shopping experience. To uphold the craze of credit cards, the business heads of the leading banks decided to merge the key features of these cards into a single rectangular piece of plastic; presenting the Visa Signature credit card. This unique card not only offered you the added benefits and discounts and cashbacks of the good old Signature card, but the Visa aspect enabled that you can avail to those benefits anywhere around the world- be it Tokyo or Taiwan or Paris. Actually credit cards works so well because of the tie-ups the banks have with a large number of medium and large service providers. They extend from the restaurant chains to the exquisite 5star hotels, from the shopping destinations to the malls and the e-commerce sites. Also other service providers such as travel websites, hotels, movie halls and multiplexes are also under the same roof. Thus if a customer avails to any of these services, and transacts using a card, then the discounts that he will get is other worldly, something which a normal cash transaction cannot match. As it became a global phenomenon, developing countries like India also began to experience the boom. In the growing metropolises such as Akola, there are all the world class amenities
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Without Primary Care, Less Awareness of Chronic Illness
In a new U.S. study, people who said emergency rooms were their usual site of medical care were less likely to know they had chronic conditions, including high blood pressure and high cholesterol, than those who got primary care at doctors' offices or clinics.
People who don't see a primary care doctor, whether because they lack insurance, time or transportation, wait longer to seek treatment for their symptoms and don't get checked out as often, researchers said.
They also miss out on the coordinated care provided by doctors' offices and clinics, which can track patients' health over time, follow up on drug prescriptions and provide diet and lifestyle counseling, said Dr. George Rust, head of the National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta.
All that could lead to certain conditions going undiagnosed and unmanaged.
"Emergency rooms are great for treating emergencies," said Rust, who didn't participate in the study.
"They are set up to deal with urgencies. What they are not able to do is provide long-term continuity of care. (They're) not a great place to get your high blood pressure treated or your other chronic medical needs taken care of," he told Reuters Health.
Rust said that health care reform should go a long way toward addressing these disparities and increasing primary care access, but added that more work is needed on a public health level to deal with cultural and other barriers to preventive care.
Researchers led by Chima Ndumele of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, analyzed data from a nationwide survey of close to 22,000 adults, conducted between 1999 and 2008.
Participants were asked where they went for their usual healthcare, what diagnosed chronic conditions they had and if they'd ever had a heart attack or stroke. Finally, the subjects underwent tests including blood pressure and cholesterol measurements.
More than half of the study participants said they got their regular care at a private doctor's office or through a health maintenance organization. Others went to a community health clinic or a hospital outpatient clinic. More than 3,000 people said they had no usual site for care, and another 435 went to ERs for their general ailments.
Between 17 and 46 percent of all the participants had high blood pressure (above 140/90 mm Hg) or high cholesterol (over 200 mg/dl).
ER visitors did not have higher rates of either condition, but compared to office and clinic-goers, they were less likely to know it if they had them.
When it came to high blood pressure, 46 percent of the ER group that qualified as hypertensive didn't know about their condition, compared to 33 to 39 percent of people treated elsewhere.
Lack of awareness was highest, 61 percent, in those who said they didn't have a usual place they went for care.
Seventy-two percent of the ER users with high cholesterol didn't know about it, compared to 61 or 62 percent of people who got their care at private offices and clinics.
Study participants who used ERs for general care were also two to four times more likely to have had a previous heart attack or stroke than those who saw private doctors, according to the findings published in the American Journal of Cardiology.
"There is a considerable amount of research suggesting that management of chronic or cardiovascular conditions in the ER is suboptimal," Ndumele told Reuters Health in an email. And, he added, "it's very difficult to adequately manage a condition when the patient is not aware of it."
"This study supports the intuitive notion that expanded primary care makes a big difference," said Peter Jacobson, a health law and policy professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, who wasn't involved in the research.
One barrier to getting good, timely primary care is health insurance, Jacobson told Reuters Health, but it's not the only one. Poorer people especially might not have access to transportation to get to a doctor's office, or they might not be able to afford taking time off from work for a preventive care appointment, he said.
The experts agreed that health care reform should mean more people have access to the kind of care that's necessary to prevent high blood pressure and high cholesterol from turning into potentially life-threatening conditions.
"We know that being insured dramatically improves your chances of having these conditions diagnosed and treated and ultimately controlled," Rust concluded. "Fixing this, working on this, getting the right care in the right setting at the right time, especially in these chronic conditions can really make a dramatic difference in preventable suffering."


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Windham County infested with invasive insect
PUTNEY -- As Forest Protection Forester with the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, it is Jim Esden's job to track the spread of the hemlock woolly adelgid, an invasive insect that feeds on the sap of hemlock trees.
First discovered in Vermont in 2007, the insect has been showing up in greater numbers and was first discovered in Bennington County last year.
After a relatively slow and steady increase in the area that is infested in Vermont, last year, the number of towns where the insect has been confirmed doubled.
Everyone knew that it was only a matter of time before it was found farther north, Esden said.
The hemlock woolly adelgid has no natural predators, but Esden said that cold weather was one of the tools the state had to slow the spread.
Last year during the historically warm winter Esden said the insect survived in much grater numbers and now the adelgid has been found in Putney.
"There was a very low mortality rate last year and now we are seeing a large expansion of the area known to be infested," Esden said. "A good deal of Windham County is infested now."
He will come to town on Tuesday, Jan. 15, at 6:30 p.m. to lead a discussion at the Putney Fire Station on the hemlock woolly adelgid.
Esden said a few Putney residents saw signs of the hemlock woolly adelgid along Aiken Road in November.
Citizen involvement is the most important method the state has to monitor the thousands of acres of forest land in Vermont, said Esden, and the meeting is a way to get more people involved in monitoring the woods.
Esden says he will have photos of the tell-tale white, fuzzy insect and he will tell people what they are supposed to do if they see signs of the adelgid.
The state has been experimenting with releasing a beetle from the Pacific Northwest that feeds on the adelgid.
Esden said it will be many years before the state is certain that the beetle can be used to combat the spread of the adelgid, though he said initial finding are encouraging.
And the meeting, Esden said, is for people all over the region who are interested in learning more abut what can be done to slow down the spread of the hemlock woolly adelgid.
"We've known for sure that it was coming and now we are trying to slow the spread. We always though this was inevitable," he said. "We've dropped any thought about eradicating the adelgid."
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What Are the Most Impactful TV Moments?
Television has been famously derided as a "vast wasteland." And that was in 1961, way before reality TV, the madness that is cable news and an entire channel dedicated just to soap operas.
But within this mess of irrelevance, TV has still managed to have its share of impactful moments. To find out which of these instances was most memorable, Sony and Nielsen got together to poll viewers on what television events had been most important to their lives.
While they expected to see much-watched programming like the 'M*A*S*H' finale or some of the more competitive Super Bowls on the list, the poll's respondents pretty much stuck to news events.
Taking the top spot was the September 11th terrorist attacks, followed by Hurricane Katrina and the O.J. Simpson verdict. The Challenger explosion and the death of Bin Laden rounded out the top five.
Overall, the list has a pretty clear bias toward more recent events. For example, the death of Whitney Houston this year and the Casey Anthony verdict of last year rank 11 and 19, respectively. We'd doubt either of these events would end up cracking the top twenty in any future polling on the subject. Check out the complete list below and click on the links to see the videos. (Due to the graphic nature of some of the events, some of the videos are NSFW.)
20. JFK's Funeral in 1963
19. Casey Anthony Verdict in 2011
18. LA Riots in 1992
17. Bush vs. Gore Election Confusion in 2000
16. Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995
15. JFK Assasination in 1963
14. Royal Wedding of Prince William and Princess Kate in 2011
13. Barack Obama Election Night Speech in 2008
12. Capture Of Deposed Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein in 2003
11. Death of Whitney Houston in 2012
10. Funeral of Princess Diana in 1997
9. BP Oil Spill In The Gulf Of Mexico in 2010
8. Columbine School Shooting in 1999
7. Japan Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011
6. OJ Simpson Chase in 1994
5. Death Of Osama Bin Laden in 2011
4. Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion in 1986
3. OJ Simpson Verdict in 1995
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Traffic Heads-Up For Acadiana Drivers
There will be intermittent lane closures on Highway 90 this weekend, and next Monday a bridge in Vermilion Parish will close for work that will last for several months.
With the first project, the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development says this Saturday, July 13, until Sunday, July 14, the right lanes of U.S. 90 westbound and eastbound, between Albertson's Parkway and Ambassador Caffery Parkway, will have intermittent closures in order for crews to conduct roadway sampling.
The lanes closures will be between 5:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., weather permitting.
With the second project, the DOTD will be closing the Highway 35 bridge over Coulee Dejon in Vermilion Parish starting Monday, July 15. The closure will last for about 8 months.
They are replacing the bridge at that area.
The bridge over Coulee Dejon is the first of three bridges that will be replaced as part of the Kaplan Bridge replacement project.
The $2.6 million project will replace three timber bridges with concrete span bridges along Highway 35 between Highways 14 and 82.
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Princeton, NJ - After winning five out of their first six matches in the tournament, the Bulldogs struggled to find much more success at the ITA Regional Championships in Princeton during the weekend of October 19, 20, and 21.
Juniors Jeff Dawson and Josh Lederman advanced to the round of 16 with two victories in the tournament. Dawson and Lederman defeated Angelo Sica Jr. and Matt Wierzel of Holy Cross in the first round 8-1. In the second round, Dawson and Lederman upset No. 3 see Eddie Bourchier and James Dwyer of Penn State 9-7. Dawson and Lederman came up short against Harvard's Chris Clayton and Will Guzick in the round of 16 though, losing 8-5.
Seeded No. 11, junior Michael Caldwell and sophomore Connor Dawson lost to Robert Ferrante and Ryan Berthod 8-6 in the first round. After winning their first match 8-4, freshman Calvin Bennett and senior Rory Green dropped an 8-6 match to No. 13 seed Mark Brodie and Daniel Freeman of Dartmouth in the second round.
In singles action, Connor Dawson lost to No. 1 seed Michael James of Penn State in the second round 6-2, 6-1. Dawson won his previous match 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 over Justin Chow. After a bye in the first round, No. 17 seed Jeff Dawson defeated Adam Schwartz of Penn 7-6 (40, 6-4 in the round of 64 before falling to No. 10 seed George Carpeni of Princeton.
Green came away with a 6-4, 7-5 victory in the first round before losing to No. 27 seed Leo Mochizuki of St. Bonaventure 6-3, 6-3. After winning his first round match 6-2, 6-4, Calvin Bennett lost to the No. 9 seed Dan Nguyen 6-2, 6-2 in the next round.
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Krystine Vermeer is going all out this Small Business Saturday at her Edgebrook boutique, Infinitely Sweet.
Customers can save 35 percent off storewide on clothing and accessories for women and children. And Vermeer is bringing in four additional retailers who don't have storefronts to drive more traffic for them and her store.
The holiday shopping season is still a make-or-break time of year, even for local retailers.
"I bank on December helping me pay for the three slowest months, which are January, February and March," Vermeer said. "Really, November and December are vital for taking care of five months of business.
"That cushion is so vital to me keeping my doors open."
Small Business Saturday is in its fourth year and was founded by American Express to support small retailers across the country. The credit card company estimated that consumers spent $5.5 billion on Small Business Saturday last year.
Black Friday and Small Business Saturday kick off that vital holiday shopping season for local retailers. Even big-box stores are trying to squeeze more out of consumers this time of year by opening earlier on Thanksgiving.
Pete Gill, communications manager for the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, said cities benefit from having small and big-box stores in their community.
"The two of them have to work together to a make a community economically viable," Gill said. "People do want their local, independent stores. It's a matter of variety. When you think of some of those indie stores in Rockford, Woodstock or Crystal Lake, for those downtown squares or main streets, those places are just as important as the outskirts where malls and larger stores bring in bigger tax dollars."
Gill said local retailers are also job generators, they often support local organizations like food pantries and other nonprofits, and they help keep smaller downtown areas economically strong.
Initiatives like Small Business Saturday and the 3/ 50 Project — which encourages shoppers to spend $50 at three local businesses each month — have made people more aware of supporting local businesses to keep them open.
But Gill noted that customer loyalty isn't what it was 50 years ago.
"There really isn't true loyalty to stores anymore," Gill said. "The whole shopping world is smaller, meaning you can shop a store in California just as easy as down the street. Traffic patterns also allow it. It's not hard to get to Schaumburg. Especially with the economy the last four to five years, the loyalty is not as important as savings."
Vermeer is hoping that built-in fan bases for those additional retailers she's bringing into her store will help drive traffic for the whole group on Small Business Saturday.
Designs by Jeff (jewelry), Simplee Delicious (food), Curly Q Candle Company and My Mini Motifs (crocheted baby accessories) will join Infinitely Sweet, 1651-1653 N. Alpine Road, on Saturday.
In Loves Park, The Olive Oil Experience and Spice Galleria are offering 25 percent discounts on olive oil, balsamic vinegars, spices and sampler packs both Friday and Saturday. The businesses, 6340-6342 E. Riverside Blvd., are owned by Charles and Brandi Ducharme.
Spice Galleria just opened in January, so this will be the first holiday shopping season for the store. The couple is hoping the second store will drive more traffic.
"If we don't have a good holiday season, that makes or breaks the year for us, no doubt about it," Charles Ducharme said. "We really do think we have a nice combo with both stores. We have a lot of gifty things that we can mix and match, and we build baskets with spices and olive oils."
Culture Shock, 2239 Charles St., is offering big discounts on both Black Friday and Small Business Saturday.
Nearly all merchandise in the store was 20 to 25 percent off on Friday, and customers can draw for discounts from 5 to 20 percent off on Saturday. The store is serving local coffee and snacks both days and will offer free gift wrapping for purchases.
The holidays are big business for the store, which specializes in eclectic clothing, home décor, accessories and vinyl records. Co-owner Lauren Davis said if the store does well during the holidays, it allows her and husband, Skyler Davis, to boost their inventory during the rest of the year.
"Basically, we work hard all year so we can bring the most fun and unique items to our store throughout the year, and during the holidays, we amp that up," Davis said. "This time of year definitely impacts local businesses in general."
The Davises also help run Winnebago Buy Local, a nearly 4-year-old group with about 150 members that aims to support and promote local businesses. They encouraged local retailers to open their doors on Black Friday this year so customers would have the option to support them.
Davis and Vermeer said local retailers do still have to fight the stereotype that their products are more expensive.
"There are a lot of local stores, including Culture Shock, that price things to sell and at fair prices," Davis said. "We also hook people up with discounts and punch cards, we pull out all the stops and give people 100 percent customer services, especially on Black Friday and Small Business Saturday. We try to make it special, because we appreciate everyone who comes in the door."
Being sensitive to price competition is more important than ever, Vermeer said.
"The past few years have taught people to be more money-wise than they were in the middle of the recession. They do not want to be where they were a year ago, so they're pinching pennies even more," Vermeer said. "We're equally priced or sometimes lower than major stores. We shop them regularly just to make sure.
"Our customers are paying for service and quality. I don't order 12,000 pieces, but the six pieces I do order that hit the floor are worth the price people are paying for them."
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"King Alfred sends greeting to Bishop Werfrith in words of love and
friendship. Let it be known to thee that it often comes to my mind
what wise men and what happy times were formerly in England, ... I
remember what I saw before England had been ravaged and burned, how
churches throughout the whole land were filled with treasures of
books. And there was also a multitude of God's servants, but these
had no knowledge of the books: they could not understand them
because they were not written in their own language. It was as if
the books said, 'Our fathers who once occupied these places loved
wisdom, and through it they obtained wealth and left it to us. We
see here their footprints, but we cannot follow them, and therefore
have we lost both their wealth and their wisdom, because we would
not incline our hearts to their example.' When I remember this, I
marvel that good and wise men who were formerly in England, and who
had learned these books, did not translate them into their own
language. Then I answered myself and said, 'They never thought that
their children would be so careless, or that learning would so
decay.'" [Footnote: A free version of part of Alfred's preface to
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The popular programmer blog Coding Horror has experienced a "100 percent data loss" and is seeking to restore its content from search engine caches. Site maintainer Jeff Atwood is blaming CrystalTech, saying the hosting provider was not properly handling the backup process for his virtual machines. But Atwood also acknowledges that he "absolutely should have done complete offsite backups ... all my backups were unfortunately on the server itself, so save the lecture, you're 100% absolutely right, but that doesn't help me at the moment."
Atwood believes he will be able to recover the text of his blog posts from web search caches, but says the same technique will not work for images, and is seeking help in finding a way to recover archived images from his site. The data loss also affected the blog for the Stack Overflow forum operated by Atwood and Joel Spolsky.


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Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Fresh Sewing Day October
I'll let the pictures speak for themselves it will be quite obvious what I've been up to this month ;-)
We're a bit poorly here so I'm going to keep this post short and sweet.
Head on over to Lynne's to see what everyone else has been up to and sign up for the small blog meet!
x Leila
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Lovely makes as ever Mrs! Get well soon all of you!ReplyDelete
So many yummy makes my sewing twin! I hope you are feeling better soon xReplyDelete
This really makes me want to sew a pillow. Today!ReplyDelete
That is a lot of pillows! - lovely makes as ever Leila xReplyDelete
You have been so busy! Lots of lovely things. Hope you are better soon.ReplyDelete
Pomona x
Oh deer:) I knew that you've made lately lots of pillow, but I didn't realize that sooo many! And all of them gorgeous:)ReplyDelete
Gosh, everyone is poorly!! Hope you feel better soon.ReplyDelete
Those cushions are gorgeous.
such gorgeous stuff!, feel better.ReplyDelete
Get well soon - we need to see more beautiful makes - purely selfish on my part! xReplyDelete
You've accomplished so much! Well done.ReplyDelete
You have been busy. They look nice an comfy!ReplyDelete
pillows, pillows, pillows. lovely!ReplyDelete
Beautiful work! I hope you feel better soon.ReplyDelete
i love all of your pillows!ReplyDelete
All your makes for the month look sooo gorgeousReplyDelete
Hello! I'm wondering if you have ever thought of doing a tutorial of how you do your log cabin pillows directly onto the batting.Sounds much easier than how I do it, and since I am making pillows for friends for the holidays, I'd love to know your process to save time, if you feel comfortable sharing it.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous pillows!!ReplyDelete


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Who are the speculated teams eliminated in this leg?
Another promo on the TV, but it was just Anne Marie and Tracy going through a few picture cards to help with foreign communication. The ones I saw was a picture of a toilet, a picture of a plane and a picture of a person with a question mark over their head, and arrows pointing in four directions (Apparently it means "I don't know where to go")
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Popcorn. Check.
Diet Coke. Check.
Twizzlers. Check.
A copy of "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A Short Autobiography" (Scribner), edited by James L. West III. Check.
If you're on your way to see — or see again — "Midnight in Paris," the latest film written and directed by Woody Allen, the foregoing list of items may be just the ticket.
The charms of popcorn, pop and candy are obvious — but what about the book? How might a new paperback collection of Fitzgerald's personal essays — some familiar, but others appearing for the first time in book form — enhance your pleasure in watching the gentle fable that stars Owen Wilson as an aspiring novelist whose trip to modern-day Paris is interrupted by a time warp, precipitating brushes with famous American expatriates from the 1920s such as Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway and Fitzgerald?
Tom Hiddleston, the British actor who plays Fitzgerald in "Midnight in Paris," does a nice job, from the way he wears elegant clothes to the way he vibrates with nervous energy. Along with his wife Zelda (Alison Pill, who unfortunately seems far too young and vacuous to portray a woman who was actually smart, talented and just as determined as her husband to be a great writer), the Fitzgerald in "Midnight in Paris" is the life of the party.
But what was the man really like? How did the author of classic American novels such as "The Great Gatsby" (1925) and "Tender Is the Night" (1933) get so much work done, even though he died of a heart attack in 1940 at 44 and wasted many years in an alcoholic fugue?
If "Midnight in Paris" leaves you curious about the revelers who really did change 20th century culture, then you'll be eager to dig up more information about Stein, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. There are multiple, very fine biographies of all three (as well as a superb 1970 biography of Zelda Fitzgerald, "Zelda," by Nancy Milford), and now there is "A Short Autobiography."
Fitzgerald never wrote an autobiography, but this is the next best thing: A collection of 19 personal essays written over the course of his career. They include lighthearted, amusing pieces clearly designed to appeal to magazine editors and casual readers, as well as grimmer fare carved from the center of a broken heart.
The second kind of essay reveals a vastly talented, deeply tormented man who — no matter how fun the party or how fizzy the champagne — knew he ought to be home writing, knew he was frittering away his gifts.
He had a knack for aphorism. "The wise writer," Fitzgerald states in an essay published in 1920, just as his first novel, "The Side of Paradise" (1920), was making him famous, "writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next and the schoolmasters of ever afterward." In the same piece, he opines, "There's no great literary tradition. … There's only the tradition of the eventual death of every literary tradition. The wise literary son kills his own father."
The essays rock back and forth between sparkling cleverness and annoying coyness, between genuine insights and would-be epiphanies that can sound painfully contrived. In his nonfiction, Fitzgerald was always hyper-aware of himself, always sneaking a peek in the mirror to see how he was coming across. Born in St. Paul, Minn., he was perennially afraid of being branded a Midwestern hayseed, a rube.
Yet in his novels, he was able to let go, to forget himself and let his keen ear for dialogue and his ability to distill complex feelings into pithy sentences — a "shorthand of the heart," Andrew Turnbull once described his style — carry the day.
A brief, beautiful essay about Fitzgerald by West, editor of "A Short Autobiography," is, all by itself, worth the price of the book. "His romantic readiness for life and his gift for hope have come to embody important aspects of the American identity," West writes. "He was among the first to recognize his country's dreams of infinite possibility."
While "Midnight in Paris" offers a snapshot of the fictional Fitzgerald at the height of his fame and glory, "A Short Autobiography" tells the rest of the story. It's not always pretty, but it's real.


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sounds good.
what court number at cheviot hills?
thanx, abel
Hey Joezen,
How're you doing? We've met a couple of times at the cheviot hills tennis courts.
I live on teh westside. I'm a 4.0 and I used to be a 4.5, but I need to get back into hitting mode. Please let me know if you'd like to have a hit sometime this week. Evenings and mornings both work for me. I prefer mornings because there's lesser people and you get courts, but evenings are fine as well. Anytime after 7pm or till 9AM in the mornings works for me. Any place on the westside works for me.
Hi Nadster,
Thanks for the note. I can play Thursday at 7PM @ Cheviot if you're available. I reserved a court, so please let me know whether you can make it.
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Which Super Bowl Commercials Scored?
Some Super Bowl commercials scored while others were not suitable for a family audience. Horizon Media Senior Vice President Brad Adgate joins the News Hub with his take on the best ads from the big game. Photo: Taco Bell.
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And... Jonathan Coulton Crowdsourcing A Piece Of His Next Tour As Well
from the a-growing-trend dept
Here's how it works. There are 40 funder slots available – basically 40 tickets that go on sale in advance of the rest of them. After two weeks (or sooner), these slots will theoretically be filled, and the rest of the tickets will go on sale. If you are one of these first 40 people, you get your money back if we get more than 160 people to come to the show.There are other similar sites, like GigFunder, and Eventful's "Demand It!" feature is still around as well. Songkick's Detour platform also has similar incentives, but through a very different mechanism. Given all this activity, I'm hopeful that we'll start seeing more innovative ways to make live shows more efficient and effective, while also creating new ways for artists to connect with fans and to help fans spread the word about their favorite artists. It seems like a real opportunity that is only just now being explored more deeply.
It's a pretty cool idea I think: get a core of fans to cover what you need to make the show happen, and then incentivize those to spread the word


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Big Assist VI another rousing success
It is the charity event that keeps on giving.
The Big Assist VI, a charity hockey game put together by Darien native Ryan Shannon of the Zurich Lions, his dad Pat Shannon and countless other volunteers, took place Wednesday night at Terry Conners ice rink in Stamford.
It was a winning event on every level.
The capacity crowd on hand was thrilled by the large group of NHL, AHL, overseas and college players who put on a great exhibition while donating their time.
The kids were happy to see the Geico Gecko, who skates pretty well, and to collect autographs from the very patient players.
Newly-married Darien High School boys ice hockey coach Chris Gerwig had a fine time directing Team Blue -- which had almost as much talent as his state finalist Blue Wave squad this past winter. Gerwig adjusted to not having a fourth forward line to wheel out.
But the big winner once again was the Obie Harrington-Howes Foundation that receives all proceeds. The OHHF Foundation has distributed over $3 million in grants to individuals with spinal cord injuries. A large contingent of people helped by the OHHF Foundation were on hand for Big Assist VI.
"The most requested item are vans. We do our best to help," said Obie Harrington-Howes, who was Ryan Shannon's youth hockey coach in Darien and a spinal cord injury victim. "We help keep existing vans functioning and on the road. We help with wheelchairs (motorized in most cases) and special beds. Because spinal cord injury victims can get bed sores, they need specialized, custom beds.
"We help people with house renovations to get people home from the hospital. We arrange with the contractor. We don't just drop off a check," Harrington-Howes continued. "Our grants are transformative in nature. We help with college tuitions."
The OHHF Foundation doesn't just make an impact with money.
"We have a committee of eight people who have either a medical or social work background," Harrington-Howes said. "It's like when a new mother comes home with her first baby. There's no instruction book on what to do. For spinal cord injury victims, education is key. Our people can connect them with other organizations. Our people know the ins and outs of the state's Title 19 program. We understand insurance company limits. We are a backstop and a conduit."
Most of all, Harrington-Howes is thankful to Ryan Shannon, Pat Shannon and all the hockey players who make The Big Assist a must attend event each summer.
"Hockey players are so approachable. They are the nicest, most hard-working athletes I've come across," Harrington-Howes said. "I'm always amazed by their generosity. The success of The Big Assist speaks to the stature of Ryan Shannon and Pat Shannon among their hockey peers, that guys come back year after year."
Among those on hand Wednesday night were Matt Moulson, who recently signed a five-year, $25 million contract with the Buffalo Sabres. Martin St. Louis and Ryan Haggerty of the New York Rangers, James Van Riemsdyk and Colton Orr of the Toronto Maple Leafs as well as Greenwich native Cam Atkinson of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The most charitable players were probably Team White goalie Jack Campbell (Dallas Stars) and Team Blue goalie Eric Mihalik (Colgate).
The Big Assist also features a silent auction. Among the items up for bid were a New York Rangers jersey signed by Mark Messier, a Detroit Red Wings jersey signed by goalie Jimmy Howard, a Rangers goalie stick signed by the 1989-90 squad including Brian Leetch as well as banners from the 2014 NHL Draft, Stanley Cup, Winter Classic and All-Star Game.
The Big Assist can't happen without six-year sponsors Geico and Fairfield County Bank and countless others.
"Our sponsorship is at a record level," said Pat Shannon. "We can't succeed with this event without them."


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Secrets of a Supermodel
When Chance Spiesbach of Chance TV was lucky enough to spend some time with Maria Helena Vianna – the stunning Brazilian model who came out for the Giorgio Gucci & Emperors Brand Vodka Gala they had a blast on the red carpet.
Maria Helena is a mother of two and married to Wall st hotshot and great guy Joe Vianna.
Maria Helena got her start as an Elite Model Look winner. At just 13, Maria Helena was discovered in the same contest as her dear friends and Brazilians supermodels, Isabeli Fontana and Alessandra Ambrosio the stars of the Victoria Secret show.
By 17, she had shot editorials for countless magazines covers; Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Vogue, Elle among many others.
Maria is represented by Red Model Management for print and Abrams Artists for film and television, her recent works include several photo shoots for famed photographers, Bill Diodato and LucianaPampalone, including a four page spread for the New York Post.
Maria doesn't just walk the runways and do photoshoots. She appeared as Katrina Bowden's Dutch cousin and bridesmaid, in the season finale of 30 Rock, also starred as the Superemodel on the runway in the mega hit Sex and the City 2. She's starred in a beer commercial with Iron Man 2 star, Mickey Rourke,and a commercial for Trumark Financial, CBS's The Good Wife, and HBO's Bored to Death. In the past month since moving to Brazil she has been overwhelmed with jobs, from Bikini shoots, to evening wear to covers of the biggest magazines in Latin America (see below).
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By JEFF BARNARD
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A woman accused of killing four people, including three of her relatives, at a tiny American Indian tribe's Northern California headquarters had been evicted from tribal housing because she was suspected of stealing from the tribe, the tribe's lawyer said Monday.
Cedarville Rancheria attorney Jack Duran said Cherie Lash Rhoades was suspended as tribal chairwoman just three weeks before the gun and knife attack, pending a federal investigation into allegations that she embezzled at least $50,000 in federal grant money.
Rhoades' son, Jack Stockton, was ousted as vice chairman and evicted from tribal housing on the same grounds, Duran told The Associated Press.
Stockton was not at Thursday's hearing when the shooting broke out. He does not have a listed phone number.
Duran said the meeting in Alturas, Calif., was being held to consider Rhoades' appeal of her eviction.
But at some point, Rhoades opened fire, killing her brother Rurik Davis, 50, who had been named interim chairman by the tribal council, authorities said.
Also killed in the attack were Rhoades' niece Angel Penn, 19; her nephew Glenn Calonicco, 30; and Shelia Lynn Russo, 47. They were all members of the tribal council that evicted Rhoades, and Russo was the tribal administrator.
Duran said Penn was holding her newborn infant on her lap when she was shot, but the baby was unhurt and will be placed with a sister.
Davis' two daughters, Monica and Melissa Davis, were critically wounded, court documents said.
Responding officers arrested Rhoades outside the building, where a declaration of probable cause says Modoc County Undersheriff Ken Richardson saw Rhodes stabbing one of the victims in the parking lot and handcuffed her after another person tackled her. The document adds that police talked to six people who witnessed the shooting. The two women who survived bullet wounds were also cut with a knife.
A criminal complaint filed Monday in Modoc County Superior Court charges Rhoades with four counts of murder with a 9 mm semi-automatic handgun, and two counts of attempted murder. She was to be arraigned Tuesday morning.
District Attorney Jordan Funk said she will face the death penalty if she's convicted, because the complaint carries the special circumstance of multiple victims.
Funk said it wasn't immediately clear if attorneys had been appointed for Rhoades yet, because they would have to be qualified to handle a capital case.
The Cedarville Rancheria is a federally recognized tribe with 35 registered members. The Rancheria owns 26 acres in Cedarville, where most members reside in nine small, one-story houses built in the 1950s on the outskirts of town.
In 2012, the tribe received an Indian housing grant for $50,399 from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, according to a news release on the agency's website.
Duran said he couldn't confirm whether that was the money in question, adding the amount could be less "or a lot more."
Though police have said they are still working on a motive, a nephew who lived with Rhoades, Jacob Penn, said she snapped under the pressure of her brother's attempt to evict her.
Eviction from tribal housing is among the most serious punishments for American Indians. However, Rhoades and Stockton were not being removed from tribal rolls and would continue to receive their share of $1.1 million in gambling revenue shared by casino tribes with the Rancheria, which does not have a casino, Duran said.
Alturas Police Chief Ken Barnes said that as the shooting erupted, young children were inside the building and on the property, and a judge from another tribe was listening to the eviction proceedings over the phone.
After running out of bullets, Rhoades grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed a woman, police said. She chased one of Davis' daughters out of the building and into the parking lot while brandishing the knife.
There, she was tackled by the tribal headquarters maintenance man, Duran said.
Both of Davis' daughters were wounded. Officials said one was alert and talking, while the other remained in critical condition Friday.
The tribe's headquarters - a ranch-style building with a pitched brown metal roof and solar panels - is in a residential area about a block from the police station. Police were alerted to the attack by a woman covered in blood pounding on a side entrance to City Hall, which also houses the police.
The tribe is busy cleaning the building, and it is uncertain whether it will resume using the facility because of the slayings, Duran said.
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New Swaddling Gear Saving Babies' Lives
The latest push to keep babies safe involves getting them to sleep in a sack. Informed Patient columnist Laura Landro has the details. Photo: Thinkstock.
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Gdeskcal is a little desktop calendar (in Windows, like the one in Webshots) that lets the user specify events.
This program can be downloaded from Mandriva official repositories, but, after the installation, it won't run if you use the version ONE of Mandriva (it does in PowerPack).
To solve the situation, use Mandriva Control Center to install
gnome-python-gtksourceview and the program will run perfectly.
To launch the application when you start your session, you must go to the hidden folder home/.kde/Autostart. Once there, right click to create a basic link to the gdeskcal file on /usr/lib/gdeskcal.
To change skins, download the corresponding .tar files, unpack them and copy the entire folders into the folder "skins", located as a hidden folder in home (.gdeskcal). Use the View menu in Dolphin and check the box "show hidden files" to see it.
I just discovered that this little program connects to korganizer, so your appointments are also logged there if you want fancier alarms. Great!
A blog to compile what I have learned (and what I am learning) about Mandriva (and GNU/Linux in general) since 2009, when I migrated. Current distros I'm using: OpenMandriva Lx 3.1 /3.0 Mageia 6, PCLinuxOS 2017.03, Fedora Workstation 27 (KDE spin), PicarOS, Pisi Linux 1, Elive beta, and AntiX 13.
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We also must strive to continuously demonstrate value to the government, the people of New Zealand, and international partners as we go about performing our mission. We must be seen and understood by those stakeholders as being able to deliver effectiveness in maritime operations with professionalism and expertise. For the government this means demonstrating value for money as well. We must constantly reassure all that the navy is providing a good return on investment in being able to bring about desirable outcomes.
A third challenge is that of achieving balance between effectiveness and efficiency. For the RNZN the key to efficiency is the nurturing of a culture of 'continuous improvement' in navy people in all aspects of our business. That means we constantly look for ways to improve processes and practices so the resources of money, people, and time can be allocated sufficiently—and no more—to all parts of the endeavor. In other words, we want to do the right things right and cease doing those things that no longer add value.
The next three to five years will undoubtedly be tough. We will need to stay well focused on our challenges and strive to do things smarter as we go about our duties.


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by Constance Garcia-Barrio
If life stacks the cards against you, reshuffle the deck, advises DeAnn Cox, who teaches "A Crash Course in Social Media for Business," a popular class at Mt. Airy Learning Tree.
Cox knows whereof she speaks. She grew up in "some of the meanest neighborhoods in Camden," NJ. Her parents separated when she was young. Cox's mother, who suffers from schizophrenia and alcoholism, reared her and her two older sisters. "Whatever happened, failure wasn't an option," says Cox, 31, a black lesbian with working-class roots.
Cox spent grim years in Camden's school system. "In elementary and middle school, we didn't have enough seats or books in the classroom," she said. A confrontation with a teacher in Cox's senior year of high school proved a catalyst for change. "I thought Ms. Brockington didn't like me," said Cox, of the teacher of business and technology at Camden County Vocational and Technical High School.
"One day I said to her, 'Do you have a problem with me?' Ms. Brockington said liking or disliking me wasn't the issue. She said that she was my teacher, and she was going to do her job." Months later, Ms. Brockington called Cox aside and spoke of a co-operative job at a law firm. Cox would work 20 hours a week and attend school full-time.
"I began as a file clerk, and I was offered employment after graduation." Cox jumped at the chance to attend college through the law firm's employee benefits program. Soon enrolled in Camden County College (CCC), she studied business administration. Cox went on to become a certified paralegal. By then she had left home and had her own apartment.
The bottom fell out when the law firm, hit by the economic downturn in 2005, laid her off in August. "It was really disheartening," said Cox, who scraped by with low-paying jobs and cut back to one class per semester at CCC. In November she found work at another law firm, and she went on to earn an associate's degree from CCC, where she maintained a 4.0 average every semester. One thing marred her 2010 graduation: her parents refused to attend.
Another blow fell that year. She was laid off again.
Through good times and bad, Cox found the energy to volunteer. In 2007, she founded Southern New Jersey GLBTQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer) Pride and also became GLBTQ Liaison to the Office of the Mayor of Camden. "These positions are important because where I grew up, we don't have exclusively GLBTQ venues," Cox said, noting, that there's no GLBTQ community center or homeless shelter. "To this day, I'm working to get community members to take pride in themselves."
Cox's advocacy often brought her to the Mazzoni Center, which provides medical care, counseling, recovery services, HIV care and other assistance to Philadelphia's GLBTQ community. "As a volunteer, I helped raise awareness of the Mazzoni Center's programs and services to potential clients and volunteers," Cox said. It was a win-win deal. "I expanded my professional and social networks while helping community members in dire physical and emotional need." Cox also met "Dr. Ruth" Westheimer, the famous sex therapist.
While her sexuality has presented no career barriers, Cox has run up against prejudice of a different kind. Once she was talking with a man in a gay bar. During the frank and lively talk, he mentioned that he was married. "As soon as he learned that I was from Camden, he said, 'Camden? That's a not such a good place,' and he ended the conversation.' Here's a man cheating on his wife with other men, and he won't talk with me because I'm from Camden!"
While Cox worked as a volunteer, the clock was ticking on her unemployment benefits. "I knew I wanted something more stable, and I felt that my own business would give me that possibility." She won a scholarship from Temple University's Women of Color Foundation in 2011, which provided funds for her to study at the Fox School of Business.
Cox had just finished the program at the Fox School of Business when luck gave her another surprise assist. She had posted her profile on LinkedIn. Within days of her completing her studies at Fox, she received a call from the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia to come in and interview for a job, thanks to her resume.
"The call came out of the blue, but it was so welcome," Cox said. It turned out that her charm and chutzpah made her perfect for a position in donor relations. "In my current position as director of donor research, I identify prospective donors," Cox said. "I'm also responsible for corporate sponsorships and quality assurance of donor services."
Cox learned about the Mt. Airy Learning Tree through her partner and proposed a course in social media. Her most recent class was on May 21 at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill. "If you have a start-up or medium-size company, Facebook and Twitter can help broaden you client base at little cost," said Cox, who first taught at MALT in 2012. "Many people don't know how to begin, and my course gives them the tools." Her goal seems counter-intuitive. "I want to make clients independent so that they no longer need me."
For more information about Cox's social media classes, call 215-843-6333 or visit www.mtairylearningtree.org.


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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A New York congressman wants to take the "For Sale" sign off Plum Island.
In a letter this week, Rep. Timothy Bishop argues it is ludicrous for the federal government to be spending as much as $1 billion to construct a new laboratory in Manhattan, Kan., to study animal diseases that could devastate the country's livestock industry when a "perfectly good" facility already exists off the tip of eastern Long Island.
The Long Island Democrat, who previously has criticized the Department of Homeland Security's relocation plan, notes in a letter to the Office of Management and Budget that the National Academy of Sciences is again studying the suitability of placing a new lab in the so-called Beef Belt. He adds that plans to sell the New York island — made famous in a 1997 Nelson DeMille best-selling book of the same name, and its mention as a possible home for Hannibal Lecter in the film "Silence of the Lambs" — to finance the move to Kansas are more than 18 months behind schedule.
"Let's just say this was a bad idea and move on," Bishop told The Associated Press.
Kansas officials, who recently authorized $45.4 million in bonds for the next phase of construction on the $650 million National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility, counter that there is no reason to turn back.
"Plum Island is not the long-term solution that our country needs to protect our food supply," Gov. Sam Brownback said. "Building the National Bio and Agro Defense Facility is integral not only to the security of our nation's food supply but also to our capacity to respond to acts of terror directed against the American people."
The Department of Homeland Security, which was formed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, took responsibility for the research laboratory at Plum Island in 2003. Scientists there study highly dangerous and contagious pathogens that could wipe out the nation's cattle or hog populations if they were released. The site was chosen in the 1950s because it was located off the mainland of the United States.
Homeland Security officials determined several years ago that the aging facility may not be suitable for continued research and studied several sites around the country, settling on Manhattan, Kan. That lab is not supposed to open until at least 2018, so DHS officials in the interim have spent $35 million on security and other enhancements at Plum Island in recent years.
Although Plum Island was considered as a possible site for the new lab, officials ruled it out after Bishop and others opposed plans to upgrade the laboratory to a Bioscience Level-4 facility, which means it could also study diseases dangerous to humans. The Kansas site will be a Level-4 facility, while Plum Island, which is not expected to close until at least 2018, remains at Level-3.
"Simply upgrading the outdated Cold War-era Plum Island Animal Disease Center is not an option for many reasons, among them that the local community, led by Rep. Bishop, sought and received a commitment from DHS in 2003 not to build a BSL-4 lab on Plum Island," said Rep. Lynn Jenkins, R-Kan. "His latest argument that he is opposed to building NBAF in order to save money is a faulty, disturbing, and transparent argument."
Bishop counters there are existing Level-4 facilities at Fort Detrick, Md., and elsewhere, that could handle the research on human diseases envisioned for Kansas. He argues that in hard economic times, moving research to Kansas is unnecessary.
"One of the things I've been elected to do is protect the needs and interests of my own district and there are 200 jobs at this facility," Bishop said. "I would also suggest that Kansas' interest is no more enlightened than my interest. If they're going to accuse me of playing parochial politics, I could easily level the same accusation against them. From a fiscal point of view, given the difficulty we had, this is a facility we don't need.
"So am I trying to protect local jobs? You're damn right I am. But do I also believe there are significant, larger national interests at play here, absolutely."
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, a member of the appropriations and agriculture committees, also opposes the move to Kansas. The appropriations committee is holding up $50 million in funding for the Kansas laboratory in next year's budget pending the outcome of a National Academy of Science study on the feasibility of placing the lab in the nation's heartland. A previous study identified a 70 percent chance that a release of foot-and-mouth disease could occur at the new facility during its projected 50-year lifespan. Damages to the livestock industry could total as much as $50 billion if a release were to occur, officials have said.
The academy is again studying the feasibility of placing the lab in Kansas; a report is due next summer.
Meanwhile, the General Services Administration had originally promised a draft environmental impact statement on the proposed sale of Plum Island in the summer of 2010, with public hearings to follow. The report was delayed in part because officials were obtaining additional information on the 840-acre pork-chop shaped island from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and others. The draft is now expected in January or February.
Bishop also derides notions that any sale of Plum Island will offset the costs of moving to Kansas. One eastern Long Island real estate expert has estimated that the island could fetch as much as $50 million, far less than the estimated $650 million for the new laboratory.
"Sheer fantasy," Bishop said of the idea that the Plum Island sale would cover the cost of the new lab. He adds that the estimates don't include the cost of possible environmental remediation at the island, where secret Cold War-era chemical warfare testing is believed to have taken place. "You would have to do at least $80 million to $100 million worth of environmental cleanup, so there's no way the numbers add up at all," Bishop said.
Associated Press Writer John Hanna in Topeka, Kan., contributed to this report.


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Proenza honored for his work advancing Greater Akron's development03/21/2014
President Luis Proenza addresses the crowd after receiving the H. Peter Burg Award from the Greater Akron Chamber.
In front of an audience of nearly 1,000 people, President Luis M. Proenza was presented with the prestigious H. Peter Burg Award from the Greater Akron Chamber of Commerce.
The award recognizes an individual "who has displayed paramount leadership for the advancement of Greater Akron's economic and community development."
In a compelling video tribute to his life and career—featuring his wife Theresa and many others who describe his contributions to university and community—Dr. Proenza's vision for the growth of the university and the region was documented.
UA Board Chair Richard W. Pogue calls him "a quiet dynamo" and FirstEnergy CEO Tony Alexander says both Burg and Proenza "put what was good for the people of our area as a priority and they found a way to strike the right balance between what it takes to be a true community leader."
In presenting the award to Dr. Proenza, Mayor Don Plusquellic (last year's award recipient) called Dr. Proenza a visionary, and handed him some "energy balls" in reference to the Super Bowl commercials that brought a lot of attention to Akron and northeast Ohio.
In accepting the award, Dr. Proenza paid special tribute to the UA alumni in the audience: "I don't know what the total alumni representation is in this room but I can tell you that seven of the past nine Burg award recipients are Zips – and let's make that eight because Joe Kanfer is an honorary alumnus. If the achievements and contributions of all these alumni do not stand as a testament to the University's importance for economic development, I don't know what will."
The award was inscribed with the following words:
The one with the vision shows us the way
The one with the passion shows us why
The one with integrity shows us how.
The award was presented during the Greater Akron Chamber's annual meeting on Tuesday, March 20.
Dr. Proenza and his wife Theresa stand with Akron Mayor Don Plusquellic. During his remarks, the mayor handed President Proenza the "energy balls" -- a reference to the University's Super Bowl commercials.
Video tribute prepared by the Greater Akron Chamber
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There is another killer disease besides AIDS, but it receives far less attention in the wealthy nations of the Northmalaria. Malaria has been almost completely eliminated in the United States and other developed countries. It is often included among the so-called neglected diseases, neglected in the sense that although it is curable, adequate resources for preventing and curing it remain in short supply, largely because of indifference on the part of first-world governments and the major pharmaceutical companies.
Yet every year malaria kills over one million men, women and children, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa. In Chad it is the principal cause of death, ahead even of AIDS. Children are the most severely affected. They are at special risk because they have not had time to acquire the level of partial immunity that can keep the disease from becoming life-threatening. As a result, 1,000 children, mostly from poor rural areas, die of malaria every day.
Greatly compounding the problems of illness and death caused by malaria is the growing ineffectiveness of the traditional medications that are still used in a number of the most seriously affected African nations. Both chloroquine and sulfadoxine-pyrmethamine (commonly called SP) have long been employed together as the first line of treatment. But increasing levels of resistance have rendered both chloroquine and SP virtually useless in many parts of Africa.
Over the past decade, however, ACTan artemisinin-based combination therapyhas emerged as a new form of treatment that has proven effective in countries particularly hard hit by epidemics of malaria. Derived from the sweet wormwood plant, artemisinin has served as a medication in China for 2,000 years. When used in conjunction with other anti-malarials developed over the past three decades, it has proven successful in southeast Asia. ACT has been used with impressive results in a number of African nations by medical groups like the Nobel Prize-winning Doctors Without Borders. In Burundi, after a five-year drought followed by heavy rains and unusually hot weather, the mosquito population proliferated. Many people fell ill when the mosquito carrying the especially deadly parasite Plasmodium falciparum infected thousands. But after the government of Burundi decided late in 2002 to adopt ACT as the first line of treatment, in combination with other anti-malarials, the toll of illness and death began to drop.
As of now, however, only half a dozen African countries have actively promoted the switch from the earlier, largely ineffective therapies to the artemisinin-based protocol. A primary reason for this is the expense. While chloroquine costs only pennies per patient, ACT costs an average of $1.50 or more per adult and 40 cents per child. Small though these sums may seem, for desperately poor families they can represent insurmountable barriers, unless rich countries contribute more to funding organizations like the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Created in 2001 by U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, the fund makes grants to front-line health providers in poor countries combating these three deadly diseases. But donations have fallen far short of what is needed. The Gates Foundation, a major donor in the fight against malaria, has estimated that $2 billion would be needed to control the disease.
But even relatively simple prevention methods could reduce the infection rate: for example, the use of insecticide-treated mosquito nets. According to Unicef, however, only 15 percent of children have access to nets, and only 2 percent of these are treated with insecticides. Complicating prevention efforts are the civil wars that periodically wrack many African nations. Made refugees in their own countries by these conflicts, people have no choice but to live a nomadic existence, which may entail sleeping outdoors. Similar conflicts make it difficult for aid workers to reach those in need of anti-malarial and other life-saving medications.
Humanitarian health organizations like Doctors Without Borders believe that it is not only cost considerations that pose barriers to the wider use of proven, albeit more expensive, anti-malarials like ACT. There has also been a lack of political will on the part of international donor countries and governments in malaria-stricken regions to make this potentially life-saving switch. Also to blame is the for-profit pharmaceutical industry. With malaria all but eradicated in wealthy countries, this industry is carrying on virtually no research into treatment. A strange kind of indifference thus sets in when it comes to addressing this and other neglected diseases, like sleeping sicknessdiseases that continue to claim needlessly the lives of millions every year. Indifference of this kind lies at the heart of the lack of political will that is allowing diseases like malaria to ravage some of the world's poorest and neediest populations.
I have photos of empty medicine cabinets in Mushanga and a dispensary building that is waiting for medicines and a nurse. But there is no money. I really don't know how my Grail sisters manage, except that when there isn't a drought, they can live off the land. Uganda has rich soil. My sisters in Mushanga told me that each month they get money for drugs, but these are depleted by mid-month. They receive very little in the way of financial contributions from the patients, and their counseling of AIDS patients—which is growing daily—is totally free.


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Keep it Green: Upcycling Your Recycling Into Toys
It seems to me that the toys in our house, and the majority of our friends' houses, keep proliferating. There are so many toys that many of them can't even be played with; there aren't enough hours in the day. Instead of buying new ones, try upcycling items which would normally end up in the trash (or the recycling, if we're lucky). These projects do create new toys, but there may be even more fun in the making of them.
If you've got any of these raw materials hanging around and your kids are looking for a project, try one of these great tutorials:
1. Plastic Bottle Barbie Boat at Spoonful.
2. Candy Box Car at Projects for Preschoolers.
3. Hand Soap Water Balloon Pump at Find It, Make It, Love It.
4. Soda Bottle Tiaras at Paper, Plate, and Plane.
5. Upcycled Building Blocks at B-Inspired Mama.
6. Detergent Bottle Fairy Houses at Filth Wizardry.
7. Yogurt Bottle Binoculars at Little Cook.
8. Soda Bottle Tractor at Spoonful.