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A flock of scarlet macaws has been released in southern Mexico as part of a reintroduction project to return this charismatic bird to its former range.
The macaws were released into the jungles of Aluxes Ecopark, near Palenque National Park in Chiapas, and all 17 individuals so far appear to be doing well. The project comes after years of coordinated efforts between Aluxes Ecopark, Xcaret Ecopark, the Institute of Biology of the University of Mexico (UNAM), and the Mexican environment agency (SEMARNAT).
Macaws under threat
The scarlet macaw is widespread across Central and South America, and is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. However, this vibrantly coloured species has all but disappeared from southern Mexico, mainly due to the destruction of its rainforest habitat and over-collection for the pet trade.
Fortunately for the macaw, forest restoration projects, awareness campaigns and protection of Palenque National Park have significantly reduced tropical rainforest destruction in the region, and the wildlife trade has also declined. Sufficient protection for the scarlet macaw and its habitat means that reintroduction is now a viable option to restore this species to its former range.
Macaw reintroductions
Before the scarlet macaw reintroduction project could go ahead, approval had to first be gained from the relevant authorities. The health and genetics of the captive-bred birds also had to be assessed to ensure that they were suitable for release.
The first macaw reintroduction took place in April, with a second small flock scheduled for release at the end of June. After this, small groups of 10 to 12 birds at a time will be released until a quota of 60 to 70 for this year is met. The reintroductions will then continue until 2015, and if successful will result in a doubling of the species' current numbers in the region.
Speaking about the reintroduction, Alejandro Estrada, one of the leading researchers from the Institute of Biology at UNAM, explained that they should "create a scarlet macaw corridor that will reconnect the remnant populations with the introduced macaws and will result in a region-wide restoration of the scarlet macaw in its northernmost distribution in the Neotropics."
Preparing for release
Before the captive-bred scarlet macaws can successfully be released, they need to be trained in how to survive in the wild. This includes housing the birds in groups for several weeks to encourage them to form flocks, as well as training them to recognise wild foods and to avoid predators, including humans.
Once released, the birds will be provided with extra food to supplement their diets as they adjust to foraging for wild foods, which include fruits, nuts, seeds, flowers and leaves. According to Estrada, now that the first birds are living wild, they will be able to act as 'tutors' for new flocks, helping them to adapt more quickly.
The released macaws will be tracked over the coming years, to monitor how the reintroduction efforts are going. Artificial nest boxes will also be set up in the release area.
Encouraging support
The macaw reintroduction efforts have received encouraging support from the Mexican government, which has helped to publicise the species' return to the wild. Various campaigns have helped to build a sense of local pride in this beautifully coloured bird, and the community around Palenque already appears to be captivated by its reappearance.
Those involved in the project are hopeful that this sense of pride in and concern for the scarlet macaw will also help to develop a greater interest in the conservation of the region's tropical forests and the other species which inhabit them.
Read more on this story at Mongabay – Flying rainbows: the scarlet macaw returns to Mexico.
Find out more about scarlet macaw conservation at The ARA Project and the Tambopata Macaw Project.
View photos and videos of the scarlet macaw on ARKive.
Liz Shaw, ARKive Text Author


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Clozapine for Cannabis Use in Schizophrenia (CLOCS)
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01639872
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : July 13, 2012
Last Update Posted : March 23, 2018
|Tracking Information
|First Submitted Date ICMJE
|July 11, 2012
|First Posted Date ICMJE
|July 13, 2012
|Last Update Posted Date
|March 23, 2018
|Actual Study Start Date ICMJE
|May 1, 2013
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|March 29, 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01639872 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Not Provided
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Clozapine for Cannabis Use in Schizophrenia
|Official Title ICMJE
|Clozapine for Cannabis Use Disorder in Schizophrenia
|Brief Summary
Many individuals with schizophrenia also suffer from marijuana addiction that worsens their problems related to schizophrenia. Most of the medications prescribed for schizophrenia have no effect on reducing marijuana use. Preliminary data suggests that clozapine, an atypical antipsychotic, may limit marijuana use in people diagnosed with schizophrenia, but it is not commonly used due to its side effects and is reserved for people who do not respond to other antipsychotic medications.
In the proposed study, 132 individuals who are diagnosed with both schizophrenia and a cannabis use disorder will be randomized to a 12-week treatment course with either clozapine or risperidone (another commonly prescribed antipsychotic medication) to test the hypothesis that patient treated with clozapine will have decreased cannabis use as compared to patients treated with risperidone.
Should this study indicate that clozapine will lessen marijuana use in persons diagnosed with schizophrenia more than risperidone, it will provide evidence needed to begin to shift clinical practice toward its use in this population.
|Detailed Description
Cannabis use disorder (CUD), which is up to ten times more common in patients with schizophrenia (SCZ) than in the general population, worsens the course of this severe psychiatric disorder. Since SCZ occurs in 1% of the population, the co-occurrence of CUD in 13% to 42% of people with this disorder presents society with an important public health problem. Unfortunately, most antipsychotics available for treatment of patients with SCZ do not appear to limit their cannabis use. Moreover, the one antipsychotic that preliminary data suggest may well limit cannabis use in these patients, clozapine (CLOZ), is not used for this purpose; it is reserved for patients whose psychosis is treatment resistant.
The overarching idea behind this proposal, however, is that CLOZ's use is being unreasonably restricted and should be made more widely available for patients with SCZ who have a co-occurring CUD but whose psychosis is not necessarily treatment resistant. This notion is supported by our preliminary clinical and animal data on the effects of CLOZ, as well as our neurobiological model of the basis of cannabis use in patients with SCZ that provides a pharmacologic rationale for this effect of CLOZ.
Even given all the arguments favoring the potential benefits of CLOZ in patients with SCZ and CUD, however, its side effect profile will likely limit its use until a fully powered study demonstrates its ability to decrease cannabis use in patients with SCZ. This proposal aims to launch such a study. If, as we hypothesize, this study confirms and extends our previous preliminary data of the effects of CLOZ in patients with SCZ and CUD, it will provide a strong impetus to expand the use of CLOZ in this population.
In the proposed study, 132 patients who are comorbid for both SCZ and CUD will be randomized to a 12-week treatment course with either CLOZ or risperidone (RISP) to test the hypothesis that patients treated with CLOZ will have decreased cannabis use as compared to patients treated with RISP. In addition, the study will determine whether patients treated with CLOZ will have improvements in psychiatric symptoms, quality of life neuropsychological functions as compared to those taking RISP. We will also explore whether patients taking CLOZ show improved reward responsiveness as compared to those taking RISP. Finally, this study will explore whether those patients with the val/val genotype at the COMT Val158Met locus are more likely to decrease cannabis use during CLOZ treatment than are those without the val/val COMT genotype.
Should this study indicate that CLOZ will lessen cannabis use in patients with SCZ more than RISP, it will provide evidence needed to begin to shift clinical practice toward its use in these patients.
|Study Type ICMJE
|Study Phase
|Phase 4
|Study Design ICMJE
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
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|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Actual Enrollment ICMJE
|Original Estimated Enrollment ICMJE
|Actual Study Completion Date
|March 29, 2017
|Actual Primary Completion Date
|March 29, 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
|18 Years to 55 Years (Adult)
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|United States
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
|1R01DA032533-01A1( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
|Not Provided
|IPD Sharing Statement
|Not Provided
|Responsible Party
|Alan Green, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
|Collaborators ICMJE
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|Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
|Verification Date
|March 2018
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Dr. George Huang of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center is attempting to develop a revolutionary new root canal treatment that would actually regrow infected and lost pulp tissue in the roots of diseased teeth.
Dr. George Huang of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center has been awarded a $1.8 million grant to continue research into developing a root canal treatment.
(Photo Courtesy of UTHSC)
The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research recently awarded Huang $1.8 million in funding, extending a grant he originally received in 2008.
As many as 60 million root canal procedures are performed worldwide every year. Huang specializes in endotontics, which focuses on treatments and prevention of diseases in the root canal system.
"In early 2000 was the time that the tissue engineering concept started to emerge, as well as the understanding of stem cells," Huang said. "As a clinician and as a dentist, I thought perhaps the combination of these two types of research might be able to help dentistry."
The traditional root canal procedure involves removing decayed root tissue, or dental pulp, from the tooth's canal and filling that space with gutta percha, an artificial rubber-like substance. With Huang's new approach, the canals that have been cleared would be injected with stem cell tissue to stimulate healthy tissue growth, essentially rebuilding the tooth, and eliminating the need for gutta percha.
"There had not been any success in trying to restore this infected tissue through a regeneration process, so I started looking into the issue and I realized there was a possibility to further advance this line of research," said Huang, who explained that the possibility of regeneration was proved in the 1990s when researchers discovered that stem cells existed in the dental pulp and could be isolated, categorized and possibly utilized.
The patient's stem cells would first be isolated, grown in a laboratory setting and then inserted
back into the patient's mouth. Within a two-month period, the root will regenerate.
It's important to note that Huang's treatment targets root disease in the early stages and is not a "whole-tooth" regeneration method, which is a different process entirely. So far, scientists in Japan have shown that they can completely regenerate teeth in small animals like mice.
"Our group has been able to demonstrate that we can isolate stem cells from the pulp tissue, let them expand or grow in culture dishes, seed them onto artificial or natural scaffolding materials, and then insert them into the canal space. Using a small animal model, we were able to demonstrate that we can entirely regenerate pulp tissue in the empty canal space," Huang said.
Another function of the pulp tissue is to generate dentyne.
"The dentyne can also be regenerated," Huang said. "The natural function of the pulp tissue is to maintain the homeostasis of the tooth and lay down the dentyne structure to sustain the architecture of the tooth."
Similar research in other countries has been successful.
Testing has now moved to larger animals, including pigs and dogs, and clinical trials on humans could begin in the next 10 years.
Huang's research also examines harvesting stem cells from a person other than the patient. He envisions potential for a stem cell bank in the future.
A breakthrough in root canal procedure would be good news for a growing number of people opposed to the current root canal treatment because extremely toxic anaerobic bacteria have been found and identified in and around some root canals.
The nonprofit Toxic Element Research Foundation has found that root canals are common in people with heart disease, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease, Lupus, leukemia, diabetes, arthritis and other autoimmune diseases. Reversal of some of these diseases, including improvements in physical conditions as well as positive changes in blood chemistries, have taken place after the removal of the dental toxins such as mercury, nickel, aluminum, root canals and cavitations.


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Jobless Claims Climb Higher Than Expected
The number of U.S. workers seeking new unemployment benefits rose last week to a level that still points to job growth but underscores the fitful nature of the labor market's recovery. Meanwhile, U.S. stock futures rallied on remarks from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke. Kaitlyn Keirnan reports. Photo: AP.
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Today on our walk, Jasper stopped to roll. I smiled because somtimes after he's been cooped up he likes to have a good roll on the grass and it's really cute.
Then I spied what looked like a tangle of sticks he was rolling in, and leaned in to look closer.
Ah, it was a rotting crow carcass, and the tangle of sticks was its feet. It was in the "liquefying" stage of decomposition, and there were carcass juices all over Jasper and his collar. I MUST start looking when he does that telltale "I'm gonna roll!" circle that he does.
We finished our walk and then walked straight to the self-service dog wash about a mile away. I bought him a new collar, washed him, and we walked back home. Normally I'd bathe him at home rather than spend $15 to use someone else's tub but...no, just no. I didn't want that stink in my house or my car.
The last time something like this happened it was goose poop and he was COVERED in green sludge form nose to tail. We tossed him in the creek to rinse off before driving home. He smelled like icky creekwater, but better that than crusted-on goose poop.
Anyone else have a good "My dog rolled in..." story?
Cell phone picture during the bath...


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The Scrolls of Plegh
---The Working Title War---
The Latest Strip
Begin The Working Title War
---The Hundred Classic Episodes---
6/03: Halfling Apocrypha
3/03: Everybody's A Player
100! 2/02: The Tavern of Elemental Drinking
11/01: The Fate of the World
7/01: Precognition of Reality Show
3/01: Fan Service
11/00: We Know What To Do With Monsters
11/97: She Was Brought Across in 280...
8/97: At A Time Like This
2/97: Mime Ray
1/97: It's Never Just "I Beseech YOU"
12/96: Did We Mention We Hate Car Ads?
12/95: One Wedding And A Funeral
12/95: Lost Episode
11/95: It's Her Favorite
9/95: Unbreakable
8/95: Why Not Reintroduce the Characters? So We Can Cancel You.
7/95: Hard Fun 15: Feel the Love
6/95: Hard Fun 14: The Staff of Public Domain
5/95: Hard Fun 13: Persey is HARDCORE
4/95: Hard Fun 12: Offstage Betrayal!
3/95: Hard Fun 11: Mr. Toad's Wild Dealership
2/95: Hard Fun 10: A Gazeteer of Hard Fun
1/95: Hard Fun 9: Obsessions
12/94: Hard Fun 8: Uncle Sedentary Saves Lucretide
11/94: Hard Fun 7: Just Ignore Me
10/94: Hard Fun 6: Look Up
9/94: Hard Fun 5: Someone Has To Own It
8/94: Hard Fun 4: Where Is Your God Now?
7/94: Hard Fun 3: Nêl Mad
6/94: Hard Fun 2: Arcalula-- Space Danger Cyborg Halfling!
5/94: Hard Fun 1: How To Defeat Ogrek
4/94: Vacation
3/94: Career Counseling
2/94: The Voyage of the Dark Treacle
1/94: I Want To Not Believe
12/93: It's Not About Winning
11/93: Extraterritoriality
10/93: Shopping
9/93: Beyond Strategy
8/93: Actually, Fëa Sucks at Cosplay
7/93: I Like Working With People
6/93: Meet The Clerds
5/93: Ralph Options the Book Rights
4/93: Boys! Boys! Boys!
3/93: Yocchi Is Not Harmless
2/93: Joy Turned to Tragedy Today
1/93: A Mummy Playing Tennis
12/92: Muffle Phlug
11/92: Sylph Wrestling Is On
10/92: Monsters' Patio
9/92: You Lucky Stiff
8/92: Ogrek Psychs the Munchkin
7/92: Experience
6/92: You Play, I'll Just Watch
5/92: Lo!
4/92: New Digs
3/92: Embedded NPCs
2/92: Soon To Have Their Own Strip At Keenspace
1/92: Now, MY Thought Was...
12/91: Say Yes
11/91: It's Sunlight In A Paste
10/91: More Garlic
9/91: Hallowed Airspace
8/91: He Knows Who You Are And Where You Live
7/91: A Little Credulous Today
6/91: Look Down
5/91: The Axe Contraindication
4/91: Two...
3/91: Mock Not the Ex-Gods
2/91: Bringing Up Ogrek
1/91: How to End a Story Arc Without Really Trying
12/90: Random Accessories Table
11/90: How Roleplaying Saved Mr. Toad
10/90: Kids
9/90: In the Event of Mischance
8/90: Blag Loses It
7/90: Yamara the Plush Toy
6/90: Yamara the God, Pt 4: Fëa's Flesh-to-Plush
5/90: Yamara the God, Pt 3: Blag
4/90: Yamara the God, Pt 2: Evil Disdains Cosplay
3/90: Yamara the God, Pt 1: Joe
2/90: Your Results May Vary
1/90: Business Model
12/89: HI! My Name's Ogrek
11/89: Check On eBay First
10/89: tHe HEadpiEcE of FriNn
9/89: What the Toad Knew
8/89: Angels From Another Pin
7/89: But Who Will Care For the Poor Rot Grubs?
6/89: Oh, the American Kid Laughs
5/89: Type IV Wall
4/89: Behind Open Doors
3/89: The Transom of Woe
2/89: Darth Fëa, Rise
1/89: Poopsie Generation
12/88: Foreshadowing
11/88: Wonder What It Does
10/88: Survival Techniques
9/88: All 18s
8/88: Just That Evil
7/88: Little Fighter
5/88: Here's Pun In Your Eye
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First published: November, 1991. Posted Online: October 13, 2005.
And so by his very presence, Ogrek single-handedly refreshes the meaning of the word "encumbrance".
Various notes on our little paean to packing your dungeon duffel:
For some reason, this strip lost its glued-on title logo, even before arriving at Steve Jackson Games for inclusion into the book (see pg. 27). With the might and magic of modern technology, we stuck it back on using a "computer graphics interface", and its upper left corner no longer appears so naked.
St. Nobian's holy water probably isn't the blood of Christ, but such a possibility should cross your mind when considering the depth of satire Panel Two represents to our mass-marketed culture of planned obsolesence.
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North Surrey Invitation - Tuesday 15th June
You are cordially invited to our next meeting will comprise of a demonstration and talk from Pauline Baxter from the Academy of On Site Massage (AOSM).
Established over 20 years ago, the AOSM has successfully trained hundreds of Practitioners in the techniques and marketing strategies of Seated Acupressure (On Site) Massage. They have gained a wealth of knowledge and experience and use this to provide the highest quality training available. These high standards have enabled AOSM to attain the highly sought accreditation with City & Guilds.
Pauline has extensive experience both as a Massage Practitioner (16 years) and also a Tutor for the Academy of On Site Massage (9 years). Her previous career involved 10 years working within Health and Fitness Club Management, during which time she took her first Massage qualification. From there she went on to study a variety of therapies.
Having moved on from Health and Fitness Club Management Pauline has been successfully running her own business for over 16 years. In addition to working within the Corporate Sector, she also runs her own private business offering a range of therapies including Seated Acupressure Massage, Sports Massage, Aromatherapy, Hopi Ear Candles, Bowen Therapy and Hot Stone Massage.
Pauline's main passion outside work is hockey - as anyone who knows her will testify! Having played since she was 11, she still thoroughly enjoys it. As long as she can still run she will still play!
VENUE: Chobham Village Hall, Station Road, CHOBHAM, Woking GU24 8AZ.
TIME: Meetings start at 19:30 thru to 21:30 and you are most welcome to bring a non-member with you.
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I look forward to seeing you.
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Semaan Khalil sits with his children on the rocky earth outside their cement apartment block in Zarayeb, a Cairo slum that Egypt's zebaleen – Christian trash collectors – call home. Every day his family sorts piles of garbage under the scorching sun, and all around them neighbors do the same.
Mr. Khalil's next-door neighbor, Barsoum Qadees, overturns a giant trash bag, sending a cascade of plastic bottles, cardboard boxes, and empty tuna cans spilling onto the pavement. As the refuse crashes at their feet, Khalil's children laugh and compete with each other over who can pick out bits of plastic the fastest. For them garbage seems like a game, but to Khalil and Mr. Qadees it is a serious business, their sole means of support.
The zebaleen occupy a place both on the margins of Egyptian society and at its heart. Scorned for their desperate poverty, the perceived dirtiness of their work, and their Christian faith in a Muslim country, their services are Cairo's primary means of waste disposal. Without zebaleen like Khalil and Qadees – and the pigs that they have long employed to gobble the organic refuse – this city of 18 million would be buried in trash.
That's become all too clear this summer as a recent government decision upending the zebaleen system has forced many to toss garbage into empty alleys and vacant lots.
In May, because of fears of swine flu, Egyptian authorities ordered all of the nation's 300,000 pigs slaughtered.
An Egyptian newspaper posted footage of the slaughter on YouTube, showing pigs scooped up by bulldozers and killed with knives and clubs. In Zarayeb, there were clashes between pig keepers and police, and today locals whisper of neighbors arrested and tortured for resisting the slaughter.
By any measure, it has been a financial disaster for the zebaleen community, a nuisance for the city, and a policy failure for the government. (The World Health Organization condemned the slaughter, which was ordered before even a single swine flu case was registered. With 329 cases reported by August, the culling clearly didn't prevent the spread of the disease.)
Religion forbids Muslims – 85 percent of Egypt's population – from eating pork, and pigs are unpopular animals here. But they were central to the zebaleen business model: Pigs ate up to 60 percent of each day's haul and fetched a good price at market. When the slaughter began in May, authorities came to collect most pigs in open-backed trucks. Few families have been properly compensated for the sudden loss of their investment.
'It has been a disaster'
Until May, Khalil's financial security rested on the back of the 40 pigs his extended family kept in a muddy sty that opens onto the ground floor of their multistory family home. When the culling was announced, authorities asked him to round up his pigs and bring them to the slaughterhouse himself.
The government pledged $5.4 million to compensate pig owners, and Khalil says he was promised $18 for each of his pigs, but was given only $7. It's a fraction of the $90 to $180 a pig sold for at market before the slaughter. Khalil was one of the fortunate ones, though: Few zebaleen have been paid anything for their lost pigs.
"For us, it has been a disaster. It is a slow death," he says.
Since then, he has focused on the only other way he knows to turn trash into money: recycling.
While Khalil pulls in about $90 a month from trading garbage, the actual collection of trash pays nothing – literally. Men like Khalil and Qadees receive no money for carting away the city's trash. Their income comes from what they do with the trash.
"There are a lot of things you can make out of garbage," says Khalil, brandishing a white plastic bucket in one hand and the sole of an old shoe in the other.
He sells them to a local recycling facility, where, he says, "they'll wash them, chop them up, and melt them down to use them in plastic hangers or tubes."
Theirs is a complicated and highly efficient system of waste disposal and reuse. Garbage is divided into two piles: recyclable materials like plastic that account for 40 percent of the trash, and organic waste like spoiled food that makes up the rest, which for generations was fed to the least picky farm animal around – pigs.
Without pigs, old system collapses
Garbage is the lifeblood of zebaleen communities like Zarayeb, which is home to about 35,000 people, most descended from migrants who came from Egypt's poor, rural south in the 1950s. But without their pigs, the old system is "collapsing," says Ezzat Naem Guindy, director of the Spirit of Youth Association, a community development group.
The government has instructed the trash collectors to cart what garbage can't be recycled to state-run landfills. But filling up a tank of gas and driving there can cost up to $9, and that doesn't include fees to use trash bins and bribes to officials who, Qadees says, "take money from you to even get in the place."
Unable to afford the fees and bribes, and without the pigs, many zebaleen "throw what they don't need on the side of the road or in empty lots, and take the garbage they can use," says Rami Iskander, the CEO of Heliocare, a private trash collection firm that employs some zebaleen.
If this trend continues, Mr. Iskander fears that Egypt could be facing a whole new public health crisis within months.
Before losing his pigs in May, Khalil expressed the same worry: "People will see, once the pigs are gone, the streets of Cairo are going to be filled with trash. When we take the garbage, they tell us, 'OK, you can keep it.' But without the pigs, why would we ever want this stuff?"
All told, the average zebaleen extended family that operates like a small business – living together in apartment blocks, working the same trash route, pooling work and investments in livestock, sorting trash, and renting trucks – could face added fees, bribes, and labor costs of up to $1,800, estimates Mr. Guindy. And, he says, lost revenue from pigs for the average family could average $3,600.
To make matters worse, many zebaleen now work less often. Fearing swine flu, some clients have asked them to pick up the trash less often. With the financial incentive for collecting 60 percent of the trash now gone, many are happy to comply.
But trash being collected less frequently means less trash to comb for recyclables for zebaleen like Qadees and Khalil, who now rely solely on plastic recycling to get by.
"Before, this whole area used to be piled as high as the second-floor windows with plastic and cardboard," says Qadees, looking down from the roof of his family's squat, four-story apartment building into the tight alleys zigzagging below, "but now it's empty."
Qadees, who is 26, has worked in garbage since he was 8 years old. Every day he walks the fetid slum streets buying plastic bottles from other zebaleen for 17 cents a kilo and selling them to recycling centers for 19 cents. Before the pigs were killed, he also had a night job unloading a neighbor's garbage truck.
But now, he says, "the garbage trucks have stopped coming in as much and we don't see the normal garbage we used to from people's houses. They bring in cardboard and plastic but there is less of everything now."
His income has dropped by half since May, to $98 a month, and now he fears he will never be able to afford marriage. In Egypt, few weddings happen unless the groom can provide an apartment and furniture. Qadees has neither. He lives in one dim room with his brother, and for almost 10 years has been building his own apartment in his family's building, brick by brick. He was engaged once, but his fiancée left him for a wealthier man.
In the building next door, Khalil is also building an apartment for his wife and four children, one brick at a time. It will be on the roof of the family home, which is now strewn with trash and inhabited by 10 thin goats. In the meantime they sleep in a grimy, ground-floor room surrounded by piles of garbage that are infested with large rats.
Khalil worries that without work his plans will fall apart: The apartment may not be finished and he has to save for dowries for his three daughters. His oldest, 10-year-old Rania, is the only one in school, but with tuition running at almost $4.50 a month she may need to drop out.
"Work has slowed down so much now," says Khalil, "No one knows what is going to happen to us."
Looking for creative solutions
Garbage and pigs have gone hand in hand since the zebaleen first arrived in Cairo in the 1940s, says Guindy. Then, too, it was a city with a garbage problem.
In the early 20th century, trash was collected by wahis, migrants from the desert oases, who dried it in the sun and resold it as kindling. But such sales were outlawed in the 1940s, turning trash collection upside down just as the city began to rapidly grow.
The wahis teamed up with new Christian migrants from rural Egypt, who brought the practice of feeding garbage to livestock, says Guindy. It was a creative suggestion that made the most of everyone's skills, he says, and there may be similar solutions to today's pig crisis.
To Guindy the solution is clear: People must focus on goats and recycling.
The neighborhood is full of recycling workshops, large and small, and people will be forced to rely on them for income. He worries this will mean more kids working on the street and fewer in school, compounding the community's 65 percent illiteracy rate.
"People will need all their sons to go out into the streets to search for recyclable material," he says.
And goats, he says, may substitute for the pigs. Never picky eaters, more of them can be seen in the neighborhood since May, gnawing old sandals and delicately chewing loose-leaf paper. Guindy says there are 15,000 here now and that "anyone who has the ability to buy them will do it."
But the zebaleen have been badly bruised by the government. Unsettling rumors ricochet from trash heap to trash heap: The government will ban slum recycling, it will ban plastic, it will ban them from keeping animals.
All the talk weighs heavily on a man like Khalil.
"None of us know what to do," he says. "People are hungry and soon they will starve. We have no work. Isn't that an epidemic, too?"


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A sweet potato pie recipe is an excellent alternative for those who tire of pumpkin pies over the holidays. Sweet potatoes are not only healthy, they make terrific desserts.
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A sweet potato pie beats a pumpkin pie any day! My grandmother used to make me sweet potato pie tartlets every time I got A's on my report card. It was a strong incentive!
Because we no longer live near Whole Foods (much harder on me than I thought it would be) and their wonderful frozen GF pie crusts, I've tweaked the recipe to use GF Bisquick so that it will make it's own little pie crust. It's not really the same as a pie crust….but it's better than nothing. And, this recipe works especially well for Thanksgiving dessert, because I'd really rather not fool around with making GF pie crusts right before Thanksgiving.
If you do have pie crust on hand, just leave out the Bisquick and pour the pie filling into a pre-baked pie crust. Oh and really do try this without adding any spices to the recipe. I promise, it's delicious just as it is =)
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Use a mixer or food processor to "mash" the sweet potatoes until a smooth consistency is obtained. Mix the remaining ingredients into the sweet potato and pour the pie filling into a greased 9" pie plate. Bake for 30 – 40 minutes, until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Cool the pie on the counter for 30 minutes, and then cover and refrigerate for at least 3 hours before serving.
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Dairy Cow Headlock Stockade Plate Length 8 meter
As the investigation report for the ruminant animals , it will increase the breeding production using the standardized device . The Headlock structure of the cattle headlock fence panel , the square tube of the upper headlock is now fully adjustable and openings have three adjustment levels to give an additional choosen. The full line of square tube mounting brackets offer endless combinations to flush mount, face mount, or comfort tilt mount headlock panels.
PAFIC cattle headlock fence, It reduces the working process of feeding ,While using the headlock the animals are separated and fixed eating feed. With less competition about the feed and standing in peace with each other , and eat the portioned feed solely, to give a possibility to optimize the animals' growth .
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These steel headlocks can be installed easily, and can be used for the farms to separate the animals during feeding, keep they eating fully and comfortably .
As the structure of the cattle headlock fence panel , the square tube of the upper headlock is now fully adjustable and openings have three adjustment levels to give an additional choosen. The full line of square tube mounting brackets offer endless combinations to flush mount, face mount, or comfort tilt mount headlock panels.
Size:6000*1050mm(L*H) , 8cattle
Column :φ75 tube ;
Dynamic Rod :φ42mm ;
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Upper and lower Rails: 50*2.75mm ;
Surface: Hot-dip galvanized;
Operation simplly , the lock-up that is easier to enter, creating
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Pafic QC Procedure:
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Distance From London Heathrow Airport To Barajas Airport (LHR - MAD Distance)
Given below is the distance between London Heathrow Airport, London, United Kingdom and Barajas Airport, Madrid, Spain. The airport location map is also given below showing the air travel direction. To find more airport to airport distance, use the form given below the map.
774.73 miles / 1246.8 km is the distance From London Heathrow Airport To Barajas Airport
The distance from London Airport, United Kingdom to Madrid Airport is , Spain 1246.8 kilometers or 774.73 miles
LHR to MAD Map & Travel Direction- Distance London To Madrid
The airport location map below shows the location of London Heathrow Airport (Red) and Barajas Airport(Green). Also find the air travel direction.
Given below is a list of airports around the world. Click to find distance from London Heathrow Airport to :
- Dubai Airport (DXB)
- Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (BOM)
- Tokyo Haneda International Airport (HND)
- Leonardo da Vinci International Airport (FCO)
- Barajas Airport (MAD)
- Cairo International Airport (CAI)
- Kastrup Airport (CPH)
- King Khaled International Airport (RUH)
- Murtala Muhammed Airport (LOS)
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This Airport to Airport distance calculator will help travelers and air passengers calculate distance between airports. London Heathrow Airport to Barajas Airport distance is given above along with airport map.
Additional information about both airports :
- IATA Code of London Heathrow Airport : LHR
- Location of London Heathrow Airport : London, United Kingdom
- IATA Code of Barajas Airport: MAD
- Location of Barajas Airport : Madrid, Spain
Using this calculator, you can find distance from other airports in United Kingdom to Madrid.
London Heathrow Airport To Barajas Airport Flight Distance (Air Miles) - Distance To Madrid Airport From London
Find out the flight distance from London Heathrow Airport to Barajas Airport in Kilometers and miles. According to this airport distance calculator, air miles from London Airport (LHR) to Madrid Airport (MAD) is 774.73 miles or 1246.8 kilometers. The distance shown below is the straight line distance or direct flight distance between airports.
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Paraffin is a solid waxy substance used to make candles and other items. This article discusses what may occur if you swallow or eat paraffin.
This is for information only and not for use in the treatment or management of an actual poison exposure. If you have an exposure, you should call your local emergency number (such as 911) or the National Poison Control Center at 1-800-222-1222.
Alternative Names
Wax poisoning - paraffin
Poisonous Ingredient
Where Found
- Some arthritis bath/spa treatments
- Some
- Some waxes
Note: This list may not be all-inclusive.
Eating a lot of paraffin can lead to
Home Treatment
Do NOT make the person throw up. Contact poison control for guidance.
Before Calling Emergency
Determine the following information:
- The patients age, weight, and condition
- Name of product (as well as the ingredients and strength, if known)
- The time it was swallowed
- The amount swallowed
Poison Control, or a local emergency number
The National Poison Control Center (1-800-222-1222) can be called from anywhere in the United States. This national hotline number will let you talk to experts in poisoning. They will give you further instructions.
This is a free and confidential service. All local poison control centers in the United States use this national number. You should call if you have any questions about poisoning or poison prevention. It does NOT need to be an emergency. You can call for any reason, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Take the container with you to the hospital, if possible.
What to expect at the emergency room
The health care provider will measure and monitor the patients vital signs, including temperature, pulse, breathing rate, and blood pressure. The patient may receive:
- Fluids through a vein (IV)
- Blood and urine tests
- Medications to treat symptoms
Expectations (prognosis)
Paraffin is generally nontoxic (not harmful) if swallowed in small amounts. Recovery is likely.
In: Ford MD, Delaney KA, Ling LJ, Erickson T, eds. Clinical Toxicology. 1st ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2001.
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Reviewed By:
Eric Perez, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Lukes-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.


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JEFFERSON - James Edward McColskey, 76, passed away on Sunday, November 18, 2012.
He was born in Whiteville, N.C., the son of the late Steven and Georgia Alma Williamson McColskey. He was retired from the United States Navy, serving in the Vietnam War, and later worked as an auto mechanic. Mr. McColskey was a member of the Bethany United Methodist Church in Jefferson.
Survivors include sons, Steve (Nedra) McColskey, Jefferson, and Wade McColskey, Seattle, Wash.; a daughter, Nancy (Jay) Nobles, Florence, S.C.; brother, Neal McColskey, Greenville, S.C.; sister, Jewell Green, Whiteville, N.C.; 10 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, November 21, at 1 p.m. in the chapel of Evans Funeral Home with the Rev. Mike McLemore officiating. Burial will follow in the Jackson Memorial Park with Kyle Kashuba, Jeremy McColskey, Wesley Simonton, Tanner Thurmond, Aaron Anderson and Josh Harris honored as pallbearers. The visitation will be held on Tuesday, November 20, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Jefferson High School Wrestling Program, 575 Washington St., Jefferson, GA 30549.
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Internationally acclaimed singing sensation The Ten Tenors celebrate Broadway's greatest hits in their hugely anticipated brand new show, The Ten Tenors on Broadway, on Thursday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m. at the Lutcher Theater. Tickets are $55, $50, $45 or $40 and can be purchased online at lutcher. org or by calling (409) 886-5535.
This dynamic live experience is a wonderful collection of Broadway's most-loved classics sung by 10 of Australia's hottest tenors. Fans will be delighted by this powerful mix of theatrical showstoppers and heart-melting ballads as The Ten Tenors break new ground and take on some of the greatest show tunes in the world.
The incredible Australian troupe lend their ever-popular flair and individuality to a repertoire showcasing the best of Broadway, including "Impossible Dream" from Man of La Mancha, "Music of the Night" of Phantom of the Opera and "Bring Him Home" from Les Miserables.
Continuing from their hugely successful world tour and latest album Double Platinum plus their appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show, their new Broadway spectacular for the 2014 season is yet another world-class production for the home-grown heroes, who have sold more than 3.5 million concert tickets world wide and return to the Lutcher after their hit 2008 performance in Orange.
The Ten Tenors' unique approach to opera brings them adoration, respect and continually pushes the boundaries of the classical crossover genre, and the group's producer, D.J. Wendt, says this electrifying new show is no exception.
"The On Broadway show is the best yet for the group, and they are thrilled to be performing such entertaining and powerful repertoire," he said. "The guys always leave an enduring presence wherever they perform, but I guarantee the On Broadway show will be leaving the audience coming back for more."
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The TEN Tenors respectfully tip their hats to their classical roots and share with audiences, unique renditions of the genre's best love pieces, but they also push the boundaries of what it means to be a tenor and to sit in the classical genre in today's world. Taking cues from some of music's most courageous contemporary artists such as Freddy Mercury and Meatloaf, The Ten, see rock opera as not only a way of keeping their show fresh and reaching new audiences, but also appealing to the myriad of musical preferences a 10-piece musical act shares.
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by Mike Masnick
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Interesting strategy from China's telco networking giant Huawei in dealing with security fears from the US government: it's asking the US government to do a full investigation of the company to satisfy itself that there's nothing questionable going on. Obviously part of the idea is a PR move, to show that the company has nothing to hide, but it's pretty rare to see a company so openly ask a government to investigate it. I guess it's Huawei's attempt to call the US government's grandstanding bluff.
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TechnoMage (profile), 24 Feb 2011 @ 10:59pmUS: "We don't trust that you aren't installing backdoor access into your hardware that you are selling us."
China: "Trust us!!"
US:(in an uncommonly wise decision)"Umm... No... We asked security people and they ALL said it was a bad idea."
China:"Then come check us out... see how we don't do anything bad"
China to themselves:"Thats right... check us out once... and approve our hardware for your system critical infrastructure... which the Internet has now become.. then we'll insert backdoors into hardware we sell you later that we can use to spy, sabotage, etc. on you..."
As an aside... All they would have to do is use DRM techniques to hide "code"(instructions, but ehh...) in the hardware, and then have it start 'calling home' in 2 years. Not to equate all DRM with "Evil" China... But still imagine a hardware version of the Sony Root-kit on all the networkings switches installed at banks... or power pants...
Where your hardware is manufactured is an important issue. iPhones are only made in China... They are not approved by DoD use.. but Android phones are... Ever wonder why?
TechnoMage (profile), 24 Feb 2011 @ 11:02pm
Re:"power pants"... interesting idea... but... "power plants"
Christopher (profile), 25 Feb 2011 @ 12:25am
Re: Re:Do you really think that we wouldn't audit ALL of these things looking for backdoors?
Hell, do you think that we don't do that with companies in the United States to make sure that there are not any backdoors?
With all due respect, it seems that you are extremely distrustful of China without realizing that they ALREADY make many consumer-level computer goods that are used as military-grade at many places.
China would NOT want the black eye from us finding out that they had put backdoors into the hardware and then have us remove all military hardware manufacturing from overseas and bring it back into the United States.
Jay (profile), 25 Feb 2011 @ 12:53am
Re: Re: Re:I don't think that's accurate...
China is quickly becoming a superpower and it could be that this gesture is to lull the US somewhat.
I'm not necessarily a conspiracy theorist, but I do have to wonder what they gain from this gesture. If the trust of the US to look the other way as China works to copy all of its technology for their own benefit is anything, I'd be very wary of something like this...
Anonymous Coward, 25 Feb 2011 @ 6:46am
Re: Re: Re: Re:"China is quickly becoming a superpower"
Yeah, if you don't know that they already are superpower, you're blind, or USian.
TechnoMage (profile), 25 Feb 2011 @ 1:27am
Re: Re: Re:I'll admit to not know a "ton" about EE, I know about CS (including computer architecture from CS perspective)
but Let's examine the Pentium 1 CPU Some Facts
- 273 pins
- 3.1 million transistors
Now, let's play a thought experiment...
How many pins are active on the p1? lets say 145 pins(for the sake of nice numbers) that over half of the pins aren't used for logic , and that only 128 pins are used for any type of logic/flow control.
Now.. It would take 2^(128) possible input combinations to test all possible inputs.
Now.. Remember that ICs have memory in them... (let alone complex sequential logic sequential logic)
Now.. 2^(128) different combinations to test... hmm sounds like cryptographically secure to me
Now.. You have to try hundreds.. if not thousands.. of tests for each possible combination of each of these 2^(128) possible inputs...
I'm not sure this is the way to try and test this... (Especially if they put DRM in the chip to stop you from figuring this out, which would mean you are trying to break copyright...{yeah yeah... gov't can do that, but you get my point})
If you know how to do this, in some kinda of way that isn't exponential time... Then please let me know. Normal means to test for fault tolerances in IC isn't going to work b/c we aren't looking for "bad" data, where we know how the chip is designed, we are looking for backdoor access... which can be deeply buried in non-obvious logic areas.
OHHH and do this for every chip on every device every time you buy a device.
Perhaps I'm completely wrong... and the idea that "DRM"-like hardware being inserted into ICs but I don't think so.
I have friends who live in China, I am not attacking China, hence the "evil" in my comment, sorry for omission of -sark-mark- *sigh...*
And about the question of "Hell, do you think that we don't do that with companies in the United States to make sure that there are not any backdoors?" ... Um... Have we done this for MS Windows? Have we done this for... Sony Music CDs? Have we done this for...
I somehow doubt that this is S.O.P. for electronics (NSA/DoD... MIGHT be the exception, but I doubt it)
My original point was that we shouldn't trust production of system critical infrastructure to foreigners (no matter what country they come from). Due to it being too easy to inject some extra little "logic code" into ICs.(that doesn't even have to be on every device, one in a hundred is good enough for "bad" purposes)
DoxAvg, 25 Feb 2011 @ 2:33am
Re:Auditing is necessary but not sufficient if you have an adversarial vendor. Ken' Thompson's "On Trusting Trust" is the classic piece on the subject: http://oncampus.richmond.edu/~dszajda/classes/cs395_computer_security/papers/reflections_on_trusting _trust.pdf
From a less theoretical point of view, check out the Underhanded C contest: http://underhanded.xcott.com/ It's a contest to demonstrate how you can write code that is _meant_ to be audited, yet still do the opposite of what it seems to do. I've been in the business for a while, and it still impressed the hell out of me.
So - auditing can help, but it doesn't cut the muster. And, as has been pointed out, auditing today doesn't mean a lack of naughtiness tomorrow. Of course, sticking with US manufacturers doesn't mean that there aren't backdoors either...
Chris in Utah (profile), 25 Feb 2011 @ 3:46am
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Travis, 25 Feb 2011 @ 10:17am
Re:Actually, you're wrong about the phones. The Army is set to approve the iPhone this month (may already have happened) for use with the Army level email systems. We have been told that Android likely won't be approved till May at the earliest. This is of course only valid for unclassified mail.
The eejit (profile), 25 Feb 2011 @ 3:35amAm I the only one who sees the irony in a Chinese company asking to be investigated by the US, given recent events?
xs (profile), 25 Feb 2011 @ 7:13am
Re:No. But I do find it ironic that politicians on one hand say Chinese firms are not to be trusted because there's this adversarial relationship between China and US, then turn around complain that China has put restrictions on US firms operating in China.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Feb 2011 @ 12:27pmChina is the new Russia.
Anonymous Coward, 25 Feb 2011 @ 5:40pm
Re:And the US is the new USSR, and the USSR is the new US; my, how the worm turns.
Qwerty Uio, 26 Feb 2011 @ 12:25am
Huawei lead are jerksHuawei should not be trusted, for many violations. First Huawei is not a public company because their finances are murky: they receive big gifts (~$10B) from the Chinese goverment to compete with oter telcos. This allows Huawei to buy market share by bidding below cost. These practices are ilegal but are not enforced. Second, Huawei copies everyting they consder will generate revenue.
Since chinese govenrment gives a lot of money to Huawei, they dictate the Huawei strategy. This is of course to compete and take th eUS out of business, and in particular weaken Us military superiority by stressing the US economy by selling Huawei equipment in the US.
Huawei does espionage, and they are hard to discover. They reverse engineer everything they can to compete.So why should US goverment trust them? There is no way we should. huawei treat its chinese employess in china like crap, so it is clearly doing business and keep cost low. However, chinese are very nationalistic andthey want to work for Huawei. Many Telco multinationals in china employ chinese engineers that then go to Huawei and transfer the intellectul property.
Also consider that Huawei spend little money in R&D beacuse they copy everything. Under mandate form chinese goverment, Huawei wants to dominate the world by putting out of bussines Ericsson, NSN and Alcatel-Lucent using predatory practices. They are filfhy and do not deserve US goverment trust.
In the long term it is foolinsh to let the chonese Telco equipment be sold to Verizon, AT&T an Sprint. If we have a war with China, our telecommunication infrastructure is completely compromized: wirless services (2/3/4G) and wireline services. Forget it, US carriers buying Huawei equipment is be a VERY stupid thing to do.
bryan, 26 Feb 2011 @ 10:01am
huawei makes junkI am surprised that no one has brought up the fact that huawei builds total junk.
I have worked for T-Mobile for 6 years and the huawei hardware has been the worst I have ever seen. Letting them build anything that is part of critical infrastructure is a HUGE mistake.
Matthew A. Sawtell (profile), 28 Feb 2011 @ 10:05am
Seen my share of "Quality Control Audits' over the years...When it comes to the subject, of "please audit us" - I tend to think about the myraid of ISO, QS, and other 'Quality Control' audits over the years I have worked. Frankly, Huawei is probably thinking this is going to be another 'Red Envelope' situation.


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Two variable speed drives add efficiency to pumps, fans
Schneider Electric announced the new Altivar 212 variable speed drive and the S-Flex enclosed version, designed to provide OEMs and control panel builders with energy efficient and economical solutions for pump and fan applications. The new ac drives adjust motor speed to the required flow of air or fluids, reducing energy costs by 50 percent. Engineered to provide additional cost savings, both the Alivar 212 and S-Flex feature electronic motor controls that reduce the mechanical stress on belts, piping and ductwork and eliminate valve or inlet guide vane maintenance, the company said.
By eliminating the need for throttling valves, dampers or inlet guide vanes that are typically used to control the flow of fluids, the Schneider Electric Altivar 212 and S-Flex also lower installation costs and maximize building occupant comfort with accurate flow control.
The compact size of Schneider Electric's Altivar 212 saves valuable panel space, while providing a high degree of performance and connectivity. It includes a full complement of integrated building automation networks and its reduced harmonic technology lowers component costs. Embedded reduced harmonic technology reduces the wire size and the size of upstream overcurrent protection devices and operates 10 percent more efficient than typical ac drives.
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- Embedded communications (Modbus, Apogee FLN P1, Metasys N2, BacNet) and LonWorks available via option card.
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Dr. Siobhan M. Dolan reviews content for Healthwise, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help people make better health decisions. She has authored numerous print publications and given lectures at over 70 invited presentations, including the World Health Organization Preterm Birth International Conference in Geneva, Switzerland, and the United States Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, International Visitor Program. Dr. Dolan is an Associate Professor of obstetrics and gynecology and women's health in the Division of Reproductive Genetics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York.
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MD: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 1993
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – After helping lead MIT to the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Championship on Sunday, a pair of athletes were named to the NEWMAC All-Conference team, as announced by the league this afternoon. Will Tashman was tabbed as a First Team pick while Mitchell Kates garnered a Second Team selection for the second year in a row.
Tashman has played a key role for an MIT team playing without two of its three leading scorers from a year ago, including a former All-American center, as he increased his scoring by five points per game from his freshman campaign. The sophomore leads the NEWMAC in rebounding and is tops in field goal percentage in league play. He also ranks sixth in free throw percentage and is one of the best passing big men in the conference , averaging 2.59 assists per game. A tireless defender, Tashman anchors an MIT defense that ranks second in the league in scoring defense and rebounding margin.
Kates ranks among the league leaders in a number of different categories, including scoring (fifth), assists (second), field goal percentage (sixth), steals (second) and assist/turnover ratio (third). The sophomore point guard leads an MIT offense that is tops in the league in scoring, field goal percentage and three-point field goal percentage. He scored a career-high 34 points in a win over Wheaton earlier in the season, the second highest total in the league this year.
The Engineers defeated WPI to win their second conference crown in the past three years and advance to the NCAA Division III Tournament for the third consecutive season. The Cardinal and Gray will travel to Ithaca College for a first round contest on Friday, March 4 at 7:30 p.m.


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Dans le monde de St-Germain, the liqueur created in the artisanal French manner from freshly hand-picked elderflower blossoms. C'est votre monde!
The French Manner of slowing down from the day's chase, stimulating one's appetite and readying one's spirit for the inevitable joys to come.
Enjoy the St-Germain Cocktail
Refining the art of the apéritif.
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The Scientific Center (TSCK), a center founded by KFAS has been a vital attraction in Kuwait since its establishment. The center includes an IMAX movie theatre, Aquarium, Animal Kingdom, Discovery Place and gift shop. TSCK also include interactive attractions and innovative educational programs and exhibitions that engage the minds of our youth outside of the classroom.
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Developers Of Chrome Extension That Finds Cheaper Textbook Prices Receive Legal Threats From Major Textbook Supplier
from the cease-and-desist-of-self-affliction-+1 dept
So, when someone comes along and threatens this business model, publishers are swift to react. Offensive efforts -- like locking schools into yearly purchases for instructors' versions and acting as "partners" in campus bookstores -- have mitigated most of the damage caused by outside forces like Amazon and used book retailers.
But the publishers also play defense. A side project from Texts.com (a service that helps students scour the web for the best prices on textbooks) has caught the attention of Follett, one of the nation's largest suppliers of campus bookstores.
OccupyTheBookstore is a Chrome extension that allows users to find better prices on textbooks while browsing bookstore websites. Follett doesn't like this because the extension draws sales away from the stores it supplies. It sent a cease-and-desist request to the team behind the extension, asking (nicely, at this point) to knock it off or it will be "forced" to involve its legal team.
In an AMA at Reddit, the team announced it has no interest in complying with Follett's request.
We've been asked to remove the extension by Follett, a $2.7 billion company that services over 1700+ college bookstores. Instead of complying, we rebuilt the extension from the ground up and re-branded it as #OccupyTheBookstore, as the user is literally occupying their website to find cheaper deals.Because of the way the extension is constructed and operates, it would appear Follett has no legal basis for its takedown demand.
Follett had a few angles, none of which have much merit:
They could try the Copyright angle, arguing that our plugin constitutes copyright infringement by creating an unauthorized adaptation of their page. That said, we're opt-in, so while we are modifying the web page, we're only doing so with the end-users permission. Additionally, we're not manipulating information or blocking the ability to use any/all aspects of the site if the end user so desires.
They could also try the Terms of Service angle, saying that we're knowingly equipping their users to breach the TOS by using scrapers, data-extractors, etc. That said, we never directly interact with any bookstore website, we merely supplement information provided by the end-users local browser. As such, we think that they could theoretically go after the individual student, but they probably would never bother.
In searching for precedent, we looked at AdBlock heavily, and also at price-comparison plugins like Honey.This thought process was confirmed by Honey's developer, who pointed out that end users have the right to modify content delivered to their browsers. What the extension does is bring Text.com's search power to the bookstores' websites via an overlaid menu. It makes no use of the original website other than to gather the book information needed to provide relevant results -- something any user could do with a few extra steps. The original website is unaltered. Only the new menu -- opted into by the end user -- provides anything different from the normal user experience.
Follett's legal team has likely already determined the company can't do much about this extension, hence the polite request to stop. The next move -- if there is one -- will probably be vague pressure and subtle hints about expensive future court battles, even if the extension's developers would likely prevail. The good news is that the team has heard from the EFF, which has extensive experience in fighting this sort of quasi-legal chicanery.
The other good news is the inadvertent effect of Follett's shutdown attempt: the extension is far more popular now than it was before the company tried to head off this threat to its business model.
In an interview, [Texts.com founder Peter] Frank said that before today the tool had only been downloaded 200 times since it was first made available in April. By Friday evening, it had been downloaded 15,000 times.All Follett had to do was leave it alone. Now, it's faced with a viral opponent and armed with little more than law firm letterhead.


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The starting point for this madness? These itty bitty 2.5" blocks.
Yes, I stretched one of those mini-charm packs into a queen-sized quilt. All it took was a little bit of solid red fabric and a little bit of solid blue fabric and half a bolt of Kona White. Oh, and 8 yards of backing fabric. Yes, 8. I have never bought that much of one fabric at one time in my life.
The blocks themselves are pretty simple. I sashed the tiny 2.5" squares with a skinny border and then nested them in some Kona White to make your typical modern offset square in a square block that finishes at 12". See other variations of this pattern here, here, and here.
This was the biggest beast of a quilt I've made. Ever.
Basting this quilt was enough to scare me off of the quilting. We moved almost as much furniture so I could baste this puppy as we did the day we moved in the house. Scratch that, we had movers move our furniture into the house, so we moved MORE furniture in preparation for basting this quilt than we did when we moved in the house.
Enter the Durham-Orange Quilt show this fall, which had a newly-minted modern category. Over the summer, I was trying to decide which projects to enter in the show, specifically in the "modern" category. I decided this particular project is probably the most modern-looking project I've worked on thus far that was closest to being finished. It was time to swallow my fear and get the quilting party started. Once I finally worked up the gumption to quilt it, I opted to use a tried and true quilting pattern I'm comfortable with - the square stippling - in ALL the white space. I just stitched in the ditch around the printed squares to make them pop a little more.
This quilt breaks ALL the husbatron's rules when it comes to quilts for our bed:
1) It has pink.
2) It has polka dots.
3) It has flowers.
But he hasn't said anything, so I'm not saying anything. Maybe the quilt's modern-ish layout with its huge swaths of white space compensates for the girly prints? Maybe he knows better than to criticize my projects?
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UNM English Professor Hector Torres and graduate student Stefania Gray were victims of a double homicide on Sunday. I first met Hector in the UNM Linguistics Department back in the early '80s. He was polite and soft spoken, but with a great sense of humor; he loved language and he loved cold beer. The world will truly be worse for losing him. The UNM community is invited to meet and share a moment of silence for Hector and Stefania at UNM Duckpond at 2:00 p.m. today.


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What's your favorite kid-friendly app?
I'm not going to discuss any app here, for there are too many wonderful apps to single out just one. However, I can definitely share with you one very IMPORTANT kid-friendly feature of McAfee Total Protection. The 'Visibility and control' feature that helps you manage your kids' Internet use to permit their fun and at the same time allows you your peace of mind. See what it offers:
#Parental Controls—Apply adjustable rules to block inappropriate sites and limit online time.
#Surf Report—Check login times by user, attempts to access forbidden sites, and total online time.
#IMPROVED Summaries—See and print one usage report for all your kids
So even if you aren't at home or your child is left in the care of babysitters or grandparents, you can still remotely be aware of their interent usage, be warned if any abusive language is exchanged on chat sites and informed if any stranger tried to approach them.
Isn't that just Wow? What a relief for Moms like you and me who can't be home 24/7 and always are on tenterhooks about our children's safety in our absence, what with the rising number of bullies, paedophiles and cyber crooks out there.