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Increased calcium intake is effective in increasing bone mineral density in children, but the effect disappears when calcium supplements are discontinued. Increased dietary calcium from daily food sources may have a greater impact on bone density than that achieved by calcium supplements. However, studies have not yet demonstrated sustained achievement of increased calcium from food sources. In addition, the effects of baseline calcium intake, bone density, and puberty status may influence bone response to increased dietary calcium. This study will develop, implement, and evaluate a Behavioral Modification-Nutrition Education (BM-NE) Intervention Program designed to promote sustained increases in dietary calcium. The study will quantify the impact of increased dietary calcium on bone density during growth and development and will determine whether the presence of risk factors for low bone density influences compliance with the program.
Participants will be recruited into two groups: a group of healthy children with no known risk factors for low bone density (i.e., no known chronic disease or previous oral steroid exposure), and a group of healthy children with potential risk factors for low bone density (previous fracture from usual childhood activities, daily dietary calcium refusal, lactose intolerance, family history of osteoporosis). Children with and without risk factors will be randomly assigned to participate in an intensive BM-NE intervention group or a usual care group that will receive counseling on bone health. The BM-NE Program will consist of five group sessions for parents and children over 6 weeks. The program will use individualized plans to increase children's calcium intake to 1500 mg per day.
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|The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
|Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104-4399
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|Babette Zemel, Ph.D.
|Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
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|June 24, 2005
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Nielsen monitored a panel of 400 iPod users in the U.S. from Oct. 1-27 as part of its new initiative, Anywhere Anytime Media Measurement, or A2M2, which aims to measure audiences on myriad emerging digital platforms.Among the findings: Less than 1% of content items played by iPod users on either iTunes or the device itself were videos. Among video iPod users, that percentage barely improves, up to 2.2%.Even measured by duration of consumption, where 30- or 60-minute TV shows might seem to have a built-in advantage over three-minute songs, video comprises just 2% of total time spent using iPods or iTunes among iPod owners. Video iPod users consume video 11% of the time.The study also found that 15.8% of iPod users have played a video on either iPod or iTunes. About one-third of that group doesn't own a video iPod. Nielsen's "Home Tech Report," a separate ongoing tracking of new technologies, projects about 13% of U.S. households own at least one iPod, amounting to about 15 million -- 30% of which are video-enabled iPods. By Apple's own count, nearly 70 million iPods have been sold to date. "To a great extent, that number is driven almost entirely by people looking to play audio," said Paul Lindstrom, senior vp custom research at Nielsen. "The real question in many ways becomes, What is the next wave?"Nielsen declined requests to provide additional data from the study, which is believed to have also tracked consumption of specific titles. But what few figures could be obtained from the study seem to suggest that despite iPod's upgrade to video capabilities in October 2005, the device is still mainly used as an audio device. The data could raise some profound questions about assumptions made regarding consumer behavior; specifically, whether mobile devices can truly encourage a mass audience to adopt mobile video consumption after generations of generally homebound, large-screen viewing habits.Nielsen's take on video consumption is highly subject to interpretation. Worst-case scenario: The panel is an early indication that TV and movies have limited appeal on iPods. Best-case scenario: While adoption of video may be proceeding more slowly than the hype suggests, there is tremendous upside ahead. Either way, the results will be of interest to a media world intent on migrating video to wireless hand-helds, whether portable media players like Microsoft's new Zune or mobile phone market entrants like Verizon's VCast.Nielsen's numbers are being examined closely by its clients, though looking at a snapshot of such a nascent market is like predicting what a baby will look like as an adult by scrutinizing a sonogram."It has big implications, but to a certain extent what you're looking at is the tip of the iceberg," Lindstrom cautions, noting that the panel will establish a baseline snapshot of the market that will be continually updated for years to come. A second panel is expected by year's end with a larger sample.Apple, which declined comment, has been relatively tight-lipped about iPod usage with the exception of select statistics: The most current count pegs sales at 1.5 billion songs and 45 million videos (derived in part from 250 series from 40 networks). In its most recent earnings call, the Walt Disney Co. noted that about 500,000 movies have been sold in the two months since the company became the only major studio to strike a film-output deal (for 100 titles).To some degree, a higher volume of music is to be expected: Users could conceivably listen to a favorite song hundreds of times, while it is unlikely that a TV episode would be viewed more than a handful of times. In addition, many iPod music playlists incorporate MP3 files collected from outside sources long before the iPod came around, while videos aren't as commonly collected and much less likely to come from outside the iTunes system.But the dominance of music even by the time-spent standard is somewhat more puzzling given the average video file's duration dwarfs that of an audio file. That said, not all audio files are music -- podcasts can be as lengthy as a movie -- and even in musical form, songs are often digested in preset modes that generate countless plays. 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Defense hurts Bumgarner's cause in loss to Royals
Left-hander allows four runs (three earned) in complete game
KANSAS CITY -- Sometimes it simply takes a single slipped past the infield or a bloop into the outfield to shape the outcome of a game and manipulate the final pitching line for a starter.
Madison Bumgarner fell victim to this Friday night as a couple of well-placed hits by the Royals sparked a two-run, tiebreaking sixth inning in the Giants' 4-2 defeat.
Bumgarner took the loss in San Francisco's first trip to Kauffman Stadium since 2008. However, he hardly deviated from the top-quality form he's displayed on the road this season. The left-hander made a mistake in the first to Billy Butler, elevating a fastball that the first baseman pounced on for a two-run homer. Other than that, he showed why he entered Friday third in the Majors in road ERA (1.58).
"I thought he did a great job," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. "After the first inning, he pitched great. ... He gave us all he had out there. He gave us a chance to win."
It'd be hard to place blame on Bumgarner for Kansas City's two-run sixth that keyed its victory.
The inning began with an Omar Infante single, the only well-hit ball in the frame, that ended Bumgarner's stretch of not allowing a hit at 11 batters -- a streak that started in the middle of the second.
Errant throws from first baseman Michael Morse and second baseman Matt Duffy proved costly. Morse made a diving stop on a Salvador Perez grounder headed for right field, but his throw to second pulled Duffy off the bag. The issue metastasized when Duffy's return throw skied over Morse, allowing Infante to move to third base.
"Morse had more time than he thought. You'd like to just get an out there, and Duffy, he knew he came off the bag, so he wanted to try and get an out -- we compounded the damage," Bochy said.
The well-placed hits came in the form of a Butler dribbler that split the gap between first and second to score Infante, then a lazy fly ball from Alex Gordon that fell barely out of the reach of an outstretched Juan Perez to score Salvador Perez and put Kansas City up 4-2.
Bumgarner scattered seven hits and walked zero in eight innings, his third complete game of the season and fifth of his career. All four runs were charged to him -- only the third time this season he allowed more than two runs in 14 road starts -- but just three were earned.
The left-hander persuaded Bochy to let him throw the eighth despite starting the inning at 105 pitches.
"In the eighth, he says, 'I'm telling you, I would be honest with you, I feel great,'" Bochy said. "He hadn't thrown 100 pitches the last couple starts; his load's been somewhat light. It's good to get stretched out occasionally."
Kansas City jumped on Bumgarner early. Butler hacked a high fastball into the Royals' bullpen in left field for a 2-0 lead.
"If you're going to get a guy like Bumgarner, you better do it early and we did, thanks to Billy's two-run homer in the first inning," Royals manager Ned Yost said.
The Giants countered with two in the third, although it could have been more if not for Nori Aoki's arm.
Joaquin Arias (double) and Duffy (single) each collected RBI hits, but Aoki limited the damage with two outfield assists in the frame. The first came on a Pablo Sandoval single, as Aoki gunned down Hunter Pence attempting to move from first to third on the hit. The original call was safe, but replay officials in New York overturned the ruling as Pence slid off the base while third baseman Mike Moustakas administered the tag.
Aoki recorded the final out on Duffy's RBI single. The right fielder gunned down a potential second run, Arias, at the plate, keeping the score tied at 2.
The Giants battered Royals starter Jason Vargas, but were unable to dispose of him. They had nine hits with no outs in the fourth inning, but only two runs to show for it. San Francisco did manage to force the Royals to use their bullpen early. After five innings, Vargas, 101 pitches deep, was done.
Unfortunately for San Francisco, the Kansas City bullpen rarely falters, and Friday was no exception. Jason Frasor, Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis and Greg Holland took care of the Giants in the final four innings and handed the team its third loss in four games.
Arias finished with a pair of doubles. Before Friday, he had two doubles in his first 141 plate appearances this season.


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Recent CDC allegations: rebuilding trust and communication
I remember the first time I dropped my then toddler (now teenager) off at preschool. He was so proud of his new backpack and lunch box and so excited to go off to school like a big kid. Without a moment's hesitation, he dropped my hand and dashed through the classroom door, eager to begin his new adventure. I, of course, was terrified. The thought of leaving my little one with someone else for hours at a time was overwhelming – even when that someone else was a beloved preschool teacher. How could I be sure that he would be safe, happy, and taken care of?
Leaving your child in someone else's care requires a leap of faith. As parents of small children we painstakingly review our child care options to find the setting and provider that is the best fit for our families. Most of the time, the faith we place in our child care providers is rewarded and our children thrive.
On a rare occasion, however, a child care provider betrays a parent's trust. Parents of children at the Fort Myer Child Development Center (CDC) were shocked to learn that two staffers allegedly abused children in their care, while others were found to have criminal records that were not uncovered in background checks. While the staffers in question have been removed from the CDC and an investigation is ongoing, the parents' trust in the CDC has understandably been shaken.
I attended a town hall meeting for Fort Myer CDC families and it is clear families and staff want to rebuild trust. They are finding that communication is key. Parents need reliable and timely information about how their children are being cared for and what steps are being taken to ensure their safety. They also need a way to express their concerns and feel that their voices are being heard.
At Fort Myer, installation officials and CDC staff are taking steps to open the lines of communication. Town Hall meetings have been held, giving parents an open forum to air their concerns. Parents have also been encouraged to use the Interactive Customer Evaluation (ICE) system to let commanders know about any issues they have with the CDC or their child care providers. The command has also used Send Word Now®, a notification system you may be familiar with in your child's school that sends social media alerts to notify parents about CDC events via their phones or email.
When my children were in preschool I relied on a regular note in my son's backpack to keep me informed of what was going on in his classroom, but the world has changed since then and there are many more methods we can use to communicate.
Although most parents will thankfully never face a situation like the one at the Fort Myer CDC, it's still vital to have effective lines of communication with your child care providers. Parents need to know about last-minute schedule changes, upcoming events, and behavioral concerns that affect their kids. They also need to make sure that providers are aware of their children's unique needs, such as a parent's deployment or a new baby in the house. And, as seen in the Fort Myer CDC situation, parents need to know who to contact if they're not getting the information they need from their provider or if they have concerns about the quality of care their child is receiving.
How do you keep in touch with your child's teacher or child care provider? What method works best for you, and what hasn't worked?
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Background checks are key. However, abusers may not have a record. "If you see something, tell someone." Post a notice as to whom parents and CDC staff tell, when they see something. Parents need to drop in for visits to "inspect" and observe how the children are being treated. Also, important to know your child and be aware of changes in behavior that might indicate a problem. These are techniques parents will use for most of their child's life, e.g. high school, college, always. I always enjoyed time in the car, because children seem to talk then. It's tough, but CDC personnel need to feel and be safe in reporting their observations. Here as always, one must address facts, actual observed behavior.
Although I'm glad that the response of DoD has been to take the situation seriously, I'm concerned that the response has been limited to an investigation of hiring practices. While this is important, treating young children harshly is hardly limited to individuals with shady pasts. Anyone who has worked in a group setting with young children can attest to the stressful nature of dealing with children's challenging behaviors, especially in a group setting. (There is a reason that "guidance and discipline" is always the most highly requested training topic.) Whether or not a caregiver responds to challenging behavior in a positive, caring and effective way or in a harsh, harmful and punitive (and ultimately ineffective) way depends on several things, including ongoing staff training in guidance and discipline, ongoing coaching and supportive supervision of staff, active implementation of written policies and procedures related to staff response to challenging child behaviors, and a culture in which the stress of dealing with difficult behavior is openly acknowledged and where staff are committed to supporting, and if necessary reporting, one another when frustration overrides better judgment. All of these can and should be addressed by programs in the aftermath of this very public failure. The fact that repeated abusive behaviors evidently occurred within the military child care system, recognized as a model of high quality care, tells me that all of us in the early care and education field need to do a better job of understanding how and when caregivers respond to children's behavior in harmful ways. It's a difficult, complex aspect of caregiving/teaching that has no easy fixes. But it is our ethical responsibility as a profession to do that hard work.


text: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 Study: Back Pain Treatment Increasingly Ignores Clinical Guidelines Despite published guidelines that call for physical therapy or medications such as ibuprofen or acetaminophen for first-line management of most back pain, other treatments such as imaging, narcotics, and referrals to other physicians have increased, according to a study published online yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine. Because more than 10% of visits to primary care physicians relate to back and neck pain, and the treatments recommended by guidelines generally are less costly than those being used increasingly, the financial implications in the health care market are significant. "With health care costs soaring, improvements in the management of back pain represent an area of potential cost savings for the health care system while also improving the quality of care," the study concludes. The study identified 23,918 visits to primary care physicians for spine problems. Average age of the patients increased from 49 to 53 years during the study period, January 1999 through December 2010, and 58% of the patients were female. According to the results, physical therapy referrals remained unchanged at about 20%, but physician referrals increased from 6.8% to 14%. Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug or acetaminophen use per visit decreased from 36.9% to 24.5%, while narcotic use increased from 19.3% to 29.1%t. The number of radiographs remained at about 17%, but the number of computed tomograms or magnetic resonance images increased from 7.2% to 11.3% during the study period. Comments like to know more,i've just developed back pain in the last couple of months Posted by patty on 7/31/2013 7:14 PM A conservative approach to back and neck pain produces better outcomes and is more cost effective. After 25 of doing manual therapy for these types of conditions I have learned that in a lot of cases soft-tissue pain is self-limiting and resolves without any treatment in 6 weeks. The vast majority resolve with manual therapy, exercise and other home care. Only a very small percentage of patients are surgical candidates and these cases are usually pretty obvious. Why do we continue to default to the most invasive and expensive treatment options? Posted by Anthony McMorran on 8/2/2013 7:48 PM


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MassBay receives donation
MassBay Community College announced that it has received a donation of $10,000 from this year's annual Information Security Summit to support student scholarships in the field of cyber security. The Information Security Summit, held each year on MassBay Community College's Wellesley Hills campus, was established in 2013 to help professionals advance their programs and knowledge base on the latest network security and technology issues. The net proceeds from the Summit are awarded to students in the form of two scholarships in support of cyber security education. To date, the Information Security Summit and its attendees and sponsors have raised a total of $38,000 to support student scholarships. Scholarships are available to full-time and part-time MassBay students in the form of Information Security Summit scholarships and given out by the MassBay Foundation
Soltage completes solar farm
Soltage, of Walpole, a national renewable energy company, has completed the 4.75-megawatt Bird Machine Solar Farm on a brownfield in Walpole. The new solar farm, built on the former Bird Machine industrial site, utilizes 14,600 panels to produce nearly six million kilowatt-hours of energy per year – enough to power roughly 623 homes per year and offset almost 9.3 million pounds of carbon dioxide. The town of Walpole will purchase the power from the new solar farm at a fixed-price below utility energy costs. Tenaska, an independent energy company, is acting as the primary investor and will co-own the project as part of a portfolio investment it made with Soltage for new asset construction in late 2015. The Bird Machine Solar Farm is located at the former Bird Machine Company site comprising about 25 of the 134 acres owned by Baker Hughes, a GE company. BHGE has been partnering with Soltage over the last several years to develop this solar farm as part of its commitment to sustainable energy development and its goal of reducing greenhouse gases. The company is preserving the remaining 100-plus acres of natural habitat, including about 60 acres of wetlands. Brownfields — former commercial or industrial sites that may be impaired from previous operations — provide an ideal location for solar installations. Most have minimal shade, are already pre-cleared of debris, and sit in industrial zones near interconnection points and customer demand. By putting underutilized brownfields to productive use, municipalities lock in low power costs and generate long term tax revenue streams. Soltage is a full-service renewable energy company developing, financing, installing, owning and operating solar power generating stations, providing electricity to commercial, industrial, educational, utility and municipal customers. The company has more than 50 solar projects and more than 150 MW of generation capacity under management across eight states and has deployed more than $350 million into solar generation projects since 2006.
BJ's Charity Championship held on Sept. 7
The inaugural BJ's Charity Championship event was hosted at the Plymouth Country Club and Pinehills Golf Club on Sept. 7. BJ's Wholesale Club and the LPGA banned together to raise awareness and funds for the BJ's Charitable Foundation, and to help communities in need by welcoming LPGA pros and amateurs of the community to play a round of golf for a good cause.


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UpdatesSeptember 21, 2009: Chris Mooney just appeared to discuss Unscientific America on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," and you can watch the video here. One of his lectures on Unscientific America also aired this morning on CSPAN's Book TV--you can watch it here.
July 31, 2009: In the August 17 issue of The Nation, an adaptation of Unscientific America has run entitled "Unpopular Science: Intelligent science reporting has been gutted, just when we need it most." Partly based on chapter 6 and 9 of the book, the article also includes new reporting. You can read it here.
July 26, 2009: In the Sunday Boston Globe Ideas section, Chris and Sheril have an article based on Unscientific America entitled "The formula: Why dont Americans understand science better? Start with the scientists." You can read the full article here.
July 20, 2009: Today is the 40 year anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landings, and Chris has a piece at the Huffington Post about the "science deficit" we've fallen into since those days--and what to do about it.
July 17th, 2009: Chris just did his first national radio segment for Unscientific America--on NPR's "Living on Earth." You can listen here, and also access a full transcript. The segment also discusses the hilarious YouTube video the "Large Hadron Rap" as an example of cutting edge science communication. Watch the video here.
July 14th, 2009: Over at Newsweek.com, Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum comment on why Francis Collins' nomination to head the National Institutes of Health is a very good thing--and why scientists who blast religious researchers like Collins are hurting their own cause.
July 13th, 2009: Two articles related to Unscientific America have come out. The first is an article by the authors on Salon.com, entitled "Why America is flunking science." The second is a Buzzflash.com commentary entitled "How Scientific Illiteracy Cost Us 20 Years on Global Warming." Unscientific America is also a Buzzflash.com premium book, and can be ordered here with an additional donation to keep Buzzflash going!
July 13th, 2009: On the popular online political blog the Daily Kos, DarkSyde has given Unscientific America a great review, calling the book "a must read for anyone who cares about understanding or reversing the long national slide into pseudoscience and willful ignorance that has periodically gripped America. The book neatly follows up Mooney's best seller, The Republican War on Science, into a broader, nonpartisan narrative of an entire nation enamored by the nifty gizmos and life saving applications of science, yet saddled with a long history of anti-intellectualism that periodically spills over into open contempt. It's a dose of stiff but sorely needed medicine for baby boomers and genx'ers who grew up during a short thaw in that icy antiscience trend by way of a cold war, a hot space race, and one great communicator named Carl Sagan."
July 13th, 2009: Chris Mooney did a dialogue on Bloggingheads with Carl Zimmer on various topics relevant to the new book 'Unscientific America'. You can view the discussion here. Carl Zimmer is also going to be introducing Chris when he gives a book talk in New Haven, CT, on July 21. Details here.
July 13th, 2009: Chris Mooney and Sheril Kirshenbaum did a Q&A session about 'Unscientific America' with Steve Andrew of the Orlando Science Policy Examiner. Read the full exchange here.
July 10, 2009: There was a lot of press today on the new report from the Pew Research Center about science and the American public, and Chris Mooney was quoted--sometimes at length--by Alan Boyle of MSNBC.com, Pete Spotts of the Christian Science Monitor, and Dan Vergano of USA Today. Follow the links to read the articles, or go here for more of Chris's take on the new data about the vast gap between scientists and average Americans.
July 8, 2009: Michael Manns review of Unscientific America over at RealClimate is the most comprehensive yet! Click here for the full text. It ends on this note: "If it were up to me, this book would be required reading for all undergraduate science majors, along with Sagans The Demon-Haunted World. Only when we begin training scientists to understand the relationship between science and society, and their crucial role in that relationship, will be begin to solve the dilemma so eloquently described in Unscientific America."
July 8, 2009: ScienceBlogger James Hrynyshyn has written a very positive review of Unscientific America. You can read the full text here.
July 6, 2009: Noted scienceblogger Chad Orzel of "Uncertain Principles" has a strong review of Unscientific America, and promises to be blogging about the book all week. In his first post, Orzel calls it "a very good book, well argued and engagingly written." Keep following him at http://scienceblogs.com/principles!
July 2, 2009: Copies of Unscientific America have been spotted in stores going into the long 4th of July weekend. Meanwhile, the book tour has added three new stops: the Chicago area (Evanston, IL), Garrison, NY (the Hastings Center), and Raleigh, NC. See here for details.
July 1, 2009: Chris Mooney's latest column, "Dude, Where's My War on Science?", strongly rebuts recent conservative claims that the Obama administration is now abusing science just as the Bush administration did. You can read the full column here.
June 30, 2009: The bloggers are beginning to talk about Unscientific America, and some even to quote it at length. I gather they've gotten it on their Kindles. For commentary see James Hrynyshyn, the Daily Doubter, and curricublog. Also, the first of our real reviews has also come out today, from Seed magazine in its July list of Books to Read Now." According to Seed, the book "duly highlights the Sagan-and Gould-shaped holes we have in our current scientific discourse."
June 23, 2009: Updates are now posting to two pages, www.waronscience.com and www.unscientificamerica.com. And besides the launch of the latter, brand new site, there is much else to announce. Chris Mooney's forthcoming book Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, co-authored with Sheril Kirshenbaum, is now available on Amazon for preorder, as well as from many other vendors; has a growing Facebook group with nearly 700 members so far; and is even venturing onto Twitter (warning: highly experimental). The book itself is out July 13. Tour dates here--and many more updates soon.
January 24, 2009: On the evening of Monday, January 26, Chris will appear on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report to discuss the "war on science" and how the Obama administration can fix it. Many of the answers to this question are also outlined in Chris's forthcoming book, Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, co-authored with Sheril Kirshenbaum; a recent Slate.com article Chris authored entitled "The 'War on Science' is Over: Now What?", and a recent Bloggingheads diavlog he did with leading science journalist Carl Zimmer.
January 24, 2009: Chris's second book, Storm World, recently won the 2009 Louis J. Battan Author Award from the American Meteorological Society. The book was honored as an accurate and comprehensive overview of the evolving debate on the impacts of global warming on hurricanes that illustrates the complexities of this significant scientific problem. The award, named for Louis J. Battan who contributed outstanding research efforts in radar meteorology and wrote several books aimed at nonscientists, was presented on January 14 at the 89th AMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix. You can order copies of Storm World here.
March 5, 2008:Storm World Named a "Best Sci-Tech Book of 2007" by Library Journal. In its latest issue, Library Journal singled out 39 noteworthy sci-tech books published in 2007. Storm World was one of two chosen in the "meteorology/earth science" category.
August 14, 2007: The website ClimateandInsurance.org, created by the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, just interviewed Chris about Storm World. Also, Chris has recently begun to write a blog at The Daily Green entitled "The Storm Pundit," which tracks hurricanes globally. His first post is entitled "2007 Hurricane Season: Don't Get Too Comfortable"; his second, "Hurricane Forecasts, Fulminations, and Flossie"; and his third, "Hurricane Flossie, the Unforecastable," discusses Hurricane Flossie in more detail. His most recent, "Farewell Hurricane Flossie--Hello Tropical Storm Dean," is available here.
Chris appeared recently to talk about Storm World at the progressive mega-conference Yearly Kos, and wrote an essay about the conference's science panel at Huffington Post. Finally, Chris did an online commentary at The Guardian's science site about just how bad Bush's presidency has been on science, in particular stem cell and climate policy.
August 7, 2007: Storm World was reviewed very favorably a few weeks back by John McQuaid in the Washington Post. Meanwhile, Chris was quoted in a recent piece by USA Today's science writer Dan Vergano, in which Vergano looks at the "war on science" following Richard Carmona's testimony.
Many other reviews of Storm World have rolled in lately: Discover magazine gave a fair review, and James Elsner, hurricane specialist at the University of Florida, gave a very positive review in the latest issue of Nature. Meanwhile, the book also got reviewed by Alexandra Witze in Nature Reports: Climate Change, which means two reviews at Nature. Finally Storm World was very favorably reviewed by Kate Sheppard at Chris's journalistic Alma Mater, The American Prospect Online.
July 24, 2007: There have been a series of Storm World reviews written by fellow ScienceBloggers. Today, Mark Hoofnagle of the blog, Denialism, gave a very enthusiastic review of the book. PZ Myers posted a review on his blog, Pharyngula, and Janet D. Stemwedel reviews the book on her blog, Adventures in Ethics and Science. A defender of The Republican War on Science, Joshua Rosenau also praises Storm World on his blog, Thoughts from Kansas. Afarensis recommends the book, as does Dr. Joan Bushwell, here, on her blog, Dr. Joan Bushwell's Chimpanzee Refuge. Finally, Chris's "Speaking Science 2.0" co-lecturer Matthew Nisbet reviews the New York Times Review of Storm World on his blog, Framing Science.
July 15,2007: Storm World's best review yet appears today in the LA Times by Thomas Hayden. Last Friday, Kevin Drum reviewed Storm World at Political Animal, and Salon.com just released a very positive review of the book. Meanwhile, Chris has received postitive reviews at newspapers along the tour-route. The Tampa Tribune ran a profile/review as a heads-up for his talk at Inkwood Books, and New Orleans Times Picayune Book Editor Susan Larson reviewed Storm World in anticipation of Chris's upcoming talk in his hometown. Though still busy touring, Chris wrote an op-ed in the Orlando Sentinel about the National Hurricane Center blow-up, and appeared on Science Friday to discuss Storm World as well as the situation at the NHC.
July 12, 2007:Chris Mooney is on tour for Storm World. The book was given very positive review from Ellen Ruppel Shell of the Atlantic in The Boston Globe. The latest Wired also features a short item about Storm World. Additionally, Chris has contributed a two part series of posts at Huffington Post entitled "Why Did Global Warming 'Tip'?" featured on the Huff Post homepage. See the first and second. Chris was twice quoted Saturday on an NPR Weekend Edition program, once again about why the global warming issue has "tipped."
July 5, 2007: Chris Mooney's Storm World was reviewed in the Sunday New York Times Book Review by Lisa Margonelli of the New America Foundation. The review is available here. That's just one of a number of reviews: Andrew Freedman did a very thoughtful review over at the Weather Channel website Channel Earth; ScienceBlogs' Kevin Beck just wrote a very favorable review of the book; and positive reviews have appeared at RealClimate.org, Daily Kos, and in the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Boston Globe calls the book "riveting." Finally, the segment of Chris Mooney's "Speaking Science 2.0" talk, in which he discusses the hurricane-global warming issue has now been put up on Youtube.
June 9, 2007: As the July 9 publication date for Storm World approaches, the book's official website--at www.StormWorldBook.com--has gone online. The site features tour dates (new ones are being added all the time), a central blog, an extensive author interview, and most important, the entire first chapter as an excerpt. Storm World has also recently received very positive reviews from Booklist and Library Journal. The latter was a starred review.
May 16, 2007: It's official, The Republican War on Science has sold 50,000 copies.
April 24, 2007: Chris Mooney's forthcoming book Storm World received starred reviews from Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus.
April 17, 2007: SciDev.net and the Nature Newsblog covered Chris Mooney's opening plenary speech at the World Conference of Science Journalists in Melbourne, Australia, where Mooney emphasized that scientists must adapt to "new rules" when interacting with the media and politicians.
April 6, 2007: Chris Mooney has published an article entitled "Framing Science" in the prestigious journal Science, co-authored with American University professor of communication Matthew Nisbet. Mooney and Nisbet make the provocative argument that instead of relying upon a traditional "just the facts" communication strategy, scientists should actively "frame" their knowledge to reach different segments of the public. Press release here; article here (subscription only); useful summary here; Mooney's commentary here; co-author Nisbet's commentary here.
February 4, 2007: Chris Mooney has published a joint Los Angeles Times op-ed with New York University physicist Alan Sokal, of "Sokal hoax" fame, about the left, the right, and the misuse of science. The piece can be read here.
January 18, 2007: Chris Mooney has announced that his next book, entitled Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming, will be published in June 2007. The book can be pre-ordered here. The announcement is here.
September 28, 2006: There have been some big developments concerning the paperback edition of The Republican War on Science. First, the Sunday New York Times book review selected the book for its "Paperback Row" section in the September 24 issue. Second, Glassbead Books, an imprint of Parlor Press, has released a book about the book, something of an unprecedented development. Entitled Looking for a Fight: Is there a Republican War on Science?, the new book contains the contents of a high-level online seminar about Chris Mooney's work that was conducted in March at the blog Crooked Timber. The new book can be purchased on Amazon, but it can also be downloaded in PDF for free! For Chris Mooney's very excited commentary on this development, see here.
September 5, 2006: The book tour for the paperback edition of The Republican War on Science begins Thursday, September 7. In connection with his first speech, Chris Mooney will be receiving the "Preserving Core Values in Science" award from the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals. Read here for more.
August 28, 2006: The paperback is officially out! For the final countdown posts, see the entries for August 26 ("Two Days to Go: The Conservative Mind on Science") and August 27 ("One Day to Go: NASA, Science, and Think Tanks on the Right"). In addition, Chris Mooney has an entry today at the Huffington Post entitled "Katrina, Science, and Politics." Read it here.
August 25, 2006: The paperback countdown continues with entries for August 24 ("Four Days to Go: New Chapter Excerpt and Update"), August 25 ("Three Days to Go: Speak the Words"). The former draws attention to the new chapter excerpt just posted on this site--Chapter 11, now revised and with a special update for the paperback edition....
August 23, 2006: Chris Mooney's latest column in Seed magazine, "Thank You for Polluting," draws attention to how the discussion of mercury emissions in The Republican War on Science has begun to affect an election in 2006. Meanwhile, the countdown until the paperback release continues. Read the entries for August 20 ("Eight Days to Go: More on Jonathan Wells"), August 21 ("Seven Days to Go: Tobacco, the Archetype of Corporate Attacks on Science"), August 22 ("Six Days to Go: The Bottomless Wells"), and August 23 ("Five Days to Go: Disinformation Has Consequences"). Again, the book's official publication date is August 28.
August 19, 2006: With the paperback edition of The Republican War on Science about to come out, Chris Mooney announces a new book tour, and starts a publication date countdown on his blog. Read the entries for August 18, 2006 ("Ten Days to Go: Carbon Neutral Touring") and August 19, 2006 ("Nine Days to Go: A Call to Arms"). The book's official publication date is August 28, and the book tour commences after Labor Day on September 7, in La Jolla, California.
March 28, 2006: At the popular blog Crooked Timber, an in depth seminar discussion about The Republican War on Science is being conducted by eight noted academics and bloggers. See here. For Chris Mooney's contribution to the seminar discussion see here.
March 28, 2006: Chris Mooney announces that a Korean edition of The Republican War on Science will be appearing soon. It will be published by Hanerl Media, with a special introduction by the author for the Korean audience.
March 13, 2006: The Republican War on Science has been named a finalist for the Los Angeles Times book prize in the category of "Science and Technology." Winners are announced April 28. For more information, see here and here.
February 27, 2006: Chris Mooney announces that he's at work on a new book about hurricanes and global warming. Read here.
February 6, 2006: Famed Yale science historian Daniel Kevles reviews The Republican War on Science in the March-April issue of The American Scientist, remarking that Chris Mooney "has done a lot of homework and has produced a book that is disturbing by reason of its steady, and for the most part sober, accumulation of evidence and indictment." Read the full review here.
February 3, 2006: Chris Mooney does a live online chat at WashingtonPost.com about The Republican War on Science. 11 am ET. Click here to ask questions or (once the chat is over) to read the finished transcript.
January 22, 2006: The Republican War on Science is reviewed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette by journalist Robin Mejia, who writes, "I gave [the] book as a Christmas present this year, and I'd recommend it to anyone who cares about the future of science in America." Read here.
January 20, 2006: Chris Mooney will be appearing on the Tavis Smiley Show, on PBS, to discuss The Republican War on Science. Show link here; click here to Tivo the program. Check your local listings for airtimes.
December 30, 2005: On Saturday, December 31st, at 10:05 am ET, and then again on Monday, January 2, at 8:30 pm ET, a book talk by Chris Mooney delivered at Politics & Prose in Washington, D.C. will air on CSPAN2, or Book TV. For more info on how to tune in, please see here and here.
December 28, 2005: In its 2005 "Year in Books" list, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution singles out The Republican War on Science for "best timing." See here.
December 25, 2005: After featuring it on the cover the previous week, The New York Times book review lists The Republican War on Science as an "editor's pick," calling the book "a frankly polemical survey of scientific findings and procedures in collision with political operations."
December 23, 2005: Physics Nobel laureate Philip W. Anderson gives The Republican War on Science a lengthy, thorough, and very appreciative review in the Times Higher Education Supplement. As Anderson concludes: "This book is a well-researched guide to the recent history and is to be praised in its original analysis of the tactics used by the new Right to starve the scientific advisory apparatus and in its bringing out the confrontational nature of the attitudes of the Bush Administration and its allies. It should be read by Americans and will be interesting to scientists everywhere. We should be grateful to Chris Mooney for his diligence." (No link available.)
December 18, 2005: The Republican War on Science shares the cover of the New York Times book review. Inside, it is reviewed by famed science writer John Horgan, who remarks, "If [Mooney's] assessment sounds one-sided, so is the reality that it describes." Read here.
December 16-19: Variety, The Washington Post, the New York Post, and many other outlets carry the news that The Republican War on Science has been optioned by documentarian Morgan Spurlock, whose previous triumph, Super-Size Me, won him an Oscar nomination in 2005. "There was a time when science was respected by politicians and government officials and when the information obtained through unbiased scientific exploration was used for the better of society," Spurlock commented. "Today all of that is being ignored, manipulated or used incorrectly to further political agendas." Read here and here.
December 9, 2005: In its December/January issue, Seed magazine lists The Republican War on Science among the top ten science books of 2005. No link available.
December 5, 2005: The Republican War on Science has recently made several books-of-the-year lists, including from the Rocky Mountain News (link) and the Times of London (link), which commented that Chris Mooney "argues persuasively that the Bush Administrations hostility to science is not limited to denial of global warming and evolution, but spans the field, from family planning to missile defence. He is particularly illuminating about tactics: the method is not simply to rubbish the experts, but to sow doubt by nurturing a handful of maverick dissenters, so the non-expert public is left wondering who to believe." The Republican War on Science was also listed last month in Publishers Weekly's "The Year in Books" feature (no link available).
December 1, 2005: The Wall Street Journal's Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg highlights The Republican War on Science as a book that benefitted from a wave of publicity well in advance of its actual publication: "David Steinberger, CEO of Perseus Books LLC, a unit of Washington private-equity firm Perseus LLC, said the company's Basic Books imprint started publicizing Chris Mooney's The Republican War on Science online five months before its official Oct. 30th publication. Perseus posted the book's table of contents and one chapter on Mr. Mooney's blog. 'We immediately noticed significant activity on science blogs, and as well as movement on Amazon,' says Mr. Steinberger. The initial print run was 13,000; today there are 30,000 in print."
November 30, 2005: Famed philosopher and evolution defender Michael Ruse reviews The Republican War on Science in The Christian Century, writing, "Chris Mooney has written a stinging indictment of the Republican Party's attitudes toward science, focusing particularly on the manipulative and dismissive thinking and policies of the current administration. Even if only a part of what he says is true, he documents an appalling state of affairs." Read the review here.
November 20, 2005: In London's Independent, Johann Hari raves about The Republican War on Science, writing, "Chris Mooney...has bravely decided to thwack his way into this jungle of propaganda and lies on our behalf." Read here.
November 16, 2005: Chris Mooney appears on WBUR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook. Listen here.
November 11, 2005: Chris Mooney appears on NPR's Science Friday with Ira Flatow to discuss The Republican War on Science. Listen here.
October 22, 2005: The Republican War on Science is reviewed in The Guardian, which comments, "Mooney performs a useful service by researching all the details and interviewing as many of the protagonists as possible. He also enriches the narrative with much historical context, tracing over decades a gradual politicisation of science that has culminated in the present farce."
October 17, 2005: Chris Mooney appears on CSPAN-2 discussing the FDA and Plan B emergency contraception, as part of a panel discussion put on by the Center for American Progress. Click here to watch.
October 13, 2005: Chris Mooney appears on Air America's "Morning Sedition." Listen here (starts around 1:34).
October 10-14, 2005: The Republican War on Science will be featured at the TPMCafe book club, with discussants Lawrence Krauss, Roger Pielke, Jr., and Matthew Yglesias joining Chris Mooney for a wide-ranging dialogue about the book. Click here for more information.
October 7, 2005: Naomi Oreskes reviews The Republican War on Science in Science magazine, writing that the book "makes clear that scientists need to do more to present their knowledge to the rest of society, because there is no shortage of people willing to misrepresent it." Read here (subscription required).
October 2, 2005: Chris Mooney is profiled by Jeet Heer in the Toronto Star. Read here (registration required).
October 1, 2005: Chris Mooney appears on "Ring of Fire" with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on Air America Radio. Listen here.
September 30, 2005: The Republican War on Science remains on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list for the second week in a row, now at # 34. See here.
September 30, 2005: Chris Mooney appears on NPR's "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow to discuss the Dover evolution lawsuit. Listen here.
September 28, 2005: The Contra Costa Times lists The Republican War on Science at number 10 in nonfiction on its Northern California bestsellers list (compiled from sales at 45 independent bookstores in Northern California). See here (subscription required). Meanwhile, the East Bay Express lists the book at # 7 in nonfiction (a number complied based on sales at independent bookstores throughout the East Bay area).
September 27, 2005: Grist magazine runs an interview with Chris Mooney, entitled "The Chris Science Monitor." Read here.
September 27,2005: Chris Mooney appears on E&E TV's "On Point." Watch here.
September 27, 2005: "The Republican War on Science lives up to its incendiary title," writes Gregory M. Lamb in the Christian Science Monitor, adding that "for those who have felt even vaguely disturbed by their government's attitude toward science, this book is likely to bring those concerns into sharp focus." Read here.
September 25, 2005: Chris Mooney's op-ed on the Bush administration's misuses of science appears in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Read here.
September 22, 2005: The Republican War on Science debuts at # 24 on the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestseller list (for the date of October 2, 2005). See here.
September 22, 2005: Chris Mooney appears on WBUR's "Here and Now." Click here to listen.
September 22, 2005: Writing in the London Review of Books, Daniel Greenberg calls The Republican War on Science a "valuable chronicle of Bush's persistent efforts to undermine the authority of science in the interests of his anti-regulatory and anti-abortion agendas." Read here (subscriber only).
September 20, 2005: Writing in Scientific American, Boyce Rensberger calls The Republican War on Science "a well-researched, closely argued and amply referenced indictment of the right wing's assault on science and scientists," adding that "Thomas Jefferson would be appalled." Read here.
September 20, 2005: Chris Mooney's op-ed about the abuse of science on the issue of Plan B contraception appears in the Los Angeles Times.
September 18, 2005: The Republican War on Science debuts at # 7 on the San Francisco Chronicle Best-Sellers list.
September 15, 2005: Chris Mooney appears on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, NPR. Listen here.
September 14, 2005: Andrew O'Hehir of Salon.com calls The Republican War on Science "nothing short of a landmark in contemporary political reporting." Read here.
September 13, 2005: Chris Mooney is profiled in the Seattle Times. Read here.
September 12, 2005: Chris Mooney appears on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Comedy Central. Watch here.
September 9, 2005: Dan Danbom of the Rocky Mountain News writes that "If timing is everything, Chris Mooney's The Republican War On Science has reached some kind of pinnacle." Read here.
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At last, we have someone to fill the void left by Mark Sanchez roughly seven interceptions ago. Meet James Vandenberg, Iowa's starting quarterback and America's new avatar of poise.
Vandenberg, a redshirt freshman from Keokuk, Iowa, threw for 233 yards, two touchdowns and three picks in Iowa's 27-24 loss to Ohio State on Saturday. It was his first collegiate start, and he somehow managed not to piddle on the 50-yard line, and that was all anyone needed to bestow upon Vandenberg's competence a favorite bit of light praise.
Headline, Quad-City Times:
... has poise
Headline, ESPN.com:
... showing poise early
Maureen Fulton, Toledo Blade:
... showed poise
Nathan Rush, Athlon Sports:
... showed poise
Kirk Ferentz, Iowa coach, via the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
... showed good poise out there
Kirk Ferentz, Iowa coach, via the Cedar Rapids Gazette:
... showed good poise and leadership traits and mental and physical toughness
Adam Rittenberg, ESPN.com:
... showed tremendous poise
Max Dible, Examiner.com:
... showed poise beyond his years
Charles Allen, Bleacher Report:
... played with poise and determination far exceeding his level of experience
... poise and preparedness
Mike Hlas, Cedar Rapids Gazette:
... eye-opening poise
And what of Mark Sanchez? He seems to have drifted dangerously close to "poise"'s polar opposite, "erratic." One more five-interception game, and he'll be Rex Grossman with a GQ spread. But Sanchez isn't ready to surrender his "poise" crown just yet. From Sunday:
Joe Lapointe and William C. Rhoden, The New York Times:
Sanchez, despite two interceptions, seemed to be gaining poise ...
h/t reader Benjamin J.


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Basically, since they alter the same files, the only way Reunion would ever be fully compatible with NT is somebody manually altering NT to have Reunion's text and changes (which would have to be okayed by both DLPB and Sega Chief). With DLPB's mod loader thing you could have them both on your PC at the same time but not usable together.
Go to nt thread, chief just talked about it there. Sent from my Xperia ZR using Tapatalk
Sega has to add Because to his mod and then send the text files created by toughscript to Dan as compatibility patch for NT. Though it's necessary that NT is almost in its final stage flevel-wise. But Sega doesn't need to do it all by himself, other users could help him. They only need add the text from Beacause to a set of scenes and send Sega the changed text files. The more the easier and faster the job is done.
I just found this so far: http://forums.qhimm.com/index.php?topic=14938.msg249184#msg249184GilgameshGG is testing NT with MO. That's a step forward.This would be awesome, but why not otherwise? Since BC is done, Sega could offer a patch for using NT with BC. I doubt there will be many changes in BC anymore.(btw, I love the models from you, great work!)
This is the chat. Its just 1-2 pages back from the last one.
We still have to wait for R06. Because get some typo fixes, but moreover it offers a new way to mod the game. After its release we can make a plan how to patch NT with Beacause. And don't forget that NT needs to be almost finished. I'm sure that there are plenty of helpers out there (around 600 scenes needs a look through).
You can have Reunion with beacause AND MO working together with Gjoerulv's hardecore mod in a 7H install ??
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The mania and confusion about the concept of a Growth Hacker is now getting ridiculous. As one of the three people who helped to define (but I am certainly NOT a Growth Hacker) in 2010 over mint juleps, let's set the record straight.
@PatrickFoley @leanstarter @danmartell I was first to blog about it, but @pv and @hnshah helped conceptualize it.
— Sean Ellis (@SeanEllis) April 30, 2012
1) A Growth Hacker, like a "visionary", is only anointed with the sacred oil of growth hacking ex post facto. Once, you have delivered huge and exponential growth in users/leads/sales, you are a Growth Hacker. Before that, you are a Growth Rookie. <— ain't nuthin' wrong with being a Growth Rookie.
2) Growth hacking comes after the early stage chaos and post-product-market-fit. This bears belaboring: growth-hacking comes after most, if not, all elements of your business model have already been figured out and shown to work — especially, the paramount elements of your market segment (who), your value prop (what) and marketing channels (how).
Think about it. Sean Ellis, Growth Hacker extraordinaire and definer of the term, is famous for building a survey tool that attempts to quantify how close you are to Product-Market Fit!
Question: Why would Sean bother do that?
Answer: You can only scale growth once you have something to grow. (Yes, that is a tautology.)
So, all you startups crying for a Growth Hacker to join your startup pre-Product-Market Fit to effectively "rescue' you; you simply don't get it. And no true Growth Hacker will join you.
Worse yet, when used outside the context of Product-Market Fit, the term Growth Hacker becomes the next meaningless lame startup jargon: Social-Media-Ninja-Rockstar-Blah-Blah.
3) Growth hacking is fundamentally a creative activity. Once you meet true Growth Hackers, like Sean Ellis or Noah Kagan, you see inherent in their personalities is a frighteningly powerful combination of creativity and analytical thinking. Sounds easy, right? All of you are thinking: "Wait a sec, I am totally creative and, like, super analytical! Mom always said so!".
Great. I am happy for you. Add millions of users and you too can be a Growth Hacker.
PS Contra Andrew Chen, growth hacking has absolutely nothing to do with if one is able to code or unable to code. Defining a Growth Hacker by the ability to code is like asking for point guard in basketball who can also post up and bang down low. Yes, Magic Johnson was a 6'9″ point guard who could play any position on the court, but you'd take a great point guard however you could get him or her.
So, all things beings equal, yes, you'd take a GH who is able to code over one who is not, but that dilemma almost never arises and/or is a great one to have. (Read: You don't have that problem.)
Not only are Sean, Hiten and me not considered technical, but most of the "Shadow Growth Hackers" I know, the direct-marketing/PPC/super-affiliate marketing — you know, the people who really control the internet, aren't either.
PPS If you're in Los Angeles on August 17th, come see Andy Johns' talk on Growth. FWIW Andy has added hundreds of millions of users over his career.
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Established in Hong Kong 2004 and Shanghai 2006, Atelier Liu Yuyang Architects (ALYA) represents a team of design professionals dedicated to improving the built-environment through global vision and individual attention with a focus on architecture, interior and urban design. Working in the context of feverish developments in contemporary Asia, they approach each project with clarity, method, and experimentation. Some of the notable projects by ALYA recently completed include the Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art located in the People's Park, Shanghai, Han River Renaissance Pedestrian Tunnels in Seoul, South Korea, and a toy manufacturing facility in Dongguan, Pearl River Delta.
Improvement of the built environment in an honest, meaningful and sustainable way is their goal. Equipped with global perspective and local know-how, they believe that sound research forms the basis for intelligent design. Their philosophy is to tackle each project with a sense of sobriety against the desire for feverish growth, to embrace programmatic and urban complexity, and to experiment with an ecological approach in our practice of architecture and urbanism.
ALYA's latest project was for the Government of Huangpo District and embodies small buildings spread all over Shanghai's major Nanjing Road: since this year twelve new kiosks embellish the area frequented by thousands every day. The art-deco inspired custom-made pattern glass panels echo the historic architecture of the neighborhood. With solar panels on the roof supplying 180 watts per hour of exterior LED lighting, the kiosks have become new environmental prototypes.


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Just before Skye we stopped at Eilean Donan Castle, another scene straight out of a fairy tale, that I'd been looking forward to for a very long time. (If, like me, you're a fan of the 1986 film Highlander starring Christopher Lambert & Sean Connery, you'll recognize it.) You might also recognize it as the most photographed castle in Scotland…because it is THAT scenic (of course it has an Instagram account! - I follow their various social media pages just to look at the photos they post daily!) What's different about this castle is that it is still owned by a family, who lives onsite, and rooms are decorated with antiques and memorabilia. (It feels like someone's house - and they don't allow photos of the interior.) We had delicious pastries and coffee in the café (with an art gallery full of beautiful photos people have taken of the castle!) then crossed the bridge to Skye.
First stop was the Fairy Pools. I'll admit, finding them was a bit of a challenge (not really well-marked) until we actually got there, but I can think of far worse places to be a little bit lost! It was worth the effort, because we had a really memorable (and wet) hike (thank goodness for our rain gear!)
|Scottish Gaelic on all the signs out this way!
We hiked about an hour out along the trail, which included a river crossing! Unlike the time we had to ford 2 rivers in Iceland (when I did chicken out at the 2nd river) I was able to cross this one with hubby's help. It involved leaping across slippery rocks and hoping he would catch me - the rocks were pretty far apart! I can't say I love doing that, but it felt like an accomplishment!
To give hubby a break from driving for a day, I had arranged to spend the day with Donald from Skye Scenic Tours. He's a local with a 9 seater van and a great sense of humor, and we had a super day with him. We spent the day with a really nice German couple and a retired British couple (the husband was a retired professor with the SMOOTHEST accent - my son at one point said it was the most amazing voice he'd ever heard!) So, we're not big tour bus kind of people, but to ride along with a local who showed us spots we might not have found on our own (like that dinosaur footprint out on a rocky beach) and who gave us history and personal commentary as we drove, was fun and worth it. My little one got to ride up front, and dazzled our driver and our new friends with the Scottish Gaelic she had learned from our library's online learning program. She absolutely beamed when he complimented her! (Proud mama in the back was smiling ear to ear too.) I didn't get a good photo of the Old Man of Storr, but here are some of the other favorite places he brought us:
|Waterfall & Kilt Rock
The answer is sing, right? Olaf would break into song? I wouldn't blame him - it's so beautiful!
|Can you see the dinosaur footprint? (3 toes in the center of the pic.) At An Corran, Staffin Beach
|The Quiraing. Absolutely outstanding! (Stardust was filmed here.)
|Exploring the Fairy Glen
|This path was down a tiny road and came out to a view of Dunvegan Castle, where we had lunch.
|Over the course of the day, C picked up a sheep stuffed animal, and asked Donald for a good Scottish name for it. He chose Morag. Here she is showing the local sheep her new friend Morag. Clearly they are not impressed.
|Hiking up to the Dun Beag - a prehistoric roundhouse.
This was the path we walked back down to the ferry terminal.
|Beautiful Raasay House where we stayed and had a lovely dinner
From Raasay, we had another scenic ferry ride on Caldonian MacBraye Ferries (CalMac) back to Skye, and from there we headed South. We drove through many villages and towns along coastal roads I wish we'd had more time to explore, like Oban, before finding down a winding single-lane country road, the tiny hidden ferry terminal we were convinced might not exist. The ferry ride was especially fun because the captain invited us up to show us how he piloted the ferry using a joystick. He was so kind and friendly, and gave us advice on what to see & do on Isle of Arran! The Scots are such lovely people.
Isle of Arran
This was quite possibly my absolute favorite place of the entire trip, and I could have spent another week exploring it! My "must-see" on the island was the Machrie Moor standing stones, while hubby wanted to tour the Arran Distillery, which makes outstanding whisky. I had booked a swanky resort/spa, the Auchrannie Resort, where we stayed for 3 nights. It was just perfect and I'd go back in a heartbeat. The staff was so helpful, the food was excellent (wish I'd gotten a pic of the breakfast buffet!) the pool was huge, and the activities were so great that we wished we had known about them ahead of time - they had gorge walking, climbing, segway tours, abseiling, mountain biking, archery, and sea kayaking, plus a children's play barn where my daughter played for a bit. We spent our one FULL day there exploring the island, and found an excellent lunch outside next to the Arran Brewery (I can't seem to find a name of the café, but it was very good!) The children did an island Scavenger Hunt, which we found in a small shop, and I helped them find the clues in Lochranza while hubby took his distillery tour & tasting just down the road! It was really quite fun - the clues took us to signs in the village, or the old castle ruins where we had to find letters engraved in stone. I also fell in love with Arran Aromatics while we were there (I brought some back as gifts as well as some fabulous lavender & tea tree lotion for myself!
These are pics from the Machrie Moor - it is accessed from a farmer's field, so to get to it, you walk through fields upon fields of sheep (and their droppings - wear boots because it's impossible not to step in it!)
The standing stones did not disappoint!
After the moor walk, we drove down to the southern edge of the island where we found a local butcher who has a brother in Connecticut. We had almost stayed in this town at a nearby hotel, but I was so very glad I had chosen Auchrannie Resort, because nothing came close to it!
Lunch in Brodick on a beautiful day!
Isle of Arran has a huge red deer population - they were everywhere! They also have red squirrels, but we didn't find any!
More views on my walk with the kids around Lochranza - such a charming village!
Finding scavenger hunt clues!
After our scavenger hunt at the castle ruins, we walked back to the café at the Arran Distillery for tea time and some shopping! Seriously, such a great day!
Coming back to Brodick at dinnertime, we watched the CalMac Ferry glide past GoatFell, the beautiful mountain overlooking Brodick Castle, and the children rode a few amusement rides at the shore. We also smiled as we watched a college-aged guy playing bagpipes which moved a mum nearby to start highland dancing!
We ended the day with a picnic dinner and frisbee on the lawn of the resort, followed by a good long swim in the spa pool before calling it a night! (Remember, the sun would rise around 4am, and didn't set there until 10pm, so we had some very long & memorable days!)
The island was just so enchanting. They call it Scotland in miniature, and I can see why. If you're ever considering a visit, it' s a quick & easy ferry ride (but do reserve in advance if you're bringing a car!) and not far from Glasgow. I wish we'd had time to climb GoatFell, wish we'd have done some of the adventure activities at Auchrannie, had more time to shop the darling little shops, visited Brodick Castle, the Heritage Museum, and the Mogabout Safari tour. There's so much to do it really deserves more of a week than just the 3 days I had planned. The ferry ride back was smooth and the ship sold the Cobb Mutiny Bars that we had fallen in love with back in the highlands (yes, I bought out the entire supply at the ship's café that morning to bring home with me!)
(For those of you who asked, yes, I did kind of look for Sam Heughan in Glasgow, but I didn't find him. Apparently he wasn't at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens where we had our picnic lunch. He was probably busy filming somewhere.)
So now we've finished the last of the tea we brought back, and the last Cobbs Bakery Mutiny Bar is ready to be shared at dessert this evening. The whisky, somehow, has managed to multiply into a 2nd bottle, which I take to be Scottish math, or a testament to how good it is! Scotland, like much of the UK, is very special to me. In many ways it reminds me of growing up in Canada. There's something more to it than that though, it still feels more untouched, more genuine, more steeped in tradition. There is inspiration everywhere; castles and hairy cows, mountains, lochs and fairies in the glen, sheep, rivers, delicious woolens, mist, hearty food and hearty drink, and time for tea.
I recognize that part of what made the trip so important to me was that it was a part of the grieving process after losing my dad the week before we left. I thought of him, talked to him, and I felt like he was there with me. Turns out it was exactly what I needed.


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- Traditional Animation
- Hanna-Barbera Studios
- Cartoon Characters: Scat, Lady, Wiggle, Waggs, Sweets, Spinner, Bump, Flip, Shecky, Shiner, Scratch, King Max, Mooch, Downer.
- Voice Actors: Darryl Hickman, B. J. Ward, Dick Beals, Kathleen Helppie, Bob Holt, Kip King, Jerry Houser, Peter Cullen, Ken Mars, Jennifer Darling; Full Voice Cast ...
- Directed By Oscar Dufau, George Gordon, Carl Urbano, John Walker, Rudy Zamora, Ray Patterson; more Directors ...
- Produced By Art Scott, William Hanna, Joseph Barbera, Iwao Takamoto.
- Music: Don Patterson, Roger CHiasson, Sean Newton, Don Spenser.
- Editor: Gil Iverson, Larry C. Cowan.
- First Aired on December 03, 1983.
- Originally Aired on CBS-TV (USA).
- Running Time: 30 minutes.
- Season: 1
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On Halloween night, the evil Witch of Nidor returns, and begins draining the life force from the swamp. She also captures several forest animals, along with Wags and Sweets, intending to feed them to her magic mirror. Bump saves the day by smashing the mirror,... (more)
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Results of a poll released in March showed that many Americans have trouble paying for their medicines and that they sometimes don't take them as prescribed because of their cost. The poll, conducted by USA Today newspaper, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health, found that 50 percent of Americans take at least one prescription medication daily and that 19 percent are taking four or more prescription drugs. But four out of ten people said that it's at least somewhat of a problem to pay for the medicines with 16 percent saying it's a serious problem. Moreover, three in 10 didn't fill at least one prescription during the two years prior to the survey because of cost and 23 percent said that they have cut pills in half or skipped doses in order to make them last longer.
Unfortunately, there's nothing I can do about prescription drug prices or insurance coverage. Those problems need to be addressed at the national level. But I would like to talk about some important aspects of the poll results quoted above. That's because it's my hunch that many of the people who don't fill prescriptions, cut pills in half or skip doses, do so without telling their doctors. I'd imagine they are either embarrassed or guilty or believe their doctors will be angry or displeased. These feelings are understandable, but it is important also to understand that it could be in your best interest to push through them and talk to your doctor anyway. First of all, any doctor who would get angry is probably one you should stop seeing, and the odds are high that your doctor will be compassionate and understanding if you explain the situation.
Second, it does neither you nor your doctor any good if you are consciously non-compliant but he or she is in the dark about it. More importantly, there may be strategies that your doctor can employ to help you out. One is that they may be able to give you samples, which may be enough to allow you not to cut pills or skip doses. Another is that they might have prescribed a drug without thinking about its cost, assuming you had the means to pay or insurance to cover it, and there may be less expensive alternatives, possibly generic, possibly not, perhaps older but equally effective drugs that are less costly. Another possibility is for the doctor to prescribe a higher dose of a pill with the intention of your splitting it in half (oftentimes the cost of a higher dose pill is only marginally more expensive than the lower dose one). Along the same lines, with some drugs it's possible to take a higher dose but take it less often, say every other day, and this way you're still getting an effective amount (this doesn't work for all drugs, however).
Last, your doctor may be able to help you to work with the pharmaceutical manufacturer to obtain their drugs through their patient assistance programs. If the doctor's office can't help you in this regard, you can still contact the manufacturer yourself. Using the Internet, put the brand name of the drug into a search engine such as Google and find the official Web site. Nearly all such Web sites will have information on how to contact the company's patient assistance department. If it's not on the brand Web site, go to the manufacturer's general Web site. Remember, it's in the manufacturer's best interest to find a way for you to be on their medication. They have a wide variety of strategies available to help you get reimbursement or payment for their products. And most also have programs to provide drugs for free to those who need them. You have nothing to lose and a lot to gain by calling the manufacturer and explaining your situation.
Of all of the above information, the most important piece is to be open and honest with your physician. If you can't afford to take a medication as prescribed, it's imperative that you tell your doctor up front. They have no way to know about your situation unless you tell them. And if you do tell them they have a variety of strategies to help. Samples, alternative drugs, alternative doses, alternative approaches to treatment. But they can only offer this information if you initiate the discussion. Your doctor wants you to be healthy. You want to be healthy or you wouldn't have gone to the doctor. Keeping them in the dark about your inability to pay for medication does each of you a disservice. As I said above, you've got nothing to lose and potentially a lot to gain.
If you have experience with this situation, either with difficulty paying or with discovering creative means of getting treated, please post your comments so that others can learn from you. We look forward to hearing your stories.


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No doubt you and your family have a favorite holiday meal, drink or treat you enjoy every year.
For some folks, it's the Christmas goose, or turkey or ham.
In Medieval England, boar's head was commonplace at Christmas, served on a platter to royalty amid much ceremony.
In Denmark, families enjoy a meal at midnight Christmas Eve, topping it off with a special rice pudding, in which a single almond is hidden. The family member who finds the almond is said to have good luck throughout the year.
A Ukrainian tradition is a Christmas Eve supper consisting of 12 separate dishes, but with no meat or dairy products. And an extra place setting is prepared, either to remember those who've died, or to offer to a passing stranger.
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Hadley is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1661 and was previously called New Plantation. It can be found in Hampshire county and is a part of the Northampton registry of deed district. For more information, contact the county at 100 Middle St., Hadley 01035. On the attached map, Hadley is shown as 9 in Hampshire county.
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16-year-old girl lynched in Gaza....
And, where are the feminist groups to protest???
After more than 20 years in the business, and just when you think you've seen it all, there's always something that shocks you more than ever.
This time it's the brutal murder of a 16-year-old girl in the Gaza Strip. Her crime: "dishonoring" her family. Of course, there is no way to verify the allegations against her and other females who have fallen victim to "honor killings."
The gruesome murder occurred a few weeks ago, when the girl - who looks much younger than her age - was dragged into the street and handed to an mob of angry young men.
Eyewitnesses told The Jerusalem Post that many of those who participated in the lynch were Hamas members and relatives of the girl.
A five-minute video obtained by the Post over the weekend reveals the savagery and mercilessness of the killers.
What's really disturbing is that none of those at the crime scene tried to intervene to save the girl's life.
More than 20 young men are seen beating, stabbing and kicking the little girl before smashing her head with large stones.
It's not easy to watch such a video. The scenes of the girl lying on the ground as frenzied men trample her are unimaginable.
At one point, the girl tries to cover her head with her hands to avoid the kicking. She then tries to rise to her feet, only to be stabbed repeatedly by one of the men.
As she collapses, one of the attackers pulls down her skirt so that the rest of his friends will not see her underwear. The girl is required to maintain her "modesty" even as she is being preyed upon.
And just when you think the lynch is about to end, someone emerges from the crowd carrying a large white stone.
He throws the stone at the girl's back as she lays face down, motionless.
Seconds later, another man throws a large stone at the back of her head. The video ends with the girl laying in a pool of blood.
Mission accomplished. Hours later, a few local reporters sent a terse statement to their news organizations informing them of another "honor killing" in the Gaza Strip. Not a word about the way the girl had been lynched. The story barely made it to the mainstream media.