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Preterm Premature Rupture of Membranes
Preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) is when the amniotic sac breaks before 37 weeks of gestation. The sac contains amniotic fluid and the developing baby. In PPROM, the amniotic fluid inside the sac leaks or gushes out of the vagina. This is also known as your water breaking.
Fetus with Amniotic Sac
PPROM increases the risks of certain pregnancy complications, including:
- Preterm delivery]]>—baby is born prematurely and is not fully developed
- ]]>Placental abruption]]>—placenta separates from the uterus before the baby is delivered
- ]]>Prolapsed umbilical cord]]>—umbilical cord is squeezed between the baby and the pelvis
- Infection in the uterus or baby
- ]]>Miscarriage]]>
Call your doctor right away if you suspect that your water has broken.
The causes of PPROM are not clearly understood. Some of the possible causes are:
- Early dilation of the cervix (may be due to the weight of baby and placenta, or changes in the cervix itself)
- Infections of the vagina, uterus, or membranes surrounding the fetus
- Premature labor (occurring previously in the same pregnancy)
Risk Factors
The following factors may increase your chance of PPROM:
- PPROM in earlier pregnancies
- Infection in the amniotic sac
- Other infections in mother (chlamydia]]>, ]]>bacterial vaginosis]]>)
- Preterm labor
- ]]>Amniocentesis]]>
- Bleeding during the second and third trimester
- Certain procedures used to treat abnormal conditions of the cervix (eg, ]]>cervical conization]]>)
- Lung disease during pregnancy
- Connective tissue disease
- Nutritional deficits
- Low body mass index
- Low socio-economic status
- ]]>Smoking]]> during pregnancy
The main symptom of PPROM is fluid leaking from the vagina. You may experience a sudden gush of fluid or a slow, constant trickle. It can be difficult to distinguish between a slow amniotic trickle and urine. Your doctor can do simple tests to determine this.
PPROM also increases the risk of infection. Symptoms include a fever above 100.4ºF (38ºC). If you have any of these symptoms, call your doctor right away.
To diagnose PPROM, the doctor may do the following tests:
- Visual exam—the doctor may be able to see a trickle of fluid through the cervix, or a pool of fluid collected behind the cervix
- A nitrazine paper test—the doctor puts a small amount of fluid on a piece of paper to see if it is amniotic fluid
- Look at the fluid under a microscope to see if it is amniotic fluid
- Ultrasound]]>—using sound waves, the doctor examines the baby and amniotic sac to see if there is plenty of fluid and the baby is doing well
The doctor will also check you for fever and other signs of infection. He will monitor your baby for any signs of distress.
Treatment of PPROM depends on when it occurs in the pregnancy.
34 weeks or longer of gestation
The doctor will:
- Monitor the baby's heart rate
- Induce labor by giving you medicines
- Possibly give antibiotics
32-33 weeks of gestation
The doctor may:
- Induce labor if your baby's lungs have matured enough
- Give antibiotics
- Possibly give steroids to help your baby's lungs develop faster
- Try to delay delivery until completion of 33 weeks gestation
24-31 weeks of gestation
The doctor will provide treatment with antibiotics and steroids. The doctor may attempt to delay delivery until completion of 33 weeks gestation.
Less than 24 weeks of gestation
The doctor may admit you to the hospital for bed rest and to monitor you and your baby. Twenty-four weeks of gestation is about the youngest a baby can be born. The doctor will discuss the risks and benefits of your treatment options.
Researchers are investigating ways to prevent PPROM. Taking preventive antibiotics during the second and third trimester may reduce your risk. You can also take steps for a healthier pregnancy, like quitting smoking]]>.
American Pregnancy Association
National Institute of Child Health and Development
About Kids Health
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
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Jeffcoat MK, et al. Periodontal disease and premature birth: results of a pilot intervention. J Periodontology. 2003;74(8);1214.
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Last reviewed June 2010 by ]]>Ganson Purcell Jr., MD, FACOG, FACPE]]>
Please be aware that this information is provided to supplement the care provided by your physician. It is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. CALL YOUR HEALTHCARE PROVIDER IMMEDIATELY IF YOU THINK YOU MAY HAVE A MEDICAL EMERGENCY. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition.
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Four years ago, the first seedlings in PBMS's newly created garden began to sprout for the first time. The following year, under the leadership of librarian Sally Kaufman, a garden club was formed to tend to the nutritional greens in an area that was formerly home to a few less-fruitful bushes.
"It's always a work in progress. We just added another planter, got a bunch of hay from the church that's around the tree and we always try to add new things," said Kaufman. "It's pretty established, but it's always evolving."
She and the 20-something members of the garden club meet after school once a week to tend to the plants, taking part in every stage of the circle of life, from planting new seeds to maintaining a healthy growth environment to harvesting ripe vegetables and herbs. The students are also responsible for brainstorming innovative ways to encourage a vigorous, more prosperous environment, even having to fend off crows or other predators on occasion.
"Everything out there is a project," Kaufman said. "Lately, we've been planting just a little bit each week, but we'll be tending to it, weeding, raking up pine needles or making chicken-wire structures because the crows come out there digging for grubs and pulling at our plants."
After three years of digging, planting and watering, students are witnessing the success of the program firsthand, which is evident in the bountiful produce generated in the garden.
"We just started harvesting plants for the cafeteria, which has been really cool," said Kaufman. "We pick it, clean it with the salad spinner and bring it to [cafeteria supervisor] Baba."
More than just getting their hands dirty, the students are learning valuable lessons in agriculture, small business, science, engineering, math and a multitude of additional educational avenues available through the program.
"We do some cooking and we talk about eating fresh and organic and those kinds of things, but we really want to pull in more of the classrooms," she said. "A garden can be every subject so easily, and there is curriculum for it everywhere."
One literature teacher made the garden her classroom by relating how the fictional motif one of the class books, "Seedfolks," applied to situations closer to home.
"We're taking baby steps. We really want science in here. Science is endless, even with them just coming out and looking at the bugs and all the different experiments you can do starting seeds," she said. "For math, students can figure out circumference and depth when we're filling dirt, figuring out how many cubic yards there are in a plot."
From the garden to the salad bar to the classroom, Kaufman's garden club introduces new flavors many students have never tried before, encourages multi-disciplinary learning and invites students to take part in a fun after-school environment to learn and explore.
"It's a real movement of getting fresher produce into our school, and I think San Diego Unified is definitely taking the lead with it. They realize how valuable a garden can be for every subject and how much students can learn," she said. "The experience in the garden is that they're learning firsthand where their food is coming from and they're starting to see the importance of eating organic food that doesn't have pesticides and toxins."
Kaufman said her students are marveled by the fact that they grew the vegetables that nourish the rest of the school with their own hands.
"As I watch these students, they protect the garden. I see them out there during lunch sitting there looking at it, and you can tell they really just have a sense of ownership and pride in it," she said. "And they're learning about everything firsthand. It encompasses everything. A garden is really a classroom."

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A crew member has been airlifted from a Carnival cruise ship to a New Orleans hospital after falling and hitting her head on deck.
The Coast Guard said in a news release that one of its helicopters picked up the 34-year-old Indonesian woman Saturday morning from the Carnival Conquest, located 172 miles southeast of New Orleans.
The news release said the woman was taken to the Interim LSU Public Hospital, and that she was in stable condition. The Coast Guard did not release her name.
In a statement Saturday, Carnival noted the ship was on the last leg of a seven-day Caribbean cruise that began in New Orleans. The statement said the ship was expected to arrive back in New Orleans again on Sunday, as scheduled.


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"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of p0ker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time."
"Anyway, if you stop tellin' people it's all sorted out afer they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive. "
"If you sit down and think about it sensibly, you come up with some very funny ideas. Like: why make people inquisitive, and then put some forbidden fruit where they can see it with a big neon finger flashing on and off saying 'THIS IS IT!'? ... I mean, why do that if you really don't want them to eat it, eh? I mean, maybe you just want to see how it all turns out. Maybe it's all part of a great big ineffable plan. All of it. You, me, him, everything. Some great big test to see if what you've built all works properly, eh? You start thinking: it can't be a great cosmic game of chess, it has to be just very complicated Solitaire."
"You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right."
"Crowley had always known that he would be around when the world ended, because he was immortal and wouldn't have any alternative. But he hoped it was a long way off. Because he rather liked people. It was major failing in a demon. Oh, he did his best to make their short lives miserable, because that was his job, but nothing he could think up was half as bad as the stuff they thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into the design, somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse. Over the years Crowley had found it increasingly difficult to find anything demonic to do which showed up against the natural background of generalized nastiness. There had been times, over the past millennium, when he'd felt like sending a message back Below saying, Look we may as well give up right now, we might as well shut down Dis and Pandemonium and everywhere and move up here, there's nothing we can do to them that they don't do to themselves and they do things we've never even thought of, often involving electrodes. They've got what we lack. They've got imagination. And electricity, of course. One of them had written it, hadn't he…"Hell is empty, and all the devils are here." Crowley got a commendation for the Spanish Inquisition. He had been in Spain then, mainly hanging around cantinas in the nicer parts, and hadn't even known about it until the commendation arrived. He'd gone to have a look, and come back and got drunk for a week."
"Good Omens" is the book that introduced me to Neil Gaiman - now he's one of my favorite writers. "Baby Cakes" from one of his short story collections (Smoke and Mirrors, perhaps?) is the creepiest page and a half I've ever read. He's a master story-teller.
Neverwhere is one of my faves - have you seen the BBC-produced mini series? It's a bit dated and sort of hokey, but it follows the book really well.
American Gods is wonderful too. Ananci Boys was less engaging, but follows American Gods if I recall correctly.
"The Ocean at the End of the Lane" a couple weeks ago;
I haven't indulged myself in his graphic novels yet, but I've heard they're fantastic. They're reserved for a time when I can't find anything to read. It does happen on occasion.
Have you read any Patrick Rothfuss? The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fears are published, with a third to follow soon-ish. Given what I'm piecing together about your taste in books, I think you might like those.
I've heard of Gaiman before, but I've never picked anything of his up. I'm intrigued; I'll have to now.
"Nothing [the demon] could think up was half as bad as the stuff [people] thought up themselves. They seemed to have a talent for it. It was built into their design somehow. They were born into a world that was against them in a thousand little ways, and then devoted most of their energies to making it worse."
"I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people."
"I don't reckon it's allowed, going round setting fire to people," said Adam. "Otherwise people'd be doin' it all the time.""It's all right if you're religious," said Brian reassuringly. "And it stops the witches from goin' to Hell, so I expect they'd be quite grateful if they understood it properly."
"If you take the long view, the universe is just something small and round, like those water filled balls which produce a miniature snowstorm when you shake them. Although, unless the ineffable plan is a lot more ineffable than it's given credit for, it does not have a giant plastic snowman at the bottom."
"IT WASN'T A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT. It should have been, but that's the weather for you. For every mad scientist who's had a convenient thunderstorm just on the night his Great Work is finished and lying on the slab, there have been dozens who've sat around aimlessly under the peaceful stars while Igor clocks up the overtime."
Rothfuss really needs to get his act together and finish it one of these days.
I pick up on more subtle hints
They are beautifully written even aside from the storyline,
and I really hope that his seemingly interminable work on crafting the next one pays off!
I also enjoy Terry Pratchett (to get back to Good Omens), and actually had one of his Discworld books (a gift from a friend) for some years before I ever heard of Good Omens (which was a gift from a different friend). My only problem with him is that I always seem to get hopelessly lost in his convoluted plots because I get too caught up in all his nifty little turns of phrase to remember to follow what's going on.
Quote from: jynnan tonnix on May 12, 2014, 11:24:23 PMI also enjoy Terry Pratchett (to get back to Good Omens), and actually had one of his Discworld books (a gift from a friend) for some years before I ever heard of Good Omens (which was a gift from a different friend). My only problem with him is that I always seem to get hopelessly lost in his convoluted plots because I get too caught up in all his nifty little turns of phrase to remember to follow what's going on. Do you remember which Discworld book it was, jyn?If you're interested, I can recommend those books in the series that were more stand-alone stories.
The discworld one was Soul Music. I think it took me three starts to finally get through the whole thing because for some reason I would lose the track of the story about 3/4 of the way through. I've probably read it three or four times since then, though. There are so many lines in there which make me giggle.


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My first time posting on Think Atheist, so I thought some of you might find this to be interesting.
Ran across this today (http://worldviewwarriors.blogspot.com/2012/09/proof-of-worldwide-fl...)...a blog by the name of "Worldview Warriors" arguing for a biblical flood using this argument:
"The first obvious sign that a worldwide flood occurred is that there would be thousands upon thousands, millions upon millions of dead creatures buried underneath the surface of the earth. When we look at Geology, guess what? This is exactly what we find: thousands upon thousands and millions upon millions of creatures buried beneath the earth. Unfortunately, before secular humanists got their hands on the fossil record, creationists were poorly interpreting the fossils that were buried underground, which paved the way for secular scientists popularizing more scientific interpretations of the fossils. Today, creationists fight to set the record straight despite the fact that their interpretations are more reasonable and more logical than that of secularists."
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mind boggling*
The clowns who wrote the Bible lived an agrarian existence, and likely had no clue that air was thin on mountaintops, and consequently didn't work it into the story.
I've touched on this same issue regarding the Tower of Babel Fable, instead of getting all bent out of shape about Man's effort to build a tower to heaven (which wasn't the case, it was an Akkadian ziggurat) and confusing all of the languages - a wise god would have rocked back in his Laz-e-boy with a cold brew and some hot nachos and watched on his big screen as the idiots on earth built their tower higher and higher until the brick layers all passed out from oxygen deprivation, while this god cackled his ass off. But noooooo --
Actually, if the sea level rose the air would no longer be thin on the mountaintops; the atmosphere would rise with the water level. Depending on how low the "roof" (firmament) is, it might even go up in pressure and temperature from being compressed.
Unless doG was simultaneously sucking the air off the earth. Buble doesn't say one way or the other so the creationists are free to make it up and admit it (as opposed to what they normally do, which is to make it up and not admit it).
And temperature, as well, I hadn't considered that - good catch!
The most grossly obvious error is the false dichotomy that those studying fossils are either 'secularists or creationists'. Those that study fossils, empirically, publishing their findings for peer review, are called scientists, whether or not they believe in invisible skymonsters.
While everything everyone else said is true, you are the only one who identified the _logical fallacy_ here--which is what was asked for--rather than the factual errors.
So you're saying what? I did good?
I am saying you and Heather both did (the comment was directed at her), in different ways.
Although i have coppied this from:(Here) it should get my point across.
Creationist models are often criticized for being too vague to have any predictive value. A literal interpretation of the Flood story in Genesis, however, does imply certain physical consequences which can be tested against what we actually observe, and the implications of such an interpretation are investigated below. Some creationists provided even more detailed models, and these are also addressed (see especially sections 5 and 7).
Two kinds of flood model are not addressed here. First is the local flood. Genesis 6-8 can be interpreted as a homiletic story such that the "world" that was flooded was just the area that Noah knew. Creationists argue against the local flood model because it doesn't fit their own literalist preconceptions, but I know of no physical evidence contrary to such a model.
Second, the whole story can be dismissed as a series of supernatural miracles. There is no way to contradict such an argument. However, one must wonder about a God who reportedly does one thing and then arranges every bit of evidence to make it look like something else happened. It's entirely possible that a global flood occurred 4000 years ago or even last Thursday, and that God subsequently erased all the evidence, including our memories of it. But even if such stories are true, what's the point?
Wood is not the best material for shipbuilding. It is not enough that a ship be built to hold together; it must also be sturdy enough that the changing stresses don't open gaps in its hull. Wood is simply not strong enough to prevent separation between the joints, especially in the heavy seas that the Ark would have encountered. The longest wooden ships in modern seas are about 300 feet, and these require reinforcing with iron straps and leak so badly they must be constantly pumped. The ark was 450 feet long [ Gen. 6:15]. Could an ark that size be made seaworthy?
Bringing all kinds of animals together in the vicinity of the ark presents significant problems.
Could animals have traveled from elsewhere? If the animals traveled from other parts of the world, many of them would have faced extreme difficulties.
Could animals have all lived near Noah? Some creationists suggest that the animals need not have traveled far to reach the Ark; a moderate climate could have made it possible for all of them to live nearby all along. However, this proposal makes matters even worse. The last point above would have applied not only to island species, but to almost all species. Competition between species would have driven most of them to extinction.
There is a reason why Gila monsters, yaks, and quetzals don't all live together in a temperate climate. They can't survive there, at least not for long without special care. Organisms have preferred environments outside of which they are at a deadly disadvantage. Most extinctions are caused by destroying the organisms' preferred environments. The creationists who propose all the species living together in a uniform climate are effectively proposing the destruction of all environments but one. Not many species could have survived that.
How was the Ark loaded? Getting all the animals aboard the Ark presents logistical problems which, while not impossible, are highly impractical. Noah had only seven days to load the Ark ( Gen. 7:4-10). If only 15764 animals were aboard the Ark (see section 3), one animal must have been loaded every 38 seconds, without letup. Since there were likely more animals to load, the time pressures would have been even worse.
Where did the Flood water come from, and where did it go? Several people have proposed answers to these questions, but none which consider all the implications of their models. A few of the commonly cited models are addressed below.
Vapor canopy. This model, proposed by Whitcomb & Morris and others, proposes that much of the Flood water was suspended overhead until the 40 days of rain which caused the Flood. The following objections are covered in more detail by Brown.
Hydroplate. Walt Brown's model proposes that the Flood waters came from a layer of water about ten miles underground, which was released by a catastrophic rupture of the earth's crust, shot above the atmosphere, and fell as rain.
Comet. Kent Hovind proposed that the Flood water came from a comet which broke up and fell on the earth. Again, this has the problem of the heat from the gravitational potential energy. The water would be steam by the time it reached the surface of the earth.
Runaway subduction. John Baumgardner created the runaway subduction model, which proposes that the pre-Flood lithosphere (ocean floor), being denser than the underlying mantle, began sinking. The heat released in the process decreased the viscosity of the mantle, so the process accelerated catastrophically. All the original lithosphere became subducted; the rising magma which replaced it raised the ocean floor, causing sea levels to rise and boiling off enough of the ocean to cause 150 days of rain. When it cooled, the ocean floor lowered again, and the Flood waters receded. Sedimentary mountains such as the Sierras and Andes rose after the Flood by isostatic rebound. [Baumgardner, 1990a; Austin et al., 1994]
New ocean basins. Most flood models (including those above, possibly excepting Hovind's) deal with the water after the flood by proposing that it became our present oceans. The earth's terrain, according to this model, was much, much flatter during the Flood, and through cataclysms, the mountains were pushed up and the ocean basins lowered. (Brown proposes that the cataclysms were caused by the crust sliding around on a cushion of water; Whitcomb & Morris don't give a cause.)
A global flood would have produce evidence contrary to the evidence we see.
How do you explain the relative ages of mountains? For example, why weren't the Sierra Nevadas eroded as much as the Appalachians during the Flood?
Why is there no evidence of a flood in ice core series? Ice cores from Greenland have been dated back more than 40,000 years by counting annual layers. [Johnsen et al, 1992,; Alley et al, 1993] A worldwide flood would be expected to leave a layer of sediments, noticeable changes in salinity and oxygen isotope ratios, fractures from buoyancy and thermal stresses, a hiatus in trapped air bubbles, and probably other evidence. Why doesn't such evidence show up?
How are the polar ice caps even possible? Such a mass of water as the Flood would have provided sufficient buoyancy to float the polar caps off their beds and break them up. They wouldn't regrow quickly. In fact, the Greenland ice cap would not regrow under modern (last 10 ky) climatic conditions.
Why did the Flood not leave traces on the sea floors? A year long flood should be recognizable in sea bottom cores by (1) an uncharacteristic amount of terrestrial detritus, (2) different grain size distributions in the sediment, (3) a shift in oxygen isotope ratios (rain has a different isotopic composition from seawater), (4) a massive extinction, and (n) other characters. Why do none of these show up?
Why is there no evidence of a flood in tree ring dating? Tree ring records go back more than 10,000 years, with no evidence of a catastrophe during that time. [Becker & Kromer, 1993; Becker et al, 1991; Stuiver et al, 1986]
Most people who believe in a global flood also believe that the flood was responsible for creating all fossil-bearing strata. (The alternative, that the strata were laid down slowly and thus represent a time sequence of several generations at least, would prove that some kind of evolutionary process occurred.) However, there is a great deal of contrary evidence.
Before you argue that fossil evidence was dated and interpreted to meet evolutionary assumptions, remember that the geological column and the relative dates therein were laid out by people who believed divine creation, before Darwin even formulated his theory. (See, for example, Moore [1973], or the closing pages of Dawson [1868].)
Why are geological eras consistent worldwide? How do you explain worldwide agreement between "apparent" geological eras and several different (independent) radiometric and nonradiometric dating methods? [e.g., Short et al, 1991]
How was the fossil record sorted in an order convenient for evolution? Ecological zonation, hydrodynamic sorting, and differential escape fail to explain:
How do surface features appear far from the surface? Deep in the geologic column there are formations which could have originated only on the surface, such as:
How could these have appeared in the midst of a catastrophic flood?
How does a global flood explain angular unconformities? These are where one set of layers of sediments have been extensively modified (e.g., tilted) and eroded before a second set of layers were deposited on top. They thus seem to require at least two periods of deposition (more, where there is more than one unconformity) with long periods of time in between to account for the deformation, erosion, and weathering observed.
How were mountains and valleys formed? Many very tall mountains are composed of sedimentary rocks. (The summit of Everest is composed of deep-marine limestone, with fossils of ocean-bottom dwelling crinoids [Gansser, 1964].) If these were formed during the Flood, how did they reach their present height, and when were the valleys between them eroded away? Keep in mind that many valleys were clearly carved by glacial erosion, which is a slow process.
When did granite batholiths form? Some of these are intruded into older sediments and have younger sediments on their eroded top surfaces. It takes a long time for magma to cool into granite, nor does granite erode very quickly. [For example, see Donohoe & Grantham, 1989, for locations of contact between the South Mountain Batholith and the Meugma Group of sediments, as well as some angular unconformities.]
How can a single flood be responsible for such extensively detailed layering? One formation in New Jersey is six kilometers thick. If we grant 400 days for this to settle, and ignore possible compaction since the Flood, we still have 15 meters of sediment settling per day. And yet despite this, the chemical properties of the rock are neatly layered, with great changes (e.g.) in percent carbonate occurring within a few centimeters in the vertical direction. How does such a neat sorting process occur in the violent context of a universal flood dropping 15 meters of sediment per day? How can you explain a thin layer of high carbonate sediment being deposited over an area of ten thousand square kilometers for some thirty minutes, followed by thirty minutes of low carbonate deposition, etc.? [Zimmer, 1992]
How do you explain the formation of varves? The Green River formation in Wyoming contains 20,000,000 annual layers, or varves, identical to those being laid down today in certain lakes. The sediments are so fine that each layer would have required over a month to settle.
How could a flood deposit layered fossil forests? Stratigraphic sections showing a dozen or more mature forests layered atop each other--all with upright trunks, in-place roots, and well-developed soil--appear in many locations. One example, the Joggins section along the Bay of Fundy, shows a continuous section 2750 meters thick (along a 48-km sea cliff) with multiple in-place forests, some separated by hundreds of feet of strata, some even showing evidence of forest fires. [Ferguson, 1988. For other examples, see Dawson, 1868; Cristie & McMillan, 1991; Gastaldo, 1990; Yuretich, 1994.] Creationists point to logs sinking in a lake below Mt. St. Helens as an example of how a flood can deposit vertical trunks, but deposition by flood fails to explain the roots, the soil, the layering, and other features found in such places.
Where did all the heat go? If the geologic record was deposited in a year, then the events it records must also have occurred within a year. Some of these events release significant amounts of heat.
5.6 x 1026 joules is enough to heat the oceans to boiling. 3.7 x 1027 joules will vaporize them completely. Since steam and air have a lower heat capacity than water, the steam released will quickly raise the temperature of the atmosphere over 1000 C. At these temperatures, much of the atmosphere would boil off the Earth.
Aside from losing its atmosphere, Earth can only get rid of heat by radiating it to space, and it can't radiate significantly more heat than it gets from the sun unless it is a great deal hotter than it is now. (It is very nearly at thermal equilibrium now.) If there weren't many millions of years to radiate the heat from the above processes, the earth would still be unlivably hot.
As shown in section 5, all the mechanisms proposed for causing the Flood already provide more than enough energy to vaporize it as well. These additional factors only make the heat problem worse.
How were limestone deposits formed? Much limestone is made of the skeletons of zillions of microscopic sea animals. Some deposits are thousands of meters thick. Were all those animals alive when the Flood started? If not, how do you explain the well-ordered sequence of fossils in the deposits? Roughly 1.5 x 1015 grams of calcium carbonate are deposited on the ocean floor each year. [Poldervaart, 1955] A deposition rate ten times as high for 5000 years before the Flood would still only account for less than 0.02% of limestone deposits.
How could a flood have deposited chalk? Chalk is largely made up of the bodies of plankton 700 to 1000 angstroms in diameter [Bignot, 1985]. Objects this small settle at a rate of .0000154 mm/sec. [Twenhofel, 1961] In a year of the Flood, they could have settled about half a meter.
How could the Flood deposit layers of solid salt? Such layers are sometimes meters in width, interbedded with sediments containing marine fossils. This apparently occurs when a body of salt water has its fresh-water intake cut off, and then evaporates. These layers can occur more or less at random times in the geological history, and have characteristic fossils on either side. Therefore, if the fossils were themselves laid down during a catastrophic flood, there are, it seems, only two choices:
(1) the salt layers were themselves laid down at the same time, during the heavy rains that began the flooding, or
(2) the salt is a later intrusion. I suspect that both will prove insuperable difficulties for a theory of flood deposition of the geologic column and its fossils. [Jackson et al, 1990]
How were sedimentary deposits recrystallized and plastically deformed in the short time since the Flood? The stretched pebble conglomerate in Death Valley National Monument (Wildrose Canyon Rd., 15 mi. south of Hwy. 190), for example, contains streambed pebbles metamorphosed to quartzite and stretched to 3 or more times their original length. Plastically deformed stone is also common around salt diapirs [Jackson et al, 1990].
How were hematite layers laid down? Standard theory is that they were laid down before Earth's atmosphere contained much oxygen. In an oxygen-rich regime, they would almost certainly be impossible.
How do you explain fossil mineralization? Mineralization is the replacement of the original material with a different mineral.
How are these observations explained by a sorted deposition of remains in a single episode of global flooding?
How does a flood explain the accuracy of "coral clocks"? The moon is slowly sapping the earth's rotational energy. The earth should have rotated more quickly in the distant past, meaning that a day would have been less than 24 hours, and there would have been more days per year. Corals can be dated by the number of "daily" growth layers per "annual" growth layer. Devonian corals, for example, show nearly 400 days per year. There is an exceedingly strong correlation between the "supposed age" of a wide range of fossils (corals, stromatolites, and a few others -- collected from geologic formations throughout the column and from locations all over the world) and the number of days per year that their growth pattern shows. The agreement between these clocks, and radiometric dating, and the theory of superposition is a little hard to explain away as the result of a number of unlucky coincidences in a 300-day-long flood. [Rosenberg & Runcorn, 1975; Scrutton, 1965; Wells, 1963]
Where were all the fossilized animals when they were alive? Schadewald [1982] writes:
"Scientific creationists interpret the fossils found in the earth's rocks as the remains of animals that perished in the Noachian Deluge. Ironically, they often cite the sheer number of fossils in 'fossil graveyards' as evidence for the Flood. In particular, creationists seem enamored by the Karroo Formation in Africa, which is estimated to contain the remains of 800 billion vertebrate animals (see Whitcomb and Morris, p. 160; Gish, p. 61). As pseudoscientists, creationists dare not test this major hypothesis that all of the fossilized animals died in the Flood.
"Robert E. Sloan, a paleontologist at the University of Minnesota, has studied the Karroo Formation. He asserts that the animals fossilized there range from the size of a small lizard to the size of a cow, with the average animal perhaps the size of a fox. A minute's work with a calculator shows that, if the 800 billion animals in the Karoo formation could be resurrected, there would be twenty-one of them for every acre of land on earth. Suppose we assume (conservatively, I think) that the Karroo Formation contains 1 percent of the vertebrate [land] fossils on earth. Then when the Flood began, there must have been at least 2100 living animals per acre, ranging from tiny shrews to immense dinosaurs. To a noncreationist mind, that seems a bit crowded."
A thousand kilometers' length of arctic coastal plain, according to experts in Leningrad, contains about 500,000 tons of tusks. Even assuming that the entire population was preserved, you seem to be saying that Russia had wall-to-wall mammoths before this "event."
Even if there was room physically for all the large animals which now exist only as fossils, how could they have all coexisted in a stable ecology before the Flood? Montana alone would have had to support a diversity of herbivores orders of magnitude larger than anything now observed.
Where did all the organic material in the fossil record come from? There are 1.16 x 1013 metric tons of coal reserves, and at least 100 times that much unrecoverable organic matter in sediments. A typical forest, even if it covered the entire earth, would supply only 1.9 x 1013 metric tons. [Ricklefs, 1993, p. 149]
How do you explain the relative commonness of aquatic fossils? A flood would have washed over everything equally, so terrestrial organisms should be roughly as abundant as aquatic ones (or more abundant, since Creationists hypothesize greater land area before the Flood) in the fossil record. Yet shallow marine environments account for by far the most fossils.
Someone, Ethan, obviously went to a great deal of effort to respond to every possible objection that theists could claim, and you have obviously gone to great pains to share it with us, but once it is established, and it has been, that there is not enough water in, on , under or above the earth to fulfill Genesis' claim, nothing else is needed.
Wherrree did it come from, wheeree did it go???? It is not JUST about the water, and the quantities that were supposedly involved, just think about the slush left behind, the rotting corpses of men, women, children, animals, trees, vegetation. The stench of all this - AAgghhhh!!!! I can just picture Noah wading through all this shite, pushing away bodies.


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If you have any questions about your Sub-Zero or Wolf appliance please call, 0208 418 3877 or if you wish to contact us via email, please send your questions to email@example.com
At Sub-Zero & Wolf we recognise the need for perfection. And as such, our Service Department aim to not only meet customer's expectations but exceed them wherever and whenever possible.
Here, we share with you some of happy customer's comments and feedback to us:
Good afternoon to you,
In a world where people are quick to complain and slow to praise I would like to recount my recent experience with your Wolf appliance service team, and particularly Gary Jones.
I sent a general query by email on Saturday 1st September regarding the non-operation of the two grills installed on the Motor Yacht that I Captain, hoping for an answer and some advice on the Monday of the following week. Instead of that I had a reply from Gary Jones on Sunday morning, what a credit to your organization, his reply was informative, knowledgeable and extremely detailed in its guidance.
I have this morning followed Gary's advice to the letter and now have two working grills, which has eased the stress on the chef as the owner is coming to the boat on Friday of this week and will surely want his lobster grilled up on the upper deck, particularly if it had not been working!!
I hope this e-mail finds its way to your HR Dept., if they are still called that, and certainly to Gary's line manager, as I would like his exemplary customer service to be noted, and recognized.
I will not hesitate to pass on my recommendations of your organization to colleagues in the marine world.
With grateful thanks,
Captain MY Alaska
To whom it may concern
Following a recent service and maintenance on our Wolf cooker I wanted to write and tell you how impressed we were with your engineer Mike.
When I first contacted your office I was informed that the appliance was already registered with your company (we moved to the house in spring 2011), this gave me reassurance that we were dealing with a professional group.
Although we did require a few visits, due to my commitments, I wanted to inform you that Mike the engineer who visited on a couple of occasions did a through and professional job. When he moved the cooker out he took great care to move any items that may have been knocked, he cleaned the appliance and also offered advice on maintaining the cooker to its highest standard. He was also very conscious of gas leaks and checked things thoroughly at all times. He also waited until I had personally checked that the problem was completely fixed and then left the house as though he had not been there.
After a year of having various trades people doing work in the house I felt that Mike was one of the most unintrusive men that have carried out work for me, hence why I felt compelled to send this e mail.
On one of the visits Mike informed me he had been with the company for 10 years, this really shows in his professionalism and knowledge.
If I require any work from Wolf in the future I will be sure to ask for Mike to return and carry it out.
Attention Jason
I would like to thank you and your mechanic Stuart for your incredibly quick response today to my SOS call re my freezer which I had only just discovered as not working and items were thawing out. I have never known such polite and encouraging service from beginning to end. I first spoke to your very supportive and compassionate lady manning the phones, there followed a quick response from your engineer and Hey Presto within about two hours of my call my freezer fan was replaced and all systems go again which was vital to my B and B business.
Thank you all very very much. Helen.
Dear Sir / Madam
I felt compelled to write to you and thank you for the excellent service I received from Wolf / Sub Zero yesterday.
We are very security conscious here, as we are in an out of the way part of Goudhurst. It was a pleasure to have your engineer Mike Eales work here yesterday. We felt he was somebody in whom we had complete confidence from the start.
This particular engineer was most polite and knowledgeable about the Sub Zero freezer and he readily answered a small query about the Broil setting on the Wolf oven, without being at all patronising.
It is a rare thing these days to be able to thank a company for their customer care but in this instant, I am very happy to do so.
I simply felt Mr Eales co-workers should know of his dedication to the job.
Yours Sincerely
Dear Greg,
Just to say thank you for sorting out our oven. Stuart has worked his magic.
Mark and I are have been impressed with your (and your team's) excellent customer service skills - sorting things out with efficiency and good humour.
Please feel free to forward our email on to your boss so our praise can be recognised by those you work with.
In the nicest possible way, I hope not to have to contact you again, or too soon !
Best regards
"What a very nice engineer Brian was to have in my home.
He did not complain about having to wear shoe covers (like so many others do), was informative, polite & very helpful. He even helped to clean the fridge so in future I know how to do it properly.
I decided to call because I don't think enough people let service companies know when they are appreciated and do a good job!!!!"
"How pleased I was with the level of service I was given today, and also throughout the booking process. The engineer not only looked at the issue that he had been booked to deal with, but also looked at my other appliances and went through some of the functions with me. I have never experienced such great customer service."
"Jason was very quick and showed fantastic customer service. Thank you so much – very much appreciated"
Just to inform you that the replacement filter for our downdraught extractor was delivered this morning in perfect condition. It fits perfectly and without a blemish. It's such a rareity and a relief to find a company like Westye, where "customer service" does actually mean what it says. Thank you again for all your help.
Its heart-warming this kind of service you do these days, parts arrived today and on road to client already.
Thanks a lot for this after sales service.
Take care and have a nice day.
Many thanks Jason and especially for such great service and communication. We look forward to getting the part from AMS and I'll let Jonathan know the part is ordered. Happy Christmas and may all your fridges keep working!
Dear Service Team
You are diamonds. I can see you twinkling from here! I must say it is
always a real pleasure dealing with you.
Dear Greg
I just wanted to say Thank You So Much for the service we received today from your Company.
Our Sub-Zero is now working, for a while, until the replacement parts are ordered and fitted.
You have restored my faith in the British Service Industry, warm friendly greeting on the telephone,
going that extra mile to get the engineer out quickly, and a quick efficient result from his visit.
Thanks again
Yes I have been given the information I needed thank you. Very impressed with the speed in which your company has dealt with my enquiry.
Wow, that's speedy
Thank you for all your help, it's been so nice to deal with someone so efficient. Please tell your management!
I have just spoken to your service department and booked for an engineer to look at my SUB ZERO 690 and I would just like to say what a pleasure it was to speak to a gentleman called Jason who was so polite courteous and understanding as well as being helpful he certainly is an asset to your company
My husband and I run a number of businesses's and so good customer service as it is something we educate our own staff in and we very much appreciate any comments from our customers about this
With regards
Good afternoon Zena,
A belated, but very heartfelt thank you for you help with the problem with our Sub-Zero 690 Fridge/Freezer.
I wanted to wait to make sure that the fridge was working OK before I got in touch with you again. It is working perfectly, and I would like to take this opportunity to complement the engineer whom we found to be a pleasant, helpfu, who knew what he was doing.
Thanking you again,
Best regards,
I should say how helpful and totally practical Stuart was when he came over to fix the problems. A really good job, totally effective and done by an engineer who does you and your product great credit. Please thank him from us.
We cannot thank you enough; it is perfect now the service light has vanished, due to your step-by-step advice on checking the sub zero fridge freezer. Once again, I hope your managers at your company know how helpful and professional you are and a pleasure to deal with. Once again thank you Zena. It is very rare that you get this kind of service from companies today.
Dear Greg
Thank you for your assistance, both you and Jason have been very helpful.Your company are lucky to have you!
Dear John
It's in and on and ....................it was worth the 20 year wait, I adore it.
Dear Zoe,
Apologies we have been away. Your service has indeed been the best in the industry from delivery to crew, organising, quick feedback, slotting in with our availability and I am now convinced we can't live without our Sub Zero! We have 2 Miele fridges in our current kitchen, one hasn't worked since we moved in and the other is used for drinks only. Thank goodness for our Sub Zero that has been a life saver!
We will be in touch again as soon as we know where we are moving to from this property which is a rental and we look forward to working with you and the rest of the team again. I have to say, the removal service is honestly fantastic and I'm so pleased to have found out about it.
Many thanks and kind regards,
"Thank you so much for your service, I'm amazed by it! I have told all my friends who say that you just don't hear about such service these days!!
Your engineer Brian is a 'rare gem' and you are lucky to have him!"
Mr. Shreeve, Essex


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Thanks to the generosity of Windermere agents and the community, the Windermere Foundation collected over $330,000 in donations during the first quarter of 2018. Individual contributions and fundraisers accounted for 58 percent of the donations, while 42 percent came from donations through Windermere agent commissions. So far, we have raised a total of $35,869,961 in donations since 1989 when the Windermere Foundation was started.
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Bryostatin 1 Plus Vincristine in Treating Patients With Recurrent or Refractory HIV-Related Lymphoma
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00022555
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|AIDS-related Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma AIDS-related Diffuse Mixed Cell Lymphoma AIDS-related Peripheral/Systemic Lymphoma AIDS-related Small Noncleaved Cell Lymphoma
|Drug: bryostatin 1 Drug: vincristine sulfate
|Phase 1
I. Determine the maximum tolerated dose of bryostatin 1 when administered with vincristine in patients with recurrent or refractory HIV-related B-cell lymphoma.
II. Determine the toxicity profile of this regimen in these patients. III. Determine the objective response and survival of these patients treated with this regimen.
IV. Determine the immunomodulatory effects of this regimen on interleukin-2 (IL-2), IL-2 receptor, and IL-6 cytokine levels in these patients.
V. Determine the effect of this regimen on CD4+ lymphocyte count and HIV load in these patients.
VI. Determine the effect of this regimen on the human herpes virus-8 load in these patients with body cavity-based lymphoma.
OUTLINE: This is a multicenter, dose-escalation study of bryostatin 1.
Patients receive bryostatin 1 IV continuously on days 1 and 15 and vincristine IV over 5 minutes on days 2 and 16. Treatment continues every 4 weeks for a minimum of 2 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Cohorts of 3-6 patients receive escalating doses of bryostatin 1 until the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) is determined. The MTD is defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity.
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|Single Group Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase I Trial of Combination Bryostatin-1 and Vincristine in HIV-Related B-cell Neoplasms
|Study Start Date :
|November 2001
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|July 2003
Experimental: Treatment (bryostatin 1, vincristine sulfate)
Patients receive bryostatin 1 IV continuously on days 1 and 15 and vincristine IV over 5 minutes on days 2 and 16. Treatment continues every 4 weeks for a minimum of 2 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Drug: bryostatin 1
Given IV
Other Names:
Drug: vincristine sulfate
Given IV
Other Names:
- MTD of bryostatin-1 defined as the dose preceding that at which 2 of 6 patients experience dose-limiting toxicity [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]
- Dose-limiting toxicities [ Time Frame: 4 weeks ]Defined as any >= grade 2 neuropathy, other grade 3 non-hematologic toxicity (excluding alopecia and grade 3 nausea and vomiting that is responsive to standard pharmacologic intervention) or grade 4 hematologic toxicity in 2 or more patients. The incidence of toxicity related dose reduction and treatment discontinuation will be summarized for each dose group.
- Immunomodulatory effects of this combination [ Time Frame: Up to 2 years ]Measured by a solid phase Enzyme Amplified Sensitivity Immunoassay.
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
Histologically confirmed B-cell lymphoma
Eligible subtypes:
- Intermediate or high-grade non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), defined as follicular large cell, mantle cell, diffuse mixed cell, diffuse large cell and variants, Burkitt or Burkitt-like, or unclassifiable aggressive histologies
- Body cavity-based lymphoma or primary effusion lymphoma
- Evidence of HIV infection
Received at least 1 prior systemic chemotherapy regimen with failure to respond or relapse after completion of first-line therapy, including one of the following doxorubicin-based combinations:
- Cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone (CHOP)
- Infusional cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, and etoposide (CDE)
- Etoposide, prednisone, vincristine, cyclophosphamide, and doxorubicin (EPOCH)
- Evaluable disease outside of prior radiation port
- No CNS parenchymal or leptomeningeal involvement
- No primary CNS NHL
- No HTLV-1-associated leukemia or lymphoma
- Performance status - Karnofsky 70-100%
- At least 12 weeks
- Absolute granulocyte count at least 1,000/mm3
- Platelet count at least 75,000/mm3
- Hemoglobin at least 8.0 g/dL
- Bilirubin no greater than 1.5 mg/dL (unless concurrently on indinavir)
- SGOT and SGPT less than 3 times upper limit of normal
- Creatinine no greater than 1.5 mg/dL
- Creatinine clearance at least 50 mL/min
- No history of cardiac disease
- LVEF at least 45% by radionuclide ventriculography
- No symptomatic congestive heart failure
- No active angina pectoris
- No uncontrolled hypertension
- No history of symptomatic pulmonary disease
- Corrected DLCO more than 50% predicted
- No severe chronic obstructive lung disease
- No symptomatic restrictive lung disease
- Recurrent controllable infection (e.g., thrush) on chronic suppressive therapy allowed
- No active uncontrolled infection
- No active significant opportunistic infection (e.g., acute Pneumocystis pneumonia, cytomegalovirus retinitis on induction or maintenance therapy, acute toxoplasmosis)
- No grade 2 or greater peripheral neuropathy
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective barrier contraception
- At least 24 hours since prior transfusion
- At least 24 hours since prior colony-stimulating factor therapy
- No concurrent prophylactic filgrastim (G-CSF)
- See Disease Characteristics
- No concurrent hydroxyurea
- See Disease Characteristics
- At least 4 weeks since prior large-field radiotherapy
- At least 3 weeks since prior anticancer therapy and recovered
- Must be receiving stable antiretroviral regimen of at least 4 weeks duration
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00022555
|United States, Maryland
|AIDS - Associated Malignancies Clinical Trials Consortium
|Rockville, Maryland, United States, 20850
|Principal Investigator:
|Scot Remick
|AIDS Associated Malignancies Clinical Trials Consortium
|Responsible Party:
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00022555 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
U01CA070019 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
CDR0000068830 ( Registry Identifier: PDQ (Physician Data Query) )
|First Posted:
|January 27, 2003 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|January 25, 2013
|Last Verified:
|January 2013
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse
Lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Lymphoproliferative Disorders
Lymphatic Diseases
Immunoproliferative Disorders
Immune System Diseases
Lymphoma, B-Cell
Bryostatin 1
Antineoplastic Agents, Phytogenic
Antineoplastic Agents
Tubulin Modulators
Antimitotic Agents
Mitosis Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Adjuvants, Immunologic
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs


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Cantor says immigration views angered people in both partiesBy GREG GIROUX and JESSE HAMILTON
Bloomberg News
June 15. 2014 8:39PM
WASHINGTON — House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, who was ousted in a Republican primary last week in Virginia, defended his views on revising immigration laws while saying his position "can make a lot of people mad" in both political parties.
Cantor, who's stepping down as the second-ranking House Republican, said Sunday that he's always supported giving legal status to certain undocumented children while opposing a broader rewrite of immigration laws that the Democratic-led U.S. Senate passed last year.
"Did that infuriate folks on both sides? Sure," Cantor said on ABC's "This Week" program. "But it is the principled position. I think an incremental reform approach to immigration is what we need."
He said earlier on CNN's "State of the Union" program that he has been consistent in his views on immigration laws.
"I've always said that I am not for a comprehensive amnesty bill, but I've always said that I was for the kids who, through no fault of their own, find themselves here and know no other place as home," Cantor said.
Cantor will resign as House majority leader on July 31 after losing a June 10 primary to David Brat, a little-known college economics professor, in one of the biggest election upsets in U.S. history. Cantor, who's represented the Richmond-area 7th District since 2001, will serve the rest of his term, which ends in January.
Defeating Cantor, a seven-term House member, is the small-government Tea Party's biggest win since it grew out of U.S. responses to the 2008 financial crisis.
Brat criticized Cantor for voting to increase the federal borrowing limit and accused him of backing a rewrite of immigration laws that opponents call "amnesty."
Brat defeated Cantor by 11 percentage points in the primary, which drew more than 65,000 voters compared with 47,000 in the 2012 Republican primary. Cantor won 28,902 votes in the election, down 23 percent from 37,269 in 2012.
Cantor declined to speculate on why he lost.
"I really don't think that there is any one reason for the outcome of the election," Cantor said on CNN. "There are just a lot of things that go through voters' minds when they go through the voting booth."
Cantor said that he hasn't made any decisions about his future.
"I'm not ready to close out any options right now," Cantor said. "I just think that right now there's a lot of opportunity. I've been very gratified by the people who have already called and said, 'Hey, what are you doing.'"
Asked directly, Cantor said he did not want to lobby Congress.
"I don't think that I want to be a lobbyist, but I do want to play a role in the public debate," Cantor said on ABC.
Cantor is supporting Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of California, the third-ranking House Republican, to succeed him as majority leader. House Republicans plan a June 19 vote.
McCarthy is favored to win the No. 2 spot in Congress behind House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio.
McCarthy recruited Republican candidates and raised money for them during the 2010 campaign, when Republicans won a majority of House seats. McCarthy opposed the 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program that bailed out failing banks and automakers, as well as the economic-stimulus efforts a year later.
As whip, McCarthy has been responsible for organizing the caucus into support for the leadership's agenda — a frequently difficult task in a caucus beset by divisions that often pit the tea party movement against traditional Republican advocates of business.
Opposing McCarthy for majority leader is Idaho Republican Raul Labrador, who's aligned with the tea party movement and opposed Boehner's re-election as House speaker in 2013. Labrador has called for "new leadership, fresh ideas and a different approach."
"It's important that we resolve this issue in a fair amount of time," Boehner said last week.


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Obama Administration Urges Immediate Action on 'Inversions'
Jacob Lew Says Lawmakers Should Enact Legislation to Shut Down 'Abuse'
The Obama administration joined the growing debate over U.S. companies reincorporating overseas for tax purposes, urging lawmakers to pass legislation to limit the moves.
In a letter to leaders of the congressional tax-writing committees, Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew said lawmakers "should enact legislation immediately…to shut down this abuse of our tax system." The letter was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday night....


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When a man has to shift his cock and balls from time to time in order to avoid a ballwedgie.
When I sleep my cock and balls get moved around alot and sometimes I have to shift gears and pull my cock and balls out from between my legs.
by MJPDII August 06, 2003


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Green game-changers
50 innovations to inspire business transformation
We bring you 50 green game-changers that highlight innovative ways businesses and entrepreneurs have tackled the challenges of living in the resource limits of our one planet.
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Climate change and the growing pressure on our limited natural resources will mean businesses will need to innovate to survive and succeed. While there is a role for improvements in products, supply chains and operations, we encourage innovation that will lead to big changes. The ones that can transform the way businesses, markets and even whole societies operate.
For a start, new businesses are overturning the assumption that growth depends on producing more stuff. Businesses can cut their use of natural resources dramatically by harnessing the value of the things we already own.
Take peer-to-peer lending and leasing of goods and skills, facilitated by the likes of NeighborGoods and Zilok. Anyone can sign up online in a matter of minutes, and offer to share household goods or skills with colleagues, friends or neighbours. So now others might benefit from the power drill you use once a year, or the kite you never have time to fly!
Another innovation is around 'open loop,' where one business's waste becomes another's resource. The UK's National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP) pairs organisations that produce waste with ones that can put it to effective use. Trevor Knipe, one of the company's directors, calls it "speed-dating for wastes." The possibilities he sees range from turning expanded polystyrene packaging into insulation, to converting old mattresses into bedding for cows. The NISP methodology is already being replicated across the globe, from Hungary to China.
Some cutting edge players are looking even further. Not content with merely reducing their environmental footprint, they have ambitions to restore the natural resources they use. Take Ecuador, where the Fund for the Protection of Water (FONAG), a private mercantile trust, is collecting payments from downstream water consumers such as water utilities and farmers to pay for watershed management, conservation and access to water upstream. The scheme's success has sparked plans for ten other water funds in the region, as well as in Peru and Mexico.
We hope that these examples stimulate new thinking to transform business for good and drive the urgent transition we need to a greener economy.
Share your feedback and green innovations you have come across!
Take a look at the different green innovations and we welcome your feedback. Which one is your favourite? Have you come across a green innovation that you would like to share? We would love to hear from you and your ideas to help spread new thinking.


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Dramatic Move of Two Homes Fulfills Past Promise, Supports Master Plan
Two residential houses in the heart of the Baldwin Wallace University campus were relocated to a perimeter neighborhood over the weekend, fulfilling a decades-old promise that BW leaders made to the Berea community.
"This move makes good on a commitment by the College to invest in and strengthen the adjacent neighborhood, and it allows the College to move forward on Master Plan improvements to the center of campus," said George Richard, assistant vice president and director of College Relations. "Both the city of Berea and BW recognize that our future successes are tied together."
Dramatic Process Captures Attention
Friday, Oct. 7 into Saturday, Oct. 8, a contractor hired by BW moved two privately owned homes on the eastern end of Jacob Street to College-owned lots at the corner of Beech and Liberty streets. Portions of Beech and Jacob streets were closed during the process while curious neighbors, including students, lined the street with cameras in hand.
The journey of the two structures to their new lots on Beech Street also captured the attention of the news media, including local television stations and the Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
Home Relocation is Part of Campus Master Plan
The move is part of an initial investment in BW's 10-year Master Plan, which includes more green space in the center of campus and the current construction of a Welcome Center adjacent to the Strosacker Hall student union. Parking for the Welcome Center will be added to the area as well. Under the plan, a third Jacob Street home will be moved to Eastland Road at a later date.
In addition to their new residential addresses, the relocated homes will end up with improvements that will make them more comfortable and sound structures in the future.


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2014 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible Values
Select a 2014 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible trim level
2014 model year changes
One of the biggest changes for 2014 is the introduction of a new 1.8L turbocharged engine option. Capable of 170 horsepower, it's also more efficient than last year's 2.5L. Volkswagen now offers their Car-Net system on the Beetle. An in-car telematics system, Car-Net offers stolen vehicle location, collision notification and navigation enhancements.
Competitive comparison
Aggressive styling; practical and spacious interior; sporty turbo performance; plenty of in-cabin entertainment options; convertible available; fuel-efficient TDI diesel engine available
Special features for 2014
With a new, more aggressive design, more spacious interior, plus a trio of refined and efficient engine options, the 2014 Volkswagen offers a fresh alternative for buyers shopping around for a cool compact. With regards to features, performance and price, the Beetle holds its own against the likes of the MINI Cooper and FIAT 500, with a lower price than the MINI and more practical interior than the FIAT.
Now available with multi-link rear suspension and an R-Line trim level, the 2014 Volkswagen Beetle Convertible is a two-door subcompact with seating for four. The Beetle is available with three different gasoline engine options; a standard 2.5-liter 5-cylinder engine (170 hp), an optional turbocharged 2.0-liter 4-cylinder engine (210 hp), and an optional 4-cylinder TDI engine (140 hp) . Transmission options consist of a 5-speed manual, 6-speed manual, 6-speed automatic, and 6-speed DSG® automatic. Fuel mileage falls within an EPA estimated range of 21 mpg city to 31 mpg highway, depending on engine and transmission selection. Features include bi-xenon, 19-inch alloy heritage wheels, push-button start, sport steering wheel, ambient lighting, sport suspension, touchscreen navigation, premium audio, and hands-free phone capabilities. Safety is comprised of four airbags with integrated side curtain protection, anti-lock braking (ABS), intelligent crash response, and electronic stability control (ESC). The Beetle is backed by a 3-year/36,000-mile warranty.


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In November 2011, we published an article stating that Katie Price refused to take part in the TV show "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here Now" because her ex-husband, Peter Andre was also due to appear on the show, and that she is unable to control her behaviour around Peter.
We now accept that this story is untrue.
In fact, Katie was never due to appear on the show and we had been informed of this before we published the story but due to a misunderstanding the story was published.
We apologise to Katie and have agreed to pay her damages and a contribution to her legal costs in relation to the story.


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Norwalk escapes New Canaan with 2-point win
NEW CANAAN -- A chippy game between New Canaan and Norwalk -- including the ejection of an adult fan and the ejection of New Canaan junior Erik Jager -- went down to the wire as the Rams missed a last-second 3-point heave from hal court as the Bears escaped with a 49-47 road victory.
New Canaan should not have even had that chance. Norwalk's Nick Boccanfuso, who moments earlier had made the first of two free throws with 7.3 seconds left to give the Bears a two-point lead, tossed the ball toward the rafters after receiving a pass from Luke Sweeney. Sweeney had rebounded the miss of Boccanfuso's second free throw and Norwalk could have held the ball and waited to be fouled. Boccanfuso's gaffe was nearly costly, as New Canaan's Henry Lavieri came away with the loose ball. But his potential game-winning shot from midcourt hit the backboard and fell harmlessly to the floor.
Norwalk ran its record to 11-4, 9-4 in the FCIAC while New Canaan dropped to 5-8, 5-6.
"It's a big win on the road," Boccanfuso said.
Boccanfuso was at the center of many of the game's turning points, including the most controversial. With 5:14 left in the fourth quarter -- and Norwalk ahead 43-35 -- he and Jager got tangled on a loose ball. Jager appeared to jam his finger on the play, and when Boccanfuso didn't step clear of the injured player, Jager (10 points) threw a frustrated elbow and was subsequently ejected. Earlier a fan had been ejected for cursing at the officials.
"That game was out of control since the second quarter and (the referees) let it bubble till the fourth quarter, and that's why things escalated and that's why things happened," New Canaan coach Mike Evans said. "And it's unacceptable. They're supposed to control the game, control the personnel. I'm asking them the whole game. I'm telling them about feuds going on, I'm telling my guys to calm down. The referees let it escalate. Now that's no excuse for our lack of composure. It's no excuse for the fan's composure, but it could have been stopped earlier."
Jager's ejection seemed to spark the Rams, who trailed by eight points at the time but eventually drew to within a point.
"We created momentum for ourselves in an adverse situation," Evans said.
New Canaan led 11-9 after the first quarter, as Norwalk struggled early from the field against the Rams' zone defense.
"The shots weren't dropping, but we just kept going to the basket and just trying to get as many rebounds as possible," Boccanfuso said.
Norwalk was playing without 6-5 power forward Saeed Soulemane, who missed the game with a stomach virus. His absence definitely hampered the team's ball movement, Norwalk coach Tom Keyes said.
"He's a zone killer. Him and Roy (Kane Jr.) are peanut butter and jelly. They play with each other so well," Keyes said. "And you could see, I think Roy struggled a little tonight without Saeed. Saeed opens up so much for Roy. It's really important that Saeed gets healthy and gets back."
Kane, who averages nearly 20 points per game, managed only two field goals on the night and finished with 11 points. With Soulemane out, 6-6 senior Sean Butler logged important minutes for Norwalk. He scored four points and, more importantly played stout defense against Zach Allen (7 points).
"He's been a kid who's been itching to play a lot," Keyes said. "And because of illness he got a good opportunity tonight and he stepped up and played great defense on (Zack Allen)."
New Canaan led 17-11 after Jager hit a 3-pointer in the middle of the second quarter. But Norwalk then went on a 13-0 run, including five straight points from Boccanfuso (team-high 12 points). Norwalk led 24-19 at the half and pushed its lead to 8 points when guard Jeremy Linton (11 points) opened the scoring in the second half with a 3-pointer.
Norwalk seemed on the verge of pulling away, but New Canaan hung around, led by senior guard Andrew Read (team-high 18 points).
"We adjusted to how they were attacking our zone and I think that's why they couldn't finish us," Evans said.
Norwalk led 36-33 after three quarters. Read narrowed the gap to a point on the first scoring play of the fourth quarter when he took a beautiful back-door pass from Allen and scored on a layup. But Norwalk rattled off the next 7 points and led by 43-35 when Boccanfuso and Jager went at it.
Following Jager's ejection, Kane made one of two free throws on the penalty and pushed the lead to 9 points -- the largest margin of the game. But Read almost single-handedly kept New Canaan in the game, scoring 7 points down the stretch. It wasn't enough, though, as Kane and Boccanfuso combined to go 5-6 on free throws in the closing minutes.
Norwalk 49, New Canaan 47
Sean Butler 2 0-1 4 Roy Kane 2 7-8 11 Jabari Dear 3 2-2 9 Zaire Wilson 1 0-0 2 Nick Boccanfuso 4 3-4 12 Jeremy Linton 4 0-1 11 Luke Sweeney 0 0-0 0 Steven Enoch 0 0-0 0 Totals: 16 12-16 49.
Beau Santero 0 3-4 3 Alex Curto 1 0-0 2 Paul Hagopian 0 0-0 0 Andrew Read 5 6-6 18 Chris Dewaele 2 0-0 4 Matt Swift 0 0-0 0 Henry Lavieri 1 0-0 3 Erik Jager 4 0-0 10 Zack Allen 3 1-4 7. Totals: 16 10-14 47.
3-pointers: Nor -- Linton 3, Dear, Boccanfuso. NC -- Read 2, Jager 2, Lavieri.
Fouled out: None.


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Phi Theta Kappa wins Awards at Spring Conference
Phi Theta Kappa students across the region attended the annual Kentucky Region Spring Awards Conference March 21, 2014. Every year the conference awards five Kentucky Region Most Distinguished awards based on evaluations of each chapters activity according to the four hallmarks of leadership, scholarship, service, and fellowship.
This year, BCTC's very own Alpha Phi Kappa chapter took home three of the five Most Distinguished awards: Kentucky Region Most Distinguished Chapter, Kentucky Region Most Distinguished College Project, and Kentucky Region Most Distinguished Chapter Officer (Mark Simonds).
Past president Mark Simonds won the Bert T. Combs Awards, and Sue Slocum, a member who has been working with the chapters College Fish project, won a Kentucky Region Distinguished Chapter Member award.
Alpha Phi Kappa faculty advisor Lucinda Baker won two awards and another advisor, Greg Rickert, received an award for new advisors.
Overall, the Alpha Phi Kappa chapter won 3rd Place for their Honors in Action research project and fifteen students won KY Region Shining Star Awards, which are based on the four hallmarks of Phi Theta Kappa. Chapter members Renato Virto and Lisette Dalton were elected KY Regional Officers for the coming year.
The Alpha Phi Kappa chapter continues to grow, inducting a record-breaking 101 new members this spring. Their current projects include fundraising to attend the international conference in April, hosting a series of ongoing scholarship workshops for BCTC students, and continuing their work with the College Fish project. Since the fall, BCTC has been #1in the world at signing up students for College Fish, an online resource that helps prepare students for community college completion and transfer.


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US PS Plus Update includes Instant Collection for Vita
This week's PlayStation Plus update includes a bevy of new content for US subscribers, both for PlayStation 3 and – drumroll – Vita.
The Vita's debut week as part of PlayStation Plus kicks off in style with a couple of well-received titles added to Instant Collection, meaning subscribers can download them at no additional and keep them for as long as they remain members of PlayStation Plus.
The games available are Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Gravity Rush, WipEout 2048, Tales From Space: Mutant Blobs Attack, Jet Set Radio HD and Final Fantasy Tactics.
For PlayStation Plus members without a Vita, there's a number of PlayStation 3 offers. Dungeon Defenders has been added to the Instant Collection, along with the Sonic Bundle – collecting both original Genesis games.
Sega is also throwing a sale for Plus members, with the following discounts:
- Virtua Fighter 5 Final Showdown Complete Edition – $14.99
- Hell Yeah Bundle (Full game + 2 DLCs) – $10.49
NiGHTS into Dreams – $4.89
- Jet Set Radio – $4.89
- Sonic Adventure 2 – $4.89
- Sonic Adventure 1 & DLC Bundle – $3.99
- Sega Rally Arcade – $2.99
- Space Channel 5: Part 2 – $2.99
Finally, PS Move title Sorcery is on sale at $15.99, or 20% off.
In other Plus news, subscribers are also offered more than 80% off a one year subscription to Music Unlimited at just $12. The music streaming service works on PS3, Vita, Android, iPhone and iPod touch and PC. There are no ads or skip limits and you can choose individual songs and albums as well as playlists and channels.
Full details on the PlayStation Blog.


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posted by Eugenia Loli on Mon 23rd Oct 2006 10:44 UTC
This is a review of Slackware 11.0 where the author explains what is in store for the Linux users who choose to use this Linux distribution. The article writes: "When you hear the name Slackware, you are at once transported to a world where Linux users feel more at home in setting the configurations by editing ordinary text files. In fact the credo of Slackware is to keep it as simple as possible. In popular speak, it is known by the acronym KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)."