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The Associated Press, May 17, 2010
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Huffington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Yahoo News, Washington Examiner Online, San Francisco Examiner Online, Detroit News plus several other blogs and smaller outlets
by Carl Hartman
"Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story" (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 400 pages, $27.95), by Karen Connelly: A generous dollop of poetic chick lit combines surprisingly well with criticism of Burma's half-century of bloody dictatorship in Canadian Karen Connelly's "Burmese Lessons."
Her title page labels it "A True Love Story."
On her first stroll in the old Burmese capital, a wordless, smiling woman and little boy motion the author into a dark room in a narrow cement building.
The boy bows to a Buddha statue. Karen genuflects three times, recalling a year she spent with a Buddhist family in Thailand.
"I think I've happened upon the neighborhood shrine for children," she writes. "Soon there are a dozen kids clustered around me in the candlelight. As flowers surround the Buddha, I am encircled by thin brown limbs, open faces, an assortment of wide or cautious smiles.
"Thus I learn my destiny. I will never leave Rangoon. I will return to this street and find a house here and adopt children as beautiful as these ..."
She does leave Burma, but only after falling in love with the country — which she refuses to call Myanmar, the name given by the ruling generals. Her interest had been aroused by the fate of a female political prisoner, a writer like herself. She interviews several former prisoners.
"The most common form of torture in Burma's prisons is beating," she summarizes.
"Beatings with the fists, with boots, with sticks, with leather belts. Beatings standing up, beatings squatting down naked with hands clasped behind the head. ... Beatings until the kidney or the liver or the spleen or the intestine is irreparably damaged; beatings that cause permanent paralysis. Beatings with a black hood over the head. As though the victim in the interrogation cell, through her actions and her voice, has become her own executioner."
Shaken by the violence she sees at an anti-government demonstration, Karen returns to neighboring Thailand. Authorities there tolerate refugees and insurgents along the border fighting the Burmese generals' forces.
Karen falls heavily for Maung, handsome leader of an insurgent group.
She is hardly fazed by credible stories of his continued connections with Burmese women and his alleged ordering of executions without trial of suspected traitors among rival dissidents. He wants to marry her and have children, but she breaks off after an inner struggle — a little miffed at his reticence about his work.
"To keep my own future safe for my work as a writer," she says, "I had to leave both Maung and the border ... What was I but a writer? ... To endanger the work endangers the self."
Maung has since married a Burmese woman. Karen has married Robert Chang, a Toronto architect.
"We share an abiding and equal respect for each other's work," she wrote recently, "and allow each other all the space we need to accomplish it while also taking care of our little boy, who is three. (We just have one, so far.)"


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Colourful and convivial, the markets are to be visited in the morning, when the bustle is at its liveliest. You see the Mauritian men and women come to buy the ingredients they need for the preparation of currys or "mine frits", two traditional dishes of the island. In Port-Louis, the market is a stone's throw away from Caudan seafront. Full of variety, it has a food section, a section for cloths and one for souvenirs. People with a sensitive stomach should avoid the meat and fish stalls as the smell is quite strong. However, the fruit and vegetable stands are a delight for the eyes. There is even, in one corner of the market, a traditional herbalist's stand which displays all kinds of herbal teas meant to cure you from various aches and ailments.
Port-Louis has one of the largest markets on the islands, where you can buy anything from old season branded clothing to fruit and vegetables.© Bamba Sourang / OT Ile Maurice
In the centre of the island, another extremely popular market is found in Quatre Bornes. It takes place every Thursday and Sunday. This is the best place to buy clothes.© Bamba Sourang / OT Ile Maurice
This market is aimed at tourists and haggling here is a little more difficult than at local markets. The souvenirs tend to be of better quality here though.© Bamba Sourang / OT Ile Maurice
Next to the Mahébourg Museum, this is one of the more recent of markets.© Bamba Sourang / OT Ile Maurice
Haggling is a widely-used practice here, even by local standards.© Patrice Hauser

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Rice Institute Owls track team runner Claude Bracey
Black and white copy of article on Claude Bracey's (class of 1930) induction into the Rice Athletic Hall of Fame. Photograph is of Bracey in Rice Owls track uniform in action. Text describes his career in track and field. He was Rice Institute's first athlete to go to the Olympics. Caption reads: CLAUDE BRACEY (class of 1930) was Rice's first world record holder, first Olympian and first national intercollegiate champion. He tied Charles Paddock's long-time record of 9.6 for the 100 years, then flashed the first 9.5 ever. He won both the 100 and 220 to help Rice win the 1928 Southwest Conference championship, then duplicated these win in the national intercollegiates. He wound up winning a 1928 Olympic team berth at the national A.A.U. meet. Claude Bracey came to Rice after state championships for Humble High School. He died in 1938 in New Mexico.
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As the calendars get ready to flip to 2013, another chapter in the relatively short history of ETFs will be written. Next year will mark the official 20th birthday for ETFs, as SPY will enter its third decade as a publicly traded security.
It's remarkable to see just how much the ETF industry has changed over the past five years; it wasn't that long ago that the very survival of ETFs was seriously debated and many investors were skeptical that these securities would ever catch on. Below, we highlight some of the differences between the end of 2007 and now:
Assets & Size
There are now more than 1,400 ETFs, more than double the number that were trading at the end of 2007. Back in 2007 there were fewer than 300 ETFs with at least $100 million in assets; now, there are more than 500 that have crossed that threshold.
Newcomers: Issuers
Many of the issuers who are now major players in the ETF industry had yet to launch their first product at the end of 2007. Direxion, Schwab, and PIMCO, among many others, were on the outside looking in. Issuers who weren't around in 2007 now have more than $20 billion in aggregate assets.
Among those who have sprung up since 2007 are:
Newcomers: ETFs
While the largest ETFs are generally those that have been around since the early days of the ETF industry, several relative newcomers have gained significant traction with investors. The biggest ETFs that weren't around five years ago include:Ticker ETF AUM ($B) Launch VOO Vanguard S&P 500 ETF $6.2 September 2010 AMJ Alerian MLP Index ETN $4.8 April 2009 VCSH Short Term Corporate Bond ETF $4.7 November 2009 AMLP Alerian MLP ETF $4.4 August 2010 BOND Total Return ETF $3.9 March 2012 VCIT Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF $3.3 November 2009 SPLV S&P 500 Low Volatilty Portfolio $3.1 May 2011
Come And Gon
Of course, the last five years haven't been kind to everyone who's been involved in the ETF industry. A number of issuers have come and gone, flaming out as their products failed to find an audience and the reality of a business built on low expense ratios proved too challenging.
Among the issuers that made a run at ETFs but ultimately pulled out are:
- Javelin
- Russell
- FaithShares
- FocusShares
- MacroShares
Commission Free Trading
Back in 2007 the idea of commission free trading of ETFs was non-existent-investors were still forking over brokerage fees left and right. Thanks to a trend started by Schwab, there are now more than 200 ETFs eligible for commission free trading on one of the various platforms that has utilized this strategy to lure ETF-friendly investors. Those programs that feature commission free ETFs include:
- Schwab
- Vanguard
- Fidelity
- TD Ameritrade (more than 100 commission free ETFs)
- Interactive Brokers
- Firstrade
5 Largest ETFs
At the end of 2007, the S&P 500 SPDR (SPY) was knocking on the door of $100 billion in assets. SPY remains the largest ETF today (it's topped the $100 billion mark), but there's been some shuffling among the other funds at the top of the ETF leaderboard:2007 2012 Ticker ETF AUM Ticker ETF AUM SPY S&P 500 SPDR $99,438 SPY S&P 500 SPDR $114,208 EFA iShares MSCI EAFE $51,895 GLD Gold SPDR $74,559 EEM iShares MSCI Emerging Markets $28,854 VWO Vanguard Emerging Markets $58,692 QQQ PowerShares QQQ $21,764 EEM iShares MSCI Emerging Markets $44,190 GLD Gold SPDR $16,881 EFA iShares MSCI EAFE $38,286
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I'm at Starbucks adding reading dates to my Anne Taintor 2010 calendar. It's full of images of '50s women, mostly housewives, with snide little captions accompanying each image (the one pictured is not in the calendar, but that's something I would say ... or do!).
Love my iPhone, but I need to use a physical calendar to see what's coming. I fear over scheduling myself, or worse, missing a date!
The kids are with their dad, and the house is a little too quiet, so I'm here where the espresso machines and steady flow of customers becomes my background noise.
Had one of those "Sweet Sassy Molassey" days (name that reference) today. Best piece of advice I got from a friend: Be Brilliant and Bulletproof. That's almost as good as Keep Calm and Carry On.
Dana Guthrie Martin has a terrific reading challenge for 2010. Read one poetry collection a month—that's it. Each month has a theme. For January: Read a poetry collection published the year you were born. Nice.
Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz are looking for submissions for A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry. Seeking poems that work within the literary tradition of persona poetry: poems written as dramatic monologues, whose speakers employ masks, or whose character and voice are different from the poet's own.


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Install VobSub, its a directshow filter for subtitles, will automatically play subs in most media players. I believe it is part of the k-lite codec pack.
After installing VobSub, make sure the sub files are the same name as the movie and in the same directory. Just play the movie in windows media player and the subs will show automatically.
Adding subtitles to any .avi file
Here is a quick and simple guide to add subtitles to any .avi file that you would like to have harcoded subtitles.Introduction and Requirements Here are the tools you will need to succesfully complete this guide:
SRT-SSA Converter
VirtualDub Subtitler Plug-in
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Getting Started
How to Add Subtitles to AVI Video – A Tutorial
February 27th, 2008 by akishore
Recently, I downloaded a video off the Internet that was in Hindi and needed to add English subtitles to the video so that I could share it with some friends. I checked out Windows Movie Maker, which is installed by default in Windows XP SP2 and has the ability to overlay text on video, but the feature set was very poor and it was nearly impossible to control where the subtitles showed up, for how long, and in what kind of format.
Another problem with Windows Movie Maker is that you can't create subtitles that show up as an option in DVD players, it's either there or not. After doing some research, I found that the best way to add subtitles to a video semi-professionally is to use a combination of programs, one that specializes in creating high-quality subtitles that match your video exactly and another program that takes a subtitle file and a video and combine them together.
So here's a guide that will teach you how to add subtitles to videos for free and hopefully not make you completely frustrated! As a prerequisite, you should have some basic technical knowledge of computers and software.
To get started, you first need to download and install several applications. It may seem like a lot of applications, but anywhere tutorial you search for adding subtitles to videos will include most of these apps. Luckily, there is one program that combines many of the separate apps into one, thus making it a lot simpler to use.
Download and unzip Subtitle Workshop
Download and installed Auto Gordian Knot
When you install Auto Gordian Knot, you'll notice it brings up several install wizards, each corresponding to a separate application. Just keep installing! Don't worry, the apps are not very large and do not load when you computer starts or anything like that.
Subtitle Workshop only needs to be unzipped to run, there is no install. Just double click on the SubtiteWorkshop4 icon. This is the first application we will start with. Subtitle Workshop will allow us to add as many subtitles as we want into our video and save that file out as a separate file (our video will remain unaltered at this point).
After you open Subtitle Workshop, click on File and choose New Subtitle.
Then go to the Video menu option and choose Open. Choose your video and click Ok and you video will appear in the top section and start playing. Go ahead and move the slide bar to the location where you want your first subtitle to appear and then click on the No. 1 subtitle in the center box.
To add your subtitle, begin typing your text into the text box at the bottom. You should see it appear on the video as you type. Now when you add subtitles, you'll see that there is a Show and Hide section visible in the above screenshot. You have to type in the exact times that you want the subtitles to appear, it does not just pick it up from the location that you are in the video.
In order to get the current frame that you are in while playing the video, look at the right side of the screen below the video. You'll see those numbers just like they are in the Show/Hide boxes. Just take the value from the top one and add that into the Show box. For example, I want my first subtitle to come up 5 seconds into the video and last 5 seconds.
So I can either type in 00:00:05:000 into the Show box or I can get down to a very specific frame by typing moving the slide bar to the exact location (or pausing at the exact time) and then copying the value shown at the top right into my box. Then simply adjust the Duration value to however long you want the subtitles to remain on the screen! It is defaulted to one, so just change it to 5 or whatever.
Once you have put all of your subtitles in, go ahead and click on File and then Save. In the Save as type box, scroll down to SubRip (.srt) and save the file in that format.
Now close out Subtitle Workshop and open up Auto Gordian Knot. For the Input File, browse and select your video. Next, press CNTRL + F8 and you'll see a new option appear called External Subs. Go ahead and browse and select the SRT file we just saved out.
Now choose Target quality for Output size and choose a quality that suits you. I left it at 75 percent. Next click on Advanced Settings and choose XviD or DivX for the codec. If the process does not work for one, use the other codec and try again.
Now click Add Job and then click Start to get your subtitles added on to your video!
The Log window on the left will detail out all of the processing that is going on with your file. It will also auto-load all of those other applications that it needs in order to burn your subtitles onto the video file. When you do this for the first time, you need to watch out for some license agreement that pops up and accept it otherwise it seems like the program is just stuck, when it's really not! The program is very fast and you'll see the Job Finished message when it's complete.
And that's it! As if that was very easy! Hopefully, with a little bit of playing around, you were able to get it to work. If not, start up a thread on this post and I'll answer any comments I can! Enjoy your new subtitled video!


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If you are sitting for the majority of your day, whether at work or school or whatever you are doing, it is more likely that you will have back pain, weak hamstrings, and tight hips.
So, what we would recommend is: Stand up for 5 minutes out of every hour! Even better, if you can walk around for 5 minutes, that is a GREAT option! Even better than that, if you can get in a short bodyweight circuit doing some squats, some lunges, or mini bands and try to start activating those glutes! This will really help your glutes grow by keeping the muscles activated!
This is why we like HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) workouts. This is because they are short and fast and they focus on fat burn without losing that hard-earned muscle! If you are doing a lot of long and slow cardio, you are going to be burning fat. But, you will also be burning away at your hard-earned muscle.
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It is very important to warm up your muscles for the big exercises and to establish your mind/body connection so that you know you are really focusing on your glutes!
So, what we recommend is: Doing some simple glute-activating exercises to warm up will really help to get you ready for your workout while also helping to prevent injury!
Squats are great you should keep doing them or add them in if you are not already doing them! But, also choosing some exercises that are more glute specific will really help to grow your booty!
So, what we recommend is: Add in some exercises like: hip thrusts, bulgarian split squats, and sumo deadlifts. These exercises will really target your glutes and help them grow! Also, don't be afraid to go heavy!
If you are under eating, you just simply will not build muscle. So, you need to make sure that if you are trying to build muscle, you are eating a lot of food!
So, what we recommend is: After your glute workout, we recommend concentrating on eating a combination of protein and carbs. For example, a protein shake with fruit is a great option or a burrito bowl can both be great options! Both of these can help fuel your muscles and help them grow!
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Music by John Kander
Lyrics by Fred Ebb
Choreographed by Connor Gallagher
Directed by Catherine Doherty and Connor Gallagher
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Northern Stage's Chicago is about as spectacular a musical one is likely to see in Vermont. But the production…enjoys a quality seldom seen in musicals anywhere: imagination. The action is bawdy and fast paced; the setting is spectacularly colorful; and the music and dancing are effervescent. Gallagher's choreography, only loosely based on the Fosse original, was fresh, energetic, and irresistible. With Northern Stage's intimacy, it's hard to imagine the Broadway production being this much fun.
Northern Stage's current production of Chicago blends the elements together triumphantly to create a genuine razzle-dazzle evening of spectacle and class. The choreography is electric.
An exciting, dazzling, super-charged version of Chicago is Northern Stage's final production of the 2012 season. The cast has been reduced to just ten actors, and the result is a fast-paced, intense show that flashes by like summer lightning, leaving vivid after images.


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Seattleites can now enjoy FROST doughnuts at the Herkimer Café in the Amazon "Apollo" building in South Lake Union!
Amazon employees can access the café from within the building, and anyone can get our doughnuts at the walk-up window on 9th Ave N.
FROST at Herkimer Café
325 9th Avenue N
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The Burlington Writers Workshop offers a public writing studio at 110 Main Street (Suite 3C) in the heart of downtown Burlington and less than a block from City Hall Park. We strive to provide the community with a quiet space for literary gatherings of all kinds.
Once you enter through the main entrance of the building (shown left), turn right at the lobby to locate the elevator. Take the elevator to the third floor. When you step out of the elevator, follow the hallway around to the right. Our space is located on the third floor (Studio 3C). Get directions and parking information.
We welcome you to drop by the space to get some quiet writing or reading time in.
The Rules of the Space
- Please don't disturb workshops. Come back some other time. (Want to know when we're holding workshops? Read this.)
- No alcohol.
- Clean up after yourself. We (usually) have free refreshments (coffee, soda, water, etc.) but we don't have time to clean up after you.
Hours of Operation
If you can drop in, fantastic! But if you're making a special trip to see us, you should contact us to make sure someone is there to meet you.
Monday – Thursday
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How dreaded is the disease Cancer
In 2015, about 90 million people had Cancer and 8.80 million deaths occurred due to this dreaded disease which is also the second leading cause of death globally. According to World Health Organization (WHO) nearly 10 Lakh new cases are reported every year in India. Unfortunately, nearly 5 Lakh people annually die in India due to cancer and this number will go up and projected to raise five folds by 2025, according to WHO.
During 2016, estimated 1.5 lakh new breast cancer cases have been registered (over 10 per cent of all cancers) in India. Breast Cancer is the number one Cancer followed by lungCancer with estimated 1.14 lakhs cases, according to a premier medical research organisation in India.Cervix is the third most common cancer in India with estimated 1 lakh new cases reported in 2016 according to The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).
The alarming statistics above can make any one depressed and anxious but the fact is that Cancer is now a common disease globally and different types of cancer are being diagnosed every day.
What is the treatment cost of Cancer?
The treatment of Cancer is spiralling with discovery of new drugs and technology. As you may know, in India, the cost is so high that it may wipe out the entire savings of the family and thus ruin the financial future of the family.
However, there is a way by which you can protect this – the answer is Cancer Protection Plan offered by life insurance companies. But before we discuss that, let us see some example of the tentative costs involved (it may vary from one institute to the other) in treatment of Cancer –
- Breast cancer surgery can cost Rs 250,000 – 450,000
- Chemotherapy – The cost depends on the drug applied and the number of sessions. Approximate cost can vary between 30,000 – 100,000 for each session
- Radiation – This therapy can cost Rs 150,000 – 200,000 per cycle
- A PET-CT Scan can alone cost Rs 25,000 – 40,000
- Targeted therapies – These can cost approx. Rs 18-20 lakhs for 5-8 sessions
- Radiation – This therapy can cost Rs 125,000 – 150,000 per cycle
How to protect oneself from Cancer
If you have a regular health insurance plan or mediclaim insurance, it pays for the hospitalization cost upto the extent of the sum assured taken. Also, if you have taken a critical illness rider, the life insurance company pays the rider amount immediately on diagnosis of the disease without submission of any bill.
However, as you have seen, the cost of Cancer treatment is so high that, a regular health plan may not be enough to recover the entire treatment cost. Likewise, the coverage in a critical illness rider policy is limited and if you add that too, still it may not be sufficient to recover the entire treatment cost involved for the prolonged period.
The answer lies in taking a cover exclusive to Cancer – The Cancer Protection Plan.
How the cancer Protection Plan works
Cancer Protection Plan is normally offered between age 18 to 65 years and it can be taken for 10, 15 or 20 years or 80 year minus age at entry. Sum assured taken can be from 10 Lakhs to maximum 40 Lakhs.
Cancer Protection Plan may come in many variant. For example – Lump sum cover and Lump sum cover with income benefit. In 'Lump Sum Cover' the fixed payout is made on diagnosis of cancer and in 'Lump Sum Cover with Income Benefit', one can receive a fixed percentage of the Cancer cover amount monthly for few years,over and above getting the lump sum amount on diagnosis of Cancer.
The other benefits of Cancer Protection Plan are that premium for these plans are generally low and in most cases medical examination is not required.
Our country continues to be one of the most under-penetrated in the world, as far as taking health protection plans are concerned. Not even 1% of the total population is insured for health coverage even though there has been a growing awareness for health insurance products. Since Cancer treatment is long term in nature, it also translates into a recurring expenditure and loss of pay due to a prolong absence from work. This is the reason why one must have a Cancer Protection Plan exclusively over and above the regular health plan and the mediclaim insurance plan.
Even though Cancer is dreaded and the treatment can be prolonged, a Cancer Protection Plan can help not only fight with Cancer but also helps protecting your life's savings.


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Presseurop on Klaus's state visit to Russia last week. He also promised his pay masters that he will never sign the Lisbon Treaty on the visit.
Time to impeach the old traitor to his Prague Spring buddies. http://prague.tv/city-beat/?p=898
…Mr. Klaus, while a 21-year-old student at the University of Economics, Prague, in 1962, was recruited by Czech counterintelligence officers and put to work as a spy against democratic reformers with whom he studied and later worked. For five decades he has concealed a murky past of betrayal and deception.
Codenamed "Vodichka," Mr. Klaus is said to have been "an avid and willing informant" who reported on the political reliability of his classmates — two of whom were expelled because of the information he provided.
For his cooperation, Mr. Klaus was allowed to travel abroad on research projects –first to Italy in 1966, and three years later to Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
Mr. Klaus is understood to have reported to Czech intelligence officers on the activities of Czech opposition groups within the United States during the aftermath of the "Prague Spring" rebellion.In 1970 Mr. Klaus starred in "Operation Rattrap," staged by Czech counterintelligence with the assistance of Soviet KGB advisers. Mr. Klaus was publicly named as an "anti-socialist malcontent" and "purged" from the Economic Institute. Its purpose was to pose Mr. Klaus as a "victim" of the regime so he could continue to penetrate dissident circles as a deep-cover mole.
Václav Klaus, from Russia with love
He describes himself as "a European dissident" and the Russian media has welcomed him with open arms. On a state visit this week, the Czech President showed that he is keen to develop economic and personal ties with Moscow — a policy which Hospodářské Noviny remarks is not without its disadvantages.
Václav Klaus' state visit to Russia comes just a few days after he provoked an outcry in Europe by imposing yet another obstacle to his signing of the Lisbon Treaty. In Moscow he told his hosts that he was "seriously concerned by the plan to reinforce European integration."
Klaus is one Czech politician who is not afraid of adopting a strongly pro-Russian stance, unlike Mirek Topolánek's government, which backed a policy of stronger links with the United States until it collapsed in April.
On the occasion of a visit to the United States in September, Klaus declared that Moscow was much less of a threat to the Czech Republic than an over-regulated European Union. In a recent interview with [the neo-conservative American daily] the Washington Times, he averred that "the political system and freedom in Russia is now the highest and the best in the history of Russia in the last two millennia."
Russian media idol
When he was prime minister from 1992 to 1997, Václav Klaus generally adopted a pro-western line. It was only after he left the government that he began to explicitly criticize European integration and the United States. This change of course was later confirmed when he expressed his reservations about NATO's bombardment of Yugoslavia in 1999.
It was also during this period that the Russian media first took an interest in him. Today, many Russian journalists actively promote Klaus to the extent that he now occupies much more space in the Russian media than all of the other Eastern European leaders. His statements on "the gratuitous Russophobia" of the Western elites are especially popular with pro-Kremlin journalists, and also with the renowned Russian political analyst Mikhaïl Delyagin, who in a recent article on the Lisbon crisis presented an alleged quote from Klaus, which states that accession to the European Union has resulted in considerable financial losses for the Czech Republic.
"In many respects, Václav Klaus is something of a dinosaur from the period when a bi-polar division prevailed in world politics. Having attempted and failed to carve a pro-western niche for himself — a political role that was occupied by Václav Havel — it was only logical that he should turn towards Russia," remarks political scientist Michael Romancov, a professor at the Metropolitan University of Prague.
Notwithstanding his popularity in the Russian media, the leadership in the Kremlin has no scruples about dispelling any illusions that he may have about his status in international politics. On a previous visit to Russia, Klaus attempted to reassure Vladimir Putin that the American antimissile radar would not be directed towards Russia — an assertion, which amused the Russian Prime Minister, and to which he laughingly replied, "But in any case, you wouldn't have any influence over that." The Czech President was visibly stung by the exchange.
Increasingly rare visits to the West
Medvedev is without a doubt the most important head of state to invite Klaus since he was re-elected. However, he has only rarely been received by his western counterparts on state visits. "In part this is due to the fact that he was so hyperactive after his first election, when he visited a large number of countries, which means that he now has to wait a few years before he is invited again.
However, there is also a more obvious reason: heads of state do not want to invite him now because of his position on European integration," says the Chairman of the Christian democrats and a former Minister for Foreign Affairs, Cyril Svoboda. Ireland is one of the few western countries to have welcomed Klaus on an official visit since his re-election. But even there he managed to fall out with the government by publicly voicing his support for Declan Ganley's anti-Lisbon Libertas movement.
Relations between Klaus and his French opposite number, Nicolas Sarkozy, are particularly fraught, with both heads of state launching regular attacks on each other via the media. Lost recently in December of 2008, Klaus indirectly accused Sarkozy of damaging the European Union. Last year, he traveled to France twice but he did not meet with any political leaders in the course of his visits.
Of oil and nuclear energy
During his visit to Moscow, Václav Klaus "encouraged Russian companies to participate in calls for tender for new units to be added to the Temelín nuclear power station," notes Hospodářské Noviny. According to the Prague business daily, Russian companies voiced their interest in the Czech energy sector at the meeting of the Russian-Czech commission, held in Prague in September, which was attended by Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov and representatives of Loukoil, Russia's biggest private oil company. The Hospodářské Noviny report is quick to point out that Loukil "was the Russian sponsor of Blue Planet in Green Shackles," Klaus's book in which he dismisses concerns about global warming.


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George Takei steps in to put internment art in right place
Two years ago, a Holocaust victim's suitcase was put up for auction on eBay. For sale with it were a striped prisoner uniform from Auschwitz, a concentration camp toothbrush and other personal items from that atrocity.
The seller, a rare coin collector, claimed that he was serving history, and that the uniform alone was worth $18,000. When the story broke in a British newspaper, Holocaust survivors and their horrified families rose up in outrage, eBay issued an apology and the disturbing items were yanked.
The sale wasn't illegal. The auction site just believed, correctly, that profiting from oppression is morally abhorrent. Too bad that the same wisdom failed to automatically grace the seller of a collection of handicrafts and photos taken from the Japanese American internment camps during World War II.
The heartbreaking cache – ID cards and portraits, cigarette cases made from onion sack string and hand-carved name plates from internment camp barracks – was put on the block this week by an auction house in New Jersey before being withdrawn in the face of protracted backlash. The seller had inherited it from the daughter of a deceased folk art collector and amateur art historian.
As The Bee's Stephen Magagnini reported Tuesday, the auction had prompted Japanese Americans in Sacramento to launch a national campaign to persuade the seller to donate the items to a museum. But the auction house balked, saying that the seller was "not in a position" to do that, and was offended by the pressure on social media.
Talk about nerve. After Pearl Harbor, 120,000 Japanese Americans were dragged from their homes and incarcerated behind barbed wire for no reason other than wartime paranoia. That's offensive. Law-abiding citizens lost their homes, their businesses and, in some cases, their lives, and when the war ended and they were released, many felt so humiliated and betrayed that they couldn't speak of the period for decades.
It was insult upon injury when their photographs showed up online, on sale to the highest bidder, along with the tidbits of art some made while their lives were passing them by in the middle of nowhere. Imagine clicking on an online auction site and finding a 70-year-old, black-and-white photo of your imprisoned mother, as did retired Sacramento civil rights lawyer Yoshinori Himel. Now imagine hearing that the seller was "not in a position" to do the right thing.
The opponents to this auction were right: It was outrageous. Unfortunately, however, it was also legal. And if history teaches us anything, it's that, under the right circumstances, people who want what they want will push the law to its very limits and beyond.
So it was a relief when, late Wednesday, the auction house announced that the actor George Takei had stepped in as an intermediary, and that the internment camp lots would be pulled, apparently pending a search for an appropriate buyer.
The interpretive center at Wyoming's Heart Mountain Relocation Center, where thousands of Japanese Americans from California were held, has expressed interest, and the philanthropy of Takei, famed for his work on "Star Trek," where he played Sulu, can be counted upon.
Others should step up, too. Artifacts like these should be displayed in their historical context, and for too long, this chapter in our history has been underreported. And yes, it is too bad that the seller doesn't appear to be entirely altruistic in his or her decision to compromise.
The relics of human suffering shouldn't be held for ransom. But history is brutal. Getting the whole story out there – including this repellent coda – is the best revenge.


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You know what drives me insane? "Under 30" lists. "Young movers and shakers" awards. "Rub It In Your Face That These People Got Their Acts Together Faster Than You" roll calls. Under 30 lists are everywhere. Forbes has one, Inc. has one, GQ has one. Even hot seller Realtor magazine has one. And how many people are on each list? You guessed it: 30. The lack of originality astounds.
These lists make it seem like doing things younger means doing them better. Like there's no point in trying when you pass the ripe ol' 30 mark. Like we might as well throw our diplomas in the shredder and join Dancing With the Losers if we're not markedly successful one-third of the way into our lifetimes.
Every time I convince a student that they don't have to conquer the world by 25 (or 30, or even - gasp - 35) - hell, every time I convince myself that I don't have to - one of these damn lists comes out and messes with our heads.
Why else would 86% of twentysomethings say they feel the need to be successful before age 30? It's the ridiculous lists. And, I suppose, the youth-obsessed culture that eagerly produces and consumes them. But that's not as much fun to blame.
For my sanity and yours, let's get some things straight:
The People on "Young and Successful" Lists are Freaks
The 20somethings lionized on "wow, look at 'em doing so much so young!" lists are on there precisely because they're non-normative. If they were like average people - or even like typical above-average people - the lists would be bloated and pointless.
These people are the 0.001% of the population who have managed to do something remarkable early in life. Trying to be like them is like trying to look like Gisele Bundchen or Tom Brady (or, most likely, their offspring...can we say genetics?).
We've accepted that we can't all be gorgeous, or pro athletes, or live a life of luxury. Yet we somehow feel that we all should be making our mark by 25 or 30. How unrealistic is that?
"Earlier" Doesn't Mean "Better"
Malcolm Gladwell did a pretty convincing job of striking down the "earlier = better" notion in his article Late Bloomers and book Outliers.
"Genius, in the popular conception, is inextricably tied up with precocity—doing something truly creative, we're inclined to think, requires the freshness and exuberance and energy of youth." - Malcolm Gladwell
He goes on to assert that someone can be a prodigy - an individual who demonstrates remarkable abilities at a young age - and yet do little with those abilities in the long run. Prodigies simply develop earlier than their peers, that's what makes them stand out. Once their peers catch up, many prodigies blend into the background.
So those people on the "I'm Young and Awesome" Lists? They better watch out because we're coming for 'em.
Age of Success Varies by Field
Another reason Under 30 lists are ridiculous is because what's remarkable in one field is ho-hum in another.
Physicists, poets and chess masters tend to create their best work early in life. I think I'm safe in saying that most of us are not those things. That means that the fields we're in have mid-life or later peaks. In fact, the more "ambiguous and unclear" the field's concepts are, Max Fisher writes in The Atlantic Wire, the later important work is produced.
So figure out what's the norm for your field, not what's the remarkable exception for some other field (which is what's usually portrayed on the youth-centric lists). To focus on the latter is to pile meaninglessness on top of meaninglessness.
Time Pressure Paralyzes
Here's the true bottomline to the entire "young is amazing!" issue: the more time pressure a person perceives, the worse their performance is. In other words, our obsession with succeeding young may be the very thing standing in the way of our success.
Granted, time pressure findings are usually found in laboratory psychology studies in which there's short-term pressure on a concrete task. But I'd argue that these findings are applicable to long-term time pressure, too. As one researcher on the topic, Michael DeDonno, said, "If you feel you don't have enough time to do something, it's going to affect you."
Notably, it's our perception of not having enough time - not the actual amount of time we have - that makes us perform poorly. To combat this, DeDonno told Science Daily, "Keep your emotions in check. Have confidence in the amount of time you do have to do things. Try to focus on the task and not the time. We don't control time, but we can control our perception. It's amazing what you can do with a limited amount of time."
Stop aiming to be a success by 30 and you just might become one. Or, at the very least, you'll be freed from a life spent obsessively tracking birthdays, leaving you mental space to instead focus on your life's work itself. But, hey, what do I know? I already went over the youth hill. Which is a relief. Life's much better over here on the "I'll Never Make a 30 Under 30 List" List.
A little bitter, perhaps. But better.
Simonton, D.K. (1988). Age and outstanding achievement: What do we know after a century of research? Psychological Bulletin, 104, 251–267.
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In the west, the family is disintegrating. Though it was once the center of the human experience, the family seems more like a relic of the past or a rumor of what used to be. The idyllic dream of raising a family seems crushed beneath the weight of what this world has to offer. Racial tension, corrupt governments, growing corporations, imminent warfare, waning resources, expanding expectations in an over-stimulated, over-sexualized culture; perhaps many of us feel like raising a family is impossible. Raising our families in the way of the gospel is not only possible, but it is commanded. This is not just another task to do in our already crushing and over-committed lifestyles. This is one of the highest callings and most profound invitations ever given.
Story Catechism was written from this starting place. Story, the recounting of a sequence of events, has been a formative way of understanding and learning throughout history. Story has a way of revealing to the human soul something deeper than information, something more than knowledge. Story has a way of creating a bridge between the soul and the mind. Story has a way of creating passage between the turbulent waters and the place of refuge, passage between the brokenness of the human experience and the fullness of being human. Story creates sanctuary. Like an anchor, story embeds truth that captures us deeply.


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New Delhi: Mobile Standards Alliance of India (MSAI) and the Nirbhaya Jyoti Trust launched a mobile app aimed at ensuring personal safety during times of distress.
The app - called I Feel Safe Safety Ka Power Button - has a virtual panic button which users can simply press to activate the alarm. It can be used even when the screen is locked, the SIM card is removed, no Wi-Fi networks are available, and the absence of a data plan. The app works across the country on all mobile networks and sends real-time updates about the location of the user.
"Women can avail 24X7 service and it can be used by senior citizens or anyone who senses a threat to his or her personal safety. There is also no charge for using the I Feel Safe mobile app," Bhawna Kumari, Business head of MSAI said.
The app launch comes in the wake of the government's efforts to create a safe environment for the women in the country since the 2012 Delhi gang rape. The government has since mandated putting a panic button in every phone from January 2017 onwards.
The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) had asked all handset makers to develop and install software patches that enable panic buttons in all phones, and that distress calls will get connected to the emergency number 112, while testing of the service can begin by connecting the backend.
The department said that a distress call can be activated by pressing three times the existing power on/off button for 300 milliseconds or less than 500 milliseconds.
Some app makers are actively discussing integrating their services designed to ensure women's safety, into handsets and some brands are already making this facility available on some models.


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What does a superhero look like? Do they have to wear a uniform and a cape? Panarama Design said "no" in designing this direct mail fundraiser. Instead 4 actual Excelsior students were spotlighted by a dramatic superhero stance demonstrating that Excelsior graduates undertake heroic efforts to earn their degrees. Panarama Design also designed the Everyday Hero logo used throughout the campaign.
Panarama Design has always been my go-to agency when I need something creative, thoughtful, and affordable. Lauri's keen insights have added value on every project we have undertaken together. Most importantly, her work has had the desired impact. Whether it is increasing event registrants, growing contributions, or deepening a brand platform, Lauri has always been a good partner. "
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Smithey will continue to serve on the Trans-Texas Corridor "Advisory Committee"
Dallas County: Member's election loss means he's no longer eligible
May 26, 2006
By HERB BOOTH
The Dallas Morning News
Copyright 2006
The mayors of a few southwest Dallas County cities are meeting this morning to decide who should replace Grady Smithey on the powerful Regional Transportation Council after his narrow defeat in the Duncanville City Council race.
The transportation council is a conduit for state and federal highway funding for government entities in 16 North Texas counties.
Mr. Smithey – who had served on the RTC for more than a decade – lost to Deborah Hodge by three votes in the May 13 District 4 contest. RTC bylaws say that the person who represents the cities in southwest Dallas County – Cedar Hill, DeSoto, Duncanville, Lancaster and Glenn Heights – must be an elected official.
Lancaster council member Carol Strain-Burk and Duncanville council member Dorothy Burton have expressed interest in the position.
Ms. Strain-Burk said she thinks transportation affects everything in communities, including economic development and quality-of-life issues, like the environment.
"I would put my record up against anyone," said Ms. Strain-Burk, who added that she has hosted a few conferences and meetings concerning transportation and "green" development in the southern sector. "I feel I have the leadership qualities to be effective."
Ms. Burton said the mayors have a difficult decision to make and that she will support their choice.
"I believe it would be inappropriate and premature at this point for me to make any comments," Ms. Burton said.
Three of the mayors wouldn't say whom they might prefer for the spot. But Lancaster Mayor Joe Tillotson said he would push hard for Ms. Strain-Burk.
"She wants to serve and has indicated she has the time to put in. She's highly interested in transportation," Mr. Tillotson said. "I'm going to plug her. We will have to get a hard worker to replace Grady because anyone we appoint will pale in significance as an influential member of the council – at least immediately."
All the mayors agree that it will be difficult to replace Mr. Smithey and the wealth of institutional knowledge he carried about highway funding.
A passionate advocate for transportation projects in southern Dallas County, Mr. Smithey regularly quoted statistics to rail against inequities of transportation spending in the region. The mayors also say that Mr. Smithey's replacement will face a steep learning curve in trying to master the voluminous material needed to represent the region at the negotiations table.
Mr. Smithey said he wouldn't presume to tell the mayors who should follow him, but he said his longevity and work has produced results for southern Dallas County.
"With all due respect, no one has worked on transportation as hard as I have," Mr. Smithey said. "Truth be told, that's the biggest loss for the citizens of Duncanville and this area. Anything TxDOT recommends for this urban area, RTC has to sign off on it."
Mr. Smithey won't completely abdicate his transportation stature. He will continue to serve as a Dallas County appointee to the Dallas Regional Mobility Commission and the Trans-Texas Corridor Advisory Committee, in which he is a gubernatorial appointee.
Those who worked on the RTC with Mr. Smithey praised his abilities.
Michael Morris, transportation director for the North Texas Council of Governments, said Mr. Smithey brought three characteristics to the table that made him a good RTC member: intellectual capacity to understand the issues, passion in what he believed in and a strong work ethic.
"In the 20-something years I've been working here, he's in the top five," Mr. Morris said. "As a staff member, that's all you can ask for."
The southwest mayors agreed that Mr. Smithey's experience and influence would be tough to replace, but some said the longtime RTC member sometimes brushed people the wrong way, too.
"We have to find out who will be willing to go to the mat for the region's needs," DeSoto Mayor Michael Hurtt said. He added that Mr. Smithey has been influential, but "Grady has created some hurdles because he's been so straightforward for so long," he said. "At times, this has been a stumbling block, too."
Collin County Judge Ron Harris, who sometimes played Mr. Smithey's adversary on the RTC and the Dallas Regional Mobility Commission, said his Duncanville colleague is a formidable opponent.
"He was passionate. We've had our disagreements. We've had fun," Mr. Harris said.
So much fun that a couple of weeks ago Mr. Harris adjourned a Dallas Regional Mobility Commission meeting when Mr. Smithey offered a lengthy discussion while debating a committee appointment process.
"Look, we had already been there for an hour," Mr. Harris said. "Bottom line is, I think he brought credibility to the table for his area. He's been a good representative for south Dallas County."
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Architect drawings and calculations. Then the architect prepares the draft drawings – to help visualize the proposed extra room. Once the draft plans are approved by the customer, the architect draws detailed plans, structural calculations are made. If the customer is happy with the final plans, these are submitted to the Local Authority for approval – building control notice is served and full plans application is submitted. This applies to permitted development, if the extra loft space doesn't exceed 40 cubic meters on terraced houses and 50 cubic meters on a semi detached properties. In other cases (including when loft is converted above a flat) a planning permission will be required. You can read more about this here.
Party wall notice. Next (or better, just as soon as you get the draft plans) – a party wall notice must be served to your neighbours. Most often the project will affect a party wall (steel beams must be inserted halfway into the party wall) and the consent from neighbours will be needed. Legally your neighbours are obliged to reply in no longer than two months and without it you would not be able to start works. In some cases (especially when the next door property is in some sort of shared ownership) your neighbours may dissent. This procedure then may take longer – both parties will have to appoint surveyors, some more paperwork will be involved. Consequently this will slightly raise the overall costs and delay the project starting date.
Building control approval. On average it takes about 4 weeks from the date the architect submits the full plans (including structural calculations) application to the Local Authority to get the building control approval. Building inspector comes to check the current state of the building, discuss the proposed works (especially those affecting the structural integrity of the property) with the building company. The structural calculations must be also approved in writing by the Council engineer – he checks adequacy of all load bearing elements. Also, at this point we always advice to get from a local Council a Certificate of Lawful development for the project - this way you can be certain that no legal issues would arise with the planning authorities.
Construction stage. When the neighbours consent and the Council approval is in place, the building works can begin. Firstly the existing structures are altered, timber frames constructed: steel beams and floor joists installed, roof and walls structure constructed. At this stage the Building Inspector comes to check if all is according to plans. Then work continues externally to close the new space, make it weatherproof: windows, roofing, flashing, fascias, guttering installed. Next – insulation is fitted and the Inspector comes again to check if it conforms to building regulations. Then electrics and plumbing first fix carried out – wires and pipes are installed. Stairs are constructed and the new loft is drylined with plasterboards. Finally – plastering, painting decorating, electrics and plumbing second fix, flooring installed.
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If spring and early summer somehow slipped past without you getting all the vegetables planted that you wanted to, you are not alone. Life happens on its own schedule, and when one of the kids takes sick or the boss needs you to work overtime during planting season, it can interfere with your high hopes and well-laid plans.
But take heart—it is not too late. Depending on your growing zone and how many days you have left before frost, there are up to 11 vegetables you can still plant, from seed, and eat this season.
Where I live in Zone 4, we usually expect our first frost about the third week of September. That means I can plant all eleven of the following vegetable choices right up until late July.
If you have 60 or more days left of your growing season, you can plant the following:
1. Radishes. Almost all cultivars of radish can be grown in under 60 days. Most of them mature in half that time. Summer radishes are great plain, on salads, and braised in a buttery syrup. Even winter storage and daikon types are generally 60 days or less.
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2. Kale. This healthful favorite can be grown to full maturity in 60 to 75 days, depending on your conditions and the specific cultivar. From salads and stews to smoothies and sautes, nothing beats fresh-from-the-garden kale.
3. Peas. Mid-to-late summer is the perfect time to plant peas for a fall crop. They do not like high heat, and planting now will allow them to grow in relatively cool conditions. Most varieties are ready to harvest at between 50 and 60 days. Eaten in or out of the shell, peas are a wonderful addition to any meal.
4. Cucumbers. Many cucumber cultivars reach maturity from seed in 60 days or less. Cukes vary widely, from as few as 49 days to nearly 70. There is at least one cultivar in each type—pickling, slicing, beit-alpha, and Asian—with a short growing season. Plant now for that one last cucumber sandwich before the first fall frost!
5. Summer squashes. There is a delightful array of zucchini, yellow and patty pan squashes that can be grown in a very short time. Some cultivars reach harvestable size in an astonishing 40 days. The culinary delights of summer squashes are practically limitless!
6. Carrots. Many varieties of summer carrots reach maturity in under 60 days. Short and round, long and skinny, thick and blunt—there are some short season cultivars in every shape. Storage carrots can take a little longer, some up to 85 days, so be sure to read the packet or catalog information.
7. Beets. This amazingly diverse vegetable can produce delicious edible greens in just over a month, and can reach full maturity in well under 60 days. I thin early beets and use the tiny pulled seedlings on salads and wraps. Later, the larger greens are great cooked and topped with butter. Mature beets are excellent pickled, pan-fried, or in baked goods. Most beet cultivars are harvestable in under 60 days, including classic reds, striped Chioggia types, and mellow golds.
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8. Swiss chard. This hardy vegetable is able to be harvested as tender baby greens in as little as four weeks after harvest and reaches full maturity in under 60 days. Beautiful and delicious, chard comes in a rainbow of colors from greens and yellows to reds and golds, packs a powerful nutritional punch, and will make you glad you planted it right now.
9. Non-heading broccoli. Sometimes called "broccolini," this fast-growing brassica variety is ready for harvest in under 60 days. The entire plant—flowers, stalks, and even leaves—can be enjoyed raw, steamed or stir-fried.
10. Beans. Most bush beans meant for fresh eating, such as green beans, wax beans and haricot verts, are ready for harvest in 60 days or less. If planting pole beans instead, check the package—a few can be grown in a short season, but pole beans often require a medium-to-long season. Perfect for fresh eating, pickling, salads, steaming and roasting, easy-to-grow beans are an excellent last-minute choice for getting the most out of your backyard garden.
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11. Greens. Almost all greens are mature in less than 60 days. Spinach, depending on the particular cultivar and growing conditions, is ready in as little as a month. Lettuces take a little longer. Asian greens such as Chinese cabbage, mizuna and mustard greens, and pac choy range from six to eight weeks to maturity. Collard greens take a little longer to fully mature, but as with any greens can be picked and eaten earlier if preferred, or if needed to beat an early frost.
An additional bonus with kale, spinach and a few other greens is that they will survive frosts, to some extent. They will not continue to grow afterwards, but will remain viable in the garden, making them able to be planted and harvested even later.
As you can see, there is still plenty of opportunity this season to grow a nice selection of tasty nutritious vegetables for fresh eating and preserving. It is time to dig out those seed packets and get ready for late-summer bounty.
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Causes of Excess Mucous
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Mucous is one of the body's natural defenses against illness and infection. Mucus, which may flow from the nose and down the back of the throat, serves many purposes, such as lubricating and blocking irritants from the sinuses and airways. The excessive production of mucous occurs for numerous reasons. Some of the most common include allergies, sinusitis and any other respiratory illness. There are medications that can reduce the production of mucous and help thin the secretions.
Drinking milk, inhaling pollens or exposure to pet dander are all potential allergens that can trigger the production of excess mucous. Any type of allergy, whether it is a food or airborne agent, can trigger the immune system to respond in certain ways. The Mayo Clinic explains that part of this immune response is to produce mucous, as a way to eject the allergen from the body. Sneezing, coughing and a running nose are just some of the signs of excess mucous produced due to allergies. The throat may be sore from the mucous drainage and coughing. Post-nasal drip, the drainage of mucous down the back of the throat, can lead to bad breath and the frequent urge to clear the throat. Treatment of allergies often consists of antihistamine medication and prevention of exposure to the allergens. Antihistamines block the body's chemical response to the allergen. The body produces histamine to trigger the immune response to fight off the allergen.
Sinusitis, an inflammation of the sinuses, is actually a symptom of another issue. Common causes of sinusitis include infections from viruses, bacterium or fungi. The National Institutes of Health explains that the sinuses can become inflamed when too much mucous builds up from the irritants causing the infection. The small hairs in the sinuses help move mucous out of the body. When these hairs stop working due to the underlying condition, the result is the body sensing a foreign blockage and producing more mucous. Other symptoms of sinusitis include bad breath, coughing or nasal congestion. Treating the underlying cause, whether it be allergies, a cold or an illness, will reduce the production of mucous. Infections are often treated with antibiotics or antifungal medications, unless they are due to a virus. A virus must be allowed to run its course, but treatment of the symptoms can be effective in minimizing discomfort. This can include pain medication, cough suppressants and other such medications.
Cystic Fibrosis
One chronic, more serious, cause of excess mucous is an inherited disease called cystic fibrosis. The National Institutes of Health describes this disease as one that causes thick, sticky mucus to build up in the lungs and digestive tract. It often results in early death. The excessive collection of mucus can cause life-threatening lung infections and serious digestion problems. The treatment of cystic fibrosis is comprehensive and usually includes treating the infection or other complications that surround the illness. There is no known cure, but patients can manage the symptoms to improve quality of life.
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Temporal Changes in the Landscape
March 22, 2016 - September 15, 2016
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Opening Reception: Tuesday March 22, 2016, 7pm - 8pm
Artist Talk: Tuesday March 22, 2016, 5:30pm - 6:30pm.
Maria Whiteman's Temporal Changes in the Landscape is an exhibition inspired by the great Rockies from Banff to Colorado. The astronaut travels the planet observing the environment and ecologies from the future to the present without belonging to a place or time as we know it - but moves in a suspended temporality.
Maria Whiteman co-directed the 2012 (BRIC) Banff Research in Culture/ Documenta 13 research residency and participated in the Geoffrey Farmer Residency at the Banff Centre in 2012. Whiteman's "Mountain Pine Beetle and Roadside Kestrel" most recent video/photography work premiered at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival and Rice Media Centre, Houston, TX, Nov 2014. She has recently been selected as a recipient of the Visiting Scholar Lynette S. Autrey Fellowship 2015-2016 at Rice University. February of 2016, Videos and Photographs of "Polar Bear," Video "IntheAir" and Video "Pine Beetle," Butler College Studio 34, Curated by Eben Kirksey, Princeton University, NJ. and "Visitor" Brooklyn Gallery, NY, (March-April 2016). March of 2016, "I loved you right up to the end" and "Touching" will be exhibited in the Urban Video Project "Between Species," Curated by Anneka Herre at Syracuse University, New York.


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Critics in all art forms are prone to fantasies of being able to ban certain formats or subject-matters for a period of time. As a reviewer of crime fiction, I'd happily impose a moratorium on novels in which the murderer or murder victim proves to have been sexually abused; for most theatre critics, there would be a relief in the guarantee of 12 months without a well-known movie being turned into a stage musical.
And, if there were one aspect of television we could block for a while, many of us, I suspect, would settle for a season or two without any more drama series about cops and doctors. Faced with BBC2's new five-part drama Line of Duty, which begins next Tuesday, viewers may well fear that there can be nothing left to show or say about the police.
A warning against such cynicism, though, is that the show is created and written by Jed Mercurio, who has previous form in finding distinctive and original space within a crowded genre. During a period when TV reviewers were more likely to see an NHS doctor on screen than in a surgery, Mercurio twice revolutionised the genre with Cardiac Arrest (1994-96) and Bodies (2004), series that challenged the televisual conventions that patients, after a late-episode scare, generally survived procedures carried out by heroic and caring medical professionals.
Mercurio's hospitals were populated by doomed patients, incompetent consultants and perhaps the most cynical and nihilistic medic ever to wear a fictional white coat: Cardiac Arrest's Dr Claire Maitland, played with chilling but erotic coolness by Helen Baxendale. Revealingly, that series is regularly voted by doctors as the most realistic television depiction of their profession.
Mercurio, a qualified doctor, was partly drawing on his own experience in those shows, while his entry into the cop drama, with Line of Duty, is more the product of external research. However, his approach to a TV genre barnacled with conventions and cliches is very similar. As the writer has acknowledged, the police have traditionally been less glorified in TV dramas than doctors were in the past: shows such as GF Newman's Law and Order (1978) and JC Wilsher's Between the Lines (1994-96), both of which ferociously explored corruption within the police force.
Although himself lacking a two-initial writing name, Mercurio extends the example of Newman and Wilsher in dramatising, much as he did with doctors, fallability and compromise within an emergency profession. Amazingly, this late in the genre, Line of Duty is fresh and provocative; depicting the cynicism and bitter wit which, as in hospital medicine, may be a necessary defence against a job that largely involves encountering people at their worst and most desperate.
Mercurio's cops, like his doctors, make decisions and (crucially) mistakes that seem all too humanly plausible. In an overlap with his medical shows, he is savagely funny about the consequences of the "performance targets" imposed on public services by recent governments. And importantly – and in a way that has only otherwise been achieved in populist drama by Spooks – there is never any guarantee that the main characters will be alive or employable for any further series.
In the figure of Gates, a much honoured and admired detective played by Lennie James, Mercurio has created a police equivalent of Dr Claire Maitland – a protagonist simultaneously charismatic and satanic. Corrupt, adulterous and with suspiciously high clear-up rates, Gates is, very unusually for the lead character in a police drama, openly unsympathetic.
He is also, even more provocatively, black. Actors argue that British television has gone from a period in which black characters would often be unacceptable racist stereotypes (criminals, drug dealers) to a spell in which non-white parts will often portray an opposite stereotype of impotent saintliness: non-racist but also not very interesting to play. Black actors have said that, even when they are happy to portray complex and ambiguous characters, commissioners and producers will refuse to let them.
So it's greatly to the credit of Jed Mercurio and Lennie James that they have risked a character as uncomfortable and multi-faceted as Gates. It's one of the ways in which Line of Duty demonstrates that originality is still possible in a standards TV genre, proving again that the curse of TV drama is not so much default formats as the reflex treatment they are frequently given.


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I was born and raised in Harvard, Illinois, a land of Manhattans, Pabst beer and Friday-night fish fries: wine was unknown. However, during a college semester spent studying in Europe I discovered fine wine and food. After graduating from college, I worked as a photojournalist and food and wine writer for four years before my passion for food and wine overwhelmed my sense of reality. In 1980, I joined Direct Import Wine Company which grew to be recognized as offering the most elite portfolio of estate wines in the Chicago market. In 1996 the company was devoured by Paterno Imports (who later fed it to Southern Wine and Spirits), but I remained at Direct as president until 1999, when I left in a fit of sanity, prompted by an outburst of ethics.
In 2000 I left to pursue an education in wine production and spent the next three years happily working in Italy, where I studied winemaking and worked in the cellars of some of Italy's most elite wine estates in Barolo and Barbaresco. Upon returning to the United States in 2004, I took over as President of Anne Amie Vineyards, previously known as Chateau Benoit. Over the next several years I totally revolutionized the winemaking and marketing. In 2009 I moved to the Napa Valley and over the next seven years did the same thing for Cornerstone Cellars.
Today I am general manager of Troon Vineyard in the beautiful Applegate Valley of southern Oregon. Surrounded by the Siskiyou Mountains we are making natural wines using natural yeast fermentations, creative co-ferments and are now biodynamic in our vineyards.
I have been honored to be recognized as an industry leader in the use of online marketing and Social Media marketing. I have served on the Board of Directors of the Howell Mountain Growers Association, Board of Directors of the Rhone Rangers and on the Napa Valley Vintners Association Marketing Committee, of which I was chairman.
My single minded goal in life is to make great wine.
Specialties: wine: making it, selling it