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Public Health Statement for 1,1,1-Trichloroethane
July 2006
This Public Health Statement is the summary chapter from the Toxicological Profile for 1,1,1-Trichloroethane. It is one in a series of Public Health Statements about hazardous substances and their health effects. A shorter version, the ToxFAQsTM, is also available. This information is important because this substance may harm you. The effects of exposure to any hazardous substance depend on the dose, the duration, how you are exposed, personal traits and habits, and whether other chemicals are present. For more information, call the ATSDR Information Center at 1-800-232-4636.
This public health statement tells you about 1,1,1-trichloroethane (also called 1,1,1-TCE) and the effects of exposure to it.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identifies the most serious hazardous waste sites in the nation. These sites are then placed on the National Priorities List (NPL) and are targeted for federal long-term cleanup activities. 1,1,1-Trichloroethane has been found in at least 823 of the 1,662 current or former NPL sites. Although the total number of NPL sites evaluated for this substance is not known, the possibility exists that the number of sites at which 1,1,1-trichloroethane is found may increase in the future as more sites are evaluated. This information is important because these sites may be sources of exposure, and exposure to this substance may harm you.
When a substance is released either from a large area, such as an industrial plant, or from a container, such as a drum or bottle, it enters the environment. Such a release does not always lead to exposure. You can be exposed to a substance only when you come in contact with it. You may be exposed by breathing, eating, or drinking the substance or by skin contact.
If you are exposed to 1,1,1-trichloroethane many factors will determine whether you will be harmed. These factors include the dose (how much), the duration (how long), and how you come in contact with it. You must also consider any other chemicals you are exposed to and your age, sex, diet, family traits, lifestyle, and state of health.
1.1 What is 1,1,1-trichloroethane?
1,1,1-Trichloroethane is a synthetic chemical that does not occur naturally in the environment. It also is known as methylchloroform, methyltrichloromethane, trichloromethylmethane, and �-trichloromethane. Its registered trade names are chloroethene NU� and Aerothene TT�. It is a colorless liquid with a sweet, sharp odor. 1,1,1-Trichloroethane dissolves slightly in water. The liquid evaporates quickly and becomes a vapor. Most people begin to smell 1,1,1-trichloroethane in the air when its levels reach 120�500 parts per million (ppm). If the chemical makes up 8�10.5% (80,000� 105,000 ppm) of the air, it can burn easily when it contacts a spark or flame. A poisonous gas known as phosgene can be produced during welding if 1,1,1-trichloroethane is used to clean the metal. 1,1,1-Trichloroethane also can be found in soil and water, particularly at hazardous waste sites. Because of its tendency to evaporate easily, the vapor form is most commonly found in the environment.
1,1,1-Trichloroethane had many industrial and household uses. It was often used as a solvent to dissolve other substances, such as glues and paints. In industry, it was widely used to remove oil or grease from manufactured parts. In the home, it used to be an ingredient of products such as spot cleaners, glues, and aerosol sprays. No 1,1,1-trichloroethane is supposed to be manufactured for domestic use in the United States after January 1, 2002, because it affects the ozone layer. However, until 2005, limited amounts were still allowed to be produced for essential purposes, and until 2012, production of 1,1,1-trichloroethane is allowed for export. About 300 million pounds were produced in 2000, but less is being made today. Most of the 1,1,1-trichloroethane that is manufactured today is exported.
1.2 What happens to 1,1,1-trichloroethane when it enters the environment?
Most of the 1,1,1-trichloroethane released into the environment enters the air. Once in the air, it can travel to the upper part of the earth's atmosphere, which is called the stratosphere. There, sunlight breaks it down into other chemicals that may reduce the stratospheric ozone layer. This ozone layer blocks certain damaging ultraviolet rays of the sun from reaching the earth's surface. Some scientists think the gradual thinning of the ozone layer is increasing the number of skin cancer cases in humans.
Spills, improper disposal, industrial emissions, and consumer use can release 1,1,1-trichloroethane into the environment. Contaminated water from landfills and hazardous waste sites can contaminate surrounding soil and nearby surface water or groundwater. However, most of the chemical probably will evaporate eventually into the air. It will not build up in plants or animals. Industrial operations release the largest amount of 1,1,1-trichloroethane into the environment, mostly by emissions into the air. The vapor also enters the air because many products containing the chemical were used in the home and workplace.
We do not know how long 1,1,1-trichloroethane lasts in water or soil. In surface waters, such as lakes and rivers, where it partially mixes with water, much of the chemical evaporates quickly. 1,1,1-Trichloroethane also evaporates from soil surfaces. Water can easily carry it through soil into groundwater. 1,1,1-Trichloroethane in groundwater can evaporate and pass through soil as a gas and finally be released to the air. Also, organisms that live in soil and water may break down 1,1,1-trichloroethane. One study suggests that half of the chemical takes 200�300 days to break down in contaminated groundwater. However, the number of days can vary widely, depending on specific site conditions.
1.3 How might I be exposed to 1,1,1-trichloroethane?
You are not likely to be exposed to large enough amounts of 1,1,1-trichloroethane to cause adverse health effects. 1,1,1-Trichloroethane has been found in air samples taken from all over the world. In the United States, city air typically contains about 0.1�1.0 parts per billion (ppb) of 1,1,1-trichloroethane; rural air usually contains less than 0.1 ppb. Because 1,1,1-trichloroethane was used so frequently in home and office products, much more was found in the air inside buildings (0.3�4.4 ppb) than in the outside air (0.1�0.9 ppb). Since this chemical was found in many building materials, new buildings used to have higher indoor levels than old buildings. Thus, you were likely to be exposed to 1,1,1-trichloroethane vapor at higher levels indoors than outdoors or near hazardous waste sites. However, since 2002, 1,1,1-trichloroethane is not expected to be commonly used, and therefore, the likelihood of being exposed to it is remote.
Common consumer products that used to contain 1,1,1-trichloroethane included glues, household cleaners, and aerosol sprays. In the workplace, you could have been exposed to 1,1,1-trichloroethane while using some metal degreasing agents, paints, glues, and cleaning products. You could have been exposed to 1,1,1-trichloroethane by breathing the vapors from these products or by letting the liquid contact your skin. High levels of exposure have occurred in people who deliberately inhaled the vapors, as in glue-sniffing or solvent abuse.
1,1,1-Trichloroethane has been found in rivers and lakes (up to 0.01 ppm), in soil (up to 120 ppm), in drinking water (up to 0.0035 ppm), and in drinking water from underground wells (up to 5.4 ppm). In one case, drinking water from a private well contained up to 12 ppm, possibly as a result of illegal discharge or spill from a nearby industrial plant. Releases during manufacture and transportation and during industrial or household use can cause these high levels, but the levels vary substantially from one location to another. Certain foods you eat and water you drink or bathe in may be contaminated with 1,1,1-trichloroethane.
However, you can be exposed to 1,1,1-trichloroethane primarily by drinking contaminated water and eating contaminated food.
1.4 How can 1,1,1-trichloroethane enter and leave my body?
1,1,1-Trichloroethane can quickly enter your body if you breathe in air containing it in vapor form. It also enters your body if you drink water or eat food containing 1,1,1-trichloroethane. If you spill 1,1,1-trichloroethane on your skin, most of it quickly evaporates into the air, but small amounts enter your body through your skin. Regardless of how 1,1,1-trichloroethane enters your body, nearly all of it quickly leaves your body in the air you exhale. The small amount that is not breathed out can be changed in your body into other substances, known as metabolites. Most of the metabolites leave your body in the urine and breath within a few days.
1.5 How can 1,1,1-trichloroethane affect my health?
Scientists use many tests to protect the public from harmful effects of toxic chemicals and to find ways for treating people who have been harmed.
One way to learn whether a chemical will harm people is to determine how the body absorbs, uses, and releases the chemical. For some chemicals, animal testing may be necessary. Animal testing may also help identify health effects such as cancer or birth defects. Without laboratory animals, scientists would lose a basic method for getting information needed to make wise decisions that protect public health. Scientists have the responsibility to treat research animals with care and compassion. Scientists must comply with strict animal-care guidelines because laws today protect the welfare of research animals.
If you breathe air containing high levels of 1,1,1-trichloroethane (1,000 ppm or higher) for a short time, you may become dizzy and lightheaded and possibly lose your coordination. These effects rapidly disappear after you stop breathing contaminated air. If you breathe in much higher levels of 1,1,1-trichloroethane, either intentionally or accidentally, you may become unconscious, your blood pressure may decrease, and your heart may stop beating. Whether breathing low levels of 1,1,1-trichloroethane for a long time causes harmful effects is not known. Studies in animals show that breathing air that contains very high levels of 1,1,1-trichloroethane (higher than 2,000 ppm) damages the breathing passages and causes mild effects in the liver, in addition to affecting the nervous system. There are no studies in humans that determine whether eating food or drinking water contaminated with 1,1,1-trichloroethane could harm health. Placing large amounts of 1,1,1-trichloroethane in the stomachs of animals has caused effects on the nervous system, mild liver damage, unconsciousness, and even death. If your skin contacts 1,1,1-trichloroethane, you might feel some irritation. Studies in animals suggest that repeated exposure of the skin might affect the liver and that very large amounts on the skin can cause death. These effects occurred only when evaporation was prevented.
Available information does not indicate that 1,1,1-trichloroethane causes cancer. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has determined that 1,1,1-trichloroethane is not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity in humans. EPA has also determined that 1,1,1-trichloroethane is not classifiable as to its human carcinogenicity. The likelihood is very low that exposure to 1,1,1-trichloroethane levels found near hazardous waste sites would cause significant health effects.
1.6 How can 1,1,1 trichloroethane affect children?
This section discusses potential health effects in humans from exposures during the period from conception to maturity at 18 years of age.
Children exposed to large amounts of 1,1,1-trichloroethane probably would be affected in the same manner as adults. In animals, it has been shown that 1,1,1-trichloroethane can pass from the mother's blood into a fetus. When pregnant mice were exposed to high levels of 1,1,1-trichloroethane in air, their babies developed more slowly than normal and had some behavioral problems. However, whether similar effects occur in humans has not been demonstrated.
1.7 How can families reduce the risk of exposure to 1,1,1 trichloroethane?
If your doctor finds that you have been exposed to substantial amounts of 1,1,1-trichloroethane ask whether your children might also have been exposed. Your doctor might need to ask your state health department to investigate.
Children can be exposed to 1,1,1-trichloroethane in household products, such as adhesives and cleaners that were manufactured before 2002. Parents should store household chemicals out of reach of young children to prevent accidental poisonings or skin irritation. Always store household chemicals in their original labeled containers. Never store household chemicals in containers that children would find attractive to eat or drink from, such as old soda bottles. Keep your Poison Control Center's number near the phone.
Sometimes older children sniff household chemicals in an attempt to get "high". Your children may be exposed to 1,1,1-trichloroethane by inhaling products containing it. Talk with your children about the dangers of sniffing chemicals.
1.8 Is there a medical test to determine whether i have been exposed to 1,1,1 trichloroethane?
Samples of your breath, blood, and urine can be tested to determine if you have recently been exposed to 1,1,1-trichloroethane. In some cases, these tests can estimate how much 1,1,1-trichloroethane has entered your body. To be of any value, samples of your breath or blood have to be taken within hours after exposure, and samples of urine have to be taken within 2 days after exposure. However, these tests will not tell you whether your health will be affected by exposure to 1,1,1-trichloroethane. The exposure tests are not routinely available in hospitals and clinics because they require special analytical equipment.
1.9 What recommendations has the federal government made to protect human health?
The federal government develops regulations and recommendations to protect public health. Regulations can be enforced by law. The EPA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are some federal agencies that develop regulations for toxic substances. Recommendations provide valuable guidelines to protect public health, but cannot be enforced by law. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) are two federal organizations that develop recommendations for toxic substances.
Regulations and recommendations can be expressed as "not-to-exceed" levels, that is, levels of a toxic substance in air, water, soil, or food that do not exceed a critical value that is usually based on levels that affect animals; they are then adjusted to levels that will help protect humans. Sometimes these not-to-exceed levels differ among federal organizations because they used different exposure times (an 8-hour workday or a 24-hour day), different animal studies, or other factors.
Recommendations and regulations are also updated periodically as more information becomes available. For the most current information, check with the federal agency or organization that provides it. Some regulations and recommendations for 1,1,1-trichloroethane include the following:
EPA regulates the levels of 1,1,1-trichloroethane that are allowable in drinking water. The highest level of 1,1,1-trichloroethane allowed in drinking water is 0.2 ppm. Any releases or spills of 1,1,1-trichloroethane of 1,000 pounds or more must be reported to the National Response Center. OSHA regulates 1,1,1-trichloroethane levels in the workplace. The workplace exposure limit for an 8-hour workday, 40-hour workweek is 350 ppm in air.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 2006. Toxicological profile for 1,1,1-Trichloroethane. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
Where can I get more information?
If you have questions or concerns, please contact your community or state health or environmental quality department or:
For more information, contact:
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Division of Toxicology and Human Health Sciences
1600 Clifton Road NE, Mailstop S102-1
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Phone: 1-800-CDC-INFO · 888-232-6348 (TTY)
Email: Contact CDC-INFO
ATSDR can also tell you the location of occupational and environmental health clinics. These clinics specialize in recognizing, evaluating, and treating illnesses resulting from exposure to hazardous substances.
- Page last reviewed: January 21, 2015
- Page last updated: January 21, 2015
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The Blue Wave almost couldn't have cared less.
All season long, they have played to win another FCIAC championship. And now, following a strong win over Wilton, they stand just one more victory over Ridgefield away from claiming the conference title.
Darien (19-2 pounded Wilton 9-0 in the second FCIAC semifinal game Wednesday night at Darien Ice Rink. Amanda Sload led the way with two goals, as seven other Blue Wave players found the back of the net. With the win, Darien now moves on to Saturday's conference championship at 12:20 p.m. at Terry Conners Ice Rink.
"The FCIACs mean so much to these kids, it actually means more than the states," Darien coach Jamie Tropsa said. "It's just one of those things where they are so motivated to win the FCIACs, it's all they talk about ¦ It would be nice to see the seniors go out on a winning note, so hopefully we can do that."
Last season, the Blue Wave sprung an upset in the FCIAC title game over archrival New Canaan, which failed to set up a rematch thanks to its overtime loss to Ridgefield the first semifinal. Darien will be the heavy favorite in the championship, having won all 15 of its FCIAC games this year. In two of those victories, the Blue Wave beat Wilton by a combined margin of 15-0.
On Wednesday, the lop-sided play continued.
Darien unleashed its potent attack on the Warriors immediately, as Sload lit the lamp just 27 seconds into the contest. Schuyler van den Broek and Hannah McClane soon followed with goals of their own that rattled home 59 seconds apart from each other. The three opening scores were all registered within the first three minutes of the game.
"This is the playoffs," Tropsa said. "They've got to play hard every time they step on the ice, and tonight they did."
The first period onslaught concluded with a Chandler Kirby score at the 5:46 mark that pushed Darien's lead to 5-0. Camped out in the high slot, Kirby wristed a loose puck into the upper right corner of the net for her fifth goal of the year.
"Our third line might've had three or four goals tonight," Tropsa said. "That's definitely a big advantage we have over a lot of teams."
Wilton (8-11-2) failed to present much of an offensive threat until the finale frame, when back-up Blue Wave goalie Izzy Scribano stopped five of the six Warrior shots on the night. Last Monday, starter Shannon Hall allowed a pair of third period goals at Ridgefield, before Darien could escape with a sloppy 3-2 victory.
The Tigers' talent up front is something Darien knows they will have to contend with on Saturday.
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"We're not going to win if we play like we did Monday," Tropsa said. "Ridgefield will beat us."
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We construct a simple translationally invariant, nearest-neighbor Hamiltonian on a chain of 10-dimensional qudits that makes it possible to realize universal quantum computing without any external control during the computational process, requiring only initial product state preparation. Both the quantum circuit and its input are encoded in an initial canonical basis state of the qudit chain. The computational process is then carried out by the autonomous Hamiltonian time evolution. After a time greater than a polynomial in the size of the quantum circuit has passed, the result of the computation can be obtained with high probability by measuring a few qudits in the computational basis.
This result also implies that there cannot exist efficient classical simulation methods for generic translationally invariant nearest-neighbor Hamiltonians on qudit chains, unless quantum computers can be efficiently simulated by classical computers (or, put in complexity theoretic terms, unless BPP=BQP). This is joint work with Daniel Nagaj.


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Full Text Transcript of NEA President Dennis Van Roekel's 2009 RA Keynote Address
Delivered at the 2009 NEA Annual Meeting and Representative Assembly
Thank you, Lily, for your introduction.
I know some of you may find it hard to believe (knowing how young I look), but this is actually my 30th consecutive RA.
And every year when I walk into the convention hall, I feel that same sense of pride I felt the very first time.
Pride in who we are ….
Pride in what we stand for … and what we have accomplished.
For 152 years, NEA has stood as a living testament to our founders belief that a good public education should be a fundamental and basic right guaranteed to every child.
They saw the power of public education to transform the lives of millions of students … regardless of status or wealth.
They also believed that unless everyone enjoyed equal rights and opportunity, no one did….
The fight for equality … and against discrimination – in any form – continues today.
Fighting against the status quo came to define this organization.
From denouncing slavery before the Civil War…
to electing NEA's first woman President ten years before women were granted the right to vote,
to the historic step of merging NEA and the American Teachers Association during the 60's.
Ours is a history of advocacy and struggle…
But it wasn't just the struggle that defined those who came before us.
It was their individual and collective acts of courage.
This is a legacy that the National Education Association is proud to call its own.
As you look around this room, you are part of that rich legacy, part of that history.
The people in this room represent the largest deliberative body in the world –
Almost 20 times the size of Congress.
And to make it even better, we are at a unique moment in our history …
a crossroads defined by both its challenges and its opportunities.
There is an old saying from the 70's union organizing that some of you in this room will remember well –
"No one has ever handed us anything …
everything we have, we had to fight for."
And today, after NEA's 150-year journey, that mantra still holds true. The challenges of previous generations have been replaced with new challenges … the challenges of our time.
No one needs to explain to you the difficulties confronting us as a country and as an organization.
You are all living it … it is all around you.
Our nation is fighting the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression ….
Millions of jobs lost… 14 states now have double-digit unemployment.
Millions of homes foreclosed….
48 million Americans without healthcare
An all-time high number of children on free and reduced lunch…
School budgets slashed…
Our very livelihoods threatened.
Thousands of teachers, Educational Support Professionals, and higher education faculty and staff have lost their jobs …
yet not one less student needs a ride to school …
not one less student needs a healthy meal at school …
and not one less student needs caring adults to provide an education, training for a new job, or hope for the future.
Nowhere is the economy worse than right here in CA, $24 Billion budget shortfall. Drastic cuts to education – both in terms of people and programs.
And around the country - states have shortfalls that amount to as much as 20% of the state budget.
If that weren't enough, our nation is fighting two wars and combating threats around the world.
These urgent times have shaken American's confidence.
Consider the fact that only 1 in 3 Americans is confident that our children's generation will be better off than us….
But for most of our lives, we just assumed that our children and grandchildren would Inherit a brighter future than our own.
Not today. We are reminded that there are no guarantees … that none of our hopes … none of our dreams can be achieved without the kind of leadership and collective action demonstrated by our founders.
And as history teaches us, in adversity we must see opportunity
Today I want to talk to you about NEA's role –
and our responsibility – in defining the journey ahead.
Today's times call for NEA's leadership to focus in three specific areas:
1) Leading the efforts to transform public education;
2) Helping to rebuild the middle class by strengthening the labor movement; and
3) Building our capacity as an organization … to ensure that our power is felt and our influence is clear.
First - Transforming Public Education
These days it seems like everyone has a plan to "reform" our schools.
You know what really irks me about these plans? Most did not ask the people in the classrooms and schools for collaboration or answers…. Most do not acknowledge that any kind of change requires a true partnership – between management, government, educators and their unions.
Our members – the people on the front lines – know what it takes to increase student learning … to transform the system.
But we have to do more than define a vision for transforming public education… we must lead the nation in making this transformation happen.
Notice my use of the word, "transformation." I didn't choose words like "fix," "repair," or "reform" … I purposely used the word "transformation"
Webster says "reform" means to "remove faults or abuses". Now, not that I'm against removing faults and abuses, … but that's not enough.
"Transform" means to "change something from one form to another."
You see, the current system was designed at a time when the country needed a few to be prepared for college, but it was also acceptable for large numbers not to graduate from high school.
In an agricultural and industrial age, there were many jobs – good jobs – available for those without a high school education.
And for more than a century, our public schools served the needs of students and our country well.
But that world no longer exists.
We now live in an interdependent, rapidly-changing world and our public school system must adapt to the needs of the new global economy.
This 21st century is an age of knowledge and lifelong learning, with every aspect of our life impacted by technology and rapid change.
Success now depends on providing every student a high school education, which includes the 21st century skills and knowledge needed for career or college.
But the old system still exists – and in that system, 20-25% of students do not graduate from high school.
If you are poor, African-American, or Hispanic … it's closer to 50%.
The old system has generated a consistent drop-out rate for the last 20 years … it doesn't fluctuate like the Dow Jones … it produces almost the same number of drop-outs year after year after year.
And for those who have dropped out …
there is no hope, no opportunity … no possibility of achieving the American dream.
This loss of human potential is simply unacceptable.
None of this is new to us.
In every state and district I have visited in the past 10 years, I have found examples of innovation – Innovation created by individuals, many in this room, who found ways to lead, inspire and create new possibilities for students.
And contrary to what our opponents might say…
NEA welcomes a national conversation about how to transform our school system …
better ways to measure student learning…
to improve the practice of our profession…
to attract bright and talented students into teaching…
and to confront the problems that plague poor and minority children in struggling schools.
Our job as educators has never been easy ... and it doesn't really lend itself to a simple job description.
Let me share just one example…. One morning last winter, I was watching the local morning news when the news anchor announced that Maryland schools would be closed that day due to bad weather.
Upon learning of the school closure, a group of children expressed great disappointment with the announcement. A reporter, surprised at the reaction, asked them why they were upset.
And one of the students quickly answered, "If we go to school, we get to eat breakfast today … and I'm hungry already." How sad … no school, no breakfast.
This is the role that our members and our schools must sometimes play… from educator… to mentor… to safe haven…
You see the smiles, the tears … you provide a safe place…a place of hope.
Another role as educators has always been to ask questions…
seek answers...
and study the issues. And not just in the classroom.
And in today's world we must be willing ask new questions…
and seek new answers.
We must re-examine widely held views …
be open to new ideas,
new strategies …
new opportunities….
And we must confront the most difficult challenges in education.
And in return, we ask our lawmakers and policymakers to do the same.
They, too, must re-examine political solutions offered as easy answers to difficult questions…
Like promoting vouchers instead of investing in our public schools… that is not solution!
Or reducing the measure of a child's learning to a simple test score… that is not a solution!
Or suggesting that putting the word "charter" before "schools", magically leads to innovation.
The truth is … this is hard work… and there are no simple answers.
And if we're going to make transformation successful… it will require educators to be initiators and collaborators.
We are fortunate to have a new President and Education Secretary that understand that school transformation is something you do WITH educators, not TO them.
Two years ago in Philadelphia, then-Senator Obama told our delegates that… "The work you do and the difference you make has never been more important to the future of this country."
Since November, NEA has been building a positive working relationship with the Obama administration... including the Department of Education.
In fact, after my first meeting with Secretary Duncan,
I couldn't help but comment that in one week, we had exceeded the total number of meetings in eight years of the previous administration.
This administration has shown a willingness to listen… to remain open… to hear directly from educators. That's why Secretary Duncan was here yesterday – to provide you an opportunity to listen and to share your thoughts and opinions.
But building a good relationship does not mean we will agree on everything. That's already clear.
And frankly, I didn't expect to.
I mean, if we don't agree on everything INSIDE NEA – why would I expect total agreement with those OUTSIDE NEA?
But what it does mean is that we have the opportunity to make sure that the voice of educators, your voice, is part of the discussion.
But what is most important to me is that even though we may disagree on strategies or tactics,
I have no doubt that this administration, both President Obama and Secretary Duncan,
share our vision of a Great Public School for every student.
They share our mission to fulfill the promise of public education for every student.
And regardless of any disagreements on how to reach our common goals, we can't ever stop working together to get there.
You know, on the big education topics of the day… accountability… compensation… struggling schools… dropout rates … achievement gaps … teacher quality … ESEA reauthorization … it is ridiculous to suggest that educators will walk away from discussing any of these issues.
Here's what lawmakers need to know and understand:
On the issue of accountability, our members overwhelmingly believe that they should be accountable for what happens in the classroom.
But they also believe that the influences on a child don't begin and end in the classroom.
Accountability also has to extend to students…
school administrators…
community and YES,
to our policymakers!
Our members are open to considering alternatives to the current compensation systems…. In fact, some of our states and locals have already bargained new systems.
But we understand that compensation systems are bargained and negotiated not imposed!
When it comes to measuring student learning, our members know that it involves much more than a test score. We have to look at multiple measures that take into account each student's starting point – and most of all – we need student assessments that actually measure student learning based on adopted standards and the curriculum.
Our members welcome new data systems that can be used to individualize and inform instruction … but not systems that are misused or designed to label and punish.
And on the subject of improving the lowest-performing schools… those that are struggling… the ones that are hardest to staff with experienced educators….
We agree that the status quo is not acceptable. But we also know that these schools are hard to staff for a reason…. The problems in these schools cannot be solved by simply paying educators a small bonus and then not also changing the learning and working conditions.
When a system is failing students…
either due to bad leadership…
unsafe conditions…
bad facilities…
decades-old teaching materials and technology…
or the underlying poverty in the communities…
policy-makers have to recognize that these problems can't be solved by addressing any one factor …. We have to look at the whole system.
If you want different results … and ensure that every student has access to the same education as children in the best schools, then policymakers have to make the kind of investments and choices that allow that to happen.
The last time Congress took up ESEA, they offered a hollow promise when they said, "No Child Left Behind," …
so this time we say, "Leave that name behind" if you don't mean it …
Don't pass another "one-size-fits-all" law that doesn't address the needs of each child….
Don't measure student learning with a single, high-stakes, poorly designed test …
And instead, pass a law designed to help students - not label and punish!
But it isn't enough to fix a bad law, or reject bad ideas.
NEA must also provide clear and effective policy alternatives.
We have done much over the last two years – developing the criteria for Great Public Schools as well as the indicators of success for each criterion –
and we will do more by engaging you, the practitioners, in developing those alternatives.
As we continue to develop effective policies and strategies, there is one point that we must never forget – and we can't let our President, Congress, our governors or legislatures forget it, either.
That point is this – you cannot separate teaching from learning. You cannot separate the professionals who work there from the students who learn there.
No system can be successful without the skills and knowledge of all the people who make students' dreams possible – from Pre(k) to G.
I recently listened to Anthony (Tony) Mullen, the 2009 Teacher of the Year, talk about educators.
He eloquently pointed out that good teachers are the ones who are able to read
a child's life story … and recognize the remarkable opportunity educators have to help author that story.
They can script confidence and success onto blank pages…
They know how to edit the mistakes…..
That's the difference between our profession and others.
We must read each child's story…
and help them write the chapters that lead to fulfillment of hopes, dreams, and aspirations.
Now, that can't be easily measured…
and that sure can't be legislated or purchased.
But as we consider what can be legislated …
what investments can be made…
policymakers need to be reminded that every proposal must be evaluated by asking one simple question:
Does it improve student learning AND strengthen the education profession?
This is not an either or calculation.
We need to do both.
The Second area on which we must focus is Rebuilding the Middle Class and the Labor Movement
From our founding in 1857, the mission of this organization has always centered on public education, students, and the people who choose education as their profession.
You often hear people say that "nobody goes into education to get rich" … probably true ...
But it's also true that nobody goes into education to be poor!
I don't think our expectations are out of line – I am not embarrassed to say that I believe that educators' work is important, that we do our job well …. and that we deserve quality pay, benefits, a secure retirement, and the resources needed to provide for our own families.
In fact – I don't know of anyone in America who doesn't deserve that.
The power of the American Dream is the establishment of the middle class – common, everyday people who work hard, and enjoy a standard of living envied around the world.
The last few decades have not been kind to the middle class. In 1965, a CEO's pay was 24 times the average worker's pay. In 2005, it was 262 times the average worker's pay.
Leaving out weekends … that means a CEO makes in one day what the average worker makes in a year! And this at a time when the increases in productivity of the average worker have never been higher.
Education Support Professionals aren't trying to become rich but they deserve middle class salaries and benefits! Many of our ESPs don't receive much of a pay check every two weeks – almost their entire net pay is consumed by the cost of health care for their family.
On top of that, some members of Congress have proposed taxing health care benefits. No way!
If health care benefits are taxed, some of our members would end up owing their employer money every two weeks instead of getting a pay check!
And it's not just educators who deserve more – all working families in America deserve more!
We cannot close the achievement gaps when so many of our student's families don't have job security…
health care coverage…
or access to living wages and benefits.
NEA must be an active player in rebuilding our middle class … for our members … for the families of our students … for all of America's working families.
Decades ago, NEA began advocating for our members and helped to lead the fight for better salaries… quality benefits … and secure retirement systems.
Our efforts were built on the successes of unions in the private sector –
the union movement created the middle class, ended child labor, championed public education and gave working men and women a strong voice.
Plain and simple, you can't have a middle class without unions!
All of that - the very way of life of the middle class - is threatened now.
NEA must join with its allies in the national fight to secure health care for every American.
We must fight for the policies that will bring economic security to our members and the families of our students.
We must fight to give working Americans the right to form and join unions by passing the Employee Free Choice Act!
Today's fights are the fights for working Americans, the millions of people who lie awake at night wondering if their job will be there the next day…
whether they will be able to hang on to the house that they call home…
or whether they can provide their children with the medical care they need ….
Like the struggles of our founders…
these issues aren't about just us – they are about everyone…
They cannot be fought alone….
They will require us to work alongside our allies.
These fights will require a strong, unified, labor movement.
So we must do our part to rebuild that movement to what it once was …
a strong and powerful voice for education and working families.
We want to transform education. We want to strengthen the middle class.
We cannot do these things unless we are organized.
Our success is dependent on the third area of focus:
Building our own capacity as an organization.
So how do we … as individuals and as an organization … provide the leadership needed in these urgent times?
We start by investing in our 51-state affiliates and our 14,000 locals.
We are an organization whose very foundation relies upon the strength of our affiliates.
I won't let us ever forget that.
Our states have weathered - and continue to weather –
the extraordinary impact of the economic crises on education budgets,
and on our affiliates' own fiscal health.
NEA has always supported the critical work that you are doing in the states.
But this time the need is greater so our response must be greater.
NEA will empty its buildings to help you sustain and build your memberships…
NEA will support your efforts this year and next to elect more pro-public education governors.
Your state legislative fights will become our fights.
We will do everything in our power to keep the foundation of this organization strong.…
My guess is that many of you … feel the same pressure I do from all the challenges that surround us.
But when I think of the hard road ahead of us … the difficult decisions …
I also think about the pressures that our predecessors must have felt, the challenges they faced,
how they struggled to lead our organization through difficult times….
Regardless of the pressures … they persevered … and brought this great organization to where we are today.
I ask you to take the lessons from our founders...
leaders who were not bowed by the enormity of their challenges … but galvanized by them.
So today - I ask each one of you to take action….
I ask you to get involved – personally – in the effort to turn around the lowest performing schools in the nation.
Over the next five years, the Department of Education will focus on these troubled schools, where a disproportionate number of students live in poverty and drop out of school.
By focusing on these schools, we can achieve the greatest possible impact …
we can make a difference in thousands and thousands of lives.
These schools are everywhere.
Half are in urban areas,
30 percent in rural areas,
and 20 percent in suburbs.
So I am asking you to get involved. If you are able to staff or teach in one of these schools, please do so.
If not, maybe you can mentor a new teacher or a student … or help a school establish strong ties with parents and the community.
But it is important that you do something - because these kids deserve better – and we are the ones who can make a difference.
NEA started our work on High Priority Schools more than 10 years ago, … and the NEA Foundation has spent millions of dollars supporting efforts to close the gaps and stem the dropout rates.
Now that the federal government is planning to spend Billions of dollars on turnaround schools – we need our local unions to be involved and active in the design and implementation of those plans. The voice of educators must be heard.
One of our core values is Partnerships – and transformation cannot happen without a partnership including management, government, and the union – a partnership that reaches out and engages parents and the community.
We are the professionals –
we are the members of the largest professional association/labor union in America.
So, we need to act in the spirit of those who grabbed onto the reins of collective bargaining and political action.
Past NEA leaders who wrestled power away from those who had it … and fought for better pay and benefits, and employee rights.
Now it is our turn to show the nation that we know how to transform a troubled school …
and show them that it can be accomplished without penalizing our members.
I am asking you to organize like never before.
In the old days, it might have been enough to round everybody up for a meeting once in a while.
Today, in the era of e-mail, Face Book, and Twitter, that is not enough.
We must be able to mobilize active members at a moments' notice – just as our opponents can do.
For a start, NEA needs to have at least 50 activists in every congressional district by January 1, 2010.
That's 21,750 activists. If everyone in this room signs up, 40% of the slots will be filled!
Whether it is health care, … reauthorization of ESEA or any other federal legislation that affects our members – we must be able to move at Internet speed.
I ask you to build that list – NEA is creating a web site exclusively for the 2009 RA-delegates. It will be available in September and we will use that web site to engage you over the coming year.
And finally – I want to ask you for something else. Not an action or an activity. Something much more personal:
I ask you to believe in the POWER of this organization – to believe, that in spite of all the challenges we face, that we, individually and collectively, have Power … the ability to act, to influence, to make a difference.
This one is tough – I know.
In April, I served on a panel to discuss the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Of course there were the expected questions about the money allocated for education – the impact of the funds, … would they be used properly, … was it enough to plug the gaping holes in state budgets.
One question caused me to pause – the moderator asked …
"At a time when NEA members must face budget cuts and layoffs due to the economic pressures on state and school district budgets, … the administration is calling for innovation and to turn around the most challenging schools in America … can you do both? "
Can we do both? Can we fight to survive and transform public education?
Thoughts raced through my mind: Is this the right time to think about long-term aspirations … to take on the most difficult challenges?
Would two or three or five years from now be better?
Maybe when the economy is stronger, employment is back up, both in education and the nation.
But then I thought - if not now … exactly when would it be a better time?
And if we don't take advantage of this opportunity to transform public education right now, will we get another chance?
For me the time is now – despite all the challenges – this is our time, our opportunity.
And what drives me each and every day is the class of 2020.
They started kindergarten in the fall of 2007 – they just finished 1st grade few weeks ago.
I imagine them all in a giant stadium – America's most valuable resource – America's future.
And then the reality hits me hard – knowing that although I cannot predict what will happen to any one of them next month, next week, or even tomorrow …
I can tell you with pinpoint accuracy what will happen to them by 2020.
Within two percentage points,
I can tell you how many will drop-out,
how many will be incarcerated,
how many will commit suicide,
how many will be teen parents.
We cannot allow those results to be true for one more generation.
And we can't wait until 2010 or 2015 to begin –
We must begin now – we must begin TODAY!
I know we have the power to make a difference.
At 3.2 million members, we are the largest professional organization/labor union in America.
We are celebrating 26 consecutive years of membership growth.
We have doubled our membership since 1983 …
from 1.6 million to 3.2 million members.
We have grown stronger …. And more powerful.
Now it is our challenge to use that power, … to transform public education for the good of our students, … to rebuild the middle class for the good of our country, … and to organize like never before for the good of our members!
The theme of this RA is "Hope Starts Here."
That doesn't mean that hope didn't exist until today, in this convention hall.
It means, that hope starts with you … just as it has for the past 152 years.
It means that hope starts with education … just as it always has.
A kid on a farm, walking miles to a one-room schoolhouse…
An immigrant who came to this country and struggled to make ends meet, but always insisted that his children go to school …
A soldier who came home from World War II and entered college on the GI Bill …
The Little Rock Nine, and all of the thousands of brave students who helped break the barriers of segregation …
For all of them, and for millions of other Americans, the hope of a better life has always started with education.
Hope Starts Here – because we can imagine a new future …
A future filled with promise for our students, our members, and the nation.
Hope Starts Here – because our nation is suffering difficult economic times.
And the road to economic recovery and a brighter tomorrow runs right through our public schools!
And, ¬Hope Starts Here – because we have the kind of opportunity that only comes along once in a lifetime –
an opportunity to transform public education,
to realize our great audacious vision:
A Great Public School for Every Student.
Something that has never been accomplished anywhere, not even in America. Not ever in the history of the world …
But we have the opportunity to make it happen!
We have the history …
We have the skills and knowledge …
We have the power …
And we have the courage.
Now we must seize the opportunity …
NEA 2009: Hope Starts Here.


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The Scent of Fashion
Above the dress
Toulouse Lautrec's Jane Avril in the Entrance of the Moulin Rouge shows some of the fashionable outdoors wear of the early 1890s. The wide brimmed hat worn by Jane Avril would have been outmoded by 1892 but flowers remained a popular decoration: "hats continue to look like flower-gardens," stated the periodical Woman at Home in 1896. The full length coat would have been worn for both evening and day wear and Jane Avril's coat retains the plain fitted form with the high shoulder and sleeve line which was representative of the early part of the decade. In 1898 The Queen magazine stated: "Boas are much worn in the evening, either made of sable or the fur of a Siberian cat."
As a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, Jane Avril would have been aware that a cheap imitation fur boa worn around the neck and down the front of her long coat could create an illusion of a fashionable outfit, although the poor quality of her boa would instantly correlate with her humble social status. In literature as well as painting, the boa became an item of female dress signifying modern femininity; the boa worn by Henry James' heroine, Charlotte Stant, in The Golden Bowl becomes a visual signifier of Charlotte's modern values. Literature of the period, as well as the Courtauld's paintings, demonstrates a growing awareness of the equation of modernity with feminine fashion. In capturing the essence of fashionable trends in all elements of female dress, late nineteenth century French painting truly enveloped its sitters in "the scent of fashion" of the period.
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International cooperation
ESA encourages cooperation with non-ESA Member States and carries out a number of space programmes and science missions in partnership with other agencies.
ESA and Russia
Russia is ESA's first partner in its efforts to ensure long-term access to space. There is a framework agreement between ESA and the government of the Russian Federation on cooperation and partnership in the exploration and use of outer space for peaceful purposes, and cooperation is already underway in two different areas of launcher activity that will bring benefits to both partners.
Soyuz at Europe's Spaceport
The agreement between ESA and the Russian Federal Space Agency on long-term cooperation and partnership in the field of development, implementation and use of launchers was signed on 19 January 2005. It enables the Russian Soyuz launchers to use Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana as a launch base. Soyuz, in its different versions, is renowned both for the number of successful launches made - more than 1700 - and for its role in carrying men and women from many different nations into space.
The launch of Soyuz from the Spaceport in French Guiana consolidates Europe's access to space for medium-size missions. Russia benefits from the many advantages provided by the Spaceport and from improved access to the commercial market.
The building of the Soyuz launch site was completed in 2011. Soyuz lifted off for the first time from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on 21 October 2011.
Future Launchers
ESA's Launchers Programme and Russia have agreed to cooperate on developing the technologies needed for ESA's and Russia's next generation launcher. This will reduce time, risks and costs, and may also pave the way for future joint developments and production.


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(2) The offerer will then automatically send an acknowledgement of receipt via e-mail to the customer, in which the order is listed and which can be printed by the customer by clicking the "print" icon. This acknowledgement of receipt documents that the offer to buy has arrived and has been confirmed (accepted) by the offerer.
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(1) If one of the ordered goods is temporarily unavailable, the offerer will inform the customer immediately in the confirmation of order. If the delay of delivery is to last longer than two weeks, the customer has the right to withdraw from the contract. In this case, the offerer also has the right to withdraw from the contact and the offerer will automatically refund all payments already made by the customer.
(2) For all standard products offered in the web shop, except MAM Individual ( pacifiers, pacifier clip and combi-boxes, the offerer attempts to deliver within two weeks after conclusion of the contract. In every case the possibility of a four-week delivery is agreed, but in such a case the offerer will inform the customer that the two-week period will be extended. MAM Individual Products are custom made, meaning delivery time can vary. The offerer will deliver these products within eight weeks after conclusion of the contract. In the case of a delay due to the multistage production process, which exceeds eight weeks, the offerer will inform the customer immediately.
(3) The minimum amount of order is 19 € net, the maximum amount of order in the web shop is listed at 500 € net.
§ 4 Prices and forwarding charges
(1) All prices listed on the website of the offerer include the packing and applicable sales tax.
(2) The corresponding shipping costs will be listed in the order form. These costs are to be paid by the customer.
(3) For shipping outside Europe all import and export expenses such as customs duty, other charges and taxes have to be charged by the offerer.
(4) All goods are sent via post. The delivery address is accepted only if the delivery country appears on the internet list of the offerer. The customer assumes all risk from the time that the goods are given to the deliverer (post, shipping agent, forwarding agent, freight agent, etc).
(5) Place of fulfillment is Neckarsulm.
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(1) The customer has the right to pay via direct debit (in Germany only) or via credit card.
(2) If the customer chooses payment via direct debit the bank account will be charged within ten days after conclusion of the contract. The customer is responsible for sufficient funds. If the occasion arises, that at time of direct debit the bank account does not have sufficient funds, expenses will be charged to the account of the customer. Furthermore, if the bank account lacks sufficient funds, the order will automatically be cancelled. The order can only be sent to the customer if the bill is paid in full. Bank fees will be charged to the customer.
(3) If the customer chooses payment via credit card only valid Visa or MasterCard are accepted. Bank fees are charged to the customer.
§ 6 Reservation of proprietary rights
Until complete payment is received the delivered goods remain the complete property of the offerer.
§ 7 Guarantee and material defects
(1) The offerer is responsible for material defects according to German law, in particular §§ 434 (following) of the German Civil Code. Claims against material defects for delivered expire twelve months after delivery.
(2) A guarantee for the delivered goods is granted only if it has been specifically stated in the respective confirmation for each article.
§ 8 Liability
(1) The right of the customer to claim compensation is excluded, except for compensation to the customer for injury to life, body, health or from violating essential obligations of the contract, as well as liability for other damages, which are based on premeditated or culpable negligence of the offerer, its representatives or agents. Essential obligations are such obligations, which are required for achieving the goal of fulfillment of the contract.
(2) Should the offerer violate these essential obligations, the offerer is only liable for such damages which are typically foreseeable for the contract and if these where caused by negligence, except the compensation of the customer regarding injuring to life, body or health.
(3) The limitations in (1) an (2) are also valid for the representatives or agents of the offerer, if the right is brought directly against these.
(4) The regulations of the Product Liability Act are unaffected.
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(1) Right of cancellation
You have the right to cancel this contract within fourteen days without specifying any reasons. The cancellation period is fourteen days from the date on which you or a third party nominated by you who is not the carrier took possession of the last goods.
In order to exercise your right of cancellation, you must inform us
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about your decision to cancel this contract by providing an unambiguous declaration (for example a letter sent by post, e-mail sent to the e-mail address provided above or by telephone). You can do this using the enclosed sample cancellation form, but this form is not pre-populated. In order to preserve the cancellation period, it is sufficient if you send the notification of your exercising of the right of cancellation before the cancellation period expires.
(2) Consequences of cancellation
If you cancel this contract, we must pay back to you all payments which we have received from you, including the delivery costs, immediately and within no more than fourteen days from the date on which we received the notification about your intention to cancel this contract. For this repayment, we shall use the same means of payment that you used in the original transaction, unless something to the contrary has been explicitly agreed with you; in no event shall you be charged any fees for this repayment. We may refuse to make the repayment until we have received the goods back from you or you have provided proof that you have returned the goods, depending on which of these is the earlier.
You must return the goods or hand them over to us immediately and in any event within no more than fourteen days from the date on which you notify us about the cancellation of this contract. The deadline period is preserved if you send the goods before the period of fourteen days expires.
Items that are capable of being shipped as a parcel are to be returned at our risk. You must pay the costs of the return consignment if the goods delivered correspond to those ordered and if the price of the item to be returned does not exceed an amount of 40 euros or if, when the item has a higher price, you have not yet provided the service in return or a contractually agreed partial payment at the time of cancellation. Otherwise the return consignment is free of charge for you. Items that are not capable of being shipped as a parcel shall be collected from you at our expense.
You must only pay for any depreciation in the value of the goods if this depreciation in value is attributable to handling of them other than what is necessary to ascertain the nature, properties and functioning of the goods.
Exclusion from cancellation
(1) The right of cancellation does not exist for the delivery of sealed goods which, for reasons of health protection or hygiene, are not suitable for return if the seal has been removed following delivery.
(2) The right of cancellation does not exist in the case of the delivery of goods which have been made according to the specification of the contractual partner (individual or customised products). Customised products for this purpose are all products in the MAM Individual range (soothers, soother straps, combination boxes).
§ 10 Notice for data processing
(1) The offerer collects data from the customers necessary for the execution of the contract. The offerer observes the Federal Data Protection Act and the "Telemediengesetz" .Without the consent of the customer the offerer will only ask for, use or work with data from the customer as it is needed for fulfilling the contract in a proper manner and to draw up an account for teleservices.
(2) Without the consent of the customer the offerer will not use customer data for commercial purposes, public opinion research or market research.
(3) The customer has the possibility to review, change or delete his data via the "change MAM Club profile" icon in his profile at any time. Regarding the consent of the customer, more information about the collection, use and work with data can be found on the website of the offerer in printable form via the data privacy icon.
§ 11 final clause
(1) All contracts between the offerer and the customer are based on German law under exclusion of the UN Convention on Contracts for International Sale.
(2) If the customer is businessperson, a corporate body organized under public law or a separate entity under public law, court of jurisdiction is Neckarsulm for all disputes between the offerer and the customer.
(3) Should any parts of the contract become null (void) the remainder of the contract is binding.
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True Grit Farms wrote:Son of Butch wrote::lol2: Responsibility for doing a doughnut?
Don't you know that your supposed to chase kids down and stick a gun in their face for doing burnouts. I'd be a real pizzed off parent if that happened to my kid. My son got caught drag racing in town, we got everything taken care of and made him wash the police cars once a week for a month.
It doesn't matter where the kids were doing the doughnuts, you don't pull a gun on someone.
But you'd pull one on a security guard for doing her job? You know she's someone's daughter and probably someone's mother and wife....


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Today marks the birthday of the English novelist and playwright Fanny Burney, born in 1752, whose Evelina, Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer were all major sensations in her day. Hers were satirical novels—often now called proto-Austenian—which were highly regarded by contemporary critics as well as readers.
Burney wrote one of the earliest accounts of a mastectomy—her own—which she was, horrifyingly, awake enough to observe. The operation was performed by "7 men in black, Dr. Larrey, M. Dubois, Dr. Moreau, Dr. Aumont, Dr. Ribe, & a pupil of Dr. Larrey, & another of M. Dubois"—the latter of whom was considered the number-one doctor in France. Warning: the account, taken from a letter to her sister, gets a little gory, so it's not for the faint of heart. But Burney did survive, until 1840, at least. Of course, we can't be sure she really had cancer: she had pains in her breast, but in the absence of a biopsy, it's hard to know.
I mounted, therefore, unbidden, the Bed stead—& M. Dubois placed me upon the Mattress, & spread a cambric handkerchief upon my face. It was transparent, however, & I saw, through it, that the Bed stead was instantly surrounded by the 7 men & my nurse. I refused to be held; but when, Bright through the cambric, I saw the glitter of polished Steel—I closed my Eyes. I would not trust to convulsive fear the sight of the terrible incision. Yet— when the dreadful steel was plunged into the breast—cutting through veins—arteries—flesh—nerves—I needed no injunctions not to restrain my cries. I began a scream that lasted unintermittingly during the whole time of the incision—& I almost marvel that it rings not in my Ears still, so excruciating was the agony. When the wound was made, & the instrument was withdrawn, the pain seemed undiminished, for the air that suddenly rushed into those delicate parts felt like a mass of minute but sharp & forked poniards, that were tearing the edges of the wound. I concluded the operation was over—Oh no! presently the terrible cutting was renewed—& worse than ever, to separate the bottom, the foundation of this dreadful gland from the parts to which it adhered—Again all description would be baffled—yet again all was not over,—Dr. Larry rested but his own hand, & — Oh heaven!—I then felt the knife (rack)ling against the breast bone—scraping it!


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I dont know how to write this code I am new to Java and one of the labs is: write a counter-controlled while loop that uses the loop control variable to take on the values 0 through 10 Remember to initialize the loop control variable before the program enters the loop. Here is the half written program that they give you. and you are suppose to write the while part. i just cant figure out how to do it.? Can someone show me how this is done? I would really apprectiate it.
// DoubleQuadruple.java - This program prints the numbers 0 through 10 along // with these values doubled and quadrupled. // Input: None. // Output: Prints the numbers 0 through 10 along with their doubles and quadruples. public class DoubleQuadruple { public static void main(String args[]) { String head1 = "Number: "; String head2 = "Doubled: "; String head3 = "Quadrupled: "; int numberCounter; // Numbers 0 through 10. int doubled; // Stores the double of a number. int quadrupled; // Stores the quadruple of a number. final int NUM_LOOPS = 10; // Constant used to control loop. // This is the work done in the housekeeping() method System.out.println("0 through 10 doubled and quadrupled" + "\n"); // This is the work done in the detailLoop() method // Initialize loop control variable. // Write your counter_controlled while loop here. // Calculate double. // Calculate quadruple. System.out.println(head1 + numberCounter); System.out.println(head2 + doubled); System.out.println(head3 + quadrupled); // Next number. // This is the work done in the endOfJob() method System.exit(0); } // End of main() method. } // End of DoubleQuadruple class.


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Back in October, when Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert capped their dual "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Restore Fear" with a song, they couldn't have known their humorous unity anthem – "There's No One More American Than We" – would become Fox's Super Bowl entertainment playbook.
"From gay men who like football, to straight men who like 'Glee,' there's no one more American than we," the Comedy Central duo crooned.
Amid all the pre-game talk about the commercials – and even the game, here and there – Super Bowl XLV might turn out to be most remembered by some viewers as the year the big game met "Glee."
Judging from the promos flooding Fox's airwaves, you wouldn't be faulted for thinking that the Super Bowl is the pre-game warm-up for the return of its hit show about a high school glee club, following a nearly two-month hiatus.
But the hoopla is about a lot more than "Glee": This year's spectacular seems aimed at bringing a modicum of youth back to the Super Bowl-related entertainment, seven years after Janet Jackson traumatized the nation and made "wardrobe malfunction" a euphemism meaning a body-baring "oops!"
The halftime show is set to feature Black Eyed Peas, which will mark the first time since the Jackson fiasco that the act will be under 40 (and if not for Prince, who was 49 during at the time of his 2007 appearance, you could raise that benchmark to 50). Perhaps more importantly, this will be the first halftime show since 2004 to feature a female star: Fergie, who presumably will secure her lovely lady lumps well ahead of time.
Don't get us wrong: the halftime shows in recent years, featuring the likes of Paul McCartney, the Rolling Stones, Prince, Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, have been strong, even if they were largely predictable greatest hits-type affairs. We're still confused by all the criticism that met last year's gig by The Who, though we think they erred by playing a medley instead of just blasting out three classics in their allotted 11 minutes.
What amuses us is that all of the so-called "safe" acts to play in the post-Jackson halftime era were once, to varying degrees, considered threats to Western Civilization in their respective youths.
Youth is exactly what Fox wants to attract to the Super Bowl, even if the performers aren't exactly edgy. Black Eyed Peas are fairly mainstream at this point as are the pre-game entertainers, among them Maroon 5, Christina Aguilera (who is slated to sing the National Anthem) and "Glee" breakout Lea Michele (she'll sing "America the Beautiful"), whose presence represents blatant Fox cross-promotion.
The post-game "Glee" episode centers on a performance of another Jackson's song – Michael's "Thriller" – on a high school football field. Beyond being a cloyingly all-too-obvious tie-in to the Super Bowl, the set-up goes to the heart of "Glee" and its generally entertaining jocks v. gleeks premise.
High school is supposed to be the place where we all learn to get along despite our surface differences, even if it rarely works out that way (in real life or on "Glee"). Give Fox credit for trying to merge the two worlds, if only in the name of ratings. After all, what's more American than football and music (and big ratings)?
It's a rare instance where even Stewart and Colbert might have reason to sing Fox's praises.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NYCity News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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A hacker claims to have pertinent information about the leak at Princefield; Patty's former colleague offers her services to Ellen.
In the Season 5 premiere, a whistle-blower case pits Patty and Ellen against each other.
Carter stops Afghan men from killing Chris Sanchez. Ellen tells Erickson to make an offer to her clients and she will make sure the case is dropped as long as he produces evidence Sanchez is alive. Patty and Michael along with his attorney meet regarding Catherine.moreless
Dean, the reporter that Ellen has been talking to, meets with a contact in Afghanistan and tells him he's looking Chris Sanchez. His contact agrees to help him. Boorman arrives at the safe house to find his girlfriend. She asks who the boy is and why he's locked up. Boorman throws her out.moreless
Patty continues her therapy sessions with Dr. Baldwin who confronts her about her legacy. Boorman tells Erickson Nasim was deported. Boorman wants Erickson to make a decision about Sanchez—either keep him locked up or get rid of him.moreless
Patty is still worried about Catherine's health. The nurse, Angel Auroro, suggests Patty tell Michael about Catherine's sickness. Patty shares that she doesn't know where Michael is.
Ellen and Patty have decided to move Nasim to a safer place. Ellen escorts Nasim to his hotel to collect his belongings. Boorman poses as a cab driver. Just as Ellen and Nasim are about to enter Boorman's cab, Victor Huntley and a security team pick them up and take them to Hewes & Associates. Patty tells Ellen about Herndon's discovery on Dust Devil. She also informs Ellen about C.I.A.'s involvement, which means their phones could be bugged. Ellen connects "DD" with "Dust Devil."moreless
Ellen is visited by Nasim Marwat, the son of Chris Sanchez' Afghan contact, who gives her Chris's skull medallion. Patty reaches out to her former mentor, William Herndon, to help get government info on the "Double-Dees" inscription on the medallion. Herndon, now a raging alcoholic, warns Ellen about tangling with High Star.moreless
Victor tells Patty he suspects Michael is in Boston since he had a few friends in the area right after he disappeared. Ellen sets up shop at Hewes & Associates and files the case against High Star despite Chris's absence.moreless
Two years have passed since Patty and Ellen last worked together. Ellen has taken a position at Nye's firm, but her ultimate goal is to open her own practice. She reconnects with her high school friend, Chris Sanchez, who has recently returned from a stint at High Star, a private contractor in the Middle East. Unable to get assistance from the corporation or the government, Ellen decides to look into his case. Both her new boss and Patty warn Ellen about building a case against Howard Erickson and the High Star Security Corp.moreless
Patty's relentless pursuit of the Tobin family's hidden fortune exposes interlocking webs of deceit that propel her and everyone in her orbit into a series of deadly confrontations.


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Its been a while since I posted anything. I thought I'd post one of my holiday pics for feedback. This is a pic of Bunny in her new outfit (yeah another one)
she is holding a penguin. . .why. . .because they rock! he he he
Pengin stuff
Just one thing, don't make me go Chibi on your ass.</p>


text: Birds are awesome and they come in various shape and sizes. The Smallest bird in the world (Bee Hummingbird) weighs just 1.6 gm whereas the largest Bird in the world (Ostrich) weights 104 Kg. In this article First scientific study of World's smallest birds was done by Juan Lembeye in the year 1850, and in that year he published the …Read More »


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Report: Martin Truex Jr. agrees to deal with Furniture Row Racing
Martin Truex Jr. has agreed to drive for Furniture Row Racing next year, FoxSports.com reported Thursday morning.
Truex was considered the leading candidate for the ride after Michael Waltrip Racing lost its NAPA sponsorship for Truex and his No. 56 team as part of the fallout from penalties for manipulating the Sept. 7 race at Richmond International Raceway.
Furniture Row Racing general manager Joe Garone told Sporting News Thursday that negotiations with Truex continue but that the deal is not done and the team does not have anything to announce yet.
A two-time qualifier for the Chase for the Sprint Cup and a two-time winner on the Cup circuit, Truex is 16th in the Cup standings.
MORE: MWR cutbacks | MWR owners committed | Behind the scenes at Furniture Row | Ragan, Gilliland return
That is lower than where Truex expected to be, especially after the Richmond race where he initially had qualified for the Chase.
But NASCAR kicked Truex, 33, out of the Chase with a 50-point penalty after it determined that MWR had manipulated the finish with Clint Bowyer spinning to bring out a late caution flag and Brian Vickers pitting to intentionally lose spots — both moves that helped Truex get in the Chase. Truex and Bowyer were both docked 50 points and the organization was fined a record $300,000.
Less than two weeks later, NAPA announced that it was ending its support of MWR with two years left on its contract.
That essentially made Truex a free agent. MWR announced Monday that it would not field a third full-time team for Truex and FoxSports.com, citing sources, reported that Truex had agreed to a deal Wednesday night.
Furniture Row Racing became the first single-car team to make the Chase this year, and driver Kurt Busch is seventh in the standings. Busch is leaving the team at the end of the year for Stewart-Haas Racing.
Truex is a two-time Nationwide Series champion and spent four seasons at Dale Earnhardt Inc./Earnhardt Ganassi Racing before going to Michael Waltrip Racing starting in 2010.


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So it's memoir month around my house, apparently. This is what happens when you are cheap and mostly check out books from the library. All of my Library Holds showed up at once, they were all memoirs and it doesn't really matter if I am in the mood to read them or not. For the record: I'm not really at this moment, but I am making due. My life of first world problems is so difficult, let us all have a moment of silence.
Currently, I'm reading Talking With My Mouth Full by Gail Simmons, who is not only a Top Chef judge, but a Food & Wine Magazine aficianado and clearly Padma Lakshmi's Terrible Outfit enabler. A complex woman, obviously. I'm also reading the Jaycee Dugard memoir A Stolen Life, but you don't really want to know about the thoughts I'm having while reading that book, so let's just get back to Gail.
I was actually very excited to get my filthy mitts on this book because I have super pink puffy heart LOVE for Top Chef. (Really anything on Bravo, but I think we already discussed that.) Anyway, I was curious about Gail and her career trajectory and how she ended up with this offbeat career, and so I was excited to see how it all played out. And then I opened the book and all my thoughts started flooding.
Thought # 1: Wait — wasn't Gail Simmons a Food Writer at one point?
While I won't say this is the worst book I've ever read (it's totally not!) the beginning was just…not very compelling. Especially when she talked about food. There was one passage where she wrote about her time working in Daniel Boulud's kitchen (Daniel Boulud! The cuisine he cooks probably deserves many adjectives!) and it read something something like "The blackberry cobbler was purple. Also tart. The seeds got in my teeth." Short choppy sentences, lots of telling, not showing. Very little description. Stark contrast to other food memoirs that I've read. I mean, I've read Ruth Reichl passages that made me need someone to bring my inner-hedonist a towel to mop up my drool, you know?
Thought # 2: Jeffrey Steingarten is a total weirdo. And yet I would TOTALLY work for him if I ever had the opportunity!
I mean you guys, when Gail worked for him all she did was shop, cook and eat. This is my ideal job description.
Sure it sounds like she was doing that amazing job in a dark apartment that smelled like goose-fat with a condescending, chocoholic ogre who has a very refined palate but a very UN-refined set of social skills, but still: How do I get a job where this is all I do. I could get used to smelling like goose fat. I think.
Thought # 3: Aspen Food & Wine Classic is going on The Life Bucket List
I mean, how can it not? Check out how fun it looks! Here is the thing, I love my Paleo eating, but I would happily slurp a plate of spaghetti with Mario Batali. I mean COME ON! The book finally gets good when she starts talking about it, and her description of it made me want to go IMMEDIATELY. That was my sly way of saying the writing has improved slightly. Did you get that? Ok good.
It's an entire weekend full of eating and drinking in excess! Watching cooking demonstrations and taking classes about grape varietals! Schmoozing with famous chefs! Once in a lifetime experiences! Fabulous people and fabulous weather! Oh and did I mention eating and drinking in excess? And all for the bargain price of $1125. Per Person. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…sob!
I've started reading the blog just to torture myself.
Anyway, I'm almost done with it and it's not the best memoir I've ever read, but it moves fairly fast and she's starting to dish on the Top Chef contestants/meals so you know I've gotta get in on that action!
Have you read it? Would you read it?