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Diving chamber
A diving chamber has two main functions:
- as a simpler form of submersible vessel to take divers underwater and to provide a temporary base and retrieval system in the depths;
- as a land or ship-based hyperbaric chamber to artificially reproduce the hyperbaric conditions under the sea (pressures above normal atmospheric pressure) for diving-related and non-diving medical applications such as hyperbaric medicine).
- 1 Basic types of diving chamber
- 2 Underwater use
- 3 Out of water use
- 4 Structure and layout
- 5 Operation
- 6 See also
- 7 References
- 8 External links
Basic types of diving chamber
There are two basic types of submersible diving chamber differentiated by the way in which the pressure in the diving chamber is produced and controlled.
Open diving bell
The historically older open diving chamber, open diving bell or wet bell is in effect a large diving bell, utilising an open bottom, the equivalent of a moon pool, to equalise internal air pressure and external water pressure automatically without the need, necessarily, to measure and control it. An air compressor or bottled compressed air is required to maintain the volume of the air as it becomes compressed with increasing depth, or to make up for oxygen depleted by the occupants' breathing and for carbon dioxide removed from exhaled air by a carbon dioxide scrubber system. This type of diving chamber can only be used underwater, as the internal air pressure is directly proportional to the depth underwater and raising or lowering the chamber is the only way to adjust the pressure.
Hyperbaric chamber
A sealable diving chamber, closed bell or dry bell is a pressure vessel with hatches large enough for people to enter and exit, and a compressed breathing gas supply to raise the internal air pressure. Such chambers provide a supply of oxygen for the user, and are usually called hyperbaric chambers whether used underwater or at the water surface or on land to produce underwater pressures. However, some use submersible chamber to refer to those used underwater and hyperbaric chamber for those used out of water. There are two related terms which reflect particular usages rather than technically different types:
- Decompression chamber, a hyperbaric chamber used by surface-supplied divers to make their surface decompression stops
- Recompression chamber, a hyperbaric chamber used to treat or prevent decompression sickness.
When used underwater there are two ways to prevent water flooding in when the submersible hyperbaric chamber's hatch is opened. The hatch could open into a moon pool chamber, and then its internal pressure must first be equalised to that of the moon pool chamber. More commonly the hatch opens into an underwater airlock, in which case the main chamber's pressure can stay constant, while it is the airlock pressure which shifts. This common design is called a lock-out chamber, and is used in submarines, submersibles, and underwater habitats as well as diving chambers.
Another arrangement utilises a dry airlock between a sealable hyperbaric compartment and an open diving bell compartment (so that effectively the whole structure is a mixture of the two types of diving chamber).
When used underwater all types of diving chamber are attached to a diving support vessel by a strong cable for raising and lowering and an umbilical cable delivering, at a minimum, compressed breathing gas, power, and communications, and all need weights attached or built in to overcome their buoyancy. The greatest depth reached using a cable-suspended chamber is about 1500 m; beyond this the cable becomes unmanageable.
Related equipment
In addition to the diving bell and hyperbaric chamber, related diving equipment includes the following.
- Underwater habitat: consists of compartments operating under the same principles as diving bells and diving chambers, but fixed to the sea floor for long-term use.
- Submersibles and submarines differ in being able to move under their own power. The interiors are usually maintained at surface pressure, but some examples include air locks and internal hyperbaric chambers.
- There is also other deep diving equipment which has atmospheric internal pressure, including:
- Bathysphere: name given to an experimental deep-sea diving chamber of the 1920s and 1930s.
- Benthoscope: a successor to the bathysphere built to go to greater depths.
- Bathyscaphe: a self-propelled submersible vessel able to adjust its own buoyancy for exploring extreme depths.
Underwater use
As well as transporting divers, a diving chamber carries tools and equipment, high pressure storage cylinders for emergency breathing gas supply, and communications and emergency equipment. It provides a temporary dry air environment during extended dives for rest, eating meals, carrying out tasks which can't be done underwater, and for emergencies. Diving chambers also act as an underwater base for surface supplied diving operations, with the divers' umbilicals (air supply, etc.) attached to the diving chamber rather than to the diving support vessel.
Diving bells
Diving bells and open diving chambers of the same principle were more common in the past owing to their simplicity, since they do not necessarily need to monitor, control and mechanically adjust the internal pressure. Secondly since internal air pressure and external water pressure on the bell wall are almost balanced, the chamber does not have to be as strong as a pressurised diving chamber (dry bell). The air inside an open bell is at the same pressure as the water at the air-water interface surface. This pressure is constant and the pressure difference on the bell shell can be higher than the external pressure to the extent of the height of the air space in the bell.
A wet diving bell or open diving chamber must be raised slowly to the surface with decompression stops appropriate to the dive profile so that the occupants can avoid decompression sickness. This may take hours, and so limits its use.
Submersible hyperbaric chambers
Submersible hyperbaric chambers can be brought to the surface without delay to allow divers to decompress since they can maintain the same pressure at which the divers were working. The divers can stay in the chamber on the support vessel to decompress. This flexibility makes them safer to use and more useful in an accident or emergency, including problems affecting the dive support vessel, such as sudden bad weather. They are used to support saturation diving for which the decompression times are very long.
A diving chamber based on a pressure vessel is more expensive to construct since it has to withstand very high pressure differentials. These may be both crushing pressures when the chamber is lowered into the sea and the internal pressure is kept less than ambient water pressure, or it may be an outwards pressure when it is out of the water and its internal pressure is set the same as water pressure at a certain depth.
Hyperbaric chambers also require more sophisticated systems to set and control internal gas pressure. However modern manufacturing techniques and control systems have reduced the cost and this type of diving chamber is now more common than the older dive bell type.
Rescue bells are specialized diving chambers or submersibles able to retrieve divers or occupants of diving chambers or underwater habitats in an emergency and to keep them under the required pressure. They have airlocks for underwater entry or to form a watertight seal with hatches on the target structure to effect a dry transfer of personnel. Rescuing occupants of submarines or submersibles with internal air pressure of one atmosphere requires being able to withstand the huge pressure differential to effect a dry transfer, and has the advantage of not requiring decompression measures on returning to the surface.
Out of water use
Hyperbaric chambers are also used on land and above the water
- to take surface supplied divers who have been brought up from underwater through their decompression stops, either as surface decompression or after transfer under pressure from a dry bell. (decompression chambers)
- to train divers to adapt to hyperbaric conditions and decompression routines and test their performance under pressure.
- to treat divers for decompression sickness (recompression chambers)
- to treat people using raised oxygen pressure in hyperbaric oxygen therapy
- to treat people infected with gas gangrene and other conditions unrelated to diving[1]
- In saturation diving life support systems
- in scientific research requiring elevated gas pressures.
Hyperbaric chambers designed only for use out of water do not have to resist inward crushing forces, only outward expansion forces. Those for medical applications typically only operate up to two or three atmospheres, while those for diving applications may have to go to six atmospheres and above.
Lightweight portable hyperbaric chambers which can be lifted by helicopter are used by commercial diving operators and rescue services to carry one or more divers requiring hospitalisation.
Decompression chamber
A decompression chamber is a pressure vessel used in surface supplied diving to allow the divers to complete their decompression stops at the end of a dive on the surface rather than underwater. This eliminates many of the risks of long decompressions underwater, in cold or dangerous conditions.
Two United States Navy sailors inside a decompression chamber about to undergo training
Hyperbaric treatment chamber
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber
A hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber is used to treat patients, including divers, whose condition might improve through hyperbaric oxygen treatment. Hyperbaric chambers capable of admitting more than one patient (multiplace) and an inside attendant have advantages for the treatment of decompression sickness (DCS) if the patient requires other treatment for serious complications or injury while in the chamber, but in most cases monoplace chambers can be successfully used for treating decompression sickness.[2] Rigid chambers are capable of greater depth of recompression than soft chambers which are unsuitable for treating DCS.
Recompression chamber
A recompression chamber is a hyperbaric treatment chamber used to treat divers suffering from certain diving disorders such as decompression sickness.[3]
Treatment is ordered by the treating physician (medical diving officer), and generally follows one of the standard hyperbaric treatment schedules such as the US Navy treatment Tables 5 or 6.[4]
When hyperbaric oxygen is used it is generally administered by built-in breathing systems (BIBS), which reduce contamination of the chamber gas by excessive oxygen.[5]
Test of pressure
If the diagnosis of decompression illness is considered questionable, the diving officer may order a test of pressure. This typically consists of a recompression to 60 feet (18 m) for up to 20 minutes.[citation needed] If the diver notes significant improvement in symptoms, or the attendant can detect changes in a physical examination, a treatment table is followed.
Representative treatment tables
U.S. Navy Table 6 consists of compression to the depth of 60 feet (18 m) with the patient on oxygen. The diver is later decompressed to 30 feet (9.1 m) on oxygen, then slowly returned to surface pressure. This table typically takes 4 hours 45 minutes. It may be extended further. It is the most common treatment for type 2 decompression illness.
U.S. Navy Table 5 is similar to Table 6 above, but is shorter in duration. It may be used in divers with less severe complaints (type 1 decompression illness).
U.S. Navy Table 9 consists of compression to 45 feet (14 m) with the patient on oxygen, with later decompression to surface pressure. This table may be used by lower-pressure monoplace hyperbaric chambers, or as a follow-up treatment in multiplace chambers.
Saturation diving life support systems
A hyperbaric environment on the surface comprising a set of linked pressure chambers is used in saturation diving to house divers under pressure for the duration of the project or several days to weeks, as appropriate. The occupants are decompressed to surface pressure only once, at the end of their tour of duty. This is usually done in a decompression chamber which is part of the saturation system. The risk of decompression sickness is significantly reduced by minimizing the number of decompressions, and by decompressing at a very conservative rate.
The saturation system typically comprises a complex made up of a living chamber, transfer chamber and submersible decompression chamber,[6] which is commonly referred to in commercial diving and military diving as the diving bell,[7] PTC (personnel transfer capsule) or SDC (submersible decompression chamber).[5] The system can be permanently installed on a ship or ocean platform, but is usually capable of being transferred between vessels. The system is managed from a control room, where depth, chamber atmosphere and other system parameters are monitored and controlled. The diving bell is used to transfer divers from the system to the work site. Typically, it is mated to the system utilizing a removable clamp and is separated from the system by a trunking space, through which the divers transfer to and from the bell.
The bell is fed via a large, multi-part umbilical that supplies breathing gas, electricity, communications and hot water. The bell also is fitted with exterior mounted breathing gas cylinders for emergency use. The divers operate from the bell using surface supplied umbilical diving equipment.
A hyperbaric lifeboat, hyperbaric escape module or rescue chamber may be provided for emergency evacuation of saturation divers from a saturation system.[6] This would be used if the platform is at immediate risk due to fire or sinking to get the occupants clear of the immediate danger. A hyperbaric lifeboat is self-contained and self-sufficient for several days at sea, and can be operated from the inside by the occupants while under pressure.
Transfer under pressure
The process of transferring personnel from one hyperbaric system to another is called transfer under pressure (TUP). This is used to transfer personnel from portable recompression chambers to multi-person chambers for treatment, and between saturation life support systems and personnel transfer capsules (closed bells) for transport to and from the worksite, and for evacuation of saturation divers to a hyperbaric lifeboat.
Experimental compression chambers have been used since about 1860.[8]
In 1904, submarine engineers Siebe and Gorman, together with physiologist Leonard Hill, designed a device to allow a diver to enter a closed chamber at depth, then have the chamber – still pressurised – raised and brought aboard a boat. The chamber pressure was then reduced gradually. This preventative measure allowed divers to safely work at greater depths for longer times without developing decompression sickness.[9]
In 1906, Hill and another English scientist M Greenwood subjected themselves to high pressure environments, in a pressure chamber built by Siebe and Gorman, to investigate the effects. Their conclusions were that an adult could safely endure seven atmospheres, provided that decompression was sufficiently gradual.[10]
A recompression chamber intended for treatment of divers with decompression sickness was built by CE Heinke and company in 1913, for delivery to Broome, Western Australia in 1914,[11] where it was successfully used to treat a diver in 1915.[12] That chamber is now in the Broome Historical Museum.[13]
Structure and layout
The construction and layout of a hyperbaric diving chamber depends on its intended use, but there are several features common to most chambers.
- Pressure hull
- Main chamber
- Access door or hatch
- Viewports, to allow the operating personnel to visually monitor the occupants
- Pressure control and monitoring equipment
- Lighting and communications equipment
- Firefighting equipment
- Furniture for the comfort of the occupants (usually seats and/or bed facilities)
- Pressurisation gas supply
- Built-in breathing system (BIBS) for supply of breathing gas different from the pressurisation gas
- Forechamber (not always present) to provide personnel access to main chamber while it is under pressure
- Medical/stores lock (not always present) to provide access to the main chamber for small items while under pressure
- Some chambers are provided with arrangements which may be connected to other hyperbaric chambers to allow transfer of the occupants under pressure.
- Non-portable chambers are generally constructed from steel
- Portable chambers have been constructed from steel, aluminium alloy, and fibre reinforced composites. In some cases the composite material structure is flexible when depressurised.
Details will vary depending on the application. A generalised sequence for a stand-alone chamber is described. The operator of a commercial diving decompression chamber is generally called a Chamber operator, and the operator of a saturation system is called a life support technician (LST).
- Pre-use checks will be conducted on the system to ensure that it is safe to operate.
- The intended occupants will be checked and authorised for compression, and will enter the chamber.
- The pressure door will be closed, communications established with the occupants, and pressurisation started.
- The operator will monitor and control the rate of pressurisation and monitor the condition of the occupants.
- Once pressurised, the operator will monitor the pressure, the run time, the chamber gas and if applicable, the independent breathing gas supply. The chamber gas quality may be controlled by carbon dioxide scrubber systems, filters and air conditioner systems and addition of oxygen as required, or by periodic ventilation by adding fresh compressed air while simultaneously releasing some of the chamber air.
- When decompression is started, the operator will notify the occupants and release chamber gas to the atmosphere or to scavenge pumps if it to be recycled. The rate of pressure reduction is controlled to follow the specified decompression schedule within tolerance.
- Compression and decompression may be interrupted if the occupants experience problems caused by the pressure change, such as ear or sinus squeezes, or symptoms of decompression illness.
- When decompression is completed, chamber pressure is equalised with ambient pressure and the doors may be opened. Occupants may exit, and will usually be checked for absence of ill-effects.
- Chamber will receive post-operation service as required to be ready for next operation or storage as applicable.
Working pressure
A large range of working pressures are used, depending on the application of the chamber. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is usually done at pressures not exceeding 18msw, or an absolute internal pressure of 2.8 bar. Decompression chambers are usually rated for depths similar to the depths that the divers will encounter during planned operations. Chambers using air as the chamber atmosphere are frequently rated to depths in the range of 50 to 90 msw, and chambers, closed bells and other components of saturation systems must be rated for at least the planned operational depth. The US Navy has Heliox saturation decompression schedules for depths up to 480 msw (1600 fsw).[5] Experimental chambers may be rated for deeper depths. An experimental dive has been done to 701 msw (2300 fsw), so at least one chamber has been rated to at least this depth.[14]
See also
- Glossary of underwater diving terminology
- Hyperbaric medicine
- Byford Dolphin (decompression accident)
- Diving bell
- Moon pool
- Saturation diving
- Surface supplied diving
- Decompression sickness
- Hyperbaric stretcher
- ↑ Zamboni, WA; Riseman, JA; Kucan, JO (1990). "Management of Fournier's Gangrene and the role of Hyperbaric Oxygen". Journal of Hyperbaric Medicine. 5 (3): 177–186. Retrieved 19 October 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Kindwall, EP; Goldmann, RW; Thombs, PA (1988). "Use of the Monoplace vs. Multiplace Chamber in the Treatment of Diving Diseases". Journal of Hyperbaric Medicine; 3(1). Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society, Inc. pp. 5–10. Retrieved 25 February 2016.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "NOAA Ocean Explorer: Monitor Expedition 2002: decompression chamber". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. 2002. Retrieved 3 July 2010.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ http://www.supsalv.org/00c3_publications.asp
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 US Navy Diving Manual, 6th revision. United States: US Naval Sea Systems Command. 2006. Retrieved 2008-04-24.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Lettnin, Heinz (1999). International textbook of Mixed Gas Diving. Flagstaff, AZ: Best Publishing. ISBN 0941332500.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- ↑ Hyperbaric chamber, Encyclopaedia Britannica, retrieved 2 March 2015<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Ocean Treasure". The Daily News. Perth, Western Australia. 25 July 1904. p. 6. Retrieved 2 March 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "The Dangers to Divers. Scientists' pressure test". The World's News. 2 June 1906. p. 21. Retrieved 2 March 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "untitled". Sunday Times. Sunday Times, Perth, WA. 1 March 1914. p. 23. Retrieved 2 March 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Divers' paralysis. Interesting case at Broome. Success of the recompression method". The West Australian. 15 March 1915. p. 8. Retrieved 2 March 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Jones, Natalie (1 March 2015). "Pearling industry marks 100 years of treating the bends". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 2 March 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ staff (1992-11-28). "Technology: Dry run for deepest dive" (1849). NewScientist. Retrieved 2009-02-22.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Decompression chambers.
- "Divers Go to Greater Depths With Aid of Chamber" Popular Mechanics, December 1930 first use of diving chamber by British Royal Navy divers—detail drawings on subject
- Decompression Chamber in detail
- The short film Hyperbaric Chamber (1979) is available for free download at the Internet Archive


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UnNews:Mrs. DeWinter's first name discovered
This article is part of UnNews, your source for up-to-the-microsecond misinformation.
19 June 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts - In a large research facility staffed with hundreds of English Literature professors, three Cray II supercomputers and Andrew Wiles, the search for the long unknown name of the second Mrs. DeWinter has finally come to an end.
For over fifty years, researchers have had only the scantiest clues to go on, in deciphering the greatest literary mystery since determining that the "Iliad" and "Odyssey" were not written by Homer...but by another Greek with the same name*.
Two clues were known to exist in the book "Rebecca" by Daphne DuMaurier, whose star was never named. In Chapter 3, page 20, she says, "but my name was on the envelope, spelt correctly, an unusual thing". And in Chapter 4, page 26, Maxim DeWinter told her, "you have a very lovely and unusual name".
Researchers had brought many tools to bear upon this problem. Asking the DeWinters flat out was not possible, as they have been in complete isolation since the destruction of their beloved Manderly. Mrs. Danvers has not been found, though authorities are still eagerly looking for her.
Colonel Julyan always refused to comment on what he characterized as a "still pending investigation". Mrs. Van Hopper was found in Miami Florida and asked the name of her one time 'friend of the bosom' and all around gofer. She looked immensely pained, as if the asking of it had shocked her and said, "I always just refered to her as 'girl', and she was flighty little thing. Still, she did well in hooking that DeWinter gentleman, didn't she? Hey! Isn't that Janet Reno?" and off she went, leaving researchers none the wiser.
But it was Andrew Wiles who set up the parameters of investigation that allowed the computers to narrow down the possibilities. Working night and day the computers who could each calculate the weight in grams of every star in the Known Universe each nano-second were finally able to eliminate all the names it could not be, and provide the final one.
Andrew Wiles had perhaps best been known for his solving of Fermat's Last Theorem, but as even he has acknowledged, this achievement easily surpasses that. "I have to say, I got tired of all that 'but could you fit it in to a margin' crap. But in the solving of this mystery, the previously unnamed Mrs. DeWinter, I can finally say, 'yes, I can fit her name into the friggin' margin!' Jeez!"
Granted, it did take all three Cray II supercomputers two years, seven months, twenty nine days, twelve hours, forty four minutes and 2.78 seconds to come up with the name. And that was only after the 13 years inputting every known alphabet, syllabery, and heiroglyphic system on Earth.
"Was it worth it?", this reporter asked a contemplative Wiles. He just looked at me for a minute, then nodded his head solemnly.
And that was answer enough.
- Andrew Wiles ""An investigation in to the nomenclature of literature's most beloved character"". The Bill and Melissa Gates Publication House, June 17, 2009
- *Credit to Robert Heinlein who spoke of Homer in "Double Star".

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There are some burning questions that are enough to wake us in the middle of the night. We shoot up in bed, covered in sweat, screaming: What could possibly be sexier than Sofia Vergara?! The response from girlfriends and roommates has never been too positive, so we're glad we finally have an answer. So, what is sexier than Sofia Vergara? A Sofia Vergara poolside workout video.
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Liberal and NDP supporters have a lot in common in terms of what kind of policies we'd like to see at the national level, but for that reason I just can't understand why so many NDP supporters seem perfectly content to have Stephen Harper remain Prime Minister. If Jack Layton can't be PM, and he can't, then one would think NDP supporters would want a Liberal minority with the NDP holding the balance of power and be working to make that happen. For all those NDP supporters who will claim that it doesn't matter if Stephen Harper gets to stay PM – I wonder how they'd answer the following questions.
1. Who would work better with Jack Layton in a minority government context Stéphane Dion or Stephen Harper?
2. When has more progressive policy passed, with a Liberal minority or a Conservative minority government? Forced to choose between the two isn't it obvious which one has been better for progressives?
3. What does Jack have to show for his "opposition" to Stephen Harper this term? Did he elicit a single concession? Did a single piece of progressive policy pass since Harper has become PM? Why would another Harper minority be any different?
4. Having to choose between a Conservative minority government with an NDP gain of 5 seats over a Liberal minority government with an NDP loss of 5 seats which would you choose?
5. Which of those two options would lead to more progressive legislation being passed?
6. Does anyone believe any of the following would EVER be undertaken with Stephen Harper as PM?
- a real plan to combat poverty
- a real national child care plan
- a real plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- re-introduction of the Kelowna Accords
- meaningful increases in foreign aid
- fighting against the death penalty everywhere
- advocation against Guantanomo Bay
- re-instatement of the Court Challenges Program
- re-instatement of funding and mandate to Status of Women
- a Commissioner for Gender Equality
Yet we all know all those things in 6. would happen with Stephane Dion as PM - even Jack Layton acknowledged Dion to be a "man of principle and conviction" who you can trust. But every year more Stephen Harper is PM, more people suffer. Even so, Jack is unfortunately pursuing a strategy (by saying Stéphane Dion can't be PM) that helps Stephen Harper who will never be a friend of progressives.
No matter what Jack says the evidence is clear - the race to be PM is between Stephen Harper and Stéphane Dion and pretending otherwise in no way helps progressives. It's right in Tom Flanagan's book – the Conservatives love the NDP because they've been instrumental to helping the Conservatives win ridings that were essentially two-way fights between Liberals and Conservatives.
Why is it so hard for NDPers to admit that Stéphane Dion would be a much more progressive PM than Harper? Did the Liberals and NDP not vote together on numerous private member's bills that Harper ended up ignoring? Why must NDP supporters resort to the same arguments that Ralph Nader supporters make in the U.S.? (While ironically backing Obama at the same time who makes the same arguments the Liberals do about how the stakes are too high to flock to a third party)
NDP supporters always seem to dodge the questions above, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised if none of them honestly answer them, or instead just take one snippet and ignore the rest as they usually do.
The results of the last election led to a trashed child care plan, Kelowna abandoned, Court Challenges program eliminated, and massive backtracking on human rights, the environment and foreign aid. If you are progressive and you want actual progressive policies passed by a principled PM there's only one party poised to do that in government and that's the Liberals. There is too much at stake to have this election be 1988 all over again, I would hope the NDP realizes that.
UPDATE - 4:15 PM: Credit where credit is due, this is a well-done ad by the NDP. Though it does make the case well why we need Stéphane Dion as Prime Minister. Still waiting on the FIRST commenter to answer the questions asked above. I guess we all agree on the answers then :).
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Clark College offers a Certificate of Achievement in Emergency Medical Technician-Basic (EMT-B). The EMT-B course is designed to enhance job opportunities in pre-hospital emergency settings. A variety of community agencies such as ambulance companies, police and fire departments, and large industries utilize employees with EMT-B training. This program includes lecture, laboratory, emergency room observation, and field experience on an ambulance or fire rescue unit as available.
Emergency Medical Technician-Basic
EMT 103 is a ten-credit-hour Clark College course taught at the Northwest Regional Training Center (NWRTC). Check the Clark College website for directions to the training center. Students must bring the following items to the first night of class:
- Copy of current American Heart Association healthcare provider CPR card (or take CPR 032 within first two weeks of class).
- Copy of valid driver's license.
- Washington State Patrol criminal background check (within six [6] months of course date).
- MMR immunization (twice in lifetime or within last 10 years).
- Hepatitis B immunization (series of three) or signed waiver.
- Negative tuberculosis skin test or chest x-ray (within past six [6] months).
- Must be 18 years of age.
- Proof of high school completion (transcripts) or GED.
Please call the NWRTC office at (360) 397-2100 if you have any questions about the above requirements.
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To earn the Certificate of Achievement, students must complete the courses listed below with a grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 or above in each offering.
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AffiliationStudents who are not affiliated with an appropriate agency have 18 months after completing the program to gain affiliation and take the Washington state exam. All Emergency Medical Technician-Basics wishing to work in Washington must obtain state certification.
Program OutcomesProgram outcomes are overarching skills that are emphasized and reinforced throughout several courses in a specific program; they are measurable statements that define what students should be able to do by the end of a certificate or degree at Clark College.
- Administer first aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured persons in prehospital settings.
- Perform emergency assessment and treatment procedures, observing, recording, and reporting to the receiving facility, the patient�s condition or injury.
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My, it's shaping up to be a busy weekend! Fire up your calendars, geeks!
Today is Friday, and you know what that means: It's time for our weekly open-comment thread here in TechBlog.
Leave a comment about anything related to personal technology, and I'll approve it. Come back later to see what others had to say about what you said, then say some more!
On Saturday, make plans to be at the monthly meeting of the Houston Area Apple Users Group, better known as HAAUG, where I'll be speaking on a very timely topic: Malware and the Macintosh.
And no, I didn't design HAAUG's banner ad for the event . . .
I picked this topic a few weeks ago, but in the wake of the Mac Defender rogue antispyware outbreak, it's become even more relevant. The meeting starts at 9 a.m., and my presentation begins at 11:15 a.m. It all goes down at the Bellaire Civic Center, 7008 S. Rice Ave.
Then, on Sunday, I'm a guest on This Week in Tech, the popular tech-news podcast. It's recorded live at 5 p.m. CDT at live.twit.tv., along with host Leo Laporte. I'm not sure who else will be on the show – I'll update this entry once I find out.


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I would like to use this post as an opportunity to apologize to Sally Kern.
She is not a backwards hate filled bitch for Jesus.
She is much, much worse than that.
I dont believe there is an English word or phrase that properly describe Sally Kern or her twisted, inexplicable interpretation of reality.
The entire transcript of Kerns diatribe is on the internet.
You can read it here.
Another practical benefit of Christianity was the elevation of knowledge, of learning, of science, okay, of the arts.
... he believed that we needed to have a society that was based upon Christian principles because elevation of science, elevation of knowledge is very important if you're going to have an informed public. And I believe it was Thomas Payne also said, you know, you can look at a picture and it makes you think of the artist, you can look at some kind of invention and you think of the inventor. Why is it that we look at the creation and we don't think about the creator. You know, we don't do that. And if we really had Christian principles our educational system would not be in the mess it is in today.
Another thing that I'm real big on that is a real detriment to this society is evolution. Evolution undermines Christian principles. Period. That's all there is to it. You either believe there is a creator or you believe there isn't. Some people say well I believe there is a creator and he used evolution. There's a lot of problems there folks. When does sin come in, when does the spirit come in? You know, it's evolution. You read God's word and you will see the word creation all through it, old and new testament. And it undermines people's faith. They have trouble reading or believing the Bible.


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We downloaded this book to our Amazonian Devil Device after reading a compelling review on At Home With Books. And it was worth it. Author Kevin Roose was a journalism major at Brown University when he decided to see what all the evangelical hoopla was about down at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, a four year college in Virginia and the largest evangelical university in the world, and he documents his experiences here.
The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University, by Kevin Roose.
You just can't escape the humor in a secular student of the world being thrown into what he calls "Bible Boot Camp." Roose's biblical knowledge was scant as best, "...I knew the basics of the Genesis story (Adam names the animals, Eve bites an apple, and we all break into jazz squares), I could probably have named the four Gospels if you have me a minute or two, but that's where my Bible knowledge ended." Suffice it to say that his learning curve was pretty steep.
But rather than approaching the experiment with malice (satirist P.J. O'Rourke is credited here with comparing making fun of born-again Christians to "hunting dairy cows with a high-powered rifle and scope"), Roose makes a concerted effort to open his mind to new experiences and the payoff is a big one.
While he doesn't experience any kind of religious epiphany while at Liberty, he does learn the value of reserving judgement and practicing compassion. Despite taking biology classes that spend all their time refuting evolution and attending groups like Every Man's Battle (to combat the sin of masturbation), Roose strips away the stereotypes to reveal young, college-aged students just trying to find their place in this world, much like their secular counterparts.
Highly recommended for the humor and the compassion, A Reader's Respite heartily encourages you to read this one.
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed, by Kyria Abrahams
Switching denominations here, we moved on to Kyria Abrahams hysterical account of growing up as a Jehovah's Witness. Abrahams goes less for insight and more for the humor (of which there is apparently endless fodder in this particular religious sect) in this memoir, poking fun at her childhood and young adult years spent in bewildrement over the myriad of rules and regulations set forth by doctrine.
Mother Teresa, the Dalai Lama, and Elie Wiesel were all considered bad associations. Not only did they not worship Jehovah, but they were activists, which meant they didn't trust in God to make changes on this earth and felt the need to take matters into their own hands. They were turning people away from Jehovah.
My father said this is probably why John Lennon was shot, becase God knew he was too close to bringing peace to the whole world.
The point was, if someone wasn't a Jehovah's Witnesses, he was going to die at Armageddon, and there was no point in befriending the condemned.
I'm Perfect, You're Doomed, by Kyria Abrahams
While you won't find any great philosophical revelations here, you will find slapstick comedy that will keep you in stitches. Light-hearted and irreverant, Abrahams bears no obvious malice over her upbringing, she simply sees the humor in it. And there's definately something to be said for that.
Under the Banner of Heaven, by Jon Krakauer
One last book, here, this one written by Jon Krakauer (he of Into Thin Air and Into the Wild fame). For those of you who like your religious exposes on the more serious side, Under the Banner of Heaven is not to be missed.
Part true crime, part Mormon expose, this book focuses on the pockets of fundamentalist Mormons that have flourished in years past in Utah, Idaho and the Four Corners area. Wrapped around the murder of a young Mormon woman and her infant daughter committed by fundamentalists, the more sordid side of this sect is uncovered in this compelling book.
Although heartbreaking in it's details, this book is difficult to put down once you turn the first page and since the capture of fundamentalist leader Warren Jeffs in the years following publication of this book ,there is much follow-up available on the internet for those who find this tale as riveting as we did.
We're happy to be able to offer a copy of Kyria Abrahams' memoir I'm Perfect, You're Doomed to TWO lucky winners. Just leave us a comment telling us why you'd like to read this one and on July 13th, we'll announce two random winners (international peeps are welcome, too!).


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A long-running Holland and Hope College tradition is adding a unique dimension this year.
As in the past, the annual Hope-Holland Community Day, scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 8, will feature a picnic on WindmillIsland and a home football game at Holland Municipal Stadium. For only the third time in the event's 42-year history, however, the game will be played under the lights. The picnic will run at the island from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., followed by the game beginning at 7 p.m.
The first time that Hope played a night game at home was during Community Day in September 1997, when the event was held in conjunction with the city's sesquicentennial celebration, and Hope also played at night during Community Day in 2000. Hope's only other home night game was a pre-regular-season exhibition game in 1999, when the college hosted the team from the Autonomous University of Mexico.
The picnic at Windmill Island will consist of bratwurst, hamburger, sliced turkey breast, vegetarian croissants, salads, chips, cookies, beverages and other picnic fare. Live music will be provided throughout the picnic by the Holland American Legion Band.
Hope will host Central College of Pella, Iowa, at the stadium following the picnic, in a contest between sister schools from a shared tradition. Both Central and Hope are affiliated with the Reformed Church in America, and Central and Hope football are known as the Dutch and the Flying Dutchmen respectively.
The Zeeland High School marching band will be playing at the game.
Also on Saturday, Sept. 8, Hope will host home games in both women's and men's soccer. The women will play St. Mary's at noon, and the men will play Wheaton at 2 p.m. Both games will be at the college's Buys Athletic Fields, located on Fairbanks Avenue at 11th Street. Admission to the soccer games is free.
In addition, the gallery of the De Pree Art Center will be featuring the exhibition "Artist/Designer" through Friday, Oct. 5. The gallery is open Mondays through Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Admission to the gallery is free.
Community Day is scheduled in celebration of the long-standing relationship between Holland residents and the faculty, students and staff of HopeCollege. The event debuted in October 1966 as a Community Ox Roast, held in conjunction with the HopeCollege centennial celebration. Like the first event, which was the idea of former mayor Nelson Bosman, subsequent Community Days have provided an opportunity for Holland and Hope to come together.
Tickets for Community Day, which include the picnic, football game and admission to WindmillIsland, cost $7 for regular admission and $4 for children age five to 11, with admission free for children under five.
Advance tickets for Community Day may be purchased at the college's DeVos Fieldhouse, located facing Fairbanks Avenue between Ninth and 11th streets, weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets will also be sold at the picnic on the day of the event. Additional information may be obtained by calling the college's Office of Public and Community Relations at (616) 395-7860.
In the event of rain, the picnic will be moved to the dining room of Phelps Hall, located on the HopeCollege campus on Columbia Avenue at 10th Street. If the picnic is moved inside, announcements will be made on the college's Web site, www.hope.edu/hopetoday/; on Hope's automated audio information system, which can be called at (616) 395-7888; and on area radio stations.


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Getting started with your business plan
This guest blog post is provided by the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency who is responsible for creating opportunities for economic growth in Atlantic Canada.
Your business plan is one of your most important tools in planning for the future of your business. It outlines your vision, what you want to achieve and how you plan to get there.
The process of putting your plan together helps you set the course for your business — preparing for obstacles, allocating resources and planning for opportunities. It's also a living document that should be updated as your business evolves over time.
A good business plan, which includes an effective marketing plan, also presents your business case to the outside world. It's a key factor in attracting and retaining investors and is often the first document lending organizations ask to see.
So, how do you develop an effective business and marketing plan?
You begin the process by focusing on a few key elements.
First, establish your basic business goals. Then, based on sound research, determine what challenges and opportunities your business may face. Next, clearly identify your target markets and competition.
And finally, consider and plan all the operational and financial requirements you need to achieve your goals.
Effective business and marketing plans are very thorough, anticipating and answering readers' questions before they are asked.
That's why developing a good plan can help you better define your goals, ideas and plans in your own mind before you go down that business road.
Tips before you start:
- Involve all of your management team in the process, as well as any legal, accounting, financial or special advisors.
- Engage the best writer and stay directly involved yourself in preparing the plan.
- Emphasize your extensive market research, your vigorous financial analysis, and your management team's strengths.
- Keep in mind that you are writing your plan for two audiences: financial partners who will use it as a guide to investing in your business, and you, who will use the plan as a blueprint to launch / grow your business.
- Be comprehensive, but concise, in describing your business and its potential — the plan should ideally be between 10 to 40 pages in length.
- Use the third person (not "I") in your business plan.
Did you know there are 9 standard sections in a business plan? Visit ACOA.gc.ca to find out more and stay tuned for more on these topics:
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NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Mark and Glenda Dodd of Panama City Beach, Florida, could have booked a Mexico-bound cruise out of Miami, but on Monday they stood among hundreds of other passengers lining up to board the Carnival Cruise Line ship Elation in New Orleans.
"We wanted to come to New Orleans and spend a night in the French Quarter," Mark Dodd said. "This way we get the cruise and we get New Orleans."
His words are music to the ears of local tourism marketers, who have spent the past six years trying to persuade the traveling public that New Orleans has retained its appeal as a visitor destination despite the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
That storm and the massive flooding that followed all but destroyed large sections of New Orleans, striking a huge blow to tourism and shutting down the passenger cruise business, which before the storm was growing faster than that of any other cruise port in the country.
On Monday, cruise industry and local port officials gathered aboard the 2,000-passenger Elation to announce that local cruise passenger capacity has reached pre-Katrina levels.
"New Orleans has been revitalized and it's one of the most popular cities in the country," Robert Huffman Jr., a regional vice president of sales for Carnival, told Reuters. "The city sells itself."
Carnival, which initially returned to New Orleans with a smaller ship, this week began a year-round cruising schedule by the Elation and a 3,000-passenger vessel, Conquest. New Orleans is now the home port for both.
On Sunday, Royal Caribbean International also launched regular service from New Orleans to the Caribbean aboard the 3,100-passenger Voyager of the Seas, the largest passenger vessel ever based in New Orleans.
Along with ships from Norwegian Cruise Lines, these will likely pull more than a million cruise passengers into the city annually, Port of New Orleans President Gary LaGrange said.
"I hope this will quiet some of New Orleans' critics," he said while aboard the Elation.
LaGrange said the port has begun preliminary design work for a new $35 million cruise terminal just down the Mississippi River from the city's two existing terminals.
Kelly Schulz, a spokeswoman for the New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc., said that the road to tourism recovery has been tough.
After Katrina, the city's average annual tourist trade of almost 9 million visitors fell by about 60 percent, she said.
But funding from Federal grants supported the major tourism recovery effort that helped grow the visitor market steadily in subsequent years, she said.
Then, in 2010, came the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, which once again sent marketers scrambling to overcome negative publicity, this time about the possible effects of the spill on seafood and the local environment.
"Our marketing efforts worked," Schultz said. "Last year, New Orleans had 8.3 million visitors - the most we've seen since Katrina."
Schultz said one benefit the city enjoys from the cruise business is the boost it gives to local hotels.
Passengers typically drive or fly into New Orleans and spend two nights taking in local attractions before or after their cruise, she said.
As tourism marketers celebrate the growth in local cruises, though, they do so with a wary eye on local crime.
While the overall incidence of crime is within average rates for cities of similar size, the murder rate in New Orleans is 10 times higher than the national average, according to a U.S. Justice Department analysis released last spring.
Concerns about violence spiked early this month following a bloody Halloween night during which a man was killed and several others injured in a shooting on Bourbon Street as costumed revelers filled the city's French Quarter. A second man was killed and three people were wounded in a separate downtown shooting that same night on neighboring Canal Street.
"Those incidents made international headlines, so we did get questions. But we try to put it into context," Shultz said. "It was very rare to have that kind of violence in a crowded tourist area."
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Okay. This is awesome. I shared in my last post quite a bit on where I was on my DAR & UEL applications. {Probably too much. Boring, no?}
Anywho, I posted and then went about my Christmas preparations which are quite a bit right now, a couple of days before Christmas.
But? I had had asked a question to y'all at the end of my post which is something I suggest on my blog, BloggingGenealogy.com, family history bloggers do at the end of their blog posts to get readers engaged as well as to encourage collaboration from readers and most especially potential cousins.
I asked y'all if y'all had any suggestions especially on the Louisiana records that I needed to survey more.
And I received some awesome suggestions, some of which I knew about {and that's good because I may not have known about them}.
And then Jennifer Sepulvado suggested the online index of marriages from the Louisiana Archives and if its there, then a copy of the marriage license can be ordered online for $5.
So, guess who just ordered a copy of Daniel and Annie's marriage license from 1874?
The same person who owes Jennifer a huge BIG THANK YOU!
Me. Daniel & Annie's 2nd great granddaughter.
So, how's that for fast collaborative genealogy?
Note: Thank you to everyone for your suggestions. Keep them coming! :)
Another Note: I quickly did this blog post on my iPhone using the Blogger app. It's an on-the-go-post 'cause I'm on-the-go with Christmas prep {Read: shopping & baking.}.
And Another Note: The Mayans were wrong and it turns out I have to do the work.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
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So glad I could help! Can't wait to hear about the results! I almost didn't say anything because I figured you already knew about it. The LA state archives records databases are nice and the price they charge is VERY reasonable. If the church isn't named in the record, maybe you can look at the New Orleans city directories at Fold3.com to see which church lists the priest named in the record. Merry Christmas!ReplyDelete
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Can't tell you how much I'm enjoying reading Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book Of Food And Drink, a collection of the best food pieces from the magazine. Over the course of three bedtimes, I made my way through a 1968 profile the great John McPhee wrote about Euell Gibbons, the wild-food forager. I had expected it to be a slog; you might recall that I posted one of Gibbons's '70s-era Grape Nuts commercials on this blog. I had just started the McPhee essay, and remembered Gibbons as a sort of weird minor pop culture figure from my childhood.
But the piece turned out to be very, very good, even compulsively readable. Gibbons was this incredibly American character, eccentric and self-made and brilliant and weird, and McPhee brought him vividly to life. I don't know McPhee's work well, but every one of his long-form essays has struck me as a virtuoso example of controlled writing. He goes on and on and on, but there is such an evenness to his tone, and he never, ever drags. His essays are so well structured that you don't even notice the structure, only intuit it after your done and wonder how he managed to make something that big and heavy soar into the heavens. Where the hell are the flying buttresses in this thing?
In the current issue of the New Yorker, McPhee, 81, has an essay about story structure, and how he has used it. The piece is behind the paywall, so I can't link to it. It makes me realize a few things about my own writing:
1. Thank God I had a good editor for Little Way, because I am terribly disorganized, and write entirely by instinct. That can usually get me through the kinds of pieces I usually write, but a book is something very different.
2. If I had a better sense for organization, who knows what kinds of things I could achieve as a writer? All this raw energy and sprawling curiosity, but such a feeble ability to channel it.
3. I wonder how my writing would have been different — and better — if I had had formal training in structure, and had learned how to impose a sophisticated structure on a narrative.
4. I'm not good at teaching writing. I can give elementary hints, but I don't know how I do what I do, and I wish I could do it better. I've always been reflexively skeptical about graduate writing programs, but I now wish I had the tools as a writer to do what McPhee can do. I mean, I wish I were a craftsman.
5. Is it ever too late to learn about the craft aspects of writing? I've been writing professionally for over two decades. My style is pretty much set. But I read McPhee on structure, and I realize how very much I don't know, and need to know if I'm ever going to be any good.
6. I wonder if I learned how to impose a structure on my daily life, to what extent that would teach me how to impose a structure onto my narratives.
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The big news in do-it-yourself tax preparation is help. Lots of it. The tax software companies have come to the conclusion that the only way to woo taxpayers away from tax professionals is to offer answers. Not just technical guidance on how to use their software, but also tax advice and audit support. Table: Tax preparers' early-bird prices
Mobile filing has expanded this year. Everyone's website can be viewed and accessed from mobile phones and tablets. H&R Block is offering free federal preparation and filing (there's a fee for state taxes) for mobile users. TurboTax charges $24.99 to file a 1040EZ and 1040A via their mobile app. You can even start your tax returns on the apps and then enter more detail when you return to your laptop or desktop. Data is integrated from all sources. Most mobile apps, including the IRS's IRS2GO service (irs.gov), also provide information such as tax-law updates and news, as well as where's-my-refund tools.
With H&R Block and TurboTax, you can scan W-2s and related documents and upload them directly into the software. While TaxACT's software can't read your docs, its new DocVault service (taxact.com) allows you to upload tax-related documents and receipts and store them with your tax file. This service is free to anyone, and includes up to 3 gigabytes of storage. Images are imported directly into your tax file in the TaxACT Deluxe and Preparer's Enterprise editions.
Two major online filing services are affiliated with storefront tax preparation operations — H&R Block and eSmart Tax, a division of Liberty Tax.
eSmart Tax finalized its purchase of CCH's CompleteTax consumer software right after Christmas 2012. It hopes to expand its market share in the online-preparation industry — and to bring more taxpayers to their Liberty Tax Service franchisees.
H&R Block is expanding last year's newest service — H&R Block Live (hrblock.com). Instead of going to the local office, you can work with an H&R Block preparer in real-time via the magic of video conferencing. You will be paying store-front fees, however, rather than the cheaper online-tool rate. For the best H&R Block value, look at their Best of Both service (hrblock.com). You can get nearly the same level of service as their Live version, for a flat fee. The big difference between the two services? In the Live service, they prepare the whole tax return for you. In Best of Both, you make all the entries, but can get unlimited answers and a full review of the tax return you prepared.
Speaking of looking at your work, both TurboTax and eSmart Tax customer service folks can look at your input and see what you're doing wrong (or right). This can take extra time — but there's no extra charge.
In-depth audit support is coming into vogue. TurboTax has expanded its Ask a Tax Expert crew, for instance, a team that can answer detailed tax questions and to walk customers through sticky problems. H&R Block has offered full audit support for years. Its service goes well beyond the advice realm — it promises to send an enrolled agent with you to your audit. eSmart Tax underwrites the cost of your personal audit support, provided by its expert franchisees, as well. TaxACT (taxact.com)and TaxSlayer (taxslayer.com) only provide audit guidance. However, you can pay for audit support through TaxACT's Tax Audit Defense service.
Specialized tools
You may be familiar with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, especially if you have college-age children or you attended college not too long ago yourself. TaxACT is the only service that includes a Fafsa application tool. (fafsa.ed.gov)
H&R Block is the only service providing a review of your health-care tax issues (hrblock.com) under the Affordable Health Care Act. The tool, embedded in their software will help customers plan for next year's tax credit or the need to buy their own health insurance.
Lots of imports
All the tax return services allow users to import PDF versions of tax returns prepared using their major competitors, plus data from W-2 Express and several payroll services. H&R Block, TurboTax, TaxACT and eSmart Tax import investment income and trading transactions from Gainskeeper (onlineint.optionsxpress.com) and several major brokerages, including Schwab, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. H&R Block has beefed up its imports by adding more payroll providers and financial institutions, as well.
The goal is to be able to import enough information from outside sources so you can finish your tax returns with as few keystrokes as possible.
Naturally, with that in mind, each company has improved its interview process to shorten it and to tailor the questions to particular income and expense situations. Return customers' questionnaires are based on their income and expense sources from last year. That means you'll get reminders about things like last year's unemployment income or pension income. But you'll also be able to add income and expense categories if you simply click on additional information.
Help tools within all the software is more intuitive and at your fingertips. You'll have in-depth reference databases that are subject-sensitive — directly related to your screen or even the line you're trying to fill in. Of course, if you need help, you can certainly get assistance via online chat or a phone call.
One of the advantages of working with the same software company, year after year, is that it'll have your prior year completed tax returns in its databases. (If you set up a free account and started a tax return, without finalizing it, however, those files are all purged.) Generally, you'll be able to import the prior-year data into your current year tax return. However, if you need earlier years, just ask customer service.
Prior customers of CCH CompleteTax will be able to roll their data over into eSmart Tax with ease. It's the same software. In fact, customer service can probably access the last two years' returns for you. Anything prior to that, they can get from CCH on your behalf. So don't worry about the changed name. All you have to do is ask —and to sign the consent form allowing them to access the file for you.
Multiple states
The need to file tax returns in several states is growing. Especially since steady work is hard to find in your home state. When multiple state returns need to be filed, you're better off working with a tax professional who has experience. But if you want to do it yourself, only TurboTax and TaxAct offer this capacity. H&R Block says you will need the AtHome edition (the box or software download) or the Best of Both service to do this. You will definitely want someone to review your tax return before you file it.
Shopping for price?
For slightly complex tax returns with no audit fears, you'll find that TaxAct has the lowest price. (See the chart) For $17.95, you get a federal and state tax return and answers to your questions. You get a Fafsa tool, a Document Vault, a glossary and lots of goodies.
But each and every service has something unique to offer. So don't make price your only criteria. You can test each program for free and see if it meets your particular job, business or industry need.
Next week, we'll talk about the free filing options — the ones offered by these companies, by the IRS and the rest of the FreeFile Alliance. No rush. The IRS isn't accepting e-files until Jan. 30 anyway.
Eva Rosenberg is the publisher of TaxMama.com , where tax questions are answered. She is the author of several books and ebooks, including the newest edition of Small Business Taxes Made Easy. And she teaches a tax pro course at IRSExams.com.


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Being first to move to mandatory GMO labeling would preserve Whole Foods' 'organic' image, as industry seeks federal GMO labeling laws.
Aaron Dykes
March 12, 2013
Their five year plan to label genetically-modified ingredients is a victory — albeit a cautious victory — that is only one step in taking dangerous and untested genetically-modified foods off American plates and stopping biotech's takeover of the world's food supply.
While grassroots pressure and consumer activism — including investigative reports by Infowars and Organic Spies — has indeed played an important role in pressuring the grocer to change its course, further research shows that the company is reacting to pressure from above as well as from below.
Biotech and Big Food interests teamed up to spend more than $45 million to defeat California's Prop 37, which would have mandated the labeling of GMO ingredients.
Watch my report on this important issue:
But now, many of the biggest conglomerates are trying to avoid the cost of funding future fights against GMO labeling, which could spread to 20 states or the local level and beyond.
What seemed impossible was happening in Washington in early January 2013: Wal-Mart, General Mills, Pepsi-Frito Lay, Mars, Coca-Cola and other major food conglomerates were meeting in secret with the FDA to lobby FOR a mandatory federal GMO labeling law.
Ronnie Cummins, of Organic Consumers Association, who exposed the meetings asked, "Is Big Food just cozying up to the FDA so they can derail the growing organic and anti-GMO movement, and finagle a federal labeling law so toothless it won't be worth the ink it takes to sign it?"
Then, with Washington States' labeling initiative in mind, some 20 of the biggest food companies, including Wal-Mart, PepsiCo and ConAgra, met with labeling advocates at the Meridian Institute in January to discuss strategies on quelling consumer uprisings over GMO. The NY Times reported:
"The big food companies found themselves in an uncomfortable position after Prop. 37, and they're talking among themselves about alternatives to merely replaying that fight over and over again," said Charles Benbrook, a research professor at Washington State University who attended the meeting.
"They spent a lot of money, got a lot of bad press that propelled the issue into the national debate and alienated some of their customer base, as well as raising issues with some trading partners," said Mr. Benbrook, who does work on sustainable agriculture.
So the outstanding question is obvious. Why would the same industry that paid big bucks to defeat Prop 37 and keep their heavily GMO-sourced junk foods unlabeled turn around and pressure the FDA for federal labeling laws?
According to Michele Simon (AppetiteforProfit.com), the use of federal regulators — already in the pockets of Big Agra and biotech — could be useful in staving off grassroots efforts aimed at state battles that may yield stricter laws, including liability and outright bans of GMO. Simon writes:
"But missing from both of these accounts is the ominous potential downside of federal GMO labeling: a sneaky legal concept known as preemption. […] Preemption simply means that a higher law trumps a lower law: so federal trumps state, and state trumps local. But in practice, it's industry's way of ensuring uniformity and stopping grassroots efforts. How I do know this? From years of experience of seeing it happen in various public health issues."
If the biggest industry players are ready to cave on GMO labeling, Whole Foods then knows that it MUST move towards mandatory labeling. Why? As much as we'd like to believe in altruism or the preeminence of consumer pressure, it is most likely because Whole Foods knows its entire business image is based around healthy and 'organic' foods.
Thus, in making themselves the first big grocer to require the labeling of all genetically-modified ingredients, Whole Foods preserves its reputation among shoppers who are making an effort to avoid GMOs, and clearly they realize that customer trust and the perception of integrity is key to remaining profitable in a changing market.
While any labeling effort is positive in the struggle for the right to know what we're eating, activists and consumers alike should be wary of half-measures implemented by Washington appointees who represent anything but our best interests.
Only vigilance will keep enough pressure on industries to one day roll back insane, untested laboratory foods and make it possible for the average citizen to eat real food.
This article was posted: Tuesday, March 12, 2013 at 5:24 pm


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|Mama with Dennis and Steve, about 1955.
Dennis (left) is the youngest of six children.
|Mama Netz, about 1975, in a church kitchen.
Mama Netz had a long, full life, and she went to an eternal home with her Heavenly Father. Knowing those things, we still mourn the loss of our mother. I call her "our" mother, because she adopted me into her family about 33 years ago, and she was my only mother for 14 years after my own mother died.
Having family responsibilities, Dennis went to Kansas City in his own car, and I drove up with the kids. After the funeral, we stayed a night with my sister in southern Missouri. The next day, we drove a nostalgic route through the Ozarks on our way home -- a route we drove many times on our trips to visit the grandparents in years past.
|Taurus, Keely, and Isaac at a high spot
near Alley Spring, Missouri
where I've photographed my children
many times over the years.
On Christmas Eve (after my co-workers and I finally got out of the store), I attended a service in a church I've never visited before. I thought that singing Christmas carols might lift my spirits, but oddly enough, the congregation sang only one song in the whole service -- "It Came Upon The Midnight Clear." Still, it had a verse that seemed written especially for me:
And ye, beneath life's crushing load,
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow,
Look now! for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing.
O rest beside the weary road,
And hear the angels sing!
|The view from our hotel window
in Independence, Missouri
Late in the evening on this second day of Christmas, resting here by the road and listening to the angels sing, I feel less sorry for myself. This has been one of life's valleys, but I am climbing out of it. I must encourage my husband to climb out, too -- carry him out, if I have to!
I do assure you that the blog will soon resume. Meanwhile, I send all my best wishes to you and yours for the the remaining days of Christmas and for the New Year.


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Both traceability and labelling are directly covered by the EU Regulations 1829/2003 and 1830/2003, respectively. As is the case in all EU member states, the use, processing, and trade of genetically modified materials must be documented along the entire production chain. Foods and feeds made from or containing genetically modified organisms must be labelled as such.
In Germany, details on the implementation of traceability and surveillance are covered by separate legislation. This law on the implementation of the EU directives says that the food and feed authorities of the federal states are responsible for the monitoring of the compliance with regulations on labelling and traceability. It also sets fines and punishments. The marketing of unauthorised GMO products, for example, can be punished by three years imprisonment. Anyone failing to label GMO products or to document their trade are in violation of the traceability regulation and can be fined up to 50,000 Euro.
Most surveillance authorities of the federal states publish the results of their GMO analyses in an annual report.
Every year several thousand food products undergo testing. Examiners check to see if any traces of GMOs – mostly GM soy or GM corn – can be found. Even if the results differ each year per product or per German state, one trend is clear: the regulations for gene-technology labelling are conformed with for the most part. The number of infractions is very low. In 2007, 22 food products containing soy and six containing corn were found with GMOs that should have been labelled as such. These products were removed from the shelves.
The percentage of soy food product samples testing GMO-positive has risen levelling out during the past three years at around 25 percent. Normally, only very small traces of GM soybeans are detected. The values measured remain under the 0.9 percent threshold and are often closer to 0.1 percent.
Corn product samples testing GMO-positive are on the decline. In the past, examiners found at most nine percent of all samples with minute traces of GM corn. In 2007, it was only four percent. Six of those corn products tested, however, exceeded the maximum allowed limit. Hence, infractions in 2007 were somewhat higher


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Alice Cooper Guests at Slash Concert
Although there is 17 years difference between the two, Alice Cooper and Slash have plenty in common, including a love of heavy rock, living on the edge and top hats. So it makes sense that the two would jam together, as they did on on Thursday (Jan. 31).
The event was Slash's concert at the Dubai Tennis Center in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. As they did at the Golden Gods Awards this past April, they rocked out on Cooper's smash hit 'School's Out,' which was No. 45 on our countdown of the Top 100 Classic Rock Songs. The video, courtesy of Blabbermouth, is below.
Slash is, of course, no stranger to having his famous friends sit in with him. Back in August, Lemmy from Motorhead was invited onstage in Boston for a rendition of 'Doctor Alibi.' And he'll also return the favor, as he did in June when he joined Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler during an Ozzy Osbourne & Friends show for Black Sabbath's 'N.I.B.'
Of course, the question remains as to why Cooper would fly all the way across the world just to sing one song. As it turns out, Cooper, whose love of golf is well-known, was already in Dubai for last week's Omega Dubai Desert Classic Challenge Match, where he competed alongside such top pros as Mark O'Meara and Lee Westwood.
Watch Slash and Alice Cooper Perform 'School's Out'


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NEWPORT NEWS, VA — Through the healthy-living example of one command fitness leader (CFL), 96 percent of the sailors on the pre-commissioning unit (PCU) George H.W. Bush passed the Navy's Spring Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA).
Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman Jose Negron has been a command fitness leader for 10 years and the PCU Bush CFL since he reported aboard. He uses his past experiences and expertise to institute a rigorous physical training program designed to challenge sailors and help them reach their full potential. PCU Bush sailors are required to perform a warm-up, 20 to 30 minutes of calisthenics followed by 20 to 30 minutes of continuous running, a cool down and a flexibility section three times a week.
"We developed the foundation of an ideal physical fitness program," Negron says. "Many individuals, due to lack of knowledge or personal motivation, do not take the time to exercise."
Of the 4 percent who failed the PFA, most of them were new to PCU Bush and failed the initial body composition assessment (BCA) that sailors are given upon arrival to determine the member's body fat percentage, he says.
"Take away [those who failed the] BCA, you get less than a 1 percent failure rate," Negron says.
PCU Bush has had a combined 2,000-pound weight loss since the program began tracking personnel a year ago, Negron says.
"Many sailors are experiencing a transformation," he says. "They're developing healthy lifestyles and better physical fitness. The key to success comes with powerful tools called education, awareness and the example set by the leadership. Here, aboard PCU Bush, the leadership is the catalyst of our success."
That leadership includes commanding officer, Capt. Kevin O' Flaherty, who usually works out with his crew five days a week, and Command Master Chief Jon Port.
"I think it's a great program," says assistant command CFL, Personnel Specialist 1st Class Paula R. Ryel. "My PFA score was the best I've ever had in my entire 13-year career. The results we have seen at the command reflect that. We've seen an increase in PFA scores of almost every sailor."
All of this adds up to PCU Bush sailors becoming more capable of performing their duties aboard the ship, Negron says.
"Mission accomplished," he says. "If you can imagine someone who is not in shape fighting a fire, he might not be able to do his job or save his life and the life of others. Being fit allows us to complete tasks without compromising our health and safety."


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The Louis van Gaal show is up and running and in the brightest of lights after a 7-0 trouncing of Los Angeles Galaxy in front of an 86,432 crowd at the Rose Bowl. Yet with the Dutchman complaining about Manchester United's commercial demands impacting on his preparation – he actually questioned if the club was "too big" before this friendly – Van Gaal will not have been encouraged by coming close to arriving late for the 20.06 kick-off time due to the LA traffic.
The first moment of on-field intrigue came when the team sheet fell and the name of Darren Fletcher and not Wayne Rooney was followed by the little "c" in brackets that denoted the Scot had been elected the first captain of Van Gaal's debut outing as Manchester United manager.
The Dutchman had elected to field a 5-2-3 that encouraged Luke Shaw and Antonio Valencia, its wingbacks, to push forward to support a central duo of Fletcher and Ander Herrera, who proved United's most impressive performer on a sultry night at this picturesque ground in the hills of Pasadena. Up top were placed Juan Mata, Rooney and Danny Welbeck who were all expected to offer fluidity by interchanging position and finding space. In the opening stanza this worked fine as United headed to the break 3-0 up.
But after Van Gaal's inaugural half-time talk he made nine changes, with only Herrera and Fletcher, who dropped into central defence, surviving. This makes offering any kind of telling verdict on Van Gaal's bow as manager difficult though with Reece James, a 20-year-old left-back on for Shaw, netting twice on debut as United scored four second half goals, it is fair to posit that the Midas touch Van Gaal displayed when leading Holland to third-place at Brazil 2014 remains.
Thirteen minutes were all that had been required for the opening strike of the Iron Tulip era. After a start in which the Galaxy might have scored first when Stefan Ishizaki fed Gyasi Zardes, who forced a sharp save from David de Gea, United struck through Welbeck. The striker had earlier gone close to beating Jaime Penedo with a bullet of a shot. This time, after a Mata hip-swivel allowed the Spaniard to cut inside and find Welbeck, he let fly a 25-yard arrow that beat Penedo to score off the goalkeeper's right post.
The Galaxy, captained by Robbie Keane, were an outfit 17 matches into their Major League Soccer season yet Van Gaal will be delighted by how United controlled the majority of play. But as might be expected for a United team in their opening outing of pre-season, under a new manager, playing a fresh 5-2-3 shape that featured the new-boys, Herrera and Shaw, there were still concerns for Van Gaal.
His band could be disjointed with passes going awry and players being caught out of position. Shaw was guilty of both, with the ball he failed to locate Herrera with leading to the Zardes chance. Chris Smalling, playing to the right of Phil Jones and Jonny Evans in Van Gaal's centre-back trident, could be clumsy, blasting one regulation pass straight out and slipping over at other times.
Yet Jones, who will surely hope to be selected in his favoured position this season, was impressive. His best moment of the first period came when preventing a clear chance for Keane by poking out a boot to make the tackle inside the area. While the Galaxy No7 complained to Baldomero Toledo, the referee, he did not have case. Neither did AJ Delagarza following a clear handball of Valencia's cross inside the area which moved Toledo to point to the spot. Rooney stepped, up coolly placed the penalty to Penendo's left, and that was 2-0.
Even better followed in added time of the first half. This time Welbeck moved down the right and, when he played the ball over, Tommy Meyer contrived to kick only air and Rooney was clear in on Penedo. The Liverpudlian's chip from close range was repelled, but Rooney subsequently stroked home into the open goal.
James's first moment to remember came on 62 minutes when Hererra rolled the ball along the right to Ashley Young. The wideman, one of a bunch of United players who are fighting for their United futures, looked up and found the Bacup-born James and he rifled home to make it 4-0. James was in dreamland when claiming his second - on 84 minutes – before a late Young double handed Galaxy a 7-0 hammering and gave Van Gaal the very best of starts.


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Homeopathic anesthetic is advised as an another medical analysis compared to added types of medicines like allopathic and herbal. Today humans all over the apple accept realised the aftereffect of homeopathic anesthetic and their angle appear this acreage of anesthetic has undergone a desperate change.
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Firefighter Dean S. Weeks, who was indicted this month on criminal charges stemming from an August dryer fire at his ex-wife's house, was put on unpaid leave Friday.
Fire Chief Richard J. Hart said Monday that Weeks, 49, of 13 Acre St., was taken off the payroll after his arraignment last Thursday in Worcester Superior Court. He was released on personal recognizance, with his case continued to Nov. 29.
He was indicted by a Worcester grand jury on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (propane gas), assault and battery on a disabled person causing bodily injury, wanton destruction of property valued over $250 and misleading a grand jury, prosecutor or police officer.
He was placed on paid administrative leave from the Fire Department on Sept. 2.
The Aug. 13 fire at 3 Woodruff Road, off Mill Street Extension near the Lancaster line, was caused by an explosion in the dryer. It was reported around 5 p.m.
Weeks' former wife, Doreen Weeks, who has multiple sclerosis, suffered burns to her arms and legs, and her hair was singed.
The fire caused an estimated $5,000 in damage to the house.
Dean Weeks entered not-guilty pleas at the arraignment.
Authorities said Doreen Weeks told police her husband had worked on the dryer about three weeks earlier.
Assistant District Attorney Jeffrey Travers told Judge James Lemire that an investigation by the state fire marshal's office determined Dean Weeks worked on the propane tank at his ex-wife's home on the day of the blaze.
The assistant district attorney said there was evidence that Dean Weeks later told two 18-year-old men employed by him that they should not inform police he had worked on the propane tank.
The couple's divorce became final about three weeks before the fire. Doreen Weeks took out a restraining order against her ex-husband Aug. 20, alleging he had approached her as she was being placed in an ambulance on the day of the fire and warned that if she "told anyone, he would lose his job and I would get nothing."
Doreen Weeks said in an affidavit in support of the restraining order that the explosion and fire occurred after her ex-husband told her to check the dryer and that she feared for her life.
As conditions of Dean Weeks' release, he was ordered to have no contact with his ex-wife or any witnesses in the case and to stay away from 3 Woodruff Road.