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Healthy eating - why grains are such a problem
Grains are a common cause of symptoms, possibly because from an evolutionary point of view they have only recently been introduced into the diet of Homo Sapiens, partly because grains are so widely eaten and people tend to sensitise to foods eaten most often. At a recent medical meeting that I attended, the problems of wheat were discussed at length. I came to the view that wheat and related grains are a problem to eat for many reasons and perhaps as a Nation we should be avoiding them! The main problems arise for several possible reasons.
a) High glycaemic index.
b) Common cause of problems associated with allergy such as fatigue, IBS, migraine, depression, skin disorders, asthma and "candida".
c) They contain lectins - see Lectins
d) They contain endogenous opiate mimics which may be a problem in susceptibles eg autistics.
e) Most are grown with pesticides and have high levels.
f) Bran is high in phytic acid which binds and inhibits absorption of minerals such as iron and zinc.
g) They are shallow rooting annual plants, often grown year in, year out on the same patch of land. They are markedly deficient in trace elements.
Grains are a major source of carbohydrate and so cause all the problems of eating food with high glycaemic index. Please refer to Hypoglycaemia. They are digested in the gut to form sugars which may worsen a hypoglycaemic tendency or feed a yeast overgrowth. There is also a theory that wheat protein (gluten) is digested into short chain proteins which have endogenous opiate like effects (endorphines) and this upsets normal brain chemistry making one lethargic and slow.
However this diet addresses the issue of grain allergy and means no wheat, barley, rye and oat. Because a Western diet is so dependent on grains, especially wheat, this is not easy. A grain free diet is not the same as a gluten free diet. Gluten is simply the protein in grain. Many people reacting to grains have problems with the starch (associated with fatigue) and possibly lectins (associated with muscle pain) in the grain.
In people avoiding grains for reasons of allergy, I leave rice in the diet, but this is a high Glycaemic Index food and should be eaten in moderation.
Present in many foods namely bread, flour, biscuits, pastry, pasta, many breakfast cereals, gravy thickeners, sauces, cakes, many sweets, "cheese" biscuits, etc. You also need to avoid bran, wheatgerm, modified starch and monosodium glutamate. Many prepared meats contain wheat, i.e. sausage meat (contains rusk), burgers, fish cakes (breadcrumbs), tinned meats. Cheap coffee often contains wheat or corn products.
This certainly contains gluten. The main source in a UK diet is in beer and whiskey. Malt (barley sugar) is often used as a sweetener. Pearl barley is sometimes added to stews.
Rye usually just means no ryvita or pumpernickel (German black bread). Rye contains gluten and is very closely related to wheat and so wheat allergics are often rye sensitive as well. Even if you are not sensitive to rye initially, if you are wheat sensitive then you are likely to acquire sensitivity to rye as well. Rye bread nearly always has some wheat in it.
Not too difficult to avoid - obviously you have to check ingredients. If you are looking purely for a gluten-free diet then they do contain very tiny amounts of gluten, but the Coeliac Society reckon so little as not to be worth worrying about and recommend its use for coeliac disease. You will just have to suck it and see.
A difficult one. Corn is widely eaten in the USA and a common allergen there. It is less usual to see corn allergy in UK but perfectly possible. Corn does not contain gluten. Corn is obviously sweetcorn, cornflour, cornflakes, custard powder and corn syrup. It can be used as a glue, for example on postage stamps. It can be used to waterproof cardboard milk cartons.
It usually takes at least 4 weeks to notice any changes as a result of stopping grains, and sometimes up to 6 weeks to see the full benefit. Some people then find they can tolerate gluten free products, but react to 100% wheat.
Alternative Carbohydrate foods
Breakfast - Ideally breakfast should be a low G.I. meal and free from any grains. There are some mueslis based on rice flakes and millet flakes. Look out for tapioca bread and rice cakes.
Lunch - Ideally lunch should just have a small amount of low G.I.food - use potato, such as baked potato, potato cakes, cold potato in salad, rice cake, cold rice.
Supper - One can be a bit more relaxed about the G.I. content of supper. This is because during the day glycogen stores in muscles and liver should have become depleted by exercise and are therefore available as a sponge to mop up sugar in the blood stream. See Exercise - the right sort. Again, use rice and potato, but there are many other useful seeds. Try buckwheat, millet, pulses (these are easiest tinned, such as chick peas, kidney beans, broad beans), sago, tapioca, amaranth seed, sweet potato flour, banana flour, chestnut flour, soya flour etc. Don't forget the root vegetables - parsnip, turnip, swede, carrot etc.
Use arrowroot or rice flour for thickening sauces or gravies.
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PORTLAND, Maine — When it comes to income, Maine residents are more reliant on government payments and derive a smaller percentage from earnings than the rest of the country.
That's one of the main takeaways from the Maine Development Foundation's quarterly economic report released on Thursday. While MDF's annual Measures of Growth report tracks Maine's per capita personal income and compares it to the rest of the country, the quarterly reports allow for a deeper dive into the data, according to Ryan Neale, MDF's program director.
"One of the areas we've touched on but never had the opportunity in the context of the Measures of Growth report to explore is the makeup of Maine's per capita personal income, how that compares and the discrepancies within geographic areas of Maine," Neale told the Bangor Daily News on Thursday.
Maine's per capita personal income was $38,299 in 2011, the most recent year for which data is available. That figure placed Maine 29th among the states, and was lower than the national average of $41,561, according to the report, which was completed in collaboration with the University of Maine and authored by Ann Acheson of the University of Maine's Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center.
The Maine counties with the highest per capita income in 2011 were Cumberland ($47,015) and Lincoln ($40,534), while the counties with the lowest per capita income were Franklin ($30,757) and Oxford ($30,999).
Interestingly, the counties with the highest poverty rates — Piscataquis at 19.5 percent and Washington at 21.7 percent — did not have the lowest per capita personal incomes. Piscataquis and Washington counties had per capita personal incomes that year of $32,189 and $32,738, respectively.
To understand why, Neale looked at what makes up personal income. Personal income consists of three sources: earned income, which comes from wages; investment income, which come from dividends and interest; and transfer payments, which are government benefits, including Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid payments to health care providers.
Transfer payments made up the largest share of Piscataquis and Washington counties' per capita personal income, at 33 percent and 37 percent, respectively.
While the findings themselves aren't groundbreaking, they provide valuable context for the policy discussions lawmakers will have in the next legislative session, which begins in January, Neale said.
"The general commentary is that we're more reliant on transfer payments than the rest of the country and we derive a smaller percentage from earnings," Neale said. "To drive our economy, we'd like to see earnings and investment income — those two pieces of the equation — come up."
The three sources of income "are not all created equal in what they mean for economic impact and what they mean for economic growth," Neale said.
As a state, transfer payments made up 23 percent of the total per capita personal income, which is higher than the national average of 18 percent, according to the report.
In the report, Neale blames Maine's outmigration of younger workers, and its increasing proportion of elderly and lower-income residents, as the reasons behind this statistic.
Interestingly, Hancock, Knox and Lincoln counties had the highest proportion of income coming from investments in the state — 24 percent, 23 percent and 25 percent, respectively. That compares to a state average of 15 percent and a national average of 16 percent.
Those numbers are a result of "well-to-do" retirees in those counties who rely on their pensions and investments for their income, Neale said.
"However, relying on developing Maine primarily as a destination for well-off retirees has its drawbacks," the report says. "Economic development that attracts younger wage earners needs to continue to be a high priority if the state's per capita personal income amounts and patterns are to come close to national averages."


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Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital Celebrates 10 Years
Ten years ago Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network, responding to the requests of local acute-care hospitals, began providing a new level of care to a unique segment of patients. The Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital was the first long-term acute care hospital (LTACH) in the region to care for individuals who are medically stable, but who have complex issues, such as ventilator dependency, wounds that won't heal or multiple serious injuries or illnesses.
Prior to the opening of the Specialty Hospital, these patients simply had nowhere to go once their conditions were stabilized at an acute-care hospital. They often remained in hospital intensive care units for weeks, where they were managed for the acute nature of their illness. Good Shepherd made the choice to begin serving these patients because we believe long-term acute care is the first step in the post-acute care continuum. It is our mission to help these individuals begin their long road to recovery with the specialized care they require.
At the Specialty Hospital, these individuals receive focused care from clinicians who specialize in their unique needs, such as complex wound care, ventilator weaning and the therapies necessary to set them on a path to restorative health. Their care is coordinated by physicians, including more than 350 who have been approved to see patients at Good Shepherd. These physicians are fully integrated into the care process. They are available on site during days and via state-of-the-art telemedicine during nights, and many of them are specialists who also care for patients in acute-care hospitals. Good Shepherd's active Medical Executive Committee, which provides clinical oversight and develops policies relating to patient care, is comprised of highly skilled physicians specializing in pulmonology, infectious disease, wound management and critical care.
In the past decade, nearly 3,000 individuals have received this focused long-term acute care at the Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital. This focused care has helped many of our patients continue their recoveries and to, eventually, get back into their lives. The community has also benefited from the Specialty Hospital, as it has allowed acute-care hospitals to transition patients out of their units sooner. This makes additional intensive care beds available for others who require acute medical care.
Unlike many LTACHs that have opened in the past decade, the Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital is a non-profit entity, and any surplus must be funneled back into operations. Quality of care and patient outcomes are our focus, not profit margins.
The outcomes achieved by patients at the Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital speak volumes. In the second quarter of the current fiscal year (October-December 2009), no Specialty Hospital patients suffered from pressure ulcers or ventilator-associated pneumonia, a feat that is routinely accomplished in the facility. For the past 5 years, more than 90 percent of ventilator-dependent patients at the Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital were successfully weaned. This is significantly higher than the national average of 72 percent. These individuals, who are now able to breathe freely, can speak to the necessity of the long-term acute level of care.
While LTACHs play an integral role in helping critically ill patients achieve optimal function, they are among the most heavily regulated facilities in health care. For example, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) dictate the average length of stay for Medicare patients in total (25 days) and from where they can be admitted (no more than 25 percent of patients can be admitted from any single hospital).
LTACHs are also heavily scrutinized to ensure that best clinical practices are being implemented. Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital's management is held to account using a scorecard that incorporates key metrics, including quality, patient satisfaction, staffing and financial measures. Also, the Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital is fully accredited by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Joint Commission, both of which require that the Specialty Hospital adhere to the same comprehensive regulations as acute-care hospital systems.
In July of 2008, Penn Medicine (The University of Pennsylvania Health System) selected Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network to be its post-acute care partner. The resulting joint venture, known as Good Shepherd Penn Partners, allowed Good Shepherd to take its proven LTACH model to Philadelphia. Together with Penn Medicine, Good Shepherd's expertise in this field is now benefiting patients throughout eastern Pennsylvania and southern New Jersey.
The management of patients with complex medical issues requires specialization, focused care, compassion and a commitment to continuous quality improvement. In its first decade, the staff members at the Good Shepherd Specialty Hospital have proven adept at applying their expertise in these areas. I would like to thank them. I would also like to recognize our patients, who have inspired us and who have put their faith in us. Thank you, all, and congratulations on reaching this impressive 10th year milestone.
Samuel Miranda, Jr., MS, RN, NEA-BC, is Senior Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer at Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network.


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- WGC-HSBC Champions, Round Four
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Ian Poulter pulled off a remarkable comeback at the WGC-HSBC Champions as he came from four shots behind to win his first title of 2012.
Starting the day four shots off the pace, Poulter fired a sensational seven-under 65 to win by two strokes at Mission Hills.
Still flying high from Europe's Ryder Cup triumph at Medinah five weeks ago, Poulter made an early move on Sunday with two birdies in his opening two holes, and he picked up a further two shots to reach the turn in 32.
Four birdies between 10 and 15 saw Poulter surge into the lead, and although he faltered with a bogey at the 17th, he produced a superb bunker shot to save par at the 18th to sign for a 65 to take the clubhouse lead on 21-under par.
Phil Mickelson was Poulter's closest challenger, but when the American failed to hole his approach at the 18th, he was forced to settle for a four-way tie for second alongside Jason Dufner, Scott Piercy and Ernie Els.
"It's been an amazing kind of six weeks, with the Ryder Cup and then coming here," Poulter said. "I played well last week and I took a lot from that. I knew that if I just did the right things this week, stayed patient, I'd be right there at the end. It's just so nice to get another win."
Lee Westwood started the day at the top of the leaderboard alongside Louis Oosthuizen, but the Englishman's hopes of victory faded as his short game unravelled, starting with a double bogey at the fifth. Oosthuizen matched Westwood's 72 as the joint overnight leaders finished in a tie for sixth.


text: A drunken passenger who caused a hijack scare on a Virgin Australia flight by trying to break into the cockpit was arrested Friday after the plane landed on Indonesia's resort island of Bali, officials said. The airport was closed for nearly two hours because of the incident, forcing several flights to be diverted, director general for air transport Herry Bakti Gumay told Metro TV. "There was no hijacking at all," he said. "It was only a miscommunication."The Australian passenger acted aggressively and began pounding on the cockpit door before being handcuffed by the crew, Heru Sudjatmiko, airport manager for Virgin Australia, told the station. The passenger was arrested for creating a disturbance, he said."There was no hijacking at all," he said. "It was only a miscommunication."A hijack alert had been issued by the pilot about one hour before the plane landed, Indonesia air force spokesman Hadi Tjahjanto said.The Boeing 737 was carrying 139 passengers and six crew members from Brisbane, Australia, to Bali, which is a leading tourist destination for Australians."The aircraft landed safely and at no point was the safety of passengers in question," an airline spokeswoman said in Australia.- SAPA


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FAYETTEVILLE � The mother of a 5-year-old Fayetteville girl who police say was sold to pay a $200 debt was sentenced Friday to at least 17 years behind bars after entering a plea in court.
Antoinette Nicole Davis, 29, entered an Alford plea Friday in Cumberland County Superior Court to several charges, including second-degree murder. An Alford plea doesn't admit guilt, but acknowledges there is enough evidence for a conviction.
Her daughter, Shaniya, was reported missing Nov. 10, 2009. Her body was found six days later near the Lee-Harnett county line. An autopsy determined that she had been sexually assaulted before she was suffocated.
Shaniya had lived with her father, Brad Lockhart, before returning to live with Davis. Lockhart has said he agreed to let the child move in with Davis because he thought she had gotten her life in order.
"I wanted my baby back. I wanted my baby with me," Davis said in the courtroom. "I wanted my baby back with her brother. I didn't really think about her surroundings, which I should have. I admit I was wrong about that. ... I never said I was a perfect mother, but I was a good mother."
Superior Court Judge Jim Ammons chastised Davis.
"You could have saved your daughter's life, and you did not. You had the time, the opportunity and the means to save Shaniya's life, and you did not," he said. "You are not a good mother. This did not have to happen."
Ammons ordered her to register as a sex offender for 30 years and suggested that she receive psychological counseling in prison.
Earlier Friday, Ammons denied an attempt by the defense to keep Davis' statements to police out of her trial.
Defense attorney D.W. Bray argued that investigators questioned Davis over four days, never advising of her right to remain silent or to an attorney. She finally broke on the fourth day, he said.
"I gave her to him to cover $200. He was only supposed to have sex," a sobbing Davis told investigators.
Cumberland County District Attorney Billy West said Mario McNeill previously loaned $200 to Davis for food and to pay for a hotel room when she and her children were homeless. An autopsy report said the debt was drug-related, but West said that was incorrect.
McNeill, 33, was sentenced to death in May, when he was convicted of kidnapping and assaulting Shaniya before killing her. A video recording showed him holding the child in his arms in a Sanford hotel.
When McNeill came to the trailer park where Davis lived, he wanted to have sex with someone else, West said. That fell through so he went to Davis and told her to either pay him the $200 or have sex with him, the prosecutor said.
Davis refused so McNeill took Shaniya instead, West said. A feces-covered blanket found in a trash can outside Davis' trailer suggested Shaniya was sexually assaulted in the trailer, he said.
The Alford plea was part of a plea agreement that included dismissing a rape charge and reducing the first-degree murder charge to second-degree. Prosecutors dismissed the rape charge because it would have been difficult to get a conviction since McNeill was acquitted of that charge, West said. Prosecutors also didn't think they had enough evidence to get a conviction for first-degree murder, he said.


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"THE constant battle between the inanimate object on the floor and you as a person is infinite – it will instil discipline or else it will destroy you."
Welcome to the zen world of former national weightlifting champion Marius Hardiman, of East Challow.
Mr Hardiman, 42, who now spends his days climbing trees as a professional horticulturalist, runs a weightlifting gym, Oxford Powersports, in his spare time.
He began his sporting career playing county cricket and football, and only started lifting weights to build muscle at Morris Motors Weightlifting Club in East Oxford.
"I was skinny, small and frail looking," he said. "The idea was to put some muscle on me."
But there is a standard rule at most weightlifting clubs – we will train you to achieve whatever you want, and in exchange you enter competitions for our club.
And soon, the frail, skinny boy was entering national competitions.
In 1985 he came fifth in the British championships while he was still playing county cricket. The following year he won a middleweight title.
"That is why we need those sorts of facilities," he says.
"They picked me up from a council estate with no prospects.
"You have got to keep testing yourself until you get so strong mentally that you eventually think you are invincible – as I do.
"I race motorbikes, snow board, do downhill mountain biking. I'll do anything."
And it is as "simple" as it looks: there are just two lifts which weightlifters practise, right up to Olympic level.
The first lift is called the snatch, where you lift the weights straight above your head in one motion.
The second is called the clean-and-jerk: one lift to your chest, and one more the rest of the way.
"It took me 23 years to learn to snatch," says Mr Hardiman. "It is as skilful as it is rewarding. You're not going to learn this in five months but that's true of anything that is worth doing.
"There is a myth that weight-lifting stunts people's growth but it has never happened – we have a lower injury rate than badminton. Weightlifting gives you real injury resistance because you build up all the little muscles."
Despite having die-hard fans like Mr Hardiman, weightlifting was not Team GB's strong suit last summer.
Our lifters failed to get a single medal at the London Games, which were dominated by China.
Despite that, Mr Hardiman's club, Oxford Powersports, saw membership shoot up following the Games – from 20 to 30 full-time members.
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A member of the Kennedy family will come to Wheeling this week on West Virginia's 150th birthday to honor the state's place in Kennedy family history and discuss the need to eliminate child poverty in West Virginia, state Senate President Jeff Kessler announced.
Mark Kennedy Shriver serves as senior vice president for Strategic Initiatives and as senior adviser to the chief executive at Save the Children. He will speak during an intermission at the West Virginia Day concert at Heritage Port on Thursday evening.
Shriver is the son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the organization that became the Special Olympics.
His father, Sargent Shriver, was the Democrat vice presidential nominee in 1972 and helped to create the Peace Corps.
Shriver also is the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, who won the Democrat nomination for president in 1960 after defeating Hubert Humphrey in West Virginia - a win that many presidential historians believe put Kennedy in the White House.
"He's coming in to help West Virginia celebrate its 150th and to bring special recognition to the state from the Kennedy family," Kessler said. "West Virginia was the one to put Kennedy over the top to make him president, and this year also marks the 50th anniversary of his death. West Virginia catapulted him into the presidency, and it is significant a member of the Kennedy clan is willing to return."
Kessler said he met Shriver in January 2010 when Shriver accompanied actress and West Virginia native Jennifer Garner to Charleston to attend then-Gov. Joe Manchin's State of the State address. Garner is the celebrity spokeswoman for Save the Children.
It was during this address that it was announced West Virginia was pledging $1 million to Save the Children programs in the state and would, in turn, receive $3 million in matching funds from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to help fight childhood poverty.
The program has focused on literacy and anti-poverty initiatives in rural areas of the state.
Kessler said state officials estimate 25.7 percent of children in West Virginia live in poverty.
"Literacy and poverty go hand in hand," he noted. "If we reduce the illiteracy rate in West Virginia - especially with children - it gives them a chance to prosper."
Kessler added he met up with Shriver again last year at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
"He remembered meeting me before, and we have a lot of mutual interests in combating poverty," he said of Shriver.
Since Kennedy's win in West Virginia that launched him toward the presidency, the Kennedy family has had a fondness for establishing programs in West Virginia that address the state's problems, such as obesity and illiteracy, according to Kessler.
"If you can't read and write, you do not have much chance for success," he said. "This results in higher high school dropout rates, more teen pregnancies and more inmates within our penal system. It compounds everything."


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YACOUBIYEH, Syria (AP) — During the battle over this hilltop village in northern Syria, many of its residents fled, leaving behind empty homes, damaged churches and a large statue of the Virgin Mary in the deserted town square — all relics of its Christian population.
Now Yacoubiyeh is one of the few minority-dominated communities captured by Syria's rebels in the country's nearly 2-year-old uprising, making it a key gauge of how the opposition fighters mainly from Syria's Sunni Muslim majority deal with the country's broad patchwork of religious and ethnic minorities.
The Muslim commander of the local rebel garrison appears to be trying to allay any fears among the around 2,500 Christian residents who remain in the village since the fighting in January, saying he won't impinge on anyone's rights. But, like many rebel leaders now in charge of Syrian villages, he is making decisions according to a version of Islamic law that, though not strict, Christians could find constrictive.
"To each his freedoms," said the commander, who goes by the nom de guerre Hakim, suggesting that Christians could drink alcohol in their homes, but not in public. "Personal freedom stops where the freedom of others begins."
As the regime of President Bashar Assad battles a rebellion capturing increasing swaths of the country, the old order that governed relations between the country's myriad sects and ethnicities is fraying.
Many of Syria's minorities find themselves stuck in the middle, unsure which side poses the greatest danger. While outraged by the regime's brutal efforts to quash the opposition, many find equally frightening the Islamist rhetoric of many rebels, and their heavy reliance on extremist fighters.
Christians, one of the largest religious minorities at about 10 percent of Syria's 23 million people, have tried to stay on the sidelines. However, the opposition's increasingly outspoken Islamism has kept many leaning toward the regime.
"I am not convinced that these people want freedom and democracy," said Fadi, a Christian civil engineer from Damascus, voicing a common view that the rebels are led by extremists. "I sympathized with them at the start, but after all the destruction, killing and kidnapping, I prefer Bashar Assad."
Like other Syrians interviewed for this article, he spoke on condition that only his first name be published for fear of retribution.
Syria's population hails from a mix of ethnic and religious groups, a diversity reflecting their position at the crossroads of the Levant.
Some three-fourths of Syrians are Sunni Muslims, but the country is also home to other Muslim groups like Shiites, Druze and Alawites, as well as Christians and ethnic communities of Kurds, Armenians and others.
All coexisted with varying degrees of ease under Assad's regime, founded more than four decades ago by his father, Hafez, and inherited by Bashar in 2000. The Assad family is Alawite, a Shiite offshoot sect that makes up about 13 percent of the population, and the community is the backbone of his regime, holding many senior posts. But the Assads also made sure to bring Sunnis and members of other groups into some prominent positions in the government and military, and let them carve out lucrative sectors of trade.
But the uprising against Bashar Assad's rule that began in March 2011 quickly became an outlet for long-suppressed grievances, mostly by poor Sunnis from marginalized areas. It has since escalated into an outright civil war.
So far, rebels have mainly taken control in Sunni majority areas. There, most commanders do not appear to be aggressively imposing religious puritanism, as insurgents in Afghanistan or Iraq have. Still, they fall back on Islamic law as the default way of resolving disputes and keeping order.
Sectarian violence is increasingly common. Recent weeks have seen clashes between Sunni and Shiite villages in central Syria, hundreds of sectarian kidnappings in the north and damage to Christian and Shiite religious sites after their capture by rebels.
Many rebels increasingly describe their cause in religious terms. Calls for freedom have been replaced by chants declaring Islam's Prophet Muhammad "our leader forever." Online videos have shown rebels smashing truckloads of alcohol bottles and mocking executed government soldiers as "rafideen," a derogatory term for Shiites and Alawites. Many hardline Sunnis consider Shiites infidels.
In Taftanaz, a Sunni town near two government-held Shiite enclaves in a rebel-dominated region, graffiti on a wall shows an ayatollah with a Grim Reaper's head, labeled "The Truth of Shiism."
Further stoking minority fears, Islamic extremists have risen in the rebel ranks. Jabhat al-Nusra, which the United States considers a terrorist group, has been at the forefront of most recent rebel victories.
Activists from minority sects who support the uprising have found themselves sidelined, sometimes by both the opposition and their own communities.
An activist from the city of Salamiyeh, where most residents belong to the Ismaili branch of Shiite Islam, said he had been organizing and filming anti-regime protests since early in the uprising but found that rebel websites preferred videos featuring the black flags associated with militant Sunni Islam.
Instead of joining the armed opposition, he and other activists struck deals with local officials to allow protests as long as they remained peaceful, he said. That worked well until Jan. 22, when a bomb attack on a carpet factory killed 36 people. Two weeks later, a second blast struck a military factory nearby, killing some 50 Salamiyeh residents, he said.
Jabhat al-Nusra claimed the first bombing, though many suspected that the regime planned the bombings to turn the Ismailis against the uprising. Indeed, many residents blamed the local activists for bringing the war to what had been a peaceful city, he said.
The activist still supports the uprising. But, he said, "I'm afraid that in the future we could get rid of Alawite dictatorship and get a Sunni dictatorship." He spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution.
The Kurds, Syria's largest ethnic minority, have tried to use the security vacuum to increase their independence, often clashing with rebels who seek to "liberate" their areas.
The opposition's political leadership, the Syrian National Coalition, has failed to build ties with minorities. It has few minority members, and those it does have are not considered leaders in their communities. The group also has no control over fighters on the ground.
"To Syria's Christians, Assad is no savior, but he is seen by many as the gatekeeper holding back the floodwaters of sectarian retribution and religious persecution by Sunni militants," said Ramzy Mardini, Middle East analyst at the Jamestown Foundation.
"For minorities, life after Assad looks gloomier and the political opposition is neither strong nor credible enough to make any genuine reassurances to them," he said.
Rebels moved in to capture Yacoubiyeh and two neighboring villages, Judeida and Quniya — which together are home to several thousand Christians — in part because regime forces were shelling rebel-held areas from the communities. Those who fled appear to have done so mainly to escape the battle, though worries over the approaching rebels may have played a role.
Last month, residents met with Muslim clerics to discuss the status of Christians under the Islamic courts that rebels have organized. One villager said he didn't want to be a "dhimmi" — a second-class citizen under Islamic law — but a Syrian with equal rights, said Mouaz Moustafa of the Washington-based Syrian Emergency Task Force, who organized the meeting.
The clerics responded that the courts were a "service" they provide in the absence of any other government, Moustafa said. They said stricter Shariah punishments, like amputation of hands and stoning, have been suspended during wartime, and the courts would try to enlist civil judges to partner with the clerics. Democratic elections after the regime's fall, the clerics said, would ultimately determine the laws.
Analyst Yezid Sayigh of the Carnegie Middle East Center cautioned against assuming that all members of sectarian groups think alike. Even among Sunnis and Alawites, there is a range of views: Many want what they see as best for Syria not just for their own sect — whether that means Assad or the rebellion. It is also premature to talk of a Sunni takeover in Syria, he said, noting that many Sunnis don't follow the extreme views held by some rebel fighters.
What is more likely, he said, is national fragmentation that leaves no structure able to handle tasks like rebuilding the economy and repatriating refugees.
"These are going to be massive issues," he said.
Hubbard reported from Beirut. A Syrian reporter in Damascus, Syria, contributed reporting.


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Host Marcia Franklin is joined by Cal Groen, director of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, and Jon Rachael, Fish and Game's wildlife carnivore and big game manager, to discuss the recent court decision by U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy that put the gray wolf back on the Endangered Species List.
In his decision, Molloy ruled that Wyoming doesn't have an adequate management plan for hunting wolves and that the Endangered Species Act does not allow the federal government to subdivide a distinct population segment so that a species is listed in part of a region and delisted in the another part of the same region. As a result, Molloy ruled, federal protections for wolves must be reinstated throughout the region. The ruling halted Idaho's wolf-hunting season.
U.S. Sens. Jim Risch and Mike Crapo have sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar asking him to appeal the decision. Governor C.L. "Butch" Otter has also asked Salaze for a new Memorandum of Understanding between the state and the federal government that would allow for wolf hunting in Idaho.


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Abstract: Using 19th Century Scholarship on a 21st Century Archaeology Project
Four very impressive Maya cave studies appeared at the end of the 19th century. Easily the most spectacular was Eduard Seler's investigation of Quen Santo, Huehuetenango, Guatemala from 1895-97. Unfortunately, this work has been largely ignored by archaeologists because the book is rare and was published in German. A restudy of the caves conducted by a California State University, Los Angeles field project allows archaeologists to integrate Seler's spectacular finds in the 19th century with the most recent advances in Maya cave investigation. This included ethnographic studies of Maya pilgrimages to the caves that continue to this day. The result is a wholly new appreciation of the tremendous importance of caves as sacred sites in ancient Maya cosmology.
Short bibliography and/or website on lecture topic (for lay reader):
James E. Brady, 2009. Exploring Highland Maya Ritual Cave Use: Archaeology & Ethnography in Huehuetenango, Guatemala, edited by James E. Brady. Bulletin 20, Association for Mexican Cave Studies, Austin.
James E. Brady, 2011. The Maya's Sacred Caves. American Archaeology 15 (2):12-19.
James E. Brady, 2010. Offerings to the Rain Gods: The Archaeology of Maya Caves. In Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea, edited by Daniel Finamore and Stephen D. Houston, pp.220-223. Peabody Essex Museum and Yale University Press, New Haven.
James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer (eds.), 2005. In the Maw of the Earth Monster: Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use. University of Texas Press, Austin.
Keith M. Prufer and James E. Brady (eds.), 2005. Stone Houses and Earth Lords: Maya Religion in the Cave Context. University Press of Colorado.
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Juvenile Offender HIV Prevention and Drug Abuse Services (Day Treatment)
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01922297
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Experimental: Day Treatment MDFT-HIV
Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT)is an integrative treatment approach that has blended family therapy, individual therapy, drug counseling, and multiple systems oriented intervention approaches (Liddle 1999). DT-MDFT-HIV includes a state-of-the-art family-based HIV prevention component into the core MDFT intervention specifically targeting high-risk sexual behavior in clinical sample teens.
Other: Day Treatment MDFT-HIV
MDFT-HIV is a specialized intervention aimed at reducing risk factors for HIV-associated sexual behaviors. It builds protective behaviors in the adolescent's intrapersonal and interpersonal functioning, as well as those aspects of family functioning to reduce youths' high-risk sexual behavior. For instance, interventions target inadequate monitoring, parent-adolescent conflict, and parental disengagement - behaviors consistently associated with elevated HIV/STD risk. It facilitates positive and supportive family relationships, processes that can significantly reduce HIV/STD risk. Additionally, it aims to promote effective family communication about sexuality and safer sexual behaviors, among the most important protective factors against sexual risk taking behavior.
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The DT-Services as Usual (SAU) condition is primarily a peer group-based and individual approach that uses cognitive-behavioral principles and interventions. It is an adolescent substance abuse treatment and services consistent with those recommended for juvenile justice-involved drug abusing youth (Cooper & Bartlett 1998; National Institute of Justice, 2001).
Other: Day Treatment SAU
Substance abuse treatment and HIV prevention services are routinely provided to youth in the day treatment programs. The day treatment programs contract to local substance abuse and mental health providers for these services that are provided both within and outside of the day treatment setting. The intervention's specific features are similar to those found in the literature on outpatient peer-based group treatment for adolescent alcohol abusers (CSAT 1998). Specifically, it is based on a cognitive-behavioral group treatment model (Kaminer et al 1998; Marshall & Marshall 1993), with a comprehensive treatment package including individual counseling and treatment planning.
Other Name: DT-SAU
- Substance Use [ Time Frame: Changes in substance use from intake through the 24-month follow-up ]The Timeline Follow-Back Method, Personal Experiences Inventory and Urinalyses will be used to measure substance use
- HIV Associated Sexual Risk Behaviors [ Time Frame: Changes in HIV Associated Sexual Risk Behaviors from intake to the 24-month follow-up ]Timeline Followback for Sexual Risk Behavior, Urinalysis for STD testing and HIV/STD Risk Assessment Measure
- Delinquency [ Time Frame: Changes in delinquency from intake through the 24-month follow-up ]Juvenile Justice records and the Service Utilization Interview
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- Between the ages of 13 and 18
- Committed to a juvenile justice day treatment program
- Meet criteria for substance use disorder on the DISC Predictive Scales
- Any self-reported sexual activity within the past 6 months
- At least one parent figure willing to participate in intervention and assessments
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- Mental retardation or pervasive developmental disorders
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|University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
|Miami, Florida, United States, 33136
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|NCT01922297 History of Changes
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|August 25, 2015
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HIV Associated Risk Behavior
Family based treatment
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Is The Huntsman Daughters' 'SexyBack' Spoof the Worst (or Best) Song Ever? [VIDEO]
Jon Huntsman may be lagging in the polls, but he certainly leads the Republican presidential field in daughters willing to make viral videos promoting his campaign.
The three Huntsman girls latest effort is a parody of the the Justin Timberlake song 'SexyBack' (without the dirty parts, of course) called 'Huntsman's Back.' And we can't decide if it's awesome…or excruciating. Or possibly both.
The quick little ditty makes the somewhat dubious claim that their pop, the former governor of Utah, is 'right on track' for the GOP nomination and dismisses his rivals Herman Cain, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich as a "circus act."
Watch the threesome appeal to voters in (no doubt auto-tuned) song below.
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Finally! avant-window-navigator-0.1.1 is out the door, and after some teething pains, all seems well.
To help people grasp the idea a little better, I have posted some screenshots here.
Also, I have made a screencast (download awn-demo.ogg) which gives you an idea of how Awn works/looks when you are using it (it was my first ever screencast, so forgive the lack of direction :).
If you are using Awn, and hopefully enjoying it, I would love to here from you regarding what features you'd like to see, and/or any ideas regarding the visuals.
Monday, 29 January 2007
avant-window-navigator initial release!
Posted by Neil J. Patel at 15:54
4 comments:
- Josh said...
How about uploading the screencast in a format sane human beings would use?
- 1 February 2007 at 19:35
- Neil J. Patel said...
Which format would that be then?
- 1 February 2007 at 19:50
youtube ;)
- 1 February 2007 at 21:45
- Dmitry said...
How do you make screencasts?
- 25 February 2007 at 14:04
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Remodeled condos at the Rosalei
If you think buying fee simple property isn't affordable in Waikiki, think again. Sure, you may find something at a decent price, but without any recent upgrades, you may find yourself at Home Depot more often than at your new pad.
The living room in unit 709 at the Rosalei
These one-bedroom units, both in the Rosalei Ltd building on Kaiolu Street, just hit the market three days ago and were remodeled within the past year. The owner (who owns both condos) installed new cabinetry and flooring, replaced the showers, mirrors and cabinets in the bathrooms, and applied a fresh coat of paint to each.
The bedroom in unit 709 at the Rosalei
"The units are really in turn-key condition," says realtor Toan Doran of Prudential Locations. "You can move right in and don't have to do anything." For $215,000 fee simple, that's not something you find often in this area.
The entry/kitchen area in unit 709 at the Rosalei
The seventh floor condo (#709) has attractive laminate flooring, while the ninth floor unit (#902) features tile in the kitchen and carpeting in the living room and bedroom. Both have lanais that are accessible from the living room and bedroom, with enough room for a small table where you can sit and read outside if you prefer.
The living room in unit 902 at the Rosalei
The maintenance fee, which includes electricity, is reasonable at $479 a month. The building has a pool and lounge area. There's a community laundry room and each property comes with a 4-foot-by-4-foot storage area in the basement.
A couple of caveats – if you're an animal lover, you'll have to get your fix from a friend's fur baby. No pets are allowed. Also, there's no parking stall with either unit. But you're in Waikiki, you can walk to the beach, restaurants and shopping. Or if you need, the closest bus stop is half a block away.
You can check out either condo for yourself at tomorrow's brokers' open house from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. (it's open to the public) or this Sunday from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Click here for details.
Money talk: $215,000 fee simple (for each unit)
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Nicki Minaj May Join Britney Spears Tour
Nicki Minaj is reportedly in talks to join Britney Spears on her upcoming tour, the singer confirmed today to MTV News.
"I am in talks of joining Britney Spears, yeah," she said. "I'm in talks about a lot of things, ya know. I don't know -- oops, I did it again."
The tour -- which kicks off June 17 in Sacramento, CA -- has been in a bit of flux since news broke at the end of March that Enrique Iglesias had abruptly dropped out. On March 30, the singer Tweeted, "Hey guys, sorry for the confusion regarding a possible tour in the summer with Britney Spears. We are on the Euphoria tour and will continue to do so including some soon-to-be-announced dates in US. So hope to see all of you soon."
As for Minaj, she's currently on I Am Still Music Tour with Lil Wayne, which ends May 1 in East Rutherford, NJ.
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I posted a while back about how ruby's syntax is better for designing software than java because it removes extra language cruft and enables developers to write more succinct and direct code. A common response to this from detractors is that "it's only three extra characters" and "my IDE can automatically generate that code for me". Sitting at the train station today reading a comment from someone that said something similar to "geeze, if you've got thousands of lines of code, why do you care about a couple of letters and a parenthesis or curly brace here and there?". I started thinking about why I care and discovered the reason: With those little three letters here and there, your code literally becomes a type of Gibberish
In gibberish, you use simple rules to add extra characters here and there (sounds familiar) to create and quite confusing language that is a 1 for 1 direct translation to/from english. While gibberish, pig latin, and other language games are entertaining past-times to kill summer afternoons and baffle outsiders when you converse using them, MOST folks wouldn't subscribe to The New York times translated into gibberish. More importantly, almost nobody would agree that writing a blog post in gibberish is worth the effort. So java programmers, instead of arguing about how "it doesn't matter", lower your defenses and look around at alternatives available to you (there are a lot).
As a graphic illustration (and a bit extreme, I admit), the first sentence of this blog post translated to my best attempt at idig/adig gibberish:Idigi pidigostiged idiga whidigile badagack adigabagout hadigow ridiguby's sidigyntadigax idigis bidigettidigetter fidigor didigesidigignigiging sadigoftwidigare thatigan jadigavadaga bidicadigause idigit ridigemidigoves idigextridiga ladigangidiguage crididguft adigand idigenadigables didigevidigevladigopidigigers tidigo wridigite madigore sadiguccidiginct adigand didigiridigect cadigode.
I'm pretty sure the "plain english" version is probably better to communicate an idea if the intent is to communicate clearly. The only thing I did to render that above sentence was add "idig" or "adig" after the initial consonant of each syllable and put it at the front of the vowel for syllables that start with a vowel. This is very simple and we could probably create a word plug-in to make it super easy to translate normal english to gibberish with the click of a button.
That having been said, if there was a subculture that wrote and spoke exclusively in gibberish, wouldn't normal english speakers/writers also question their choice of languages? After all, it's adding extra syllables and letters that don't provide any direct value. In fact, the whole value of gibberish (other than entertainment) is that it's MORE difficult to understand, why would we ever argue that this is a good thing or "Not a problem (tm)".


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Catherine: Full Body - 'Fine Wine' Official Release Date Trailer
Catherine: Full Body launches in the Americas and Europe on September 3, 2019.
Catherine: Full Body launches in the Americas and Europe on September 3, 2019.
Catherine has arrived on PC, available now on Steam.
That girl is poison.
Everything you ever wanted to know about love and sex in video games. Warning: Contains scenes of digital nudity.
GameSpot AU community manager James Kozanecki tells you what games are coming out in Australia in the week beginning February 20, 2011!
Here's the trailer for the UK release of Catherine.
This week, we feature titles BurgerTime World Tour, Shank 2, Gotham City Impostors, Catherine, Top Spin 4, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game, the Jak and Daxter: Collection, ...
Here's an unboxing video for the limited Stray Sheep Edition of Catherine for the Xbox 360.
Here's an unboxing video for the limited Stray Sheep Edition of Catherine for the PS3.
A visual journey through 2011 through the eyes of a gamer.
These are GameSpot's nominees for the Best Puzzle Game of 2011.
Today we investigate whether running, diving, and stabbing really work in Assassin's Creed, and what Skyrim has been doing to the public at large.
Aram Jabbari from Atlus gives us some tips to help you beat the first boss in Catherine.
Check out the new titles Catherine, Section 8: Prejudice, Annihilation Map pack, From Dust, and Dragon Age II: Legacy to be released this week.
Jody syncs you up on Kinect Star Wars, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Catherine, and Gears of War 3.
Catherine casts a spell over Kevin VanOrd in this video review.
Talking to sheep is only part of Vincent's nightmare in Catherine.
Puzzles are fiendishly hard, and Vincent doesn't always make it.
Vincent makes his way to the top of the puzzle to escape his nightmare.
Vincent grabs some last-minute coins on the way out of this nightmare.
Moving blocks made of ice ends badly for Vincent in the Quadrangle level.
Player two is off to a slow start in this co-op puzzle battle.
Vincent evades a dangerous tongue monster in order to make it through the door.
Vincent and Catherine get to know each other at the bar in this cutscene.
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in spirit of the game's theme, Atlus asked gamers to post direct video responses answering three heavy questions about commitment.
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Are any of the top guys changing boards depending on expected conditions for the event? I was under the impression that they use the same board no matter what.
Do the top guys change fins depending on the expected conidtions? I can see having a slightly smaller fin set for when it is forecasted to blow 20+ for an entire event.


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6 stunning details we learned in Cowboys' Tyron Smith family saga
For the first time, in an hour-long interview with The Dallas Morning News, Cowboys left tackle Tyron Smith opened up to share his cautionary tale about how money changes people and how greed can run rampant around NFL players who become instant millionaires. Smith's story is a must-read for any college football player drafted last month. Here are some of the more stunning revelations from Smith's interview with DMN Cowboys beat writer Brandon George.
Smith, the first offensive lineman selected in 2011 when the Cowboys drafted him ninth overall out of USC, signed a four-year, $12.5 million contract. He gave his family a substantial amount of money, agreeing to pay his parents in four installments. But Smith's stepfather, Roy Pinkney, his mother, Frankie Pinkney, and some of his siblings kept coming back for more.
"There was a certain amount I agreed to give them, but it went way beyond that and I was just like, 'I'm done,'" Smith said. "I feel like I shouldn't have given them so much. There was nothing wrong with helping them out and making sure they were taken care of, but not something to where they live the same lifestyle as you."
On the final weekend of October last year, while Smith was at the Cowboys' team hotel preparing for a Sunday afternoon home game against the Giants, two of Smith's sisters showed up from California unannounced at his North Dallas home, leading his girlfriend Leigh Costa to dial 911. According to a Dallas police report, the sisters were there to "harass and torment" him "in the pursuit of collecting financial gain."
And it wasn't the first time some of Smith's family had shown up in Dallas and left in fury.
Last October, John Schorsch — Smith's Dallas-based attorney at the time — said Smith's "mom and/or the stepdad threatened the physical well-being of Tyron and the life of his girlfriend." Smith filed a protective order against his parents last summer to keep them from having any contact with him. The order also prohibits contact from Smith's parents through his siblings.
During training camp last year in Oxnard, Calif., one of Smith's brothers whom he said he hadn't talked to "in a long time" showed up and had to be removed from the facility.
Six months ago, Schorsch said Smith's family had not only continually demanded money from Smith but also took more than $1 million from him.
During a phone interview with The News last October, Frankie Pinkney strongly denied the family took any of Smith's money without his authorization or harassed or threatened him in any way.
Smith said that when the money went missing, he was using a financial adviser his parents had recommended before the draft.
"There was money missing, but I just don't know where it went," Smith said. "There were times I would check my statements and it wouldn't make sense and I hadn't authorized it at all. I just felt betrayed and I was like, 'Who can I trust?'"
Early last year, Cowboys coach Jason Garrett told Smith he would be moving to left tackle. Smith sent a text message to his parents to share his good news.
The text Smith received back didn't offer congratulations or say anything about how proud they were of him.
"They were already looking forward to the next contract, talking about things they wanted to get already," Smith said. "I was like I haven't even got there and there's not even a sure thing that I will. And that was all that was coming out of their mouth."
Many who meet Smith describe him as a "good guy." He's soft-spoken and considerate. Just a few weeks ago, Smith drove to West and helped serve food to many of the emergency workers who had responded to the fertilizer plant explosion. Smith also has a heart for animals. He has four dogs — three rescued from shelters — that he often plays with in his pool.
He said he's open to reconciling with his family when the timing is right.
"If all the incidents stop," Smith said, "and they just give me the space that I've asked for. The takeaway from this is don't let people take advantage of you. And it's all right to say no to certain people."


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Luxury sport utility vehicles were created to straddle two different demographics. Although sport utility vehicles are usually pretty nice (they have to be, to justify the premium prices of many models), those who actually drove their SUVs hard to enable off-road adventures probably didn't want any actual luxury features. Premium paint would just get scratched; shiny oversized chrome rims would just get bent. But as we know, few sport utility vehicles actually get used to their potential, and many just became urban and suburban street cruisers.
So of that, a new market evolved: new luxury sport utility vehicles. New luxury SUVs aren't exactly new; the category gradually came about as auto manufacturers tried to figure out how to get new customers interested in large vehicles, and the answer appears to have been to add more features, more glamour, and more glitz. However, there are new models of luxury SUVs that are worth discussing, as manufacturers launch more models that were designed to be luxurious from the get go. New luxury sport utility vehicles are sport utility vehicles; no surprise there. Should one so choose, even the most expensive of luxury sport utility vehicles could hop off the highway and go romping through the forest alongside more basic, purpose-driven SUVs. But the auto manufacturers also understand that the ideal buyer of a luxury SUV doesn't necessarily want to do that. They're just willing to pay a princely sum to rest assured that if they ever wanted to, they could. So new luxury sport utility vehicles have the structure to support adventurous driving, and more engine power than is necessary to tackle any imaginable terrain. Then, these new luxury vehicles are fitted with features and options similar to, and sometimes identical to, the specifications of the luxury cars in each manufacturer's lineup. High end paint finishes, lounge-like seating and upholstery, and top of the line electronics all raise these new luxury sport utility vehicles a cut above the competition. It can be a little hard to distinguish whether the competition is regular SUVs, or regular luxury cars, but if you're behind the wheel of one of these attention-getting behemoths, you're probably not too concerned with such matters.


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Dallas businessmen of the 1960s fervently lobbied for construction of Woodall Rodgers Freeway, promising that it would connect downtown to the rest of the city.
Now comes Klyde Warren Park, whose purpose is to bury a section of that same freeway under a pedestrian-friendly field of green. Doing so, its supporters argue, will connect downtown to the rest of the city.
"There was a recognition that Woodall Rodgers had become a psychological barrier that had a negative impact on the city core," said Linda Owen, a former president of the Dallas Real Estate Council who was among the park's earliest supporters.
"This is about knitting the city together again," she said.
When Klyde Warren Park opens Saturday, it will represent 10 years of planning, $110 million in funding and a fundamental shift in the way people think about urban life.
When 50 years ago, Dallas businessmen argued that the freeway would serve as a "connector," they meant it would link North Central Expressway and Interstate 35. Downtown streets would become less congested. At the end of the workday, business district employees could drive out of the city core in no time.
During the push to develop the 5.2-acre Klyde Warren Park, its supporters used the same term — "connector." But the context had changed. The park would serve as a bridge between downtown and Uptown, and would draw suburban residents to a newly vibrant urban core.
Alex Garvin, an urban planner at Yale School of Architecture, has watched municipal policy evolve nationwide from the belief that a spoke-and-hub freeway system would increase the value of downtown by making it easier for employees and customers to drive from the suburbs.
The systems successfully connected the suburbs with downtowns, but once employees left for the day, they didn't drive back for shopping or dining. Downtowns suffered as a result.
Now city leaders are trying to lure people back.
"It's not just a matter of philosophy. Times change," Garvin said. "Dallas is not the city it was 50 years ago. What once needed to be connected no longer needs connection."
Dallas is not the only city dealing with that issue, and it is not the first to come up with the idea of building a park over a freeway.
Peter Harnik, author of Urban Green: Innovative Parks for Resurgent Cities, counts at least 25 deck parks in the United States — three alone in Duluth, Minn.
Part of the reason is environmental, he said. Urban planners are trying to cut pollution and noise in the center city. But however much the green movement might applaud the symbolism of burying sections of freeway beneath an urban oasis, Harnik notes, there is also a practical reason for the phenomenon.
"In most cities, new downtown parks are under way, but it's difficult to build them because it's very expensive to acquire enough land," he said.
Where are there acres of unused open space near the urban core?
Over the freeways.
"Technically, the land is free, if you can work it out with the state," Harnik said. "It's expensive to build over a highway, but you're saving the cost of tearing down existing infrastructure."
Building a deck park is one thing. Filling it with people is another.
A key moment in the history of Klyde Warren Park came in 2006, when Dallas supporters toured Chicago's Millennium Park and New York's Bryant Park. Both are considered major urban success stories.
Millennium Park, about five times larger than Klyde Warren Park, was built over railroad yards, and it has served to link Chicago's Loop to Lake Michigan. Bryant Park, at about 10 acres, was once a refuge for drug dealers until an intense redevelopment effort beginning in the 1980s turned it into one of New York City's most popular venues.
The key to success in both cities, the Dallas visitors were told, was programming — providing activities, scheduling concerts and hosting events almost nonstop.
Moreover, Bryant Park activities generate enough money to sustain an $8 million annual budget.
Since then, "programming" has become the mantra for Klyde Warren Park.
"When people in Texas think of parks, they think of a playground or a place to play softball. This is not that kind of park," said Jody Grant, the Texas Capital Bank founder who led fundraising for the deck park. "We have to provide a reason for people to be here."
The opening weekend alone will include chess tournaments; mah-jongg, knitting, and tai chi lessons; dog training; a movie screening; concerts and fireworks. It is a pace that organizers promise will slow only slightly as things settle into a daily routine.
Some programming will be cut back during the winter months, but — except during the worst weather — will never cease throughout the year.
Restaurant at site
A restaurant opening on the premises next year is expected to be a major source of revenue. The Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation will receive both leasing fees and a cut of the restaurant receipts.
Dan Biederman, who redeveloped Bryant Park and served as a consultant for Klyde Warren Park, thinks Dallas supporters have learned their lessons well.
"It's one of the most exciting parks in the country," he said of Klyde Warren Park. "Programming is one of the most important pieces, and you're next to two great neighborhoods — Uptown and the [AT&T] Performing Arts Center" in the Dallas Arts District.
Weather and walking
Biederman sees two challenges for Klyde Warren Park. One is weather, which he believes will be less troublesome than Dallas residents fear.
"People I talked to down there said, 'Don't expect us to have wonderful summers,'" he said. "Well, New York doesn't have wonderful winters. I would estimate that there are about 100 good days in New York City, and about 250 in Dallas."
But Dallas has one clear disadvantage.
"You do not live in a walking city," he said. "The distance people in Dallas are willing to walk seems to me to be about 600 feet. In New York, San Francisco and Boston, it's more like 1,400 feet."
Garvin said that one factor that makes Bryant Park such a success is that so many people live nearby. Without that, he said, programming can do only so much.
"At the moment, programming is the big thing, it's what people talk about," he said. "But you need great design, too. Central Park doesn't have great programming, but it has great design, and it's one of the most successful parks in the world."
Willis Winters, deputy director of the Dallas Park and Recreation Department, said the deck park designers tried to guard against over-programming.
"There is such a thing as filling every space in the park just to be filling," he said. "You have to try not to make it a circus. A children's carousel would have been over-programming. Something like that becomes intrusive."
Beyond programming and design, there is the city itself, said Harnik, who is director of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for City Park Excellence.
"You need more than trees. You need retail, you need other people, you need a fun place that people will be able to walk through," he said.
Currently, Klyde Warren Park sits near some of the most expensive office space in the central business district and near a scattering of restaurants and high-rise residences.
There is hard evidence that parks do indeed spur development.
Because of the revitalization of Bryant Park, surrounding buildings now have a vacancy rate a third of that for the rest of midtown Manhattan. Rents are 19 percent higher, according to a report this month in The New York Times.
The catch is that the transformation did not happen overnight. It has been 20 years since a revitalized Bryant Park opened to the public.
"You won't know everything after opening weekend," Garvin said. "It's how Dallas will look 15 years from now that will determine if it's a success."


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Dan Sobajic, director of grid reliability and power markets for EPRI, who will discuss the events leading up to, during, and after the Aug. 14 blackout, along with a descriptive analysis of the U.S. power grid.
Mark McGranaghan, vice president of consulting services for EPRI-PEAC, who will present the various types of power quality and power reliability products and discuss their performance attributes and applications.
John DeDad, editorial director for the Primedia Business electrical group publications, who will present various power distribution design options, their components and respective performance characteristics, and analyses of costs vs. performances.
The early-bird deadline is Oct. 24. The registration fee of $395 ($425 for late registrants) will include a free Expo Pass to the Power Quality Exhibition portion of the PowerSystems World Show. For more information and to register for the conference, download the registration form. We hope to see you there!