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Psychedelic Dreams
The uniqueness of this 1934 coupe goes beyond what you see, and there's a lot of unique to see. It was built as few cars can be—with the builder's single vision and unlimited funds. The ideal project conditions to be sure, which result in a spectacular build.
When Galpin Ford's Dave Shuten decided to groove with his 1934 Ford five-window coupe, he picked a '60s-show-car-on-steroids theme as his guiding aesthetic. It's about an explosion of color and chrome, thin white sidewalls and white diamond pleats. It's lace paint and metalflake. Less may be more, but in the '60s show-car vernacular more was never enough. "In the '60s with show cars, it was all about the chrome," Shuten says.
In the '60s with show cars, it was all about the chrome.
Quest for Perfection
Shuten's show car began as a Midwest drag-race refugee with the scars and butchery to prove it. Originally built by Ollie Heniz from Shuten's hometown of Charlotte, Michigan, for Mike Cedor, it featured a setback Hemi with center steer and a full hood. Cedor drag raced it through the late '50s to early '60s period. Soon it was retired and ended up sitting in a rural basement for decades.
After recreating Ed "Big Daddy" Roth's Mysterion, restoring Dan Wood's Milk Truck and Ice Truck—all '60s show cars—and relocating to California from Michigan, Shuten pulled the old coupe from the woodpile and fired up the torch. Beau Boeckmann of Galpin Ford in Van Nuys, California, eyed the project and bought it. Agreeing to keep it as Shuten's vision, he was fine with executing it in the '60s show-car vein but wanted Shuten to up the stakes by finishing the coupe to a contemporary show-car level. "That took it to a whole different degree," Shuten says.
Being a geek of the period, Shuten has the eye (as well as the parts stash) to pull off his idea of the ultimate swinging '60s show car. "I wanted this to be the best you could build in 1965, with nothing on the coupe newer than 1965," Shuten explains.
Even though the body was in good shape, he replaced the doorskins, wheelwells, rockers, floors, firewall, and added patch panels to the quarters. The unchopped roof had been filled in the '50s, but the work was iffy and needed to be cut out and replaced. Shuten chopped the top 2½-inches in the back and 3½-inches at the front, and with the help of Bobby Walden in Pomona, California, fabricated a new roof skin to replace the butchered sections of the original insert surround.
The windshield posts were kept at the stock angle, so a section from a second roof was added to extend the top to mate up with the posts. The back window was chopped 2 inches and narrowed 6 inches to keep the proportions nice. The hood sides were custom made by Walden and are not stretched—though the body has been channeled slightly in the front.
Where Shuten had his work cut out for him was with creating the splash-apron bubbles. "They were definitely the hardest part of the build," he says. "They're smooth and sleek and tie the body and hood to the front end. They were a lot of work. Actually, the left side was fun, the right side was work."
Out back the rear panel below the decklid was lengthened 2½ inches to accommodate the '65 Chevy taillights. The pinch-weld flange for the tailpan was eliminated, too. "Nobody notices," remarks Shuten, but he goes on to say that's not why he does these modifications.
When Shuten looks at cars, things bother him. One of those bothers with this '34 was the square corner of the reveal at the [former] rear fender and running board junction. "That bothered me, so I made a die stamp to reshape it," Shuten says. "All of the mods I made were subtle. It's a pretty car to start with so you don't need to do a lot of changes just to be doing them."
Let's be honest, Ford makes great motors, but it takes a lot to make them look good.
Keeping to the era, if Shuten wanted it all Ford the choice for the engine had to be a Ford 427ci side oiler. "Let's be honest, Ford makes great motors, but it takes a lot to make them look good," he says. "They didn't make a lot of great speed parts for the FEs, but I think I got every part they did make." The wild and rare N.O.S. Mickey Thompson cross-ram intake was a good start. Shuten says Edelbrock and M/T made these intakes, and Shuten likes the "beefy" look of the M/T version better. Of course, that preference comes with a cost beyond the purchase price.
You can use a stock distributor or mag on the Edelbrock intake—not so for the M/T version. This one requires a cool little adapter that raises the distributor 5 inches, which meant Shuten had to turn down the distributor in a lathe. Another snag is the only carburetors that work on the M/T intake are center-squirt Hemi race-car carbs. "So a smart guy would use an Edelbrock," Shuten says.
The Buick nailhead spark-plug covers do a good job of zooming things up, as do the Moon valve covers, Nicson scoops to match the Nicson boat mount, and a fully chromed Top Loader four-speed to round out the powertrain. Nicson was a speed parts manufacturer for boats that Shuten decided to tap into for some unusual yet attractive alternatives to the typical hot rod fair: parts like the front engine mount. "It was a clean way to mount the engine and adds a WTF element," Shuten says. Plus, it allowed him to keep the headers symmetrical so when viewed from below, the pipes are equal side to side. That's another thing that bugs Shuten—unequal-length headers. And the mounts were made before 1965—that other thing Shuten is trying to balance in this build.
$130,000 of Chrome
And then there's the chrome, 2,018 pieces of chrome, to be exact—which had to be finished in only 30 days. Advanced Plating in Nashville got the nod for the ginormous amount of chrome plating, with a reported cost of more than $130,000 (not a misprint). The only parts of the engine not chrome is the block itself. Even the radiator is fully chromed. "That's the first time they chrome-plated an entire radiator with all of the solder fillets and all," Shuten says. "They made it one, big, liquid, chrome part."
The chassis looks like it is carved from a chunk of soap. Pearl-white soap. All the welds are ground smooth and dressed to blend the belled crossmembers and brackets into one, seamless construction. When combined with the plated parts, the chrome reflects the paint so you've got paint elements playing off of chrome elements. To bring a little extra attention to the frame, Shuten welded and formed a reveal along the lines of a '32 Ford frame. Says Shuten, "When you pearl white the frame, all you see is that line and it pulls your eye in and makes you look at that and the details."
The front axle is filled in the center with identical inserts on each side to bookend the grille. "When you look at the front, the area behind the grille doesn't look unfinished—everything looks symmetrical," says Shuten. A part he's especially proud of is the steering arm. Fashioned after the one he saw on the seminal Orange Crate Deuce drag car from the '60s, it's made from a piece of 5-inch-long, ¼-inch-wall tubing, heliarc welded to a '40 Ford spindle. "I metal-finished it before it was chromed so it looks like a forging," Shuten says.
Though Shuten is more than qualified to pull off a paint job like this, and has, he was running out of time and patience. His choice was to take it to Darryl Hollenbeck in Concord, California, to handle the intricate lace and paint fades, while Shuten tackled the final construction throes and then final assembly of the chassis. "We went back and forth with phone calls and texts talking about layout and colors, and we think alike so I felt good about him doing the paint."
Pulling it all together for the car that would become known as Iron Orchid was that '60s show-car aesthetic, so all the little stuff needed to jive with the rest of the car. Stuff like the N.O.S. white shifter boot, Decca clear spark-plug wires, white Cal Custom terminal ends from the '60s, and the N.O.S. pearl-white Cragar steering wheel. "I feel as a builder I don't want to take short cuts, so I try to use real vintage stuff," Shuten says. Which is part of the reason he chose the 7- and 8 ½-inch-wide chrome Astro slotted mags. The other part? "They're the only wheels I could find from '65 that aren't available new. I didn't want the coupe to have the same wheels every other car has."
The same theme applies to the seats. They're real Ford Fairlane Thunderbolt seats. And the Stewart Warner model 240 fuel pump is Thunderbolt sourced and the battery is an exact reproduction of a Thunderbolt battery—all of these ancillary Thunderbolt components also ties back to the decision to use the 427 FE engine.
So let's summarize the themes: '60s show car, white rubber, Thunderbolt, nothing aftermarket sourced from later than 1965, symmetry, Nicson boat parts, blue Plexiglas, and real vintage components; there are a lot of self-inflicted regulations to building hot rods—at least if you're Dave Shuten. But it's all of those foibles and follies that steer a car to the finish line first, or spin it out in the dirt. If you're a good builder and have had success with your gut, then following your vision can create a car as unique and successful as the Shuten-Boeckmann '34 coupe.


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Duncan Scone
Race: Men
Faction: Faq, formerly Jitterati
Class: Warlord
Level: 6
Special: Leadership
Proposed Canon
"I don't give a stray bit of snot for Royalty. I've yet to see evidence that the Queen does, either."
Strengths: Confidence, Following Orders
Weaknesses: Keeping His Head Warm
First Appearance: LIAB Prologue 28
Duncan Scone was Faq's Chief Warlord. When captured in 51 AW, he was a level 6 Warlord, described as a mocha-skinned bald man.
Formerly a Jitterati unit, he was in command of Valdez's defenses when Jillian, Vinny, and their forces attacked.
He agreed to Parley with Jillian, who then induced Jitterati's natural allies, the Western Giants, to switch allegiances to Faq. She then captured him, and he was later turned to Faq by Vanna.
Duncan possesses a magic item called the Laurel of Napster, which was created thousands of turns ago by a tri-link between a Thinkamancer, Hat Magician and Date-a-mancer. It gives him an intuitive feel for how any two units might interact.
Duncan was croaked by Georgia Power in the Battle of I'm Coming for you Stanley.
Duncan doesn't seem bothered by his sudden changing of sides and takes his new job as Chief Warlord quite seriously. In fact, he butts heads with Jillian occasionally over her insistence on leading fights over him. Even with his Signamancy of being bald, he seems to be full of Life.
Real World References
His name is a homonym for "Dunking Scone" or perhaps "Dunkin'," a reference to a baked treat often taken with coffee and the manner in which it is enjoyed. Additionally, his name could also reference the coffee shop/baked good chain "Dunkin' Donuts". His skin is mocha-colored, again referencing coffee either a bean from Yemen or a type of drink, and he used to wear Jitterati's livery of white with a circular green symbol, a reference to Starbucks.
His name may also be a reference to the episode of the TV version of Highlander in which Duncan MacLeod returns the Stone of Scone to Scotland.
He looks impeccably similar to Lobot, the Vice Administrator of Cloud City from Star Wars, thanks to his laurel.
In Macbeth, Macbeth is crowned at Scone, after killing King Duncan.
May also be a reference to Duncan Idaho, from the Dune series, who initially serves as an Atreides warlord, and later as a Mentat.
|Preceded by:
Princess Jillian Zamussels
|Chief Warlord of Faq
|Succeeded by:
None, position empty

subset: commoncrawl


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There's a she wolf in NBC's closet — and (ahh-hooooo!) she'll reportedly get unleashed again during The Voice's sixth cycle. Yes indeed, the network revealed today to EW.com that Colombian superstar Shakira — as well as fellow uni-monikered chart-topper Usher — will return as Voice coaches when Season 6 kicks off in spring 2014.
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Cee Lo Green, meanwhile, will return to his trademark swivel chair this fall as part of Season 5, reuniting the reality singing competition's original coaching quartet alongside Christina Aguilera, Blake Shelton and Adam Levine. (Aguilera and Green took leaves of absence from the show during its current fourth cycle to focus on other projects; news of Aguilera's return to the panel dropped earlier this week.)
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John Thompson has been named the new chief of the Bluffton Township Fire District, county administrator Gary Kubic announced Thursday.
Thompson will replace Barry Turner, who is retiring this month after serving the last six years as chief. Following Turner's retirement announcement, a search committee was formed and recommended Thompson, a 26-year veteran, for promotion. The fire district's Board of Directors unanimously approved the recommendation.
"The Bluffton Township Fire District Board of Directors is very confident Chief Thompson will continue to provide excellent leadership to the Bluffton Fire District," chairman Terry Reynolds said. "He has met every challenge in his current position and I am certain that he will continue to provide the same excellent leadership to the Department in the future."
Thompson began his career in 1987 with the Hilton Head Island Fire and Rescue Department, where he served as a firefighter, fire training officer, fire captain, and battalion chief. After spending more than 20 years with Hilton Head Fire, Thompson decided to take a position with the Bluffton Township as assistant fire chief and was soon promoted to deputy fire chief.
Thompson has also undergone extensive training at the National Fire Academy in Emmitsburg, Md., where he completed several executive level courses, and will soon be completing the Executive Fire Officer Certificate Program.
Thompson will be paid a base salary of $102,000 a year, according to the county's statement.


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The photographs in the Spanierman catalogue say it all. There she is with Hans Hofmann in his Provincetown, Mass., studio, then with Willem de Kooning in Springs, in a photo shoot with Ad Reinhardt, arm in arm with Lee Krasner, or standing confidently with her hand on her hip on an East Hampton beach with some of the greatest artists of the period in a 1962 Hans Namuth photograph.
Perle Fine was an artist who mattered, not just here, where she made a home and studio in Springs from 1954 until her death in 1988, but everywhere. A retrospective that was shown on Long Island in 2009 will still be making its way around the country in small venues through next year. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the National Gallery of Art, among many others.
No one ever said she never got her due. She was respected by her colleagues and her work was exhibited often during her life in solo shows at the places that mattered: Peggy Guggenheim's gallery and the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, Betty Parsons, and Tanager. She was one of the few women — invited by de Kooning no less — to join the club, a group of artists who gathered at Eighth Street in New York to discuss and debate the tendencies in art beginning in 1949.
By the late 1960s the Archives of American Art was interviewing her and asking to borrow her papers to microfilm for future research. The quotes included in this article are from that interview.
Her "Cool Series" of Color Field paintings made from 1961 to 1963 in Springs is the subject of an exhibit in New York at Spanierman Modern. Cool is a good name for them. Geometric, linear, boldly colored, the hard lines are anything but timid, yet not over showy either. They are the work of an artist confident in who he is and in her message of balance and purity.
Fine noted that in all of her work, "Color is always a motivation. Mixing color, you know, is a very joyous occupation for me because there was so much excitement at what would happen when one color was placed next to another . . . there was so much more than just what came out of the tube."
For the artist herself, there was so much more. She could be alternatively minimal and maximal, geometric and gestural, a weaver in and out of styles with amazing fluidity. Seen in her Springs studio or out and about in East Hampton with a bandanna hair kerchief and jeans or in the city in a skirt, sweater set, and pearls, she had an equal balance of bohemian and classic metropolitan style.
She was born in Boston but moved to New York in 1927 to study art at the Grand Central Art School and the Art Students League. By 1933, she was in one of the first classes at Hans Hofmann's school, following him to Provincetown for summers as well. Although she considered studying illustration, "what I found out very quickly was you can only be a painter and nothing else if you're going to be a painter." From the beginning, she was respected for her work, yet lost out on Works Progress Administration commissions because she had a phone, considered a luxury at the time.
She was already married to Maurice Berezov by this time, having met him at Grand Central Art School. They had two cold-water flats in the city, living in one and painting in another.
Although she took classes at the Hofmann school and was friendly with many artists, she said that from her childhood she considered herself an isolationist. "I never like working with a group, in a group at all. I just couldn't think."
Before Hofmann, Fine was an academic naturalist. "I felt that one should have a grounding in academic painting," which is why she attended the Art Students League, "at least one had to know what it was in order to overcome it."
At the same time, once she became an abstract artist the transformation was complete. "For a thing to be abstract meant to me that you had to feel strongly enough about it to turn your back on realism and do everything necessary in an abstract way to put across a feeling which meant being totally abstract or non-objective." Her very first solo show in the 1940s was a group of paintings of amorphic forms floating in space that critics at the time likened to work by Joan Miro, but that she said were more akin to that of Alexander Calder.
Fine met Krasner through Hofmann's classes and through her met Jackson Pollock. They all became well acquainted, first in Provincetown and then in East Hampton. As much as she admired Pollock's work, she continued to explore her forms in space subject matter for some time, "space, movement, form, and with always the big question of keeping, maintaining the first plane of the picture" were her preoccupations at the time, she said.
Back in the city, Fine and her husband, who had been based in the uptown gallery world, moved down to East 10th Street in the midst of all of the artists with studios there. "Bill de Kooning next door, and Esteban Vicente above him, and [Landes] Lewitan and Milton Resnick. . . . Resnick had the largest studio in the neighborhood. I think it was one inch larger than Elaine de Kooning's, or it might have been the other way around — I don't know. There was all that kind of discussion. But it was a lot of fun. People were painting for the fun of it. And there was a certain release there that I didn't get anywhere else. And I think it had to do with these people dropping in that I found were real people."
She was aware that she was painting with a frame of reference that differed from the psychological and Surrealist themes of many of these painters. It made her want to try it. "What I mean by trying it was painting with complete release as if I'd been through a session with a psychiatrist. So I really did that and had great fun doing it." Still, she found she could not let go of her underlying structure to be fully Abstract Expressionist. "I couldn't paint a picture that was a scribble."
The painterly surface that resulted was something that stayed with her after her experiments, as did using house paint. It was "the only way to get the brush to flow in a certain way and to get enough pigment in there," she said.
At her first meeting at the Club, Lewitan, who was known for being strident and difficult, told her that he was the only member who voted against her membership. "It was supposed to be unanimous, whoever was brought in, but they allowed me to come in anyway." She found those years and the talks exciting, but tired of the city by 1954, when she decamped to a one-room house and studio in Springs for eight years, apart from her husband, who came out on weekends.
Even with the return of figuration in the 1960s, she was resolute in her devotion to abstraction. "There's so much that's still unexplored in the realm of the non-objective and the abstract. And I feel that I sort of owe it to myself because I know quite a bit about it and I think because I do I want to know a little bit more. I want to know what I don't know."
Fine died at the age of 83 in a nursing home in Southampton and was buried at Green River Cemetery in Springs along with several of her artist friends.


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A library for client-side HTTP https://github.com/haskell/HTTP
|Version on this page:
|LTS Haskell 13.22:
|Stackage Nightly 2019-05-23:
|Latest on Hackage:
Module documentation for 4000.3.13
There are no documented modules for this package.
The HTTP package supports client-side web programming in Haskell. It lets you set up HTTP connections, transmitting requests and processing the responses coming back, all from within the comforts of Haskell. It's dependent on the network package to operate, but other than that, the implementation is all written in Haskell.
A basic API for issuing single HTTP requests + receiving responses is provided. On top
of that, a session-level abstraction is also on offer (the
BrowserAction monad);
it taking care of handling the management of persistent connections, proxies,
state (cookies) and authentication credentials required to handle multi-step
interactions with a web server.
The representation of the bytes flowing across is extensible via the use of a type class,
letting you pick the representation of requests and responses that best fits your use.
Some pre-packaged, common instances are provided for you (
Here's an example use:
rsp <- Network.HTTP.simpleHTTP (getRequest "http://www.haskell.org/")
-- fetch document and return it (as a 'String'.)
fmap (take 100) (getResponseBody rsp)
(_, rsp)
<- Network.Browser.browse $ do
setAllowRedirects True -- handle HTTP redirects
request $ getRequest "http://www.haskell.org/"
return (take 100 (rspBody rsp))
Note: This package does not support HTTPS connections. If you need HTTPS, take a look at the following packages:
http-client (in combination with http-client-tls)
* Add a test harness.
* Don't leak a socket when getHostAddr throws an exception.
* Send cookies in request format, not response format.
* Moved BrowserAction to be a StateT IO, with instances for
Applicative, MonadIO, MonadState.
* Add method to control size of connection pool.
* Consider both host and port when reusing connections.
* Handle response code 304 "not modified" properly.
* Fix digest authentication by fixing md5 output string rep.
* Make the default user agent string follow the package version.
* Document lack of HTTPS support and fail when clients try
to use it instead of silently falling back to HTTP.
* Add helper to set the request type and body.
Version 4000.1.2: release 2011-08-11
* Turn off buffering for the debug log.
* Update installation instructions.
* Bump base dependency to support GHC 7.2.
Version 4000.1.1: release 2010-11-28
* Be tolerant of LF (instead of CRLF which is the spec) in responses.
Version 4000.1.0: release 2010-11-09
* Retroactively fixed CHANGES to refer to 4000.x.x instead of
* Fix problem with close looping on certain URLs due to trying
to munch the rest of the stream even on EOF. Modified from
a fix by Daniel Wagner.
* This involves a new class member for HStream and is thus an
API change, but one that will only affect clients that
define their own payload type to replace String/ByteString.
* Applied patch by Antoine Latter to fix problem with 301 and 307
Version 4000.0.10: release 2010-10-29
* Bump base dependency to support GHC 7.0.
* Stop using 'fail' from the Either monad and instead build Left
values explicitly; the behaviour of fail is changing in GHC 7.0
and this avoids being sensitive to the change.
Version 4000.0.9: release 2009-12-20
* Export headerMap from Network.HTTP.Headers
(suggested by David Leuschner.)
* Fix Network.TCP.{isTCPConnectedTo,isConnectedTo} to be useful.
* Always delay closing non-persistent connections until we reach EOF.
Delaying it until then is vital when reading the response out as a
lazy ByteString; all of the I/O may not have happened by the time we
were returning the HTTP response. Bug manifested itself occasionally
with larger responses. Courtesy of Valery Vorotyntsev; both untiring bug
hunt and fix.
* drop unused type argument from Network.Browser.BrowserEvent; needlessly general.
(patch provided by Daniel Wagner.)
Version 4000.0.8: release 2009-08-05
* Incorporated proxy setting lookup and parsing contribution
by Eric Kow; provided in Network.HTTP.Proxy
* Factor out HTTP Cookies and Auth handling into separate
modules Network.HTTP.Cookie, Network.HTTP.Auth
* new Network.Browser functionality for hooking up the
proxy detection code in Network.HTTP.Proxy:
setCheckForProxy :: Bool -> BrowserAction t ()
getCheckForProxy :: BrowserAction t Bool
If you do 'setCheckForProxy True' within a browser
session, the proxy-checking code will be called upon.
Use 'getCheckForProxy' to get the current setting for
this flag.
* Network.Browser: if HTTP Basic Auth is allowed and
server doesn't 401-challenge with an WWW-Authenticate:
header, simply assume / realm and proceed. Preferable
than failing, even if server is the wrong.
Version 4000.0.7: release 2009-05-22
* Minor release.
* Added
Network.TCP.openSocketStream :: (BufferType t)
=> String {-host-}
-> Socket
-> IO (HandleStream t)
for interfacing to pre-existing @Socket@s. Contributed and
suggested by <http://trac.haskell.org/http/ticket/7>.
Version 4000.0.6: release 2009-04-21; changes from 4000.0.5
* Network.Browser: use HTTP.HandleStream.sendHTTP_notify, not HTTP.sendHTTP_notify
when issuing requests. The latter runs the risk of undoing request normalization.
* Network.HTTP.Base.normalizeRequest: when normalizing proxy-bound requests,
insert a Host: header if none present. Set it to the destination server authority,
not the proxy.
* Network.Browser: don't fail on seeing invalid cookie values, but report them
as errors and continue.
Version 4000.0.5: release 2009-03-30; changes from 4000.0.4
* Get serious about comments and Haddock documentation.
* Cleaned up normalization of requests, fixing bugs and bringing together
previous disparate attempts at handling this.
* RequestMethod now supports custom verbs; use the (Custom String) constructor
* Beef up Network.HTTP.Base's support for normalizing requests and URIs:
* added splitRequestURI which divides a URI into two; the Authority portion
(as a String) and the input URI sans the authority portion. Useful when
wanting to split up a request's URI into its Host: and abs_path pieces.
* added normalizeRequest :: Bool -> Request ty -> Request ty, which
fixes up a requests URI path and Host: info depending on whether it is
destined for a proxy or not (controlled by the Bool.)
* moved defaultRequest, defaultRequest_, libUA from Network.Browser
to Network.HTTP.Base
* added mkRequest :: RequestMethod -> URI -> Bool -> Request ty
for constructing normalized&sane Request bases on top of which
you can add custom headers, body payload etc.


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The Hope College Knickerbocker Theatre continues its tradition of showing the best in independent and foreign films with the announcement of its fall film series.
The series begins Monday, Aug. 31, and will feature four films through November: "Easy Virtue," "Seraphine," "The Class" and "Lemon Tree."
The series will open with the English film "Easy Virtue" showing Monday-Thursday, Aug. 31-Sept. 3, and Saturday, Sept. 5, at 7:30 p.m. The film version of the Noel Coward play features Colin Firth ("The Girl with the Pearl Earring," "Bridget Jones' Diary"), Jessica Biel ("The Illusionist"), Kristin Scott Thomas ("The Other Boleyn Girl," "The English Patient"), and Ben Barnes ("The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian").
John Whittaker, a young Englishman, falls madly in love with Larita, a glamorous American woman, and they marry impetuously. However, when the couple returns to the family home, his mother is unhappy with union and works to undermine it. Larita quickly realizes Mrs. Whittaker's game and sees that she must fight back if she wants to keep John. A battle of wits ensues and sparks soon fly.
The French film "Seraphine" will show on Monday-Saturday, Sept. 28-Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m. The film is the true story of Séraphine Louis, aka Séraphine de Senlis (Yolande Moreau), a simple and profoundly devout housekeeper who in 1905 at age 41, self-taught and with the instigation of her guardian angel, began painting brilliantly colorful canvases. In 1912, Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur), a German art critic and collector, discovered her paintings while she worked for him as a maid. Uhde became her patron and grouped her work with other naïve painters - the so-called "Sacred Heart Painters" - with acclaimed shows in Paris, elsewhere in Europe and eventually at New York's MOMA. Director Martin Provost builds his story around the relationship between the avant-garde art dealer and the visionary cleaning lady, forging a testament to the mysteries of creativity and the resilience of one woman's spirit.
A sleeper hit in France, "Seraphine" went on to a surprise win as the Best Picture and with a Best Actress award for Yolande Moreau along with five other awards at the 2009 Cesars, the French equivalent of the Academy Awards.
The film is in French with English subtitles.
The Academy Award-nominated and 2008 Cannes Film Festival winner of the Palme D'Or, "The Class," will show on Monday-Saturday, Oct. 19-24, at 7:30 p.m. An absorbing journey into a multicultural high school in Paris over the course of a school year, the film features Francois Begaudeau, a teacher and the author upon whose work the film was based. He and his fellow teachers prepare for a new year at a high school in a tough neighborhood. Armed with the best intentions, they brace themselves not to let discouragement stop them from trying to give the best education to their students. Cultures and attitudes often clash in the classroom, a microcosm of contemporary France. As amusing and inspiring as the teenaged students can be, their difficult behavior can still jeopardize any teacher's enthusiasm for the low-paying job.
The film is in French with English subtitles.
The film series ends with "Lemon Tree" showing Monday-Friday, Nov. 16-20, at 7:30 p.m. Winner of the Audience Award at the Berlin Film Festival and Best Actress prize (Hiam Abbass) at the Israeli Film Academy Awards, "Lemon Tree" is an engaging human drama of one woman's struggle to preserve her way of life in the midst of political turmoil. Hiam Abbass ("The Visitor") is Salma, a Palestinian widow who earns her living tending to her late father's lemon grove. When an Israeli government minister moves next door and declares the grove a potential security threat, Salma struggles to defend her peaceful livelihood. Personal drama gives way to political controversies as Salma forms an unexpected bond with the minister's lonely wife (Rona Lipaz-Michael), and takes her protest, with the help of her young lawyer (Ali Suliman, "Paradise Now"), all the way to the Israeli Supreme Court.
The film is in Arabic, Hebrew, and English with English subtitles.
Tickets are $6 for regular admission and $5 for students and senior citizens, and can be purchased at the door or in advance at the ticket office in the front lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The Knickerbocker Theatre is located in downtown Holland at 86 E. Eighth St., between College and Columbia avenues.


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Arrested LulzSec member Sabu - Hector Xavier Monsegur to use his real name – has apparently been rewarded for providing evidence against the hacking group with a six-month adjournment of his sentencing, court papers have revealed.
Picked up by Wired, the letter shows that 28-year old Monsegur will now be sentenced on 22 February 2013 on 12 hacking and fraud charges to which he has already pleaded guilty.
The letter doesn't explain whether the adjournment is a direct result of his cooperation but given his guilty plea to the long list of charges such a delay would be unusual.
Information supplied by Monsegur was a critical factor that led to the arrests of several other LulzSec members, including alleged UK members Jake Davis ('Topiary'), and Ryan Cleary, who have pleaded guilty to some charges, and Ryan Ackroyd, who with an unnamed 17 year-old have denied involvement. The men will go to trial for the outstanding charges in April 2013.
Although 'Sabu' was the most aggressive voice of the group, it transpired that he had in fact 'turned' and had been working as an informant for some months before the unravelling of the rest of the group during 2011.
This was underlined earlier this year when Ryan Cleary, clearly unaware of the extent of Monsegur's cooperation with the police, was re-arrested for contacting him in breach of his bail conditions.
Monsegur could reportedly spend as long as 124 years in prison on the maximum tariff when sentencing day finally arrives but the general expectation is that this could be lowered if the judge is willing to take into account the help he has given police.


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Alzheimer's and dementia: What's the difference?
Alzheimer's disease and dementia are words no one wants to hear — about themselves or someone they love. But when they do, they may not fully understand the difference between the two.
Although the two conditions are similar, Alzheimer's and dementia are not the same thing. In fact, one is actually a subset of the other.
Generally occurring in seniors, dementia is a group of symptoms that interferes with thinking, behavior and social functioning. Alzheimer's is a specific type of dementia, and though it's the most common, it's far from the only one.
A number of different dementia types exist, each with different symptoms, explains the Alzheimer's Association. Here's a comprehensive list and explanation of dementia types.
Alzheimer's Disease
An early symptom of Alzheimer's is slight memory loss, such as difficulty remembering names or events. This may accompanied by feelings of depression or apathy.
As it progresses, according to the Alzheimer's Association, other symptoms can be:
- Disorientation
- Confusion
- Changes in behavior
- Certain basic functions like walking, speaking and swallowing
Though there is currently no medication or cure for Alzheimer's, an early diagnosis allows management of the symptoms, according to the Alzheimer's Association.
Vascular Dementia
Less common than Alzheimer's, vascular dementia alone is responsible for about 10 percent of dementia cases, according to the Alzheimer's Association.
Symptoms of vascular dementia are a decreased ability to make decisions, organize or plan, which can eventually lead to memory loss and trouble doing every day activities.
Vascular dementia can be caused by a stroke or conditions that damage blood vessels and deprive the brain of oxygen, according to the National Stroke Association.
Risk factors for vascular dementia are the same as those that contribute to a risk of heart disease and stroke, reports the Alzheimer's Association.
These include:
- High blood pressure
- High cholesterol
- Smoking
Dementia With Lewy Bodies
Those who have dementia with Lewy bodies will often have similar memory loss symptoms to Alzheimer's, according to the Alzheimer's Association, but also show these early symptoms:
- Trouble sleeping
- Hallucinations
- Parkinsonian-type movement problems
The name Lewy bodies comes from Friederich Lewy, who discovered the protein deposits that interfere with the brain's functioning, according to the Lewy Body Dementia Foundation.
Parkinson's Disease
Parkinson's often shows up as a problem with movement. As it continues, it can start to show symptoms similar to those in Alzheimer's or dementia with Lewy bodies.
Common symptoms, according to the Alzheimer's Association, may include:
- Changes in memory, concentration and judgment
- Trouble interpreting visual information ● Visual hallucinations
- Delusions, especially paranoid ideas
There is no cure for Parkinson's, but treatment through medication and surgery can help manage its symptoms. Neurologists who specialize in Parkinson's can accurately diagnose and treat it.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)
A rare disease that progresses rapidly, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease causes coordination and memory problems as well as behavior changes, explains the Alzheimer's Association.
A well-known form of the disease targets cattle and is colloquially known as mad cow disease. However, it's possible for it to be transmitted to people.
Huntington's Disease
Caused by a defective gene, this is a progressive disease that causes involuntary movements, decline in thinking and mood changes, says the Alzheimer's Association.
Huntington's is passed on from parent to child, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
A child of a parent with Huntington's has a 50 percent chance of having the gene, which means the child will eventually have the disease. Testing is available for the disease before symptoms start.
Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome
Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome is a chronic memory disorder brought on by a serious thiamine vitamin deficiency.
When thiamine levels are too low, the brain doesn't generate sufficient energy and can't work properly. It is most often caused by alcohol abuse, according to the Alzheimer's Association.
Its major symptom is serious memory loss, though the patient may not otherwise be badly affected.


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Aconite cake-separated moxibustion, acu-moxi, acu-moxibustion, acupuncture, acupuncture combined with moxibustion, acu-moxibustion, baguanfa (Chinese), angelica-cake moxibustion, baguazhang, bird-pecking moxibustion, blood letting, chinetsukyu (Japanese), cake-separated moxibustion, cake-separated mild-warm moxibustion, circling moxibustion, classical acupuncture, coining, cone moxibustion, cotton sheet moxibustion, crude herb moxibustion, cupping, direct cone moxibustion, Dogbi (ST35) & Sulan moxibustion, drug-separated moxibustion, du-moxibustion, dynamic moxibustion, electronic moxibustion, electrothermal Bian-stone moxibustion, five element acupuncture, garlic moxibustion, ginger-partitioned moxibustion, ginger-salt-partitioned moxibustion, grain-shaped moxibustion, hand moxibustion, hanging moxibustion, heat-sensitive moxibustion, herb-partitioned spread moxibustion, herbal-moxa moxibustion, horn technique, isolated moxibustion, isolated-herbal moxibustion, jiaofa, jinger moxibustion, Korean belly bowls, kyukaku (Japanese), kyutoshin (Japanese), liquid cupping, long snake moxibustion, medicated thread moxibustion, medicated threads moxibustion of Zhuang nationality, mild moxibustion, mild-warm moxibustion, monkshood cake-separated mild-warm moxibustion, moving moxibustion, moxa, moxa on the head of the acupuncture needle, moxibustion-massage apparatus, okyu (Japanese), partition-herb moxibustion, partition-bran moxibustion, pecking moxibustion, rice-sized direct moxa, shuiguanfa (Chinese), snake moxibustion, solar-term moxibustion, sparrow-pecking moxibustion, substance-partitioned moxibustion, suction cup therapy, suspended moxibustion, suspending moxibustion, TCM, thin cotton moxibustion, tortoise-shell moxibustion, traditional box moxibustion, Traditional Chinese Medicine, warming moxibustion, warming-cup moxibustion, warming needle moxibustion, zhenjiu (Chinese), zhou's pecking moxibustion pen.
Not included in this review
: Acupuncture (alone), acupressure, classical acupuncture, five element acupuncture, TCM. For a more in-depth review of these topics, please see individual monographs.
: The SMATH® system (system for automatic thermomechanic massage in health) is a medical device combining the principles of mechanical massage, thermotherapy, acupressure, infrared therapy, and moxibustion.
: Moxibustion has been widely studied in China. However, most of these studies are not available and not included in this bottom line.
Moxibustion, a healing technique used for over 2,000 years, may use heat to promote circulation and break up blockages of blood and chi energy. Moxibustion is closely related to acupuncture as it is applied to specific acupuncture points. In modern times, it is usually used to complement acupuncture with needles, but it is also used independently.
The effects of moxibustion alone are unclear, as it is often used in combination with other methods, mainly acupuncture. Also, the treatment varies and is specific depending on each person's needs.
Research on moxibustion is available; however, it is mainly of poor quality. More studies are needed before firm conclusions can be made.
Moxibustion may be used on one point or multiple points, but only one point at a time. It may be repeated on a specific point or used on a sequence of points. The practitioner is guided by theory and assessment of the person receiving treatment. Each usage is brief-a matter of seconds-and the burning moxa is removed when the person reports it has become too hot.
The following techniques have been used: placing a moxa cone on a point and igniting (using 3-17 cones), indirect moxibustion (ignited moxa cone does not touch the skin directly but is insulated), moxa stick generating mild warm moxa, sparrow-pecking moxibustion (movement of moxa stick), and warming needle moxibustion, a combination therapy of acupuncture and moxibustion.
For acne, cone moxibustion on the CV4, CV6, and BL20 acupuncture points has been used.
For allergic nasal symptoms, moxibustion has been used once daily on "heat sensitive point" on the face, stomach, and back for 10 days per course for three months.
For arthritis, moxibustion has been used 3-50 times per session or 30 minutes per session daily, once every other day, and monthly for a total of two days to six months.
For knee arthritis, moxibustion was given with electroacupunture at various points.
For shoulder arthritis, salt moxibustion was applied to the part in pain and hot compress moxibustion was applies to the surrounding areas.
For asthma, heat sensitive moxibustion has been used on various points on the chest for a total of 50 treatments for three months. In children, a moxibustion-massage tool or suspended moxibustion at acupoints BL12, BL13, CV14, BL17, BL20, and CV12 has been used for over three months.
For hardening of the arteries, acupuncture-moxibustion and moxibustion at ST36 has been used.
For Bell's palsy, acupuncture plus moxibustion on temperature sensitive points has been used as well as a combination therapy (acupuncture plus moxibustion) for up to four weeks.
For neck pain, acupuncture along with cake-separated moxibustion, point injection and needle warming via moxibustion, heat sensitive moxibustion, and traditional hanging moxibustion have been used.
For chronic fatigue syndrome, filiform needling plus moxibustion has been used for a total of 10 treatments (daily) and 40 treatments (20 treatments every other day for two days). Moxibustion has been used for a total of 96 treatments (24 treatments every other day for four days), 24 treatments (12 treatments daily for two days), 108 treatments (36 times weekly every other week), 120 treatments (60 treatments daily for two days). Moxibustion plus cupping has been used for a total of 30 treatments in two phases, every other day.
For preventing colds, moxibustion was used for 4-16 weeks.
For constipation, moxibustion and acupuncture was done three times a week for four weeks.
For dementia, isolated moxibustion was used. Additionally, indirect moxibustion was used for 20 minutes for four treatments with each treatment lasting four weeks.
For depression after a stroke, acupuncture and grain-sized moxibustion were used.
For diabetes, moxibustion was given 5-10 times daily for 15 days, 30 minutes eight times yearly for three years, 10 times for 20 minutes once daily every four days for a total of three sessions, 30 minutes twice daily for three days over the course of 10 days, or 100 times during two hour sessions twice yearly for 2-4 years.
For diabetic peripheral neuropathy, mild-warm moxibustion has been used.
For diarrhea in children, a three or six day treatment of warming or drug-separated moxibustion was given on RN8 or CV8.
For painful menstruation, moxibustion was given once daily for three days during the first menstrual cycle, three days prior to menstruation, and once daily for six days during the second and third cycles. Additinally, moxibustion has been given one daily for three menstrual cycles or at the start of menstruation for three days followed by additional three day courses before the onset for the second and third course.
For facial paralysis, acupuncture plus moxibustion treatments were given once every 2-6 days for 10-40 days.
For fertility, acupuncture and suspended moxibustion were used for three menstrual cycles.
For fibromyalgia (long-term, wide-spread body pain), moxibustion has been used 3-50 times per session or 30 minutes per session daily, once every other day, and monthly for a total of two days to six months.
For frozen shoulder, acupuncture plus moxibustion was given at tender points.
For gastritis (stomach inflammation), acupuncture plus moxibustion were given over eight weeks.
For hearing loss, acupuncture plus moxibustion was given at specific acupuncture points.
For removing waste products from the blood, moxibustion was given using paper-tube moxibustion equipment.
For herpes, moxibustion/needle tapping therapy was given at acupuncture points over seven days.
For high cholesterol, mild moxibustion was applied for 5-10 minutes daily or every other day for 6-12 weeks.
For high blood pressure, moxibustion has been applied for 10 days, for two hours twice weekly for one month or as a single treatment. People bordering on high blood pressure were treated with moxibustion for 15 minutes daily for a minimum of five days weekly for eight weeks.
For infection, acupuncture and moxibustion was used once daily for 10 days.
For inflammatory bowel disease, acupuncture with moxibustion was applied for 10 sessions over five weeks and warming needle moxibustion was applied for 30 minutes.
For insomnia, suspended moxibustion has been given over GV20.
For irritable bowel syndrome, acupuncture and moxibustion were applied at individual points twice weekly for four weeks. Pecking moxibustion has been applied for 15 sessions.
For knee pain, ST35 & sulan moxibustion has been used.
For laryngitis, acupuncture and cake-separated moxibustion were used over four weeks.
For leukopenia (low white blood cell count), ginger-partitioned moxibustion was used.
For lumbar disc herniation, snake moxibustion alone or in combination with acupuncture once daily. Temperature-sensitive point moxibustion was given on temperature-sensitive points at the waist and lower limbs once daily or warming moxibustion was given once daily, each for one course of seven days. Heat-sensitive moxibustion or conventional moxibustion, each for 18 sessions over two 2 weeks, have been proposed as treatments.
For menopause, moxibustion has been applied for 14 sessions over four weeks at acupuncture points.
For migraines, pine needle or medicated thread moxibustion was given for over 30 days.
For mumps, combination acupuncture with moxibustion twice for three to five days was given.
For myofascial pain, moxibustion was used once daily for five days, acupuncture plus moxibustion of heat-sensitive points for 10-90 minutes daily, five times weekly for two weeks.
For myometrial gland disorder (uterine gland disorder), acupuncture and moxibustion was applied to points.
For neurodermatitis (itchy skin disorder), cotton moxibustion was used over four weeks.
For osteoarthritis, acupuncture and moxibustion was applied once daily for a month, warming needle moxibustion for three treatments a week over four weeks, heat-sensitive moxibustion was applied on the affected side, three moxa cones were applied per point for a treatment once every two days for six weeks, nine moxa cones in combination with electroacupuncture for 30 minutes daily for five sessions over four weeks, laser acupuncture-moxibustion was applied at the acupoint three times weekly for four weeks, and cake-separated moxibustion was applied on the affected side over four weeks.
For osteoporosis, heat-sensitive moxibustion was applied at heat sensitized points around specific points. Acupuncture and moxibustion was applied at points over six months. Warm needle moxibustion was applied at points once every other day over three months.
For pain, hand moxibustion has been used. Additionally, moxibustion was administered once daily, twice daily, or once every two for 10-12 days.
For pelvic inflammatory disease, warming needle moxibustion was used at certain points.
For post-surgical uses, acupuncture was used in combination with warming needle moxibustion on the first day after operation, once a day for 10 days.
For pregnancy (breech presentation), people were treated for 5-20 minutes, once daily to twice weekly, for up to 40 days. Moxibustion was administered at BL67 for 15-40 minutes twice daily, once daily, and twice weekly for a treatment duration ranging from one to two weeks or between five and fifteen treatment sessions.
For pregnancy and labor, when the cervix was 2-3centimeters dilated, a moxibustion apparatus was used at during labor once the cervix was open for 30 minutes.
For premenstrual syndrome, Korean hand moxibustion was used as ten treatments based on the principles of the five elements, khi, yin, and yang.
For prostate inflammation, warm needle moxibustion was applied with acupuncture and warm needle moxibustion was applied once daily.
For psoriasis, a combination of acupuncture and moxibustion at BL23 and the injured skin area for three minutes, once every other day, for 12 weeks.
For rheumatoid arthritis, muscular needling was applied in combination with scarring moxibustion. Additionally, acupuncture for 40 minutes twice weekly in combination with warming needle on acupuncture twice plus moxibustion on back Su points for four weeks; one acupuncture session for 40 minutes once daily for 15 days plus electronic moxibustion for 10-20 minutes at three to five local points one to two days after acupuncture; or acupuncture for 20 minutes twice daily for three months plus moxibustion on ST36 for 10 minutes.
For schizophrenia, a combination of acupuncture and moxibustion three set of points, one set daily, has been used and repeated as needed.
For stroke, moxibustion was given 3-5 times daily for 3-7 days weekly for a duration of 10 days to six weeks or once daily for 2-3 weeks.
For ulcerative colitis, moxibustion was given once daily from 10 days to two months or traditional acupuncture and moxibustion of ten sessions over five weeks was conducted.
For upper respiratory tract infection in children, mild-moxibustion was used over acupoints on the back.
For urinary disorders, moxibustion treatment at certain points was applied for 10 days. Additionally, acupuncture, electroacupuncture, scalp reproduction area bilaterally, and moxibustion at CV8 was used on the 15th day after the hysterectomy and for a total of two treatment courses, where each course was five days of treatment. Suspending moxibustion was applied and ginger-salt-partitioned moxibustion was applied in combination with acupuncture five times weekly over three weeks.
For vertigo, ginger moxibustion has been used.
For weight loss, acupuncture (12 weekly sessions of minimal acupuncture and somatic moxibustion-acupuncture) was used.
For xerophthalmia (extreme eye dryness), acupuncture was applied in combination with non-smoking moxibustion.
Evidence Table
These uses have been tested in humans or animals. Safety and effectiveness have not always been proven. Some of these conditions are potentially serious, and should be evaluated by a qualified healthcare provider.
Early evidence suggests a combination of acupuncture and ginger-partition moxibustion increased the total effective rate and reduced recurrence vs. routine western medicine for abnormal heart rhythms. Further study is needed.
Studies suggest that moxibustion combined with acupuncture may be effective in the treatment of acne. Clear effects of moxibustion alone are lacking and more studies are needed on moxibustion alone before a firm conclusion can be made.
Early evidence suggests moxibustion for three months increased the effective rate of HAART (Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy), a therapy used to slow HIV replication, in people with AIDS. Further study is required.
Early evidence suggests moxibustion at "heat sensitive points" improved symptoms of allergic nasal symptoms. More studies are needed before firm recommendations can be made.
Evidence suggests that moxibustion in combination with exercise may be effective in the treatment of long-term, inflammatory arthritis. More studies are needed on moxibustion alone before a firm conclusion can be made.
Early evidence suggests moxibustion was found to improve the cured rates for pan improvement in patients with arthritis of the knee. More studies are needed in the area before a firm conclusion can be made.
In human studies, a combination of a new moxibustion-massage apparatus with Chinese medicine was preferable for asthma in remission than suspended moxibustion. Additionally, acupoint heat-sensitive moxibustion was effective for asthma symptoms. Although there is evidence of benefit in this field, studies are of overall poor quality and the effect of moxibustion alone is unclear. Further studies are needed.
Research suggests moxibustion in combination with acupuncture was found to be effective in the treatment of Bell's palsy in some, but not all, studies, vs. control or comparison groups. However, more studies are needed before a firm conclusion can be made.
A combination of acupuncture and cake-separated moxibustion improved neck activity and related pain vs. acupuncture alone.
Early evidence suggests moxibustion may have been beneficial for chemotherapy side effects and quality of life. More studies are needed before a conclusion can be made.
A combination of acupuncture/moxibustion and nerve growth factor improved brain function in children with cerebral palsy.
Early evidence suggests in a group of indicating that moxibustion combined with acupuncture may contribute to reduced symptoms of neck pain. However, further studies are needed.
In children of short stature, moxibustion in addition to an exercise program increased the body height; testosterone levels were also increased. Further studies are needed.
Moxibustion was found to have a 79.2% cure rate in cases of chronic cough in children. More well-designed studies are required before conclusions can be drawn.
Moxibustion was found to have beneficial effects for individuals with chronic fatigue. More well-designed studies are required before conclusions can be drawn.
Limited research suggests moxibustion on specific acupoints had beneficial effects on lung function indices in people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease vs. western medicine alone. Further study is needed.
Early evidence suggests that a combination of moxibustion and acupuncture reduces clogged arteries. More studies are needed on moxibustion alone before a firm conclusion can be made.
Evidence from poor quality studies suggests that moxibustion may offer benefit in the prevention of colds. Further study is required.
Acupuncture/moxibustion in combination with Chinese herbal medicine was found to be more effective for constipation than herbal medicine alone for constipation. Further studies are required examining the effect of moxibustion alone.
Limited research suggests that moxibustion was more effective for dementia than western medicine. Further study is needed.
A combination of acupuncture, direct moxibustion, and skin needling was found to improve various symptoms of depression. In people using antidepressants, a combination of acupuncture and moxibustion was more effective than acupuncture alone and antidepressants, or antidepressants alone, for symptoms of depression. More studies are needed before a firm conclusion can be drawn.
Early evidence suggests that moxibustion, with or without acupuncture, reduced blood sugar. Further well designed studies are needed before conclusions can be drawn.
Early evidence suggests, mild-warm moxibustion was found to be as effective as acupuncture for diabetic peripheral neuropathy. Further study comparing moxibustion with diabetic drugs is needed
Moxibustion improved various symptoms in patients with end-stage kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis (the removal of waste products from the blood). Symptoms investigated included fatigue, shortness of breath, appetite, soreness of waist and knees, and coldness and quality of life. Further study is required.
Early research suggests moxibustion had a significantly increased markedly effective rate on acute diarrhea in children with infantile cerebral palsy or in children with infantile autumn diarrhea. Further study is needed.
In a human study, combination of acupuncture plus moxibustion was beneficial over acupuncture alone in facial paralysis. Preliminary evidence suggests a combination of herbs, acupuncture, moxibustion and Western medicine may benefit peripheral facial paralysis. Further study on moxibustion alone is needed.
The effect of a combination of acupuncture and moxibustion has been examined in people with specific types of fainting spells. Additional research is required.
Early studies suggest a combination of acupuncture, herbal mixture, and moxibustion has been shown to increase the pregnancy rate in some women with infertility. Further study is needed.
Early studies suggest that moxibustion in addition to amitriptyline may provide some benefit in people with fibromyalgia. Further study is required
Early studies suggest the addition of moxibustion to acupuncture treatment may be beneficial in people with frozen shoulder. More studies are needed before a firm conclusion can be made.
Early studies suggest the combination of acupuncture and moxibustion may provide some benefit in people with long-term stomach inflammation. However, more studies are needed on the effects of moxibustion alone before a conclusion can be made.
Evidence is lacking in support of moxibustion for gouty arthritis. Further studies are needed.
Early studies suggest a combination of acupuncture and moxibustion may provide benefit in those with hearing loss. However, more studies are needed on the effects of moxibustion alone before a conclusion can be made.
Early evidences suggest moxibustion may provide benefit for pain linked to herpes. Further study is needed
Based on human studes, reduced blood pressure has been shown in studies using moxibustion for high blood pressure. However, further studies are needed before a firm conclusion can be made.
Limited research suggests mild moxibustion may provide benefit for cholesterol levels in people with high cholesterol. Additional studies are needed in this area.
A combination of acupuncture and moxibustion has shown to reduce the rate of hospital-acquired infections in some people with stroke. Further study is needed.
Based on human studies, moxibustion with acupuncture may potentially provide a benefit in the treatment of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, types of inflammatory bowel diseases.
A combination of acupuncture, moxibustion, and auricular plaster therapy or suspended moxibustion alone may provide benefit in those with insomnia.
A combination of acupuncture/moxibustion was found to be more effective than sham acupuncture/moxibustion for symptoms linked to irritable bowel syndrome. Further study is needed.
Early studies suggest moxibustion may improve symptoms of knee pain in the elderly. Further study is needed.
A combination of acupuncture plus cake-separated moxibustion may provide benefit in the treatment of long-term laryngitis. Further study is needed.
Early studies suggest the combination of acupuncture and snake moxibustion may provide more benefit for lumbar disc herniation than either therapy alone. More studies are needed before a firm conclusion can be drawn.
Preliminary evidence suggests moxibustion and acupuncture may reduce symptoms of swelling caused by lymph fluid. Further study is needed.
The addition of acupuncture and moxibustion to western medicine may provide benefit in symptoms and recovery from malaria. More studies are needed before a firm conclusion can be drawn.
Moxibustion has shown to improve hot flash symptoms and quality of life in menopausal women. Further study is needed.
Information from various clinical trials suggests benefit for moxibustion in symptoms of menstrual pain. Further study is needed comparing moxibustion with traditional pain relievers before a conclusion can be drawn.
Although not well studies, potential beneficial effects of acupuncture-moxibustion on mental and behavioral disorders have been examined. The effects of moxibustion are unclear and more studies are needed before a firm conclusion can be made.
Early evidence suggests pine needle moxibustion may provide benefit in the treatment of migraine headaches. Further study is needed.
A combination of acupuncture and moxibustion may benefit rate of recovery for mumps. Additional research is required.
Early studies suggest moxibustion, with or without acupuncture, was found to be effective for myofascial pain of the back and neck. A combination of scraping therapy and warming acupuncture/moxibustion improved fasciitis of back muscles. Further study is needed.
Early studies suggest people treated with moxibustion had an improved total effective rate vs. people treated with triamcinolone and urea cream. Further study is required.
Early studies suggest that moxibustion may have beneficial effects on pain linked to osteoarthritis. Symptoms of knee osteoarthritis have shown improvement with moxibustion techniques. However, further study is needed before a firm conclusion can be made.
Moxibustion has been examined on various endpoints in patients with osteoporosis. In people with primary osteoporosis heat-sensitive point moxibustion increased the total effective rate over gaitianli tablets. In men with osteoporosis, a combination of acupuncture and moxibustion with alendronate increased bone mineral density and decreased clinical symptoms and side effects associated with alendronate alone. Finally, in people with postmenopausal osteoporosis, warm needle moxibustion increased bone mineral density vs. calcium and vitamin D.
Early evidence suggests moxibustion may reduce pain from various causes. However, further well designed study is required.
Early studies suggest that moxibustion may benefit long-term pelvic inflammation. Additional studies are needed in this area.
The effect of electroacupuncture combined with moxibustion has been examined in those with pharyngitis. Additional studies are needed in this area.
Moxibustion may help speed up a return to normal stomach function after anesthesia and surgery. Additional studies are needed in this area.
Evidence suggests moxibustion may shorten and reduce labor pain when given at acupoints. However, more studies are needed before a firm conclusion can be made.
Moxibustion is a long-used traditional remedy in China for cephalic version (a way to try to turn a baby from breech position to head-down position while it's still in the mother's uterus), including as a self-administered technique at home by mothers. However, the available evidence is mixed and more studies are needed to verify whether there are predictable benefits in moxibustion for cephalic version.
Early studies suggest moxibustion may reduce symptoms of PMS. Further study is needed.
Early studies suggest different forms of moxibustion, as well as moxibustion and acupuncture may be beneifical in the treatment of prostate inflammation. Additional information is needed in this area.
A combination of acupuncture and moxibustion may provide benefit in the treatment of psoriasis. Further study is needed.
There is preliminary evidence suggesting that patients suffering from rheumatoid arthritis, an auto-immune disorder, may experience improved immune function as a result of acupuncture and moxibustion. However, evidence is insufficient at this time for making concrete recommendations.
Early research suggests that schizophrenia may respond to a treatment regime including acupuncture and moxibustion. However, more studies are needed before a firm conclusion can be made.
Evidence regarding moxibustion for people recovering from stroke is conflicting. More studies are needed to determine whether or not moxibustion may contribute to recovery from stroke.
Cake-separated moxibustion may improve symptoms of and thyroid function in those with an inflamed thyroid. Additional research is required.
Use of moxibustion may improve symptoms of athlete's foot compared to traditional creams. Further study is needed.
A combination moxibustion plus exercise may provide some benefit in symptoms of temporomandibular joint disorder. Additional research is needed.
Moxibustion is widely used in China for respiratory tract infections in children. However, at this time evidence is insufficient for making concrete recommendations.
Mild-moxibustion on the back may provide benefit to children with upper respiratory tract infections. Further study is needed in the area.
Moxibustion given with western medicine may provide additional benefit to those with symptoms of tuberculosis when compared to western medicine alone. Further study is needed.
There is preliminary evidence suggesting that moxibustion combined with acupuncture may help reduce urological symptoms in women with urethral syndrome (inflammation of the urethra resulting in painful urination). However, more studies are needed before definitive recommendations for or against this approach can be made.
The effect of acupuncture and moxibustion on uterine gland disorder is unclear. Additional research is needed in this area.
A combination of acupuncture and moxibustion may provide benefit for an inflammation of the aorta. Further study is needed.
Moxibustion may improve symptoms of vertigo, according to early studies. Additional research is required.
Early studies suggest a combination of moxibustion and western medicine improved symptoms of various viral infections, such as skin rash, indigestion, and oral herpes. Further study is needed.
Evidence does not support use of moxibustion to aid in weight loss at this time, although it may contribute to increased psychological well-being and improved eating attitudes in obese patients. More studies are needed to determine whether or not moxibustion may play a role in weight loss.
A combination of acupuncture and moxibustion may improve symptoms of extreme eye dryness in comparison to other conventional therapies. More studies are needed before a firm conclusion can be made.
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The below uses are based on tradition, scientific theories, or limited research. They often have not been thoroughly tested in humans, and safety and effectiveness have not always been proven. Some of these conditions are potentially serious, and should be evaluated by a qualified healthcare provider. There may be other proposed uses that are not listed below.
Aging, antioxidant, antiviral, blood flow enhancement, bronchitis, dizziness, dysentery (severe diarrhea), epilepsy, exercise performance enhancement, fatigue, fever, headache, heart disease, immunomodulation, inflammation, leukorrhea (vaginal discharge), lung diseases, lymphangitis (infection of the lymph vessels), muscle soreness, neuroprotective, skin disorders, soft-tissue injury (adjacent to), sweating, stomach pain, toothache, urticaria (hives), uterine cramps.
Many complementary techniques are practiced by healthcare professionals with formal training, in accordance with the standards of national organizations. However, this is not universally the case, and adverse effects are possible. Due to limited research, in some cases only limited safety information is available.
Frequency of adverse events in acupuncture practice is rare and even rarer in its adjunctive technique of moxibustion. It has been suggested that serious cases of adverse events caused by moxibustion are actually cases of negligence; e.g., not removing the moxa from the skin at the appropriate time, or accidentally dropping ash from the burning moxa cigar onto the skin.
Moxibustion may cause skin discoloration (temporary), minor scarring, pinhole pain, flushing pinhole, blisters, skin burns, skin redness, face rash, burn injury, stomach upsets, tenderness, nausea, throat problems, stomach pain, heartburn, diarrhea, fatigue, headaches, dizziness, fainting, asthma attack, discomfort due to smoke, death, liver inflammation, too much sleep, infection, increased rate of contraction, premature birth, premature membrane rupture, placental bleeding, unpleasant odor and fever.
Use cautiously in all people due to the potential for side effects, such as skin and stomach and intestinal side effects.
Use cautiously in people with asthma, neuropathy, diabetes or using blood sugar lowering agents, and thyroid disorders or using thyroid agents.
Use moxibustion at sites other than the lower back and stomach area cautiously in pregnant women.
Use cautiously in people using anti-arrhythmics or sedatives.
Use cautiously in patients with reduced blood pressure or using agents that lower blood pressure.
Use cautiously in patients with immune disorders or using immunomodulating agents.
Use direct moxa cautiously over large blood vessels or on elderly people with large vessels.
Avoid use of herbs or agents to which the patient is allergic.
Avoid in breastfeeding women due to a lack of available scientific evidence.
Avoid over the stomach area and the lower back during pregnancy.
Avoid moxibustion on the face, head, nipples and genitals.
Avoid on areas with skin adhesions.
Avoid needling points that would be contraindicated for the individual patient.
Avoid on patients with any kind of "heat syndrome."
Avoid in patients with strong heat signs (eg. fever).
Avoid on or near inflamed and/or red areas of the body.
Avoid in any situation where the patient may not respond to the sensations of heat.
: Patients are often advised not to bathe or shower for up to 24 hours after a moxibustion treatment.
This information is based on a systematic review of scientific literature edited and peer-reviewed by contributors to the Natural Standard Research Collaboration (
Chen R, Chen M, Kang M, et al. The design and protocol of heat-sensitive moxibustion for knee osteoarthritis: a multicenter randomized controlled trial on the rules of selecting moxibustion location. BMC.Complement Altern Med 2010;10:32.
Gao J, Ouyang BS, Zhang Y, et al. [Comparison of the clinical therapeutic effects between electroacupuncture and warming needle moxibustion for knee osteoarthritis of kidney deficiency and marrow insufficiency pattern/syndrome]. Zhongguo Zhen.Jiu. 2012;32(5):395-398.
Joos S, Wildau N, Kohnen R et al. Acupuncture and moxibustion in the treatment of ulcerative colitis: a randomized controlled study. Scand.J Gastroenterol. 2006;41(9):1056-1063.
Liu MR, Li L, and He, ZW. [Efficacy observation on osteoarthritis of the knee treated with the ultrastructural acupotomy therapy at the counter-Ashi points]. Zhongguo Zhen.Jiu. 2012;32(7):621-624.
Mei ZG, Cheng CG, and Zheng JF. Observations on curative effect of high-frequency electric sparkle and point-injection therapy on knee osteoarthritis. J Tradit.Chin Med 2011;31(4):311-315.
Ren XM, Cao JJ, Shen XY, et al. [Knee osteoarthritis treated with moxibustion: a randomized controlled trial]. Zhongguo Zhen.Jiu. 2011;31(12):1057-1061.
Shi Y, Cui YH, Wu HG, et al. Effects of mild-warming moxibustion on Bcl-2 and PKC expressions of peripheral blood in elderly people. J Tradit.Chin Med 2012;32(1):45-51.
Song NC, He JB, Xu HB, et al. [Comparative study on effect of acupoint heat-sensitive moxibustion and Seretide on the symptoms of bronchial asthma at chronic persistent stage]. Zhongguo Zhen.Jiu. 2012;32(7):593-596.
Tang FY, Huang CJ, Chen RX, et al. [Observation on therapeutic effect of moxibustion on temperature-sensitive points for lumbar disc herniation]. Zhongguo Zhen.Jiu. 2009;29(5):382-384.
Xia Y, Xia MZ, Li Y, et al. [Effect of aconite cake-separated moxibustion at Guanyuan (CV 4) and Mingmen (GV 4) on thyroid function in patients of Hashimoto's thyroiditis]. Zhongguo Zhen.Jiu. 2012;32(2):123-126.
Xie HW, Chen RX, Xu, FM. [Comparative study of heat-sensitive moxibustion in the treatment of knee osteoarthritis]. Zhongguo Zhen.Jiu. 2012;32(3):229-232.
Xiong GP, Huang Q, and Dong, YF. [Thirty cases of knee osteoarthritis treated by acupuncture and warming needle moxibustion]. Zhongguo Zhen.Jiu. 2011;31(6):551-552.
Yang C, and Yan H. Observation of the efficacy of acupuncture and moxibustion in 62 cases of chronic colitis. J.Tradit.Chin Med. 1999;19(2):111-114.
Zhou WY, Zhao JG, Han YY, et al. [Clinical study of acupuncture and moxibustion for preventing nosocomial infection in the patient with acute cerebrovascular disease]. Zhongguo Zhen.Jiu. 2008;28(2):91-94.
Zhu Y, Chen RL, Miao FR, et al. [Clinical observation on the therapeutic effect of drugs-paste separated moxibustion combined with electroacupunture for knee osteoarthritis patients of cold-damp type]. Zhen.Ci.Yan.Jiu. 2010;35(4):293-297.
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"Since when does the Post assign 27-year-olds to write Page 1 presidential campaign pieces?" Boston University journalism professor Christopher B. Daly snitted yesterday in a blog item titled "The Worst Political Reporting of 2007."
Daly's target was Perry Bacon Jr., author of a Page OneWashington Post piece (Nov. 29) about the "Obama is a Muslim" rumors. Daly decries the rapid ascension that is Bacon's career as an example of "fast-tracking with a vengeance—a problem that I thought the Post had gotten past."
Is Daly right? Should we ban 27-year-olds from writing Page One pieces about presidential campaigns? What dues must be paid before a journalist is worthy of Page One campaign assignments? Should the gig be reserved for the graybeards, geezers, and fossils who carried David S. Broder's garment bags to the 1968 Republican National Convention?
Ripping Daly is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. But what's wrong with shooting fish in a barrel? If a professor is stupid enough to gurgle like this about young reporters while splashing around in the tight confines of a tub, he deserves double-barrel treatment.
Daly seems to think Bacon is a political greenhorn, but he isn't. At Time magazine, his previous gig, Bacon profiled Obama in 2006. He wrote about the John Edwards campaign, profiled Nancy Pelosi, wrote about the defeated John Kerry, and interviewed Deval Patrick, Charles Rangel, and Chuck Hagel for the magazine's "10 Questions For" series. At the Post, which he joined in March, Bacon has at least 16 Page One credits about the 2008 campaign to his name—nine solo and seven as joint bylines. On the inside pages, you can find about 30 more Bacon bylines on political stories.
But documenting Bacon's reportorial experience only plays into Daly's game. Despite what some political reporters and the odd professor might tell you, a journalist needn't carry a Mensa card and belong to the Gridiron Club in order to write intelligently about presidential campaigns for Page One. The national political beat, while glamorous, is no more difficult to cover than finance, city hall, or war. The only people who think political reporters must be on a first-name basis with every past and present county party chairman in Wisconsin before writing about national politics are the nutmeats who study such encyclopedias in their leisure time.
The prejudice against young political reporters probably has more to do with the inexplicably high status accorded campaign reporters inside newspapers than it does with the actual skills the job demands. Too many journalists think of the campaign trail as the most prestigious beat, and they wig out when somebody who hasn't spent two decades as a journeyman lands a seat on the campaign bus.
While we're on the subject, Daly isn't the only one who considers Bacon's piece the "worst political reporting of 2007." In an earlier piece in the Columbia Journalism Review, Paul McLeary comes to a similar conclusion. The Washington Post's own ombudsman criticizes Bacon's approach to the "Obama is a Muslim" rumors.
I don't think the Bacon story is perfect, but I give him and the Post credit for grappling with the rumor—one that shows no sign of dying—that others covering the campaign have been too timid to touch.
More credit where credit is due:From the Iowa hustings,Slate's own John Dickerson grabbed the latest Obama rumor by the tail and shook hard ("Dirty Obama E-Mail," Nov. 7). Who else deserves credit for grappling with this important story? Send e-mail to email@example.com. (E-mail may be quoted by name in "The Fray," Slate's readers' forum, in a future article, or elsewhere unless the writer stipulates otherwise. Permanent disclosure: Slate is owned by the Washington Post Co.)


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Michele L. Carlson vs. Richard W. Carlson; decree of divorce issued April 22; house to be sold; property and debts divided; respondent ordered to pay $300 weekly spousal support for one year or until house sold, whichever comes first, then $150 per week for two years; parties have one minor child.
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The new Cal State Fullerton men's and women's golf programs each recorded perfect Academic Progress Rate scores of 1000 for their debut 2009-10 seasons and 12 of the other 15 Titan sports showed improvement in their multi-year APR rates in data released today by the NCAA.
Women's volleyball, women's cross country and softball also scored 1000 on their 2009-10 APR.
Sports showing multi-year rate gains were wrestling (+41 points), men's soccer (+33), softball and men's track (both +23), women's cross country (+17), men's cross country (+15), women's volleyball and women's soccer (both +9), women's outdoor track and field (+8), women's tennis (+6), women's basketball (+4) and women's indoor track and field (+2). Sports with lowered multi-year scores were men's basketball (-40), women's gymnastics (-8) and baseball (-3).
This is the seventh year of reports on the APR, which is a measurement seeking improvement of the eligibility and retention of student-athletes competing on every Division I sports team. Programs that fall below a multi-year score of 925 can be penalized with the loss of scholarships, practice time and/or post-season competition.
The multi-year rate is an average of the four most recent years. A point is lost for each student-athlete that leaves a program before exhausting his or her eligibility and the point is doubled if that student-athlete is not eligible at the time of departure.
Men's basketball was most adversely affected by the transfer of two underclassmen who had fallen below minimum academic standards. The program will lose two scholarships.
Baseball's multi-year rate went from 931 to 928 despite a 2009-10 score of 939. The net drop is the result of the 939 score replacing a higher score from 2005-06 in the calculations. The women's gymnastics' picture was similar: the multi-year rate dropped from 975 to 967 despite a 2009-10 score of 979.
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It could be cool to have a Highlights Thread somewhere, particularly for the new folks, that would have links to Threads and Similar Things of High Importance (maybe have a vote, but would probably include things like Rules, Apocrypha, and the Blooper Reel--the Rules because they're needed, Apocrypha and Blooper Reel because people keep asking for links to them, and so on). Sort of like a Forum Bucket List, if you will. It might be too hard/confusing to know which threads and videos to link to, though.


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The broadcast Friday by a Bay Area television station of fake, racially insensitive names of the pilots flying the ill-fated Asiana Airlines Flight 214 has sparked outrage.
The segment on Friday at noon that referred to two of the pilots as "Captain Sum Ting Wong," and "Wi Tu Lo," has gone viral and drawn heavy criticism on the Internet.
In a statement read on KTVU-TV on Friday night, anchor Frank Somerville said the station made several mistakes.
Somerville did not say how exactly the station got the names.
But "we never read the names out loud, phonetically sounding them out" before going on the air, he said.
Late Friday, the National Transportation Safety Board acknowledged that a summer intern confirmed the names to KTVU when a reporter from the station called about them.
"Earlier today, in response to an inquiry from a media outlet, a summer intern acted outside the scope of his authority when he erroneously confirmed the names of the flight crew on the aircraft," the NTSB said in a statement. "Appropriate actions will be taken to ensure that such a serious error is not repeated."
Somerville said the station didn't properly verify who at the NTSB was confirming the names.
The hoax prompted outrage from some Asian American activists and a journalism organization.
"Words cannot adequately express the outrage we … feel over KTVU's on-air blunder that made a mockery of the Asiana Airlines tragedy," wrote Asian American Journalists Assn. President Paul Cheung and MediaWatch Chair Bobby Caina Calvan. "We are embarrassed for the anchor, who was as much a victim as KTVU's viewers and KTVU's hard-working staff."
The two said KTVU should explain where the names originated.
In a letter to Tom Raponi, KTVU/KICU vice president and general manager, retired KTVU reporter Lloyd LaCuesta, an Asian American Journalists Assn. member, said he was saddened by the airing of the prank names.
"Common sense indicates that simply sounding out the names would have raised red flags," LaCuesta wrote in the letter.
Two teenage girls from China and another passenger were killed and more than 180 people injured when the Boeing 777 clipped a sea wall and slammed into a runway Saturday at San Francisco International Airport.
Asiana Airlines has identified the pilot and copilot as Lee Kang-kook and Lee Jung-min.
The KTVU newscast was captured in a video posted to YouTube, in which the station displayed four incorrect pilot names on the screen and an anchor read them aloud.
"The NTSB has confirmed these are the names of the pilots aboard Flight 214 when it crashed," the anchor said. "We are working to determine exactly what roles each of them played during the landing on Saturday."
Another YouTube video showed an apology read by the same anchor.
"These names were not accurate despite an NTSB official in Washington confirming them late this morning," the anchor said. "We apologize for this error."
The station issued a statement Friday afternoon acknowledging it had "misidentified the pilots involved."
"Prior to air, the names were confirmed by an NTSB official in the agency's Washington, D.C., office," the statement posted on the station's website said. "Despite that confirmation, KTVU realized the names that aired were not accurate and issued an apology later in the newscast."
"We sincerely regret the error and took immediate action to apologize, both in the newscast where the mistake occurred, as well as on our website and social media sites," Raponi said in the statement. "Nothing is more important to us than having the highest level of accuracy and integrity, and we are reviewing our procedures to ensure this type of error does not happen again."
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The US Department of Agriculture is at war – with insects and it's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Maryland is working hard to provide troops with gear that protects them from disease-causing insects. Protecting troops from insects has even more support now due to a new USDA-DOD initiative and research program called the Deployed War-Fighter Protection Research Program. USDA's research department has long worked to find better insecticides and is now applying their knowledge to treating tents, camouflage and other gear.
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In 2003, 80 out of 225 U.S. marines deployed on a mission to Liberia came down with malaria, but no deaths were associated with that incident. According to U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Douglas Burkett, research liaison officer with the Armed Forces Pest Management Board (AFPMB), "The trouble with most widely used insecticides is that we have fewer available active ingredients for public-health pest control, and at the same time, we have a global increase in insecticide resistance to our best chemical tools." Disease-causing insects area huge problem for troops, but a new research division through the USDA for the DOD is helping to win that battle. The Deployed War-Fighter Protection Research Program (DWFP) is currently working on a number of new insecticides and new ways to treat military gear to repel insects and keep troops safe.
One researcher, Entomologist Seth Britch who is also a captain in the US Army Reserve, is improving techniques to coat tents, netting and other military fabrics with insecticides to keep the insects away from troops while they are sleeping, eating, resting or working. Depending on where the troops are deployed to depends on whether the materials are treated with insecticides for mosquitos or sand flies. The treatment needs to withstand travel, time, sun, heat and many more elements to remain effective for the troops.
Another research department is working on improving insecticides from plant-derived compounds for topical application to deter insects. This division in Gainesville, FL is developing promising natural alternatives that may even be more effective than DEET using such plants as the American Beautyberry, Jatropha curcas seed oil and breadfruit. While DEET has proved effective for both military and home use, many people feel uncomfortable using the compound and ARS wants to find even safer and healthier options. And even another department is working on treating uniforms with repellants and designing special textiles to protect the wearer from being bit.
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