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Pelvic prolapsed affects 1 in 2 women who have experienced vaginal birth, a hysterectomy or obesity. It is estimated that nearly 50% of all women between the ages of 50 and 79 have some form of prolapse.
Pelvic prolapse is a condition that occurs when muscles and ligaments supporting your pelvic organs weaken. As a result, these organs (uterus, vagina, cervix, bladder, urethra, or rectum) slip from their normal position.
"As the prolapse of the vagina and uterus progresses, women can feel bulging tissue protruding through the opening of the vagina," said Luke Cho, M.D., urologist, who is on staff at Silver Cross Hospital. "Prolapse in itself is not life threatening but it can be uncomfortable and sometimes makes it very difficult for women to empty their bladders. This can lead to other problems such as urinary infections and even kidney damage."
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Symptoms and Risk Factors
Some women with prolapse have no symptoms. Others experience a feeling of sitting on a ball; pulling in the pelvis; pelvic or abdominal pain; painful intercourse; protrusion of tissue from the vagina; bladder infections; vaginal bleeding; unusual discharge; constipation; or frequent urination.
Pelvic prolapse is common, affecting about one in every three women who have had a child. One in nine women experience symptoms severe enough to need surgery. Prolapse risk factors include multiple vaginal deliveries, age, obesity, hysterectomy and smoking.
There are many treatment options available. For most women, the treatment they choose depends on how much they are bothered by their symptoms. Many conservative treatment options are available including pelvic floor rehabilitation. Although typically pelvic prolapse worsens over time and can only be fully corrected with surgery.
One of the best procedures for severe prolapse is called sacrocolpopexy. It is considered one of the most effective ways to correct pelvic prolapse and resolve symptoms.
"During this procedure, the vagina is lifted back to its correct position," Cho said. "There is usually a very small amount of mesh involved in the repair. However, the mesh is almost all completely in the abdomen and not in the vagina, which is an important difference and lower risk procedure than vaginal mesh procedures for prolapse."
Traditionally, Sacrocolpopexy procedures were performed using open surgeries that were successful, but they had very high recovery times. Fortunately technological advancements have allowed surgeons to correct severe pelvic prolapsed using minimally invasive da Vinci Surgery.
State-of-the-art da Vinci Surgery requires just a few tiny incisions. The enhanced vision, precision, dexterity and control of da Vinci allows your doctor to perform an excellent sacrocolpopexy even for women with complex and severe prolapse cases. da Vinci Sacrocolpopexy offers women many potential benefits over traditional open surgery, including: less blood loss, shorter hospital stay, and low rate of complications.
How does it Work?
Controlled by a surgeon from a console, the innovative da Vinci robot is used to make 8mm (`1/3 inch) to 12 mm (~ 1/2 inch) incisions and then long, delicate instruments are inserted into the patient that enable specially trained physicians to perform the surgery.
Interestingly, misconceptions still exist that the robot is actually performing the surgery all by itself. "The important aspect to understand is that the robotic system cannot be programmed nor can it make decisions by itself," Cho said. "The da Vinci System can only operate with direct input from the surgeon."
Find Relief
Join Drs. Luke Cho and Constance Marks, urologists, on Monday, Dec. 3, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Silver Cross Hospital, Pavilion A, Conference Center 1, 1890 Silver Cross Blvd., New Lenox for a free program, Women & Pelvic Problems.
He will discuss the common symptoms, causes and latest treatment options including surgical options using the da Vinci robot available to help find pain relief. Register to attend this program online or call 1-888-660-HEAL (4325).
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Every day, Packouz spoke with military officials, sending volleys of e-mails to Kabul and Kyrgyzstan and the Army depot in Rock Island. The contracting officers he dealt with told him that there was a secret agenda involved in the deal. The Pentagon, they said, was worried that a Democrat would be elected president in 2008 and cut the funding for the war — or worse, pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan entirely.
"They said Bush and Rumsfeld were trying to arm Afghanistan with enough ammo to last them the next few decades," Packouz recalls. "It made sense to me, but I didn't really care. My main motivator was making money, just like it was for General Dynamics. Nobody goes into the arms business for altruistic purposes."
It didn't take long for AEY to strike cut-rate deals that vastly improved its profit margin. The nine percent planned for in the original bid was soon pushing toward 25 percent — enough to provide Packouz and Diveroli with nearly $85 million in profits. But even such a jaw-dropping sum didn't satisfy Diveroli. He scoured FedBizOpps for even more contracts and landed a private deal to import Lithuanian ammo, determined to turn AEY into a multibillion-dollar company.
To cope with the increased business, AEY leased space in a larger and more expensive office building in Miami Beach. The company hired an office manager and two young secretaries they found on Craigslist. Diveroli brought in two more friends from the synagogue, including a guy fluent in Russian, to help fulfill the contracts. "Things were rolling along," Packouz recalls. "We were delivering on a consistent basis. We had suppliers in Hungary and Bulgaria and other countries. I had finally arranged all the overflight permits. We were cash positive."
Packouz had yet to be paid a cent, but he was convinced he was about to be seriously rich. Anticipating the big payday, he ditched his beater Mazda for a brand-new Audi A4. He moved from his tiny efficiency apartment to a nice one-bedroom overlooking the pool at the Flamingo in fashionable South Beach. Diveroli soon followed, taking a two-bedroom in the central tower. It was convenient for both — their drug dealer, Raoul, lived in the complex.
"The Flamingo was a constant party," Packouz says. "The marketing slogan for the building was 'South Beach revolves around us,' and it was true. There was drinking, dancing, people making out in the Jacuzzi — sometimes more than just making out. Outside my balcony there was always at least a few women sunbathing topless. People at parties would ask us what we did for a living. The girls were models or cosmetologists. The guys were stockbrokers and lawyers. We would say we were international arms dealers. 'You know the war in Afghanistan?' we would say. 'All the bullets are coming from us.' It was heaven. It was wild. We felt like we were on top of the world."
In the evenings, Packouz and Diveroli would get high and go to the American Range and Gun Shop — the only range near Miami that would let them fire off the Uzis and MP5s that Diveroli was licensed to own. "When we let go with our machine guns, all the other shooters would stop and look at us like, 'What the fuck was that?' Everyone else had pistols going pop pop. We loved it. Shooting an automatic machine gun feels powerful."
The biggest piece of the Afghan contract, in terms of sheer quantity, was ammunition for AK-47s. Packouz had received excellent quotes from suppliers in Hungary and the Czech Republic. But Diveroli insisted on using the Swiss arms dealer Heinrich Thomet's high-level contacts in Albania. The move made sense. The Albanians didn't require a large deposit as a down payment, which made it easier for AEY to place big orders. And Albania's government could certainly handle the volume: Its paranoid communist leaders had been so convinced they were going to be attacked by foreign powers that they had effectively transformed the nation into a vast military stockpile, with bunkers scattered throughout the countryside. In fact, AK-47 ammunition was so plentiful that Albania's president had recently flown to Baghdad and offered to donate millions of rounds to Gen. David Petraeus.
The structure for AEY's purchase of the Albanian ammo was standard in the world of illegal arms deals, where the whole point is to disguise origins and end-users. It was perfectly legal, but it had the stench of double-dealing. A shell company called Evdin, which Thomet had incorporated in Cyprus, would buy the ammo from Albania's arms-exporting company. Evdin would then resell the rounds to AEY. That way Thomet got a cut as broker, and AEY and the U.S. government were insulated from any legal or moral quandaries that came with doing business in a country as notoriously corrupt and unpredictable as Albania.
There was only one snag: When Diveroli bid on the contract, he had miscalculated the cost of shipping, failing to anticipate the rising cost of fuel. The Army had given him permission to repackage the rounds into cardboard boxes, but getting anything done in a country as dysfunctional as Albania wasn't easy. So Diveroli dispatched another friend from their synagogue, Alex Podrizki, to the capital city of Tirana to oversee the details of fulfilling the deal.
Despite the hands-on approach, signs of trouble emerged immediately. When Podrizki went to look at a cache of ammunition in one bunker, it was apparent that the Albanians had a haphazard attitude about safety; they used an ax to open crates containing live rounds and lit cigarettes in a room filled with gunpowder. The ammunition itself, though decades old, seemed to be in working order, but the rounds were stored in rusty cans and stacked on rotting wooden pallets — not the protocol normally used for such dangerous materiel. Worst of all, Podrizki noticed that the steel containers holding the ammunition — known as "sardine cans" — were covered in Chinese markings. Podrizki called Packouz in Miami.
"I inspected the stuff and it seems good," Podrizki told him. "But dude, you know this is Chinese ammo, right?"
"What are you talking about?" Packouz said.
"The ammo is Chinese."
"How do you know it's Chinese?"
"There are Chinese markings all over the crates."
Packouz's heart sank. There was not only an embargo against selling weapons manufactured in China: The Afghan contract specifically stipulated that Chinese ammo was not permitted. Then again, maybe AEY could argue that the ammunition didn't violate the ban, since it had been imported to Albania decades before the embargo was imposed, back when Albania's communist government had forged an alliance with Mao. There was precedent for such an argument: Only the year before, the Army had been delighted with Chinese ammo that AEY had shipped from Albania. But this time, when Diveroli wrote the State Department's legal advisory desk to ask if he could use Chinese rounds made prior to the embargo, he received a curt and unequivocal reply: not without a presidential decree.
Given the deadline on the contract, there was no time to find another supplier. The Hungarians could fill half the deal, but the ammunition would not be ready for shipment until the fall; the Czechs could fill the entire order, but they wanted $1 million. Any delay would risk losing the entire contract. "The Army was pushing us for the ammo," says Packouz. "They needed it ASAP."
So the two friends chose a third option. As arms dealers, subverting the law wasn't some sort of extreme scenario — it was a routine part of the business. There was even a term of art for it: circumvention. Packouz e-mailed Podrizki in Albania and instructed him to have the rounds repackaged to get rid of any Chinese markings. It was time to circumvent.
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The War Powers Act Is Pretty Unclear About Whether Congress Gets a Vote On Syria
War Powers Act is open to interpretation, but many think Congress needs to vote on action in Syria.
In 2007, then-candidate Barack Obama told the Boston Globe in an interview that no president could authorize military action without Congress unless the U.S. was in imminent danger.
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"The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation," Obama said.
Fast forward six years and Obama sits ready to engage in a military strike against Syria and Congress, though consulted, hasn't held a formal vote authorizing action.
Many argue the U.S. interests are not in any immediate danger, and warn that proceeding without support from Congress could put Obama in a politically uncomfortable position.
More than 150 members of Congress have asked Obama to call lawmakers back from recess, hold a vote, and then proceed from there.
"Though consulting with Congress is helpful, it is in no way an adequate substitute for President Obama obtaining statutory authority from Congress prior to the use of military force, as required by the Constitution," said Rep. Scott Rigell, R-Va., who is leading the effort to get congressional approval.
But many experts say members of Congress have it all wrong. They argue that the War Powers Resolution of 1973 clarifies the Constitution and actually gives the president broader authority to engage in "limited" military action overseas. In such circumstances, they say, Obama doesn't need to get formal authorization from Capitol Hill.
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"A limited engagement such as the one tentatively proposed for Syria, involving no troops on the ground and relying on weapons fired from air and sea, does not appear to fulfill the vague criteria for 'hostilities' under the War Powers Resolution," says Christopher McKnight Nichols, a professor at Oregon State University and an expert on the U.S. military history. "Thus the proposed intervention in Syria does not appear to require a deadline for congressional approval or force withdrawal."
Others in the field, however, interpret the president's power under the War Powers Resolution to be much more limited in scope.
Harvard Professor Jack Goldsmith, who worked in the Bush Administration and specializes in the separation of powers, argues the president should not act unilaterally and should "heed his own" advice from 2007. "The White House is mistaken to think that informal briefings to congressional leaders are a substitute, even a near-substitute, for formal public congressional debate and authorization," Goldsmith recently wrote on Lawfare, a national security blog. "Such secret ex ante deliberations lack constitutional significance, and they won't help one bit politically once things go contrary to plan, as they always do."
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Michael DiNiscia, associate director of the congressional Brademas Center at New York University, agrees that Congress should be more involved, although he says that it is not legally required. He argues many in Congress would probably like to shirk that responsibility all together.
"You are going to have members of Congress who are speaking up and requesting that any action be first debated by and authorized in Congress. But most of these members of Congress are perfectly happy to not take a tough vote," DiNiscia says. "They would like to reserve the right to complain after the fact."
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Naming your new cat is a difficult and important decision — after all, he'll have to live with that moniker for the rest of his life, and so will you. But naming a kitten can also be tons of fun!
We culled our records and came up with the a current list of the 10 most popular cat names. It's no surprise that human names like Chloe and Charlie are trending right now, but we also found that old classics like Kitty and Tiger are still hanging in there. And we bet you can guess which box-office smash hit is behind the number-one name for female kittens. (Hint: It's about vampires.)
Although we're holding out for a kitten named Katniss (after the heroine of The Hunger Games, of course) — but Catniss might be more appropriate.
It should come as no surprise that the number-one female cat name has Twilight mania to thank for its popularity. And it's not just animals who have been influenced by Bella Swan's lady vampire — Bella is also one of the top names for human baby girls. With the final Twilight installation in theater's now, we're sure many kittens will be sporting tags engraved with this name.
This name may be simple to spell and say, but it's perfect for your regal and adventurous kitten. And if your tiny cat is truly a wild thing, it accurately brings to mind the title character in Maurice Sendak's classic Where the Wild Things Are.
This iconic human name — think Charlie Brown's Lucy and the much-loved I Love Lucy — has finally worked its way into the animal world.
Disney's 1988 animated film Oliver & Company stars a tiny orange kitten named (what else?) Oliver, who joins a gang of streetwise canines in New York City. Who knows if cat owners are still watching this movie. But if you aren't, we recommend it!
Just in case you forget which species of animal you share your home with, the name Kitty will be right there to remind you.
We'd like to think that this moniker owes its popularity to the hilarious YouTube video "Charlie Bit My Finger," but it's impossible to say for sure!
We're warning you now: If you name your cat Chloe, she may demand holiday gifts from her namesake, the luxurious fashion line.
This ferocious name may conjure images of a much larger animal than your tiny ball of fluff, but at least it stays true to its cat family roots!
Gone are the days when we named pets Spot and Fluffy. Now we give our furry babies names traditionally reserved for human babies, like Sophie. (Or even Sophia, if Sophie is just your pet's nickname.)
Is there a cuter name for a gray cat than the classic Smokey? We didn't think so.
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Berlin Fire Marshal and Emergency Management Services Commander Matt Odishoo laughed a bit when asked what he was doing to prepare for the impending Hurricane Sandy.
Odishoo, the town and the state have been through this before.
Last year, at approximately the same time of year, the town was hit by a freak snowstorm that crippled the state and kept the town in the dark for almost a full week. There was also Hurricane Irene in August.
"It's funny to say but we have been through this before," Odishoo said. "We are looking at all the models and we're hoping it will take the track and hit South Carolina and head to England. But it looks more likely that it will come right at us, more likely to the southwest of us, which puts us on the bad side of the storm. It's going to be a full moon, a high tide, it could be the perfect storm."
Public Works Director Art Simonian will also be in the meeting Friday morning but he said the town crews are not waiting until then to start preparations for what could be a major storm.
"We are taking a lot of precautions already," Simonian said. "We have lowered a few water sources to try to avoid areas that usually flood. We are packing sand bags to prepare for flooded roads. We are also preparing all of our equipment that we may need for any emergencies."
Odishoo said as in the storms of the past that Berlin Fire Department on the Berlin Turnpike will be the Emergency Command Center and that McGee Middle School is the town's first choice for an emergency shelter.
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What To Look For Before You Engage The Services Of Cabs In The City
If you are in the city and you need to get home or somewhere else and you do not have the necessary means to arrive at that point, you may want to contact the service of the cabs around your city. However, to have a good experience with the driver and the entire journey, it is important to consider some few factors.
How familiar is the cab drive with routes?
It is important to confirm that the driver is familiar with the route you want him or her to drive you to before you board the cab. This will make you arrive at the destination a bit faster rather than having to travel with a driver who keeps on asking the passengers for directions as is in some cases.
Can you trust the cab owner? In the recent times, many people have been posing as cab owners only to take advantage of unsuspecting citizens and foreigners. The only way to avoid being a victim is enquiring about the licensing of the driver. Moreover, if you will be travelling by a cab in the future, you can choose to ask for some references and suggestions from friends or relatives so that you may stay away from cons and thieves who are increasingly taking advantage of citizens.
The first thing you would want to establish is how long the cab driver has been in his or her job. This is important since it will determine how good the driver is at the work. You do not want to be driven by unqualified personnel as it can lead to instances of accident.
Before you board the cab, it is important to enquire about the license of the owner. The government requires that all the cab drivers be registered and be owners of a valid driving license. This is very important, as it will ascertain whether the driver is qualified for the job. The government also requires that the cab owner be a part of an organisation.
It is very important that the cab driver undertakes an insurance cover for the clients. Accidents are prone to happening and hence, it is mandatory that the driver to have consulted an insurance company for insurance purposes. If a driver had not taken an insurance cover and it happens that due to his or her negligence an accident takes place, it would be hard to get compensation.
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The Catskills are a historic mountain range located in the southeastern portion of New York State in the United States. There are hundreds of things to do both in the Catskill resorts located there and outside of them.
But wait: why should I choose these resorts over others?
Information above aside, why choose the Catskills resorts over other vacation destinations?
Here are the top ten reasons:
- Unique vistas – The views and vistas that are provided by the beautiful Catskill Mountains are unbeatable. They are varied and look different in each season. The trails, cliffs, mountains, and lakes in the area all provide views that can take the breath right out of a person who is looking at them.
- Year round activities – Activities take place during every season of the year. All year. Every year. This isn't even taking into account specific activities that each individual resort is putting on. There is a little something for everyone regardless of the time that a person goes to the Catskills for their vacation.
- Outdoor activities – From snowmobiling to skiing or from hiking to climbing there is a little something for everyone in the Catskills. The huge variety of landscapes provides many unique opportunities for outdoor activities.
- Proximity to New York – Only around a hundred miles outside of New York City, you are never too far from civilization in the Catskills. A trip to the Catskills could easily become a trip to New York City or vice versa.
- History – The slew of museums in the area and all of the historic landmarks and trails make the Catskills a perfect location to learn a bit about the history of the mountains and the history of New England itself.
- Solitude – The Mountains provide a great place to get away from the hustle and bustle of city life. The area is so large that no matter where you are it is relatively quiet.
- Pricing – Compared to some other travel destinations, the Catskills are relatively inexpensive. This is particularly true when compared with popular destinations like Las Vegas, California, or Florida.
- Seasonal specific activities – There are activities for each individual season as well. Winter sports are available for the colder seasons. During the spring and summer, there are lakes and rivers opportunities available such as rafting, fishing, or simply boating around. Not to mention fishing, hunting, or outdoor sports.
- Family friendly – The location is friendly for the whole family. There are activities specific for all age groups and families have nothing to worry about when bringing their families to the Catskills for a vacation.
- Variety – The sheer number of activities allows a person to choose almost anything to do at any given time in the Catskills. With that being said, the variety is almost unbeatable.
Regardless of whether a vacation is going to be one for the whole family or one for just yourself, Catskills resorts provide fun activities year round.


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Plantation Federal Bank, Pawleys Island, South Carolina, has contacted the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to report that counterfeit official checks bearing the institution's name are in circulation.
The counterfeit items display the routing number 011007092, which is assigned to Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Company, Boston, Massachusetts. Plantation Federal Bank's official checks are issued by Moneygram Payment Systems, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, through an account at Boston Safe Deposit & Trust Company. The counterfeit items are similar to authentic official checks; however, the counterfeit items display a security statement embedded in a darkened top border and along the bottom border between two padlock icons.
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For your reference, FDIC Special Alerts may be accessed from the FDIC's website at www.fdic.gov/news/news/SpecialAlert/2009/index.html. To learn how to automatically receive FDIC Special Alerts through e-mail, please visit www.fdic.gov/about/subscriptions/index.html.
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We started our global review of activities at our world headquarters in Michigan. But Amway has another headquarters facility in Buena Park, California, where many of our Nutrilite products are made and where the Nutrilite Center for Optimal Health is located.
Employees in Buena Park make lasting commitments to their community partners, and find new ways to help every year.
At the Buena Park Boys & Girls Club, which was founded by Carl and Edith Rehnborg, the founders of Nutrilite, employees can often be found working with the Club members through mentoring, gardening, or helping with the board of directors.
This year, Amway employees in Buena Park gave Boys & Girls Club members the opportunity to participate in the Orange County Marathon, along with 4,100 students from local schools.
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Better access to healthy foods is a key mission for Healthy Central Florida, so this year it's offering 25-thousand dollars in grant money for new ideas aimed at improving food sources for the cities of Maitland, Eatonville and Winter Park. Some people planning to attend the May 14th grant workshop have already put their ideas in play.
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"As you can see, we have corn, growing with peas and beans up the stalks, " says Chris Castro, as he describes a planter bed in front of the East End Market that's part of the Fleet Farming movement he helped organize. Using space borrowed from East End Market and a few private backyards in Audubon Park, Fleet Farming is growing produce and then distributing it by bicycle to the vendors at East End Market. The goal is local farming with a zero carbon footprint. Right now the program is small. Grant money will help it expand.
"What we need is enough funds to gain the initial compost, the initial seeds that we need and also get us moving with our pedal powered trailers that we attach to our bikes," he says.
Castro says the plan right now is to expand in Audubon Park, duplicate the program in the UCF area and find ways to incorporate pedal-powered composting using food waste from area restaurants. The grant workshop is being held at the East End Market and is a prerequisite for applying for a grant.


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Just three weeks ago, Gov. Mitt Romney was trailing in the polls and President Barack Obama looked all but set for a second term – or so many of the political pundits thought. On Sept. 20, The New York Times reported that Romney "faced a daunting task," if he hoped to win the presidency.
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Their legislation would create a constitutional amendment that limits Senators and Congressmen to three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and two terms in the U.S. Senate.
�??Congress should not be a body of career politicians who have forgotten why they were sent to Washington in the first place,�?� Toomey said. �??We are here to do the people�??s work, to solve the problems we face, and to leave to our children a stronger, safer, more prosperous nation. I kept my promise to serve just three terms in the House of Representatives.
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The Blasters broke around L.A. just about 30 years ago. Dave and Phil Alvin, with Bill Bateman and John Bazz, somehow combined the precision and prestige of California rockabilly, honky tonk, and blues with the insistent energy of punk. They made the sound by which we would soon judge all bar bands. Since then Dave Alvin has continued to explore California's musical landscape, often making terrifically quiet and thought-provoking music in comparison. There are worlds between, say, "Marie, Marie," on the Blasters' 1980 debut American Music, and the inward-looking "River Under the Road," from the just-released Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women. In one flip at the record store, Alvin goes from 24 to 53.
"When you play with a group of people, whether it's polka or blues, you play together and that's how you sound," Alvin says. "If you put the Blasters back together in a room they would sound like the Blasters. We did a reunion thing in 2003 and we sounded exactly the same. We sounded better, because we had all grown, but we sounded the same. If you put me with the London Symphony I'd sound different. I'd suck. It's good for me to play with other people. The only way to get better is to play with better people. That was the whole thing with the Blasters, the older guys. My brothers took me under their wing. It's been great to play with Cindy Cashdollar and the Guilty Women."
Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women features a who's who of women currently playing roots music—Cindy Cashdollar, Nina Gerber, Christy McWilson, Laurie Lewis, Amy Farris, Lisa Pankratz, Marcia Ball, Suzy Thompson, etc. A variation of that ensemble will be in Knoxville with Alvin. The new record places Alvin in an interesting setting. He's re-recorded "Marie, Marie" with female harmonies, giving it a whole new emotional and romantic tilt. (Put it this way: if you were Marie's father, you'd probably approve of this reading more than the original.) His two-step version of the Doris Day chestnut "Que Sera, Sera," is pretty perfect, with a good-natured undercurrent of "where the hell did my life go?"
For most of us, there's some serious separation between what we did and cared about and how we paid the bills in college and how we fill all those blanks now. So it's hard to imagine a life like Alvin's, which began with a creative burst, followed by what appears to be a steady stream of encouragement and rewards of different sorts. For a successful working musician, are the creative concerns different in middle age than when he was in his 20s? Is it harder to write a love song about a 20-year-old waitress than it is to write one about a 45-year-old waitress?
"I'm still worried about paying for gas and guitar strings," Alvin says. "It's the nature of this kind of business. Instability is constant. I'm always wondering, 'Am I going to be working next year? Is somebody in the band going to die?' If I had a kid I would strongly recommend that they find some other kind of work."
Sadly, fiddler Amy Farris did die in September.
"The joke used to be, would we be pumping gas next week for money?" says Alvin. "That's not funny any more because a lot of us couldn't even do that now. Howlin' Wolf did it until he died. Roy Acuff did it until he died. I guess I'll do it until I die. I just hope it's not too soon."
Not to turn morbid, but a lot of Alvin's music lately has been associated with illness and death. He and others recently scrambled to record and perform as a way raise money to pay for open-heart surgery for Peter Case, a successful career musician who was uninsured. And Alvin was executive producer of Man of Somebody's Dreams, a tribute to the late Chris Gaffney, which came together for similar reasons. He's been observing the so-called health-care debate with some interest.
"The whole issue is so big and tragic," he says. "With Chris we started while he was still alive. He was still trying to book gigs. He couldn't imagine any other way to pay the bills. We put together a website and through the website we were able to raise the money he needed. People's generosity astounds me.
"There's this mythology—and I believed it too when I was 14—that anyone who makes a record is a millionaire. I think the audience is usually shocked to learn that most musicians live hand to mouth. Of all the people who make music, about half of 1 percent are your Springsteens and Madonnas. Ninety-six percent work day jobs. The rest are like me, and we're all basically one or two months from being homeless. I'm not looking for sympathy. But it's an unstable business. I haven't had a day job in 29 years. I was a fry cook and believe me, they would not want me back. That's the scary thing about doing this for 29 years: I never learned to do anything else."
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Picture this: you're getting prepped for surgery (it's minor, nothing to worry about…) and you notice that your surgeon is not scrubbing or checking charts. He's playing the Nintendo Wii. Your first impulse is to bolt off the table, collect your insurance card and get the heck out of there. But wait. Nintendo's wildly popular little machine may have yet another use—honing the fine motor skills of surgeons. And it seems to work.
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The Gig Harbor Tides have been close. For two straight years, the school's baseball team has been one game away from the Class 4A state tournament.
After they won four loser-out games in a row during West Central District tournaments, the Tides lost a 2-1 heartbreaker to Auburn in 10 innings last season.
Head coach Pete Jansen, who is entering his 25h year, said offense was the team's downfall.
"We had a good group of kids," Jansen said. "If we could've gotten some more timely hits in certain situations, we might have had a few of those losses turn into wins. But it was a good year."
The Tides, who finished in the middle of the pack in the Narrows League last season, believe they have the pieces to contend for the top spot this year. The team lost Garrett Gallinger and top-pitcher Nick Gagliardi to graduation, but it returns a strong group of seniors, led by Sterling Brown, an all-league first-team third baseman, catcher Mark Sluys and pitcher/outfielder Conor Scanlan.
Brown, who batted .373 last season, wants to beat that average and earn all-league first-team honors again. He's also hungry for a berth in the state tournament.
"We want to win league, which we haven't done in a long time," Brown said. "So if we can just win league, we should be able to make it to state, and it'll just take its course from there."
Brown said the team has excellent chemistry, and that should pay dividends.
"We've all been playing together for a very long time," he said. "Probably about five guys on that team, I've played with since I was 8, every year. We have some good chemistry that we're able to bring to the table, and it should take us a long way."
Sluys, who has committed to play baseball at Brown University next year, called last season's extra-inning loss to Auburn "brutal." But he added defense and pitching should once again be their strength.
"We've got great defensive players," Sluys said. "That's going to be the key. We're going to have to pitch and play defense, and then (get) timely hits. Our pitching and our defense is going to be the big thing to help us get there."
Timely hitting has been one of the team's biggest points of emphasis as it heads into the season. It was the first thing that come up during this year's captains meeting.
To improve, though, the players will have to do more outside of practice, Scanlan said.
"We can only take so many cuts out here in the cages when we're trying to get other stuff done, too," Scanlan said. "I think the accountability piece comes. We have to take time after practice to get in the cage or work on tee stuff. That's going to be where the change comes from.
"When something is not working right, we have to hold each other accountable to fix it. That's going to be the big change."
This year's team is slightly smaller than last season's, but Scanlan said he thinks that could play to their advantage. Despite fewer players, the Tides have good depth in their starting pitching rotation.
"We have a smaller team than we did last year, and part of that is because we want everyone to know exactly what their role is," Scanlan said. "I think that's huge in winning games (in the) postseason is having each and every guy have a role that he can hold onto and make sure he gets it done. That's a big thing."
Jansen said he's encouraged by what he's seen form his team so far.
"We've got about seven or eight guys that can throw," he said. "When you're playing three games a week, sometimes you have four games in a week. We've got guys that can go to the mound and give us some good innings.
"Our defense is really good. We've got some really good gloves on the team. We just need to score more runs than we did last year. I think if we can do that, we'll be in a lot of games, and that'll put us in a good spot."
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Washington, DC—The American Association for Justice (AAJ) today called on insurance industry CEOs to defend how they continue to abandon Gulf Coast policyholders after reporting last week the largest profits ever—$63.7 billion. This follows the Insurance Information Institute (III) release yesterday of property casualty insurers' 2006 numbers.
"2006 was a banner year for insurance industry greed, but for the hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast policyholders abandoned by these very same insurance companies, it was a year of extraordinary suffering," said AAJ CEO Jon Haber. "These corporations' patent disregard for their customers' lives, in the light of such unseemly greed, is inexcusable."
Though the insurance industry had the highest profits in history last year, policyholders should not expect lower rates. In fact, the III report proudly admits that rates generally will remain flat, thanks to dropping millions of families up and down the Eastern Seaboard. Nowhere in their report do they attempt to justify their wholesale abandonment of coastal policyholders, despite years of customers paying into their policies.
Despite the insurers' billions in record profits, homeowners in the Gulf Coast who have managed to continue being insured are now facing stratospheric rate increases. Last week, Allstate Insurance announced that its Mississippi homeowners will be socked with a 29% rate increase this year.
Though corporations have a duty to their shareholders to perform, the insurance industry has a special relationship with its policyholders. In fact, insurers have both a good faith duty to their policyholders, and are regulated by state laws that dictate profits must be adequate but not excessive.
Additionally, this is just the latest in a series of record profit years. In 2005, despite $57 billion in hurricane-related losses, the p/c industry made a record profit of $43 billion. Katrina, Wilma and Rita were the #1, #3 and #7 most expensive hurricanes in U.S. history, yet the industry raked in record profits.


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In his second post-FOMC press conference, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke touched on every topic, admitting that the recovery was weaker than expected and that beyond temporary factors like supply chain disruptions in Japan and high energy prices, he was at a loss as to what was causing the soft patch. In a Q&A session with reporters, Bernanke said a disorderly default in Greece would have significant effects on the U.S. economy, while adding that the Fed still had several tools at its disposal to pump up the economy.
If the central bank actually does have more in its tool kit, they will be deployed in a weakening economy. Just before Bernanke spoke the Fed issued its revised forecast, dulling growth estimates for 2011 and now calling for gross domestic product to expand between 2.7% and 2.9%.
Bernanke's statements rattled the markets, which had remained virtually flat for most of the day. Equities sold-off as the Chairman began talking, with all three major U.S. equity indices closing at their lows for the day. The Dow shed 80 points or 0.7% to close at 12,110 in New York, while the S&P 500 fell 8 points or 0.7% to 1,287; the Nasdaq lost 18 points or 0.7% to 2,669.
On the bond front, yields on benchmark 10-year Treasuries hit their lows for the day just before the release of the FOMC state, only to bounce up to a few basis points from 3%, marking a sell-off as prices move opposite yields, and playing into Bill Gross' investment thesis. (Read PIMCO's Bill Gross Shorts Treasuries As Experts Eye Inflation).
With markets at a crossroads, amid a cooling economic recovery and a dangerous Greek crisis threatening the euro and the global economy, reporters grilled Bernanke and asked many of the right questions.
Brutally honest, Bernanke admitted that he had no clue what was actually causing the current fragility in the U.S. economic recovery. While the FOMC statement assigned blame outside of the U.S., pointing at Japan along with rising food and oil prices, Bernanke was put on the spot by a reporter who noted the inconsistency behind that explanation and a lowering of long term forecasts. Bernanke took the hit, admitting only some of the factors were temporary and that he didn't know exactly what was causing the slowdown, but that it would persist. "Growth," said Bernanke, "will return into 2012." (Read No Recovery Possible While U.S. Consumer Continues Deleveraging).
"Bernanke was just summing up what has happened in the markets, what has been priced in," explained Nick Kalivas of MF Global. "But the Fed has taken extraordinary measures to support the economy, they have done what they can and monetary policy isn't a solution for everything," added Kalivas, pointing at problems with the fiscal situation and the debt ceiling debate.
While Wednesday's remarks came as little surprise, the blunt discussion of inflation and slowing economic growth offered little inspiration to load up on risk assets like equities.
The Fed chairman was explicit about the situation in Washington, directly slapping Republicans in the face saying "I don't think sharp immediate cuts in the deficit would bring more jobs." Having made clear before that Congress should raise the debt ceiling, Bernanke explained budgetary problems are very long run in nature. (Read Apocalyptic Bernanke: Raise The Debt Ceiling Or Else).
My mistake…in 2008 only 16.3 % of imports was oil.
So yes, drill baby drill will help but will not solve our problem. Import tarifs and other tax and regulations is the only thing that can save us.
You are exactly correct. It was "free trade" that destroyed America. It's too late now. We're finished.
I agree 100%, but with so many of US jobs shipped overseas I am not confident we have much chance of producing any goods that the rest of the world would want at the price they can or will pay. What are your feelings on regulations, taxes, etc. for businesses who want to move back or stay in the US?
It will be interesting to see how we are compensated for the work we did with Israel on their Iron Dome missile defense systems. Wonder if we will allow Russia to have veto power over when that system can or should be used? My husband is a LTC in the Army, currently deployed to Iraq, so I hear a great deal about what our military is doing with the latest technology.
Finally, I am myself an educator and feel strongly that the students we are teaching today are just as bright as those who graced the halls of education 60 years ago. So the problem has to be in the curriculum offered and the teachers who are teaching. Our students are capable of learning all the information needed to prepare them, but the teachers and the curriculum are where the failures occur. I cannot begin to tell you how astonished I have been over the years at the poor quality of staff at numerous schools where I have taught, both public and private. Universities are no longer about educating the future leaders of our nation or world…today universities exist to promote a particular ideology often politically motivated.
Where is the lasting value in making bombs and bullets? What is gained by paying soldiers to walk up and down the road? Military expenditures are money wasted with nothing to show for it. All periods of expansion during war were paid for with credit cards, resulting in recessions to follow. For the price of one Patriot missile, we could build a 2.5 MW wind turbine that provides $100,000 worth of electricity each year for 25 years. The missile is gone in seconds, leaving destruction and rebuilding costs in it's crater. The investment in our own self sufficiency pays for decades, the investment in military expenses returns nothing of lasting value for the citizens of this country.
I full agree with your view,if the debt that the government borrows would go to the specific task of stimulating production that would later have a multiplier effect to other parts of the economy,then the trade balance would be within reach.
Its high time the public finance policy got adjusted to ensure that the debts that will be borrowed thenceforward would serve the purpose of stimulating both production and demand on both sides.
It should help stimulate demand both internally and externally and the interesting thing is that as these will be happening,even the full employment problem will get solved in the end.
"The most important thing the US can do to fix its trade deficit is begin to produce goods the rest of the world wants"
This country doesn't own its gas, oil, telecommunications, steel, banks, car companies, etc, so we can't control prices like China, and our corporatist government won't allow us to think long term, like Germany. But, most importantly, We have run trade deficits ever since the Nixon-Kissinger petro dollar started after the Vietnam debacle. It's baked in to the cake.
You see no relationship between the petro debt and trade deficits? What would happen if those dollars start coming home? Our financial side wants those dollars anywhere in the world, but here. (Not to mention the derivatives)
So, now, we have come to this. Bernanke must inject $85 billion/month of "demand" our Wall Street panics.
Tick, tock, tick, tock…
"I believe our trade deficit is mainly caused due to the import of oil"
Look at this:
"U.S. Was Net Oil-Product Exporter for First Time Since 1949″
Why are we IMPORTING oil AT ALL? Because we don't have nationalized commodities like China, Brazil, Chile, South Korea, India, Russia, etc. China isn't exporting IT'S oil, btw. Why is that?
"they should really think where defense funds are going if that is ailing."
Here is WHY they are going. Again, this is also baked in the cake of the petro dollar scheme, naturally:
"Petrodollar pumping US policy on Iran, backfire looms"


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I made a lower-fat version with "light" vanilla soy milk, non-fat sour cream and fat free half and half. I also doubled the berries. It was really wonderful and supercreamy. I didn't miss the fat at all!
I was looking for a recipe to replicate the one I had on a Carnival cruise several years ago and THIS IS IT! I've made this recipe many, many times and I love it! I usually add a little more sugar than the recipe calls for. If I'm making it for a special occasion, I'll use whole milk and regular sour cream. If I'm making it just for me, I'll use skim milk and low-fat sour cream. It still tastes just as good!
Absolutely wow!!!!! I cannot believe people did not like this. I have been back into the soup turine five times since making this one and a half hours ago. My kids have each had two servings and this was because they couldn't wait until dinner. I decided to add ground cinnamon because it took the flavors to another level (I have a great strawberry bread recipe that has a lot of cinnamon in it and I was basing my decision to add on that recipe). Anyhow, the cinnamon adds a nice bit of color as well and doesn't make it as pink. Try this recipe and fall in love with it. It makes such an ample amount. I did go ahead an increase the sugar as well but did it to taste.
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Assessing participatory rural environmental management: In the craft villages
Cat Que commune, Hoai Duc district, Ha Tay province
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In northern Viet Nam, rapid industrial, population and urban growth have put increasing pressure on land and water resources in rural agricultural areas. Overuse and misuse of these resources cause widespread environmental degradation, poor human health and living conditions, and decreased incomes from farming and craft production.
Craft development is closely linked with rural development in Viet Nam, as it creates jobs for villagers thereby raising living standards. Rapid growth has been reported in such rural industries as mechanical repairs, pottery, carpeting, brick and tiles, food processing, wine, and in the casting of aluminum, zinc and lead.
The most urgent challenge is to reduce the widespread environmental pollution which is affecting the health of rural communities and the ecosystems upon which they depend. Villages located next to craft villages are also affected.
It was against this background that a trained team of Vietnam Agriculture Science Institute (VASI) researchers conducted an in-depth assessment on Participatory Rural Environmental Management in selected craft villages of Ha Tay Province. The villages were chosen in consultation with local authorities and villages where pollution was an urgent matter. The teams assessed the awareness and level of concern of rural communities about environmental management, with a special focus on environmental pollution. The nature and extent of collaboration among rural stakeholders to manage environmental problems were also assessed. SWOT analyses were conducted on the current situation and action plans and recommendations were prepared by the participants.
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Sometimes it seems like we hear an awful lot about all those charter schools in New York City.
Remember those scenes from "Waiting for Superman"? Recall all the media references to Geoffrey Canada and Eva Moskowitz? The Big Apple must be overflowing with charter schools, right?
Well, not exactly.
New York City's charter schools serve 38,743 students -- more than all the students in the Buffalo Public Schools.
That may seem like a lot, but put that in context. New York City also enrolls 973,210 students in its traditional public schools. That means 4 percent of the kids there are enrolled in charter schools, according to a report issued this week by the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools.
Compare that to Buffalo, where 18 percent of kids are enrolled in charter schools. That's right -- if you do a fair comparison, more than four times as many students enroll in charter schools in Buffalo, compared to New York City.
Here, 6,986 children attend charter schools, compared to 31,590 in the Buffalo Public Schools, according to the report. (Buffalo ranks 15th nationally, tied with five other cities, including Tucson and Minneapolis.)
Albany, by the way, enrolls 23 percent of its students in charter schools -- the highest percentage of any city in the state.
Nationally, the city with the highest charter enrollment is New Orleans, where 70 percent of students attend charter schools.
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