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An original, hand-signed order by President Lincoln establishing Maine's first military draft, on July 9, 1863.
By Bill Nemitz
It began as an online auction. But from where Maine State Archivist David Cheever sits, it's a crime in progress.
"It's a public document," declared Cheever on Tuesday after viewing an ever-so-tantalizing slice of Maine's heritage on his computer in Augusta. "And public documents aren't for sale."
Especially when said document happens to be an original, hand-signed order by President Lincoln establishing Maine's first military draft, on July 9, 1863 – just a week after Maine's own Col. Joshua Chamberlain helped save the Union at Gettysburg.
Who's cashing in on it?
Only the auctioneer, RR Auction of Amherst, N.H., knows – at least for now.
How did it fall into private hands?
Good question.
How much is it worth?
Well, the 26 bids submitted since its posting last month topped out at $8,983 as of late Tuesday -- and that price could easily double by the time the auction closes one week from today.
Or not.
A little history:
Back in the summer of 1863, with the Civil War well into its third year and no end in sight, the all-volunteer Union Army found itself running dangerously low on soldiers.
Lincoln, empowered by "An Act for Enrolling and Calling Out the National Forces" passed by Congress that spring, signed and dispatched orders to every congressional district in the northern states (Maine had five at the time) setting a quota for each district to help replenish the ranks.
Lincoln's order to Maine's 1st District – the one now for sale – called for "two thousand, four hundred and fifty-eight" troops to be mobilized through a draft pool composed of that number "and fifty percent in addition."
"Just think of the stories behind that single sheet of paper," marveled Portland historian and former state Rep. Herb Adams upon hearing of the document Tuesday. "The lives lived and lost. Families in grief. And a country torn in two."
Critical as it may have been to winning the war, Lincoln's mandate did not go over well.
In New York City, the Draft Riots raged for four full days before Union troops, hastily dispatched from the battlefield at Gettysburg, finally restored order. An estimated 120 people died; 2,000 were injured.
Here in Maine, a smaller disturbance broke out in the small town of Kingfield -- fueled by widespread anger that those with money and influence could dodge the draft with a $300 "commutation fee." Others, including the legendary Maine politician James G. Blaine, simply hired someone to take their place.
"Many of the subs hired in Maine and especially in the 1st District were Irish immigrants, some directly off the boat," noted Adams. "Agents just waited at the docks and had them sign papers with no idea what they were doing. Many a poor Irish boy died so a rich man's son could stay home."
What's more, Adams said, rural Maine crawled with "bounty jumpers," who collected cash by enlisting in one town, only to vanish and do it again somewhere else. Adding to the mayhem were "unscrupulous dealers in fake documents" who, for a fee, could provide any number of escapes from military conscription.
In short, observed Adams, "an entire underground" sprouted from that same piece of paper now under the hungry eyes of more than two dozen collectors with cash in hand.
Which brings us back to the auction.
State Archivist Cheever said he's never seen anything like the Maine draft order, which was brought to my attention during the weekend by a reader who saw it online and suggested "it would be a great item for the Maine (State) Museum in Augusta."
Good call.
Maine, Cheever said, has long had a "replevin" law that enables the state to reclaim items that never should have left public custody in the first place.
Better yet, the statute was significantly strengthened in 2010 (Adams sponsored the amendment) after Maine lost a battle in the Virginia courts to retrieve a copy of the Declaration of Independence that was found in an attic in Wiscasset.
That gem sold for $475,000.
"We are notifying the Office of the Attorney General that we believe we have a public document that is being offered for sale in another state and we believe it is a Maine document that belongs here," Cheever said. "Public documents are public documents -- they are not subject to barter or sale."
Contacted at RR Auction, Executive Vice President Bobby Livingstone said he can't reveal who claims to own "Item 85 -- Abraham Lincoln," which is expected to fetch $15,000 or more by the time the gavel falls next week.
But, he added, his firm will take Maine's challenge "very seriously."
"We withdraw it from sale while ownership is sorted out," he replied.
Another good call.
"What makes these things so valuable to collectors is how they changed people's lives," noted Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, who will join with Cheever in demanding the document's return. "But it's also what makes them so valuable to us as a people. It tells us who we are, where we've been."
Meaning that, as lost treasures go, this is a cool find?
"It's way cool," replied Cheever.
Echoed Adams, "All Mainers should like to see it. Home, where it belongs, and safely preserved."
Long live the historians.
Bill Nemitz can be contacted at 791-6323 or at:
State Archivist David Cheever, above, conducts a tour of some of the archives' storage areas in Augusta in 2007. "We believe we have a public document that is being offered for sale in another state and we believe it is a Maine document that belongs here," Cheever said Tuesday, referring to the online auction of an original, hand-signed order by President Lincoln establishing Maine's first military draft.
President Abraham Lincoln poses for a portrait in this undated file photo.
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This had a lot of fairly detailed information, and lots of good pictures. The 2 books I have on the general topic of guitar building do not go into nearly enough detail on guitar finishing. If you don't know much about wood finishing, get this book (or something like it). If you don't know much about guitar finishing, but you do know about wood finishing, you should still probably get this book. I have the wonderful
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Groupe Gorgé, via their subsidiary ECA S.A., has acquired French UAV copter provider Infotron for €2.5 million and 375,000 shares of ECA - a combined value of around $10 million.
Google acquires Titan Aerospace for $60 million; Facebook acquires Ascenta for $20 million; Groupe Gorgé, through ECA, acquires Infotron for $10 million and the Navy is building a new UAV center. Here's a wrap-up of these and other UAV stories in the news:
Early in March of this year TechCrunch reported that Facebook was in talks to acquire Titan Aerospace, a UAV start-up that makes solar-powered aerial robots that can fly for up to five years without needing to land. Forbes said that the sale price was likely to be $60 million.
People say the darndest things! And some of those statements add to the puzzle that is Willow Garage.
Intuitive Surgical announced FDA clearance and US introduction of their new da Vinci Xi Surgical System which has a movable overhead architecture rather than the fixed floor-mounted existing systems.
Talking mobile personal robots in our homes such as the robot seen in the movie "Robot and Frank" may be in our future but they don't presently exist except in research labs around the world.
Voice recognition is a timely science not only because of all the human-automobile communication offered by the car companies, but also by smart devices and their growing use of voice interfaces. It won't be long until we operate many of our appliances by voice command.
The Economist, a prestigious London-based business magazine zealously read around the world, has a 14-page Special Report in their current issue. 'Rise of the Robots' offers insight into why robotic technology is so fascinating and so prevalent in the media.
UPDATE: 03/29/2014 The headline remains the same but the players have changed. Instead of Titan Aerospace being acquired for $60 million, Facebook chose to acquire a small UK start-up with great talent, Ascenta, for $20 million.
US National Robotics Week, with almost 100 events around the country, the AIA Vision Show and the FIRST Robotics Championship headline April's…
In a serious critique of French business practices, the International New York Times wrote about a brain drain from France - a migration of aspiring entrepreneurs feeling that they have to leave France to have a chance to get their ideas off the ground and into the marketplace. The Telegraph, from which this cartoon came, had a similar article: Down and out: the French flee a nation in despair.
Douglas-Westwood, an energy research group, says (in their $5,000 World ROV Operations Market Forecast 2013-2017 report), that ROV operations expenditures will grow 80% over the next 5 years.
With an attention-grabbing headline last week on Robohub, Edward Snowden BEAMed into a TED Talk. With much less fanfare, this writer participated in a panel in Lyon, France while I was in Stuttgart, Germany, also using a BEAM.
At previous MODEX's, where they exhibit the latest manufacturing and supply chain equipment and technologies, Kiva had their own booth. Big boothes with lots of people marveling at their orange robots. Today at MODEX, those orange robots were moving to a different drummer.
A Wintergreen Research report says that the rehabilitation robot market will grow from $43.3 million to $1.8 billion by 2020 as a result of the effectiveness of robotic treatment methods.
Is the da Vinci robotic surgical system robotic? Is a car with adaptive cruise control acting robotically? Well... no to all three questions.
UPDATE 03/12/14: Timo Boll wins table tennis match with KUKA Agilus robot. Two new videos to watch: one summarizing the match and the other about how and why the videos were made.
UPDATE 03/12/2014: Russia announced that it was planning to deploy mobile security robotics later this year to protect its strategic missile facilities. Since 2011, a Nevada nuclear materials storage site has been guarded by MDARS robots (Mobile Detection, Assessment and Response System). Last week the US Marines announced that their airbase in Twentynine Palms will also be guarded by the same type of robots.
After laughing uncomfortably at the headline from The Moscow Times reporting about the recent Skolkovo Robot Conference, I parsed through the wording and found the intended meaning.
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Evolutionists aren't yet sure if they should call it a human ancestor, but one thing they do know is that "Ardi" does away with the idea of a "missing link."
Although first discovered in the early 1990s, the bones of Ardipithecus ramidus are only now being nominated for evolutionists' fossil hall of fame—via a slew of papers in a special issue of the journal Science. In it, Ardi's researchers describe the bones and make the case that Ardi is even more important in the history of human evolution than Lucy.
Despite claims of its evolutionary significance, one of the scientists who studied Ardi noted, "It's not a chimp. It's not a human." That is, instead of looking like the hypothesized "missing link" (with both chimpanzee and human features), Ardi's anatomy—as reconstructed by the scientists—shows it to have been distinct from other apes as well as from humans. The researchers have consequently shunned the notion of a missing link: "It shows that the last common ancestor [between humans and] chimps didn't look like a chimp, or a human, or some funny thing in between," explained Penn State University paleontologist Alan Walker (who was not part of the study).
The first question creationists have to answer is just what Ardi is. We can quickly eliminate important things that it isn't: it's not a human fossil, nor is it a complete fossil. In fact, even referring to "it" is deceptive, because Ardi is a badly damaged, incomplete skeleton put together with the help of a smattering of bones linked with at least 36 A. ramidus individuals. Dated at 4.4 million years old, the first bones were found in the early 1990s in Ethiopia. The delay in publishing an analysis was in part due to the poor state of the remains. "It took us many, many years to clean the bones in the National Museum of Ethiopia and then set about to restore this skeleton to its original dimensions and form; and then study it and compare it with all the other fossils that are known from Africa and elsewhere, as well as with the modern age," said the University of California–Berkeley's Tim White.
But the Evolution News & Views blog offered a more critical look at how the poor state of the fossils casts doubt on the scientists' headline-grabbing claims. One telling quote comes from National Geographic News (in the same article that quoted Walker, linked above):
The first, fragmentary specimens of Ardipithecus were found at Aramis in 1992 and published in 1994. The skeleton announced today was discovered that same year and excavated with the bones of the other individuals over the next three field seasons. But it took 15 years before the research team could fully analyze and publish the skeleton, because the fossils were in such bad shape.
After Ardi died, her remains apparently were trampled down into mud by hippos and other passing herbivores. Millions of years later, erosion brought the badly crushed and distorted bones back to the surface.
They were so fragile they would turn to dust at a touch. To save the precious fragments, White and colleagues removed the fossils along with their surrounding rock. Then, in a lab in [Ethiopia], the researchers carefully tweaked out the bones from the rocky matrix using a needle under a microscope, proceeding "millimeter by submillimeter," as the team puts it in Science. This process alone took several years.
Pieces of the crushed skull were then CT-scanned and digitally fit back together by Gen Suwa, a paleoanthropologist at the University of Tokyo.
Thus, as a starting point, creationists should remember that—as with many fossils—the state of preservation is far less perfect than what media images and "reconstructions" portray. (The "complete," 4 feet [1.5 m] tall Ardi fossil, as reassembled, is shown on the cover of the special Science issue.)
We also know, as Walker explained (above), that Ardi actually shows many differences from both other apes and humans. Kent State University's Owen Lovejoy described some of the features: "She has opposable great toes and she has a pelvis that allows her to negotiate tree branches rather well. So half of her life is spent in the trees; she would have nested in trees and occasionally fed in trees, but when she was on the ground she walked upright pretty close to how you and I walk." Obviously, we would point out that the scientists haven't actually observed Ardi walking; their assertion is based on their reconstruction of the bones. Furthermore, Ardi's feet not only had opposable big toes, but also lacked arches, which separates Ardi from humans and means "she could not walk or run for long distances," BBC News reports. And National Geographic News notes, "Ardi would have walked on her palms as she moved about in the trees—more like some primitive fossil apes than like chimps and gorillas."
In fact, despite the headlines and hype, the evolutionary researchers aren't even confident enough to say that Ardi is a human ancestor as opposed to simply an extinct ape. BBC News reports:
Even if it is not on the direct line to us, it offers new insights into how we evolved from the common ancestor we share with chimps, the team says.
Asked whether A. ramidus was our direct ancestor or not, the team said more fossils from different places and time periods were needed to answer the question.
"We will need many more fossil recoveries from the period of 3-5 million years ago to confidently answer that question in the future," the scientists said in a briefing document that accompanied their journal papers.
"But if Ardipithecus ramidus was not actually the species directly ancestral to us, she must have been closely related to it, and would have been similar in appearance and adaptation.
Not only does that uncertainty exist; several scientists have admitted skepticism over the Ardi reports. Harvard University paleoanthropologist David Pilbeam told ScienceNOW, "I find it hard to believe that the numerous similarities of chimps and gorillas evolved convergently." (We, too, have criticized the idea of convergent evolution in the past—albeit from the opposite angle.)
Also, anatomist William Jungers of Stony Brook University criticizes the conclusion that Ardi could walk upright: "This is a fascinating skeleton, but based on what they present, the evidence for bipedality is limited at best. Divergent big toes are associated with grasping, and this has one of the most divergent big toes you can imagine. Why would an animal fully adapted to support its weight on its forelimbs in the trees elect to walk bipedally on the ground?" he told National Geographic News.
Finally, some scientists have asked how Ardi fits into the evolutionary scheme with Australopithecines like Lucy, another supposed human ancestor said to have lived more recently than Ardi. Was there enough time, in the evolutionary timetable, for primitive Ardi to have evolved into less-primitive Lucy? The BBC quotes Chris Stringer of London's Natural History Museum, who said, "With Australopithecus starting from four million years ago, one would have thought that things would have moved further down the line by 4.4 million years ago. OK, you can have very rapid change, perhaps; or Ardipithecus might be a residual form, a relic of a somewhat older stage of evolution that had carried on. Perhaps we will find something more like Australopithecus at 4.4 million years old somewhere else in Africa."
We must admit that from our perspective, we're growing desensitized to the fervor that increasingly surrounds each new fossil discovery claimed to support evolution. Surrounding Ardi's unveiling is a spectacular media frenzy, but in many ways it's little different than the hype over Ida less than five months ago (see Ida (Darwinius masillae): the Missing Link at Last?). That hype was quickly revealed to be unmerited at best and dishonest at worst (see Ida (Darwinius masillae): the Real Story of this "Scientific Breakthrough"). In the same way, the concerted release of so many papers on Ardi and the corresponding hubbub seems to perhaps be more about attention-seeking than about science. Could it be that the ongoing pressure for scientists to find something of evolutionary "significance" has led to a systematic incentive to make a huge deal (to use the vernacular) out of otherwise trivial fossils?
Perhaps we're being a bit too rough, though. Evolutionists believe our own origins lie buried in such fossils as Ardi, so it's no wonder they have a desire to interpret such finds in the light of human evolution. But in the case of Ardi (and Ida, Lucy, etc.), good science abstains from making such untestable, presupposition-driven claims.
Given the number and scope of the papers presented this week on Ardi, it will take some time before creationists are confident in our conclusions on Ardi and her kin. Based on our first look, however, the facts seem solidly behind the idea that Ardi was a quadrupedal ape with relatively little in common with humans (i.e., no more than most apes); the key basis for the alleged Ardi–human link (which even the authors are hesitant to confirm) is the idea that it walked upright—an idea that even evolutionists have criticized. And we can't forget that all of these conclusions are inferred from digital reconstructions and fallible reconstructions of bones that were in very bad shape.
Without having a live "Ardi" to observe, scientists will only ever be able to come to probabilistic conclusions about its characteristics. As far as we're concerned, the evolutionary "threat" to creationists from Ardi is no more than that posed by Ida: viz., none.
Evolution is a one-way street, new research confirms. So can it go only forward, or only backward?
Many readers are no doubt familiar with our frequent emphasis on the "direction" of genetic change: all observed mutations—the supposed foundation of evolution—either hold constant or reduce the amount of information in an organism's genome. This is in direct contrast to what the grand story of evolution (i.e., from inorganic compounds to complex life in millions of years) needs: a mechanism to introduce new information in the genome. Naturally, then, news that evolution "doesn't make U-turns" (in the words of ScienceNOW's Michael Torrice) caught our attention.
A team led by evolutionary biologist Joseph Thornton of the University of Oregon reports new findings in Nature ("An Epistatic Ratchet Constrains the Direction of Glucocorticoid Receptor Evolution"). The team examined a protein called glucocorticoid receptor (GR), which helps control animals' responses to the stress hormone cortisol. They hoped GR would help them answer the question of whether evolution can "go backward." (The ScienceNOW report intriguingly notes that problems predating the study included a "lack [of] sufficient information about ancestral traits or how present-day traits evolved.")
The researchers discovered that in its most "ancient" form, GR responded to two hormones, cortisol and aldosterone. But a more "recent" form responds only to cortisol. The team found thirty-seven amino acid differences between the two versions, but only two that were required to deactivate the aldosterone response. To answer their question (whether evolution can go backward), the scientists reverted the amino acids in the cortisol-only version of GR, hoping to "re"-enable the aldosterone response. However, the reversion not only failed to enact the aldosterone response; it destroyed GR's ability to recognize any hormone (including cortisol)!
The problem was five of the remaining thirty-five amino acid differences: they played a part in knocking out the aldosterone-response ability as well; left unfixed, they caused the entire protein to fail after the scientists made their revisions. But because they cannot enable the aldosterone response themselves, natural selection could not act to preserve the changes in the unlikely event they "fixed themselves" (i.e., all spontaneously mutated back to the original/fully-functioning form). "They burn the bridge to return back to the ancestral function," explained Thornton.
Thus, it seems that the GR protein has lost function over time, which affirms the creationist understanding of genetic evolution. That said, the research was partially based on "resurrecting" the ancient GR form based on the evolutionary tree of life; it may be that some organisms do not need the aldosterone response, and thus that the GR versions are each tailored designs.
If, however, some or all of the cortisol-only GR versions once had the aldosterone-response ability as well, that indeed backs up creationist teaching about the "downward" direction of mutations. The difficulty the team had repairing the protein underscores this. It is relatively easy to break the sophisticated instructions and machinery of living cells, and mutations have an excellent track record of doing just that. What scientific reason is there for believing, in spite of the evidence, that mutations could have generated the incredible biology we see all around us?
It's the "final proof" that dinosaurs evolved into birds, say scientists.
"Exceptionally well preserved" fossils discovered in China purportedly show feathered dinosaurs from more than 150 million years ago, making them older than alleged dino-bird Archaeopteryx. A study of one fossil was published last week in the journal Nature ("A Pre-Archaeopteryx Troodontid Theropod from China with Long Feathers on the Metatarsus"), and other details were presented at the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology.
The fossils, such as one named Anchiornis huxleyi, bear the imprints of what could be interpreted as feathers as well as the usual bones (see an image of the fossil slab from the Nature article). "All over the skeleton, you see feathers. . . . We realized that this was a much more important species, and definitely one of the most important species for our understanding of the origin of birds and of their flight," said paleontologist Xing Xu of Shenyang Normal University.
University of Bristol paleontologist Michael Benton, who was not involved in the study, commented, "Drawing the tree of life, it's fairly obvious that feathers arose before Archaeopteryx appears in the fossil record." Of course, creationists have no bone to pick over that; if feathers "arose" on Day 5 of Creation Week (Genesis 1:20–23), and if most of the fossil record was formed almost two millennia later (Genesis 7:21–23), then feathers would indeed have arisen before Archaeopteryx remains were fossilized.
Creationists have good grounds for considering Archaeopteryx a true bird. For example, several types of birds in the fossil record have teeth. As for the "feathered dinosaur claims," such fossils have never shown undisputed feathers, but rather vague representations that could be interpreted as something other than feathers.
In other words, there is a clear distinction between fossil dinosaurs and fossil birds, which corresponds with the fact that evolutionists cannot explain how reptilian scales could have evolved into avian feathers (which are an incredibly sophisticated design, totally different from scales). Of course, if—hypothetically—feathered dinosaurs had existed, even that would not prove dinosaur-to-bird evolution; we would merely understand that some created dinosaur kinds were feathered.
Like Archaeopteryx, A. huxleyi was probably a unique (and, obviously, now-extinct) avian creature that showed some traits that modern birds either lost over the years, or that other bird kinds never had. But their commitment to a specific interpretation of the fossil record's dates means that evolutionists place this fossil at more than 150 million years ago—the time of dinosaurs. Hence, in their eyes, A. huxleyi can only be a dinosaur.
For all its size and strength, one mighty T. rex may have ultimately succumbed to a minuscule parasite.
In the case of the T. rex fossil nicknamed "Sue," scientists have a new guess about what caused its death: a single-celled parasite called Trichomonas. Today, the parasite infects birds' throats and beaks; the fossil evidence suggesting that trichomonosis affected Sue is the series of holes in the dinosaur's jawbone.
Originally, those holes were interpreted as the legacy of bite wounds from a rival T. rex. Recently, experts have concluded that the holes appear too perfectly formed to have been caused by a bite; but if caused by trichomonosis or a similar disease, Sue may have eventually starved to death.
The authors of the PLoS ONE study ("Common Avian Infection Plagued the Tyrant Dinosaurs") have also found other fossil evidence that they say shows the work of trichomonosis. "There's a possibility that this disease is quite old," said University of Wisconsin–Madison paleontologist Ewan Wolff, one of the scientists.
Wolff and his colleagues unsurprisingly link their idea to dinosaur-to-bird evolution, writing, "This finding represents the first evidence for the ancient evolutionary origin of an avian transmissible disease in non-avian theropod dinosaurs." However, if their hypothesis is accurate, the existence of the same or a similar parasite in dinosaurs would only indicate the range of trichomonosis hosts.
Sue, whose home is Chicago's Field Museum, is the largest and most complete T. rex fossil discovered—at 42 feet (13 m) long. The fossilized evidence of its demise (whether by attack, disease, or another cause) is another reminder that the fossil record is a record of death and imperfection—including carnivory, cancer, and thorns. Would God pronounce the earth "very good" on the sixth day of Creation Week (Genesis 1:31) if such fossils were the legacy of His creative process?
The astonishing navigational abilities of the monarch butterfly seem all the more astonishing in the light of new research.
The researchers were not studying butterfly antennae when they began their work—learning more about how the orange-and-black insects emerge and migrate from Canada and the U.S. to spend each winter in Mexico. But as it turns out, the monarch's antennae are crucial to finding their way back home.
The new study, published in Science ("Antennal Circadian Clocks Coordinate Sun Compass Orientation in Migratory Monarch Butterflies"), discusses one the butterflies' biological clocks—which is, unexpectedly, located in the butterflies' antennae rather than in their brains (though other biological clocks exist in the monarch's brain. The antennae clocks help the butterflies compensate for the movement of the sun as the day passes.
The discovery occurred after the researchers clipped some laboratory butterflies' antennae off, then observed the monarchs' confusion as they all "flew in random directions." Later, they coated some of the lab butterflies' antennae with black paint, then observed as the altered butterflies flew in the wrong direction.
ScienceNOW quotes University of Kansas insect ecologist Orley Taylor, who noted, "The deeper they dig, the more they find out about how complicated this system is." Despite this discovery, many questions linger about how the monarchs complete their incredible journey. What we know is that the monarch is one of God's most astonishing—and beautiful—designs.
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The continental United States has already lost more than 50 percent of its wetlands and continues to lose these habitats at an alarming rate. One of the most successful federal conservation programs is the Wetlands Reserve Program (WRP), which provides a voluntary, non-regulatory, incentive-based way for private landowners, farmers, and ranchers to protect and restore wetlands on their property. WRP is administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and is the federal government's largest wetlands restoration program. WRP is designed to provide technical and financial assistance to private landowners and Native American tribes to restore, protect, and enhance wetlands that have been degraded or converted for agricultural use. WRP has also provided an avenue for farmers and ranchers to remove marginal croplands from production. WRP also provides societal benefits such as improved water quality and quantity, reduced flood damage, and enhanced wildlife habitat. Producer demand for WRP currently outstrips available funding by at least a 3:1 margin. In fact, in November 2010, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced that the nation's farmers, ranchers, and Native American tribes enrolled more than 272,000 acres in the WRP during fiscal year 2010, which is the highest enrollment since the program began in 1990. There are currently more than 2.3 million acres enrolled in WRP nationwide; however, at the current rate of enrollment, WRP will exhaust its funding unless it's reauthorized and the acreage cap is increased in 2012.
Administered by the USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA), CRP provides annual rental payments and cost-share assistance to producers who take marginal cropland out of production and restore it to wildlife habitat. CRP is a voluntary program available to agricultural producers, which helps them safeguard environmentally sensitive land. The 2008 Farm Bill lowered the maximum number of acres that could be enrolled in CRP by approximately 7 million acres, from 39 million to 32 million acres. More than 1.5 million acres have expired since 2007 in the Prairie Pothole Region, one of the most important breeding areas for waterfowl in North America. Most of the land enrolled in CRP on the prairies consists of large contiguous blocks of grassland interspersed with numerous wetlands. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) estimates that in recent years CRP land in the Prairie Pothole Region has annually added more than 2 million ducks to the fall flight of waterfowl. Though it is apparent that CRP is a critical component of the landscape in the Prairie Pothole Region, this program is currently under threat. Therefore, it's vital that acres lost through recent CRP contract expirations are replaced and the current level of CRP acres in the Prairie Pothole Region is maintained or expanded in the future.
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Last I night I downvoted a guy's answer because I thought it was wrong and I commented why I thought it was wrong. The guy threatened to report me for "unnecessary down voting". Could I really be punished for what I did or was he just trying to intimidate me into undoing the down vote? Here is the post if you want to see it. PHP UPLOAD ISSUE WITH ARRAY
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What does it mean for a company to perform well? Any definition must revolve around the notion of results that meet or exceed the expectations of shareholders. Yet when top managers speak with us privately, they often suggest that the gap between these expectations and management's baseline earnings projections is widening. Shareholders tend to think that today's earnings challenges are cyclical. Executives, who find themselves frustrated in their efforts to improve the performance of their companies no matter how hard they swim against the economic tide, increasingly see the problems as structural.
This anxiety is understandable. The overcapacity spawned by globalization shows no sign of easing in many industries, including manufacturing sectors such as aerospace, automotive, and high-tech equipment as well as service sectors such as telecommunications, media, retailing, and IT services. Combined with the increased price transparency provided by digital technology, this overcapacity has given customers greatly enhanced power to extract maximum value. The result — the ruthless price competition that rules today's markets — has convinced many top managers that profits won't rise dramatically even if demand picks up from the recession levels of recent years. In short, the performance challenge companies face isn't cyclical; it will persist for years to come.
The stakes are high. The S&P 500, despite a 40 percent decline from its peak, still trades at a P/E multiple of 15, and consensus forecasts of earnings growth average 8 percent a year — about two to three times the growth of GDP. Lower expectations may well be warranted in a competitive, deflationary economic environment, but reducing expectations of earnings growth to 4 percent would imply a reduction in corporate equity values of no less than 15 to 25 percent.
So top managers have a choice. They can try to close the performance gap by scaling back the market's expectations for future earnings — an approach that implies an acceptance of lower stock prices (and might get them fired). Or they can improve baseline earnings to meet or exceed the market's expectations. Shareholders and managers alike prefer the latter course.
Companies can find additional earnings in two ways: they can try to improve operating performance by squeezing more profit out of existing capabilities, or they can improve corporate performance by organizing in new ways to develop initiatives that could generate new earnings. By pursuing both of these approaches simultaneously, companies can take a powerful organizational step toward meeting the challenges of today's hypercompetitive global economy.
The Limits of Operating Performance
Top managers have traditionally chosen to rely on operating-performance tactics when times are hard and only during good times to undertake more fundamental performance-improvement initiatives. This predilection must change if, as we believe, the challenges facing companies are structural and persistent rather than cyclical and temporary. Companies that depend too heavily on improvements in their operating performance will run into real limits in the longer term.
To be sure, top management, pressured by intense global competition, has reacted correctly over the past few years by pushing operating performance ever harder to meet earnings expectations. Discretionary spending has been slashed, the least productive capacity eliminated, corporate overhead cut, marginal operations and businesses shed. Companies have become far more aggressive in purchasing. These steps, necessary to eliminate waste built up during the boom of the late 1990s, have bought time. But merely acting to secure increased returns from existing capabilities will yield diminishing returns and eventually become counterproductive.


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Making the Most of Your Appointment
Topic Overview
Many people are more satisfied with their health care if they share the responsibility with their doctors. Your doctor is an expert on medical care, but you are the expert on yourself. Often there is more than one option for diagnosing or treating a condition. By being a partner with your doctor, you can help choose the option that best fits your values, beliefs, and lifestyle. You also will feel more confident about carrying out the chosen treatment.
Here are some tips for being a good partner with your doctor:
- Build a relationship with your doctor. Let your doctor know that you want to be a partner in your health care. Tell the doctor what your expectations are.
- Be an active participant in each appointment. Listen carefully to what your doctor says. If you do not understand a diagnosis or treatment, ask questions. Tell the doctor if you do not think that you can carry out the prescribed treatment.
- Prepare your child for tests and exams. Let your child know why he or she is seeing a doctor and what will be done during the visit. Your child's age and developmental level will determine how best to prepare him or her. For more information, see the topic Pediatric Preparation for Medical Tests.
What is the reason for your appointment?
During your appointment, you will need to answer some important questions so that you and your doctor can plan your care together. Completing the appropriate forms before the appointment helps you provide correct and complete information, take an active role in your health care decisions, and make the most of your limited appointment time.
Choose the form that best describes your reason for seeing the doctor.
|Reason for appointment
|Form to complete
A new problem or symptom
Appointment for a New Problem (What is a PDF document?)
Follow-up to a previous problem
Follow-Up Appointment (What is a PDF document?)
First appointment with this doctor
First Appointment (What is a PDF document?)
Your Family Medical History (What is a PDF document?)
Appointment for an ongoing health problem
Regular Checkup for a Lifelong Condition (What is a PDF document?)
Appointment for a child who is healthy
Regular Checkup for a Child (What is a PDF document?)
Do you take medicines?
If you take prescription or over-the-counter medicines, including herbal remedies or vitamins, bring all your medicines with you to any appointment with a doctor. If you cannot bring the medicines, bring a list of the medicines that you take (What is a PDF document?) .
Before your appointment, write down your daily medicine schedule in a form that has spaces for hourly entries (What is a PDF document?) . Your doctor can help you understand how much of each medicine to take and when to take each one.
What other forms might be helpful?
If you and your doctor are going to discuss a new medicine, medical test, surgery, or special treatment, choose a form from the following list. Then fill in your information, and take the form with you to your visit. Completing the form will help you understand the importance of the treatment your doctor is advising for your health condition. If you do not have the form at the time of your visit, complete the form at home after the visit.
- New Medicines: Questions to Ask the Doctor (What is a PDF document?)
- Medical Tests: Questions to Ask the Doctor (What is a PDF document?)
- Surgery: Questions to Ask the Doctor (What is a PDF document?)
- Other Treatment: Questions to Ask the Doctor (What is a PDF document?)
Also, bring a copy of your health plan's list of covered prescription drugs. This list is also known as a formulary.
What do you need to do after the appointment?
Update the medical records that you keep at home. For more information, see the topic Organizing Your Medical Records.
Other Places To Get Help
|Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
|540 Gaither Road
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|Web Address:
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is one agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. AHRQ supports research initiatives that seek to improve the quality of health care in America. AHRQ's mission is to improve the quality, safety, efficiency, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness of health care for all Americans. The website provides evidence-based information to help people make decisions about health care services.
|American Academy of Family Physicians: FamilyDoctor.org
|P.O. Box 11210
|Shawnee Mission, KS 66207-1210
|(913) 906-6075
|Web Address:
The website FamilyDoctor.org is sponsored by the American Academy of Family Physicians. It offers information on adult and child health conditions and healthy living. There are topics on medicines, doctor visits, physical and mental health issues, parenting, and more.
|Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Healthy Living
|1600 Clifton Road
|Atlanta, GA 30333
|Web Address:
This Web site has information about things you can do to help yourself and your family members be healthy. Topics address child development, physical activity, healthy eating, reproductive health, mental health, and more.
|KidsHealth for Parents, Children, and Teens
|Nemours Home Office
|10140 Centurion Parkway
|Jacksonville, FL 32256
|(904) 697-4100
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This website is sponsored by the Nemours Foundation. It has a wide range of information about children's health—from allergies and diseases to normal growth and development (birth to adolescence). This website offers separate areas for kids, teens, and parents, each providing age-appropriate information that the child or parent can understand. You can sign up to get weekly emails about your area of interest.
Related Information
- Health Screening: Finding Health Problems Early
- Immunizations
- Making Wise Health Decisions
- Medical Specialists
- Organizing Your Medical Records
- Pediatric Preparation for Medical Tests
- Prevent Medical Errors
- Questions to Ask About Your Medicines
- Reducing Medication Costs
- Smart Decisions: Know Your Options
- Understanding Lab Test Results
- Work Closely With Your Doctor
Other Works Consulted
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2004). Five Steps to Safer Health Care. Patient Fact Sheet (AHRQ Publication No. 04-M005). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Also available online: http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/5steps.htm.
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (2011). 20 Tips to Help Prevent Medical Errors. Patient Fact Sheet (AHRQ Publication No. 11-0089). Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Also available online:
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (accessed November 2012). Questions are the answer: Better communication. Better care. Available online: http://www.ahrq.gov/questions.
- Anspaugh DJ, et al. (2011). Becoming a responsible health care consumer. In Wellness: Concepts and Applications, 8th ed., pp. 453–484. New York: McGraw-Hill.
- Mold JW (2006). Facilitating shared decision-making with patients. American Family Physician, 74(7): 1209–1210, 1212.
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Heaven's Pets at Lake Lawn Metairie Cremation & Bereavement Center is a new facility in the New Orleans Metropolitan area dedicated to providing total pet death care, cremation and bereavement services to anyone who has lost his or her pet. Located on the historic and serene grounds of Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home and Cemeteries in New Orleans, the facility celebrated its opening in April 2006.
Heaven's Pets at Lake Lawn Metairie Cremation & Bereavement Center
Heaven's Pets, however, was started in 2002 by veterinarian Brian Melius and his wife Jennifer, who are part of a family that has provided veterinary care to the community for more than 50 years. Their expertise in the veterinary field, along with their love for animals and concern for pet owners, led them to establish Heaven's Pets, L.L.C. At that time, the Meliuses held services at their Metairie, LA, home, while using a pet crematory in Baton Rouge.
In 2005 , Heaven's Pets formed a joint venture with Stewart Enterprises, Inc. which eventually led to the building of a new Heaven's Pets facility on the grounds of Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home.
A groundbreaking for the building was held on August 25, 2005, just days before Hurricane Katrina flooded the grounds. Despite the obstacles Katrina blew in, construction resumed and the facility opened eight months later.
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The facility now takes care of families' needs under one roof at its Lake Lawn Metairie location. Heaven's Pets has its own personnel, vehicles and on-site crematory designed and used for pets only. The center is open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The facility also has trained professionals available 24 hours each day for emergencies.
Heaven's Pets features an arrangement room, a viewing room for remembrance services and an ossuary. Social workers and coordinators are present to comfort families during their difficult time and help them select from numerous personalized memorial options for their pets. Families can also choose from a variety of urns, which families have the option to engrave with their pet's name, a poem or other wording of their choosing. The building is beautifully landscaped with an adjacent garden, where families can enjoy peaceful, reflective visits and place a permanent memorial for their pet.
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When you buy a service, what do you believe is the contractor's primary goal? A. Pride; B. To employ people; C. To make you happy; or D. To maximize the difference between his receipts and his cost? While A, B, and C are noble goals, the reason the contractor is in business is D: to make money.
In a similar vein, service providers should ask that question about you. As the owner, what is your primary objective? A. To employ the contractor's people; B. To build the contractor's resume; C. To be a good citizen; or D. To maximize the value you receive for each dollar spent? Obviously, your primary objective is D: to maximize value received.
Is it easy to see that these two goals might not be in alignment? In fact they could end up being 180 degrees out of alignment. Then, what can you do to motivate the behavior of the contractor to be consistent with your goals and objectives?
The answer to this question can be found in the behavioral sciences. Expectancy theory argues that the motivational force to perform or expend effort is a multiplicative function of the expectances concerning future outcomes and the value of those outcomes.
This concept of expectancy then has two specific components:
1. Expectancy or probability of success associated with each behavior, and 2. Association of certain outcomes with every behavior.
If we apply these concepts, we find that motivation will be greatest when:
The behavior of a contractor is linked to certain attractive outcomes (increased receipts) which are tied to obtainable performance measurements. These performance measures gauge the contribution of the contractor to those drivers, which maximize the value received by the owner.
Kellogg Brown & Root has been working with incentives in our contact maintenance business for over 15 years. We have had successful incentive plans, and some plans which were not so successful. Advantages and disadvantages of incentive plans we have observed are outlined in the accompanying section "Pros and Cons of an Incentive Plan."
The success of incentive clauses in maintenance contracts is a product of a variety of factors. The following observations are offered as suggestions for consideration during the development of a maintenance service agreement:
The incentive clauses in the service agreement must be designed around the plant's overall maintenance and asset management goals. Generally, clauses will have a minimum performance figure above which a bonus award will be paid. There will also be a maximum goal figure above which the incentive bonus will cease to increase with performance. Some of the clauses we have worked with include the following:
Safety work orders completed within scheduled time.
PM work orders completed within scheduled time.
Emergency workload.
Overtime worked by maintenance core group.
Asset maintenance downtime.
Skills inventory-work time devoted to developing multiskilled crafts.
Reliability-monthly machine failure rate.
Productivity-man-hours per completed base work order.
Training-percent of training man-hours to goal.
Contractor's man-hour performance-over or under budget.
Contractor's overall maintenance performance-over or under budget.
Safety-recordable incident rate.
The accompanying performance charts illustrate incentive clause measurements from three different contract maintenance agreements.
Incentives can be useful for motivating performance when the owner-contractor relationship is long term, focused on business goals, and with shared control.
Strive for these features in your maintenance projects. The accompanying section "Making Incentive Clauses Work" offers observations for consideration as you develop your incentive plan. MT


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A speed limit pavement marking provides an additional display of the lawful speed limit on the roadway. These markings are used to supplement speed limit signs.
- Provides a reminder of the lawful speed limit
- Catches the attention of the driver
- Markings require continuous maintenance
- Not as effective when markings are faded
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Patch is relaunching its Readers' Choice program and we're asking you, your friends, family, neighbors, coworkers and and anyone else who knows about Forest Hills and Regent Square to nominate the best businesses, services, and professionals in the area. We'll keep acccepting nominations through July 9.
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Full Bathrooms: 2Currituck is a classic beach residence. It features 2 bedrooms. The upstairs suite has window views in all 4 directions and is the perfect romantic getaway. It is complete with sitting area walk-in closet large shower soaking tub and dual sinks. The open downstairs is perfect for entertaining with the large open kitchen. The wrap around porch gives views over the surrounding landscape to the water beyond. Relax in the Currituck. The exterior features simple trim and moldings lap siding divided lite windows decorative railings 10:12 pitch standing seam metal roof on the main house 2.5:12 pitch standing seam metal roof on the porch. Block stem wall 6" wood frame walls with r13 batt insulation tankless water heater wood roof trusses with r39 insulation. Learn More
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Full Bathrooms: 4Can't you just picture this house plan in the middle of a sand dune beach? The Calypso Cove home plan is a Florida style home plan with an open and casual floor plan. The wrap around porch lends itself to porch swings and old stories. Inside this Florida home plan you enter the massive great room with a vaulted 14'8" ceiling leading to two sets of French doors and then to the outdoor lanai. Also opened up to the main living is the kitchen and dining room allowing everyone to relax and enjoy the view together. With a total of four bedrooms everyone can enjoy their own private suite. The fourth bedroom upstairs could also be used as a recreational room with the wet bar and private balcony. Whether you live in Florida or just enjoy a casual lifestyle consider the Calypso cove home plan for your next home. Learn More
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Full Bathrooms: 3This waterfront home showcases dramatic views from the second floor living area and master suite. Beautiful winding stairs down the front and rear of the home provide access to waterfront activities. On the interior the elevator provides complete handicap access to all areas of the house. The charm of Key West / Coastal styling is evident throughout. The central tower provides a bird�s-eye view of the landscape and a private retreat. Learn More
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Full Bathrooms: 4THE CAYO COSTA - Building restrictions apply in Collier County Florida. This design is a concept. Additional production time will be required. Please call our office for details. With a gorgeous Olde Florida-style exterior the Cayo Costa is ideal for active family living Offering an open floor plan the large great room combines perfectly with the dining room island kitchen and breakfast nook. A spacious covered and screened lanai featuring a pool and spa supply additional amenities and gathering areas for those important get-togethers. The upstairs is easily accessed by the convenient elevator. The second floor includes a gigantic master suite with walk-in closets large shower soaking tub and dual sinks as well as two additional bedrooms each with their own bath. Also included is a recreation room that could easily be used as an additional bedroom. The Cayo Costa design offers its owners a beautiful place to live and play. Learn More
G2-3645 IslanderSquare Feet: 3645 Bedrooms: 5
Full Bathrooms: 3Charming entry lends to a sense of Key West style with this Olde Florida design. The covered front entry with its gazebo style porch is as quaint as the rest of the home. Once you are through the foyer the great room opens up to two story waffle style coffer ceiling. The rest of the home wraps around the lanai and pool area. The home is also set up for a trip to the beach with the outdoor beach access shower just off the 2-car oversized garage. Upstairs is set up with three additional bedrooms; one could easily be an in-law quarters or teen suite. Learn More
G2-4256 Sunset CoveSquare Feet: 4256 Bedrooms: 4
Full Bathrooms: 4You will enjoy the casual elegance of the Sunset Cove house plan! It is a perfect coastal home plan! Quaint front porch with radial area and cupola above; perfect for that front porch swing! Inside this great room floor plan opens up; perfect for entertaining with a large gourmet kitchen and dining room. Each room has its own special feature; most with the intricate ceiling details you will find even on the covered lanai! A fun cabana is incorporated in this coastal home plan for those wanting to get out of the sun but still enjoy the outdoors. Upstairs you will find another covered lanai 3 guest rooms a bonus room and loft with wet bar. This blueprint offers the opportunity to add an elevator in the center of the stairs. If you've got a great waterfront lot the Sunset Cove house plan is for you! Learn More
GW-G2-4541-G-BSquare Feet: 4541 Bedrooms: 4
Full Bathrooms: 4THE KEY LARGO II-The ultimate in classic Florida Keys style the Key Largo II epitomizes tropical living at its best. The island kitchen is open to the great room and breakfast nook. Direct access to the dining room through the butler's pantry makes serving meals a breeze. The great room opens up to the covered lanai featuring an outdoor kitchen and pool through sliding glass doors. Downstairs the master suite provides a secluded retreat. A media/bonus room three additional bedrooms each with its own bath covered balconies and a library/loft are located on the second floor. Perfect for your narrow lot the Key Largo II is sure to impress. Building restrictions apply in City of Naples Florida. Learn More
G2-5079 Island BreezeSquare Feet: 5079 Bedrooms: 4
Full Bathrooms: 5The island Breeze is a jewel for the tropics. With its large front porch and elegant curb appeal the invitation is intriguing. The large great room opens to the dining and kitchen areas making it perfect for entertaining. The lanai has a tremendous sense of space providing a spectacular area for watching ball games having cookouts or just relaxing by a fire while enjoying a brisk ocean breeze. Other spaces on this level include a large utility room pantry and study with a small bath doubling as a pool bath. The second floor hosts a magnificent master suite with vaulted ceilings exposed wood beams and a private balcony with double French doors. Completing the master suite are two large walk-in closets and a master bath fit for a king well designed around a large central soaking tub and oversized pass-thru shower. This level also contains two additional suites with walk-in closets. An open loft exercise room and game room all overlook the first floor. The main second floor balcony that surrounds the game room has access to both the first floor pool area and the third level observation deck by way of rustic spiraling stairs. The observation deck offers panoramic ocean views perfect for enjoying picturesque sunsets. RESTRICTED IN: KEY LARGO FLORIDA. Learn More
GW-F2-5253-GSquare Feet: 5253 Bedrooms: 4
Full Bathrooms: 4THE BEAUMONT - The grand French style home is beautifully detailed with precast columns cladding trim details and balustrades as well as intricate wrought iron railings at the 2nd floor balconies. The formal living room has a detailed 2 story ceiling and 2 stories of beautiful bowed glass offering an incredible unobstructed view of the pool area and beyond. Adding to the appeal of this room is a fireplace surrounded by a 2 story built-in and a well equipped wet bar. From inside the formal dining room looking through the open butler's pantry is a decorative glass door with metal detailing which offers a glimpse of the wine room. The open and spacious kitchen nook and family room take full advantage of the views and the family room opens to the lanai and pool area through zero corner sliding glass doors. Near the kitchen is an elevator for easy access to the second floor. The master suite has plenty of room for furnishings and offers expansive unobstructed views of the pool area. The gorgeous master bath has plenty of space to move around the large tub and walk around shower and has his and her water closets and vanities. The large study has a detailed coffered ceiling and views to the outside through French doors. Once at the top of the elegant winding stair the fixed glass in the living room immediately pulls you through to the 2nd floor lanai and the views beyond. On the 2nd floor you will find 2 bedrooms each with their own bath and walk-in closets as well as a large recreation room with optional entertainment center and breakfast bar. The recreation room has 2 sliding glass doors accessing the spacious 2nd floor lanai. This home truly has it all. Learn More


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These handouts provide basic information about the seven different areas to focus on when you are trying to manage your diabetes. Each one includes facts, tips, advice, and activities that will get you started on your self-care and reinforce the lessons you learn in diabetes education sessions. En español
American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE)
These programs aim to assist parents in helping children manage their weight and live healthy lifestyles with specific activities and milestones.
Healthier Generation
American on the Move is an evidence-based nonprofit dedicated to helping you take small steps and make small lifestyle changes for a healthier way of life. This website will help you improve your health and quality of life through healthful eating and active living. Includes an online community, articles on making healthy choices, and more. En español
America on the Move (AOM)
This guide will help you fit physical activity into your life—your way. Decide the number of days you'll exercise, the types of activities you'll do, and the times that fit your schedule.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
This project works to advance nutrition and physical activity policy in schools and communities in order to prevent obesity and its associated chronic diseases. It develops research-based, user-friendly tools and resources to educate audiences on nutrition and physical activity issues and help groups take action to implement strategies that will improve nutrition and physical activity environments. En español
California Project LEAN
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This bilingual Spanish and English guide provides healthy tips for reducing salt and sodium in your diet to lower your blood pressure. En español
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
This website provides access to program models, tools, and resources to enable health care professionals to provide self-management support for adults with diabetes in real world clinical and community settings. En español
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
These handouts provide facilitators with tools to implement the DPP intervention using strategies to achieve nutrition, physical activity and weight loss goals. En español
Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP)
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Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
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American College of Physicians (ACP)
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California Diabetes Program
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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
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Oregon Diabetes Program
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American Diabetes Association (ADA)
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National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)
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American Diabetes Association (ADA)
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)
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California Diabetes Program
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)
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National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)
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American Diabetes Association (ADA)
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1037 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA | Directions 9411037.756335 -122.421074
Monday 5:00 PM - 11:00 PM
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Neighborhoods: Mission, Central East
Quinta Nova CLA Porto, Special Reserve: I know you wouldn't think to look to a phenomenal Indian restaurant for great port, but go there and try it! Even pairs nicely with some of the sweeter dishes on the menu...
Best Indian in the city – This was my first visit, and the food was amazing! I particularly loved the Chicken Saagwala. The interior decorations were very nice and warm. Service was all right due to the fact that it was the waitress' first day on the job...but other than that, I highly recommend it!
Aslam Rasoi Fantastic Dinner – Aslam Rasoi is a restaurant where you actually leave happy. When I went into the place,my jaw dropped with excitement because of the atmosphere. Wait, because I have much more to say. The most important thing, which was the food, also impressed me. My favorite was the chicken seekh kbob, which was a special that the chef would make every once in a while. There was even a treat a server gave us after our entree. It tasted like roses, and it wasn't bad. My favorite part was the service because I had an empty glass, waiting to be filled up, when a server came over and did so. That surprised me the most. That is your first time hearing from me, and I, a 9-year old, loved this restaurant.
aslams – Aslams is "off the hook", the food is great, the wine is great and thier deserts are also a pleaser. the people are great, and if you happen to show up on Thursday night, the have a belly dancer. the waiter/ waitresses, are incredible. they took my whole tables order, which consisted of about 10 of my friends, and the waiter didnt even write anything down, and when our food was brought to us, it was perfect. nice quiet place.
Bellydancing/Awesome Food – Went their on a thursday night with my friends.They had a hot bellydancer who new what she was doing. i believe its every thursday at 8pm. of course the main purpose comin here was the food. which always is AWESOME.YUM YUM!!!!!! but yea awesome food, great service, and great ambiance. i highly reccommended this place
WOW!!!! – Wow is the word to describe this place. This must be the only indian restaurant i know that has everything under the same roof. by that i mean awesome food(order the lamb chops and mixseafood curry to die for!)Great service(always were attentive and friendly especially the owners son Asif)Ambiance( nice setting with colorful walls and perfect romantic lighting) Drinks( they have a huge selection of wine and beer with special cocktails and dont forget about the hot bartender). If you dont believe me please check this place out and you'll be amazed. I have a feeling this place will reach the top 10 restaurants in sf pretty soon. By far the best in sf.
Saw Mayor Newson/Mouthwatering food – Mouthwatering Indian food. My first time visit and saw Mayor Newson at Aslam?s. It was cool to meet the mayor the first time. I highly recommend Aslam?s Rasoi.
However, I would like to comment on the review below. I understand that people can?t afford high quality food, but please don?t be repulsed by the ?top quality?
Anyways, After today?s experience I?m attracted to this place for coming years :))
ignore the others accolades....go elsewhere – i read the reviews, which prompted me to go...i can only assertain that they are friends of the owners..the service was chaotic....the wait staff were running in and out of the kitchen to the point of nearly colliding with each other...the food arrived at the table late and sporatic as though it were courses....naan being last. to arrive..the chicken jalfrezi was undercooked (crunchy peppers) and bland....the samosas were good....not going back...many other indian restaurants that are more reasonably priced and more importantly tastier.....
Best Indian Food in Town – This is the best Indian restaurant in town. Not only is the food high-quality and delicious, but the staff is very friendly and accomodating. Often Indian food can be too greasy and disgusting. This, however, is phenomonal. I love bringing people here who fear Indian food. This restaurant always turns people around. It's hard to not eat everything in sight! It's so delicious I only go here.
THE BEST INDIAN IN TOWN! A MUST TRY! – This cozy, hip little gem offers outstanding curries and tandori. The chef is is the best in the city as he was the head chef at Indian Oven and Rotti before he opened his own restaurant. The staff is friendly and efficient. By far the best indian food in the bay area! A MUST TRY!
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