text:
Get your own blog
Adult Sex Dating
Free Porn Movies
Free Porn Tube
Free Adult Porn
nude tube cams
3D Incest
World of 3D Incest Fantasies! Enjoy best free 3d incest video and picture galleries!
next page
June 24 2009
Posted by
Incest Lover
[ 09:36 ]
Sporty mom boned by her son
Who would not want to nail this gorgeous blonde mom with a super-curvy chest silly? Check out this crazy 3D series and watch the bombshell momma getting it on with her own young son. Caught stroking himself, the lucky boy gets some hardcore sex education from his own mother who disrobes to give his throbbing stick plenty of blowing and soon has this stick buried deep in her sinful snatch. A wild, tender incest fuck.
[ 0 ]
September 18 2008
Posted by
Incest Lover
[ 01:36 ]
Little cutie handles her daddy's huge dong like a real professional hooker
See the things that you've been only dreaming of for so long - piping hot family sex scenes presented in high-quality 3D graphics and animated movies! All the incest boldness that all those "reality incest" sites just can't give you - only at 3D Incest Videos! Feel the overwhelming incest passions flowing through your body and mind - and get ready to enjoy!
[ 0 ]
September 17 2008
Posted by
Incest Lover
[ 12:38 ]
Horny dad lets his petite daughter show him her awesome cock-riding skills
Get the taste of pure incest lust not bounded by any limits at all - see parents making love to children, brothers seducing sisters, grandparents giving sex lessons to grandkids and much much more at 3D Incest Videos! But be careful - our mind-blowing 3D artworks are so hot that you might get burnt! Enjoy!
[ 0 ]
September 16 2008
Posted by
Incest Lover
[ 23:42 ]
Blonde milf teaches her petite daughter to eat pussy and play with a dildo
No longer satisfied with all those "reality incest" sources that actually give you nothing but a bunch of staged movies with total strangers starring? Then check out 3D Incest Videos - the only incest source that will never trick you at least because all its picture sets and movies are drawn in 3D graphics!
[ 0 ]
September 15 2008
Posted by
Incest Lover
[ 10:35 ]
Well-hung old chap bangs his miniature blonde pumpkin out of consciousness
All pleasures brought by family sex are now open to everybody willing to explore them! 3D Incest Videos gives you the chance to see the most secret desires of an incest-loving graphic artist getting embodied in his detailed 3D images and animated videos! Believe us, this action is worth seeing!
[ 0 ]
September 14 2008
Posted by
Incest Lover
[ 18:32 ]
Hot oldie sixty-nines her son before letting his cock into her smooth slit
Don't hesitate to unleash your secret incest fantasies and see them all come true right in front of your very eyes! 3D Incest Videos invites you to take a trip through its endless XXX galleries filled with piping hot 3D pictures and full-time animations - all dedicated to family sex! Move on to our incest treasury right now and start enjoying!
[ 0 ]
September 13 2008
Posted by
Incest Lover
[ 18:30 ]
Horny teen boy slams his grandma's juicy squelching snatch on the staircase
Nastiest family sex fantasies coming real at 3D Incest Videos! Huge archive of exclusive 3D pics and animated movies is waiting!
[ 0 ]
Posted by
Incest Lover
[ 18:29 ]
Blonde milf blows her sonny's cock and lets him fuck her in a public loo
Our 3D incest artworks are so incredibly hot and realistic that you won't be able to take your eyes off them!
[ 0 ]
Posted by
Incest Lover
[ 18:27 ]
Boy fucks his mother while his dad is having fun with his mother-in-law
Unbearably realistic 3D scenes of incest seduction all available at one and the same place - 3D Incest Videos!
[ 0 ]
Posted by
Incest Lover
[ 18:22 ]
Raven-haired oldie does her best to please her son's thick meaty love pole
The only website able to satisfy all your incest desires at once! Loads of HQ 3D artworks in all imaginable family sex subniches!
[ 0 ]
next page
3d Incest Sites
All Articles
3d Incest Porn
Latest Articles
RSS Feed
Our friends
Porn Live News
Porn in Blogs
Adult Blogs Directory
Blogs For Porn
Cool Sex Blogs
Free Porn Blogs
Free Sex Blogs
Sex Blogs Directory
Sex In Blogs
World Sex Blogs
Sex Party Blogs
Erotic Sex
Nude Animes Blogs
Animes Fuck Blogs
Anime Sex Blogs
Anime Sluts Blogs
Anime Pussy Blogs
Anime Girls Blogs
Anime Porn Blogs
Anime Cute Girls
Anime Women
Copyright © 2008
3d Incest
. All rights reserved.
Shemale Clips
Big Sex List
Free Adult Blog Host

subset: commoncrawl


text:
I Like This! (1)
- Print|
- Comment|
- Change text size
Designing with Scale, Pattern and Texture
After you have chosen the color scheme for your tiling project, turn your attention to the size of the tile (its scale relative to the room size), the pattern in which you will set it, and the texture. All will affect the atmosphere you create.
Scale your project to the size of the surface for balance. Tile size and pattern can dramatically alter the appearance of a room.
Choose patterns consistent with your style and textures that will enhance it. The rough, uneven surface of handmade pavers, for example, can impart a rustic feel to a Southwestern or colonial design. For a more formal effect, set machine-made pavers with a smooth surface and precise edges. Use glazed tiles on your countertop and walls to brighten the area. Vary the texture within wall designs with embossed floral accent tiles interspersed in the field. Or cap the layout behind a formal cabinet with engraved border tiles.Squares
Squares create a formal appearance, but that doesn't mean your design has to be stiff. The lemon-tree insert on the back wall of this range breaks up the uniformity of the glazed wall tile with color and texture. Do-it-yourself accent patterns like this are available in kits.Patterns
Patterns can define the mood of a room as effectively as color. Like color, they require careful application. To avoid being overly repetitive, alternate rows with tile of a slightly varied pattern and tone. Patterns soften hard corners and make decorating nooks and crannies easier.Texture
Texture helps define the mood of a room. The rough textures of this floor tile are complemented by the herringbone pattern and enhanced by careful placement of different color tones. Such textures soak up light, enhancing the informal mood of this family room and home office.Safety First: Texture and Safety
Texture contributes to the design of your tiled surface and is an important safety feature as well.
Make sure that tiles used on bathroom and kitchen floors -- areas that are likely to get wet and slippery -- have a nonslip surface to reduce the risk of falling. Avoid high-gloss glazed tile in these areas, or choose a glazed tile that contains carbide chips or is otherwise designated as nonslip. For stair treads, install a tile with a built-in tread.Glazes
Glazes present a smooth texture that brightens a room, regardless of the color of the tile. Rectangular wall tiles set in a horizontal running bond pattern lend elegance to this bathroom. The look is enhanced by the embossed border tile, which is capped with a curved trim.Slate
Slate makes an excellent floor for all rooms, especially entryways. Its neutral color creates a background for any design scheme, and its naturally rough surface provides a nonslip safety feature. Slate is also durable. Hard slates are easy to maintain; softer Indian slates require sealer.Alter the Appearance of a Room
Both scale and pattern can have dramatic effects on the perceived size of the room and on its ambience. Large tiles tend to attract attention and can make a room look smaller. They look best in large rooms. Small tiles tend to get lost in a large room. They look more appropriate in a small area.
A diagonal pattern distracts the eye from the perimeter of the room and works wonders in making a small area seem larger. Small patterns can add an air of informality. Large formal and informal patterns can function as decorative accents.
Download over 16,000 WOODWORKING PLANS http://woodworkingplanspro.weebly.com Woodworking guide offers anyone of any skill level the ability to build amazing projects. The guide is extra helpful because it offers more detailed explanations, videos and blueprints then your typical woodworker magazine.Hope it will help you next time !12/30/2016 10:49:19 AM Report Abuse
Very nice and informative post. Thanks for sharing. Here is something I would like to share with you. Luxury Living direct is hosting a contest this valentines day with an opportunity to win $1000 to spend on your dream bathroom. While any individual of 18 years and above is eligible to enter, they are not required to buy a product for entering the competition. Participants are required to send their entries by the midnight of February 8, 20132/7/2013 03:49:33 AM Report Abuse
- Choosing the Right Tiling Materials
- Planning Your Tile Installation
- Preparing Surfaces for Tiling
- Mastering Tile Installation Techniques
- Tiling Floors, Walls & Countertops
- Tiling Special Spaces
- Tiling Decorative Accents
- Tiling Bathrooms: How to Tile Bathroom Features
- Tiling Outdoor Projects
- Installing Resilient & Parquet Tile
- Installing Laminate, Cork & Carpet Tiles
- Tile Repair & Maintenance


text:
Could the Bruins Sweep the NHL Awards? Taking a Look at the Odds
After a Presidents' Trophy season, the Boston Bruins are keepin' the hardware train rolling, snagging three individual award nominations since the season's end.
With Patrice Bergeron nominated for the Selke, Tuukka Rask for the Vezina, and, as of today, Zdeno Chara for the Norris, the question emerges: What are the chances that the hometown boys take the trophy in all three categories?
The B's have come close to achieving this triumvirate once, with Chara and Tim Thomas winning the Norris and Vezina in 2008-09, and no team has ever claimed all three in a single season. However, given that this year's Bruins squad was the toast the league with merely 171 goals against (2.09 goals per game) and a plus-87 rating, this year could be an unprecedented sweep of the NHL's defensive honors.
Chances that Bergeron Wins the Selke
This one is as close to a lock as the categories go. Though Bergeron will see stiff competition from co-nominees Anze Kopitar and Jonathan Toews, Bergeron's plus-38 rating and 1,015 faceoff wins (58.6 percent) put him head and shoulders above his competition. Bergy has long been the poster boy for defensive forwards in the NHL, and the judges will more than likely reward his 2013-14 season with the dependable center's second Selke.
Chances that Rask Wins the Vezina
Rask's chances at securing his first Vezina are less optimistic. Though he posted 36 wins, a 2.04 GAA, a .930 save percentage, and seven shutouts, Semyon Varlamov and Ben Bishop will benefit from having played for significantly worse teams. Varlamov stopped the most shots in the NHL this year (1,867), backstopping the Avalanche to 41 wins (tops in the NHL) – stats which could position the Russian tendy as the forerunner in this category. Bishop too had more wins than Rask (37) in 63 starts while playing on a worse team, leading his Tampa Bay Lightning to an unlikely playoff berth. To say the field here is crowded is an understatement, but Rask could conceivably pull it out if the judges discount the strength of the team in front of him.
Chances Zdeno Chara Wins the Norris
The Norris, which is supposed to award the best defensive defenseman, has undergone something of a philosophical re-imagining the past few years, with offensive-minded blueliners P.K. Subban and Erik Karlsson taking home the trophy in the last two years. 2013-14 nominee Shea Weber led all d-men with 23 goals this season, totaling 56 points, while Chara finished with 17 and Duncan Keith amassed only six. However, Weber finished minus-2, over 20 points below Keith and Chara (plus-22 and plus-25, respectively). Weber also leads the field with hits (169) and blocked shots (173). This, coupled with the persisting idea that the Nashville captain is "due" for a win, all conspire to make this a difficult win for Chara. Of all the trophies, this is the one that a Bruins player is least likely to take home.
Of course, it is still well within the realm of possibility that the Black and Gold could be the belles of awards night. There is no clear-cut favorite in any of the defensive categories, so the decision should be tight in all three races. Hopefully the good will of the judges falls in Boston's favor, because a defensive season like the one the Bruins had deserves to be recognized.


text:
Dove Original Solids Reviews
Not so good anymoreI used to like the original Dove deodorant because it was inexpensive, had good clean scent, and at that time I thought it was one of the best deodorants. Occasionally, I found some white marks inside my dark clothes. Thus, once I discovered Dove Ultimate Clear I stopped buying this. — 9 years, 3 months agoluckybetty | 895 reviews
Another average deodorant.It doesn't dry skin, but other than that, nothing special. — 5 years, 5 months agoreneegro | 210 reviews
Basic DeodorantIt's not bad and it's not amazing. I still smell after the gym, but it works great for work, nights out, etc. I do get white marks on my clothes occasionally. It doesn't ever look gross or cakey when I lift up my arms. It's a good and basic deodorant. — 8 years, 5 months agoAmberDB | 189 reviews
Nice and smoothGreat for my sensitive underarms. I use the sensitive care because it's fragrance free and won't interfere with my perfume — 5 years, 3 months agocandyxoxo | 15 reviews
Wasn't very pleased.Don't get me wrong, I love Dove products. But i wasn't satisfied with this deodorant. It doesn't prevent wetness at all, if anything it makes it worse. The smell is nice at first, but it totally doesn't last. I have to reapply multiple times. — 6 years, 2 months agoMonicareviews | 22 reviews
OKPretty basic and worked well, but left white streaks on my clothes... — 6 years, 3 months agoTatters | 62 reviews
Its Good. Doesnt leave you dryI love Dove products and is very faithful to their soap. I have to say though when it comes to wetness protection i dont think dove has it down pat. However this does smell nice and soothes my underarms leaving them nice and soft. Leaves some white marks though..but just the wentess protection isn't all there. — 8 years, 2 months agoTweetybird11000 | 97 reviews
Love the Smell!The smell of the new dove line is heavenly. I also like that the deodorant never seems to bother my sensitive skin and works pretty well in comparison to many solid deodorants. Keeps my skin silky smooth and dry! — 8 years, 5 months agoTrixster | 3 reviews
To love and use.This dove deoderant is the only one I will use. It is great price wise, smells good, and doesn't leave you sticky like other deoderants will. — 9 years, 3 months agofairy77 | 2 reviews
Used for yearsWorks very well, but the last few crumble when applying when stick is only half used. Money going down the drain. — 9 years, 3 months agoreskinn12 | 3 reviews
Home » Reviews » Body » Antiperspirant + Deodorant » Dove Original Solids
to top
My Reasons for Reporting This


text:
Registered forum members do not see this ad.
Good afternoon, CadTutor and the community;
After reading about ProgrCad (which "chance" posted a week and a half ago), I went home and down-loaded it there for an evaluation. Here are some initial observations on it.
A) It truly is free. Their "place" for donations sends you to a charity-ware donation site for "Doctors Without Borders." However, If you do donate a minimum of US$ 25, they e-mail to you a library of 10,000 pre-defined objects.
B) In return for "free" you must put up with 2 Nag-screens. The first asks you to register (again free) and receive an "authorization code." Doing so deletes Nag-screen #1. Not doing so still allows you to continue on and use the software. The second Nag-screen is about donating to charity-ware as mentioned above. Making the donation removes Nag-screen Number 2. By the way, the 10,000 symbol library is worth far more than the twenty-five bucks.
C) The speed of saving of drawings is very slow compared to Acad Lt or Acad regular.
D) Installing it in a computer which already contains Autocad will change the file associations of .DWG and .DXF files to Intellicad (the platform upon which ProgeCad is built.
E) By default, it opens for the first time without drawing scroll bars. You must enable them in Tools/Options. However, when you do enable them, the scroll bars do not actually "scroll" the on-screen drawing; the screen re-positions when you let go of the bar. (This is OK if you know approximately where in the drawing you need to go; if you don't know [e.g. a drawing which you have received from someone else], scrolling is purely guesswork.)
F)If you remove the installation using Control Panel, it leaves about a dozen and a half entries in the Registry.
I admit these things are perhaps a bit picky; for one used to Autocad, they may cause a frayed nerve or two the first time through. Other than that, you would swear you were using Autodesk software: the on-screen icons are even quite similar (although not exactly so): close enough that I didn't bother reading the instructions before I made my first drawing.
Their Professional (read: "pay-for") version costs only Euro 170 (US$ 223). I have not purchased the Pro version, so I don't know the exact differences. But if the Pro version is, as claimed, equivalent to regular AutoCad, and if enough people discover this fact, Autodesk may possibly face some stiff competition in the not-too-distant future.
Hope this rambling helps someone along the way.
Registered forum members do not see this ad.
Excellent information Vince0115 - very useful indeed. A lot of people are wary of installing free software like this because you just don't know what you're going to get. From what you say, it does sound as though this is a viable free alternative to AutoCAD LT (for the first time AFAIK). I guess the scroll bar problem is really the reason why it's not turned on by default and you might expect it to be slow saving files - this is a common issue with free software compared with "commercial" applications.
It also sound as though ridding the nag screens is a reasonable and fairly painless process. I'll definately be keeping an eye on this one.
Gold star for you Vince0115.
Tip: Please do not PM or email me with CAD questions - use the forums, you'll get an answer sooner.
AutoCAD Tutorials | How to add images to your posts | How to register successfully | Forum FAQ


text:
[Even if you schlumpp around the entire first act in a nightshirt and wool socks: If you can sing Rossini like Daniela Barcellona, it might just land you Olga Peretyatko. – Daniela Barcellona (Sigismondo) and Olga Peretyatko (Aldimira) in Rossini's little-known "Sigismondo", Pesaro 2010.]
Hands up, how many of us have been at weddings of friends, whether legally valid or not, that came with snapshots exactly like the one above (down to the pearl earrings and the hairdresser having misunderstood what butch chic acutally means) from the the moment in front of the justice of peace, or minister, or registrar? I can name at least two. Including photos like this one (with the remnants of a few too enthusiastic rounds of "Musical Chairs"):
Luckily, there is a DVD of this Pesaro production, and it has some Rossini singing that will simply rock your socks off. – Other than that, I hope to be able to attend many more weddings with snapshots like these, and I hope that all of them will be legally recognized. It may not happen tomorrow, but tomorrow might have a say in that (and in my postdoc options). Qué sera?


text:
Sport Manawatu is all about getting people of all ages and
backgrounds, active every day through sport, recreation and physical activity.
We serve and support the Manawatu, Horowhenua, Tararua and Palmerston North District Councils with opportunities
such as training for teachers and coaches, local and national funding, as well as amazing venues and sports events.
Everything we do aims to increase participation and active recreation as we constantly strive to inspire over 500 clubs,
100 primary schools, 20 secondary schools and over 40 regional sports associations or club equivalents.
Successful night at the Central Energy Trust Manawatu Sports Awards
Sarah Goss has gone from sevens sister to the queen of the Manawatu sporting world. The captain of the olympic silver medal-winning New Zealand Women's Sevens team was named the supreme winner at the Manawatu Sports Awards on Friday night. Apiti's Goss was also crowned Manawatu sportswoman of the year at the ceremony at the Arena. Along with her Rio Olympic success, Goss also made her debut for the Black Ferns last year and is one of the best sevens players in the World Series circuit. On a night where Olympians ruled, Black Sticks hockey player Hayden Phillips from Levin won the sportsman of the year award. Phillips [...]
Te Āpiti windfarm to encourage active families
Sport Manawatu, in partnership with the Tararua District Council and Meridian Energy are excited to announce the inaugural Meridian Te Āpiti Whānau Challenge. The event will give the public access through private areas of Meridian Te Āpiti wind farm. Participants can choose to run, walk or take a family stroll through various lengths of tracks amongst the turbines. "It is an exciting event for the Manawatu, in particular the Tararua. Meridian Energy and private landowners have been kind enough to give us access through a beautiful part of our region so we anticipate a great turnout" says Sport Manawatu tararua [...]
Cycling Essentials
Want to compete in the 55km Bush Cycle Tour in 2017? We can help with our seven week programme for everything you need to know such as: + Bike maintenance and bike etiqette + Safety on streets and roads + Gear transitions and hill climbing + Helmet safety and bike handling skills
Sport Manawatu's Legends of Sport
The Manawatu Legends of Sport was established in 2007 to acknowledge and honour the region's greatest sporting achievers and those who have dedicated many years of service to sport; all of whom have had a significant impact on our sporting heritage. It recognises iconic sportspeople who have not only achieved at the highest level of their code but have each contributed an insurmountable quality of blood, sweat and tears (not to mention many years of their lives!) back into regional sport. Sport: Hockey Born: 5 October 1944 Birthplace: Palmerston North To anyone who has set foot on a [...]


text:
STAG Industrial, Inc. Announces the Acquisition of Two Warehouse and Distribution Properties for $15.0 Million
STAG Industrial, Inc. (NYSE: STAG) today announced the acquisition of two warehouse and distribution facilities containing a total of 497,820 square feet. The properties are located in Louisville, Kentucky and were acquired for a total of approximately $15.0 million.
© 2017 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.


text:
We had another storm pass through the other evening. It brought not only heavy rain but hail and wind gusts of 70 MPH. This time it spared my trees, but my neighbor had a branch broken out of his Maple tree land on his porch.
Randy is always working in his yard and has won the annual "Best Yard" award several years now. I just had to kid him about how this will give him a challenge to win the award again this year. He's a great guy and we all had to laugh about it.
Been getting our regular Doctor's visits taken care of. Had my last visit to the back surgeon yesterday. I told him I have no pain, just the numbness on the bottom of my right foot. He said that it usually takes 6 months for a complete recovery, and that I had a 50/50 chance that the numbness would go away. If not it would be from permanent nerve damage from the bone spur that he removed that was growing into the nerve. I mentioned about not having much strength in the right ankle and didn't know if it was related to the back surgery or the hip replacement. He feels it is also related to the back and the same nerve. The numbness is nothing compared to the pain I had before the surgery. He lifted all restrictions and told me that he didn't need to see me again. I thanked him for all that he did for me, telling him he was my hero which brought a big smile to his face.
Even our Pug, Kybee needed to be taken to the Vet. He started shaking his head back and forth several times a day. We recognized the symptom as another ear problem like he had in Florida last December. Off we went and yes he has another ear yeast infection in both ears. Medicine was prescribed and he seems to be doing much better now.
We are starting to get ready for our Annual "Camping with the Grandkids". They look forward to this event each year, and so do Na-Na and Pa!
Until next time, be safe and God Bless.


text:
A witness to a fatal shark attack off the coast of Perth in Western Australia said the animal — estimated to be as much as 16 feet long — bit its victim in half.
The fatal attack on a male surfer occurred south of Wedge Island, a family holiday destination about 100 miles north of Perth, at 9 a.m. local time, Australia's ABC reported.
The police said they were yet to locate the surfer's remains and could not identify the victim until his family was informed, according to Agence France-Presse.
However, the ABC cited a man jet-skiing near the surfer as saying he saw "half a torso" remaining after the attack.
"There was just blood everywhere and a massive, massive [great] white shark circling the body," he told ABC television, estimating the fish to be up to 16 feet long.
"I reached to grab the body and the shark came at me on the jet-ski and tried to knock me off. I did another loop and when I came back to the body the shark took it."
It was the fifth fatal shark attack off the WA coast in the past 12 months — a toll that included American, George Wainwright, 32, attacked by a great white while diving off Rottnest Island on Oct. 22.
The Australian Associated Press quoted WA Fisheries scientist Rory McAuley as saying that the Australian state was now the deadliest place in the world for shark attacks.
However, sharks attacks were still rare in Australian waters, with only 46 fatalities in the past half-century, according to the Australian Shark Attack File.
The fatal attacks had prompted calls for a cull of sharks, which authorities had rejected after protests by environmental groups and experts who said the increase in attacks was due to population growth and the popularity of water sports.
All beaches in the area were closed after the attack, AFP reported. Fisheries had embarked on a hunt and would kill the shark if they found it, AFP added.
More from GlobalPost: Rich People have a dirty little secret...


text:
Long-time Perl Hacker Webinar: Q&A
Recently, Jason McIntosh, co-author of "Perl & XML," and I did a webinar about all things Perl. We wanted to explore the concept of a "Perl Renaissance" and talk about where Perl is headed in the future. It was a great chat and we received many more questions than we could answer in the allotted time. I thought I would respond to them here so that everyone can see the answers.
You can access the webinar at this link


text:
This article, entitled The Second Child Syndrome comes from Danielle Herzog's blog Martinis and Minivans at martinisandminivans.com.
When my daughter was born, we were a stickler for the rules. We followed a sleep training book and never let her sleep in our bed. We only fed her in a highchair, we waited one week before introducing any new food, and we were so proud of ourselves when it all worked. She slept through the night at 3 months, she never fussed in her highchair, she ate vegetables and fruits and we felt like parents of the year. Then, baby #2 came. And since then, everything has gone to the crapper.
Life with my second child, who is now almost 10 months old, is vastly different from my first time around. There is no sleep training; he truly does whatever the heck he wants. If he wants to wake up at 5 am, he does. Ferber, sleep training, later or earlier bedtimes, they don't matter, he sets his own rules and we either suffer or sleep because of it. We recently found out that if we take him into our bed in the morning, there is a potential for another hour of sleep. We'll take it. As for eating, that takes place in a variety of locations. My new personal favorite is in between jumps in the jumperoo. Yes, that's right. He jumps, I put a spoonful of applesauce in his mouth, then he jumps again. I've fed him in the exersaucer, on the floor, on the couch, in his car seat, in his stroller and I've even fed him while going to the bathroom. It might not be pretty, but those baby Mum Mums can truly be eaten anywhere.
So what is it about the second child that makes us so lax on the rules? Is it because we are so tired chasing after our first child that we bend our original beliefs for the second? Or maybe it is just that each child has their own unique personality and that if we had the difficult child first, we probably would be filled with a world of single children.
Martinis and Minivans is a blog about a New Yorker now living the Midwest life as a writer, mother, and woman on the never-ending quest to be hip. Danielle Herzog is a native Long Islander from a ridiculously large Italian family where she doesn't know the names of all of her cousins. She loves being in the Midwest but still doesn't understand what May Day is and why everybody is so nice. You can find her at nights after the kids are in bed writing on her computer with an episode of The Real Housewives of Any City in the background.


text:
With Martin Luther King Jr. Day coming up Monday, here are three books with interesting perspectives on the civil rights era.
A Century and Some Change: My Life Before the President Called My Name (Atria) by Ann Nixon Cooper is a posthumously published memoir by the matriarch of a successful Atlanta family (and grandmother of Times columnist Ernest Hooper); Cooper knew "M.L." and his family, and she was mentioned by President Barack Obama in his inaugural address.
Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama (Civitas) by Peniel E. Joseph is a historian's look at how both the activism of religious leaders like King and the later black power movement interacted to have an impact on American democracy.
Through It All: Reflections on My Life, My Family, and My Faith (Atria) by Christine King Farris is a memoir by King's oldest sister, a college professor, about her family's proud accomplishments and many tragedies, with never-published photos and letters.
Colette Bancroft, Times book editor


text:
Picked up a revolver.....
View Single Post
December 18, 2012, 06:38 AM
Doc Hoy
Senior Member
Join Date: October 24, 2008
Location: Chesapeake, VA
Posts: 5,105
Two responses
First Bedbug...
I am a little embarrassed to say that I have got the BP cartridge bug like I have the cap and ball revolver bug. Every Peacemaker style revolver I see, I want.
I haven't even begun with the Remingtons.
Mykeal et al.
I owe you all an apology for my use of the term "white metal". I know it means a different thing now, than it did thirty years ago. I was inadvertently going back to those days. And I did not mean it as an ambush. Sorry guys.
My Grand dad was a die caster at a metal fabrication plant in South Eastern PA. He used the term "white Metal" to refer to ferrous alloys which were high in other metal content. The two properties that were being sought were:
1. lower melting temperature so that methods for casting could be used other than sand casting allowing parts to be made in their finished state. (No grinding, only polishing to complete the part)
2. Parts which achieved the structural strength approaching and I guess in some cases, surpassing steel or cast iron.
For reference, my Grand dad told me that "Tootsietoys" were made from white metal. I know most of you remember Tootsietoys.
The characteristics of the metal were:
- As I recall, slightly lighter than an equivalent steel or iron part.
- Grey in color and tarnished to a very dull grey color
- a little softer than steel and thus easy to polish
- Didn't take finishes very well. Paint chipped or wore off quickly
The first time I examined a Heritage Arms revolver I noticed some parts that were not finished in the same way as the barrel, frame and cylinder. They actually appeared to be painted. To me that was a dead give-away that the parts were (in my language) white metal.
I noticed that same style parts on this Geroco revolver. When I took it apart I found that the trigger guard and back strap were cast and had no finish grinding. The internal surfaces had exactly the same texture as the external surface. In the case of the Geroco revolver, the finish that Schmidt used was not paint but some other process, possibly akin to bluing. But just as I remember from my Grand dad's experience, the parts did not take the finish well, nor did it last as well as the steel parts.
Others of you who are more familiar with ferrous alloys and metal processing will have more infomation on this issue.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government. Thomas Jefferson
Last edited by Doc Hoy; December 18, 2012 at
Doc Hoy
View Public Profile
Find More Posts by Doc Hoy
Page generated in
seconds with


text:
US Capitol shooting: woman dead after car chase
A woman was shot dead near the Capitol, home to US congress, on Thursday after a high-speed car chase starting at the White House, said law enforcement agencies. Yashwant Raj reports.world Updated: Oct 04, 2013 09:02 IST
A woman was shot dead near the Capitol, home to US congress, on Thursday after a high-speed car chase starting at the White House, said law enforcement agencies.
The woman, who was unarmed, drove her car into a checkpoint at the White House. And tried to drive over the barricade, before taking off with police squad cars in pursuit.
The police had not identified the woman till late in the night but US media reports said she was Miriam Carey, 34, from Connecticut. Nothing is known of her motive.
The police found the woman's one-year-old daughter in the car. Initial reports had suggested she was injured. The police clarified later she was in good condition.
President Barack Obama, who had returned to the White House from a public event in a nearby suburban town just two hours before, was briefed about the chase and shooting.
And security around the White House was beefed up and the Capitol was put under lockdown -- "for stay where you are and lock the door", including the House of Representative.
The House was then debating minor legislations related to the ongoing shutdown. It adjourned promptly. The Senate, on the other hand, went on for 15 minutes longer.
The lockdown was lifted in 30 minutes.
The woman, at the center of Capitol Chaos as the incident came to be branded in local media, was dead by then. And two police officers were in hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The city has been on the edge since the mass shooting last month at a US navy base in which 12 people, including an Indian American man, were killed.
"This was not in any way an accident," said DC Metro police chief Cathy Lanier, at a news conference, addressing a top-of-the-mind concern for a lot of people.
Law enforcement officials also ruled out terrorism.
Witnesses described the woman starting off by trying to barrel through the check point at the White House, ignoring admonishments from law enforcement officials.
She almost drove over one of them, said witnesses.
And then she sped off, in full view of tourists and a TV camera, which recorded her surrounded by security officials and reversing and speeding off. It was on every news channel.


text:
It only takes a minute to get started. Fill out our uncomplicated sign up form and login to the website.
This step is elective but will drastically raise your chances of getting interest from other Christian members on the site. Introduce yourself, your interests and upload some good photos of yourself.
Utilise our website's sophisticated search to pinpoint members who match your needs. Or just browse through listings of Christian singles and pinpoint daters that arouse your interest.
Identified someone who appeals to you? Drop them a line or just a wink and await their reply. With a little luck you'll be on your way to a once in a lifetime experience.
It only takes a few minutes


text: Robert Kern <robert.kern <at> gmail.com> writes: > > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 20:38, fork <forkandwait <at> gmail.com> wrote: > > Robert Kern <robert.kern <at> gmail.com> writes: > > > >> So, has your program ever worked under mod_python? Is this an > >> intermittent problem, or is it reliably repeatable? In your program, > >> do you import numpy before the scipy.stats import? > > > > Yeah, worked great until last week. > > Would you mind answering all of the questions rather than just the first? Sorry (hehe) ... worked great for years, reliable problem, import numpy (and scipy) before scipy.stats. > Can you identify what changed last week? Did you change your program? Did you > upgrade Apache/mod_python? That's going to be the only way to figure out what > is wrong. We upgraded the default python on gentoo from 2.6 to 2.7, so, like, everything changed and it is almost impossible to say what exactly. My partner helped upgrade a bunch of math libraries, but I wasn't part of that so don't know exactly (yet...). I don't *believe* that apache got upgraded, and mod_python is definitely not upgraded, but it was reinstalled. > You may want to take a quick look at a couple of the WSGI > micro-frameworks around to see if they might be able to quickly > implement the dispatching you need. > > http://bottlepy.org/docs/dev/ > http://flask.pocoo.org/ That is great advice, but (1) I am still smarting from depending on a framework that got dropped from current development (three years ago cherrypy would have been in the list above), and (2) I don't have the 100 or so hours to refactor everything to fix this one (new) problem on code that probably won't see a next generation anyway. So, ... probably not gonna happen. On a fresher project, ... well, I would avoid frameworks like the plague and make it all cgi. (I hope I am not coming off obnoxious, but we probably don't need to discuss this any more.)


text:
A spirited advocate of Modernism, Le Corbusier created a range of chairs, including the LC3 Grand Confort, that expressed his ideals with great sophistication. Le Corbusier designed the original LC3 Confort collection based on the human scale. The original prototypes have spring rear legs that made the chair slant back when in use. The mechanism did not function properly and the surviving examples all look as though the rear legs have been cut off. The LC3 prototypes were also painted since the construction methods did not allow proper chrome plating.
Mrs. Heidi Weber of Zurich first put the Le Corbusier collection into production in 1959. With the approval of Le Corbusier, she changed the appearance of the chair. She removed the spring mechanism and used fabricating methods which allowed the frame to be chromed. She also gave the cushions a more formal, tailored look. Her contribution to the re-design of the collection contributed to the commercial success of the collection. Whereas the LC2 and LC3 Grand have firm and tailored cushions, the LC3 Soft will take on a less formal appearance of "broken-in luxe."
Le Corbusier's designed many of his famous pieces in the late 1920s with the collaboration of Charlotte Perriand. It was their endeavor to create functional pieces that would help produce a better society. "The extension of the art of dwelling is the art of living – living in harmony with man's deepest drives and with his adopted and fabricated environment." (Charlotte Perriand, 1981)
Made in Italy.
Dimensions: H 30" D 30" W 94 1/2"; SH 16 1/2"; ArH 26"
Materials: LC3 Grand Confort Soft three seat upholstered sofa with polished chrome tubular frame. Cushions stuffed with foam and down. Upholstered in leather or fabric.
No Sales Tax
Free shipping on U.S. orders
We'll keep you posted about new designs, special offers, stories, and more. We promise it will be worth your while!


text:
Who is to blame for declining sales of iPad magazines? Can Google do better?
Much has changed in the eight months since
Le Monde Magazine
put Steve Jobs on the cover and asked whether he might be the new Gutenberg -- the man whose iPad would save the publishing industry from the menace of le tout-gratuit (the all-free).
For one thing we know that Apple (aapl) has sold a lot of iPads -- somewhere in the order of 13 or 14 million in nine months.
We also know -- thanks to last week's Audit Bureau of Circulations numbers -- that iPad magazine sales have gone in the opposite direction. Wired's collapse from 100,000 iPad copies in June to 23,000 in November was most dramatic, but the story is not much different at Glamour, Vanity Fair, GQ or Men's Health.
Now comes the news -- via a page B1 story in Monday's
Wall Street Journal
-- that Google (goog) is talking to publishers about building a competing digital newsstand for Android devices that might offer them what Apple has thus far refused to share: The names and addresses of their online subscribers.
TechCrunch's MG Siegler sums up the situation with this headline: "The 'Digital Newsstand' Race Becomes: Who Is More Willing To Trick Users, Apple Or Google?"
<!-- more -->
The issue is whether the subscriber data that publishers want so desperately -- and which Steve Jobs has so far resisted giving them -- is "opt out" or "opt in." According to the Journal, Apple is ready to soften its stance in the iTunes newsstand it is rumored to be building. The key passage:
"Apple is planning to share more data about who downloads a publisher's app, information publishers can use for marketing purposes. According to people familiar with the matter, Apple would ask consumers who subscribe to an iPad version of a magazine or newspaper for permission to share personal information about them, like their name and email address, with the publisher.
"Some publishers remain unhappy with this arrangement because they think few customers would opt to share such data, according to these people."
According to the Journal, Google has been telling publishers that it would be willing to give them "certain personal data about app buyers to help with marketing related products or services." Whether that would be opt-in or opt-out is unclear -- thus Siegler's question about tricking users.
If Google builds its Android newsstand -- and the Journal makes it clear that that's still a big if -- it might give publishers a little more leverage and break open the logjam in their hard bargaining with Apple.
Meanwhile, it's hard to know who is more to blame for the iPad's failure to deliver a Gutenberg-like publishing revolution -- the publishers who are charging $4.99 for iPad versions of magazines they give to subscribers for pennies or Le Monde's new Gutenberg, who guards the names (and credit card numbers) Apple has collected through iTunes like the Queen guards her crown jewels.
No one likes to see newspapers and magazines go under -- least of all the writers who depend on them to pay the rent. On the other hand, these same publishers for years hawked subscriptions through "sweepstakes" so misleading that 25 state attorneys general felt obliged to step in. (See Publishers Clearing House).
Who wants to get spammed by those guys?
See also:
[Follow Philip Elmer-DeWitt on Twitter @philiped]


text:
THE coalition enforcing the United Nations' no-fly zone over Libya is not targeting Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi, military leaders said last night, as reports emerged of explosions near his compound in Tripoli.
Vice-Admiral Bill Gortney, director of the US military's joint staff, said the Libyan leader was not on its "target list".
Speaking at the Pentagon shortly after the Gaddafi regime declared a new ceasefire, Adm Gortney said: "The no-fly zone is now effectively in place."
But he added the Pentagon questioned all statements from Gaddafi's government, including its claim that it would enter into a new ceasefire. A ceasefire declared by the Gaddafi regime last week failed to hold.
There were reports last night that allied air strikes against targets in Libya had resumed. Hours after the ceasefire was declared, anti-aircraft fire strafed the sky above Libyan capital Tripoli.
A plume of smoke was seen rising from the direction of the presidential palace.
In response to the latest ceasefire announcement, a spokesman for Prime Minister David Cameron said: "Everyone will recall that in recent days Colonel Gaddafi declared a ceasefire which was promptly violated.
"We said then we would judge him on his actions not his words - and we will do so again. His obligations are very clearly set out by the UN Security Council resolution. Our assessment is that he is in breach of these obligations, so we will continue to enforce the resolution."
A number of Tornado jets were last night seen taking off from RAF Marham in Norfolk.
It is understood Typhoons from RAF Leuchars in Fife have been moved to bases in southern Italy for further air attacks, while Tornados from Lossiemouth have been transferred to Marham for long-range attacks.
In the first phase of air strikes on Saturday night, 124 Tomahawk missiles were fired. "We judge these strikes to have been very effective in significantly degrading the regime's capabilities," Adm Gortney said.
"There has been no new air activity by the regime. We have detected no radar emissions from the sites degraded and there has been a significant decrease in the use of all Libyan air surveillance radars."
He added: "We are not ruling out further such missile strikes against valid targets if and when the need arises."
However, he made clear the Libyan dictator himself was not a target, saying: "We are not going after Gaddafi. At this particular point, I can guarantee he is not on the target list."
Adm Gortney said US, British and French aircraft had attacked Gaddafi's ground forces on the outskirts of Benghazi on Saturday night.
He said the coalition acting against Gaddafi, which originally included the US, Britain, France, Italy and Canada, had broadened to include Belgium and Qatar.
• Q&A: What the UN resolution really means
• Gaddafi's forces turn screw in the battle for Misrata
• Libya crisis shows it's 'daft and dangerous' to close RAF bases
But divisions emerged on the international scene with the general secretary of the Arab League, Amr Moussa, seeming to speak out against the targeting of Gaddafi's tanks.
There were also protests from the Russian government, which abstained over the crucial UN resolution 1973, over attacks beyond policing the no-fly zone.
There was no immediate word on the targets in the latest round of strikes, in the assault dubbed Operation Odyssey Dawn, but it is understood the first wave of attacks came from 15 French jets.
The declaration of a second ceasefire in 48 hours came as rebels in the east of Libya appeared to reverse gains made by Gaddafi's forces and began to push his forces out of Benghazi.
As well as announcing the ceasefire, a spokesman for the regime called for a "symbolic march" of all Libyan peoples from Tripoli to Benghazi to "discuss homeland affairs."
The move was in contrast to Gaddafi's defiance earlier in the day in a telephone interview when he attacked the "Christian crusaders" and said he would open arms depots and arm a million Libyans to defend their country against foreign aggression. He also appeared to be attempting to put pressure on the allies with the seizure of an Italian tug and sailors at Tripoli and a renewed threat to attack foreign shipping in the Mediterranean.
The Arab League chief's criticism came after Libyan state television claimed 48 civilians had been killed in the raids. "What is happening in Libya differs from the aim of imposing a no-fly zone, and what we want is the protection of civilians and not the bombardment of more civilians," Egypt's state news agency quoted Mr Moussa as saying.
But sources at the Foreign Office, which quickly sought clarification from Mr Moussa, suggested he had been misquoted and still supported the operations.Foreign Secretary William Hague later said he believed the Arab League fully backed the action being taken by the coalition. Arriving at Downing Street, he said he had personally spoken to Mr Moussa.
However, there was criticism from other quarters led by the International Red Cross, which said it was "deeply concerned" about civilian casualties and called on all sides to work to distinguish between civilians and fighters and allow safe access for humanitarian organisations.
About 100 people gathered at a CND protest near Downing Street, while Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, who has enjoyed good relations with Gaddafi in the past, condemned what he called "indiscriminate bombing" and "imperial madness".


text:
ISRN Spectroscopy
Volume 2013 (2013), Article ID 935819, 6 pages
Sensitive Spectrophotometric Determinations of Paracetamol and Protriptyline HCl Using 3-Chloro-7-hydroxy-4-methyl-2H-chromen-2-one
Department of Post Graduate Studies and Research in Chemistry, Mangalore University, Mangalagangothri 574199, India
Received 26 June 2013; Accepted 15 July 2013
Academic Editors: C. Alvarez-Lorenzo and A. A. Ensafi
Copyright © 2013 Kumble Divya et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
A new spectrophotometric method is developed for the determination of Paracetamol (PCT) and protriptyline HCl (PTP) in pure forms and in pharmaceutical formulations. The experiment involves the use of 3-chloro-7-hydroxy-4-methyl-2H-chromen-2-one as a novel chromogenic reagent for the determination of PCT and PTP. The method is based on the formation of charge transfer complex between the drugs and chromogenic reagent. Beer's law is obeyed in the concentration ranges 10.00–60.00 µg mL−1 for PCT at 545 nm and 40.00–160.00 µg mL−1 for PTP at 468 nm. The molar absorptivity, Sandell, sensitivity, and limit of detection and quantification are also calculated. The method has been successfully applied for the determination of both PCT and PTP in pharmaceutical samples with acceptable results.
1. Introduction
Paracetamol (PCT), N-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethanamide is one of the most commonly used home medicine to reduce pain and fever [1] (Figure 1). These actions are known, respectively, as analgesic and antipyretic [2]. PCT is also used to treat headache, muscle ache, arthritis, backache, toothache, cold, and fever. An overdose of PCT may cause some toxic effects such as fulminating hepatic necrosis, which causes about 450 deaths in the USA every year [3]. Thus, the development of simple methods for the determination of PCT is obviously significant in pharmaceuticals.
Protriptyline HCl (PTP) is one of the tricyclic antidepressant [4], chemically known as N-methyl-5H-dibenzo[a,d]-cycloheptene-5-propanamine hydrochloride (Figure 2). It works by blocking the transporters responsible for reuptake of neurotransmitters like norepinephrine and serotonin [5]. This medication is primarily used to treat the anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder [6]. They are also known as effective analgesic used for the treatment of chronic pain especially neuropathic or neuralgic pain [7].
A number of methods are available in the literature for the determination of PCT, such as high-performance liquid chromatography [8–10], Chemiluminescence [11], Fluorescence [12], pulse perturbation technique [13], Spectrofluorimetric [14], and several others. A very few methods are reported in the literature for the determination of PTP in pharmaceutical formulations which include high performance liquid chromatography [15–17], Liquid chromatography [18], and flow injection technique [19].
Above mentioned techniques are not widely used in the basic clinical laboratories, because they require more expensive equipments and complicated sample preparation. All the reported methods require expensive reagents and are time consuming. Literature search has revealed that only a few visible spectrophotometric methods [20–23] are available for the determination of PCT and PTP in bulk drug and pharmaceutical formulations. UV-VIS spectrophotometry is a simple analytical method for quantitative analysis which provides practical and significant economic advantages over other methods. Therefore, they are of frequent choice for pharmaceutical analyses. Thus, there is a lot of scope for development of simple and suitable analytical spectrophotometric method for the determination of drugs in pure and pharmaceutical formulations.
In the present work we report 3-chloro-7-hydroxy-4-methylcoumarin as a novel reagent for spectrophotometric determination of PCT and PTP in pure and pharmaceutical formulations (Tablets). The main advantage of the developed method is being simple and sensitive and involving rapid reaction of PCT and PTP with 3-chloro-7-hydroxy-4-methylcoumarin.
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Apparatus
A UV-Visible spectrophotometer (SHIMADZU, UV 2550) with 1 cm quartz cells was used for the absorbance measurements.
2.2. Reagents
All solutions were prepared with double distilled water. Chemicals used were of analytical reagent grade. Solution of 3-chloro-7-hydroxy-4-methylcoumarin (4.7483 × 10−4) was prepared by dissolving 500 mg in 100 mL ethanol and NaOH (2 M) was prepared by dissolving 8 g in 100 mL of water. An accurately weighed amount of pure PCT and PTP was dissolved in ethanol and diluted stepwise to get working concentration.
2.3. Analytical Method
Aliquots of PCT (10.00–60 μg mL−1), and PTP (40.00–160 μg mL−1) were transferred into a series of 10 mL volumetric flasks. To each flask, 0.5 mL of reagent and 0.5 mL of NaOH were added and heated at 40°C for 10 minutes and cooled to room temperature. Afterwards reaction mixture was diluted to 10 mL by using ethanol. Obtained violet colored adduct of PCT and brown colored adduct of PTP were measured at 545 and 468 nm, respectively, against the reagent blank.
2.4. Preparation of Pharmaceutical Formulation
Commercial tablets of PCT (Paracetamol 500 mg) and PTP (Vivactil 10 mg) were analyzed by the proposed method. Both the tablets were crushed separately in a mortar and dissolved in ethanol; the solution was filtered through Whatman filter paper no. 41 and diluted quantitatively with ethanol to obtain a suitable concentration for the analysis. A convenient aliquot was then subjected to the analysis by using proposed method.
3. Results and Discussion
In order to establish the experimental conditions, the effect of reagent concentrations and temperature and the evaluation of the time required to complete the reaction with respect to maximum sensitivity have been studied. 0.5 mL of reagent and 0.5 mL of NaOH were found to be optimum for maximum absorbance for both the drugs. It was also found that the absorbance reaches its maximum after heating for 10 minutes at 40°C. Characterization of the reaction was carried out by the evaluation of reaction stoichiometry. The reaction proceeds with the formation of highly stable violet colored adduct for PCT and brown colored adduct for PTP (Scheme 1). The absorption spectrum of the colored products is shown in Figure 3.
3.1. Stoichiometry of the Reaction Product
Job's method of continuous variation is an effective approach to study the stoichiometry of the chemical reaction [24]. In this method, the total molar concentration of the two species (i.e., drug and reagent) is held constant, but their mole fractions are varied. As shown in Figure 4, the molar ratio which gave maximum absorbance is found to be 1 : 1 (drug : reagent). In view of this result a reaction mechanism is proposed considering the transfer of free electron of the (oxygen atom present in one molecule of PCT and nitrogen atom present in one molecule of PTP) drugs to the charge-deficient center of reagent molecule.
3.2. Method Validation
3.2.1. Spectral Characteristics and Sensitivity
The absorption spectra of the violet colored product with of 545 nm and brown colored product with of 468 nm were used in the studies of PCT and PTP, respectively. The reagent blank practically showed negligible wavelength (Figure 3). Under the experimental conditions, absorbance is linearly proportional to concentration over the range of 10.00–60.00 μg mL−1 for PCT (Figure 5) and 40.00–160.00 μg mL−1 for PTP (Figure 6). Slope, intercept, and correlation coefficient are obtained by the method of least squares which is described by the equation: (where = absorbance, = intercept, = slope and = concentration in μg mL−1). Regression analysis results are summarized in Table 1.
The limit of detection (LOD) and the limit of quantification (LOQ) are calculated as per the ICH guidelines [25] from the expression LOD = 3.3σ/S and LOD = 10σ/S (σ = standard deviation of the residuals, S = slope of calibration curve). The calculated values are given in Table 2.
3.2.2. Accuracy and Precision
In order to determine the accuracy and precision, recovery studies are carried out by standard addition technique at three different concentrations (10, 20, and 30 μg mL−1 for PCT and 40, 60, and 80 μg mL−1 for PTP). Accuracy is calculated as the percentage recoveries of the drugs in their pure form. Precision of the methods is assessed as RSD % at different levels. Obtained results are found to be less than 3% and are acceptable. Results are given in Table 2.
3.2.3. Interference Study
The specificity of the method is indicted by the interference study. It is found that presence of some common excipients (starch, lactose, citric acid, and sodium carbonate) will not cause any analytical problem, thus proposed method can be successfully applied for the determination of PCT and PTP in various pharmaceutical formulations.
4. Analytical Application
The developed methodology is very adequate for the determination of PCT and PTP in pure form and in pharmaceutical formulation (Paracetamol 500 mg and Vivactil 10 mg). Moreover, the proposed procedure is very economical when compared to other methods. The performance of proposed method is assessed by calculation of Student's -test at 95% confidence limits for four degrees of freedom and also by the recovery studies. The results given in Table 3 reveal that the calculated values for both the drugs are less than theoretical values and are equally accurate.
5. Conclusions
The proposed spectrophotometric method is simple, sensitive, and easily applicable for the determination of PCT and PTP. Developed method require the minimum chemicals, is easy to perform, and does not contain any intermissive experimental variables, which affect the reliability of the results. These characteristics make the proposed method very suitable for the analysis of PCT and PTP in quality control laboratories.
The authors are thankful to CAD Pharma Inc., Bangalore, India, for providing the drug sample. Badiadka Narayana thanks UGC for financial assistance through BSR one-time grant for the purchase of chemicals. Kumble Divya thanks DST-PURSE Project for financial support.
- T. Németh, P. Jankovics, J. Németh-Palotás, and H. Koszegi-Szalai, "Determination of paracetamol and its main impurity 4-aminophenol in analgesic preparations by micellar electrokinetic chromatography," Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, vol. 47, no. 4-5, pp. 746–749, 2008. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- A. Afkhami, N. Sarlak, and A. R. Zarei, "Spectrophotometric determination of salicylamide and paracetamol in biological samples and pharmaceutical formulations by a differential kinetic method," Acta Chimica Slovenica, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 357–362, 2006. View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- Á. N. Mhaoláin, B. D. Kelly, E. G. Breen, and P. Casey, "Legal limits for paracetamol sales," The Lancet, vol. 369, no. 9570, p. 1346, 2007. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, AHFS Drug Information, 2002.
- F. Sériès and Y. Cormier, "Effects of protriptyline on diurnal and nocturnal oxygenation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease," Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 113, no. 7, pp. 507–511, 1990. View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- Ultram, Protriptyline, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, 2007.
- J. Kirchheiner, K. Nickchen, M. Bauer et al., "Pharmacogenetics of antidepressants and antipsychotics: the contribution of allelic variations to the phenotype of drug response," Molecular Psychiatry, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 442–473, 2004. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- M. Kartal, "LC method for the analysis of paracetamol, caffeine and codeine phosphate in pharmaceutical preparations," Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, vol. 26, no. 5-6, pp. 857–864, 2001. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- S. Grujić, T. Vasiljević, and M. Laušević, "Determination of multiple pharmaceutical classes in surface and ground waters by liquid chromatography-ion trap-tandem mass spectrometry," Journal of Chromatography A, vol. 1216, no. 25, pp. 4989–5000, 2009. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- M. E. El-Kommos and K. M. Emara, "Determination of phenyltoloxamine salicylamide, caffeine, paracetamol, codeine and phenacetin by HPLC," Talanta, vol. 36, no. 6, pp. 678–679, 1989. View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- W. Ruengsitagoon, S. Liawruangrath, and A. Townshend, "Flow injection chemiluminescence determination of paracetamol," Talanta, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 976–983, 2006. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- J. C. L. Alves and R. J. Poppi, "Simultaneous determination of acetylsalicylic acid, paracetamol and caffeine using solid-phase molecular fluorescence and parallel factor analysis," Analytica Chimica Acta, vol. 642, no. 1-2, pp. 212–216, 2009. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- N. Pejić, L. Kolar-Anić, S. Anić, and D. Stanisavljev, "Determination of paracetamol in pure and pharmaceutical dosage forms by pulse perturbation technique," Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 610–615, 2006. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- K. W. Street Jr. and G. H. Schenk, "Spectrofluorometric determination of acetylsalicylic acid, salicylamide, and salicylic acid as an impurity in pharmaceutical preparations," Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 641–646, 1981. View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- U. Huber, Analysis of Tricyclic Antidepressants By HPLC, Agilent Technologies, 1998.
- P. Koteel, R. E. Mullins, and R. H. Gadsden, "Sample preparation and liquid-chromatographic analysis for tricyclic antidepressants in serum," Clinical Chemistry, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 462–466, 1982. View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- S. J. Bannister, V. D. W. S. van der Wal, J. W. Dolan, and L. R. Snyder, "Liquid-chromatographic analysis for common tricyclic antidepressant drugs and their metabolites in serum or plasma with the technicon "FAST-LC" system," Clinical Chemistry, vol. 27, no. 6, pp. 849–855, 1981. View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- F. A. Beierle and R. W. Hubbard, "Liquid chromatographic separation of antidepressant drugs: I. Tricyclics," Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 279–292, 1983. View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- M. E. Georgiou, C. A. Georgiou, and M. A. Koupparis, "Rapid automated spectrophotometric competitive complexation studies of drugs with cyclodextrins using the flow injection gradient technique: tricyclic antidepressant drugs with α-cyclodextrin," Analyst, vol. 124, no. 3, pp. 391–396, 1999. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- A. Ruiz Medina, M. L. Fernández de Córdova, and A. Molina Díaz, "A very simple resolution of the mixture paracetamol and salicylamide by flow injection-solid phase spectrophotometry," Analytica Chimica Acta, vol. 394, no. 2-3, pp. 149–158, 1999. View at Publisher · View at Google Scholar · View at Scopus
- G. V. S. R. Kumar, V. R. Devi, K. V. D. Lakshmi, and L. R. Bs Murty, "Detection and spectrophotometric determination of paracetamol using NBS," Analytical Chemistry, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 62–65, 2013. View at Google Scholar
- L. Nejem, S. Antakli, and H. Bagdashe, "Spectrophotometric determination of paracetamol and orfinadrin citrate in tablets," Asian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 2, no. 25, pp. 1079–1082, 2013. View at Google Scholar
- K. Divya and B. Narayana, "New visible spectrophotometric methods for the determination of protriptyline HCl in bulk and pharmaceutical formulations," Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research, vol. 4, no. 9, pp. 4352–4358, 2012. View at Google Scholar
- G. D. Christian and J. E. O'Rilly, "Jobs method," in Instrumental Analysis, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA, 2nd edition, 1980. View at Google Scholar
- International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) Guidelines, http://www.ich.org/.


text:
ST. PETERSBURG — The No. 1 pick in today's NFL draft grew up in Dallas and lived a real-life Friday Night Lights dream, leading his high school team to the 2005 Texas state title.
The past three years, he wore the red and black of the University of Georgia as the Bulldogs' star quarterback, And late Friday night, he made an early leap into the land of silver and blue, agreeing to a six-year deal with the Detroit Lions that will pay $41.7 million in guarantees and as much as $78 million.
But for Matthew Stafford, a quiet, brick street in northeast St. Petersburg still feels very much like home. This is a most familiar place for the poised 21-year-old with the All-American looks, a constant in his whirlwind life filled with vivid memories from his childhood and teenage years.
Just ask him.
Better yet, ask his grandma.
She has always been one of his most devoted fans.
Now 84, Mary Christian lives in an elegant, half-century-old Snell Isle house that features a shrine to her grandson; from the "Top Dawg" sign presiding on a door to the many photos and news accounts of his football glory days. One signed picture from Stafford's MVP effort in the 2006 Chick-Fil-A Bowl, when he directed Georgia's 31-24 comeback win over Virginia Tech, reads: "To Mema, Your Lil Darlin' "
"That's what I call him," she said with a smile, hazel eyes sparkling. "I'm just so proud of him."
Stafford spent countless family vacations and woke up every Christmas morning of his life here until his college career began. He played touch football and catch across the street in a grassy, triangular field known as "Pete's Park," dedicated with a plaque in 1997 to his late grandfather, Pete Christian — a four-time national AAU javelin champion in the 1930s and '40s, whose arm-strength gene was evidently passed on to young Matthew.
The fact is, Stafford's roots run deep enough to qualify him for adopted favorite son status.
His mother, Margaret Stafford, grandmother Mary and great-grandma Bessie Lee Baynard all attended St. Petersburg High School. And his great-great grandfather, W.C. Henry, has his name etched on a plaque in Pioneer Park by the St. Petersburg waterfront, dedicated to those "whose vision and leadership helped create St. Petersburg, Florida." His contributions included building Mirror Lake Library and a number of stately old Northeast homes, and paving downtown Central Avenue at the turn of the 20th century.
Stafford's ties to the area even span the bay. He was born in Tampa and lived the first year of his life on Davis Island, before the family moved briefly to Atlanta and then relocated to Dallas when he was about 3.
"I have a lot of great memories from all the time I spent at my grandparents' house, playing football in that little park, hanging out at the beach by the Don CeSar," Stafford said this week from Dallas, where he was keeping a low, pre-draft profile. "St. Pete's like my second home."
Who knew?
The American public is getting to know Stafford now.
Last week, he was a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and the host planned a little stunt for the 6-foot-3, 228-pounder who announced in January that he would skip his senior year and enter the draft.
Fallon tossed plates up in the air at one end of the stage, while Stafford drilled passes like a skeet-shooter at the other end. He smashed three of four. (Watch the video here).
"They told me I was going to do it, but I didn't get to practice," he said. "It was pretty tough, but it was fun." His mom, Margaret, was watching from Dallas. "I was so nervous," she said, "but it was a riot." His grandma, who taught drama in the 1970s and '80s at Shorecrest Preparatory School, couldn't stay up to watch. But she heard all about it the next day, not surprised in the least her grandson had fared so well under pressure.
"He's always been confident, even when he was a little boy," she said. "He could dribble a basketball when he was just 2. It's a God-given talent that he couldn't ignore. All he ever wanted for Christmas was a ball."
Stafford's athletic prowess come from his grandpa; his father, John Stafford, was a standout swimmer at Florida State and later served as men's swimming coach there. John and Margaret met at FSU, and not surprisingly their children, Matthew and sister Page (a year older), grew up as Seminole fans.
Mary Christian, meanwhile, became an avid supporter of upscale Highland Park High when her grandson became a sophomore starter, leading the Class 4A Division I team to a mark of 13-2 in 2003. She would travel frequently to Dallas to scream and cheer for the team's new star, who capped his senior year in 2005 with a 10-0 regular-season and the school's first state championship in 48 years.
"What I used to love was those two-minute winners," she said. "We'd be down, but then we'd get the ball and I'd say, 'Margaret, there's time.' And Matthew would hoist a long one to a guy in the end zone and hallelujah. The game is over."
Stafford, a Parade All-American and EA Sports National Player of the Year, was deluged with offers, especially from Texas, FSU, Michigan and Georgia. In the end, he was drawn to the Southeastern Conference and Bulldogs coach Mark Richt, having admired the job Richt had done as FSU's offensive coordinator. What's more, Stafford's dad had obtained his master's at Georgia and Page was a freshman there.
His grandma, a William & Mary alum, wasn't able to make it to Georgia games due to tricky travel logistics. But she decked out her Snell Isle front porch with red and black balloons on game day and watched on TV. "I was always calling Bright House to see what channel Georgia was on," she said. "One time, Margaret and I watched a whole Georgia game on her computer in Dallas. Can you imagine that?"
"That's my grandmother — she's awesome," Stafford said.
Christian did make it to her grandson's final collegiate game, the Capital One Bowl in Orlando, when he earned his third post-season MVP award in three years with a 24-12 win over Michigan State. The moment is captured in a photo on the wall, with No. 7 looking up in the end zone stands to his grandma. "He yelled to me, 'Did you have fun?' and I yelled back, 'I had so much fun, I wish I'd come to every single game!' "
The crowning moment for Stafford will take place shortly after 4 today when the draft officially gets underway in Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall.
The Lions, who earned the right to select first based on their 0-16 record last year, were determined to land Stafford as a player to help engineer a franchise turnaround. The deal they agreed upon represents the largest rookie contract in NFL history. For the record, when he is introduced, he will become the 80th overall No. 1 pick in NFL draft history.
"It's definitely exciting to be in the position I am," Stafford said. "It's a blessing."
His parents — divorced but on good terms — have been invited to watch the proceedings in the Hall's Green Room with Page, high school coach Randy Allen, some close friends, and one more special guest: His No. 1 fan from a shaded street in St. Pete.
"Are you kidding?" proclaimed the proud grandma. "I wouldn't miss it for the world."


text:
- Home
- People
- Training Topics
- Campus Connections
- OSU IT Policies
Permissions are a set of activities that a user is allowed to perform on a website.
If you think about it, you probably deal with this all the time.
The best example is probably your ONID account. You are allowed to log in to your ONID account, and you can view and change quite a few different things related to your account because you are permitted to do these things on your account. You are not generally permitted to go onto your colleague's account and make changes, though. In most cases, you and your colleagues might have some time of role called Member or User.
Sometimes, though, things go wrong with our accounts and we need someone who is permitted to work across the whole system to come in and fix it for us. This type of user might be called something like Administrator. It's this person's responsibility to fix things and provide support service to the users of the system. They are permitted to go into individual accounts on an as-needed basis to provide the service that regular users need.
Our OSU Drupal installation has five default roles, which are explained in the Roles section of this manual. Each one of these roles has a different set of permissions.
For example, an author is permitted to create and edit content, create and edit menus, upload media, etc.
An author can't use PHP code, though. This is a special type of code that can actually destroy your Drupal site if it's in the wrong hands. The only roles that are allowed to use PHP code are advanced authors and administrators.
An administrator on an OSU Drupal site is actually capable of changing permission sets, and even creating new ones for custom roles that are added to the site. Read on to find out more about creating custom permission sets.


text:
Chris Johnston says she might go back to using cash.
The Thunder Bay woman was one of dozens of city residents who woke up Monday morning to learn their bank accounts had been raided, the money illegally withdrawn at automated teller machines in the United States.
Johnston said she lost more than $800 in four separate transactions, ranging from $95 to more than $300.
It was a shocking discovery, she said, moments after filing a theft report at Thunder Bay police headquarters.
"I noticed there were four foreign-exchange transactions on my account that shouldn't have been there because we weren't in the States.
So I went straight to the bank and reported it. They did an investigation on their end and told us it had been done on Saturday in New York," Johnston said.
It was a first for the couple, who believe their information may have been compromised on the north side of the city, owing to the face they rarely, if ever, use their debit card on the south side of town.
"I've never been a victim of identity theft and ...I guess I realized it was taking place. I just never thought it would hit us. We've always been very careful with our cards and PIN numbers," Johnston said.
Her husband Bill said even though their bank has promised to reimburse them, losing that much money could have dramatic effects on a lot of people.
"You have a fixed income and then they take money out," he said. "If it had been a mortgage payment needed, it would have been gone.
"All they told us was there was 14 so far that had been reported to them and they didn't really need any information about where I used the card because it seemed to be kind of a random thing."
Police say they're not sure how widespread the fraud was, only that they'd received several calls and that banks were starting to take preventative measures, freezing cards they'd suspected had been compromised.
Spokeswoman Julie Tilbury said the investigation is still in its preliminary stages, though it does appear credit union customers were hit hardest.
"We do not have the full story, but we are encouraging anyone who does notice any fraudulent activities to contact first their financial institution. Secondly they can contact police and make a report."
Tilbury said the thieves might have had stored the information for months and decided to release it to their operatives all at once on a weekend, when bank and credit union staff would be minimized.
Electronic fraud is on the increase, and not just in Thunder Bay.
"Everyone's using electronic devices, debit cards, credit cards. It just makes it easier for them to be able to do these types of crimes," Tilbury said.
She added the banks are the real victims in cases like this, as customers who report money stolen will be reimbursed. It will be the banks who use their own internal software to attempt to narrow down where the card data was stolen locally.
Tilbury said the best way to avoid becoming a victim is not to use debit cards in stores that don't use chip readers. She recommended keeping regular checks on bank and credit card accounts, and reporting any suspicious activity immediately.


text:
Leading Articles
G.M.C. and professionBr Med J 1969; 4 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.4.5678.247 (Published 01 November 1969) Cite this as: Br Med J 1969;4:247
Sign in
Log in using your username and password
Log in through your institution
Free trial
Register for a free trial to thebmj.com to receive unlimited access to all content on thebmj.com for 14 days.
Sign up for a free trial
Article Access
Article access for 1 day
The PDF version can be downloaded as your personal record
* prices do not include VAT


text:
What's a 'Like' Worth? Ask Facebook's Graph Search
"How many 'likes' do you have?" Until very recently, skeptics argued that social marketers were obsessed with building social media followings while unable to articulate the value of a fan. Well, that changes with Facebook Graph Search, which will make the ROI of a Facebook following as easy to measure as SEO efforts on Google. Welcome to the new era of SEO: instead of links and keywords, it's "likes" and "check-ins" that will get your business to the top of the search results.
Related Content


text:
@DonaldJTrumpJr Kai helping me cut down our Xmas tree.
@pink My daughter is snoring with her hand down my shirt. I guess its her way of keeping track of her food. Kinda like how I'm eyef#*king the pie
@DENISE_RICHARDS Our poor baby kittens aren't doing well…took them to Dr. Rick..hopefully they'll take a turn for the better!
@brookeburke morning, having my coffee, watching Santa Clause with my kids…
@lisarinna On my way to see a child educator speak about parenting- I can use all the help I can get!!!
@KimberlilyVDB My little love is sick. It makes me want to move mountains and make her world feel better. Gosh I love her.
@jeweljk Baby had his first night of needing only one feeding- yay! Will it happen again? No idea! But its fun finding out 🙂 what r u guys up to?
Don't forget to follow @celeb_babyscoop on Twitter!


text:
On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > >> My understanding is that the current deal with the mirror site operators >> is specifically "you host a mirror, you get a free banner ad". While >> not all may be taking advantage of that, those who are might be pretty >> annoyed to find the web team unilaterally renegotiating the deal :-(. >> I'd suggest treading carefully in this area, and if possible leaving it >> till after the new site design is up and running. > > Can we move away from this policy if we have not already, so we can possibly > reach a site with no banners someday? (like most other open source sites) > > I will reiterate my offer to chip in money to have the banners removed for > the first month after 8.0 is released. Is this possible with the current > arrangement, and if so, how much would need to be raised? If not, can we > at least lock any future promises into month-by-month agreements? I've already suggested that the banners should be removed from the new site design, as they just don't *fit* ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy(at)hub(dot)org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
Next: From: Marc G. Fournier Date: 2004-12-22 18:40:25 Subject: Re: Ready to launch? Previous: From: Alexey Borzov Date: 2004-12-22 17:41:37 Subject: Re: Ready to launch?


text:
One of the characteristic features of the modern age lies in the ability and power of the Media - Radio, TV, Publishing - to shape public opinion. To an increasing extent, today it is not so much the views of individuals that determine our choices but how well these same individuals present their views in the Media. 30 years ago, when I set foot in this country, the image of England was of a country that, through its elected government, cared for its citizens: primarily through the Welfare State and through State Education. Today, almost a generation later, we are persuaded into believing in the primacy of the Individual over the State. A revolution in perception that has been effected through the Media, rather than at the expense of it.
This same Media, 30 years ago, offered visions of ourselves as either (a) non-English speakers - remember Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan ? (b) non-English speakers who stumbled over the most basic English - recall Mind Your Language; (c) immigrants who operated illegal rackets aimed at fellow immigrants - remember The Detective ? Still by far the best TV drama involving Asians.
Today, in the year of the comet - which the earth will not see again for another 3,000 years - what is the visual, oral and aural representation of Asians ? TV has fractured into the Asian media (mainly cable & satellite) and the so-called "mainstream". In 1996, total cable & satellite audience-share rivalled that of C4 - roughly 12% of the market. I don't know of any research done into Asian viewing habits but I would guess-timate that, in the metropolitan areas of the country, well over 50% of the Asian market is devoted to Zee-TV, AsianNet and Namaste TV.
The story can be replicated in radio -especially in London, where Sunrise Radio has achieved a near-monopoly. Sadly, however, the same cannot be said of newspapers. The language newspapers - like Garvi Gujarat & Daily Jang - have a very small readership (and possibly an ever-decreasing one); while the English-language Asian press have an even-smaller one. Perhaps this suggests that we are not a terribly literate community - we don't read much. Or perhaps that the English-language Asian press simply does not fulfil a need, in the way that other branches of the media do.
In the so-called mainstream, it is interesting to note the appearance of print journalists like Vivek Choudhury, Maya Jaggi, Anita Chaudhuri, Shekhar Bhatia, Amit Roy and Kamal Ahmad. On the TV, we can take pride in Matthew Amoriliwalla, Rita Charles, Krishnan Gurumurthy, Gargi Patel, to mention just a few. And - my own particular fetish - in the whole host of Asian backroom men and women: look at the credits that roll on the screen - especially on BBC - and just see the numbers of Asians who are Production Assistants or Editors or Sound operators. A very healthy development.
But, apart from the hallowed examples of journalists, what is the screen-presence of Asians today ? Not on East - a specialist "Asian" slot - but on the mainstream ? Any chat-show hosts ? Producers ? Regular dramas ? Films ? Game-shows ? Political commentators ? Economic commentators ? Cultural critics ? - There's Sanjay & Geeta, of course, in East-Enders. And lots of Asian bit-part players in The Bill, London's Burning and Casualty. So, what the great non-Asian British public sees each week on TV are some well-spoken Asian-looking journalists and a shady market-stall dealer and his long-suffering wife. And of course the odd Asian in an ad for curry, as well as some arm-waving, turban- and dhoti-clad Asians in ads for British Nuclear Fuels.
What does this, admittedly sketchy, survey of contemporary media in Britain suggest ?
While physical ghettos have become fractured - we can today be found living in Windsor as much as in Wembley - nevertheless a kind of media ghetto can be said to exist. The dominant representation of the Asian on the public stage is: (a) a shopkeeper; (b) an exotic creature with funny habits and tastes; (c) some who speak "just like us" and so are members of the club - not like the majority of them ! There is little - if any - public awareness of major Asian industrialists & entrepreneurs, scientists, academics or politicians.
Access to the Media has certainly increased, and is set to continue. But a large question mark hovers over whether we are responsibly controlling our role in the media. This is a question that becomes most pertinent in the case of East, Zee, Sunrise & the Asian Press: the "specialist" Asian media.
Our media feeds us a relentless diet courtesy of Bollywood, making little effort to inform its public: to stimulate its mind & heart, as much as it stimulates its senses of nostalgia and envy. Generations of Asians are being reared in this country with scant knowledge of their history - not even the history of migration to this country; scant knowledge of their culture - beyond Bollywood & Bhangra; and even less knowledge of their languages. Our educational system on the whole does not cater for this; nor does mainstream media. Have we not the power to effect a change here ?
The loss of a culture is signalled nowhere more clearly than in its language. A test I often employ for my actors is the sound "ld". The sound does not exist in the English language. As far as I'm aware, it is unique to the languages of the sub-continent. In losing the ability to make this sound, we lose the particular flavour, the russ of a culture. It irritates me no end that we have presenters and newscasters who cannot articulate Asian words without anglicising them. It is possible to be fluent in several languages. But is there a quality control insisting upon it ? The minimum respect one can pay to another is to get the other's name right: i.e., as they would pronounce it. It is more often to see white presenters taking the trouble to do so than Asian ones. It is as if the Asian can only announce his or her modernity or membership of the club by mis-pronouncing Asian names & words. Rather like Customs & Immigration. Whenever I return to Heathrow from abroad, I always find the Asian Immigration Officials worse than white ones. Confronted by an Asian, it seems the official is desperate to prove his or her credentials to colleagues by being harsher on fellow ethnics !
So, the cultural change that is underway through the media seems to exist on the axis of a contradiction: on the one hand a desperate desire to & an enthusiasm for presenting Asian aspects of life in Britain; on the other, an equally desperate desire to please the "mainstream" - to be like everyone else.
There is an observation of Mahatma Gandhi's that comes to mind - as apt now as when it was first articulated in the 1920s: 'I want the winds of the world to blow freely about my house; but I don't want those to sweep me off my feet' !
Asians, peculiarly, I think, seem to feel that there is a contradiction between being Asian and being part of the mainstream. A contradiction that, on the whole, is not apparent amongst the Afro-Caribbean or the Jewish communities. A possible reason could be the lack, in Britain, of any formal network of business entrepreneurs on the one hand and artists and intellectuals on the other.
It seems to me that in the 50th anniversary year of India and Pakistan's independence - as much as the year when Hong Kong reverts to China and the British Empire is finally laid to rest - we need to consider a more pertinent "independence" project for Asians in Britain. An independence not of territory but of the spirit and the image. As migrants and descendants of migrants, we perhaps more so than any other, are "imagined communities" - to use the phrase of the cultural analyst, Benedict Anderson. Consider the term "Asian" itself: a complete mis-nomer, of meaning only in Britain, whose origin dates back only 30 years, when the exodus from Kenya occurred.
Our need - which is the need of every healthy human community - is for stories of ourselves. Be it of the 1st Asian MP (way back in 1895) or of shampoo (whose etymology lies in the Hindi word "champa" - the act of massaging the hair with oil: a practice foreign to Europeans before the 18th century).
It seems to me that our very evident visuality in the British landscape is our problem: we are not black enough to be Black, nor white enough to pass-off as English men and women; as well as being too Asian to be Indian and too Indian to be English !
What, then, to suggest be placed on the Asian Agenda for British Public Policy ? To assert, unashamedly, the Asian-ization of Britain through:
a body to encourage and facilitate business involvement in the arts ( along the lines of the Association of Business Sponsorship of the Arts). If Asian Business considers it unnecessary to involve itself with the Media and Arts, it will be taking too short-term a view of itself: image sells, today, more than ever before.
the establishment of a media monitoring body; to gather data on Asian presence and representation in the Media as a whole; and lobby for changes
Finally, to return to my notion of an "independence project", I'll conclude with a photograph, a text and an image. These all bespeak an independence of spirit, of the imagination, not of narrow territoriality.
The photograph is from Gandhi's visit to London in 1933, to attend the Round-Table Conference. Invited to tea with King George V, Gandhi chose to sit in the august imperial presence dressed in his usual garb of dhoti and shawl. Asked by reporters afterwards why he'd chosen to dress so sparingly, a smiling Gandhi replied that George V was dressed well enough for both of them !
The text I have in mind is an extraordinary couplet by Ghalib, writing at a time when it was obvious that the world he had known was changing irrevocably:
Humm wahan hain jahaan humko bhi kuchh hamaari khabar nahin aati ("I am in that place where I am a stranger to myself")
And finally, an image, from the greatest writer of our times, Salman Rushdie: in Midnight's Children, there looms the character of the Rani of Cooch Naheen, whose disease is that her skin's turning white !
Sorry, there has been an error. Please retry.
Thank you for signing up to the Mailing List


text:
On insurance, ugly truth | Oct. 8, commentary
Insurers deserve no sympathy
State Sen. J.D. Alexander painted an ugly picture of what might happen when Florida gets hit by the next major storm. With insurance companies driven from the state, taxpayers would be hit with the bill. So I guess the only solution is to allow insurance companies to raise rates at will and run unregulated around the state building enough reserves so they will be there for us.
But what's wrong with this picture?
Last fall taxpayers had to bail out AIG, the largest insurance company in the world, to the tune of some $180 billion. That amounts dwarfs the $14 billion shortfall Alexander claims we would be facing should a major storm hit a metropolitan area.
Now, tell me again why we need to allow private insurers to hide profits with Florida-only companies while overcharging Floridians for coverage, denying legitimate claims and dropping longtime customers?
When Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, insurers passed the bulk of the claims on to the federal government by classifying them as flood damage. Taxpayers paid the majority of Katrina claims. Does anyone really think that should the big one hit, Nationwide (Florida) will be on our side or we'll be in good hands with Allstate (Florida) or that like a good neighbor State Farm (Florida) will be there?
These are companies that claim that after four years of collecting premiums with no storm claims they are losing money. Think again.
William Adams, St. Petersburg
Jingle adjustment
With Nationwide Insurance Co. dropping policies for 60,000 homeowners in Florida, perhaps Nationwide should change its jingle to "Nationwide is on your side … Not!"
Susan Hart-Medvin, Tampa
Take away Congress' insurance | Oct. 9, Nicholas Kristof column
Health care system shouldn't be based on profit
How can citizens influence those people in Congress, particularly the senators on the Finance Committee who are trying to reform the health care system, when they owe their seats in Congress and the majority of their campaign funds to lobbyists and pressure groups that want to maintain the status quo? Some of the more important issues are:
1. How can we prevent a citizen from going bankrupt because he or she could not pay their medical bills?
2. How can we prevent insurance companies from practicing medicine without a license for the sake of making greater profits?
3. How can we develop a system of universal health care for all?
Good health is not a privilege for the wealthy and the influential but a right for all U.S. citizens — not illegal aliens.
Our system should not be based on how to maximize profits but how to provide better health care at a much lower price to every man, woman and child who is a U.S. citizen.
Donald Rothschild Levy, Seminole
Inept government
For months following Minnesota's I-35W bridge collapse in 2007, the major media outlets, including the Associated Press and NPR, ran story after story about how the U.S. infrastructure is, according to NPR "crumbling."
Michael Cooper's Jan. 27 story in the New York Times states, "Leaky pipes lose an estimated seven billion gallons of clean drinking water every day. And aging sewage systems send billions of gallons of untreated wastewater cascading into the nation's waterways each year."
Why does the media omit the fact that politicians in government are the ones running the "crumbling infrastructure" programs? For months now these same major media outlets are running story after story in support of government-run health care. Anyone with a shred of common sense knows that the same government politicians who can't figure out how to paint a bridge or repair a leaking sewer pipe is in no way capable of running health care.
J. Hutson, Tampa
Ineffective reform
As a former health insurance company CEO, it sickens me to witness how our gutless Congress is dropping the ball on health care reform. What they pass in the name of reform will do little to control the growth of health care costs. As our leaders declare victory, insurance and pharmaceutical company CEOs will smile, having again ducked the bullet of real reform. Costs will moderate for a year or two and then soar once again.
Where is an examination of health care waste? We spend 30 percent of all health care dollars on overhead and insurance company profits. We pay much higher prices for our prescription drugs than Canadians do, and waste 30 percent on the overuse, underuse and misuse of medical procedures. Little that is being proposed will put a dent in these areas of waste.
The option that would address this waste is not even on the table for discussion. That is the single-payer option. It would save more than $550 billion each year by reducing overhead and profit costs, reducing drug prices, and by ensuring every American has access to routine and preventive care and chronic disease management. These reforms would more than fund the cost of the uninsured.
The fact that Congress did not even allow this option to be studied shows just how gutless and deeply in the pockets of the health care lobbyists they are.
Alan Jacobs, New Port Richey
Numbers back up claim on premiums Oct. 8, PolitiFact
Questionable calculation
I consider my checkbook to be the "definitive source" for health insurance costs, so I must disagree with the Kaiser Family Foundation. From 2001 to 2008, my premiums increased by 38 percent — less than half of the 89 percent increase cited for family coverage. I have had the same family policy, the same number of dependents and the same level of coverage and deductibles for each year.
I doubt the Kaiser numbers are based on such an apples-to-apples comparison. No doubt they are skewed by growing families, families that moved and then had to obtain a new policy, and families that lost coverage through a job change and then had to pay more for a pre-existing condition, among other factors.
Health insurance certainly could use some reform, but let's not inflate the numbers.
Peter Ford, Tierra Verde
Health reform passes hurdle | Oct. 8, story
Befuddled by the funding
Okay, now I get it. The way we will pay for this great new government medical program is "by reducing spending on Medicare and other federal health programs" by $400 billion. Of course, those are great government programs, too. It is just that they cost more than we can afford if we want to have this other great new government program.
And when it turns out that this great new government program costs more than we can afford, then we will … we will …
Oops, I think I lost it. Could you explain it again for me?
Barry Augenbraun, St. Petersburg