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Miss Daisy's Antiques in downtown Perry catches fire
Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:37:23 GMT —
Firefighters were called to Miss Daisy's Antiques on Main Street in Perry, Mo. at 6:50 a.m. Monday.
The 9-1-1 call came in when an employee of the adjoining post office building noticed smoke.
When firefighters first arrived on the scene, they saw smoke coming from the downtown area and there was concern about the location of the fire and the and the possibility of it spreading quickly through the downtown buildings.
The building suffered major smoke and water damage.
According to Perry Fire Chief Thomas Ragland, the fire originated in the basement of Miss Daisy's in an electrical box, however, investigators are waiting for the Missouri State Fire Marshal to come in.
Ragland confirmed no one was hurt. A couple lives upstairs, but they were not in town at the time of the fire.
The State Fire Marshal investigates every time there is a fire inside a residence.
KHQA will bring you more information when it becomes available.


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With spring comes the annual wage negotiations, when unions press employers for higher pay. These days, however, an increasing number of the workers at the bargaining table are themselves in the autumn of life — 60 or older.
Not only does Senior Union Tokyo, formed last December, help its members campaign for wage increases and improvements in other working conditions, it also plans to petition the Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry on Friday for job security for older workers.
"Some senior workers who want to continue to work at their companies after retirement age complain that their wages have been cut by 30 percent to 40 percent although they do the same jobs (as before)," said Kiyotsugu Shitara, general secretary of the union. "We want to stop such unreasonable treatment in the workplace for senior employees."
As the labor market shrinks, the government is trying to create an environment in which people can work until they turn 65. In fact, more seniors need to continue to work after formally retiring because the age they become eligible to receive pension benefits has been moving up gradually since 2001 from 60 to 65.
To address this issue, the revised Law Concerning Stabilization of Employment of Old Persons, which took effect in April 2006, obliges employers to do one of three things: abolish the retirement age, extend it to 65, or rehire workers after formal retirement up to age 65. The revision is silent on the amount of salary employers must offer the older workers they rehire.
While many companies have begun re-employing workers after retirement, some seniors complain that the law in fact fails to ensure job security and reasonable working conditions.
After formally retiring from Tokyo Cablevision, a foundation promoting the spread of cable TV, last July, Kazuko Hirakawa found that she had fallen through the cracks in the law when her company declined to re-employ her. "I was shocked because I never thought I wouldn't be rehired," the 60-year-old said.
Hirakawa suspects that a confrontation between her and the foundation's management was behind the decision.
In 2005, she had filed a damages lawsuit against the foundation, claiming it has a sexually discriminatory promotion system, and on her Web blog she also wrote about a foundation executive's comments that she regarded as sexual harassment.
"Employers can refuse to hire those employees they don't like" regardless of their competence in the workplace, said Hirakawa, who is also a member of Senior Union Tokyo.
Criteria for re-employing seniors are agreed upon between labor — either corporate labor unions or other employee representatives — and management. Thus, if these criteria are not met, a company is not obliged to rehire a worker.
The foundation's evaluation of Hirakawa's performance over the previous year did not satisfy one of the four points stipulated in its criteria for its re-employment system, which was agreed upon by an employee representative in 2006, a foundation official said.
Her blog damaged the foundation's reputation, a violation of its employment rules, and thus lowered her evaluation below the level required for re-employment, the official said.
Hirakawa is now living off her savings while petitioning the Tokyo Labor Committee to mediate her case with the foundation.
Those lucky enough to be rehired, however, may find themselves facing harsh working conditions, noted Masami Tamai, 59, another Senior Union Tokyo member who will retire from a company in Saitama Prefecture in June.
Under his company's rules, retiring workers are rehired on a one-year contract basis, their salaries are cut by 40 percent to 70 percent and the cuts continue year after year.
The reduction is a blow to workers who still have mortgage payments or are putting their children through school, Tamai said.
"The current re-employment system can make seniors' lives unstable," Tamai said.
In fact, a survey conducted in October 2006 by the Japan Institute for Labor Policy and Training shows that 89.4 percent of 1,051 companies that have a postretirement re-employment system rehire seniors on a one-year or shorter contract basis.
Forty-four percent of the companies said the workers receive 60 percent to 70 percent of their previous wages, while 29.5 percent said their salaries were half or less.
Cutting the salaries of seniors may be a reasonable step for employers that want to reduce personnel expenses, said Atsuhiro Yamada, an associate professor of labor economics at Keio University in Tokyo.
"In general, their salary levels at the time of retirement are out of balance with their productivity levels," he said. "The problem is that some employers cut senior workers' wages too drastically. . . . By doing so, they may be trying to discourage seniors from wanting to continue to work after retirement."
If companies rehired at the same wage level all the employees who wanted to continue to work after retiring, it would force employers to reduce the number of new graduates they hire, Yamada said.
Yamada said the problems senior workers face reflect the reality of Japan's seniority-based employment system: There is a wide gap in wages between regular employees under the traditional lifetime employment system and those on short-term contracts.
"When senior workers begin working on a short-term contract after retirement, they may for the first time find out about the terrible working conditions for a nonregular worker," Yamada said.
To increase job security for seniors as well as other nonregular workers, companies need to promote a productivity-based salary system, he said.
"The current re-employment system for senior workers is in a transitional stage," Yamada said, adding that workers need to think more about working conditions for nonregular workers at their companies as well as postretirement jobs, before they retire.

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Pavel Stehule wrote: > > The problem that we face is that we don't have any very good way to tell > > whether a fresh planning attempt is likely to yield a plan significantly > > better than the generic plan. ?I can think of some heuristics --- for > > example if the query contains LIKE with a parameterized pattern or a > > partitioned table --- but that doesn't seem like a particularly nice > > road to travel. > > > > A possible scheme is to try it and keep track of whether we ever > > actually do get a better plan. ?If, after N attempts, none of the custom > > plans were ever more than X% cheaper than the generic one, then give up > > and stop attempting to produce custom plans. ?Tuning the variables might > > be challenging though. > > I afraid so every heuristic is bad. Problem is identification of bad > generic plan. And nobody ensure, so non generic plan will be better > than generic. Still I thing we need some way for lazy prepared > statements - plan is generated everytime with known parameters. Yea, this opens a whole host of questions for me: 1. Why do we only do bind-level planning for anonymous wire-level queries? 2. I realize we did anonymous-only because that was the only way we had in the protocol to _signal_ bind-time planning, but didn't we think of this when we were implementing the wire-level protocol? 3. Do we have no place to add this cleanly without a protocol version bump? 4. Why don't we just always do planning at first bind time? When is that worse than using generic values? 5. Why have we not added an option for SQL-level prepare to do this? 6. When do our generic columns costs significantly worse than having specific constants? I assume unique columns are fine with generic constants. 7. Why is there no option to do parameterized-queries which replan every time? This just seems like an area that has been neglected, or maybe I am missing something and our current setup is acceptable. We have done a lot of work to generate acceptable optimizer statistics, but we are not using them for a significant part of our user base, particularly JDBC. We do have a TODO item, but it has gotten little attention: Allow finer control over the caching of prepared query plans Currently anonymous (un-named) queries prepared via the libpq API are planned at bind time using the supplied parameters --- allow SQL PREPARE to do the same. Also, allow control over replanning prepared queries either manually or automatically when statistics for execute parameters differ dramatically from those used during planning. -- Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
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NATO withdraws Kabul personnel after two U.S. soldiers are killed
- By Jennifer RowlandJennifer Rowland is a research associate in the National Security Studies Program at the New America Foundation.
Danger zone: An Afghan security official on Saturday shot and killed two U.S. soldiers inside a highly secure area of the Interior Ministry in Kabul, prompting NATO commander Gen. John Allen to order all NATO personnel out of Afghan ministries (NYT,Post, Tel, Reuters, AP, CNN, WSJ, LAT). The Taliban claimed that the shooter was an insurgent infiltrator, as Afghan officials identified an Afghan police intelligence officer named Abdul Saboor as the main suspect, and a search for him is underway (BBC). Several Afghans also died Saturday as protests continued across the country; six were killed when protesters tried to storm the U.S. Consulate in Herat, and at least three were killed when protesters tried to storm the United Nations compound in Kunduz (NYT, AFP, CNN BBC).
The riots slowed on Sunday, but remained fierce in northern Afghanistan, where protesters threw a grenade that injured at least six U.S. service members (NYT, CNN,AP). President Karzai on Sunday called on all Afghans to resist partaking in violent retaliation against NATO for troops' Quran burnings last week, and said he supports NATO's decision to withdraw its personnel from Afghan ministries (Post). And a delegation of Afghan leaders, including the defense and interior ministers, have cancelled a trip to the United States scheduled for this week in order to deal with the unrest sweeping the country (AP, Bloomberg).
A suicide car bomber slammed his vehicle into the gates of a NATO base and airport in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Monday, killing at least nine Afghans in the latest attack claimed by the Taliban in revenge for the burning on Qurans (AP, Guardian, Tel,BBC, Reuters). Over 30 people have died during the wave of violent protests, including four U.S. troops. The Taliban also claimed responsibility for poisoned food discovered by an Afghan dining facility worker over the weekend, which did not end up causing anyone to become sick (CNN, AFP). U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker said Sunday that the U.S. strategy in the country will not change, but the events of the last week have reportedly fueled doubts within the U.S. government about the reliability of their Afghan partners (Reuters, AP, NYT, Post, AP).
And a spokesman for Afghanistan's intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), said Monday that a senior diplomat in the Foreign Ministry and three other government officials had been arrested on charges of spying for Pakistan and Iran (AFP).
Not-so-secret warning
U.S. officials said Friday that a top-secret cable sent by Ambassador Crocker to Washington last month warned that the continued existence of safe havens for militants in Pakistan's tribal regions is threatening the success of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan (Post). The cable specifies that the U.S. has failed to contain the Taliban-allied Haqqani Network, claims that could be used by U.S. military officials who want the U.S. to take more forceful action against the Haqqanis in Pakistan. Pakistani workers in Abbottabad on Sunday completed the demolition of the three-story compound in which former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was found and killed by U.S. Navy SEALs last May (NYT,Tel, AFP, AP).
The Associated Press has completed an on-the-ground investigation into the civilian toll of U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan, finding that the strikes kill far fewer civilians than Pakistanis are often led to believe (AP). An AP reporter who spoke to around 80 villagers who live near the sites of 10 attacks that have taken place in the last year and a half in North Waziristan, was told that the overwhelming majority of people killed were militants. U.S. officials rejected a Taliban claim on Saturday that the insurgent group had shot down a U.S. drone that crashed near the village of Machikhel in North Waziristan (Reuters, CNN, Dawn, AFP, ET, AP).
At least seven people were killed in Nowshera on Monday when a bomb was detonated following an Awami National Party (ANP) rally (ET, Dawn). Some 16 militants and two security personnel were killed during clashes in Pakistan's tribal belt on Sunday (ET,Dawn).
Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar has invited a leader of Kashmir's All Parties Hurriyet Conference (APHC), Syed Ali Geelani, to visit Pakistan, according to a statement issued by Geelani's spokesperson (ET). And the Indian military is planning a massive wargames exercise near the border with Pakistan next month involving 20,000 troops (AFP).
Hog wild
Authorities in Islamabad are struggling to contain the city's latest growing threat, wild boars that have already managed to breach the gates of a police station and injure an officer (AP). Police chief Fayaz Tanooli said "The pig was like a terrorist. We shot him down" after it charged at one officer, leaving him with a gash in his stomach that required eight stitches.
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Thank you for all the solutions you sent to this problem. Akash from South Island School used clear reasoning to reach an answer:
If the number's digits add up to an even number, then the digits will be either odd & odd or even & even.
If the ones digit is twice as much as the tens digit, then both the digits must be even. This is because of the fact that if an odd digit is multiplied by $2$, the product is always even.
Till now: Solution has even & even digits. The number is smaller than $25$. This means that the first digit has to be $2$. If the first digit is $2$, $2\times2=4$.
So the answer is $24$.
By the way, the number could be $00$ as well if it is counted.
Katarina, and Syed from Foxford School and Community College, both used the same method. Syed says:
To solve this problem I go through one clue at a time and use my elimination skill to find out what the number is:
Clue 1 : 'I am less than $25$'
So from this clue I list all the numbers below $25$.
$1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24$
Clue 2 : 'My unit digit is twice my tens digit'
This clue can be split into smaller clues:
'It has a tens and unit digit'
So now I get rid of all the numbers from the list from clue 1 that don't apply to this clue. So I have:
$10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24$
'Its unit digit is twice its tens digit'
$12, 24$
Clue 3: 'My digits add up to an even number'
$1 + 2 = 3$ which not an even number so that it can only be:
Alexis approached the problem slightly differently. He wrote:
Many of you used Alexis' method, including Alex and Phoebe from Newton Poppleford Primary. Finally, Michaela from St Michael's C of E Primary had another way of solving the problem:
But why did you only write down the even numbers to start with, Michaela? How did you know the answer was even?
Well done all of you for explaining your reasoning so clearly.


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Hello all! It's time for a pregnancy update! The weeks are going by fast now! Last week I shared how week 21 went. Today I'm going to share about how week 22 of pregnancy went!
Week 22
How I feel – This week I finally got sick for the first time since being pregnant. I thought I was going to make it through the flu season without catching anything. In fact, I think I was just bragging about it to someone last week – shoot! Wednesday and part of Thursday I had a fever and cold symptoms. Now I'm just constantly congested and coughing a little (mostly just a dry throat).
Waddling? – It's still just a slight waddle.
Total weight gain/loss? – Gained 1 pound this week – now at a 13 pound gain overall.
Sleep – Twice this week I woke up at 4am and couldn't go back to sleep. I think that's what led to me succumbing to the fever and cold.
What do I do when I wake that early? Either surf the web or read a book on my phone. Then, when I know I'm not going to fall back asleep I get out of bed and sort through my pile of magazines I'm weeding out. I'm cutting out a few articles/recipes I want to keep, them I'm going to see if I can give these to someone else who want to read through them.
Movement – YES!! It's so fun to feel her move and kick. I even felt hiccups for the first time this week!
Wedding ring on or off? – Still on.
Best moment last week? – Shopping at Home Goods with my husband. We walked through the kids section, oooh-ing and mostly aaaah-ing and the pink girly stuff. I took a picture of this adorable rocking chair:
I was going to send it to the Grandparents and see who wanted to buy it for Baby Girl's Nursery,
but when I checked back just 2 days later it was already gone!! Oh well, she wouldn't have enjoyed the rocking chair for a while yet….but it would have looked really cute in her nursery!
What we DID buy at Home Goods:
– 4 adorable fabric bins (2 which we had to return since they were 1/4″ too wide)
– 20 baby pink hangers!!
Cravings – No cravings this week. Too sick to enjoy food for the most part. The night I had the fever I asked for ice cream, but my husband suggested I just finish my meal which I had put aside and forgotten. So, I finished my spaghetti instead.
What I am looking forward to – Working on putting the nursery together. Step 1 – covering the blue glider we have!
Our little "June Bug's" Growth
We've been taking photos since week 6 and showing a fruit or vegetable in the picture that is the same size as our little "June Bug". Last week: our little girl was 10.5 inches in length (carrot) and three quarters of a pound in weight. This week: 11 inches long and 1 pound in weight. (Picture to come soon – I've been too sick/busy to take a picture.)
Linking up at The Friday Baby Shower.


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Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Senior Judge Will Garwood (pictured) died in an Austin hospital on Thursday from complications related to a heart attack. He was 79. Then-President Ronald Reagan appointed Garwood to the 5th Circuit in 1981. Garwood also briefly served on the Texas Supreme Court in 1979 when then-Gov. Bill Clements appointed him to that bench, making him the first Republican to serve on the Texas high court since Reconstruction, but he was later defeated in the 1980 general election by Democrat C.L. Ray, says 5th Circuit Chief Judge Edith Jones. Jones, who served on the court with Garwood for 26 years, says Garwood "was regarded by all of us as the finest gentleman and one of the finest legal minds we've had the pleasure to work with. He had an incredible ability to recall legal cases and precedent, and he worked harder than any other judge on the court to perfect his opinions." Garwood wrote many notable opinions after he took senior status in January 1997, chief among them U.S. v. Emerson, a 2001 opinion that was the first in decades to find that individuals have a right to bear arms under the Second Amendment. Jones says Garwood worked hard on every opinion he issued, but he couldn't always produce the kind of opinion he wanted while he served as an active judge because of the docket pressures of the busy court. "When he was a senior judge he could work at his own pace. And that was why he was able to turn out these incredibly scholarly opinions," Jones says. A service for Garwood will be held on July 29 at 1 p.m. at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Austin.
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CLEARWATER, Fla. -- They've played nearly 50 postseason games together, made history together, built a golden age for their franchise together. But now what?
They've made a case for themselves as the greatest first baseman, second baseman and shortstop in the history of the Philadelphia Phillies. But now what?
Now the first baseman, Ryan Howard, hasn't set foot on a baseball field in more than two weeks.
Now the second baseman, Chase Utley, has run his streak of spring training games missed over the past two years to 46 in a row.
Now the shortstop, Jimmy Rollins, finds himself five years removed from his MVP season, trying to prove he's still That Guy.
Two years ago this time, when the third baseman, Placido Polanco, showed up to join them, virtually no one debated that these men formed the best infield in the National League, maybe the best infield in baseball. But it's time to wonder again: Now what?
Asked if it's still allowable to call this group The Best Infield In The League, here in the strange spring of 2012, even Rollins has to think about it. You can practically watch the gears in his brain gyrate. Then he answers -- with a question of his own:
"Who's in our infield now?" he laughs.
Hey, excellent question. Not Howard. Still dealing with Achilles tendon surgery and an infection near his heel. Not Utley. Still easing his way into the spring because of degenerative knee and hip issues. Not even Polanco on most days this spring so far. Still being treated cautiously after sports-hernia surgery last fall.
So that leaves Rollins, a fellow who has spent 83 days on the disabled list himself over the past two seasons but now looks like Cal Ripken Jr. compared to his supporting cast. Asked if he misses his partners in crime, Rollins retorts: "Not yet. You don't miss anybody in spring training."
"But if we start the season that way?" he adds, ominously. "Woooooo-ooh."
If they start the season that way? Now there's a sentence that could inspire panic on the Broad Street Subway. But before people start pulling emergency cords all over town, they should know the manager and general manager both say that's not the plan.
The manager, Charlie Manuel, says Polanco will start playing regularly any day now. The general manager, Ruben Amaro Jr., says of Utley: "I fully expect Chase to be our second baseman Opening Day."
But in truth, Utley's actual schedule is still shrouded in secrecy. And you'd have a better shot at picking all 67 March Madness games than you'd have of guessing when Howard will be back.
So there are still serious questions hovering over an infield that has suddenly gone from star-studded to star-crossed faster than you can say: "Call Dr. Andrews." And given what these men have meant to this franchise -- and what they still mean -- it's not a stretch to say they hold the fate of the 2012 Phillies in their hands.
Not to mention in their knees, their hipbones, their hamstrings and, especially, their Achilles tendons.
"They've been the core of our team, haven't they?" Manuel says, without hesitation. "Well, they still are. We still depend on them."
Unlike most clubs, the Phillies teams that have won five straight NL East titles have been built largely around their infield, not their outfield. That's where this team has traditionally looked for much of its production -- and gotten it.
Howard leads all active players in home run ratio. Utley leads all active second basemen in career slugging and OPS. Among active shortstops, Rollins is second only to Derek Jeter in runs scored, runs created and Wins Above Replacement. And Polanco, though he's missed 70 games in his two years as a Phillie, did start an All-Star Game.
So they lead the league in credentials. But when the manager is asked if that means he still thinks they make up the best infield around, Manuel has no choice but to answer: "They've gotta get healthy and get on the field."
And that's a problem that didn't just start this spring. A week into Polanco's first season as a Phillie in 2010, the Phillies were 5-1 and rolling -- until Rollins popped his calf muscle running sprints before the home opener. Since then, this team has played 318 regular-season games -- and run all four starting infielders out there in only 59 of them.
Never once, in all that time, have they started all four for longer than seven regular-season games in a row. And last year, they couldn't get past five in a row.
But never has the health outlook seemed murkier than it has this spring, thanks to the haze of uncertainty that has wafted over Howard and Utley. Nobody has had a closer view than Rollins, after all these years of playing alongside both of them. And he's clearly worried about his two longtime compadres. Here's his take:
ON HOWARD: "I don't know what to think, honestly," Rollins says. "If you ask me, with this infection, I don't know if he's going to play this year, because after all the work that he's done, now he's got to hit the reset button."
Like most of us, Rollins didn't graduate from medical school during the offseason. But he's had enough leg issues of his own lately to believe he has a good feel for how Howard's issues will affect him over the months to come.
"I mean, the leg is naturally going to atrophy if it's in a boot all this time and you're not getting the full use out of it," Rollins says. "So he's built up strength, but it's not like he was 100 percent [before]. Now he needs to take a step back, and he's probably back down to the 25 to 40 percent range.
"And it's a tough injury," Rollins goes on. "It's not like he's 150 pounds. He's a big man. And that's a very important part of his game, being able to be on his legs. He doesn't use his legs for speed like me. He uses his legs for power. So if he doesn't have any [strength in his] legs, all that power just goes away."
We should note that the Phillies disagree with this take and continue to put as happy a face on Howard's prognosis as possible. Amaro even says a return sometime in May is "still possible." But Dr. Rollins isn't so sure.
If you ask me, with this infection, I don't know if he's going to play this year, because after all the work that he's done, now he's got to hit the reset button.
"-- Jimmy Rollins on Ryan Howard
"Oh, he's definitely out for two months. I can pretty much guarantee you that," Rollins says. "And probably nothing before the All-Star break, unless it's like Albert Pujols' fracture [which magically healed itself in two weeks last summer]."
Somewhere out there beyond the horizon, Rollins predicts, Howard will be OK. But he still thinks his buddy faces a longer haul than almost anyone has suggested.
"You can come back from this injury," Rollins says. "There's no doubt. But I don't think you come back at the rate and have the success and the strength in your leg and the confidence that it won't happen again.
"Over the long term, [he'll] be fine," Rollins says. "But that's where 'long term' is meaning, like, a year and a half. That's when he'll do something and he'll say, 'You know what? That didn't bother me.' And that's when you know you're fine, and you can go out there every single day and not have to worry about it."
Can the Phillies survive if Howard isn't himself until 2013? Well, they can't replace those 35 to 40 bombs a year. So they'd have to find other ways to win. "Good thing," said one NL executive, "they can pitch."
ON UTLEY: For the second straight spring training, Rollins has gone through an entire camp without playing with his double-play partner of the past 7½ years. And while Manuel portrays Utley's absence this spring as a matter of just "saving bullets," Rollins is concerned about the reason for saving those bullets in the first place.
"It's really the same thing as last year," Rollins says. "[Utley's knee trouble] is just one of those things where the more you use it, the more it's going to nag you. And like last year, trying to plant and turn a double play is going to really give him problems. And going to his right and trying to throw back to first -- going to get that ball and not having any legs to throw, he's probably not going to try to make that play anymore.
"So I think his [injury] is more of a long-term thing. It's like the opposite of Ryan. Ryan's is more of a shorter-term type of injury. You heal it. It gets fixed. And after a while, you have the confidence you're not hurt. With something like Chase, you've got your degenerative hip and the knee that's on the same side, and they're all related.
"You've got [a muscle] that runs from the hip to the inside of the knee and it's putting all types of different pressures on it. So you shave the hipbone down, but the muscle length is still the same. And the muscles treat the body like it's normal. Regardless of what the hipbone says, the muscle hasn't changed. So that's something that's not going to change."
Get all that? Well, the manager puts it a lot simpler, saying, succinctly, that "what Chase has doesn't go away." So Manuel promises to "monitor" his health and workload throughout the season. But the more you hear about Utley's condition, the longer he goes without playing this spring or even participating fully in drills, and the longer his team remains vague about when he'll be ready, the more it becomes clear:
Chase Utley may very well be tough enough and talented enough to be a reasonable facsimile of his old self this year and beyond. But one word you'll never be able to use to describe him again is "healthy."
"You know, you hate to see it," Rollins says. "Such a talented guy. Goes out there, plays hard. The type of guy you want on your team. And then he can't play. And you know it's killing him because he's not the kind of guy who's going to let an injury be the reason he's not going to play. But an injury like this, there's nothing you can do about it, because injuries are going to tell you what you can and can't do."
At the moment, obviously, it's telling us more about what Utley can't do than what he can. And for the Phillies, that's not good.
What has been good so far is the health of Rollins, who has made his bosses happy by reporting "in tremendous shape," says Amaro. Rollins says he no longer goes through the day worrying about whether his calf will blow again at any second, the way he has in the past. And he's got his manager predicting: "I see Rollins having a big season."
Polanco, meanwhile, also looks dramatically healthier than the guy who, by the time last October rolled around, admits it even hurt "to talk, to cough, to laugh."
The other side of this story, though, is that for all four of these men, their 20s have come and departed. Utley and Rollins are both 33 now. Howard is 32. Polanco is 36. So it's hard for them not to ponder whether these injuries can still be filed under "Stuff Happens," or whether they're now living with signs of their own mortality.
"Everybody knows how mortal we are," Rollins says. "There's no doubt about it. Everybody wants to believe they're Superman. The reality is, you aren't. The longer you play this game, and according to how you play this game, something's just going to tweak every once in a while. It's just unfortunate when it all happens to a group of guys at the same time.
"It's wear and tear," Rollins says. "Injury is not according to age, but wear is. Fresh tires versus tires that have been on the road for 1,500 miles already. That's just the way it is."
And that's especially true in the case of this group. Over the five years from 2005 to 2009, Utley averaged 151 games a season and Rollins averaged 154. In Howard's first six full seasons, he's averaged also 154 a year.
"And not only have these guys played a lot of games," says Amaro, "but they've also played a lot of playoff games. We forget about that part of it. They're basically playing an extra month every year -- which is fantastic, and I don't want that to stop, but you also have to keep that under consideration."
So one of those considerations Amaro would like to see is for his favorite 30-something infielders to take a few more days off. But that isn't how any of them -- or the manager -- is wired. So we'll see if that actually happens.
Regardless, what the men who run this team are coming to grips with is that their infield is kind of a microcosm of their entire club -- a little older, significantly more dinged-up but still talented enough, they hope, to find a way. They'll throw a lot less razzle and a lot less dazzle at you than they used to. But they'll be happy to remind you they haven't forgotten how to win.
"We've got guys who are going to catch the ball, we've got hitters who are going to hit and we've got pitchers who are going to pitch," Rollins says. "So if you execute, who's going to beat you? Look at the [San Antonio] Spurs. They're older than we are. But man, they execute. And that's us. We execute."
So all they want to be, Rollins says, is "the team that just does it. It might not look pretty. It might not look fantastic. But that's how I want to be. We used to be that team that looked pretty. But now it's just A-B-C-D. No fireworks. No extra stuff. Just do it."
Oh, they still know how, all right. And they've done it plenty. But for these longtime faces of the Phillies, the standings won't care what they used to do or how they used to feel, because the time has arrived to get it done again. So they'd better get ready. The big question of 2012 is coming -- for all of them:
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After 32 years of living on the banks of the Mississippi, Jim Hamann is packing up a lifetime of memories.
"I'm stressed out. I'm stressed with the way the courts operate. Don't give a guy a chance to do what we are supposed to do," he said.
Hamann started seeing his girlfriend, Delores Bistodeau, in the mid-1980s and moved into the home she shared with her late husband a few years later, but the pair, who'd both been married to other people before, never married each other.
"We loved each other just like everybody else," he said. "There is common law marriage, but Minnesota doesn't recognize that, but we still had it common anyway."
After Bistodeau developed dementia and Alzheimer's, Hamann discovered she had taken out a reverse mortgage on her home, and when she went to stay in a nursing home 7 months ago, Hamann realized the bank actually owns the house and he has no legal claim on the place they shared for 32 years.
"I'm sure this isn't what Delores thought she was getting into when she signed that agreement, but it is a pretty unfortunate outcome," Dayton, Minn. Mayor Tim Mcneil said.
Before the Korean War veteran ended up on the street, former Marine, Greg Kahl, offered Hamann a place to live until he gets into the veterans' home, where he is on the waiting list.
"He's been in this house 32 years done maintenance on it. I think it's wrong. Just because they weren't married, doesn't mean he can't stay," Kahl said.
For now, Hamann is getting ready to begin a new chapter in his life, but he says it's a shame he'll have to close the book on the place he called home for so many years.
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LONDON (January 16, 2007) — Two authors who failed to persuade Britain's High Court that Dan Brown stole their ideas for his blockbuster novel "The Da Vinci Code" were taking their case to the Court of Appeal on Tuesday.
Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh claim that Brown borrowed the central theme of their book "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" for his multimillion-selling thriller. Both books deal with a theory — dismissed by theologians — that Jesus and Mary Magdalene married and had a child, and that the bloodline continues to this day.
In April, Justice Peter Smith ruled that Random House, publisher of "The Da Vinci Code," had not breached the copyright. Smith said Baigent and Leigh's claim had been based on a "selective number of facts and ideas artificially taken out of (the book) for the purpose of the litigation."
Baigent and Leigh were ordered to pay 85 percent of Random House's legal bill, estimated at $2.6 million.
Lawyers for the two authors are asking three appeal court judges to overturn Smith's verdict.
"The Da Vinci Code" has sold more than 40 million copies since its release in March 2003. A film version starring Tom Hanks was released last year.
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Homeschooling: Do I Have to Teach Algebra?
A question that I get asked most often regarding homeschooling a teenager is, "Yes, but how do you teach them stuff like chemistry or algebra"? My short answer is that I don't. Homeschooling a teenager requires less hand holding, as far as I am concerned. You become more of a facilitator and gatherer of resources than a direct instructor of those more erudite subjects. If you don't feel that you know enough about a subject to teach it to your child then you have a few options. One is to get a really good self teaching course for that particular subject, or one that you can both do together (thereby increasing your own knowledge), and the other is to hire someone to teach what you do not know. Homeschooling parents have the uncanny ability to get the experts to teach those kinds of things to their kids anyway. In any case, your child should be at least mildly interested in the subject matter or none of that will make a difference anyway.
If your child is really motivated, then a self-teaching course will do the trick nicely, and it will also allow for the flexibility to explore various offshoots of the material on their own. They can take their time with it and really go for the mastery of the subject. If you are doing the material together then you can figure it out together if you hit some concepts that are particularly difficult. My son wanted very much to do chemistry. I didn't remember much from my own high school chemistry (gee, that says something) so I opted for getting chemistry supplies and a program. I was actually fortunate to borrow supplies so I didn't have to buy them. The program was called "Experiences in Chemistry", and it was basically a book of lab experiments and it explained many of the concepts in Chemistry. My son worked through the labs and the material and that was his chemistry course. We both thought that it was a really good and challenging program of study. We also added on various videotapes from the library and episodes of NOVA to supplement the program. It isn't very difficult to craft your own program, and it is actually very neat to zero in on the things that really interest your child.
Another path that I mentioned is to find an expert to teach your child. One year we had a group of teens that was interested in learning Anthropology. The parents knew about Anthropology, but not enough to really teach it. We got a hold of the state anthropologist and asked him if he'd be interested in teaching some weekly classes to the kids. Now, one thing you have to remember about this is that the experts are thrilled about having an audience to impart their knowledge to. The biggest gain from this is that the expert is usually so passionate about what they have expertise in, that their enthusiasm will be evident and contagious to your child. It will definitely make the learning experience more interesting, as the teacher is not just going through the motions of teaching from a text. Sometimes the experts are so thrilled about the prospect of educating young minds about their subject, they may even offer to do it for free, and they can even be very flexible in their time to do a class. Suffice it to say that this Anthropology class was amazing. The kids were in rapt attention each class and the professor was thrilled to teach it. It was a win-win situation all around, especially to the parents who were grateful to have an expert in the field teach their kids. We have been able to do this numerous times for language instruction, Geology class, History, and a myriad of other subjects.
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Thanks for this post. I am relatively new to your site, but I have been checking on it regularly. So do you have a good recommendation for a 7th-grader who wants to begin algebra? We took a look at next year's scope and sequence for the math curriculum that we are currently using. Except for the introduction of two new concepts, it is entirely a review of stuff she already has a good handle on. We are tired of the busy work and would love to know of a good self-teaching math course! Thanks for your time.
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- January 27, 2007 at 3:07 PM
- Blueberry said...
We have used Teaching Textbooks for math and my daughters love it. They are motivated to teach themselves, but they absolutely love the way the course is taught. It's a bit pricey, but probably the best money spent on homeschooling besides a good phonics program in the beginning.
- January 27, 2007 at 9:18 PM
- Dana said...
One of the goals of the approach we use is to have children "self teaching" by 12. They should have the skills and character needed to teach themselves from available resources. John Adams (I believe John Q., but I'd have to double check) taught himself geometry from a book his father told him he was ready for. So he went to the library and began working.
Of course, a child raised on edutainment won't be ready for such things.
- January 27, 2007 at 10:34 PM
- Blueberry said...
My high schoolers are self teaching this year and they love it. It was my goal after a year of homeschooling, but I didn't think we'd ever get to that point.
You have to be careful about who you talk to about self teaching. Many people are under the impression that there's zero learning taking place, and that all kids are lazy, needing to be prodded and forced to do work.
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Muhammad Asad Khan's solid all-round performance in the semifinals and finals guided the Southern California Cricket Association to wins over Massachusetts State Cricket League by 89 runs in the morning followed by an eight wicket win over Cricket League of New Jersey in the afternoon as the SCCA won the inaugural American Cricket Federation Twenty20 National Tournament on Monday at Woodley Park in Los Angeles, California. Khan was named Tournament MVP for his performances in the event as SCCA knocked off the previously undefeated CLNJ in the final for the title.
SCCA began the day with an explosive batting display in their semifinal match against MSCL. After winning the toss and batting first, SCCA feasted on an MSCL bowling attack that struggled to find the right length. SCCA's batsmen hit 21 fours and four sixes off their 20 overs, finishing on 198 for 6.
Rohit Yadav scored 22 of 24 runs in a first wicket partnership with Clayon Graham before being dismissed by Alexi Martin. Khan joined Graham at the wicket and the pair added 99 runs in 9.2 overs. Graham scored 55 off 34 balls and only had six dot balls in his innings when he was bowled by a Sharaz Baksh yorker. Khan finished with 70 off 43 balls before Baksh claimed him LBW with another yorker to make it 162 for 3 in the 16th over. Timil Patel and Amit Sood added 17 and 18 to boost SCCA to their eventual total, finishing just shy of 200.
Image (right) - Dr. Atul Rai presents Muhammad Asad Khan of the SCCA with the award for Tournament MVP. [Courtesy: Peter Della Penna/DreamCricket.com]
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Image (left) - Shayan Abdulghani receives an SG bat after being named Best Youth Player at the 2012 American Cricket Federation Twenty20. [Courtesy: Peter Della Penna/DreamCricket.com]
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Concerned community business owners and leaders in the Arlingotn community resulted in a plan to host an event in which 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the victims of the recent tornadoes.
The family event and concert is scheduled for this Sunday, April 15th at 1010 Collins Entertainment Center located across from Cowboys Stadium. Christian music performer CARMAN, Grammy Award wining artist Steve Archer and Pheobe will all be performing. The doors will open at 4pm.
"We have to help our community rebuild, said 1010 Collins Entertainment Center Developer and charity event organizer Howard Beckerman. And this benefit will not only raise the necessary funds and items but also show support for these families who have lost everything."
Along with the entertainment provided by the artists, a silent auction and raffle will be held. 1010 Collins Entertainment Center will also collect items for the displaced families, including new household items, toiletries and non-perishable food.
Individual tickets are $30 and for $50 you get an individual ticket and meet and greet with CARMAN. Tickets are available at www.1010collins.ccom/COMMUNITY/INDEX.html.
The venue for the fundraiser, 1010 Collins is located at the corner of North Collins and Randol Mill Road, in North Arlington, across from Cowboys Stadium. For venue information, email@example.com or 214-435-7796.


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Berlin Symphony Orchestra will perform for the first time at St George's Hall, Bradford, in only its second visit to the UK in 40 years.
The concert includes Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Fantasy in F Minor, along with Beethoven Coriolan Overture the conductor is Munich's acclaimed Alexander Liebreich.
The soloist will be pianist Kit Armstrong, acclaimed internationally as a major talent while still studying with Alfred Brendel.
Book tickets for tomorrow's 7.30pm concert on 01274 432000.


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Properties of Medium Density Fibreboard Manufactured from Extracted and Unextracted Acacia Catechu Wood Chips
Mayuree, Doungpet (1990) Properties of Medium Density Fibreboard Manufactured from Extracted and Unextracted Acacia Catechu Wood Chips. Masters project report, Universiti Pertanian Malaysia.
The project was carried out to evaluate the properties of medium density fibreboard from the extracted and unextracted woodchips. The boards were produced with a 13 % urea resin, and a 3 % isocyanate resin to obtain three densities which were targetted at 650, 750, and 850 kg/m³. The same resin concentrations and types were used to produce board of the target density of 750 kg/m³. The properties of the boards from the extracted unextracted materials were determined and compared. and The chemical components of the wood were 64.27 % holocellulose, 35.63 % alhpa-cellulose, 34.38 % lignin and 1.5 % ash, with the pH of 5 to 5.1. The extracted woodchips yielded 88.35 % fibre whilst the unextracted woodchip yielded 77.92 % fibre. The strength properties of boards from the extracted woodchip with 13 % urea resin met the 300-type of JISA 5906 for all three densities . The boards with 3 % isocyanate resin met the 150-type for 650 kg/m3 and 750 kg/m3 and met the 300-type for 850 kg/m³. The urea bonded boards gave higher strength than those bonded by isocyanate resin. The 750 kg/m³ boards from the unextracted woodchip gave higher MOR with the urea than the isocyanate resin
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With the recent influx of cats and kittens at the Humane Society for Inland Mendocino County, the group reminds pet parents it is important to get your animals spayed or neutered. Spay-Neuter Assistance Program for Mendocino County is a volunteer run, non-profit organization, offering assistance to low-income families to help with the costs of spaying or neutering pets.
SNAP helps defray the costs of these procedures with vouchers, which can be used at area veterinary clinics, the Humane Society facility in Redwood Valley or at Mendocino County Animal Care and Control in Ukiah, said SNAP volunteer Judy Williams. The voucher covers a percentage of spay or neutering cost at the veterinary clinics. SNAP vouchers cover nearly the full cost of the procedures at both shelters except for a $25 fee plus $10 for a rabies shot, said Williams.
To apply for SNAP or for more information call 462-7874
Tax-deductible donations to SNAP can be mailed to SNAP, P.O. Box 4, Talmage, CA 95481.


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PEM Marketing Services Manager Vicky Hurst, comments: PEM strives to offer its clients an excellent experience from beginning to end. The vibrant new website is certainly part of that experience. From potential clients who are thinking of using PEM services to clients who have been with us for years, we believe they all will benefit from PEMs new, easy-to-use site, which is full of relevant, timely information that will help make their lives easier. With our culture of client focus, this is just what we were striving for.
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Here's a travel note for Peter King: I only slept about 30 minutes on the redeye I took back from the West Coast on Tuesday night. I was in bad shape the next morning, but not as bad as the man in front of me WHO DIED DURING THE FLIGHT.
It wasn't a complete shock: he was an old, old man, a veteran judging by his camouflage Army cap — old enough certainly to have served in Korea, probably in World War II. He was in the front row on the aisle, having arrived there only with the assistance of crutches and the flight attendants. Swollen ankles bulged from his sneakers, suggesting that blood circulation was not his heart's strong point.
At one point during the flight he was snoring like a 19th century logging factory, and the flight attendant had to wake him up out of deference to the other passengers. When she went to wake him again as we began our final descent, she was less successful. "Well, he's breathing," said a second flight attendant summoned to the scene, but I doubted her diagnosis. From my vantage point in the second row, I could see the flight attendants exchange worried glances and hushed communiques over the phone to the cockpit.
When we landed, a pair of NYPD officers were the first responders. They carried the old man off the plane, and that was the last I saw of him. I suppose it's possible that first aid and medical attention revived him, and now he's back to his previous state of poor health, but I doubt it. I think I flew on a plane with a dead man.
Now, somber situations like this are not my forte. I only became a blogger when it became clear — to both me and all prospective employers — that my complete inability to feign seriousness made me a poor fit for the normal working world. And the normal world in general. With that in mind, here are some handy ways to break the ice when people are all upset that someone has died on your cross-country flight:
• "Don't bother my friend. He's dead tired."
• (to flight attendant) "Suddenly, getting hit in the head with falling luggage doesn't seem so bad, eh?"
• "Ugh, I hate redeyes. I feel like death warmed over."
• "Thank God no one realized he was dead until the final descent. That would have been crazy inconvenient if we'd had to do an emergency landing in Pittsburgh or Buffalo."
• "Well, at least we won't have to wait for our luggage at the carousel."
• "People dying on airplanes is a lot more exciting in the movies."
• "Too bad it's not ten years ago. We could have blamed the airline food."
• "This is why I never go anywhere with my grandparents."
• "Oh, come on! He had friends who died at D-Day. He got, like, 65 extra years of life."


text: Director Prem was about to direct Sudeep's untitled film to be producer Nimishambha Chandrashekhar. But, now there are reports that the director opted out of the film, due to his date hussel. The makers of the film are still in search for director to start the shoot. Meanwhile, Prem has cleared that he has got three film to direct, hence he requested his producer the issue and opted out.


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GP GMO update 10/30/97
* (clipped from London Times October 22 1997) Ladybirds ( ladybugs
in US) harmed in transgenic crop test BY NIGEL HAWKES SCIENCE EDITOR
SCIENTISTS in Scotland have urged caution in the introduction of
genetically modified crops after discovering that they could harm
Nick Birch and a team from the Scottish Crop Research Institute in
Dundee found that female ladybirds that ate aphids that had fed on
genetically modified potatoes laid fewer eggs and lived only half as
long as the average. The team tested a potato plant that had been
modified to produce a natural insecticide that discouraged aphids
from feeding on them. The team found that the modified potatoes did
indeed suffer reduced attack but the cut, of 50 per cent, was
insufficient on its own, so it was important that ladybirds also did
their work. The team says in the institute's annual report that the
ladybirds continued to eat the aphids but the effects suggested that
such crops could have unexpected consequences.
* (clipped from Reuters, 10/22/97) Monsanto posts Q3 loss after R&D
write-off charge
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Reuters [BR] via Individual Inc. : Monsanto Co.
Tuesday reported a third-quarter loss of $133 million, including a
$270 million charge for research and development costs, compared with
year-ago profits of $170 million. The loss equaled 23 cents a share,
compared with earnings of 28 cents a share a year earlier. Sales rose
to $1.7 billion from $1.4 billion. The results also included chemical
operations that were spun off to shareholders in September, which
contributed $34 million or 5 cents a share, in the latest quarter,
compared with income of $63.0 million, or 10 cents a share, a year
ago. Its continuing operations -- agriculture, pharmaceutical and
food ingredients -- lost $167 million after the charge for a
write-off of research and development costs related to its
acquisition of Holden's Foundation Seeds Inc. Excluding the charge,
Monsanto's pretax income from continuing operations rose to $163
million in the quarter from $134 million a year earlier. Nicholas
Filippello, chief economist for the St. Louis-based company, said
some of the rise in pretax earnings was due to strength in Monsanto's
Roundup herbicide, which may have pulled some sales from the fourth
quarter. ``So from that standpoint, the third quarter was somewhat
stronger than we had estimated a month or two ago,'' he said in a
telephone interview. Excluding the research and development charge,
Monsanto's agricultural sector earned $141 million -- a record for
the third quarter -- up from $100 million a year earlier. Sales rose
to $672 million from $556.0 million, bolstered by strong Roundup
sales. Pharmaceutical earnings rose to $77 million, including a $49
million gain related to the sale of rights to three oral
contraceptive products, from $55 million. Filippello said the sale of
the product rights and related agreements will help Monsanto fund
clinical trials for products in its pharmaceutical pipeline. ``You
should anticipate that over the course of the next year, we should
probably see some fairly important partnering deals in
pharmaceuticals,'' he said, but gave no details. In agriculture,
Monsanto also is considering a possible alliance to complement
operations that include the development of genetically engineered
crops, he said. ``We've made no secret that we have continued to look
at a number of possible different relationships,'' he said.
* (clipped from the Wellington (New Zealand) Newspapers Limited,
The Dominion
October 23, 1997
A BILL that would have forced the labelling of genetically modified
foods was rejected by Parliament last night.
The bill, put forward by Alliance MP Phillida Bunkle, would have
required manufacturers and distributors to disclose which foods
were genetically modified. They are not now required to do so.
Ms Bunkle told Parliament it was a fundamental right that people
be told what they were eating, particularly as the long-term
effects of genetically modified food were unknown.
There are about 40 applications for field tests of genetic
changes to plants and animals before the Environment Ministry's
interim assessment committee. Ms Bunkle said the risks of such
bio-technology were unknown. [...] Associate Health Minister
Tuariki Delamere said the Government voted against the bill
because policy aimed to develop rules on labelling in tandem with
New Zealand's trading partners. He said the Food Act ensured food
could not be sold unless it was safe for general consumption.
The Australia New Zealand Food Authority had also produced a draft
standard covering the safety assessment and labelling requirements
for genetically modified foods and further work was being done.
Greenpeace said yesterday there was deep public concern about the
genetic engineering of food and a recent petition calling for an
immediate moratorium on the introduction of such food to New
Zealand attracted 6000 signatures. -- NZPA
* (clipped from Reuters, 10/16/97)
Unilever says gene food is weapon against hunger By Christopher
ROTTERDAM, Oct 16 (Reuters) The head of one of Europe's largest food
companies strongly defended the use of modern science to expand the
world's food supply on Thursday despite a recent public outcry over
genetically modified grain crops.
Morris Tabaksblat, chairman of the Dutch arm of Anglo-Dutch
multinational Unilever told grain companies they should take it
on themselves to win public confidence in the novel crops after
European governments had failed to get fully to grips with a
protest campaign by ecologists. Investing in the more productive
technology would also help reduce global hunger. "Modern
biotechnology is here to stay," Tabaksblat told nearly 2,000
traders at Europe's largest annual trade gathering, coinciding
this year with the United Nations' World Food Day called to raise
awareness of world hunger. "It will be a key technology in
future, making it possible to feed a sharply rising world
population, in addition to further quality improvements," he
Unilever and other major processors have millions of dollars at
stake in public acceptance of genetically modified food
ingredients. Greenpeace and other environmentalist groups want
them banned, saying there is no proof they are safe.
Tabaksblat said he recognised the importance of regulating
so-called Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) like maize and
soya, first planted by farmers in the United States. But private
companies would have to help governments spread the message to
consumers in Europe, which has been the focus of repeated
protests over GMO imports as well as the loss of consumer
confidence triggered by last year's beef crisis. "We cannot
expect individual consumers to change their perceptions and
emotional framework overnight," Tabaksblat said, adding that his
own company had tested the new products and found them to be
"We should also recognise that while modern biotechnology
--properly managed -- is a good servant, it is a bad master. We
should also acknowledgge the importance of proper control." Sixty
percent of processed food contains soya, he said. He vowed that
Unilever would protect consumers who do not want to buy food
containing genetically tampered material. "If in some countries
the public wants GMO free products, then (Unilever) will try to
find them, whether this means buying other ingredients or
reverting to traditional raw materials." "If we fail to respect
consumers' views, we should not be doing our jobs properly."
While disputes over the safety of genetic foods have sparked
calls for a consumer boycott or compulsory labelling in parts of
Europe, notably Germany, the United States has defended GMOs as a
way to grow more for less and address world hunger. The European
Union has said all food and primary products which contain GMOs
must be labelled as such and that it will introduce legislation
to enforce this.
* (clipped from Reuters, 10/21/97)
Germany warns against provoking US on genetic food HANOVER, Germany,
Oct 21
(Reuters) - Europe should improve its licensing procedures for
genetically-modified agricultural produce to ensure a trade war with
the U.S. does not develop, German economics minister Guenter Rexrodt
said on Tuesday. At a speech to launch the Biotechnica
biotechnology trade fair in Hanover, Rexrodt said current licensing
procedures took too long and risked provoking U.S. ire.
"Previous practices have been a frequent source of trade problems
with the U.S.," he said. "In individual cases it has taken more
than 20 months to approve applications. This is unacceptable."
Rexrodt warned against any ban on U.S. genetically-modified
products. "There is...a possibility that a full-scale embargo
will be imposed on all maize and rape imports from the U.S. as
these U.S. deliveries contain genetically modified components
derived from non-approved varieties," he said. "On no account am
I in favour of approving licence applications simply for reasons
of trade policy expediency. However, there is no need for
objectively unjustified delays in cases where there is no threat
to safety. Nobody would benefit from a transatlantic trade war."
* Test plantings of Monsanto's bollgard cotton is now taking place in
Thailand; government approval for marketing is pending. (source:
Emerging Markets Datafile 10/28/97)
* (clipped from Reuters, 10/28/97) Monsanto sets gene alliance,may
add processor pact By Patricia Commins CHICAGO, Oct 28 (Reuters)
Monsanto Co <MTC.N on Tuesday signed a plant genetics research
collaboration and hinted that an alliance with a food processor could
be in the offing. Monsanto said it will establish a new subsidiary to
collaborate with Millennium Pharmaceuticals Inc <MLNM.O in the area
of genomics, or the mapping and analyzing of genes, to develop plant
and agricultural products. The collaboration is the latest piece
that Monsanto has added to build its life sciences businesses that
span agriculture, pharmaceuticals and food ingredients.
Monsanto recently bought Holden's Foundation Seeds, which
specializes in germ plasm, and has about a 40 percent stake in
agriculture firm DeKalb Genetics Corp <DKB.N. The next step,
analysts have speculated, would be for Monsanto to establish an
alliance with a food processor. That would enable biotech crops
with enhanced nutritional traits -- such as higher amounts of
protein or beneficial oils -- to be processed and kept separate to
retain their value. Asked if Monsanto were close to signing an
agreement with a processor, Monsanto President Hendrik Verfaillie
replied, "stay tuned."
Monsanto's collaboration with Millennium comes a day after an
agreement was announced with Incyte Pharmaceuticals Inc <INCY.O
which gives Monsanto access to Incyte's genomic technologies.
"By doing this, we believe we can greatly increase the speed at
which we can discover new products (and) we can increase the
number of discovery targets that we can deliver," Verfaillie
said of the genomics agreements. "We are after more products, faster
to the market place."
Merrill Lynch analyst Doug Groh said these agreements reflect
Monsanto's strategy to become more involved with genomics as it
builds its agriculture portfolio. "My sense, too, is that this
isn't the last" collaboration, Groh added. Genetics are the
backbone of efforts in the agricultural industry to develop new
crops using biotechnology.
By adding or altering genes, crops can be produced that fight off
insects, resist the use of certain herbicides or have certain
nutritional traits.
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Teenagers and Young People Living with HIV/AIDS and UNICEF together for the rights to prevention, protection and participation
Manaus (State of Amazonas, Brazil), May 26 to 29 – From May 26 to 29, approximately 120 adolescents and youth living with HIV/AIDS from the four regions of Brazil from 26 to 29, met in Manaus to discuss issues of health care, education, human rights, and political advocacy and to work as a networks to stimulate the greater political participation, adherence to HIV treatment and self-care.
This is the first time the North region hosted the event. The members of the National Network of Adolescents and Young People Living with HIV (RNAJVHA) chose the city in an effort to strengthen the work of the adolescents and youth living with HIV in the region.
At the opening ceremony, the following individuals spoke: UNICEF Regional HIV/AIDS Specialist, Ms. Amy Weissman; the programs official, Mrs. Vilma Cabral; representatives from the Health Ministry, Eduardo Barbosa, from the Education Ministry; Mrs. Maria de Fátima Malheiro, from the Youth National Council; Mr. Fransergio Goulart; from the National Movement of Young Ladies with HIV Mrs. Disney Diniz; from the Amazonas State Health Care Secretariat, Mr. Noaldo Lucena; Amazonas State Social Assistance Secretariat, Mrs. Graça Prola; from the Health Care Secretariat of Manaus, Mrs. Marta Aparecida; besides the coordinator of Cedeca Amazonas-Pé na Taba, Mrs. Lucimar Weil, and Mr. José Rayan, the coordinator of RNAJVHA.
The young people want to fight for their space and guarantee the implementation of public policies. Adolescents and youth who live with HIV have the right to study, work, have a family, and access antiretroviral treatment (ART). We want to be treated as subjects to the system of law and not as victims. We are participants, we are much more than HIV/AIDS¨, stated Mr. José Rayan, the 18 year old coordinator of the event. He was enthusiastically applauded by the young people in the audience.
Ms. Amy Weissman of UNICEF, highlighted the importance of the Meeting being held in Manaus given that the North has a higher than national rate of mother-to-child transmission, and an increasing number of HIV cases among children under five years of age. "I look forward to participating in the meeting, to talking with each of you, and to learning about your needs so that we at UNICEF can collaborate with you to improve the lives of the adolescents and young people living with HIV/AIDS", said Amy.
The representative of the Ministry of Health Care, Mr. Eduardo Barbosa, emphasized that Brazil has the best AIDS program in the world because of the availability of ART. But that the country still faces many challenges. "People who live far from the capital cities, for instance, many times do not have access to ART because they do not know they have HIV/AIDS", he said.
Mr. Barbosa also highlighted that the Ministry of Health Care, in partnership with UNICEF, has provided 10 other countries with ART through the South-South Cooperation program known as Lacos Sur Sur.
"But people do not want only medicine, they also want education and other rights", he reminds participants.
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Amy Weissman, firstname.lastname@example.com, UNICEF Latin America and the Caribbean
Tamar Hahn, firstname.lastname@example.com, UNICEF Latin America and the Caribbean
About UNICEF
UNICEF is on the ground in over 155 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
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One win, one loss for RHS soccer girls in regular season endsMay 5, 2013 By Craig Blumenshine, Staff Writer
After playing what Riverton Lady Wolverine soccer coach Tanya Santee called "a really bad game" Friday in an 8-1 loss at Green River, Riverton bounced back to beat Evanston on the road Saturday 2-1 in overtime.
After this weekend's play, Riverton (5-7-1 overall, 4-6 Class 4-A West) have the fourth seed in the conference and will likely play fifth seed Evanston again in the first round of the Class 4-A West regional soccer tournament this Thursday on the Lady Red Devils' home field.
Natalie Lymburner and Vanessa Nells tallied Riverton's two goals in Saturday's win.
"It was tough. Our girls came out sluggish (after the Green River loss), and Evanston tied Rock Springs the night before. They were coming off a good game, and we were not. It took us awhile to get better organized," Santee said after Saturday's match.
Riverton must win its first-round regional tournament game in order to qualify for the state tournament the following week in Rock Springs.
"The two overtime periods and the last minutes of the second half were our best minutes of the weekend," Santee said.
Casper Natrona will travel to Evanston as the Class 4-A West top seed. Green River is second, followed by Kelly Walsh, Riverton, Evanston and Rock Springs.


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Observations on a photo: What can you tell from this photo of Viv?
Observing is a useful pursuit. Sometimes, on your rest day, it's a good idea to come into CrossFit Watertown and just watch. Or come in early. Or stay late. You can learn an awful lot about movement, CrossFit, and people by just sitting quietly and paying attention to how people move, what the coaches say, and the position of feet. Yup. Feet. So critical to most movements and yet we don't think about them nearly as much as we should. Instead of looking at a person's head next time, focus only on their feet and see what you learn.
In other news, there is no 8am class tomorrow as we will be conducting outdoor workouts at 10:30am 12:30pm, and 2:30pm at the Watertown Fall Festival. Come on out and help us show Watertown why we love this crazy CrossFit stuff and why they would too!