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The 2008 election was one for the history books from the presidential race down to the rematch of the 2004 gubernatorial race to a local ballot that featured two controversial races and two tax measures.
It also included the state's first Top Two primary, the result of a long legal battle, and first August primary, designed to attract presidential candidates to the state.
Barack Obama, D-Illinois, became the nation's first black president when he defeated Arizona Republican John McCain. Obama tallied 53.4 percent in Clallam County and 51.9 percent statewide.
The rematch of the 2004 gubernatorial race between incumbent Chris Gregoire and challenger Dino Rossi, R-Sammamish, was close but not as close as the 129 votes that separated them the first time. Gregoire won re-election with 50.8 percent statewide and 52.6 percent in Clallam County.
On the local level, the Sequim City Council voted 3-2 in July to create the Sequim Transportation Benefit District to fund road projects in the city.
The "yes" votes were from three of four new councilors elected in 2007 - Erik Erichsen, Laura Dubois and Ken Hays. The fourth newcomer, Susan Lorenzen, was not present at the meeting nor was longtime councilor Paul McHugh. But a proposed two-tenths of 1 percent sales tax increase for the newly created district was defeated by 61 votes in the November election.
Olympic Medical Center fared much better with its proposed property tax levy of 44 cents per $1,000 valuation. The proposal was a sharp increase from the previous 11 cents per $1,000 valuation but voters still gave it a 53.5 percent "yes" vote in the Aug. 19 primary election.
In February, the Clallam County Republican Party barred Clallam County Commissioner Chairman Mike Chapman of Port Angeles from "holding yourself as a Republican with any standing" for two years.
The sanction was imposed because Chapman had publicly endorsed incumbent Sequim Democrat Steve Tharinger, the only candidate at the time, in Tharinger's county commissioner race in 2007.
Sequim Republican Bob Forde, whose wife, Sue, chaired the Clallam County Republican Party, later filed to run against Tharinger.
Chapman easily won re-election to a third term in November, defeating Port Angeles Republican Terry Roth by a 2-1 margin.
The Clallam County Public Utility District race also drew attention when a supporter of incumbent Hugh Haffner erected signs declaring "Save Our PUD."
Despite the controversy, Haffner defeated challenger Jensen with 54.5 percent of the vote.
On the state level, challengers emerged to both first-term legislator Rep. Kevin Van Wege, D-Sequim, and eight-term lawmaker Rep. Lynn Kessler, D-Hoquiam, facing her first opponent since 2002.
Van De Wege defeated Joyce Republican Thomas Thomas and Kessler defeated Montesano Republican Randy Dutton. Both won by 2-1 margins in the 24th District, which includes Clallam and Jefferson counties and one-third of Grays Harbor County.
The 2008 election was the first under the state's new "Top Two" primary system approved by the state's voters in November 2004 and upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in March 2008.
The new system allowed people to vote for the person instead of the party. That's how the state's voters had done it from 1935 when the "blanket primary" was adopted by citizen initiative until the method was declared unconstitutional in September 2003.
The state's primary election also was moved in 2008 from the third Tuesday in September to the third Tuesday of August.
Voter turnout was at near record levels with 85.3 percent in Clallam County - 16th best in the state - and 85.69 percent statewide or more than 3 million voters. Turnout in the 2004 election was 85.9 percent.
2008 was a long year at City Hall, Police Department
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Murphy's Law was in full effect in Sequim city government during 2008. Two vacancies on the senior staff, followed by ongoing searches for both, then two major surgeries in the police department made for a long year. Even a new police dog had to be hired.
First, Jeff Robb, airport manager for the Port of Port Angeles, was hired in January to succeed Public Works Director Jim Bay who retired in April after 20 years with the city.
Then Robb declined the job and City Engineer Bill Bullock became interim public works director, a position he continues to hold while Waldron and Co. of Seattle searches for a permanent replacement.
On May 5, the city council voted 4-1 to fire City Manager Bill Elliott, who had been with the city since 2002. Police Chief Robert Spinks was installed as interim city manager.
Voting "yes" were four new councilors: Laura Dubois, Ken Hays, Erik Erichsen and Susan Lorenzen. Councilor Paul McHugh voted "no." Councilors Walt Schubert and Bill Huizinga were absent from the meeting.
Then after debating the issue through June, the council agreed in July to hire Lee Walton of Bainbridge Island, a former city manager, to conduct its city manager search.
Three candidates were interviewed in October but contract negotiations with the council's top two choices broke down over severance pay and other issues.
Then Spinks announced on Nov. 10 he was having major surgery in December that would sideline him for up to eight weeks. Acting Police Chief Sheri Crain was scheduled to undergo knee surgery and would be on restricted duty, Spinks told the council.
The council accepted Spinks' recommendation to hire Prothman and Associates of Seattle to find an interim city manager to serve through September 2009.
Then two weeks later, the council reconsidered and decided to hire Waldron and Co. of Seattle to conduct the city
manager search.
Waldron, which also had been conducting the city's public works director search, also was hired to lead the council through sessions on team building, goal setting and developing a work plan.
Linda Herzog, a former interim city manager at Mercer Island and Renton, was hired as the city's new interim city manager. Karen Goschen, the city's administrative services director, was chosen as acting city manager from Jan. 3-17 while Herzog is on vacation.
Then Marci Protze, Spinks' administrative assistant, announced at the Dec. 15 city council meeting that it was her last day with the city. A police manager position intended to be an expansion of Protze's position was put on hold as part of an overall city hiring freeze.
Finally, the police department introduced a K-9 officer, a 2-year-old German shepherd named Chase, to the city council in August. He had been hired in March to replace Titus after the department decided in 2007 to switch from a narcotics dog to a patrol dog because of an increase in assaults, felonies and physical altercations between officers and suspects.
Community mourns fallen Forest Service officer
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More than 3,000 people gathered on a beautiful, sunny late September afternoon at Civic Field in Port Angeles to remember U.S. Forest Service officer and longtime Forks resident Kristine Fairbanks.
Fairbanks was killed Sept. 20, 2008, near the Dungeness Forks Campground when she confronted a man, later identified as 36-year-old Shawn M. Roe of Everett, who was driving a van with no license plates.
Fairbanks radioed Washington State Patrol dispatch to check on the vehicle and Roe's status but dispatch never heard back and sent officers to investigate.
Once her body was found at 3:10 p.m., about 50 officers were dispatched to track down Roe. Meanwhile, Roe shot and killed Richard Ziegler on his property off Louella Road and stole his pickup truck.
Officers had distributed photos of Roe within a half an hour before he entered the Longhouse Market & Deli in Blyn about 9:30 p.m. and was recognized by security guards who called 9-1-1.
When Clallam County Sheriff's deputies Matthew Murphy and Andrew Wagner arrived, Roe fired one shot at them after being told to get on the ground. The deputies returned fire, killing Roe.
The memorial service drew federal, state and local law enforcement vehicles from across the state plus Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers in full dress uniform. Fairbanks's U.S. Forest Service vehicle, F951, was parked on Civic Field during the ceremony.
It included the singing of the Canadian national anthem, "O Canada" as well as "The Star-Spangled Banner." That was followed by "When I Get Where I'm Going" by Brad Paisley, one of two songs requested by Fairbanks' daughter, Whitney.
Murphy and Andrew Wagner later were awarded the Medal of Valor by Clallam County Sheriff Bill Benedict.
Controversy sparks shake-up at Chamber of Commerce
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Change came to the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce early in 2008, when the board of directors agreed to fire executive director Lee Lawrence on Jan. 18, just six months after Lawrence was chosen from more than two-dozen candidates for the position.
According to a statement sent out to all Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce members, Lawrence was fired for lack of financial responsibility and "unprofessional and inappropriate public and private comments and actions while representing the Chamber of Commerce."
Lawrence is an 11-year resident of Sequim, prominent volunteer throughout the community and was named the chamber's Citizen of the Year for 2005.
The grassroots Concerned Chamber Committee group took issue with Lawrence's dismissal, the chamber's bylaws and that the chamber had not been audited in several years.
Chamber members reacted to Lawrence's dismissal quickly, demanding answers and asking for resignations. They got them - board president and interim director Joe Borden and 11 other board members resigned on Feb. 12.
Former Sequim Mayor Walt Schubert stepped in as interim board president until June, when local business magnate Bill Littlejohn took the position.
At the end of July, the chamber board of directors unanimously agreed to hire Vickie Maples of Sequim, as the organization's executive director.
New, old parks both big topics in 2008
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Clallam County's east-end parks received a lot of attention in 2008.
From state and county park planning workshops to the acquisition of soccer fields or passive parkland, local governments were busy with open space.
Clallam County, the city of Sequim and the state of Washington each had park projects this year on this side of the county.
Some park ventures brought groups of people with opposing viewpoints to an impasse, such as a disc golf proposal for Robin Hill Farm Park or a plan to remove hunting from the Dungeness Recreation Area.
The disc golf plan was halted in mid-flight when the Clallam County commissioners opted to take a step back and create a master plan for the park before approving piecemeal projects.
The hunting ban, however, was part of the Dungeness park's master planning process and is included as part of the plan. The commissioners have not adopted the plan but are exchanging letters with the state trying to find hunting site options or alternatives before passing the master plan, which would end hunting in the county park possibly by 2013.
While some proposals were divisive, other park projects brought groups together cooperatively to reach their goals. For instance, the Master Gardeners of Clallam County and the Sequim City Band consulted with each other to make sure their proposals for a demonstration garden and an enhanced amphitheater did not conflict or use the same section of Sequim's Water Reuse Demonstration Park.
The garden will be a showpiece of the club, which will have volunteers on hand to make it an educational destination as well as a beautiful garden. The improved James Center for the Performing Arts would house up to 550 people in seats and nearly 100 people on stage. The city band is seeking the necessary funding, estimated to be at $5 million.
Public parkland grew on the east end when the Sequim City Council agreed to purchase 35 acres off U.S. Highway 101 just east of Simdars Road from the Keeler family, who worked with planners to reach an agreement that kept the land for a passive-use park once the city acquired it.
The park has been touted as a haven for the Sequim-Dungeness Roosevelt elk herd.
The county also is looking to increase its public park land base by purchasing two soccer fields from the Agnew Helpful Neighbors Club in order to save the land from potential development.
Touted as the best fields on the North Olympic Peninsula, they are ready to be sold to the county once funding is secured, something parks staff hopes will happen in early 2009 through the state Legislature.
County finds legal trouble in rural, Sequim, Blyn zones
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Clallam County faced significant legal trouble in 2008 in regards to how it handled growth in several areas throughout the county.
The county's zoning must be in line with the state's Growth Management Act. Two growth watchdog groups, Futurewise of Seattle and the Dry Creek Coalition of Port Angeles, challenged many sections of the county's comprehensive plan.
The state's Western Washington Growth Management Hearings Board found several of the challenged areas to be within the letter of the law. However, many of the areas were challenged successfully, a handful of which were on the east end of the county, even abutting the city of Sequim.
As a result, the county was forced to temporarily change the zoning in the noncompliant areas while it sought a course to bring those lands into legal standing.
The Clallam County Planning Department's staff worked on each contested area with the Clallam County Planning Commission until a route for compliance was agreed upon.
Several areas in the Sequim area are facing a permanent rezone going into 2009 if the board accepts the changes the county has proposed.
Blyn, for instance, no longer will be a "rural center." Several parcels have retained some varied land use options, but most of the community's acreage has been down-zoned and no longer allows commercial development.
Areas within the Sequim urban growth area have received a zone that allows a higher density and lands lying outside the growth area have been restricted to having one house per five acres, a much less dense zone than what was present before the state order.
Other changes were instituted as well, but no final word on whether the county's efforts to come into compliance with state law will come until after the growth board's hearing, which is scheduled for Jan. 12, 2009.
The county also is taking a dual track approach. While it seeks compliance with new zones, it also is appealing some of the state board's ruling in Clallam County Superior Court in an effort to use local circumstances to justify zones with higher density near urban cores.
The dual track approach allows the county to reach compliance through the growth board and possibly institute the findings of a special study the county contracted to review its rural land base.
The study was commissioned to learn more about the rural lands affected by the decision on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis.
The state ruling has impacted the citizens living in the zones a great deal. Many landowners who previously had expected to have commercial development no longer will have that opportunity. The same goes for many developers who did not get applications to subdivide property before the decision was issued.
The ruling does not affect vested land divisions or applications.
Locals earn state, national honors
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Sequim and Clallam County residents earned their fair share of state and national recognition in 2008, from those who work to keep art and culture alive to those who foster a spirit of volunteerism. Others are driven to protect farmland while others strive to maintain the peninsula's pristine trails.
In January, Elaine Grinnell, an elder of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe and a historian, storyteller, teacher and cook, received one of Gov. Christine Gregoire's Heritage Awards. Gregoire authorized several awards to be given to those who work toward keeping arts and heritage alive in Washington state.
In February, the Sequim-Dungeness Valley Chamber of Commerce named Stephen Rosales its Citizen of the Year for 2007. Rosales worked with the lieutenant governor of Texas for nearly three decades before retiring to Sequim nearly three years ago with his family. Since then he's decided to dedicate his life to volunteering full time. He works with the Boys & Girls Club, Sequim Food Bank, the Sequim Police Department's Volunteering in Patrol program, Habitat for Humanity, Little League, First Teacher and the Sequim School District.
Jack McGhee and June Robinson were the two other Citizen of the Year nominees.
Nash Huber was honored with the American Farmland Trust's 2008 Steward of the Land award in June. The award recognized Huber for his leadership role in protecting agricultural land, local food and the environment. Huber is the first Washington state farmer to receive the award, which honors the memory of Peggy McGrath Rockefeller, an avid farmer and conservationist who helped found American Farmland Trust.
Gena Royal, Clallam County 4-H program coordinator with Washington State University Extension, was honored with the Achievement in Service Award in April. Royal was among more than 1,340 youth development professionals from across the nation to participate in the association's annual conference in Atlanta, Ga., in 2007. Each year NAE4-HA recognizes members for outstanding accomplishments in achievement, leadership and communication.
Late in the year, Sequim's Tom Mix was selected winner of American Trails' national Trail Worker Award for Washington state for 2008.
Every two years American Trails presents the awards to recognize the contributions of volunteers, professionals and other leaders who are working to create a national system of trails for all Americans. The award is intended to recognize the commitment and efforts of a private or public sector individual for his or her successful efforts to influence policy, develop trails, and maintain and protect existing trails. One award is given per state.
Mix is a volunteer who works with almost every public agency on the Olympic Peninsula to construct and maintain trails, plan trail work and recommend trail use and policy changes. With heavy storm damage during the past two winters, Mix played a key role in opening up national park and forest service trails. These federal agencies require certification for chain saw operation and Mix has worked through these certifications in order to assist in keeping open the more than 600 miles of trail in Olympic National Park and another 270 miles of trails in Olympic National Forest.
Mix works on a volunteer crew called the Thursday Trail Crew for Clallam County Parks. He also helps the Peninsula Trails Coalition, a local trails advocacy group. He helps it raise money to feed trail volunteers by working as the master of ceremonies for a slide show series.
Sequim students great in 2008
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In the classrooms and on stage, Sequim students flourished in 2008.
Seven Sequim High School choir students made the trek to Yakima for the all-state competition and, along with their all-state band brethren, made sweet music with the best prep singers in the state at the Washington Music Educator's Conference in February.
Sequim's band brought 17 members alone - a school record - and with their choir cohorts made a 24-member ensemble, more than any other school at the event.
Three Sequim students - Matt Grey, Naomi Fosket and Steven Moore - were selected to be part of the 600-member Olympic Games orchestra in China. Grey and classmate Farris Ryan were picked to play in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York.
Sequim High School's jazz band is Washington state's top 2A academic group, sporting a 3.535 cumulative grade-point-average.
High school student Ashiyah Cays-Vesterby brought home the top prize from the 2008 Washington State Science and Engineering Fair in the senior division in April.
Sequim High School's Operetta Club proved that hard work pays off - the group was nominated for nine 5th Avenue High School Musical Theatre awards and collected a trophy for outstanding costume design. Nominations included eight for "The Wizard of Oz."
Sequim Middle School librarian Jo Chinn earned the Washington Library Media Association's Outstanding Teacher-Librarian of the Year 2008 award in October.
Six students at Chinn's school did well enough at the regional History Day competition to receive invitations to the national competition in Washington, D.C., three as competitors and three as alternates.
By the time graduation rolled around in June, Sequim High School boasted three valedictorians, all with perfect 4.0 grade-point-averages: Olivia Creasey, Jaysa Hill and Kelsey Langston.
Their class of nearly 200 graduates received nearly $1.4 million in academic and other scholarships, $400,000 of which was from local benefactors.
Also in June, Parker Johns, a senior at Sequim High School, was one of three high-performing Career and Technical Education students from each of the state's legislative districts (142 winners in all) to be awarded two years of free tuition at a Washington public or private school of their choice.
Sequim eighth-grader Hillary Smith got a surprise in the mail this summer: a signed letter from former president Bill Clinton.
Weeks earlier, Smith asked staff from Hillary Clinton's campaign for a quote or comment germane to the young student's History Day project. Instead, she got a note from the former president.
Fire station, deli open in Blyn
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Firefighter and paramedic response times east of Sequim have been reduced and property owners should see decreased insurance premiums as a result of Clallam County Fire District No. 3's new Blyn fire station that opened Sept. 8.
The two-story, 7,563-square-foot station at Sophus Road and U.S. Highway 101 across from the Longhouse Market & Deli is staffed 24 hours a day by one firefighter and one paramedic. It will serve 44 square miles from east of Sequim to the Jefferson County line and Diamond Point.
The Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe donated about $1 million to the project, including the land and most of the building's construction and the fire district contributed $400,000, mostly from the maintenance and operations levy approved in 2002.
Work began in January and finished in April.
The Sequim area's growth is to the east and this station reduces the response times to Blyn from 15 minutes to just one and to Diamond Point from 20 minutes to six to depending upon traffic.
The station replaced a small volunteer-based station at Louella Road that the district was leasing from the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission.
Longhouse Market
& Deli opens
After two years of planning, the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe dedicated its Longhouse Market & Deli on May 3 and two days later, the gas station/convenience store opened to the public.
The Longhouse Market & Deli is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
In addition to traditional groceries, the 11,000-square-foot market offers fresh produce and seafood in season, a walk-in cigar humidor and tobacco shop, the Raven Wine and Spirits shop and the Harvest Deli, featuring healthy soups, salads and sandwiches. The site also has a six-dispenser Chevron fuel station.
U.S. 101 made good and bad in 2008
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U.S. Highway 101, the county's east-west transportation artery, continued to make the news in 2008, both good and bad.
On the good side, construction projects added passing lanes and other safety features. The planned widening of a 2.5-mile stretch of the highway between Shore Road and Kitchen-Dick Road remained in the state budget.
On the bad side, another four wrecks were recorded, including three fatalities. The electronic sign at the Washington State Patrol detachment office was reset in July after a record 295 days without a serious wreck.
Beginning in July, a $4.4 million passing lane project added one highway lane westbound and one lane eastbound in the Blyn area.
Despite deep cuts to the 2009 state budget the $50 million project to widen 2.5 miles of U.S. Highway 101 to four lanes remained on schedule in 2008. The actual roadway widening is set for 2011-2013.
In February, Washington State Patrol launched "X-52," which created ongoing, high-visibility patrol efforts to reduce traffic fatalities and serious injuries.
In April, the Washington State Traffic Safety Commission congratulated North Olympic Peninsula law enforcement agencies for the "Driving 101 - It's Basic Safety" project.
Despite those efforts, four serious wrecks occurred in eastern Clallam County during 2008.
On July 2, 80-year-old Muriel S. Urban of Sequim was seriously injured when her car and a dump truck collided at the intersection of U.S. Highway 101 and Parkwood Boulevard.
The wreck reset the number to zero on the electronic message sign at the State Patrol's office between Port Angeles and Sequim.
On Aug. 24, a four-vehicle collision injured six people and left hundreds of motorists waiting on a closed U.S. Highway 101.
Then two Brinnon residents, 62-year-old Richard A. Kindelspire and 56-year-old Taylre Kindelspire, died Sept. 11 on U.S. Highway 101 just north of state Route 104 when their pickup truck collided head-on with a motorhome.
On Oct. 7, Engre Louise Brown of Sequim drove head-on into a car driven by Benjamin Michael Merscher, also of Sequim on U.S. Highway 101 west of Kitchen-Dick Road. Brown was booked into Clallam County Jail on a vehicular homicide charge after she was discharged from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Border Patrol checkpoints nab dozens of residents
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A conflict between civil liberty proponents and those backing road, bus and highway checks for terrorist threats developed on the North Olympic Peninsula following a Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Customs and Border Protection policy of instituting random checkpoints in Clallam and Jefferson county.
Area motorists began seeing more green-clad trucks, cars and agents early in 2008 as the Port Angeles U.S. Customs and Border Protection staff grew from six to 25.
The agency set up its first checkpoint in late August on U.S. Highway 101 between Forks and the Beaver community.
Several more checkpoints followed at the agency's other two established checkpoint locations, near Quilcene on the same highway and on state Route 104 west of the Hood
Canal bridge.
While the checkpoints are designed to find terrorists or terrorism-type activities, they have caused more than two dozen arrests with charges of drug possession, illegal entry into the country or outstanding warrants, according to the agency.
Hundreds of Clallam County residents became offended by the stops, were separated from family members deported from the country as a result of the stops or believed the stops were an example of illegal search and seizure and organized protests and marches against them.
A newly formed coalition, the Stop the Checkpoints Committee, organized the protests, the largest of which garnered 150 people to march through downtown Port Angeles.
Customs and Border Protection spokesmen insist the
checkpoints are within their jurisdiction, 100 miles from the border, and are a part of their effort to catch terrorists or instruments of terror, indicating they cannot ignore the fact someone has a warrant or may not have U.S. identification.
Sequim finds local radio in KSQM
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After several years of planning, working with the Federal Communication Commission, negotiating with competing radio stations and fine-tuning transmission equipment,
Sequim Community Broadcasting obtained a spot on the FM dial.
Organizers Rick Perry, Keith Burfitt and Johan Van Nimwegen started their quest to have a Sequim-based radio station to feature entertainment, local news and emergency broadcasts after having several conversations about notifying citizens in the face of a natural disaster or emergency in 2005. Together the trio formed Sequim Community Broadcasting.
Now, the Sequim Community Broadcasting board is encouraging residents to reset one of their pre-programmed buttons to 91.5 FM, the frequency KSQM is broadcast on.
The transmitter is sited off Atterberry Road, about 2.5 miles west of the city of Sequim, and has a 40-foot antenna. The station has a coverage area from eastern Port Angeles to Diamond Point.
The studio is expected to put out radio content 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Initial plans have KSQM content consisting of music dated between the 1940s and the end of the 1990s, local news and updates, radio dramas, emergency situation notifications and other community programming, such as area gardening or history programs.
Sequim Community Broadcasting is unable to sell advertisements but can have companies or organizations sponsor programs, much like NPR. Perry hopes the income begins to offset the board's personal investment into the project, but for now he is just happy to have the station up and running.
The station can be reached by phone at 681-0000 or through its Internet site, www.scbradio.com.
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The Study of Man: Will Births Outstrip Mankind's Resources?
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Almost forty years ago an agricultural economist, George F. Warren, wrote: "The questions whether our soil is exhausted and how we are to be fed in the future, are constantly being discussed in newspapers and magazines." This ought to remind us that the modern food-versus-population controversy is not simply a product of post-World War II pessimism. It has been around for à long time. But it has been percolating with exceptional vigor ever since William Vogt's Road to Survival and Fairfield Osborn's Our Plundered Planet reopened the dispute four years ago. Thus, a dispatch from Rome tells us that even Pope Pius's recent statement affirming the opposition of the Church to birth control was made only after a careful study of the population-versus food question.
In the days before I. B. M. machines it was possible for any reasonably intelligent man to get into the middle of a discussion like this and take his stand; the facts, being unavailable, played a minor role in shaping opinion. Today, in the age of science, any argument not buttressed by a maze of figures is considered suspect. But where, as in the present case, both sides to a dispute can assemble an equally impressive stack of charts, tables, and diagrams, the statistics may merely bury the argument without settling it.
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(A Piece of Melanin) Phenotype and Genotype According to James King, author of The
Biology of Race, Physical characteristics such as hair color, eye
color, height, skin color, build, etc., are the components that make up an
individual. These are the observable characteristics that can be
inferred as inborn qualities. From these qualities we assume that the
traits are inherited from the parents. The genotype is the genes
that are directly given to the offspring, and the phenotype is the
consequence of those genes. For example, we can assume that an individual
with blue eyes has received the blue eye color gene from both parents and
no genes for brown eye color, because brown is a dominant gene and blue
would not be observable. So the Genotype of blue eyes is two blue
eye genes and the phenotype is the blue eyes that we can see (King
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different proposed races of the human species have originated in separate
isolated regions of the earth. And where crossroads have been formed
between these regions a blend of the races has developed. The third factor of chemical or mineral variation in the terrain is quite complicated and best understood by a simple example. In New Zealand, the natives centuries ago had a legend of the "good lands" and the " bad lands." In the bad lands, the cattle and people were often struck with a sickness, today identified as pernicious anemia. The anti-pernicious factor in humans is a compound of cobalt and in areas where the sickness occurred, cobalt was minimal in the soil. This further prevented the movement of people (Dunn 320). Races or Variations? The presumption that there are a number of
different races within the human species implies that there is a different
genetic code for these separate races. King explains, the degree to
which the genetic makeup between individuals in different racial
categories varies is 6%. However, within any certain race there is
the same degree of difference between individuals. The development
of varying skin pigmentation is not an influential enough of a difference
to divide the human species into races. Skin color is merely a
reaction to a dangerous environment. The same instances have been
documented in immunity to diseases. A people who are endangered by a
virus develop a way to survive (Boyd 45). Race is a concept of society that insists there is a genetic significance behind human variations in skin color that transcends out ward appearance. However, race has no scientific merit outside of sociological classification. There are no significant genetic variations within the human species to justify the division of " races." |


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August 12th, 2013, 03:05 PM | #1 |
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Waste Management driver kills USCG station dog
I am beyond words with this one. As a former coastie and as a station that had our own dog they truly become one of the team. They live to go out on the calls and great when the kids came for tours. How waste management is handling this is total bullshit, at least man up to what one of your drivers did!!
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August 12th, 2013, 03:14 PM | #2 |
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Sad, all a dog wants to do is be with their pack. Time for the coasties to go on a hunting expedition of their own.
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Eastpointe cancelled their contract with WM, not for this reason, but I am glad my tax dollars are not going to WM!
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August 12th, 2013, 03:35 PM | #5 |
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Hey now I work for WM. we have over 50,000 trucks on the road every day. Sad to hear a dog has passed. But as long as it wasn't a person. Dogs are very hard to see in these trucks. I picked up the US coast guard today in Detroit and on Belle Isle. These stations keep their dogs leashed up.
Blue mule the guys doing your trash now Rizzo are a bunch of drunks druggies and excons. And it's not me making up shit. I see these guys everyday at gddra. Just stop in at Dan and Vi's at Chene and 94 at lunch time those guys are drinking, smoking dope and I've been offered lines by them guys. A lot of guys that used to work at WM that got let go went to work their. Sure hope you feel good about your tax dollars now. I can tell you at WM we are held to extremely high standards. We get drug screened regularly. We have to pass a FBI / homeland security background check and cannot have more than two points on our driving record. |
August 12th, 2013, 03:41 PM | #6 |
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I just read this article and I don't really believe it. At WM anytime their is a critical nice dent such as this all districts review it and try to come up with solutions that we as drivers can do to avoid this in the future. If they called WM they wouldn't just blow it off. I took out a cable wire three weeks ago and three supervisors came out and I was instructed to stay there until they arrived. Thankfully it was a line that wasn't used and I was let go with just a written warning. If it had been a live wire I would have been suspended for three days with no pay. And if I had another incident in the. Ext 12 months I would be terminated.
August 12th, 2013, 03:43 PM | #7 |
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i drive a semi, and its hard to see something as close to the ground as a dog.
its a sad story for sure. in my near million miles i have hit many small animals, including dogs. there is not much we can do. its not a ferrari, its a truck. most times we are not sure if we hit them or not? i always feel bad when i hit an animal, but it happens. "if" the dog was not on a leash, then the guys in charge of him are also at fault. "if" the truck driver was speeding then thats a problem. can anyone accurately tell us the speed he was traveling? i have been reported for speeding in ohio many times, the speed limit is 65 for trucks. mine is governed at 63. Last edited by joe_jeep; August 12th, 2013 at 04:20 PM. |
August 12th, 2013, 03:46 PM | #9 |
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So there are a bunch of Coast Guard guys whose comrade was just run over on a regular, probably weekly route. I have a feeling next week there may be some sort of accident with no witnesses in which the driver is severely injured. I'm strangely okay with that scenario. |
August 12th, 2013, 03:47 PM | #10 |
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August 12th, 2013, 04:28 PM | #12 |
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This is true. And a side note we as truck drivers put these trucks in places where most people in their little four wheelers have trouble. If the dog was not on a leash no fukks given. When I walk my dogs they are always on a leash. Granted its for people's protection also.
August 12th, 2013, 04:34 PM | #13 |
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If the Dog wasn't on a leash I don't think it was the dogs fault he wasn't. No matter who was at fault of the dog dying the people in charge of the dog or the truck driver it's still sad..
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Hey, my wife just told me that the Rizzo truck dropped off an huge frickin can we are supposed to use!
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August 13th, 2013, 08:38 AM | #16 | |
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I'd call that pretty strict, but by no means would I call that being held to a high standard; you would not believe some of the people that they would hire in. Being able to pass a drug screen and not have any points on you're license does not mean someone is of a "high standard". At least if they were on drugs that would be a reason for some of the plain, flat out f**king retards that worked for DirecTV; instead they're just retards in general. |
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The Bachelor of Science in Accountancy (BSA) prepares students for entry into a variety of fields in accountancy, including corporate accounting, accounting information systems, and governmental accounting, as well as entry into graduate programs such as law. Effective 2001, however, the BSA is no longer sufficient to qualify students to take the CPA examination in Illinois. Therefore, students who are in the BSA program and who wish to take the CPA examination have the option of applying to the department's integrated Bachelor/Master in Accountancy program or the Certificate in Accountancy program.
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Robert Edwards (physiologist)
Sir Robert Edwards | |
Born | Robert Geoffrey Edwards 27 September 1925[1] Batley, England |
Died | 10 April 2013 England |
(aged 87)
Citizenship | British |
Nationality | English |
Fields | Physiology and reproductive medicine |
Institutions | University of Cambridge University of Edinburgh Bangor University National Institute for Medical Research University of Glasgow California Institute of Technology Churchill College, Cambridge |
Alma mater | Bangor University University of Edinburgh |
Thesis | The experimental induction of heteroploidy in the mouse (1955) |
Known for | Pioneer of in-vitro fertilisation |
Notable awards | Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2010) |
Spouse | Ruth Fowler Edwards[1] |
Sir Robert Geoffrey Edwards, CBE, FRS[2][3] (27 September 1925 – 10 April 2013) was an English physiologist and pioneer in reproductive medicine and in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) in particular. Along with surgeon Patrick Steptoe,[4] Edwards successfully pioneered conception through IVF, which led to the birth of Louise Brown [5] on 25 July 1978.[6][7] They founded the first IVF program for infertile patients and trained other scientists in their techniques. Edwards was the founding editor-in-chief of Human Reproduction in 1986.[8] In 2010, Edwards was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for the development of in vitro fertilization".[9]
Early career[edit]
Edwards was born in Batley, Yorkshire. He attended The Henry Box School in Witney.[10] After finishing Manchester Central High School[1] on Whitworth Street in central Manchester, he served in the British Army, and then completed his undergraduate studies in biology at the Bangor University.[11][12] He studied at the Institute of Animal Genetics and Embryology at Edinburgh University, where he was awarded a PhD in 1955.[13] After a year as a research fellow at the California Institute of Technology he joined the scientific staff of the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill. After a further year at the University of Glasgow, in 1963 he moved to the University of Cambridge as Ford Foundation Research Fellow at the Department of Physiology, and a member of Churchill College, Cambridge. He was appointed Reader in physiology in 1969.[14]
Human fertilisation[edit]
Circa 1960 Edwards started to study human fertilisation, and he continued his work at Cambridge, laying the groundwork for his later success. In 1968 he was able to achieve fertilisation of a human egg in the laboratory and started to collaborate with Patrick Steptoe, a gynecologic surgeon from Oldham. Edwards developed human culture media to allow the fertilisation and early embryo culture, while Steptoe utilized laparoscopy to recover ovocytes from patients with tubal infertility. Their attempts met significant hostility and opposition,[15] including a refusal of the Medical Research Council to fund their research and a number of lawsuits.[16] Additional historical information on this controversial era in the development of IVF has been published.[17]
The birth of Louise Brown, the world's first 'test-tube baby', at 11:47 pm on 25 July 1978 at the Oldham General Hospital made medical history: in vitro fertilisation meant a new way to help infertile couples who formerly had no possibility of having a baby.
Refinements in technology have increased pregnancy rates and it is estimated that in 2010 about 4 million children have been born by IVF,[9] with approximately 170,000 coming from donated oocyte and embryos.[18][19][20] Their breakthrough laid the groundwork for further innovations such as intracytoplasmatic sperm injection ICSI, embryo biopsy (PGD), and stem cell research.
Edwards and Steptoe founded the Bourn Hall Clinic as a place to advance their work and train new specialists. Steptoe died in 1988. Edwards continued on in his career as a scientist and an editor of medical journals.
- In 1984, Edwards was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society.[2]
- In 1994, Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Valencia (Spain).
- In 2001, he was awarded the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award by the Lasker Foundation "for the development of in vitro fertilization, a technological advance that has revolutionized the treatment of human infertility."[21]
- In 2007, he was ranked 26th in The Daily Telegraph's list of 100 greatest living geniuses.[22]
- In 2007, he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Huddersfield.
- On 4 October 2010, it was announced that Edwards had been awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the development of in-vitro fertilization.[9] The Nobel Committee praised him for advancing treatment of infertility and noted that IVF babies have similar health statuses to ordinary babies.[23] Göran K. Hansson, secretary of the Nobel Assembly at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, announced the news.[23] The first child of IVF Louise Brown described the award as "fantastic news".[24] A Vatican official condemned the move as "completely out of order".[24][25] As mentioned by Simon Fishel (Reproductive BioMedicine Online (2014) 28, 3–4): "In December 2010, at the Nobel awards ceremony that was full of pathos in Bob's absence, these precious words were spoken, ''In the absence of this year's Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, I ask Professor Edwards' wife and long-term scientific companion, Dr Ruth Fowler Edwards, to come forward and receive his Prize from the hands of His Majesty the King''."
- Edwards was knighted in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to human reproductive biology.[26][27]
He married Ruth Fowler (1930-2013), also a scientist with significant work, granddaughter of 1908 Nobel laureate physicist Ernest Rutherford and daughter of physicist Ralph Fowler, in 1956.[28] The couple had 5 daughters and 12 grandchildren.[10]
Edwards died on 10 April 2013 after a long lung illness.[29] A spokesperson for the University of Cambridge said "He will be greatly missed by family, friends and colleagues."[30] The Guardian reported that, as of Edwards' death, more than four million births had resulted from IVF.[30] Louise Brown said "His work, along with Patrick Steptoe, has brought happiness and joy to millions of people all over the world by enabling them to have children."[31] According to the BBC, his work was motivated by his belief that "the most important thing in life is having a child."[31]
A plaque was unveiled at the Bourn Hall Clinic in July 2013 by Louise Brown and Alastair MacDonald - the world's first IVF baby boy - commemorating Steptoe and Edwards.[32][33]
- ^ a b c "EDWARDS, Sir Robert (Geoffrey)". Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press.(subscription required)
- ^ a b Johnson, M. H. (2011). "Robert Edwards: The path to IVF". Reproductive BioMedicine Online 23 (2): 245–262. doi:10.1016/j.rbmo.2011.04.010. PMC 3171154. PMID 21680248.
- ^ Fisher, S. J.; Giudice, L. C. (2013). "Robert G. Edwards (1925-2013)". Science 340 (6134): 825. doi:10.1126/science.1239644. PMID 23687039.
- ^ Edwards, R. G. (1996). "Patrick Christopher Steptoe, C. B. E. 9 June 1913-22 March 1988". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 42: 434–426. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1996.0027.
- ^ Steptoe, P. C.; Edwards, R. G. (1978). "Birth After the Reimplantation of a Human Embryo". The Lancet 312 (8085): 366. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(78)92957-4. PMID 79723.
- ^ "1978: First 'test tube baby' born". BBC. 1978-07-25. Retrieved 2009-06-13. "The birth of the world's first "test tube baby" has been announced in Manchester (England). Louise Brown was born shortly before midnight in Oldham and District General Hospital"
- ^ Moreton, Cole (2007-01-14). "World's first test-tube baby Louise Brown has a child of her own". London: Independent. Retrieved 2010-05-22. "The 28-year-old, whose pioneering conception by in-vitro fertilisation made her famous around the world ... The fertility specialists Patrick Steptoe and Bob Edwards became the first to successfully carry out IVF by extracting an egg, impregnating it with sperm and planting the resulting embryo back into the mother."
- ^ Fraser LR. "In Appreciation of Professor R. G. Edwards, Founding Editor of the Human Reproduction Journals". MHR 6 (5):3, 2000. doi:10.1093/molehr/6.5.3.
- ^ a b c "The 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine – Press Release". Nobelprize.org. 2010-10-04. Retrieved 2010-10-04.
- ^ a b Kolata, Gina (10 April 2013). "Robert G. Edwards Dies at 87; Changed Rules of Conception With First 'Test Tube Baby'". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
- ^ "SLA Biomedical & Life Sciences Division Blog: Robert G. Edwards : 2010 Nobel Prize Winner in Physiology or Medicine". Sla-divisions.typepad.com. 2010-10-07. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
- ^ "Health Zone 24x7 - Health - Fitness - Medicine - Medical". Healthzone24x7.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
- ^ Edwards, Robert Geoffrey (1955). The Experimental Induction of Heteroploidy in the Mouse (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh.
- ^ "Professor Sir Robert Edwards". Telegraph. 2013-04-10. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
- ^ Myers, PZ (2010-10-04). "A surprising Nobel". Retrieved 2010-10-04.
- ^ Wade, Nicholas (October 4, 2010). "Pioneer of in Vitro Fertilization Wins Nobel Prize". New York Times. Retrieved October 5, 2010.
- ^ Joseph D. Schulman, M.D., 2010. "Robert G. Edwards – A Personal Viewpoint"
- ^ http://www.obgmanagement.com/srm/pdf/first_live_birth_donation.pdf
- ^ "Home — OBG Management". Obgmanagement.com. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
- ^ "Library". TheAFA.org. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
- ^ "Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research 2001". Laskerfoundation.org. 2007-09-16. Retrieved 2010-10-04.
- ^ "Top 100 living geniuses". The Daily Telegraph (London). 2007-10-28. Retrieved 2010-10-04.
- ^ a b "Nobel in medicine for IVF pioneer". The Times of India. 2010-10-05. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
- ^ a b "Vatican official criticises Nobel win for IVF pioneer". BBC News. 2010-10-04. Retrieved 2010-10-04.
- ^ "Vatican slams Nobel win for IVF doc". The Sydney Morning Herald. 2010-10-05. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
- ^ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59808. p. 1. 11 June 2011.
- ^ "Queen's birthday honours list: Knights". London: The Guardian. 2011-06-11. Retrieved 11 June 2011.
- ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 12 April 2013.
- ^ "IVF pioneer dies". Cambridge News. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ^ a b Jones, Sam (10 April 2013). "IVF pioneer Robert Edwards dies aged 87". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
- ^ a b "Test-tube baby pioneer Sir Robert Edwards dies". BBC News. 10 April 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2013.
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- ^ http://www.bourn-hall-clinic.co.uk/news/35-years-of-ivf-celebrated-by-the-first-test-tube-baby-at-bourn-hall-clinic/
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Smart phones are the latest must-have for techies and average Joes alike, and anglers have understandably jumped on the bandwagon. The pocket-size, seemingly do-all gadgets not only serve the age-old purpose of communication, but can also be loaded with apps you can use to monitor weather, find your way on the water, and much more. But for all their abilities, they are not cameras. Sure, they might have camera-like features, but the images they capture are terrible despite how they might appear on a phone or computer screen. Unfortunately, this message isn't getting out to anglers, and we've seen proof of it here at Club Headquarters. Recently, as much as 90 percent of Member Photos emailed to email@example.com have been taken on cell phones, and none of them can be printed in the magazine— they're simply too low resolution. So, whether you want to get a photo published, or just want a quality image to put in a frame, ditch the phone and go back to what works—a real digital camera. These days, the technology has advanced to the point that even the most inexpensive models take images that are of ample size for use in the magazine. And when you do shoot photos of your trophy fish, use the highest resolution setting possible, and email the full-size files pulled directly off the camera's memory card to firstname.lastname@example.com. If you insist on putting your smart phone to work, use it to call your friend and have them meet you at the lake with a real camera.
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I noticed 3 messages stuck in my Gmail outbox post-OS 2.2 upgrade. Just sitting there. Mocking me. "Sending" but never getting "sent". Following a comment by Matt, I re-typed my password and voila, the intertubes they were cleared.
Not sure if this will work for everyone, either by itself or with a reset, but give it a try and let us know.
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I had the problem of when trying to send
An attachment it would say senders address is invalid. So following a link posted by another helpful fellow I unlocked my captcha and
BOOM working like new. Other than that no issues as of now...I'm still wondering about the emoticons though. Are they only available on Japanese iPhones or can anyone use em?
unlocked your captcha? i had that problem too. deleted and readded my gmail on the iphone, and that didn't do anything. a couple hours later it just magically cleared up.
the emoji are only available for japan
I had this problem PRE and POST 2.2 upgrade. Nothing seems to clear it. I will try retyping password again!
Rene, the forums not good enough to ask this question now eh? I see how it is... back to the forums for me now... ;)
Actually saw this earlier today before the upgrade, and reentering the password fixed it. Think it was a gmail thing.
I have encountered some problems with my gmail account after the 2.2 update my inbox won't even load or update I was wondering why this is?!?!?! =(
Help me somebody, yesterday I upgraded to 2.2 I am no longer able to move or delete aol mail I have two iphones it is the same on both. I have restored them,called apple support,reinstalled email account nothing works,however i can still delete yahoo mail and mobile me. Thanks.
I had the same issue with gmail and I deleted the email account. I notice that the mail account is not really deleted as when I ssh'd into my iphone, the folder was still there. So I deleted the Mail folder in /Private/Var/Mobile/Library. I added a new gmail account and it worked again. I assumethe same will work for other mail accounts.
For those still having problems deleting AOL email, I found this resolution: "After updating to 2.2 I had the same problem deleting AOL e-mail from a basic account. Here's my fix. Go to settings (on the iphone) >mail, contacts, calendars>accounts> then click on each account, scroll down to advanced settings>mailbox behaviors>deleted mailbox on my iPhone. The next screen shows that the trash icon is checked, but click on it again, and viola, dump e-mail again. Apparently upgrading to 2.2 leaves the icon checked when it really isn't, so clicking it again confirms that you want your deleted e-mail to go to the trash. Cheers."
Hey, I can't stream video or music on the internet since the download (the video I was previously able to steam). Anybody have this problem?
My problem is that my gmail doesn't load over 3G or EDGE (it just stays in that perpetual, spinning-wheel 'trying to connect' mode) but it works fine over Wifi.
Any suggestions
To delete AOL messages on your iPhone:
Log on to AOL. Create a new folder (I called mine "iPhone Trash").
On your iPhone:
Settings --> Mail --> Go to your AOL email account --> Advanced --> Deleted Mailbox --> Switched the selected folder from "Trash folder on the iPhone" to the new trash folder you created on the server (in my case iPhone Trash).
The first time you go back to your AOL account and go to Mailboxes, you will see the folder you created for a second but then it will disappear. A Trash folder will then appear. It's wierd.
This worked flawlessly for me. :)
Thank you for the AOL deleting fix! Helped out alot. I couldn't figure it out for the life of me! :P
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I have a problem with my gmail (imap) account in iPhone 3g 2.2.1 When i start the mail client, it checks for new mail and quits. It is not working longer than 5 seconds. Other mail servers are woking correctly.
I tried to remove mail folder as mentioned before, but there is no change.
The emoji are available for the US phones outside of Japan.
You have to go to the app store and download an app called FrostyPlace and click on random RSS feeds in the application. Then go to your keyboard menu and click on japanese...it should come up with an Emoji keyboard which you can then turn on. If it doesn't work on the first try, then keep working on it and it will work ;)
All I want to know if there is a way to jury rig and change the sound levels to twice what they are
I own the fimrdt gen.
I soul die and kill for a suggestion
I keep deleted the same messages over and over in my Iphone. Maybe I've reached capacity in deleted message file? How do I delete the deleted messages?
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"Here's a rich and hearty split pea soup with a twist. Since the peas do not need to be pre-soaked, it can be put together quickly and easily. For a little added smokiness and spice, dice up a couple chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, and add them with the other herbs and spices."
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1 tablespoon olive oil
1 yellow onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, chopped
6 cups low-sodium beef broth
2 pounds dried split peas
1 carrot, peeled and diced
2 small potatoes, peeled and diced
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon dried basil
1 tablespoon coarsely ground black pepper
1 tablespoon dried parsley
2 teaspoons crushed red pepper flakes
1 teaspoon ground sage
1 teaspoon kosher salt
2 bay leaves
2 1/2 pounds smoked turkey legs
2 cups water, or as needed
2 1/2 tablespoons sour cream, for garnish
This is a very flavorful soup but rather than six cups of beef broth try six cups water with two tablespoons of ham base. There are several delicious varieties sold in jars.
We no longer eat pork and my wife loves pea soup being a French Canadian. So, I smoked turkey hind quarters in our baraque smoker. I also used my own turkey broth I made from our last roast turkey. She just loved it and so did I, and I don't care for pea soup, but this one was too good not to eat. I didn't put in all the chilli flakes as my little French girl dosn't like things to hot, but the soup was sooooo, good.I served it with a Johnny Cake I made, and now I have a happy wife. I would not change anything except less chilli peppers. Thank you for the great recipe WileyP Wayne & Mona Nakusp, British Columbia
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Friday, 31 May 2013 06:54 Published in Health & FitnessWashing everyone with antiseptic wipes and giving them antibiotic nose ointment reduced bloodstream infections dramatically in the study at more than 40 U.S. hospitals.
The practice could prove controversial, because it would involve even uninfected patients and because experts say it could lead to germs becoming more resistant to antibiotics. But it worked better than screening methods, now required in nine states.
The study found that 54 patients would need to be decontaminated to prevent one bloodstream infection.
Nevertheless, the findings are "very dramatic" and will lead to changes in practice and probably new laws, said Dr. William Schaffner, a Vanderbilt University infectious-disease specialist who was not involved in the research. Some hospitals are already on board.
The study targeted ICU patients, who tend to be older, sicker, weaker and most likely to be infected with dangerous bacteria, including drug-resistant staph germs.
The decontamination method worked like this: For up to five days, 26,000 ICU patients got a nose swab twice a day with bacteria-fighting ointment, plus once-daily bathing with antiseptic wipes.
Afterward, they were more than 40 percent less likely to get a bloodstream infection of any type than patients who had been screened and isolated for a dangerous germ called MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
In the year before the experiment began, there were 950 bloodstream infections in intensive care patients at the hospitals studied. The results suggest that more than 400 of those could have been prevented if all hospitals had used the decontamination method.
"We've definitively shown that it is better to target high-risk people," not high-risk germs, said lead author Dr. Susan Huang, a researcher and infectious-disease specialist at the University of California, Irvine.
The hospitals in the study are all part of the Hospital Corporation of America system, the nation's largest hospital chain. HCA spokesman Ed Fishbough said the 162-hospital company is adopting universal ICU decontamination.
The study was published online Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The study focused on the MRSA germ. It can live on the skin or in the nose without causing symptoms but can be life-threatening when it reaches the bloodstream or vital organs. It is especially dangerous because it is resistant to many antibiotics.
More than 70,000 ICU patients were randomly selected to get one of three treatments: MRSA screening and isolation; screening, isolation and decontamination of MRSA carriers only; and universal decontamination without screening. Partial decontamination worked better than just screening, and universal decontamination was best.
About a decade ago, hospital-linked invasive MRSA infections sickened more than 90,000 people nationwide each year, leading to roughly 20,000 deaths.
As hospitals improved cleanliness through such measures as better hand-washing and isolating carriers of deadly germs, those numbers dropped by about a third, with fewer than 10,000 deaths in 2011, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC has been recommending screening and isolation in certain cases. Now it's having experts review the results and help determine whether the agency should revise its recommendations, said the CDC's Dr. John Jernigan.
"It is a very important finding. It advances our understanding of how best to control infections caused by MRSA" and other germs, Jernigan said.
The CDC and the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality helped pay for the study. Dr. Carolyn Clancy, who heads the research agency, said the findings have "the potential to influence clinical practice significantly and create a safer environment where patients can heal without harm."
Jernigan said the decontamination approach is much simpler than screening and isolation. But he said its costs need to be studied.
Huang said the five-day nose treatment costs about $35 for brand-name ointment but only $4 for a generic version. The antiseptic wipes cost only about $3 to $5 more per day than usual washing methods, she said. But those costs might be offset by other savings from avoiding widespread screening and isolation, she said.
Intensive care patients are already routinely bathed. The study just swapped soap with wipes containing a common antiseptic. Some study authors have received fees from makers of antiseptic wipes or have done research or unpaid consulting for those companies.
The nose ointment treatment is more controversial because it could cause more germs to become resistant to the antibiotic, Jernigan said.
"That's something we're going to have to very closely monitor if this practice is implemented widely," he said.
An editorial accompanying the study voices similar concerns and notes that research published earlier this year found that using just antiseptic wipes on ICU patients reduced bloodstream infections. Two infection control specialists at Virginia Commonwealth University wrote the editorial.
Editorial co-author Dr. Michael Edmond said his university's hospital is among those that already use antiseptic wipes on ICU patients.
While MRSA screening and isolation is widely accepted, Edmond said that approach "takes a toll on patients." Isolating patients who test positive for MRSA but don't have symptoms makes patients angry and depressed, and studies have shown that isolated patients are visited less often by nurses and tend to have more bedsores and falls, he said.
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Wednesday, 29 May 2013 11:15 Published in Health & FitnessMedical marijuana items include yummy-looking gummy candies, cookies and other treats that may entice young children. Fourteen children were treated at Colorado Children's Hospital in the two years after a 2009 federal policy change led to a surge in medical marijuana use, the study found. That's when federal authorities said they would not prosecute legal users.
Study cases were mostly mild, but parents should know about potential risks and keep the products out of reach, said lead author Dr. George Sam Wang, an emergency room physician at the hospital.
Unusual drowsiness and unsteady walking were among the symptoms. One child, a 5-year-old boy, had trouble breathing. Eight children were hospitalized, two in the intensive care unit, though all recovered within a few days, Wang said. By contrast, in four years preceding the policy change, the Denver-area hospital had no such cases.
Some children came in laughing, glassy-eyed or "acting a little goofy and `off,'" Wang said. Many had eaten medical marijuana food items, although nonmedical marijuana was involved in at least three cases. The children were younger than 12 and included an 8-month-old boy.
The study was released Monday in JAMA Pediatrics.
Eighteen states and Washington, D.C., allow medical marijuana, though it remains illegal under federal law. Colorado's law dates to 2000 but the study notes that use there soared after the 2009 policy change on prosecution. Last year, Colorado and Washington state legalized adult possession of small amounts of nonmedical marijuana.
Some states, including Colorado, allow medical marijuana use by sick kids, with parents' supervision.
In a journal editorial, two Seattle poisoning specialists say that at least seven more states are considering legalizing medical marijuana and that laws that expand marijuana use likely will lead to more children sickened.
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Wednesday, 29 May 2013 11:11 Published in Health & FitnessGuillermina and Fernando Garcia's five babies - three girls and two boys - weigh between 2 and 3 pounds each and are expected to stay at the University of Utah hospital in Salt Lake City for another six weeks. Doctors predict they will grow up completely healthy.
Guillermina Garcia, 34, carried the babies until 31 1/2 weeks - seven weeks shorter than most single-birth pregnancies but about three weeks longer than most quintuplet mothers. The extra time in the womb helped the babies' lungs develop more than other quintuplets, said Dr. Elizabeth O'Brien, of the newborn intensive care unit.
"They are all doing remarkably well," O'Brien said.
It was the first set of quintuplets ever born at the hospital. Fewer than 10 quintuplet sets are born each year in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counted 37 babies who were born as part of a set of five or more in 2010.
"We feel like we're dreaming," said Fernando Garcia in Spanish at a Tuesday afternoon news conference. "It's incredible that we have five."
The Utah couple used fertility drugs, which increases the odds of a woman having multiple births. They found out early in the pregnancy they were having quintuplets, and Guillermina Garcia had been in the hospital on bed rest since early April.
All five babies were born by cesarean section - coming out within two minutes. A team of five, including one doctor and two nurses, was waiting for each baby. Their names are Esmeralda, Fatima, Marissa, Fernando and Jordan.
"I was excited to see them and see that they were OK, that everything turned out normally," she said in Spanish.
The largest is baby Fernando, who weighed 3 pounds, 14 ounces. The two baby boys are still using breathing tubes, while the girls are breathing on their own.
Dr. Tracy Manuck served as Guillermina Garcia's doctor at the hospital and called the mother an extraordinary person who never complained, despite suffering from high blood pressure and other medical problems during the pregnancy. The doctors also complimented her husband's support throughout the pregnancy - including in the operating room Sunday morning.
Though the hospital had never had quintuplets before, they've had many women give birth to triplets and quadruplets and drew on those experiences to help them Sunday, Manuck said.
The beaming couple, originally from Guanajuato, Mexico, now begins a future sure to be filled with droves of dirty diapers, endless hours of trying to calm crying babies and enough bottles and binkies to fill a sink. They also have a 1-year-old girl, Julietta.
They said they have family who live in the area who will help them. Fernando Garcia's bosses have told him to take as much time off as he needs from his work as a welder at a local factory. The family has health insurance, and the Utah Doula Association has setup an account where people can donate to help with the costs of having five babies.
When asked how she plans to care for all five babies, Guillermina Garcia shrugged her shoulders, laughed and said simply: "I don't know."
Her husband smiled and gave a more confident answer: "Now that they're here, we'll find a way," he said. "We're through the hardest part."
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