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Pork Producers Clean Water Act Compliance Incentive Program
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) have agreed to a comprehensive Clean Water Act Compliance Audit Program (CAP). The NPPC, which represents pork producers nationally, plans to have independent auditors conduct more than 10,000 of the audits nationwide to improve environmental management practices and assure compliance with the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act CAP provides incentives for pork producers to undertake voluntary comprehensive on-farm environment assessments by greatly reducing penalties for any Clean Water Act violations that are promptly disclosed and corrected under this program.
This program was developed after the NPPC approached EPA to propose an environmental assessment program for the industry. The NPPC developed a omprehensive and rigorous evaluation process for reviewing pork production facilities that is designed to assure the protection of our nation's waterways by improving environmental protection controls at pork farms throughout the United States.
This compliance audit program is the result of an agreement between EPA and the NPPC that provides reasonable incentives for pork producers without compromising EPA's and the States' ability to enforce the law consistently and appropriately. The program demonstrates how government and industry can come together to find practical and resourceful solutions for reducing waste runoff into our nation's rivers, lakes and streams.
Voluntary Compliance Audit Program
- The CAP program is open to all pork producers in the country, but excludes slaughterhouses, pork processing and packing facilities, or areas of ancillary operations such as equipment or feed storage or cropland--other than cropland used for land application of swine waste. Participation in either the NPPC audits or the CAP program itself is voluntary.
- Producers with existing pork production facilities must register for the voluntary CAP Agreement by Sept. 30, 2001. For facilities that are completed after Sept. 30, 2001, producers must register by Sept. 30, 2003. Pork producers who want to register for the program can contact their local pork producers' organization or the National Pork Producers Council, at (515) 223-2600.
- These audits will be conducted by trained and certified independent inspectors at no cost to producers, and according to a comprehensive and public protocol. The program was developed by NPPC at a cost of $1.5 million with millions more to be spent on training assessors and overseeing the program. EPA has provided a $5 million grant to America's Clean Water Foundation to assist with the voluntary assessments.
- Participating pork producers must identify and report Clean Water Act violations within 120 days of the start of an assessment, and complete corrective action within specified timetables. For example, the CAP Agreement provides for 60-90 days for correcting operating and maintenance violations, and one year where additional waste storage or disposal capacity is needed.
- For a pork producer to be eligible for the CAP Agreement, the auditor must report that the audit was conducted properly according to the protocol. Producers must certify that the report to EPA is complete and accurate, and an auditor or licensed engineer must certify that the correction is complete.
- Producers that report and correct violations within the timetable and otherwise comply with the CAP Agreement are eligible for reduced penalties. Penalties are based on economic benefit, range from $1,000 to $10,000 for violations resulting in a discharged, and are capped at no more than $40,000 per facility. These penalties can be reduced further for early correction, and EPA retains flexibility under existing policies to waive them where circumstances require it.
- EPA will consult with any State to assure participating pork producers have complied with the terms of the CAP Agreement. A State may elect to administer the CAP Agreement; in those cases, EPA would refer any CWA violation disclosures to the State for consideration and response under the terms of the CAP Agreement.
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- The NPPC will award special seals to pork producers who have the voluntary environmental assessment performed, and promptly report and correct any CWA violations discovered. The seal may be withdrawn if a pork producer is found to be in violation of the CWA.
- This CAP is limited to Clean Water Act violations, although States may wish to adapt it for other requirements.
- The CAP Agreement would not apply to violations already discovered by EPA or a State, or which are the subject of a citizen suit action.
- Reduced penalties are available only for those violations that are reported and corrected under the CAP Agreement. The program reserves EPA's ability to pursue injunctive relief when there is a discharge and where there is an "imminent and substantial" endangerment under section 504 of the Clean Water Act, and reserves EPA's ability to recommend prosecution for criminal conduct. EPA may impose penalties and seek all other available remedies where a pork producer fails to comply with the CAP Agreement. The program does not relieve the producer from its obligations to comply with all CWA permits, regulations and other applicable environmental laws and regulations.
Environmental Benefits
- This environmental auditing and enforcement program will help protect the public health and the nation's rivers from waste runoff. Corrective measures will be taken to address discharges and other National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit violations.
- More than 10,000 pork production facilities, including most of the large pork farms in the U.S., are planned to have on-farm assessments. Audited farms are likely to account for about 80 percent of U.S. pork production.
- The CAP program potentially exceeds what EPA has the resources to do otherwise, and will disclose violations that EPA may not have discovered otherwise.
- The program brings facilities within the regulatory system and potentially provides important information on facilities. The program will educate pork producers about corrective measures to address violations and prevent future violations.
The links below are to the press releases and other documents related to the pork producers cases.
- Press Release (11/25/98)
For additional information about the Pork Producers Clean Water Act Compliance Incentive Program, contact EPA Headquarters Water Enforcement Division at (202) 564-2240. For information about EPA's Audit Policy, contact Leslie Jones at (202) 564-5123, email@example.com.


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Definitions for heart failure
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word heart failure
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
heart′ fail`ure(n.)
a condition in which the heart fatally ceases to function.
Category: Pathology
a condition in which the heart pumps inadequate amounts of blood, characterized by edema, esp. of the lower legs, and shortness of breath.
Category: Pathology
Origin of heart failure:
Princeton's WordNet
heart failure, coronary failure(noun)
inability of the heart to pump enough blood to sustain normal bodily functions
heart failure(Noun)
The chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath.
heart failure(Noun)
The cessation of the heartbeat; cardiac arrest.
Heart failure
Heart failure, often called congestive heart failure or congestive cardiac failure, occurs when the heart is unable to provide sufficient pump action to maintain blood flow to meet the needs of the body. Heart failure can cause a number of symptoms including shortness of breath, leg swelling, and exercise intolerance. The condition is diagnosed by patient physical examination and confirmed with echocardiography. Blood tests help to determine the cause. Treatment depends on severity and cause of heart failure. In a chronic patient already in a stable situation, treatment commonly consists of lifestyle measures such as smoking cessation, light exercise, dietary changes, and medications. Sometimes, depending from etiology, it is treated with implanted devices and occasionally a heart transplant is required. Common causes of heart failure include myocardial infarction and other forms of ischemic heart disease, hypertension, valvular heart disease, and cardiomyopathy. The term heart failure is sometimes incorrectly used for other cardiac-related illnesses, such as myocardial infarction or cardiac arrest, which can cause heart failure but are not equivalent to heart failure.
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Heart Failure
A heterogeneous condition in which the heart is unable to pump out sufficient blood to meet the metabolic need of the body. Heart failure can be caused by structural defects, functional abnormalities (VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION), or a sudden overload beyond its capacity. Chronic heart failure is more common than acute heart failure which results from sudden insult to cardiac function, such as MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION.
Translations for heart failure
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the sudden stopping of the heart's beating
the old man died of heart failure.
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In April 1998, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) convened an expert panel to begin developing guidelines for the design, conduct and monitoring of scientifically and ethically acceptable clinical trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of new approaches to achieve immune tolerance in transplant recipients. A group of experts in bioethics, law and basic and clinical research in transplantation joined NIH staff and representatives of the Food and Drug Administration and the NIH Office of Protection from Research Risks.
Transplantation is now routine therapy for end-stage renal disease, with one-year graft survival approaching 90% using standard immunosuppressive therapy. However, long-term graft survival has not improved appreciably since the early 1980s and only about 45% of cadaveric kidneys survive ten years post-transplant. For other organs (e.g., liver, lung and pancreas), graft survival does not approach this level. While new immunosuppressive drugs have reduced acute rejection in the first year post-transplant, it is clear that these therapeutic improvements will not significantly alter long-term clinical outcomes. Therefore, much recent attention has focused on the potential for the induction of donor-specific immune tolerance to achieve long-term graft survival without the need for non-specific, life-long immunosuppressive therapy that has deleterious and often life-threatening side effects. Although certain promising tolerogenic molecules have been shown to induce donor-specific tolerance in rodent and non-human primate transplant models and are being tested in humans for the treatment of selected autoimmune diseases, these approaches have not been evaluated for transplantation in humans.
A major ethical dilemma in moving forward with clinical trials for the induction of transplant tolerance results from the growing body of knowledge that standard immunosuppressive therapy blocks the intracellular signals necessary to induce at least some types of tolerance. Therefore, transplantation clinical trials to evaluate the safety and efficacy of tolerogenic approaches will involve withholding standard immunosuppressive therapy or significantly altering immunosuppressive regimens.
The expert panel was asked to address a number of critical questions and issues, including the following:
What is the quality and extent of non-human primate data needed to begin clinical trials in humans: What differences between species need to be taken into account in designing human studies?
What are the options for a scientifically viable and ethically acceptable research design? Under what conditions, if any, can standard immunosuppressive therapy be withheld? Under what conditions can standard immunosuppressive therapy be significantly reduced in terms of the number of drugs, dosage or length of administration?
What reliable markers are available, or need to be developed, for the early detection of graft rejection, assessment of graft function, and assessment of the induction, maintenance or loss of tolerance?
What rescue therapies need to be in place?
Which patient populations are most appropriate from both a scientific and an ethical standpoint?
What safeguards need to be incorporated into the informed consent process?
The panel acknowledged that clinical trials of tolerance induction in the transplant setting is a rapidly evolving field of investigation that will require ongoing review by a similar panel of experts. The risks and benefits associated with decisions to initiate human studies and the design and monitoring of human studies should be reviewed on a case-by-case basis by experts in bioethics, law and basic and clinical research in transplantation.
Long-term graft survival is no better today than it was 20 years ago. The failure to achieve substantial improvements in long-term graft survival rates remains a problem for transplant recipients, clinicians, surgeons and researchers. Therefore, the panel strongly endorses the development and testing of new therapeutic approaches to prevent the process of chronic rejection.
The issues involved in balancing scientific viability with ethical acceptability are not unique to clinical trials of transplant tolerance. These issues have been addressed in clinical investigations of other diseases such as AIDS and cancer. It is possible to design scientifically valid and ethically acceptable clinical protocols despite current limitations in understanding mechanisms of action and incomplete data on safety and toxicity.
Non-human primate models are particularly useful because they more closely approximately the human immune system and physiology. Therefore, non-human primate studies are essential to provide critical data on safety and toxicity that, in many cases, cannot be obtained ethically in human clinical trials and sufficient data from such studies should be available before initiating human clinical trials. However, demonstrated efficacy in non-human primate models does not guarantee "success" in humans. Therefore, data from animal studies, while important, are just one factor in the decision-making process to proceed with human trials. For example, a lack of demonstrated efficacy in non-human primate studies would not necessarily preclude initiation of pilot clinical trials in humans.
It will be important to define success in terms of clinical outcomes. Some measures of success recommended include the absence of acute or chronic rejection without a requirement for globally immunosuppressive agents and long-lasting immunocompetence against infections and tumors.
The projected risk/benefit ratio of any tolerance induction trial in transplant recipients must be at least neutral compared to standard therapy before a clinical trial can proceed. Given the considerable toxicities, side effects, financial burden and poor long-term survival rates associated with global immunosuppression, the projected risk/benefit ratio of a well designed tolerance induction clinical trial would be at least neutral. Furthermore, it is has been demonstrated that 95% of acute rejections can be reversed, providing a reasonable "rescue" therapy for patients enrolled in tolerance induction trials. The design of tolerance induction trials can, therefore, incorporate specific rules for rescue of the rejecting graft and placing these patients on conventional immunosuppressive therapy.
The design of initial clinical trials of tolerance induction must give priority to patient safety. These trials should incorporate a sequential enrollment design in which the enrollment of additional patients is dependent on the results of patients enrolled up to that time. Defined stopping rules and treatment regimens for potential rejection, based on expected failure rates, must be in place to ensure patient safety. The current acute rejection rate using standard immunosuppressive therapy is 20-25% during the period from 3-6 months post-transplant. Therefore, similar acute rejection rates in tolerance induction clinical trials may occur in the clinical trial design.
Current methods to diagnose rejection are less than optimal and essentially require the clinician to wait until organ damage has occurred before therapeutic strategies to treat and/or reverse rejection can be implemented. The panel recommended that tolerance induction trials incorporate the most sophisticated methods available for detecting and/or predicting rejection prior to severe organ damage, including both pathology and intra-graft gene expression.
Clinical trials of tolerance induction strategies should incorporate studies of new methods to measure the induction, maintenance and loss of tolerance, as well as studies of the underlying immune mechanisms of tolerance induction.
Clinical trials should not be initiated in settings where the failure to induce tolerance would be lifethreatening (e.g., heart and liver transplantation). In contrast, clinical trials of the safety, toxicity and potential efficacy of tolerogenic approaches should be initiated in kidney and islet transplantation. Kidney transplantation and islet transplantation in particular were viewed as appropriate clinical settings since the consequences of rejection are less severe and patients who fail therapy with tolerogenic approaches can be effectively treated with standard insulin therapy or dialysis. Diabetics represent a subpopulation of kidney transplant recipients for whom tolerance induction may be of particular potential benefit, given the poor long-term clinical outcomes of such patients on standard immunosuppressive therapy.
A clear and comprehensive informed consent process is necessary, including a thorough and easily understood informed consent document. To control for conflicts of interest, informed consent should be obtained by independent third parties and should include counseling on all aspects of the risks and benefits of the experimental study. In addition, counseling must continue to be available after informed consent is obtained. Those obtaining informed consent must be knowledgeable about transplantation and capable of answering questions about both standard and experimental therapies and the informed consent process should not be limited to one day. Patients offered enrollment in early trials must be able to understand fully the complex issues involved so they can weigh risks and benefits. In cases of living kidney donation, it may be important to obtain informed consent from the donor as well.
Patient selection must balance the potential risks and benefits in terms of expected clinical outcome for different types of transplant recipients. It was acknowledged that the first-time transplant recipient, i.e., the patient with a "naïve" immune system, would be an appropriate candidate for initial tolerance induction studies versus the patient with severe chronic rejection who may be sensitized and, therefore, not likely to benefit from these experimental approaches. Moreover, the results of tolerance induction protocols for first transplant recipients may not be applicable to sensitized patients, as the patient receiving a second transplant is already immunologically primed to potential donors. Therefore, proof of concept in immunologically "naïve" transplant recipients, along with some understanding of underlying mechanisms, could lead to more effective therapeutic regimens for sensitized patients.
It will be ethical to enroll children in these trials only after proof-of-concept has been demonstrated in adults. Children have the most to gain from tolerance induction since current immunosuppressive regimens are not as successful in children as in adults, and the benefits of donor-specific tolerance could extend longer term in pediatric populations.
Bioethicists and Institutional Review Board representatives should be involved in the design of all clinical trials of transplant tolerance and should assist in the development of ethically acceptable consent forms and processes.
Charles B. Carpenter, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University
James Childress, Ph.D., Kyle Professor of Religious Studies, Professor of Medical Education and Chairman, Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia
David Essayan, M.D., Medical Officer, Pharmacology & Toxicology Branch, Division of Clinical Trials Design and Analysis, Office of Therapeutics Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration
Norman Levinsky, M.D., Associate Provost and Professor of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center
Bernard Lo, M.D., Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Louis Marzella, M.D., Ph.D., Medical Officer, Pharmacology & Toxicology Branch, Division of Clinical Trials Design and Analysis, Office of Therapeutics Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration
Lee Nadler, M.D., Chairman, Department of Adult Oncology, Division of Hematologic Malignancies, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Philip D. Noguchi, M.D., Director, Division of Cellular and Gene Therapies, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration
Thomas Pearson, M.D., Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Transplant Immunology, Emory University
Harold Y. Vanderpool, Ph.D., Th.M., Professor in the History of Philosophy, Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch
Robert Veatch, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Ethics and Senior Research Scholar, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University
Alison Wichman, M.D., Deputy Director, Office of Human Subjects Research, Office of Intramural Research, National Institutes of Health
Mohamed H. Sayegh, M.D., Director, Laboratory of Immunogenetics and Transplantation Research, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University
Terry Strom, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Division of Immunology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
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Judy Massicott-Fisher, Ph.D., Health Scientist Administrator, Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Kamal Mittal, Ph.D., Northwest and Compliance Coordinator, Office of Protection from Research Risks, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health
Camille A. Jones, M.D., MPH, Epidemiology Program Director, Division of Kidney, Urology and Hematology, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Robert Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., Vice President of Research, Juvenile Diabetes Foundation International
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Associate Professor Jo Hardin explains what makes the Mathematics major at Pomona College special.
Student Passions
I transferred to Pomona to study applied math. I thought that would be
the most relevant thing, the most interesting thing.... But pretty soon
after I got here, the faculty got me interested in pure math.
--Bob Lutz
Department News
- Learning Communities in Mathematics (LiCMATH)
December 13, 2014
The Pomona College Mathematics Department has established Learning Communities in Mathematics (LiCMATH, pronounced 'Like Math') to provide an honors-level experience to well-prepared students in Calculus I and II. Every year we invite a diverse group of incoming students to apply to the program.
- The Empowerment Project
December 3, 2014
Ordinary Women Doing Extraordinary Things
The Empowerment Project is coming: January 29, 2015.
- Winners of the Undergraduate Statistics Research Project Competition
November 7, 2014
What do Emily Proulx '16, Timothy Kaye '15, Daniel Metz '16 and David Khatami '16 have in common? Together they wrote the winning paper in a statistics research competition (Undergraduate Statistics Research Project Competition) titled, "Quantifying and comparing centrality measures for network individuals as applied to the Enron corpus", on network analysis of the Enron email corpus. Their work was published in the SIAM undergraduate research journal. The work was completed as part of the spring 2014 Research Circle advised by Profs. Jo Hardin and Ghassan Sarkis. For a more complete story see the Pomona College News.
- What is the Greatest Job in the World?
October 5, 2014
According to Will Leer, math major from 2007 and Pro-Miler, the greatest job in the world is running. If you've ever wondered what the life of an elite runner is like, check out Will's interview in the October 2014 issue of Track and Field News. As always, we follow hiss career from afar with the Pomona College News keeping us up-to-date.
- A New Millikan for a New Era in Science and Math
June 10, 2014
Hanging above the entrance to the Robert A. Millikan Laboratory is a sculpture of a simplified atom, its electrons circling the perfectly round nucleus in neatly defined orbits. Even in 1958, when the building was first opened as part of the Seaver science complex, scientists at Pomona had a far more nuanced view of subatomic structure, but in the more than five decades since then, a universe of new knowledge has opened up.
For more than 2,000 years, mathematics has been fundamental in a liberal education; in modern times, it has become the language of the natural sciences and a powerful tool in the social sciences. The mathematics curriculum at Pomona College is as well-suited to the student who wants a liberal arts introduction to mathematical thought as it is to the social or natural scientist who needs technical expertise in mathematical, statistical and computational methods. The Mathematics Major provides a broad and comprehensive offering of courses in all the mathematical sciences, including probability, statistics and operations research, as well as in the traditional areas of pure and applied mathematics. Pomona joins with the other Claremont Colleges in offering its students courses from some 60 faculty mathematicians. Programs range from the usual B.A. to a combined B.A.-M.A. program offered jointly with Claremont Graduate University to the Claremont Graduate University Ph.D. program in pure and applied mathematics. Brochures describing all mathematics courses in Claremont are available either from the Mathematics Department or the Office of Admissions. The department also offers a minor.
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1x01 Pilot
January 12, 1997 8:30 pm
The pilot of King of the Hill introduces us to the town of Arlen, Texas, and the life of propane salesman Hank Hill. Hank spends much of his time standing in the alley outside his house, drinking beer with his three old friends: Dale Gribble, a conspiracy theorist who never notices that his wife Nancy is having an affair with her "healer" John Redcorn (or that his son Joseph looks a lot like Redcorn); Bill Dauterive, a divorced army barber; and Boomhauer, a ladies' man of indeterminate employment and even more indeterminate speech. Hank lives with his wife Peggy, a substitute Spanish teacher at Tom Landry Middle School; his son Bobby, who seems to like comedy records better than sports; Peggy's niece Luanne, an aspiring beautician; and his dog Ladybird, a bloodhound whose mother tracked down James Earl Ray.
1x02 Square Peg
January 19, 1997 8:30 pm
Peggy is assigned to teach a Sex Education class. She has to teach herself to overcome her crippling sense of shame and call body parts by their right names -- but her newfound sexual frankness makes Hank so uncomfortable that he pulls Bobby out of the class.
1x03 The Order of the Straight Arrow
February 2, 1997 8:30 pm
Hank and his friends take Bobby's scout troop on a rite of passage journey in the wilderness. The point of "The Order of the Straight Arrow" is for the kids to realize that their parents are ganging up to play jokes on them, and the joke Hank and the guys choose is to put the kids through a series of fake Native American rituals. However, Bobby takes the rituals seriously, and things become very serious indeed when, on a "snipe hunt," Bobby accidentally clobbers an endangered whooping crane.
1x04 Hank's Got the Willies
February 9, 1997 8:30 pm
Hank is worried because Bobby seems to have no goal in life and no role model. He takes Bobby to the golf course, where Bobby accidentally hits Hank's idol, Willie Nelson, with a golf club. Meanwhile, Peggy is upset because Hank pays more attention to his guitar "Betsy", than he does to her. Luanne is failing braidwork at the beauty academy.
1x05 Luanne's Saga
February 16, 1997 8:30 pm
Luanne is dumped by her boyfriend Buckley, and she drives Hank crazy by crying all day and all night. Peggy warns Hank not to interfere, but Hank decides to find a new boyfriend for Luanne. Unfortunately, the all-American guy he picks out for her turns out to be no good, and to Hank's horror, Luanne goes home with Boomhauer. Hank is so disgusted, that he issues an ultimatum.
1x06 Hank's Unmentionable Problem
February 23, 1997 8:30 pm
Hank is constipated, and everyone wants to offer an opinion on how to cure it. After a humiliating visit to a proctologist, he is told that unless his condition improves, his colon will have to be surgically removed. Peggy makes Hank change his diet and his living habits in an attempt to become regular again, but Hank decides he'd rather die with a burger in his colon than live and eat faux-food.
1x07 Westie Side Story
March 2, 1997 8:30 pm
Laotians Kahn and Minh Souphanousinphone and their daughter Connie move into the house next door to Hank. Hank and Kahn take an immediate dislike to each other, but Peggy makes Hank go to Kahn's barbecue, for fear that people will think Hank is a racist. Dale refuses to eat the burgers at the Bbq, citing that they are dog meat, and when Ladybird and Doggie go missing, Hank thinks he ate them.
1x08 Shins of the Father
March 23, 1997 8:30 pm
Hank's father Cotton, a sexist loudmouth who lost his shins fighting in WWII, makes a grand entrance at Bobby's birthday party, saving the day. Peggy can't stand his ways, but he is Bobby's hero, and when Bobby begins to emulate his chauvenistic behavior, Hank reluctantly steps in.
1x09 Peggy the Boggle Champ
April 13, 1997 8:30 pm
Peggy goes to Dallas to represent Arlen in the Texas State Boggle Championship, and brings Hank along as her coach. Hank abandons his coaching duties and sneaks away with his friends to see the Dallas Mower Expo. Meanwhile, back in Arlen, Bobby and Luanne set off a disasterous series of events, sparked by a cup leaving a water ring on the coffee table.
1x10 Keeping Up With Our Joneses
April 27, 1997 8:30 pm
Hank catches Bobby smoking, and punishes him by making him smoke a whole carton of cigarettes. The plan backfires when not only does Bobby get addicted to cigarettes, but Hank and Peggy get re-addicted. They enlist many ways to help them quit as a family. Luanne saves the day, when she becomes "fed-up" with the addiction.
1x11 King of the Ant Hill
May 4, 1997 8:30 pm
Hank wants to have the best lawn in the neighborhood for Cinco de Mayo, and he decides that Dale's weekly bug-spraying is hurting his lawn. He tells Dale not to spray his lawn anymore. The war begins. Meanwhile, Bobby captures the Queen Fire Ant, and her hold on him becomes hypnotic.
1x12 Plastic White Female
May 11, 1997 8:30 pm
Bobby is worried because he's been invited to his first boy-girl party, where the kids will play Spin the Bottle. Luanne is worried because she has a big hairstyling test coming up. When Luanne brings home a plastic "practice head," Bobby secretly starts using it to practice interacting with the opposite sex. To Peggy's horror, she walks into Bobby's room and finds him kissing the plastic head.


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Step off, G.I. Joe – the heroes have arrived.
We've already introduced you to a few of the 2009 Earthkeeper heroes … environmental educator and activist Christopher Swain, swimming 1,000 miles down the east coast in the name of cleaner water; eco-trendspotter Cate Trotter, inspiring others to live and work more sustainably by showcasing all that's good and green in London; and Project Dirt, connecting eco-conscious Londoners with local greening projects via their website. By land, by sea and by internet, our heroes are working hard to raise environmental awareness and create Earthkeeping impact.
We're excited to add to that roster:
Sami Nerenberg and Nate Bastien (a.k.a. the "Impact Designers") — creating break-through, environmentally friendly design solutions for impoverished and low-income communities. As part of their Earthkeeping adventures, Nate is creating a 'Street Pack' for the homeless made entirely of scrap material, and Sami (one of the youngest teachers to run a program at the Rhode Island School of Design), is busy designing green "makeovers" for environmentally-challenged homes.
Eco-photographer Andrea Bakacs is harnessing the power of photography to deliver eco-messages, capturing on film amazing pockets of nature and a host of green projects across New York City. Ever seen Manhattan's composting nuns? How about a farm (complete with goats and chickens) located on an east village rooftop? Andrea is creating a visual story of green NYC, one photo at a time.
Passionate, powerful, environmentally-committed individuals excited about sharing their talent for the good of the planet? We feel safer already.
You can follow the Earthkeeper heroes and read / hear / watch their adventures in real time on Changents.com.
Sustainability on the Big Screen
As if Earthkeeper hero Cate Trotter doesn't have enough on her plate, what with uncovering all the hottest green trends and scenes in London, her latest green vision involves creating a film about sustainability, to further inspire people to live more sustainable lives by showing them exactly what those lives would look like. Think An Inconvenient Truth … only with a lot more optimism.
Given Cate's passion for the mission and the power of film, we're betting this is an idea that could really fly. But to get it off the ground, Cate's looking for some help from her fellow Earthkeepers. Specifically:
Do you know someone who might be interested / able to make such a video?
Do you have any business world friends who might be willing to "sponsor" (ahem, bankroll) the project?
Do you have any NGO or government body contacts who might want to take on such a project themselves?
If so, please let Cate know directly, or feel free to leave your info here. If you don't have the connections but still want to help, consider forwarding or tweeting this post to get others out there excited and enthused about the idea. And, if you've got other suggestions on how Cate might bring her great green idea into reality, by all means let us know.


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TV show plays out new storyline on Twitter
The USA Network show Covert Affairs has drummed up an innovative way to tie Twitter into the show: create accounts for the characters and play out an alternate storyline in short bursts over a six-week run.
For example, actor Christopher Gorham, who is @Chris_Gorham in real life, is Auggie Anderson or @AuggieA_CIA. He tweets back and forth with three other characters from the show with links to mission videos, photos, audio streams and "classified documents" that support the story. All the tweets and media are pulled together on Covert Affair's page, "Tweetcast: Operation Budapest."
"The suspension of disbelief is that it's not the regular Twitter, that when you're following the Tweetcast, you are becoming a CIA officer and it's an interoffice Twitter," explains Gorham in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. He says the idea partially originated from his own (real-life) Twitter followers. Fans who follow the characters can help influence in the storyline.
And coming later this month, a Covert Affairs episode will offer a resolution to the Twitter side drama, which in turn encourages tweet fans to watch. Pretty smart.


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SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Nose guard Louis Nix III appeared on more 2013 preseason watch lists than any other Notre Dame football player.
Defensive end Stephon Tuitt is coming off an All-American season that featured 47 tackles and team highs in tackles for loss (13) and sacks (12).
But another member of the Irish's defensive line — Sheldon Day — has caught coach Brian Kelly's attention.
"I know all the talk is about Nix and Tuitt, but I tell you, Sheldon Day, just watch the film. His first-step quickness. He's an impressive football player," Kelly said. "I wouldn't trade him for anybody on our football team. He is as impressive of a player as we have on defense."
That's high praise for the 6-2, 290-pound sophomore end from Indianapolis. This is, after all, a defense loaded with experience.
Kelly has been most impressed with Day's endurance.
"If there is an eight-play drive, he does not come out of the game," Kelly said. "He's the one that does not come out of the game."
Day played in all 13 games last year and had 23 tackles, three of which came in the BCS national title game loss to Alabama.
"His work volume, his ability to go, his pass-rush ability," Kelly said, "he's an outstanding football player."
Day also had two sacks during his freshman season. He credits the coaching staff with helping him make gains in getting off the blocks.
"[Defensive line] coach [Mike] Elston did a great job with me in the spring working on my fundamentals and working on my throw-offs. I give all the praise to coach Elston," Day said.
Day's responsibilities will increase following the loss of Kapron Lewis-Moore. Lewis-Moore had 40 tackles, 8½ tackles for loss and six sacks last season.
"It's an exciting role to take on," Day said, "just knowing that people are counting on you to perform excites you."
Day said he picked up a lot from Lewis-Moore, a 2012 co-captain who played in 45 games at Notre Dame, including 42 starts.
Despite Lewis-Moore's departure, several preseason publications rank the Irish's defensive line in the top five nationally. Day won't feel any extra pressure to deliver.
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Nearly 250 members of the Oklahoma National Guard, as well as members of Tinker Air Force Base are assisting with victim search and security in Moore, OK, where a tornado left at least 24 dead, including nine children, authorities said. The EF5 twister hit Monday, May 20, about 1515 CDT, just three miles south of Tinker.
Tinker Air Force Base officials activated the 507th Air Refueling Wing Crisis Action Team and initiated accountability of all personnel assigned to the wing. "At this time, we are attempting to determine the specific impact to our personnel, their families and the local community," Col. Russell Muncy, the 507th ARW commander, said in a press release May 20.
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Breaking up with your significant other is a painful process, and most people want to get it over with as soon as possible – even if it means avoiding important discussions about possessions, finances, and joint assets.
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Even though it sucks to think about the possibility of your relationship falling apart, but it happens sometimes. And in order for each of you to protect your finances during a break-up, you both need to put your differences aside and have a mature discussion.
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Make a list of joint assets and liabilities
You will need to make copies of any joint bank account statements, Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) accounts, Tax-Free Savings Accounts (TFSA), and any investments. Don't forget to include past tax returns, credit card statements, insurance and extended health policies, as well as mortgage payers or rental agreements.
If you have joint savings accounts or assets, talk about how you plan on splitting the money. Then, close the joint accounts as soon as possible. If you don't already have one, open up a new account in your own name.
If you have joint debt, or if one partner owes the other partner money, you need to start talking about it immediately. Come up with a realistic payment schedule that both of you can agree upon, and don't forget about any interest or banking fees that might accumulate as a result of holding the debt. The last thing you want to do is have to take (or be taken) to small claims court, garnish wages, fill out the endless amounts of paperwork – it's a nightmare. I've been down that road, and trust me, it's not fun.
Cancel joint credit cards and keep paying your bills
Make sure all joint loans and credit cards are canceled, and that you have a credit card in your own name only. Regardless of who owes what on your joint accounts, you are both responsible for paying it off. Interest charges can add up fast, so make sure you are both on the same page when it comes to creating a plan to get rid of your joint liabilities as quickly as possible.
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When The-Dream filed for divorce from Christina Milian in February, it came as a surprise to his wife, who was nine days away from giving birth to the couple's daughter. Now Milian is asking a judge to throw out the divorce papers.
According to TMZ, the "Dip It Low" singer claims that the father of her child not only lied about the status of their relationship, but also cheated on her.
Despite The-Dream publicly announcing the end of their marriage, Milian insists it was quite the contrary and that the two even had "marital relations on numerous occasions" after the paperwork was filed.
If the court does grant the divorce, Milian wants it to be for reasons other than that their marriage was "irretrievably broken," instead claiming that The-Dream was cheating on her.
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Watch & Listen to what the girls on the team take away from being involved in First Row on our 2012 - 2013 Season Video
If interested in joining the team as a rower or a volunteer
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First Row Program Brochure here.
First Row Fall 2013 Application here.
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Head Coach: Stephanie Ricker
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Volunteer Coaches: Sarah Volpe & Susan Godfrey
- October 4th - Head of the Ohio Race http://www.headoftheohio.org/
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The mission of First Row is to engage Pittsburgh's urban high school girls in a community rowing program that cultivates self-discipline, confidence, team-building and improved health.
The First Row season runs Monday through Thursday starting the second week in September and ending the last week of May with an approximate total of 140 practices.
Girls on the team undergo physical training at each practice. Exercise includes technical workouts using indoor rowing tanks, utilizing indoor rowing machines (ergometers), weight training, abdominal and kinesthetic circuits, and using TRRA racing shells for water practices.
We do recruiting in September for our fall season, and in January for our winter/spring season. Before going on the water, athletes undergo swim lessons given by a certified instructor at the Sarah Heinz House. Each girl goes through a series of instructions to increase their comfort level in and around the water, and to help them pass the TRRA required swim test. We do lessons in October and in February for new athletes joining the team. Every girl must maintain her membership by attending practices regularly and demonstrating her dedication to the team at practices and races.
Returning athletes compete in Head of the Ohio regatta in October. All athletes participate in two indoor races over the winter, TRRA Indoor Sprints and North Allegheny Indoor Race in January and March respectively. In the spring, all athletes have the opportunity to race on the water in the Scholastic Sprints Regatta in May, other local scrimmages and travel to an away race.
Graduates from First Row are encouraged to continue their involvement with the team through assisting with practices if they live or attend colleges locally.
First Row is a rowing program founded in the 2009 for girls attending Pittsburgh Public/Charter Schools. We are able to offer the program at no cost thanks to our funders which include: The Dorrance Family, Sustainable Pittsburgh, Highmark BCBS, The Pittsburgh Foundation – Wish Book, The Buhl Foundation, PNC Charitable Trusts, Dollar Bank and other private donors like YOU!
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Rowing historically is not found as a have Public School program, making it difficult for city youth to be involved with the sport. Even with club programs (school or community-based), rowing is a very expensive sport. One boat can cost as much as $30,000 and it's not uncommon for high school teams to cost over $1,000 per year per athlete. This price does not include transportation and race expenses or the cost for weather appropriate workout/race clothing. With these high expenses it is rare to find urban kids active in the sport. First Row is unique because it offers the high quality coaching and equipment at no cost to the athletes. Transportation, race fees and some workout clothes are all paid for thanks to our generous funders!
First Row aims to diversify the sport of rowing in Pittsburgh by including female students from Pittsburgh's economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. The lack of athletic programs for women in the urban population places these girls at risk for future health problems experienced by minority populations. First Row meets four times a week during the school year. During this time we work toward reducing participant's risk for lifestyle-related diseases by helping them increase and maintain their physical activity level. Rowing also teaches them how to approach and handle complex tasks and projects which, in turn, helps to increase their self-confidence as they experience improvement in the sport and in their overall fitness. This combined focus on an active lifestyle along with learning life skills in a team setting, position the girls for future success in the Pittsburgh community.
The concept of First Row comes from the success of other independent rowing
programs that target at-risk youth and have proven to have a positive impact
on participants' academic and post-secondary performance. Row New York
launched in 2002 (www.rownewyork.org) and GROW Boston launched in 1998 (www.growboston.org)
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First Row activities help the youth involved:
a) Recognize the contributions each individual adds to the success of the entire team and celebrate the progress they make in learning a new challenging sport.
b) Learn good sportsmanship by respecting opponents/competitors and working with team members.
c) Learn the techniques and terminology used in rowing and increase their physical activity with a non-impact sport that develops all the major muscle groups.
First Row aims to recruit and sustain a rowing team consisting of 30+ girls from Pittsburgh's urban public high schools. We specifically focus on diversity and inclusion of economically disadvantaged neighborhoods with limited access to athletic programs. The schools we recruit from are chosen based on the demographics of the neighborhoods served, the connections to the schools and the feasibility of providing transportation. All schools serve economically disadvantaged minorities in Pittsburgh's urban neighborhoods and are located within five miles of TRRA's Training Facilities. Currently, we offer transportation to girls attending Perry HS, City High, Northside Urban Pathways, CAPA 6-12 and University Prep/Milliones. We are constantly working to provide transportation to more schools. Although the focus is to recruit at-risk girls, all girls interested in attending the program are accepted. Enrollment is open regardless of academic standing.


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Had fun at this interactive show, good use of fun AR/PS3 and interactive screens. Unfortunately, no emails were received for all the interactive screens that would have sent the photo of your efforts. Mind wonders whether entering the various competitions were worth it. The only email I did receive is the Thrill Drive competition. So if anything try the screen next to the Nissan Leaf.
Was greeted upon entry and told that there was already too many people inside and were told to come back in 20-25mins. When we returned We were told the same thing again even though people were pooring out. Didn't get to go inside.
An interactive brand experience... Play with a field of light and sound, leave your opinion on a video wall for all to see, discover more about Nissan's innovations through quizzes and games, drive a fun simulator, race a gtr game, look at the new electric car from Nissan and even book a driving experience in it departing from the centre itself. If you are at the O2 it is definitely worth popping in!
So that people understand what this is - It is Nissan's historic built stand from (the Geneva? / a) motor show - which after having been finished with it in its original situation - has been placed just outside the O2 and left to be trashed by children. Mildly interesting for adults - to see an electric production car - Strangely entertaining for a three year old. Glad I went on a very rainy day when the big tent was waterproof and great trip back to town on the Thames Clipper. Free because no-one in their right mind would pay entry for an old / used corporate sales / marketing installation (Discuss?)


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