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Wednesday night, people living in the Manitou Springs area headed out to a flood preparedness meeting.
The Waldo Canyon fire burned out much of the natural barrier of vegetation.
Now, there's concern the small town of Manitou could face big flooding problems in the coming weeks and months.
Residents say they want to be as prepared as possible.
"As I've heard some people say, it's not if we're going to have floods but when," said resident Karen King.
King and many of the more than 100 other Manitou Springs residents who gathered together tonight, say they've got to be ready.
"So we'll all be impacted in different ways but we better have the knowledge to get ready," King said.
And just Tuesday, an illustration of what they'll need to be ready for, with this rockslide snarling traffic along highway 24 just west of town.
Flash flooding is also very likely on the way.
"I think everybody's just got the jitters a little bit in terms of what to anticipate and know full well that is it the hundred year flood or is it tag and we're it as far as there being a repetition of this type of weather," said Andrew Nisito.
Nisito has lived here since 1979.
He says he and a lot of his Manitou Springs neighbors are concerned about the low snow and water totals.
"Obviously with all the vegetation that's been wiped out and the black scar that indeed if there is a deluge of rain then there would certainly be a very slippery slope with regards to containment," he said.
Sample kits were on hand, with what you need in your home, along with information about flood insurance.
County leaders stressed the need for homeowners to have a plan.
Their goal: zero loss of life, and the message not to wait for officials to evacuate if you sense danger.
"We saw back in July of last year after the fire had been contained on July 30th some significant flooding so now we're trying to say this will happen again and we're doing what we can to mitigate but people also need to be aware and emergency preparedness really starts with you," said Commissioner Sallie Clark.
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Fake Frank Chu meets real Frank Chu, Halloween in the Castro, 2006:
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Well it's the morning of the second Sunday of June, so that means it's almost time for the Haight Ashbury Street Festival.
Lets take a look at some photos from recent years.
Look up…
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…and down…
…and all around:
From Bluoz: Upper Haight is for Lovers:
Let your freak flag fly, baby. From the Eastern Stage:
And here's one from Chris Witte:
There's a feeling I get/
when I look to the West…
…and the East…
…on Haight Street on the Second Sunday in June.
At least the Yelpers like Frank:
This ganga guy in purple will sue you for $1000 if you take his photo, or something:
And Obama in a Giants cap, just the way they had it at the recent Union Street Festival:
You know who loves the Haight Street Fair? Parole agents
A mass of humanity:
Hookahs! Get your hookahs! It's Hookahs.com
A dancing baby grooving on Haight Street:
Can you see the superfluity of nuns in white approaching the Fair? Also note the F430 Ferrari supercar (sans license plates), one of many exoticars that made the journey to the Upper Haight today. Also note the sign: "No Open Containers of Alcohol." Too bad.
Of course, all you need to get around the alcohol ban is a gallon jug of overproofed white rum and a giveaway "water" bottle. As seen on Ashbury.
Former District Five Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi on the scene
Poorbot looking for handouts:
"SHOW US YOUR BOOBS… please." "FABULOUS PRIZES." "DON'T WORRY (WE'RE GAY)" These inebriates residing above the Ben & Jerry's at the corner of Ashbury were true to their word, tossing down trinkets to all flashers male and female.
You kmow why this San Francisco Native baby is better than you? Cause he had the foresight to be born in San Francisco, that's why. He won the lottery/ when he was born.
And There You Have It.
This is unprecedented.
This is the City Family extending the Market Street lighted Christmas snowflake zone all the way to Mid-Market.
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They used to stop at 5th Street, but now they don't – they go farther this year.
Won't this please our corporate overlords at Twitter? (Probably not, but, you know, can't hurt to try.)
All right, come to the annual lighting ceremony with the Mayor this Thursday evening, if you want:
"Snowflakes on Market – Lighting Ceremony
Nov. 17, 2011 through mid-January 2012
More than 140 five-foot-wide energy-saving LED illuminated snowflakes will decorate Market Street's signature "Path of Gold" light poles this winter from Second to Sixth streets. A lighting ceremony, featuring dancers from the San Francisco Ballet's Nutcracker, is scheduled for Nov. 17 at 6 p.m. near the cable car turnaround at Powell and Market streets. The event is free and open to the public. For information, visit www.marketstreetassociation.org.
It will go a little something like this, probably.
Dixitque Gavin fiat lux, et facta est lux:
Those are Nutcracker-starring "Snowflakes" from the San Francisco Ballet. (The run starts up again December 9th this year.) Jessica Carter is the snowflake in the middle, so I'm told.
Happy Holidays!
[UPDATE: And here's a late entry, from Bluoz: Upper Haight is for Lovers:
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Things really didn't get hopping until the fog went away in the afternoon, but the 2011 Haight Ashbury Street Fair went off without a hitch, with nary a peep from the notorious NIMBYs of the Western Addition.
(And oh, honorable mention goes to photographers Bob Horowitz (nice) and Dropatan (also nice).)
Let your freak flag fly, baby. From the Eastern Stage:
And here are some great shots.
First, from famous David Yu:
And here are a couple from Brian Brooks:
And here's one from Chris Witte:
And more from past HASFs, after the jump
See you next year!
There's a feeling I get/
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It's the Haight Street Fair!
Look up…
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See you there!
The day is upon us.
Sunday, June 12, 2011, from 11am to 5:30pm. Come one, come all! Once a year, on the second Sunday in June, the Haight-Ashbury community hosts a special celebration and everyone in the World is invited. Music is in the air; people dance in the streets; a festive atmosphere springs up; and Haight Street, once again, becomes the center of Peace, Love and Happiness. This annual event is the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair, one of the most highly anticipated public events in San Francisco.
The 34th Annual Haight-Ashbury Street Fair will be taking place on Sunday, June 12, 2011, from 11 am until 5:30 pm. A variety of activities will be taking place including three stages offering live entertainment; a six-block Vending Area featuring arts & crafts, food and other merchandise; an area dedicated to the entertainment of families with children; and an opportunity to celebrate with many other like-minded people.Directions and Access to the Haight Ashbury Street Fair
Above all things, we highly recommend that you and your friends take the public transportation systems to get to the Street Fair. Parking spaces are very limited and, besides, why spend your time roaming around in your car while you could be enjoying the Street Fair first hand. Here are some leads on how you can make your way to the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair.
MUNI: The Haight-Ashbury is served by six routes that directly serve this neighborhood. They are #6 – Parnassus, #7 – Haight, #33 – Ashbury, #37 – Corbet, #43 – Masonic and #71 – Noriega. Each of these lines travel directly to the Haight-Ashbury District. Other lines that serve the neighborhood indirectly are the N-Judah streetcar, #21 Hayes and the #5 Fulton. Connecting lines vary so please call MUNI (673-MUNI) for information on the best lines to use.BART
For East Bay travelers, your best bet to the Street Fair is to disembark at any S.F BART station on Market Street and catch the #5, #6, #7 or #71. You can also catch the N-Judah streetcar in any Metro Station.If your are coming from Daly City or beyond on BART, catch the #43 at the Balboa Station to the Street Fair. For more information, please call (510) 839-2220 or (650) 992-2278.AC TRANSIT
Coming from the East Bay, you can catch the #6 Parnassus or the #21 Hayes at the TransBay Terminal. For more information, please call (415) 817-1717.GOLDEN GATE TRANSIT
If you are traveling from Marin County, you can take any bus headed to San Francisco and get off at the TransBay Terminal. There you can take the #6 Parnassus or #21 Hayes. For more information, call (415) 455-2000 or (415) 257-4554.SanTrams
Traveling along the Peninsula, you can jump into a bus heading to San Francisco and get off at the TransBay Terminal. There you can catch the #6 Parnassus or the #21 Hayes. For more information, call (800) 660-4287 or (650) 508 6448.Any way you choose to get to the Haight-Ashbury Street Fair, we encourage you to take public transit.
I'll tell you this about Frank Chu – he's always on, always working.
That's why he was late to his own birthday party at the Palace Hotel last year, he was on a gig that had suddenly come up right across the street.
Muhlenberg, Retrovrillions of Populations, CBS: Clutrocenical Footages, Amending Concurences, Ketrovenigul:
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See? Despite what the headlines say, they're here right now. They've been radiating away in town for so long they're dusty and stuff. And you haven't died yet, right?
Remember when Arnold Schwarzenegger wanted to bend the rules in order to spray you with chemicals from the air in order to fight the Light Brown Apple Moth in order to protect some industry that you don't give a whit about? Well, that was a different situation, we can talk about that sometime.
But SmartMeters, they can't hurt you. Yes, even you, even if you are "especially sensitive" to SmartMeters.
So don't throw yourself in front of the fleet of trucks coming down Lombard or anything. You should allow the installation workers to come onto your propertah, cause, you know, you have nothing to fear.
And if anybody tells you any different, they are, best case scenario, patronizing you…
As seen in San Francisco back in 2010, broadcasting your private personal information about how much of the G in PG&E you've been using. The 'lectricity SmartMeters look a little different:
When they knock on your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?


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Now that the Large Hadron Collider has apparently found the Higgs Boson, a sort of malaise has set over some of the scientists behind the project. What do you do next with a 17-mile underground ring? And will there be a successor—an even larger collider of hadrons?
Fear not, lovers of big physics machines. While we await that answer, multiple new mega-projects are coming in the form of sprawling neutrino detectors, according to neutrino scientists who spoke at this weekend's meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston. China's building them, Japan is vying for an even larger one that it already has, and the U.S.'s Fermilab, outside Chicago, hopes to start firing neutrinos toward a detector 800 miles away near Mount Rushmore.
Neutrinos are the second smallest known particle (six orders of magnitude smaller than an electron!). The sun creates them. Supernovas create them. The Earth gives off its own. Physicists are fond of reminding people that billions of these ghostly particles pass through your body all the time. But therein lies the problem: Neutrinos interact with ordinary matter so little that they are impossible to detect directly.
That is why you need such big machines. To detect neutrinos, physicists frequently have used a big tank of water (or a mass of ice) with a batch of photomultipliers. Most neutrinos pass right through the water without interacting with anything, but every now and then one strikes the nucleus of an atom. The particle that's then released travels faster than light (within the water medium, where the speed of light is slightly slower than normal—this is how the process doesn't violate the laws of physics.) It creates what's called Cherenkov radiation, which is how scientists know a neutrino came through. They can also start to figure out its energy level and the direction it came from.
So neutrino detectors have always been big. Japan's Super-Kamiokande, a super-sized version of the original Kamiokande where important discoveries of neutrino oscillation have been made, uses a tank holding 50,000 tons of pure water. An experiment called IceCube sends "strings" of neutrino detectors thousands of feet deep into the Antarctic ice. Many more are already in operation.
But detecting the lowest-energy neutrinos, and unraveling some of the ongoing mysteries of these chargeless, nearly massless ghost particles, requires even larger detectors than we have today. So a new slate of detectors are coming. Japan seeks to build a Hyper-Kamiokande, which, as the name suggests, would grow larger than the first two—the detector would be 250 meters long, says Chang Kee Jung of State University of New York. LENA in Europe and Daya Bay II in China also hope to join the race to get bigger.
America's big neutrino hope is the proposed Long Baseline Neutrino Experiment: Scientists at Fermilab would fire a neutrino beam across Illinois and Iowa to a detector in the Homestake gold mine in South Dakota, hoping to observe neutrinos and anti-neutrinos in detail, according to Fermilab's Sam Zeller who spoke at AAAS. Fermilab is also working on the NOvA project, which would fire toward a detector in northern Minnesota.


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Posted By The Denver Post On April 25, 2007 @ 11:59 am In Letters | 1 Comment
Re: "A sense of shame, guilt," April 23 news story [1]
I am saddened to read that the Korean-American community (and I would like to get rid of the hyphen!) feels a sense of shame and guilt. Immigrants from Korea should feel no more shame and responsibility for the acts of this immigrant-alien than I feel for the acts of the Columbine murderers, who were, I suppose, European-Americans. What is the time limit on hyphenated Americans? My grandmother emigrated from Denmark in the late 1800's. I only claimed my Danish heritage when the Danish newspapers published the Muslim cartoons, and it is only a support of Danes as a support of free speech, a most-treasured American tradition and RIGHT.
Korean-Americans? What is my stereotype of you, if I have one? It is of my church in Pittsford, NY, sharing our facility with you, and happening to walk into your choir practice and hearing an angelic sound. I asked if there was a concert that I could attend, but having four young children, I never was able to hear the choir. Other than that experience, perhaps, I have met you individually. I am sorry if I cannot remember, but you should not be sorry. It is that I met you as an individual, not as a person of a certain ethnic origin. As an American, I am happy to be unable to distinguish between a Chinese, a Korean, or a Japanese. We had a Japanese foreign student, and I was annoyed by asking an Asian-appearing parent at school registration if he was Japanese. The response was not friendly.
So, please, if you are of whatever ethnic descent, consider your humanity first, and your ethnicity, second. I do, and so should you if you are Americans.
Jan Bakken, Golden
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POSTED: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 - 10:03pm
UPDATED: Friday, December 6, 2013 - 9:41am
Bayou Corne, La (NBC33) — When Nick Romero first bought his home in Bayou Corne he had no idea how close he was to a brine cavern in a salt dome.
"Nothing was ever said about it at all. not from the seller." Romero, said.
Now more than a year after a massive sinkhole formed near his home he has a message for folks trying to buy a home. Check out what's going on underground near the property before you hand over any cash.
"I would tell them look. i lived through this thing. you don't want to do it. Any time that you have there will be great, but what you are getting ready to face is going to be worse than your worst nightmare," Romero exclaimed.
After the incident in Bayou Corne, state lawmakers like State Representative Karen St. Germain (D-PIerre Part) fought to get new law in place to protect future buyers.
"On that piece of paper now it will assure you you are or not next to a salt dome," St. Germain said.
The new law requires sellers to tell potential buyers if there are solution-mined, storage caverns, and solution mining injection well close to the property.
"It will give people some foresight to see where they are living how close they are to a situation, and the possibility of this kind of situation and make a decision. Not have to find out after the fact that oh I am living close to an area that may be 10 years from now 20 years from now may not be a safe site," St. Germain said.
Under the new law cavern owners and operators will be required to also submit information about where their caverns and wells are located in the mortgage and conveyance records of the parish where the property is located. Then they would have to send a copy to the Office of Conservation, which falls under the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources.
Right now the office of conservation has a set of proposed regulations regarding when cavern owners or operators will be required to start sending the information.The office of conservation held a public meeting Tuesday regarding these rules. DNR spokesman Patrick Courreges said those rules could be finalized as early as late January.
Louisiana isn't the only place to see a sinkhole in recent years. In Florida homes and hotels have disappeared into the ground as sinkholes form below the surface.
Courreges said there is a big difference between what's been happening in Louisiana, and what's going on in Florida.
"They (Florida) have a lot of limestone and rock that is water soluble over time the movement of ground water underground tends to dissolve it and basically eat way at the support structure of the surface until it can't hold the weight of itself or if there is houses or other infrastructure on it that collapses inward," Courreges explained.
Courreges stated that Louisiana doesn't have a lot of limestone.
"In Louisiana where we have any real limestone layers they're very deep and way from fresh water or moving water. We tend not to have that issue of naturally occuring sinkholes that other states have," Courreges said.
He said the Bayou Corne sinkhole is a different beast.
"Through some mechanism that collapse on the side wall materials flowed in and brine came out. It was a chain reaction working it's way up through several thousand feet of rock to the surface and created this catastrophic subsidence event," Courreges said.
Courreges said the sinkhole in Bayou Corne was an unprecedented event, but now officials know what to look for.
"We're trying to minimize that risk in every way we can. First and foremost knowing the signs understanding the processes that led to Bayou Corne as much as possible. and be able to spot the warning signs months in advance if not years," He said. "What happened in Bayou Corne probably began to happen many months before there was a surface expression. "
Courreges said the DNR has resources online to help people figure out where salt dome cavern operations are going on around the state and also includes some caverns that have been plugged and abandoned.
"Best I can say is that we do make sure that these are operated safely, so that someone living near by for most of their time would not notice that it's anything but a nearby industrial operation," Courreges said.
The Romero's say they won't ever feel safe living near a cavern.
"My suggestion is to somebody who lives around one. If you're financially able to get yourself away from there find yourself another place make yourself another home and live out your years in peace and comfort," Romero said.
Click here for a link to list of Louisiana salt domes and caverns.
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Thomas Pride (c.1608-1658) was the son of a yeoman from Pedwell, Somerset. He moved to London in 1622 to be apprenticed to a haberdasher and later set up a successful business as a brewer in the captal during the 1630s. He was a religious non-conformist, belonging to a London sect that preached adult baptism. The Henry Jacob church to which he belonged was based in Southwark. It was repressed by Archbishop Laud in 1633 and many of the congregation were imprisoned.
Thomas Pride fought throughout the English Civil War, serving at first as an ensign in the Red regiment of the London Trained Bands. In 1643 he enlisted as a Captain in Colonel Barclay's regiment of foot in the army of the Earl of Essex and was a Major by 1644. He saw action at both battles of Newbury (1643 and 1644) and at Lostwithiel in Cornwall (1644). On the formation of the New Model Army in 1645, General Fairfax promoted Pride to Lieutenant-Colonel in Colonel Harley's regiment despite the opposition of the House of Lords to Pride's political and religious views. In Colonel Harley's absence Pride commanded the regiment with distinction at the battle of Naseby, holding firm against the Royalist advance while other regiments gave ground. Pride continued to command the regiment at the storming of Bristol, Dartmouth and the battle of Great Torrington (1646).
During the political upheavals of 1647, following the war, Pride was one of the the officers most active in supporting the soldiers' right to petition Parliament for redress of their grievances. Colonel Harley discovered that Pride was collecting the siganatures of soldiers by force and Pride was summoned to appear before Parliament to explain his conduct. He remained defiant and was active in organising the Army Petition signed by 150 officers who continued to support soldiers' rights. Loosing the confidence of his men, Colonel Harley resigned his commission. Pride was promoted to Colonel and took over command of the regiment. Thereafter, he and his regiment remained in London, quartered in St. James' Palace. Pride was now able to impose his own moral views on the capital, closing down the brothels in Southwark and repressing gambling.
During the Second Civil War, Pride fought under Cromwell at the siege of Pembroke and the battle of Preston. Returning to London, he proved to be one of the most radical army officers, demanding that Charles I answer for his part in starting and continuing the wars. Pride commanded the troops that marched on Parliament in December 1648 to eject the Prebyterian MPs who continued to favour a negotiated settlement with the King. This event became known as Pride's Purge. Those MPs who remained in the House voted to bring Charles I to trial. Appointed to the High Court of Justice, Pride sat as a judge at Charles' Trial and was one of the 59 signatories of his death warrant.
In 1650, Pride commanded a brigade at the battle of Dunbar and his regiment fought at Worcester in 1651. Following the war he resumed his business interests, heading a group of brewers who supplied the navy with beer. He became involved in local politics in London and became governor of several hospitals in the city. He retained command of his regiment, however, and Pride's men fought in the Dutch War of 1653-54 and were later stationed in Scotland during the Royalist uprising of Glencairn.
In lieu of payment for their war service, Parliament granted Pride and his regiment the confiscated Royal property of Nonsuch Great Park (otherwise known as Worcester Park) in Surrey where Pride took up residence. Pride was appointed High Sheriff of Surrey in 1655 and was knighted by Cromwell in 1656. In 1658 he was appointed to the Upper House in 1658, prompting accusations of hypocrisy from Royalists. After Cromwell's death, Pride supported Richard Cromwell's succession as Lord Protector.
Thomas Pride died at the end of October 1658.
At the Restoration, Pride was posthumously attainted a traitor. Like Cromwell, Ireton and Bradshaw, his body was voted to be exhumed and hung in chains at Tyburn (see Pepys' Diary, 28 January 1660 ). However, Pride's body apparently escaped this indignity. The bodies of Cromwell, Ireton and Bradshaw were all exhumed from Westminster Abbey. Pride's was presumably harder to locate and remained undisturbed. The likelihood is that Pride was buried on his Worcester Park estate; the religious non-conformist was buried in unconsecrated ground in a grave that has now disappeared without trace.
Thomas Pride's daughter, Elizabeth, married Robert Walton, a London tailor. He is the "young Mr. Walton" refered to in Pepys' diary on 2 January 1659/60.
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Radiation-induced defects cause severe degradation of materials properties during irradiation that can ultimately cause the material to fail. Consequences of these defects include swelling, embrittlement, and undesirable phase transformations. Nanocrystalline materials, which contain a high density of grain boundaries, have demonstrated enhanced radiation tolerance compared to large grain counterparts under certain conditions. This is because, as has long been recognized, grain boundaries can serve as defect sinks for absorbing and annihilating radiation-induced defects. Increasingly, researchers have examined how grain boundaries influence the direct production of defects during collision cascade, the origin of the radiation-induced defects. In this review article, we analyze the computational studies in this area that have been performed during the past two decades. These studies examine defect production near grain boundaries in metallic, ionic, and covalent systems. It is found that, in most systems, grain boundaries absorb more interstitials than vacancies during the defect production stage. While this is generically true of most boundaries, the detailed interaction between defects and grain boundaries does depend on boundary atomic structure, the stress state near the boundary, cascade-boundary separation, and materials properties. Furthermore, the defect distribution near boundaries is qualitatively different from that in single crystals, with the former often exhibiting larger vacancy clusters and smaller interstitial clusters than the latter. Finally, grain boundaries that are damaged after cascades have occurred exhibit different interaction behavior with defects than their pristine counterparts. Together, these atomistic simulation results provide useful insight for both developing higher-level modeling of defect evolution at long timescales and how interfaces influence radiation damage evolution.
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- Title
- The Influence of Grain Boundaries on Radiation-Induced Point Defect Production in Materials: A Review of Atomistic Studies
- Journal
Volume 65, Issue 3 , pp 360-373
- Cover Date
- 2013-03-01
- 10.1007/s11837-012-0544-5
- Print ISSN
- 1047-4838
- Online ISSN
- 1543-1851
- Publisher
- Springer US
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- Authors
- Xian-Ming Bai (1)
- Blas P. Uberuaga (2)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Center for Advanced Modeling and Simulation, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, 83415, USA
- 2. Materials Science and Technology Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA


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Rite Aid Corp. has wrapped up transactions aimed at refinancing more than $800 million of debt.
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CAMP HILL, Pa. – Rite Aid Corp. has wrapped up transactions aimed at refinancing more than $800 million of debt.
The drug chain said Tuesday that it has closed an offering of $810 million of its 6.75% unsecured senior notes due in 2021. The debt offering was announced June 18.
Along with cash and/or borrowings from Rite Aid's credit revolver, the proceeds of the offering funded a cash tender offer for the company's $810 million of 9.5% senior notes maturing in 2017.
As of July 1, $739.6 million of the $810 million in 9.5% notes were tendered, according to Rite Aid. The tender offer is slated to expire on July 16. The company said that although it has called the remaining 9.5% notes for redemption, holders of the 9.5% notes may still validly tender them before the expiration date.
Rite Aid said the refinancing transactions extend the maturity of a portion of its outstanding debt and reduce interest costs.
On June 21, Rite Aid announced that it completed an offering of $500 million in senior secured notes initiated earlier in the month as part of a series of debt refinancing transactions.


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On February 4, 2014, Cepheid issued a press release announcing the pricing of $300 million aggregate principal amount of 1.25% Convertible Senior Notes due 2021 (the "Notes"). Cepheid also granted the initial purchasers of the Notes an option to purchase up to an additional $45 million aggregate principal amount of Notes, solely to cover over-allotments. The Notes will be sold only to qualified institutional buyers pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
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Neonatologist focus attention on micro-preemies
By Karen Caffarini For Sun-Times News Group
It's created happy endings to what were once dire circumstances.
Even some of the sickest and tiniest newborns, those born months too soon and weighing slightly more than two pounds, are able to survive and thrive as a result of advances in neonatal care.
The greatest breakthrough was actually made 30 years ago with the release of the drug Surfactant, which goes directly into the lungs and artificially helps decrease respiratory distress, said Jillian Hanger, nurse manager for the new neonatal intensive care unit at Franciscan St. Anthony Health in Crown Point.
"It is one of the greatest inventions in the last 30 years," Hanger said.
She said in recent years most of the advances in neonatal care have centered on the micro-preemie, babies weighing less than 1,000 grams (about 2.2 pounds) and before 26 weeks gestation. Although many micro-preemies grow up with no long-term effects of prematurity, others face severe health problems throughout life.
"Infants born between 24 and 25 weeks gestation have a 70 percent survival rate. The biggest problem is with the lungs, but other areas may not be mature either. Most babies that pass away are not developed enough even with all the medical advances," Hanger said.
She said female preemies do better than males. African-American females do best as preemies and white males do the worst. There is no scientific reason why, Hanger said.
She said to graduate from NICU, babies must maintain their own temperature, gain weight on a consistent basis and be able to breast or bottle feed.
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Dr. Cholemari Sridhar, neonatologist at Methodist Hospitals Southlake Campus in Merrillville, said doctors have learned that focusing on nutrition from day one has been instrumental in the preemie's growth. Intake of proper nutrients through breast milk is strongly recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics. Nutrients are also fed to the baby through an IV line, said Dr. Sridhar, who helped found the NICU at the hospital's Northlake campus in Gary more than 20 years ago.
Hanger said they encourage moms with babies born at 32 weeks and under to breast feed or at least pump (breast milk) for the baby even if they weren't planning to.
"There is a special protective barrier in breast milk, that can't be recreated in formula, that helps the infant's digestive system," Hanger said.
Michelle Cherry, nurse manager of the NICU at Community Hospital in Munster, said the first 24 hours is critical for a micro preemie. The unit has a neonatologist on staff 24 hours day. The neonatologist is at all Caesarean sections, which has been beneficial.
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Recent technical and medical advances in neonatology include:
Ventilators: Dr. Sridhar said new ventilators that breathe for the baby provide respiratory support and help decrease complications with their lungs. Cherry said these ventilators keep lungs expanded and not collapsing.
Z-Flo neonatal liquidized positioners: These fluidized mattresses recreate the womb for several months and keep babies bundled up, yet allow them to stretch their arms and feet, Hanger said. This encourages normal development progression that would take place in the womb.
Frogs: At Community Hospital, preemies are placed in "Frogs," which are similar to sand bags. Cherry said it's as if babies are sitting in a nest with boundaries.
Therapy: Occupational therapists work with babies born at less than 27 weeks gestation and their parents to develop an individual plan, Hanger said.
Kangaroo care: Cherry said moms are encouraged to do kangaroo care, which is skin to skin contact. Moms unbutton their shirts, place the babies close, then close their shirts. "Mom's body temperature helps keep the baby warm," she said. She said this is done for both regular and preemie births.
Plastic wrap. A sterile piece of plastic wrap is wrapped around the baby to maintain body heat. Cherry said maintaining body heat, along with respiratory issues, are two of the main health problems affecting preemies.
Hanger said there are many reasons why a baby will be born prematurely. Some of these include twins, triplets and other multiples are born early; the mom could have high blood pressure issues making her unable to continue to carry the baby; or her cervix could just start to dilate.
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Mike Hester, Hays High School principal, led the board of education and administrators on a tour at Monday's work session of the newly completed projects at the school.
Items on the tour were the recently installed bleachers in gym A, the new weight room and old weight room now used as a multi-purpose room.
The new bleachers are part of the school's upgrade, Hester said.
In February, the board accepted a bid of $143,527 for the maroon and gold bleachers.
They display the letters HHS when the bleachers are closed or extended.
Not extending the bleachers to full length allows more handicap accessibility, Hester said.
New key-shaped handrails and bigger, wider stairs also allow for easier passage up and down.
"We lost a little seating, about 200, 300 seats, but we've actually got more room for handicap (seating) and it's safer," Hester said.
"There was no way around it," Richard Cain, deputy superintendent, said of the loss of seats.
The bleacher seats also are wider, a full 16-inches.
Closing the bleachers is automatic, and it just takes the touch of a button rather than requiring two or three custodians.
Some of the old bleachers were moved to gym B.
Scoreboards were upgraded and speakers added for better sound quality of announcers' voices in gym A, Hester said.
The 1,300-square-foot former weight room now is a multi-purpose room used for faculty meetings, aerobics classes, and cheerleader and dance practices. It can hold as many as 80 people, Hester said.
The new 7,200-square-foot metal building attached to the southeast corner of the high school houses the weight room, a coaches' office and storage/mechanical room. It was completed this summer using donations and district funds.
Total cost of the building when the school district took over the building in February was estimated at approximately $375,000, plus equipment.
Hallway display cases recognize the nearly 400 distinguished donors and people involved with the project.
"When we were fundraising, we talked about that there would be levels of donation and recognition," Hester said. "With this and the gallery out front with the bricks, we've met all of our obligations to those who made this possible."


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A group of international gateways is going to form a clearing house to control the entire cache of overseas calls, in potential violation of the competition law and long distance policy.
IGW Operators Forum, comprising 17 gateways of the total 29 in the market, plans to set up the IGW clearing house, which may also allow for a murky window for collecting unspecified fees.
Usually the gateways transmit international calls to operators through the exchanges connected to other gateways.
If the plan gets through, the gateways will be connected with the clearing house, forming a cartel to control the sector, said some IGW investors who do not want to join the forum.
The IGWs' forum sent a proposal to Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to form the clearing house, said Abdus Salam, co-convener of the forum.
A model has been proposed so that the interests of all the gateways are protected and the government's revenue ensured, he said.
BTRC Chairman Sunil Kanti Bose said the proposal is currently being examined.
The proposed clearing house will have two tiers. IGWs in tier 2 will transmit international incoming calls to telecom operators through interconnection exchanges, while tier 1 will only send its entire calls to tier 2, according to the proposal.
The system would create a revenue-sharing model that distributes twice the revenue to tier 2 gateways compared to that in tier 1.
The proposal also said the international incoming call rate will be fixed by the clearing house in accordance with BTRC rules. Each member will contribute Tk 48 lakh a year to the forum to maintain the system.
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"A cartel in the guise of a clearing house violates the competition law. Therefore, such a move is absolutely illegal," said Abu Saeed Khan, a senior policy fellow at Colombo-based regulatory think tank, LIRNEasia.
"Bangladeshi migrant workers will be paying excessive charges while calling home if the clearing house is allowed," he said.
Citing an example of Pakistan, Khan said, "The then government of Asif Zardari had unscrupulously introduced clearing house in 2012 to disastrous consequences."
The Competition Commission of Pakistan noted in early 2013 that the implementation of the clearing house had led to a 70 percent drop in international voice traffic and a 31 percent decrease in taxes, but a 308 percent increase in revenues for the clearing house operators.
Tanjib Alam and Associates, a law firm that deals with telecom issues, said, as the tier 1 IGWs will no longer transmit calls, they will not feel the need to invest further, reducing overall investment and leading to violation of the Competition Act.
Setting call rates by the clearing house is also a violation of the Act as the gateways will no longer have freedom to charge the amounts they wish within the regulator approved tariff range, the law firm said.
The clearing house model also violates the income tax ordinance as tier 1 companies will not transmit any call and thus not be eligible for tax benefits, it said.
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"Someone is trying to inject the Pakistani malpractice model into the telecom sector, which will criminalise the industry," Khan of LIRNEasia said.


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This is pretty much what breakfast looks like everyday now that we have three hens laying. We have 10 hens in all, so I imagine we'll be getting creative with the egg dishes real soon. It's so much fun going out to the coop and finding these little edible presents. Not to mention we have a bunch of goofy chickens that make us laugh every day. What a satisfying hobby.
Well, I hope you have a wonderful weekend. We'll be painting our house. After such a rainy summer, we're finally able to take advantage of the dry weather and get some work done. It's a mad dash to beat the cold weather. We have old clapboards that need a lot of prepping. My husband knows that I'm not a big fan of the "most important" prep process. I tried to be lazy about it last fall when I did the porch. I'm paying for it now. I can be such an egghead.
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6 comments:
- Life is good! said...
love the red hair, oops i mean red egg!
- September 18, 2009 at 1:05 PM
- LuLu said...
i'm really wanting hens now!! so cute! have fun painting!!
LuLu - September 18, 2009 at 1:37 PM
- The Consummate Hostess said...
So cute!What a fun and whimsical way to enjoy your eggs. Happy weekend!
- September 18, 2009 at 7:52 PM
- Jo said...
I right there with you on that whole prep thing ~ I too try to skip over it when my husband isn't looking! :)
Jo - September 19, 2009 at 1:54 PM
- Kelly Wilson said...
this is awesome!
- September 20, 2009 at 1:30 PM
- Beach Vintage said...
Lucky you, I am all clucky now. I want hens!
- September 21, 2009 at 6:31 AM
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