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Save for education, no other state institution is studied more than the Iowa corrections system. Statistics are kept and studies are made on everything from the offenders' race, crime, drug use, and mental health. The state tracks the rate of recidivism and compares length of sentences today to the average stays from previous decades. And the state plots trends to determine the future needs for treatment programs and also prison bed space.
Today longer mandatory minimum prison terms are being served as offenders continue to enter the system. A study by the Iowa Department of Human Rights projects Iowa's prison population will increase from over 8,800 today to more than 9,700 by 2017.
There are efforts to place offenders in community-based corrections instead of prisons. However, the community based residential facilities are full and have a waiting list of over 800.
Nearly 1500 offenders live in one of 22 residential centers like this one in Ames. This center has 45 beds for men and women. Most live here for an average of 3 to 4 months -- either sentenced directly by a court or on parole from prison to serve in a work release program before re-entering mainstream society.
Bill Fliehler, Residential Manager, Curt Forbes Center, Ames: "We served, just with a 45 bed facility, approximately 175 clients a year. So those are clients that if a facility like this didn't exist, more than likely be in prison."
Life here isn't always a game of cards. Offenders are expected to find a job and "deal" with their "issues" -- which Residential Manager Bill Fliehler says can range from anger management to substance abuse to mental illness.
Fliehler: "Of the offenders that we do serve here, approximately 80 percent have substance, alcohol or drug problem, and that's a big issue. And we're seeing more mental illness up here, too."
Fliehler says it is most difficult to find treatment for offenders with a mental illness, because mental health services are not offered within the community corrections system and such are difficult to access in every community.
Fliehler: "We didn't see the criminal justice system involve itself years ago with mentally ill persons but because that treatment has gone away in the community, they, they've fallen through the cracks and once a mentally ill person involves themselves in the corrections system it just seems to spiral on them and they get, goes deeper and deeper for them. And many of them really don't need to be locked up if we could find adequate treatment for them in the community."
Governor Chet Culver just may agree, offering his support of treatment programs during Tuesday's Condition of the State Address to the legislature.
Governor Chet Culver, Condition of the State Address, January 15, 2008: "In an effort to significantly reduce recidivism, we will invest more than ever before in substance abuse and mental health treatment."
Mike Graham, parolee, Ames: "In the long run, I've been through ten treatments."
Back at the correctional facility in Ames, resident Mike Graham notes that treatment programs don't always work.
Graham: "They sent me to treatment at a halfway house. Then I went to prison cuz I couldn't stay clean. I've been in Anamosa, Rockwell, Mount Pleasant, the whole tour of Iowa."
Graham has been in and out of the Iowa corrections system for 15 years. While he isn't exactly a Department of Corrections "poster child" for success … he does say -- that at the age of 38 -- he thinks he will make it on the outside this time.
Graham: "I'm getting one-on-one counseling which keeps me in balance with what I need to do. But you know I'd like to go to school, how do I go to school? I get paid $7.50 an hour."
Graham is inching his way back into society. He was released from this Ames residence on January 10. He is on parole until April, and then he will be free to make his own choices.
His move-out opened up one bed for one of the more than 800 offenders waiting to get in.
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Trying to get rid of your belly flab? Dr. Oz has the "miracle appetite suppressant" that can help you to curb your cravings, especially if you're an emotional eater. In his "Belly Blasting Supplement" segment, Doctor Oz reveals satiereal saffron extract to do just that.
Best known for its ability to aid the digestive system, satiereal saffron extract comes from crocin, a powerful antioxidant shown to help fight cancer and restrain snack cravings.
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Dr. Oz explains a study conducted on participants using satiereal saffron extract who were allowed to eat whatever they wanted. The participants saw significant reduction in their cravings to snack as well as a decrease in overall body weight.
To test this supplement, Doctor Oz conducted a study on two audience members who took the satiereal saffron extract supplement for a weekend (3 days). The participants, Martha and Devon, both saw a reduction in food cravings.
Martha, an emotional eater driven by her children, was able to hold off on the second slice of cake that she normally would crave. In the three day period, Martha lost 3 lb.
Devon, who lost a total of 5lb over the weekend, rates her regular food urges at 10 on a scale of 1-10 (10 being the highest craving level). After using the satiereal saffron extract, she said her cravings went down to about a 7.
Dr. Oz recommends taking 88-90mg of the satiereal saffron extract two times a day. He also says the supplement can be found for $30 for a month's supply.
Saffron can also be used as a natural antidepressant. In an article on Dr. Oz's website, it describes saffron to be high in cartenoids, B-vitamins, and has been shown to work better than Prozac and Imipramine with fewer side-effects. As saffron has been widely used to aid digestive issues, studies have given participants 15mg a day, twice a day, to elevate mood as neurotransmitters are produced in the digestive tract.
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Welcome to Atlanta Steven Jackson. Happy to have you here.
Thank You Team USA for conducting yourself with class and professionalism and not like some of the international teams that act like clowns!!
Tech opened a 15-point lead early in the game and lost by 20. Not good.
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Tough outing for Kimbrel last night. Thanks goodness this doesn't count.
So the NBA admits that the refs missed the foul on Bryant. Is the the same refs that missed at least two obvious fouls on Howard and nothing has been said about that?
Falcons need to upgrade their OL - especially at guard if they are going to have a run game.
Tech one and done, UGA one and done. Georgia State none and done.
The signing of Steven Jackson is gonna help make the Falcons one of the most prolific offenses in the league.
Don't worry Falcons fans, Thomas Dimitroff will get the defensive players that the team needs.
Why are people so bent out of shape about Steven Jackson's age? We don't need him to run for 1,000 yards - we need him to gain meaningful yardage in Jan and Feb.
Sidbury grumbled about playing time and not getting a chance - face it you just aren't good enough.
It's only the exhibition season folks.
I am a big supporter of Coach Fox. Whenever his team begins to start games as well as they end them, they will be a force in the SEC. Tough loss yesterday. Go Dawgs!
After watching Tech's collapse against BC, I had a flashback to Paul Hewitt and how he was constantly out-coached despite having respectable talent.
I get sports free at home because I don't have cable.
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Anyone still watching the ACC, SEC tournaments?
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Yeager: So how does Iowa adapt and change to protect that which provides such a bounty for us all in all sorts of ways? That's what we'll be discussing tonight with our guests.
Joining me in the studio are Pat Boddy, she is Deputy Director of the Iowa Department of Natural Resources and has worked for 25 years in the fields of water resources, parks and land management and communications. Chuck Gipp joined the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship in July 2008. He is Director of the Division of Soil Conservation and is a former state representative and majority leader of the Iowa House. Former Congressman Neal Smith served Iowa for 36 years in the U.S. House. He championed both agriculture and the environment during his tenure. The National Wildlife Refuge at Prairie City is named for him as is the federal building in Des Moines. We also have two more people joining us via the ICN. At the University of Iowa, ecologist Connie Mutel has written Fragile Giants about Iowa's Loess Hills and The Emerald Horizon, the History of Nature in Iowa. She is a Historian and Archivist in the College of Engineering's IIHR Hydroscience and Engineering. And in the ICN room at Western Community College in Council Bluffs is Chad Graeve. Chad is the natural resource specialist at the Hitchcock Nature Center near the community of Honey Creek. He also works with private landowners on stewardship issues. Welcome to you all. Good to have you here in studio and on the ICN.
Yeager: Pat, I want to start with you. First let's do some defining of terms. It's always good to know where we're jumping off. We talk about preserving and conserving. In one way they sound the same but what is the difference between the two?
Boddy: Well, to preserve is to keep something as it has been. To conserve is to make sure that you do your level best to make sure it does not degrade or go away. So, preserving and conserving are very much in sync, they work together but they are a little bit different. You can conserve something and yet not really preserve it.
Yeager: Congressman, do you agree with the way you put those two words together?
Smith: Well, you can preserve something almost overnight if it hasn't been upset before or the balance of nature hasn't been ruined before you can do it almost overnight but to restore something is a long proposition. The refuge you mentioned has been 19 years so far and it is not restored, it is partially restored and it will be another long time before it is fully restored.
Yeager: All right, Connie, I want to ask you the same question. I want to bring you into this discussion as well. Do you agree with the way we have been defining these terms?
Mutel: Yes, I do. I think that those are good takes on the terms. I think you can also look at it in terms of how people have approached nature over time and if you look at the natural areas movement back in the 1970s when we really started to talk about conservation we thought that we could just lock away nature and preserve it by putting a fence around it. What we've learned since then is that natural ecosystems will degrade if they don't have the pressures placed on them that both people and other forces have placed on them over time. So, instead of preservation now we do talk about restoration just as Congressman Smith discussed, the idea of people working with nature to get the natural processes and functions and maintain the native biodiversity.
Yeager: All right, Chad, I want to get you in the conversation but I want to talk just a little different point here. When we talk about each one of these are we talking more about the parks and preserves or the changing agriculture and the way we build roads and the plants in our yards?
Graeve: I think too many time we have kind of separated conservation from the human realm and I think it has to be integrated into everything we do, agriculture, urban areas, parks, preserves, whatever it might be.
Yeager: Chuck, same question when it comes to agriculture, how does agriculture play in this discussion?
Gipp: Well, let's go back to the two terms conservation and preservation. Those are good terms but you also have to allow people to use those natural resources. Conservation and preservation doesn't mean you can't use them. I think conservation means you have to make sure that they are there for continual use. We are blessed with many natural resources but we also need to use them because people live and work here and they need to have the enjoyment in them. So, uses also should be incorporated in those terms.
Boddy: I was just going to say it clearly depends on the use. Certainly there are uses that would still allow you to preserve a special place but there are uses that would maybe not allow you to do so. So, you do have to be a little bit careful and balanced. We often talk about really walking gently on the landscape and certainly we want to be able to invite people in to public areas and make sure they are recreating and appreciating and stewarding but not all uses are created equally.
Gipp: The term abuse has to come in to conservation areas and I think that is what Pat was saying is that we can use them, we are in agreement with that, but you don't want to abuse it. If you're going to abuse it it's not going to be there for generations after we are long since gone.
Yeager: When you use the word abuse who are you pointing at when you discuss those who might be abusing?
Gipp: That's anybody that walks on the face of the Earth and goes into these sensitive areas or even our production areas. You are charged with a stewardship, I think that term has to come into play too, we are stewards of this Earth and the natural resources. That doesn't mean we can't use them but I don't think we are allowed to or should abuse them.
Yeager: Connie, I want to ask you about biodiversity and sustainability. How important when we talk about biodiversity is it in what we do and why?
Mutel: Okay, I just wanted to add one small point to the previous discussion too. I think it's a matter of balance as well as use versus careful use. In Iowa we have used our resources, so many of our resources so intensively that we haven't left much for native species and those are the species that have lived here for thousands of years. So, your question, biodiversity and sustainability. It's totally important. If you think about sustainability, I define sustainability as the ability of a species to live into the future and that applies to humans as well as to the native species. In Iowa we have severe declines of many of our native species now, those that did live sustainably in the woodlands and the prairies for thousands of year we're now seeing slow, steady declines and facing the possibility of their disappearance from Iowa. The way that you get a sustainable landscape is to foster biodiversity so that nature can continue to foster all of life. We humans as well as all of the other species in Iowa are dependent on nature to filter our water, to help us moderate floods, to farm new soil and the like. They are intimately connected.
Yeager: Very good, Connie, thank you.
Smith: I want to point out that we resort to agriculture when we have upset the balance of nature. We don't have a balance of nature, that's the reason we're involved in agriculture. We have more humans than we have other species for our balance and that is the reason we have agriculture and you can't sustain having more humans than you have other species unless you resort to something like agriculture and we're not sustainable and we're not going to be sustainable with this number of humans in Iowa or in the nation because what we're doing is we're drawing from reserves that were put there millions of years ago, the fertilizer with oil and things like that to try to supplement. We're not sustainable and we're not going to be sustainable. I was in New Guinea for eight months, it is sustainable there. They're not drawing on any reserves, it's sustainable with the natives there. We're not going to have that.
Yeager: Because that ship has already sailed?
Smith: It's already sailed but nature fights back and eventually nature wins. I don't know if it's going to be next year or a million years from now but nature wins eventually. There will be a tsunami of some kind, there will be a disease that mutates from the animals we depend upon to live back and forth, there will be something happen that nature eventually wins.
Yeager: So, Chuck, do we need to get plane reservations and move everybody to New Guinea? What do we do?
Gipp: I don't believe so, I believe that Iowa is, as a lot of people know, blessed with 25% of the world's class A soils which Congressman Smith indicated that Iowa can't sustain Iowa. Iowa can sustain Iowa but Iowa is being asked to sustain a whole lot of other populations outside of the state's borders because we have that precious resource. If we're going to be able to do this on into the future we're going to have to be very cognoscente and that's where the preservation, the conservation and stewardship has to come into play so that it is sustainable to be able to use resources we are blessed with in Iowa to be able to provide that foodstuffs for people that are no longer on our borders.
Smith: We're not nearly sustainable because we're drawing on oil, we're drawing on fertilizers to increase the production per acre in order to do that. So, we're borrowing from the reserves that we have.
Yeager: Chad, what do you think of this discussion we're having now? Do you agree with what has been said?
Graeve: I think they're hitting on some really key points. I really like what I hear coming from Congressman Smith. We truly are drawing on the products of the past. We look at the soils in Iowa that this great agricultural system is based on and they were developed by the native plants that Connie is talking about over eons. In many respects we are depleting those soils and we in the agricultural system now are taking great steps to try to conserve soil and recognizing the value of that. I think the next step is going to be to recognize what we're doing to our water resources and how we have impacted the hydrology in the state and we're facing a very similar situation there.
Yeager: I think we're going to get to that but I want to ask both Pat and Chuck this question. It almost sounds like sometimes the farmer gets put on the peg of they are the fault or they are the reason. Should they be getting all the blame in this discussion?
Boddy: Absolutely not, what we have are a lot of farmers who do a great job of trying to conserve the soil resources and the water resources but just like in any operation there are some folks who don't do as well as others and I think kind of the thing we need to think about too here is we have evolved into a certain form of agriculture. More than two-thirds of this state is in row crop production and I'm not blasting row crop production by any means but we have seen externalities or impacts based on that row crop production that are not, as everyone is pointing out here, sustainable over time. So, at some point we have to take a good hard look at agriculture if we're going to farm this state, how best to farm it so that we can do it in a way that is both environmentally and economically sustainable for the Iowa farmer and ultimately for all Iowans.
Yeager: Connie, I hear you wanting to chime in on this one?
Mutel: Yes, I like also what I'm hearing here and I think that there are mechanisms in place that are being put in place right now. The problem is that we now have federal subsidies that push farmers to emphasize the production of row crops and that means that we don't have perennial cover on the ground and what we have learned from the prairie, if we looked at the prairie and tried to copy the prairie and copy its sustainability what we learn is that we can't have two-thirds of Iowa covered with perennial plants that only cover the ground a few months of the year. We need perennial cover. We do have programs in place now such as the Conservation Stewardship Program. If that were to get full funding and more implementation that would pay farmers for green environmental activities rather than for producing commodities. And I'd like to interject also that we're not feeding people right now, actually we're producing row crops that feed cattle. So, I think that we could indeed do some readjusting of the balances.
Yeager: Which does feed animals, which does feed people but, Chuck, how do you ask a farmer right now to take any land out of production when prices are low, especially hogs and cattle? I know that is supply and demand, you take that out. But how do you ask a farmer in a tough economic situation to say, you know what, just stop producing?
Gipp: Well, it's very difficult to ask that farmer to do that. One, he is being asked to provide the foodstuffs for a growing population worldwide, not just here in Iowa. But at the same time there are expenses that come with that farming operation that you have to continue to pay. Whether you grow one bushel of corn or not doesn't mean that the property tax payment is going to stop or your consumption of energy just to support your family, the cost of your housing, the cost of your real estate, all of those costs continue to go up. So, the farmers are caught in that quandary of being able to survive as a business. But the point that has to be made is that you may survive one or two years but you have to survive for generations and that is where the conservation and preservation has to come into play to make sure that whatever you're doing is sustainable over the long haul and not just looking at the short term gain. That is, in fact, what the Division of Soil Conservation does, we may be part of the Department of Agriculture but we provide the education, the technical assistance and the financial support to get farmers to be more conservation minded and stewardship minded and assist them to make those decisions.
Smith: I want to point out that we've got to do a better job of recognizing that different soils should be treated differently. We try to treat all soils the same too much of the time. Some of the soil could be in corn and soybeans year after year after year but even this carbon bill they're talking about, they talk as if the carbon is how much you use per acre, it's not per acre, it's per bushel of corn.
Yeager: I want to ask you a couple of points, though. From your time in Congress to your time out how have things changed in the federal government in relationship with policies whether it is cap and trade that you're talking about or changes in the farm bills that are aiding in this discussion that we're having?
Smith: Well, from 1985 to 1996 we had a program where you didn't really have the subsidies, what you were doing is you had a way of meeting the market demands, helping to meet the market demands. In '96 they changed the law so that now you have subsidies and that is hard to balance things out when you have subsidies because they want the subsidies applied per acre and these things that I just mentioned.
Gipp: The result of that that farm program is they have virtually made it more lucrative to grow corn and soybeans than it is to stay home and have dairy cattle and cattle that cause grass to be grown on some of these same landscapes. So, we have lost our grass acres and it went into soybeans. Corn acres are about the same as they always have but we have lost the grass acres and that perennial crop.
Smith: The other thing is I want to point out is they talk about well, you should have no till. Well, no till is wonderful on some soils but on other soils you'll get a higher cost per bushel if you use no till.
Yeager: I want to move from the farm to the urban because the urban doesn't get off the hook on this one. Pat, I want to ask you, and Chad and also Connie to chime in on this. You commented, I remember a couple of those times, those beautiful pictures from the Loess Hills and just how beautiful it was but yet there's housing developments in some of these areas. Where does that play -- housing doesn't usually get along with nature so what do we need to do when we're developing houses?
Boddy: You hit some great examples there of what we've been trying to talk about for a long time which is basically conservation design, conservation development, low impact development, smart growth, there's all kinds of terminology. But it really relates to not making dramatic changes in the landscape but, in fact, making the architecture and the processes and systems that are in place fit into that landscape. That means new ways, actually kind of old ways of managing storm water and basically it means that the developers and the people living in those homes are going to take real responsibility, personal responsibility for the water that lands on that landscape and how they will manage it. And so it's possible to do this but, again, not all soils are created equal and certainly there would be some areas, certainly steep slopes, there are all kinds of parameters where you would probably want to leave it untouched. We haven't necessarily identified all of those in the past. But you can have some environmentally sensitive building practices that are not as ramped as they ought to be.
Yeager: Connie, I think you wanted to talk about this one as well. Where do you go with permeable -- do permeable driveways work everywhere?
Mutel: I guess I'm not the expert on those although I know they are excellent and I think that those infiltration techniques are good. I think there are other things that people can do in urban areas. One is to be very aware of invasive, potentially invasive species that they introduce. Often times we get gardeners bringing plants into cities that then escape into nearby wildlands and become very destructive and I think that a lot of the destruction I know here in Iowa City now is taking place because of people wanting to live on large acreages in some of the remaining wild areas that are near towns and I think we have to be very careful about that especially since we have so little of nature left in Iowa, just a fraction of a percent left.
Smith: I want to point out when I see an urban area what I think of first is there's children living there and not having an opportunity to see that we are just one of the species.
Yeager: Children living where?
Smith: In the urban area, they don't have the opportunity we used to have and we didn't used to have a full opportunity or use it. But they need to be able to get out there where the species are in a balanced ecosystem and just be there silently and listen except for the noises that the species make and begin to understand that they are just one of the species and how much we depend upon one another and we're all both a dominant species and a subspecies and they need to understand that. But these children in urban areas we don't have enough place for them to go to understand this.
Yeager: Chad, how do you get the kids that the Congressman is talking about who live in these urban areas and educate them whether it is permeable driveways or ways that their neighborhood is not helping the environment?
Graeve: Well, I think the Congressman touches on a really important point, children today are very disconnected from the land, they don't have the same opportunities that I had when I was a child or that my folks had when they were young. So, we're very disconnected and we're losing that understanding of the landscape. I think there's two really strong approaches to trying to restore that. One is protect as many areas as we can and offer opportunities for them to get out to those areas whether it be a field trip or a Saturday afternoon with their family or what have you. The other is to try to integrate natural areas back into our urban environments. That is going to help with hydrology, that's going to help with reconnecting them with these natural areas, giving them opportunities for entertainment out of doors, away from outlets, lots of different things I think that we can do.
Yeager: You've gotten some excitement here in the studio, Chad.
Boddy: I was just going to say that's the basic conservation design principles that we've just been talking about. I put a rain garden in my backyard and by rain garden I mean it's somewhat depressed and it collects rain off the roof and put native plants in it. I have fourteen to eighteen Monarch butterflies in my backyard in August on a daily basis. So, people start to hang out and gather and find out things and learn and I live in an urban area. We can in small pockets try to do something but I'd also like to mention that we do have 85 state parks, we have county parks in every county and we have urban parks and our parks are a key piece of reconnecting people with the landscape as well.
Gipp: One of the things that is a result of the 2008 floods is that I think Iowans realize more now than they did prior to that, that whatever is upstream impacts downstream. So, it's not just the cities looking upstream, the agricultural property but it's also the surface in the cities which continue to make more impervious through roofs and parking lots and streets. We need to also control the rainwater that falls on those surfaces instead of quickly funneling it in the storm sewer to become downstream problems. So, that is exactly why it is that we've got to make this a systems approach and look in the urban as well as the rural areas and how we can kill rainwater where it falls rather than allow it to be somebody else's problem downstream.
Yeager: All right, Chad, I know we talked about the driveways before but we haven't really gotten into chemicals on the lawn. I know that there's always that -- I know my father has always said well, you in town put more damage on your lawn with your fertilizer than I do on the farm. Is that true? How do we prevent that information from being spread?
Graeve: I certainly think it is true. Lawns are certainly less porous than the biological communities that were on the landscape historically so you don't get the infiltration of the water and then we're constantly putting nutrients on them to keep that grass growing, it's not a native grass, it doesn't grow well in these soils so lawns can be a very big problem and in order to correct that it would take a massive restructuring of the way we look at urban areas and what we think is aesthetically pleasing.
Boddy: He's exactly right about that. Trying to change people's aesthetic is a very challenging issue. We have discovered, though, that if you take, for example, an opportunity to reconstruct some prairie pieces in urban areas and border it with more traditional plantings, what some have called cues for care, people will recognize that what is in between the traditional plantings aren't weeds. So, Des Moines has been doing this very successfully with their parks system. I know that many of the county conservation and state parks have been reintroducing prairie restoration efforts and it's starting to work. People are starting to make a shift but it takes a while.
Smith: You start with children. We've got Browns Woods out here, it's not even second growth woods, 500 acres is set aside that is hardly used at all. There is a little trail through it, some of these kids need to go out there and just walk quietly down there and sit down quietly in the woods.
Yeager: Connie, what do you have?
Mutel: Listening to the discussion I agree with all of the points that are being made. I also am feeling like we have such a tendency to think of ourselves and to think of areas as natural or manipulated and what we need to do is to simply give more to nature throughout the state, not just have parks and preserves limited but as Pat was saying reintegrate small lanteral areas into our yards, I've heard that some counties have urban natural areas that connect backyards throughout the county and have wildlife quarters throughout the county using people's backyards. And we also need to work with agriculture so that agriculture isn't pitted against nature the way it is now with our farms getting larger and more going to row crops, more intensive farming. I think what we need to do is to reintegrate native species so that those species then can start to work with nature to make a more sustainable and a healthier Iowa.
Yeager: Connie, thank you very much. Mr. Gipp, I need to ask you to go back to when you were in the house and imagine you get the news like you did today, 10% across-the-board budget cuts in every department but yet these things sound so good and need to be done so quickly. How does a legislative body or an executive body put into place some of these actions that we're talking about?
Gipp: Well, if we're serious about sustainability and if we're serious about preservation and conservation sustainability you're going to have to put resources towards accomplishing that. Pat mentioned aesthetically pleasing. Aesthetically pleasing is something that changes over time and so you have to educate people what aesthetically pleasing should be and what it needs to be. That's going to take people in order to provide educational program opportunities to go out and reach the populous and get those changes. It's going to take resources, it's going to take money and so the legislature is going to have a difficult time determining what the priorities for scarce resources are. When they are making these deliberations in the next few weeks they can't forget about natural resources, that you have to invest in them if you're going to have natural resources for future generations. We simply have to make that a priority.
Yeager: Pat, both you and Chuck, your departments are a part of that just like the other state departments so you're going to have a tough time trying to -- are you going to have a tough time holding ground without trying to gain some at the same time?
Boddy: Obviously with a 10% budget cut we're going to be challenged. One of the things though that we do have, we have a great cooperative relationship, we work together closely, Chuck and I see each other at least a couple, three times a week at some meeting so some of these things will be pulled together. One thing that is not expensive is to have a vision for where we want to be, that Connie started to outline for us and that we've all been sort of starting to talk about here today. If we can craft that really thoughtful vision for the proper balance in this state between our natural resources and our agricultural sectors and how we can work together to achieve those visions we'll find the resources to get it done.
Yeager: All right, Connie, I've got to put you on the spot here. How do you tell a lawmaker, short-sided, long-sided that you need to keep investing and look at the long-term?
Mutel: Well, I guess I'd say not can we afford to do it but can we afford not to do it because looking at the elimination of species and the more extreme weather events, more destructive events such as last year's floods that will occur if we don't get involved in preserving nature. It's going to be a lot cheaper to work with nature now. I think that I'd like to suggest that we make Iowa a model for restoring nature in agriculture. We can do it, we have the population and the education here. We can do it.
Yeager: All right, Connie, I appreciate it, both Connie and Chad Graeve are with us remotely and also Pat Boddy, Neal Smith and Chuck Gipp in the studio. Thank you so much. That's it for this expanded version of The Iowa Journal. Thanks to all of our guests and thanks to you for joining us. I encourage everyone to enjoy and protect Iowa's great natural heritage. There are lots of ways to do it. I also want to remind you to check out our Web site for links to conservation groups, government organizations, museums and more that were a part of this program. Next time we'll interview this year's World Food Prize Laureate. Until then, I'm Paul Yeager. Have a good week.
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TODAY | December 12, 2013
>> over for the holidays, there are bound to be a few mess, spilled wine, perhaps, a sustained tablecloth or food on your rug.
>> it hams, editor-in-chief of shop smart magazine. lisa, good morning.
>> good morning.
>> let's slide into this. this is christmas tree sap. we all deal with this.
>> this isn't as bad. a lot of sustains, you probably have everything you need around if house to deal with every holiday stain. this one, for example, all you need is rubbing alcohol .
>> and a little elbow grease .
>> it literally will dissolve the tree sap . get a fresh cloth. it comes out. it is starting to dissolve. it may take a few minutes.
>> if it's on fab breck or something you are concerned about. you might want to take a test on the oge of it. follow with warm water, wash it out.
>> artificial christmas tree , you take it out after a year, there is dust all over it.
>> you want to do here, get your good old vacuum out, take the hoerksz cover it with the hose. everyone probably has some of these sitting around the house whether you wear them or not. take a rubberband. tie it around there, secure it.
>> you do that so you are not sucking up the 33.
>> you are not damaging the tree. you want to work from the top down. make sure you have a cloth underneath it. turn it on.
>> that's a brilliant idea. you can use it for a real tree . it won't suck up the needles. you can use it on house plants .
>> that's a great use for that.
>> a huge one.
>> i love this being the sloppy ween drefrg eat the party.
>> it's upsetting. it's not a big deal if you catch it fast. all you need is an egg dropper and hydrogen per oxide. make sure it's fresh. you don't want an old bottle. cake, use an eye dropper or pour some on. you can see it already. it just starts to come out.
>> it breaks up the color.
>> it is braking it up.
>> it's an easy mag little trek. you got to catch it fast. you have to do it right away or else you might have trouble.
>> if you spilled it on a dress, would you use hydrogen per oxide?
>> test on a corner. sometimes the sustains are too hard to handle. let start over here with the lip stick. this is upsetting. people put it on your nap kens. this actually takes a while to get out. you probably already have nail polish remover. make sure it's non-acetone type, it's the acetone time. you don't want the moisturizing type that has oils in it. take a towel, a clean towel, dip it in the acetone. this might take about 15 minutes , this is not a quick procedure here and actually our stain, this is an actual nap ken that had a lipstick stain. when you are done, also use soap and water before you put it in the washing machine.
>> last but not least, food stains on the carpet.
>> you can by chemical carpet cleaners, my thoughts is, don't bring out the big guns if you don't need them. most household sustains on carpets and other stuff, all you need is cope and water. you need a solution of one teaspoon of mild or dish deter gent, clear. mix it with some water and, you know, what you want to do is make sure you are working from the outside in. this is looks like gravy.
>> the lime the gravy.
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In May, Skyharbor announced that they would be crowd funding their second album. So far it would appear that was a good decision on their part, seeing as they have reached 85% of their pledge goal. Today we were treated to the first single for the album, 'Evolution', and the name could not be any more perfect.
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Basick Records' Italian representatives Damned Spring Fragrantia have announced a handful of UK dates with support from Nexilva (who have recently signed to Ghost Music and Subliminal Groove Records) and Scottish groove contingent From Sorrow To Serenity. The djentmathcore (I'm struggling for a genre here, clearly) band from Parma are set to hit several clubs in Scotland and England as part of their return to the UK. View Full Article »
OK, they don't really. I just had to manhandle the track name into the title somehow and I'm not great at it, if you hadn't clocked so far.
Being entirely truthful, the new Alaya track is pretty great. When they were first uncovered by Basick Records last year, we praised the band for their obvious penchant for catchy and yet not completely obvious instrumental melodies and frontman Evan Dunn's huge vocals — with 'Sleep', all those factors are still in play and it all points to their upcoming debut Thrones, set for release on March 17th, being set to continue the basically spotless Basick track record.
Basick Records are definitely one of the better labels out there right now, especially in terms of forward-thinking progressive metal. Their lineup includes bands such as The Algorithm, Uneven Structure, Dissipate and Glass Cloud, just to give you an idea. Anyways, they're now doing a new promotion called 'The Summer Of Discovery', and it sounds like a pretty good deal.
As a long-time fan of Misery Signals, I am absolutely stoked for their newest album Absent Light. Using IndieGoGo to fund album creation – and all the fun perks that come with it such as a tour cycle and merchandise – the band doubled their campaign goal by raising $104,060 after everything was said and done. And just today Basick Records announced they would be exclusively helping the band distribute the album throughout both the UK and Europe.
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Over the past few weeks, there's been a bit of a crisis brewing in social media that seems to be strangely isolated in bands in the djent, metalcore, and progressive metal scene. Bands have started seeing an outrageous influx of likes from fake pages. On the surface, it could have easily been assumed that bands were buying up fake likes to boost their numbers, but it's much deeper and complex than that.
Skyharbor's debut album is a contender for my "Best of" list, as it's one of the best progressive metal albums to grace my earholes all year. So I was really excited when they posted a video of the song 'Aurora', because it has become one of my favorite tracks on the entire record.
The video is of Keshav and Nikhil playing guitar and bass respectively, and it's a great video, showing how beautiful their playing is. They also announce that they will be a part of Euroblast 2012, which is super awesome for you folks across the pond.
Oh, and did I mention that Dan Tompkins of former TesseracT fame will be their live singer? Yeah. Time to get on that Excitebike.
Things get competitive (what Olympics?) in London this September when two of the best underground labels go head to head in a showcase at the Underworld in Camden, for the ridiculous price of £7. Siege Of Amida may not get mentioned as often as some of the Basick alumni like Chimp Spanner, Aliases or Visions but Dyscarnate and Dripback are two of the best underground extreme acts around at the moment — the former peddling some truly crushing death metal and the latter playing some bastardised version of thrash. If you're in or around London, get to this, every single one of these acts is making waves in the underground and if you need some convincing there's some audio/visual goodies just after the jump!
Every month, Basick Records has been doing a thing they like to call "Freebie Friday," where they slash prices at the Basick Store and give customers 24% off of their order for 24 hours, beginning Friday morning at 9AM UK time (4 AM EST) when using the promo code 'YESITSFRIDAY'. Oh hey, that's happening right now!
To celebrate flagship artist Chimp Spanner's impending US live debut with The Contortionist, Jeff Loomis, 7 Horns 7 Eyes (dates here), Basick are going all out this time, giving us a bunch of cool stuff to give away! Here's what is available:
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Secret Fire
- Location:
- A remote area at the edge of the Mogollon Rim and Red Rock Secret Mountain Wilderness, near Loy Canyon. As the crow flies, 30 miles southwest of Flagstaff, 10 miles west of Hwy 89A, 15 miles northwest of Sedona
- Started:
- Saturday, June 16
- Size:
- approximately 15 acres
- Containment:
- 60%
- Cause:
- Lightning
- Landscape:
- Dense forest, steep and rugged terrain.
- Structures:
- No homes or property are nearby or threatened
- Restrictions:
- Temporary flight restriction in place. A temporary closure is in place for the fire area – including a portion of the Secret Mountain and Loy Canyon trails. Signs are posted and patrols are in the area making contact with any visitors. This is a remote location that's not highly used by the public.
Map: Secret Fire
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- Firefighters have been able to contain 60 percent of the fire burning at the edge of the Mogollon Rim and Red Rock Secret Mountain Wilderness to approximately 15 acres as of Monday morning.
Flagstaff rangers say the fire didn't grow yesterday, and the fire behavior is low with minimal chances of rekindling. Firefighters will remain on the scene continuing cleanup.
The U.S. Forest Service says the Secret Fire, which was caused by lightning, began burning on Saturday.
The fire is located about 30 miles southwest of Flagstaff and 15 miles northwest of Sedona.
Fortunately, there are no homes nearby.
Approximately 80 firefighters have been working the blaze, and are able to keep the growth to a minimum.
So far, the containment lines crews created have held, and on the portion of the fire that is on a slope inaccessible to firefighters, water drops have helped moderate fire behavior, keeping flames from spreading.
Warm, dry and windy conditions and steep rough terrain remain a concern for fire managers. Potential still exists for the fire to move into Loy Canyon where slopes and "funnel-like" terrain could fuel fire behavior.
No homes or property are nearby or threatened.
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"What Causes Thunder?"
Kanai Liufau, Medford Montessori
In the spring, the last bit of winter air moves in above the warmer air at the surface. Because of this phenomenon, thunderstorms become more numerous. As the name suggests, thunder is a key factor in these storms. But what causes this phenomenon?
Thunder is simply the effect of a lightning strike. When lightning occurs, the air immediately surrounding the bolt is superheated to up to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That's three times hotter than the surface of the sun! A combination of the expansion and contraction of the air molecules is what causes the sound of thunder.
The initial heating and expansion of the air causes the "crack" that is first heard in thunder. The air quickly contracts back to its original size and then like a rubber band, continues vibrating slower and slower. This vibration is what causes the rumble that is heard after the initial crack. The vibration happens until the air molecules become stagnant again.
Lightning can sometimes be seen without hearing thunder. This is sometimes referred to as "heat lightning." Some people think that heat causes lightning with no sound. This is a common misconception. It is important to remember that ALL lightning creates thunder. If you see lightning, but don't hear any thunder after, what's actually happening is the bolt is too far away from you for the sound to travel. Sound waves and vibration can only travel so far through the air. So sometimes you will see lightning and not hear the thunder.
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Name: Bob Status: Educator Age: N/A Location: IA Country: United States Date: March 2006
The class has been discussing why a heat shield is necessary for return rather than the entry of a spacecraft. We then raised a more fundamental question: "Is the heat caused by friction of air, which is the standard explanation--or more by compression of air--like happens in a diesel engine?"
Excellent question! It may help your class to have a basic understanding of supersonic flow (nozzles) and shockwaves before answering. It could be a good segue into the subject. These are relatively short chapters in most thermodynamics and gas dynamics books.
The great speed of entry produce shock waves, which are abrupt transitions in the thermodynamic properties of the air. Air goes from essentially zero speed, low pressure, and ambient temperature to high speed, high pressure, and very high temperature very quickly. Lots of energy is added before the air even gets to the vehicle. That said, the wave of a reentry vehicle is only a short distance from the vehicle itself, so the air is deflected around the heat shield, generating further heat through direct friction. This is not that much compared to the heat generated before the vehicle gets to it, but it is still significant.
So much of the heating is done by the compression through the shock, but there is also friction.
There is also another effect of reentry that this explanation doesn't go into. At the hypersonic reentry speeds of a spacecraft, the heat generated through the shock actually ionizes the air and disassociates the molecules into a plasma. Remember the radio blackouts with the apollo missions? They could not transmit through the interference caused by the ionized layer of air they were generating. There are all sorts of implications from dealing with a plasma, but I don't know what effect it would have on the heating.
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There are a couple of questions here: 1. The need for heat shields on re-entry but not lift-off. The speed of the spacecraft on launch is slow compared to the density (and hence friction) of the atmosphere. As the spacecraft gains altitude, and hence speed, the density of the atmosphere decreases dramatically, thus reducing friction and the need for heat shields. The reverse is true upon re-entry. Then, the speed of the spacecraft compared to the earth and its atmosphere is large and as the spacecraft descends, the density of the atmosphere increases, thus increasing air resistance and friction (heat). In some cases, the trajectory of the spacecraft is adjusted so that the craft "skips" along the dense atmosphere like a flat stone can be made to skip across a lake rather than "boring into" the atmosphere. This of course is a trickier maneuver. In everyday experience we do not experience the large differences in speed that cause significant heating of an object moving fast through the atmosphere, but at several thousands of miles/hr this becomes potentially hazardous heating due to friction.
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Die Hard sequel leaves critics cold
The latest instalment in Bruce Willis's Die Hard action franchise has received a largely frosty response from critics.
"Last is least," bemoaned the Hollywood Reporter, while The Scotsman called it a "limp parody" of the 1988 original.
"The sense of exhilaration and fun that marked the best of the series has gone unaccountably AWOL," opined Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times.
A Good Day to Die Hard, the plot of which sees Willis's John McClane travel to Russia, is out now in the US and UK.
Reviews were not published until the day of release at the request of 20th Century Fox, the film's distributor.
Willis has reprised his signature character, a wise-cracking New York cop with a talent for foiling complex criminal schemes, on four occasions since his introduction in the original Die Hard movie.
His latest outing, directed by Ireland's John Moore, sees him join forces with his adult son Jack (Jai Courtney) to protect a Russian whistleblower with links to a nuclear conspiracy.
- Die Hard (1988), dir. John McTiernan, with Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
- Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990), dir. Renny Harlin, with Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Sadler
- Die Hard: With A Vengeance (1995), dir. John McTiernan, with Bruce Willis, Samuel L Jackson, Jeremy Irons
- Die Hard 4.0, aka Live Free Or Die Hard (2007), dir. Len Wiseman, with Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant
- A Good Day to Die Hard (2013), dir. John Moore, with Bruce Willis, Jai Courtney, Sebastian Koch
According to USA Today's Claudia Puig, the "obnoxious, over the top and often dull" result constitutes "a feeble attempt to rehash action-hero glories".
"Opening this bullet-riddled snoozefest on Valentine's Day [14 February] seems particularly wrong-headed," the reviewer continued.
"A trip outside the US does the franchise few favours," wrote Empire's Kim Newman, saying the film's "few reasonable action sequences are mired in family soap".
Yet the film did get a kinder reception from the Daily Telegraph's Robbie Collin, who singled out "a roaringly silly car chase which lasts around 15 minutes" for qualified praise.
"The special effects sequences are put together with some ingenuity," agreed The New York Times' A O Scott.
"But everything that made the first Die Hard memorable - the nuances of character, the political subtext, the cowboy wit - has been dumbed down or scrubbed away entirely."
Speaking to the BBC News website last week, Australian actor Courtney said he and Willis had "had a lot of fun working together" and had "a good dynamic".
However, the 26-year-old played down rumours he was being lined up to take on the franchise or play the lead role in future instalments.
"If I was given the opportunity to reprise the role and play it again I would relish in that, it would be awesome," he said.
"There's definitely a future for the franchise, it being as successful and iconic as it has been. But we'll have to wait and see if Jack features again."
While promoting the film in London last week, Willis confirmed he would be back for a sixth instalment but would not be drawn on plot details.
"I heard there is a group of bad guys that hang out in the Seychelles," he joked to reporters. "So we should go there and just get a tan."


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Marc Sarnoff's Office Staff Just Got Smaller
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The CRA's new executive director, Pieter Bockwig, says he offered Gonzalez and Karsh full-time jobs last week. "My first move is assembling a new leadership team aimed on improving the efficiency of the CRA," Bockwig says. "I want a staff that is proactive in dealing with members of the media and one that brings a tremendous base of knowledge and experience in dealing directly with the CRA stakeholders."
Gonzalez is now making $105,000 a year as assistant director of the Omni CRA (double his pay with Sarnoff), and Karsh gets a 30 percent raise that will earn him $82,000 a year as communications and media relations director for the Overtown and Omni CRAs. While he was still Sarnoff's media liason, Karsh had won a bid to be the CRA's independently contracted spokesman. But that plan was abandoned after New Times questioned if the arrangement violated city rules barring Miami employees from doing business with city agencies. Karsh and an assistant city attorney said it did not, but the CRA never finalized the contract.
Bockwig explains that CRA personnel procedures allow him to hire anyone he wants without having to post the jobs. "The entire staff works at the will of the executive director," Bockwig says.
Does this mean Sarnoff will now have more sway on how the CRAs allocate money for projects? The commissioner says no way. "I didn't ask Pieter to hire them," Sarnoff says. "Bert and David are capable, good guys. They are a huge asset to the City of Miami."
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Tonight marks the one month anniversary of the Hodinkee.com public launch and we would just like to recount some of what we've accomplished here so far.
- We have readers on 5 continents, in over 50 countries, and 350 cities
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And last but not least, we've made a lot of friends out there. Whether it be readers, bloggers, or dealers, we've enjoyed getting to know you all and can't wait to see what lays ahead for all of us. We're only a month old and we've accomplished a lot, what is next for Hodinkee.com? You'll just have to wait and see!
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The past month has been a very big change in the life of our family as Bunny finally went to school. Here he is in his school uniform on his first day - doesn't he look gorgeous?
And notice how he's standing - he had to get the right "cool" stance for the photo. He's such a showman sometimes.
Luckily, he was very excited about becoming a "big boy" and to date there have been no tears at all. In fact by the end of the first week he was asking me why so many other kids were still crying.
I took it as an opportunity to explain how everyone feels things differently and some kids may be scared by the changes that go with school. He listened intently, then ever fixated on number one, said, "It's good I'm brave and don't cry, isn't it?"
The one big shock for Bunny was how many days he has to go to school now. He was used to going to daycare/pre-school two or three days with a break in the middle. So, even though I told him school would be more, he didn't really get it.
The first Wednesday he woke up all ready to play and watch a bit of morning television. He couldn't believe it when I told him it was a school day.
"Again?" he asked."Can't I just go two days?"
He also made the family laugh at the end of the first week when he summed up his big school experience. "All we do is work, work, work," he said. "They never let us play."
"Never?" we asked.
"Never," he said with a serious face.
Lord knows what he's going to think when he's out of kindegarten and school really gets hard!
I am proud to say I have coped with the whole transition much better than I expected. In part because Bunny settled in so well and has been his usual cheery self, and it helps that I really like his teacher. She's very warm and smiley and enthusiastic, which is a good fit for Bunny's natural exuberance.
Like Bunny, the five days a week routine still seems like a lot to me too. After the first weekend, I really didn't want him to go back on the Monday. I wasn't ready for our time to end and I wished that I could tell him to stay home. Of course I can't, and thankfully Bunny never knew I was even contemplating it. Because if he thought he could get more play time by using my emotional state as leverage, you can bet my silver tongue charmer would be in there like a shot!
While our school experience has been mostly good, there are always highlights and lowlights when you go through this kind of lifestyle change.
Bunny's current enthusiasm for homework. It's all an opportunity to show me how much he's learned now. He's excited to do it and never argues when I say it's time. I have no idea how long this enthusiasm will last so I'll appreciate it while I can.
Right now while I'm still feeling a bit depressed, the routine of the school day has become my friend. It anchors my life and gives me some much needed structure.
More time to add in elements that strengthen my own life. I'm starting a writing group with a friend, have made some progress on untangling the plot issues with my novel and am even considering going back to university to finish my Masters in Creative Writing.
The monotony of making school lunches. Bunny's daycare used to give him cooked meals. This is the first time I have ever had to think about what to pack him for lunch. It's a total drag. Bunny is not a great fan of the sandwich and there are hardly any fillings he finds acceptable. In an effort to prepare him tasty and healthy lunch boxes I initially turned myself inside out contemplating and preparing lunches. One month in, we seem to have settled into a few combinations that work for us and now I try to remind myself to relax every time I find myself staring into the refrigerator too long.
The endless notes. I am going to have to get a personality transplant and become a much more organised person if I am to survive Bunny's school years. It hasn't even been a term and the school office is already doing my head in with notes about things to do or remember. I'm tripping over paper notes in my kitchen. Can't they just email me?
The pressure to get involved with the school. A note asking me to volunteer at the canteen came home on Bunny's very first day. Not even a couple of days to settle in. No. Right away it was all "We want you!" I'm not keen. Maybe that makes me a slack mum, but I hate preparing food for my own family. I don't want to do it for a couple of hundred other children. I have volunteered with reading groups though and that was fun.
How was your experience with your children first starting school? What do you enjoy about school days and what would you trade in a quick minute? Do you have any advice for a starter school mum like me?


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Second, ESPN, instead of being soft, actually looks incredibly well set-up for terrific growth in 2013, running 7% ahead and maybe better as the year goes on. It is true that Monday Night Football was a bit of a downer in the last quarter of the year, in part because of the luck of the draw. They had some real dud contests. Alas, you have to take that risk in sports programming.
Finally, Disney has terrific upside in theme parks courtesy of new rides that always attract repeat customers.
While I am a total numbers guy, I still believe there is a CEO quotient that has to be applied to that price-to-earnings multiple to get through the tougher times and the disappointments. Iger has about the highest faith-to-stock-price ratio that I know of.
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New York, NY (May 2007) -- The high-tech, minimally invasive techniques used in modern eye surgery to treat cataracts and retinal diseases have rendered the traditional method of training resident surgeons on animal specimens increasingly inadequate.
In just the past few months, however, surgeons in training at The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary have begun to practice with the first-ever ophthalmosurgery training simulator, which uses advanced computer technology to give the surgeon the feel of experiencing real intraocular surgery.
"The simulator is a remarkable breakthrough. It mimics surgery in a way never before achieved in ophthalmology," said Richard Rosen, MD, director of ophthalmology resident education at The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. "Unlike other surgical specialties, eye surgery simulation requires that you be able to see through tissue, even peel it back and reveal underlying organs. The simulator accomplishes that in an unprecedented and creative way."
To remove a cataract, the most common eye operation performed in the United States, surgical residents sit at the training table, gently rest their fingers on an aluminum head and insert a needle-like surgical cutter and forceps into a simulated eye; then, viewing through a microscope and using foot pedals to focus, they use the forceps to carefully peel back the tissue coating the diseased lens. As the image of just-loosened tissue flaps about in the viscous gel that fills the eyeball, the surgeons use a tiny guillotine-like instrument to cut up the tissue. Next, they use an ultrasound needle to sculpt and break apart the spongy textured, diseased lens, which is suctioned out.
The supervising surgeon can observe the operation on a large plasma screen and offer a critique. Meanwhile, the simulator's software shows the trainee if the cornea has been injured with the forceps (translucent white streaks show the exact location of the injury) or if another surgical error has been made. At the end of the procedure, the computer gives a training score and allows the student to play back the operation to observe and learn.
The new simulator, called EyeSi, has a number of software programs so that residents can practice on more complex diseases such as retinal tears, detachments and macular holes. It refines the hand, eye and foot coordination that goes into real minimally invasive eye surgery before utilizing actual equipment in the operating room.
The simulator is especially helpful in training for the most complex retinal operations because the appearance within the eye is more lifelike. In a specimen (dead pig's eye) the retina is gray, but transparent in a live eye and the simulator image. With EyeSi software, just as in the real surgical procedure, a resident can remove the gel-like vitreous humor that fills the eyeball, refill it up with air to push back the retinal tear and seal the tear with lasers. There is no way to use modern needle-shaped microsurgical instruments – a tiny water feed, a fiberoptic light pipe and a guillotine-like cutter – inside a dead pig's eye.
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