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What's for Breakfast, Micronesian Vegan?
By Keira on April 21, 2011
What do you for the most important meal of the day when toast is not an option (bread here is sweet and has nasty un-vegan bread improver), you don't eat eggs or bacon, and the sweetness of the cereal has done a number on your usually-sugar-lovin self, and you just can't take it anymore?
If, like me, you don't have a real job (just a volunteer one) or children, you have time to make a cooked breaky.
We've been eating all sorts of breakfast fare of late. Observe:
Fried Rice
As awesome as pancakes are, I usually can't be bothered will all the fuss. So breaky is almost always porridge or fried rice.
For fried rice, I just make extra rice with dinner and stick it in the fridge. In the AM I fry it up with condiments and a protein source, and any vegies left over from dinner as well (although they're scarce, so there isn't often much left over).
When you're having porridge or rice every day, and rice often more than once a day, you gotta get creative to avoid boredom.
These are some of my fave combinations.
Fried Rice-a-thon
Garlic Fried Rice (vegan Philipines style): white rice, garlic powder, spring onions, imitation bacon bits, salt/vegan vegie stock (brought over from Oz).
Curry Fried Rice: Brown rice, chickpeas, curry powder, onion flakes, salt, turmeric, ginger.
Satay Fried Rice (a Mr invention): Brown rice, peanuts, soy sauce, peanut butter, spring onion.
Morrocan Fried Rice: Brown rice, chickpeas, cinnamon, cumin seeds, nutmeg, sultanas, craisins, thyme, lemon juice, nooch (brought from Oz).
Cumin-y Fried rice: White rice, black beans, spring onion, garlic powder, cumin powder, paprika, lemon juice, capers.
BBQ fried rice: Either rice, tofu, soy sauce, liquid smoke (version avail here) tabasco, imitation bacon bits, veg as avail.
Tofu Fried Rice (okay all fried rice can be tofu fried rice with the addition of tofu, but ours usually has): white or brown rice, tofu, soy sauce, vinegar, spring onion, garlic powder, imitation bacon bits, carrot, peas (if any avail).
Sometimes I also use coconut oil instead of another to give it a yummy tropical kick.
I make my porridge with water. Maybe its just me, but i think soy milk tastes weird after it has been boiled. I add milk once its in the bowl. We also add peanut butter or protein powder some days, for a little extra muscle-builder.
Apple Pie: Chopped apple, cinnamon, soy milk and sugar.
Vanilla and Blueberry: vanilla essence, very expensive dried blueberries (its hard to get them here and they cost a mint), soy milk.
Spicy Craisins: nutmeg, cinnamon, crainsins (they come inf lavours here, we use pomegranate).
Coconut and Banana: Cook in coconut milk/juice (a bit of each) and serve with fried local banana. I used to use brown sugar til I realised you can't get vegan brown sugar on the island.
Five spice: use any milk, add chinese five spice, sultanas and a bit of extra nutmeg.
What's your favourite vegan breaky?
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Hi all... I've been prepping for my worms for about 2 months now. I have 2 bins set up (out of old paint bucket like containers (never contained paint). Three levels, holes in bottoms, very bottom is a smaller bucket to catch liquid... Here's my problem. I HAVE NO WORMS!!!
I've searched everywhere for local worms and can't find any farmers :( The one we did have (that I could find on Google) moved to California.
I ordered 1lb from Sun Joe almost a month ago, but the package got lost... thanks FedEx... So I was issued a replacement, and now FedEx is refusing to ship it.
Just wondering if anyone on here is from my area and has worms they'd be willing to sell or give away. Or if anyone knows reliable shippers or farms that can ship fast and keep the worms cool enough to not die.
I talked to the farmer that moved to Cali and he said to wait on shipping because of how hot AZ is and the worms would likely come from a much cooler climate and wouldn't adjust well. I have very little patience unfortunately, and I don't want to wait until September to order worms.
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FedEx can just hold right on to that box until they are ready to ship it. he he.
My advice: Bokashi until September. It will handle the kitchen scraps until your worm population builds up or gets shipped.
Maybe put a "want worms" notice in an online local newspaper type thing.
To entertain yourself until September try kombutcha. Almost as much fun as worms.
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I live in Sierra vista and can share some of what I have. Not sure when my next trip up to Tucson will be, but I go every couple of weeks. Less than a month ago had a pound shipped here for my worm inn, no problems. Sun Joe is a vendor I would not recommend as my prior experience was horrible when I tried to stock up my RM bin.
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@ bluedood Let me know when you come up, I'd be willing to pay. Supposedly my second batch is in Tucson already, but no one is communicating so no one knows where they are.
I will be going to Phoenix on Wednesday morning, but stopping in Tucson. Worms would not like being melted in the car for five hours up in Phoenix. If I drive up Tuesday night and stay with family I will let you know, otherwise it will be the following Monday when I have off.
Either way we can figure something out. No need to pay, I will harvest out some from my RM bin on Monday and see how many I can come up with.
kombucha Instead of worms making vermicompost from kitchen waste a SCOBY (Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast) makes makes a sparkling beverage from sweet tea. Both require time and an organizim guided to do a specific task thus are similar hobbies.


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Star Trek: Lambda Paz
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July 9 2010, 01:40 AM
Rear Admiral
Location: Sunspear
Re: Star Trek: Lambda Paz
Chapter Four
Gul Latham stepped onto the bridge of the lead
-class warship stationed at the Chudala system. He had been a seasoned veteran having fought in both the Dominion War and the last Federation-Cardassian war. His lightening skin and streaks of silver in his black hair were the most visible signs of aging. Among his people, however, his advanced age was worthy of great respect. What do you have, Glinn? he asked the officer manning a starboard tactical monitor.
Intermittent tachyon spikes at a 500 thousand
radius, answered Glinn Orlak.
Cloaked ships? the gul wondered aloud.
Possibly. Sensor technicians are trying to extrapolate plasma wakes.
How intense are the ion storms in this vicinity?
They are beginning to subside, but they are still able to limit the effectiveness of a cloaking device.
Latham slowly walked over to the command chair. Why would they even bother with cloaking? he quietly asked himself. He sat in the chair and pushed a key on the comm-panel on the right arm. All ships, this fleet command. Lock onto those tachyon spikes and fire on my command.
As the Cardassian fleet began moving towards what may have been cloaked ships, half a dozen
-class Romulan warbirds decloaked around them and began firing disruptor charges. The cloaked Klingon vessels being used as bait for the Cardassians then appeared. Six
and two
class attack cruisers decloaked and fired, severely damaging two of the twelve
-class warships.
One of the important social skills Aurellan Markalis struggled to learn growing up was making eye contact. Walking into a seedy tavern on Tagra Four, she was presented with an even greater challenge. According to intelligence reports, Rhys Darcen frequented this tavern. Markalis would have to get Darcens attention in a subtle manner, while at the same time, not drawing attention to herself from any other patrons.
She removed the hood on her knee-length jacket upon her entry into the tavern and let out a nervous exhale. She gave a quick visual survey of the establishment filled with people from nearly a dozen different races. She began hoping she was not the only human present since that would she would most likely stand out. She saw a group of humans at the bar. One of them was her person of interest.
Markalis walked by the bar slowly and quietly to avoid attracting attention. She removed a padd from her left trousers pocket and began operating it. She bumped into a middle-aged human male. Excuse me, she mumbled, quickly looking up from the padd.
The man, who had jet-black hair and a light olive-skin complexion, smiled. Aurellan ignored him and continued on her way. She sat down at an empty table in a dark corner and continued manically pushing buttons on the padd. The man at the bar stared over at her, fascinated by this beautiful, yet timid woman.
Ziminske entered the tavern dressed in a Starfleet uniform. Unlike when she was on the
, her collar was operations gold rather than command red. The bridge of her nose lacked the ridges that distinguished a Bajoran. Markalis saw her contact enter, so she quickly concealed her face with the hood.
Im looking for a human woman, Ziminske called out to the patrons. Blonde hair. She is believed to be smuggling bio-mimetic gel to the Orion Syndicate.
No one answered. That description could have described anyone. Those who had seen Markalis didnt consider that she was the woman Ziminske was describing. If I learn that she is here, Ziminske continued, this establishment will be shut down.
The man who noticed Markalis shot Ziminske an up-and-down look Youre not too shabby yourself, he retorted, with an accent that sounded somewhere between British and Scottish.
Dont get smart, bud, Ziminske shot back. You know anything?
Ive seen a lot of blonde haired human women. Other than yourself, I dont see any in this bar.
Ziminske made another quick visual inspection of the tavern. Markalis happened to look in the agents direction. Markalis nervously looked down at the table to continue working the padd. Anyone else here know anything? she demanded.
Many of the other patrons either ignored the inquiry or shook their heads.
Ziminske walked out slowly. The man covering for Markalis stared intently at Ziminske waiting for the agent to leave. Once Ziminske was gone, he walked over to Markalis. She continued to ignore him even as he sat down in the chair across from her.
Bio-mimetic gel, the man said with a wry grin. Thats a controlled substance in the Federation.
Aurellan looked up and removed her hood. She smiled triumphantly while placing a stylus in the right edge of her mouth like it was a cigar. I could do hard time, she quipped. But I hope to reap a pretty hefty commission from my next sale. Thanks for covering for me, by the way.
My names Rhys. Rhys Darcen. Have you found a buyer yet?
Aurellan. And no. Im still shopping it around.
I know of some people wanting bio-mimetic gel on the black market.
Id be interested in meeting them.
Im sure I can arrange that.
Markalis would later accompany Darcen to his home just outside of the cities central business district. The interior of the main living area was a large rocky enclosure, which looked more like the cargo hold of an old freighter. Three humans were present in the room to greet Darcen and his newest guest.
Rhys, youve brought a guest, one of the two women remarked. She spoke with a slight South Asian accent. Her light tan skin complexion suggested either Middle Eastern or South Asian ancestry.
Ileana, this is Aurellan, said Darcen. Shes a dealer in bio-mimetic gel.
Where did you find her? Ileana replied. Weve been looking to replenish our supply.
All in good time, my dear, Darcen replied. He then introduced Markalis to other two humans.
This is Sneana, Darcen continued, indicating a woman with a short black hair in a coiffure hairstyle with bangs down to her eyebrows.
And this is Grimaud, Darcen said of a youthful blonde man, whose facial expression remained unchanged since Darcen and Markalis entered. Like the character the Three Musketeers characters, he only speaks when absolutely necessary.
Grimaud did smile at Markalis, and Aurellan returned the greeting. She then took another glance at the two women, who both wore sleeveless shirts and form-fitting cargo trousers. She remembered having read that the women in Khan Noonien Singhs group dressed similarly, possibly to show off their muscular upper arms. That was one trait that set these women apart from the more stereotypical human female. On the other hand, Ileanas cleavage contradicted that notion, as well Aurellans own standards of modesty.
Allow me to take your jacket, Sneana offered, speaking with a thick Eastern European accent.
Markalis just gave an uncomfortable grin as she unbuttoned the jacket. She had seen Sneanas amorous stare from a lot of men, but she was unsure what to make of a woman looking at her in the same manner. We have so much to show you, Sneana continued.
Markalis and the other four humans walked outside, into a large garden. Their surroundings did not seem possible in a desert region of the planet. Nevertheless, they were surrounded by large trees and a garden of fruits and vegetables from various worlds including a vine of Kaferian apples. Markaliss stared in amazement at what she was seeing, especially seeing the barren desert sand just a few hundred feet away.
How is this even possible? she asked.
This region became uninhabitable when atmospheric pollutants threatened all life on this planet, Darcen began.
And even when all the pollutants were cleansed from the air six years ago, Ileana added, this region was very inhospitable. Even the greatest scientific minds on Tagra could not devise a way to live here.
We have tamed this part of this hostile desert, said Sneana, Just like the first colonists of Australia and the planets Jaros Two and Ceti Alpha Five.
Weve made Eden here, Darcen proclaimed.
Markalis remembered hearing of Eden from a story she heard as a little girl. Until this moment, she thought that story nothing more than myth. You did all this, she said still in awe.
The four of us, and many others, Darcen replied. Now, I do believe we have business to transact.
Yes, of course, said Markalis, still with a rare smile.
Lambda Paz
and two flanking
class cruisers moved in on the fleet of Cardassian warships and support vessels with phasers firing. Six small fighters were clipped by phaser fire, and they quickly fell out of formation. The four
-class ships, however, returned each phaser hit with their own phaser fire from the forward array. The
Lambda Paz
fired torpedoes at one of the center vessels tearing off its starboard nacelle, and then moved towards the other center vessel to port.
This ones a bit slippery, Sara Carson noted of the quantum torpedoes that ship had dodged.
Keep on its tail, Limis replied, while looking at the display on her side console. Morrison, keep a tight lock on those flanking fighters.
I see them, said Morrison entering the targeting command sequence.
A swarm of quantum torpedoes tore through two
-class fighters over the dorsal of the warship the
Lambda Paz
was pursuing. The warship then fired its aft phasers inflicting some damage to the ventral of the saucer section. Three more warships slowly approached the Starfleet ship from the port stern through a flotilla of debris.
Garak had been along for the ride because of his expertise in monitoring coded Cardassian transmissions immediately noticed the three ships on his sensor display at the port Mission Ops station. Three more
-class warships approaching from stern, Captain, he called out.
I see them, Limis replied. Call in the
and the
to give us a hand.
Were way ahead of you, Captain, Kozar answered through the comm-line from one of the
-class ships.
-class starships fired their multi-targeting phasers at the port and starboard ships while the
Lambda Paz
fired aft quantum torpedoes at the center ships. The two outside ships moved off while the middle ships turned towards the
Without warning, an explosion plowed into the
Lambda Paz
and four of the surrounding Starfleet ships. Crewmembers on lowermost decks of the secondary hull where the explosion took place were blown out into space. The protective field around the warp core failed. Logan scrambled to the console in front of the core to keep antimatter containment from failing. Consoles on the bridge exploded sending officers to the deck.
Limis gathered herself and sat back down in the center seat. What the hell was that? she asked between coughs.
Some kind of explosion, a baffled Huckaby answered. It just came out of nowhere. Weve got hull breaches on decks eighteen, nineteen and twenty. Emergency forcefields are in place, but they wont hold for long.
Send teams to close the emergency bulkheads manually, Limis ordered, noticing on her display that some of the bulkheads were not closing automatically. And evacuate those decks.
Incoming hail from the
, Morrison reported.
Whatever that was sure packed a wallop, said Kozar through intermittent static. Were dead in the water. So are five other ships. Recommend we forward the sensor logs to the rest of the tactical wing. Maybe some other ship will catch something we missed.
Some of kind of subspace mines? Garak offered. They were highly experimental and virtually abandoned when I was still in the Obsidian Order.
Looks like the Dominion has had better success, Limis quipped. Make it so, Commander. You too, Huckaby. Morrison, start laying down cover fire with whatever is in the arsenal. Carson, take us to our fallback position. And call in five tow ships if you have to.
With the warp nacelles burned out, the
Lambda Paz
could manage no more than maximum impulse. The
and the
fired quantum torpedoes before following the
Lambda Paz
. The
and the
moved up in front of the
Lambda Paz
and locked their tractor beams on the crippled ship.
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Beijing-born and Queens, NY-based Chinese artist YI CHEN is a rising force in the world of modern figurative painting. His newest show "Beaut-Esque" that opened its doors at Culver City hotspot HONOR FRASER GALLERY this Saturday nite was full of gorgeous, color-dense examples of his playful and expert signature style full of playful references the modern masters (Picasso and Hockney spring immediately to mind), and loads of painting chops to spare. The artist uses culturally mediated images from advertisements and fashion magazines as inspiration for his work and sees his paintings and collages as metaphors for hybrid, mutated concepts of beauty borne from a global popular culture. This concept of hybridization and mutation formulate a tense balance in his work, combining enticing beauty and repelling grotesqueries that result in magnetic paintings. Chen begins his creative process by assembling collages of human (and sometimes mammalian) facial features cut out from popular fashion magazines. These collages of perfect/imperfect specimens are the foundation of his work. Like an artistic scientist, he disregards race, gender and age and selects individual characteristics and reconstructs them to form a new human species. These collages then become the figurative models for his lushly rendered oil paintings. All art-crawling denizens of the Southland should consider this essential viewing. HAVE A LOOK: Read More
LA might not be ground zero for the next visual renaissance (at least not from how things are looking as of late), but it is home to some solid decorative art. Enter SYLIVA JI who's been painting for some time now in a fun style that might be best described as Nagel Vs. Gustav Klimt on Dia De los Muertos. Her solid new solo exhibition "Haute Eopch" at Culver City's COREY HELFORD GALLERY featuring Ji's usual array of painted doomsday femme fatales opened to a packed house on Saturday nite where the looks made it worth the drive and the ratio of lovely ladies to men was advantageously high. HAVE A LOOK: Read More
Unfortunately for the frighteningly stagnant LA art scene most of the great shows of the last few years have been by non-LA artists. Luckily for LA, we get a regular stream of good shows by non-LA artists to keep us happy. The most recent of said exhibitions is by LA-born, but NYC-based painter KEHINDE WILEY whose new collection of figurative masterworks "The World Stage: Brazil" opened this weekend to a packed house at Culver City art hotspot ROBERTS & TILTON GALLERY. Choosing his subjects for this series from the notorious favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Wiley asked each to assume the pose of a local sculptural work on display in the city as a means of interpreting the country's storied colonial history through the images of some of its most vibrant modern inhabitants. The results, as always with KW, were staggering and this new collection of grandiose portraits is exactly the shot in the arm the Southland needs to help kickoff the 2009 gallery season with a fresh breath of colorful optimism. HAVE A LOOK: Read More
By Diane Pucin, LA Times, March 8, 2009
"Ben Stiller did the introductions and newly hot artist Shepard Fairey did a mural, but Lance Armstrong was the star Saturday night at the Ricardo Montalban Theater in Hollywood.
As part of his cycling comeback, Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner, has made clear that he is riding not only to win more races but also to raise more money for his cancer charity, the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Armstrong is flying Sunday to Europe in advance of the third race in his comeback journey, the Milan-San Remo Classic. But on Saturday, Armstrong rode 2.2 miles with about 700 recreational cyclists and then spoke to an enthusiastic audience of art and cycling lovers.
Fairey has gained recent attention for his creation of the Barack Obama "Hope" image, and there was a Fairey-created mural celebrating Armstrong's cycling comeback and cancer-fighting commitment painted on the side of the theater.
Stiller introduced Armstrong by making a joke about how when the two of them walk down the street, people stop to marvel at Armstrong's ability to inspire awe because of his cycling accomplishments after recovering from cancer, and then they stare at Stiller and say, "Thunder, man," because of Stiller's starring appearance in the less-than-esoteric movie comedy "Tropic Thunder."
More than 20 artists have created works that will be displayed beginning July 16 at the Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery in Paris and will be sold with the proceeds going to Armstrong's foundation. Besides Fairey, other notable artists participating in this fundraiser include Tom Sachs, Eric White, Marc Newson, Os Gemeos and Taryn Simon." Click HERE to continue reading…
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To officially launch the LIVESTRONG "Stages" benefit art show (full details below) powered by NIKE that will debut during LANCE ARMSTRONG's run in this year's TOUR DE FRANCE, an epic kickoff celebration was held on Saturday nite at Nike's MONTALBAN THEATER in the heart of Hollywood.Read More
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NIKE has always given 100% of the proceeds from their innovative and comprehensive LIVESTRONG apparel & foorwear collection to the anti-cancer foundation LANCE ARMSTRONG founded in 1997. With their new "Stages" collection designed by JESSE LEYVA, the company has moved to incorporate the cream of the crop of NSW's coveted offerings to expand the reach of a program that has already generated over $10 million for the cause. Kicking off the lineup are reissues of some of sneakerdom's most sought-after DUNK and AIR FORCE 1 releases by FUTURA, MISTER CARTOON, and SO ME, all in the trademark yellow Livestrong colorway. Backing them up are the corresponding AIR MAX PACK (Ones, 90s, and 180s), the new hybrid EVERYDAY LUNAR RACER, the CUTTERS PACK TIEMPO created especially for urban fixed gear cyclists, the original LUNAR RACER, the rare FOOTSCAPE WOVEN, and apparel pieces like the M-65 and FIREFLY jackets. First offerings hit shelves in the coming months with lots more surprises to come. Stay tuned to ST for updates on the way. Meanwhile, HAVE A LOOK: Read More
In a racing world where carbon fiber is the holy grail of track performance, San Francisco-based artist BARRY McGEE (aka: Twist) takes us back to the days of cold hard steel with his incredibly unexpected graphic treatment on this TREK Madone 6.9. Created (with the help of our homies at RVCA) in commemoration of LANCE ARMSTRONG's competition in the TOUR OF CALIFORNIA for the first time this year, Barry's signature characters populate a carbon fiber frame masterfully altered to resemble a vintage metal race cycle literally "ridden hard and left out in the rain" one too many times. One of Lance's personal favorite artists, Barry was chosen for the task because of his unique aesthetic sensibilities and acute love of cycling, particularly fixed gear riding which have melded here in new and truly unexpected ways. Launched tonite as Lance's main ride in his public anti-cancer ride in Hollywood tonite, the bike went on display in NIKE's MONTALBAN THEATER as part of Lance's public announcement of the new "Stages" art campaign being waged to help expand the LIVESTRONG foundation's global anti-cancer fight (more news on that coming to ST soon). HAVE A LOOK: Read More
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Huge LANCE ARMSTRONG art news coming your way this weekend. Meanwhile, SHEPARD FAIREY's new art mural depicting the champion cyclist as cancer fighter in the tireless LIVESTRONG army is underway on the side of NIKE's massive MONTALBAN THEATER at the corner of Hollywood & Vine. Keep an eye on ST for updates throughout the week...
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In an effort to raise awareness for his LIVESTRONG foundation's endless fight against the cancer burden worldwide, Supertouch buddy LANCE ARMSTRONG has commissioned a series of "Open Roads" street level chalk art installations that began in LA this weekend with the work of nascent art star JAMES JEAN. Attacking the Venice boardwalk on Saturday, Jean quickly grabbed public attention with his incredible yellow chalk mural that in turn inspired over 600 passers-by to pick up chalk themselves and break loose with their own impromptu yellow "street art." Keep your ears peeled for some huge Lance art news coming later this week on ST. Meanwhile, HAVE A LOOK: Read More


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We met up with the Davis family again for an adorable little Christmas inspired photo session at one of our favorite bridges in Citrus Heights. With the ground kissed from rain earlier that morning and a few winter touches, this sweet family could not be any cuter all bundled up together!
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Who is your favorite teacher and why?
"Coach Weedman, he's not just a teacher or coach, he is a good friend. And he has helped me a lot."
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"Journey to the Center of the Earth."
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The University of Northwestern Ohio is proud to acknowledge that John D. Tilley of Carrollton has made the Dean's List for the November 2011 session in the College of Applied Technologies. Full-time students must receive a grade point average of 3.5 or better to be named to the Dean's List.
University of North-western Ohio has named Cameron S. McClellen of Carrollton to their dean's list for the October 2011 session in the College of Applied Technologies. Full-time students must receive a grade point average of 3.5 or better to be named to the list.
Kentucky's ranking in an annual grading of all states on key education indicators rose dramatically this year, placing the state 14th in the nation for its work on academic standards, the teaching profession and many other variables related to public education.
Each year, Education Week (a national publication that focuses on P-12 education) produces a special issue, "Quality Counts." The report tracks key education indicators and grades states on their policy efforts and outcomes. Last year, Kentucky ranked 34th in the nation in this annual report.
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Who is your favorite teacher and why?
"Mr. Roode because he's cool and teaches good."
What was the last movie you saw?
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Like the students in the Carroll County School District, the members of its board of education must do their homework. This means sifting through complicated test data and financial reports while keeping abreast of the latest requirements handed down from state and federal governments, to name just a few "subjects."
(Frankfort, KY.) - Kentucky State Police is looking for fifth grade artists to compete in the National Missing Children's Day poster contest sponsored by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in Washington, DC. KSP will select a nominee from Kentucky and forward it to DOJ, where one poster from all state nominated entries will be selected as a winner. The artist of the national winning poster will win a free trip to Washington, D.C and participate in the National Missing Children's Day Ceremony where they will receive an award and a U.S. Savings Bond.
Paul Hutton of Worthville, received his Bachelor of Science degree in business administration, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, at Indiana Wesleyan University's main campus in Marion, Ind.
Indiana Wesleyan University is an evangelical Christian comprehensive university of The Wesleyan Church, which has its world headquarters in Indianapolis. The university was founded in 1920 and is committed to liberal arts and professional education.
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WEEKEND EXCURSION; Down the Shore and Up the Boardwalk, a Jersey Way of Life
By JOE SHARKEY
Published: August 27, 1999
I grew up spending summers on the Jersey Shore and, like others of my generation, eventually abandoned Jersey for beaches with palm trees and warmer water: Sanibel, St. Martin, Hawaii. I still have a homing instinct for the Jersey Shore, though not the trendy one currently discovered by the upscale crowd seeking an alternative to the Hamptons. Such exclusive venues as Stone Harbor, Sea Girt, Avalon don't interest me. Rather, what appeals to me as a beachgoer is what makes the Jersey Shore stand out in the realm of cultural kitsch: the boardwalk towns.
Each year I make a pilgrimage to the boardwalk, accompanied by my wife, Nancy, a good sport who grew up in New York State's snow belt, blissfully unaware, until I came into her life, that carnival towns like Wildwood, Ocean City or Seaside Heights even existed. Our itinerary, incidentally, does not include Atlantic City, where the boardwalk was invented more than 100 years ago as a place to lure the growing urban middle classes for strolling, merriment and impulse buying within a new and gaudy mercantile environment that openly celebrated the joys and excesses of a nascent consumer society.
Alas, Atlantic City's famous boardwalk fell into decrepitude during the 1960's and survives today essentially as a five-mile-long front porch for the casinos.
Our pilgrimage usually consists of a two-day stay at one of the three major boardwalk towns: Wildwood, Ocean City or Seaside Heights, whose boardwalks expanded and prospered in the early 1960's just as Atlantic City's began its decline. This year we decided to do a marathon excursion that would include all three boardwalks in a single day. Zipping from boardwalk to boardwalk along more than 75 miles of coastline is not the recommended itinerary.
But such total immersion does tend to focus the attention, as we found out on one blazing hot day not long ago. Here is a log of that boardwalk odyssey:
7:45 A.M. We leave the faux-Victorian bed and breakfast in North Wildwood, where we spent a not-so-faux restless night and, refreshed by the dazzling sunshine, make our way toward the Boardwalk. The rush of seashore exultation is immediate. In the sky above the boardwalk, a floating menagerie of giant mechanical kites drift above us like Willy Wonka contraptions. One immense kite has a distinctly Wildwood touch. It depicts a woman in a swimsuit, her eight-foot-long legs kicking in a languid swim on the air currents.
8 A.M. We rent a couple of bicycles from a concession stand beside a boardwalk ramp and pedal up into the swarm of cyclists and joggers who are allowed on the promenade until 11 A.M. This is the most pleasant time of day, when the shops and giant amusement piers are still quiet and the boardwalk stretches along a beach so astonishingly wide (nearly a half-mile at some points) that you can barely see the breakers curling in. Wildwood's abundant beach, capable of holding multiple Woodstocks at a time, is an anomaly in a state where coastal erosion is a severe problem. The beach at Wildwood just keeps piling up, as if some sorcerer's apprentice working a summer job for Neptune has lost control of the sand pumps.
8:30 A.M. Time for a seasonal ritual: the Taking of the Pictures at the Coin-Operated Booth. Every year, I drag Nancy into one of those arcade photo booths, the ones with the tacky curtain that draws behind you while you arrange yourselves on a round wooden stool, drop in the coins and smile idiotically as the camera snaps four quick black-and-white pictures. For each of the 15 years we have been married, we now have little curled photo strips of ourselves at the boardwalk.
Over those years, we changed somewhat. But the photo booths remain the same. (Some still have those sample photos on display that appear to have been taken during the Truman Administration, and still breathlessly proclaim the marvel of ''instant'' pictures that take an excruciating seven minutes to spit out from the slot.)
8:45 A.M. During a brisk ride along the two-mile boardwalk, we look over the three big amusement piers, silent as a museum before hours, that place Wildwood among the top 20 amusement parks in the country. Wildwood's rides are well-maintained and up to date, thanks mostly to the locally owned Morey Organization, which operates the main piers and invests mightily in such rides as a gigantic Ferris wheel with a spectacular lighting display at night and three roller coasters, including ''The Great White,'' a four-year-old $5 million wooden beauty with a 110-foot main drop. One ride I haven't seen before: ''Jersey Junkyard,'' a twist on the venerable ''Dante's Inferno'' carnival ride, in which shell-shaped cars trundle along tracks while things pop out in the dark. A few blocks away, there is another, more ambitious attraction: ''Seacoaster.'' It's a couple of high steel towers with cables that hoist harnessed riders 180 feet above the sand, then fling them into the sky.
''I'm going on this when it opens,'' I inform my wife.
''No, you're not,'' she decides.
That matter settled, we park our bikes outside a boardwalk restaurant for breakfast. I ask the waitress what's hot this year in the area of attractions.
''Fashion tattooing and body piercing,'' she replies. ''Make sure you get a certified piercologist, though.''


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Biodiversity Day: The Arctic
- Svalbard reindeer, Ny Alesund
May 22 is the UN official "International Day for Biological Diversity (IDB)". Yes, I know, I frequently wonder about the value of these "International Day of…" whatever, but usually come to the conclusion that it's always good to have reminders or pegs to draw attention to issues that don't always make the headlines (last time on Migratory Bird day, see Ice Blog post). May 22 was chosen because it was the day, in 1992, when the text of the Convention on Biological Diversity was adopted in Nairobi.
Anyway, at least in our northern hemisphere, May is a good time to talk about biodiversity, as nature bursts into life (or creeps out gently with the temperatures in my part of Europe currently a little on the chilly side) after the winter rest. Like so many things in our world, this is also affected by climate change, with increasing variability in temperature and conditions having an impact on the seasons.
This May also sees the publication of the "Arctic Biodiversity Assessment". It was released at the meeting of the Arctic Council in Kiruna on May 15th. Let me quote a little from the intro, which sums up why Arctic biodiversity is so special:
"The Arctic holds some of the most extreme habitats on Earth, with species and peoples that have adapted through biological and cultural evolution to its unique conditions. A homeland to some, and a harsh if not hostile environment to others, the Arctic is home to iconic animals such as polar bears Ursus maritimus, narwhals Monodon monoceros, caribou/reindeer Rangifer tarandus, muskoxen Ovibos moschatus, Arctic fox Alopex lagopus, ivory gull Pagophila eburnea and snowy owls Bubo scandiaca, as well as numerous microbes and invertebrates capable of living in extreme cold, and large intact landscapes and seascapes with little or no obvious sign of direct degradation from human activity. In addition to flora and fauna, the Arctic is known for the knowledge and ingenuity of Arctic peoples, who thanks to great adaptability have thrived amid ice, snow and winter darkness… The Arctic is made up of the world's smallest ocean surrounded by a relatively narrow fringe of island and continental tundra. Extreme seasonality and permafrost, together with an abundance of freshwater habitats ranging from shallow tundra ponds fed by small streams to large deep lakes and rivers, determine the hydrology, biodiversity and general features of the Arctic's terrestrial ecosystems. Seasonal and permanent sea ice are the defining features of the Arctic's marine ecosystems."
Biodiversity loss is happening at a frightening rate all over the globe, and the Arctic is no exception. On the contrary, with the climate there warming so much faster than the global average, Arctic biodiversity is under terrific pressure. As a contribution to halting the loss of biodiversity, the Arctic Council initiated the Arctic Biodiversity Assessment, consulting scientists on what could be done to alleviate pressures on Arctic biodiversity. The report gives an overview of the stress factors putting Arctic biodiversity and suggests possible actions to enhance biodiversity conservation.
The authors stress that there are substantial gaps in our knowledge of Arctic biodiversity. There is a huge need for continuing research.
Climate change is clearly a major problem. Melting ice, melting permafrost, warmer ocean – clearly such changes to some of the defining factors influence living conditions for flora and fauna too. With warming paradoxically making it easier to indulge in activities in the far north which could exacerbate climate change even further, the situation is complex and the time pressure huge.
Reports of this kind are usually very hard to read. I must commend the authors for the online presentation of this one. It's divided into readable chapters and has some spectacular pictures. Some were taken by Lars Holst Hansen at Zackenberg, Greenland. I met and interviewed Lars at Zackenberg Station in north-eastern Greenland in 2009. The radio feature I made at that time is still very relevant and describes work at the remote research station, which monitors a wide range of environmental parameters, including of course, lots of biodiversity.
LISTEN: Changing Arctic, Changing World: Greenland's Changing Climate.
I went counting musk oxen with Lars while I was at the station. One of his photos of the "big hairy beasties" is actually being used on a stamp incidentally. Congratulations Lars for the brilliant picture and for this contribution to spreading the word about the need to protect the fragile Arctic environment and its biodiversity.
DateMay 22, 2013 | 1:36 pm
TagsArctic, Biodiversity, Climate, ice, permafrost, sea ice, wildlife, Zackenberg
Arctic Council disappoints Greenpeace,WWF
Environment ngos have expressed disappointment at the outcome of the Arctic Council meeting in Kiruna on May 15th. Too little action and too slow, seems to be the consensus.
Alexander Shestakov, Director of WWF's Global Arctic Programme said: "We are disappointed that the Council is not moving faster to address such urgent issues as preventing oil spills, and reducing the impacts of regional and global climate change." Shestakov says the issues have been placed on the "back burner" for two years, and "the pace of change in the Arctic does not allow for a two year time-out."
Greenpeace International senior policy advisor Ruth Davis said: "Throughout this meeting, the evidence from scientists and Indigenous Peoples has highlighted the devastating impacts of our fossil fuel addiction on the Arctic. Yet the Council seems in the thrall of business interests wishing to extract more oil and gas, whatever the costs to local people, wildlife and the future health of the planet".
- Endangered species
Oil spill response
An oil spill response agreement was officially signed at the Kiruna meeting. WWF has official observer status and was involved in drafting the agreement. The organisation says it "will be watching to ensure that the agreement is effectively implemented".
Greenpeace (whose request for observer status was turned down at the meeting) is highly critical of the "Cooperation on Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness and Response in the Arctic Agreement", signed in Kiruna. Greenpeace says "it includes no specific practical minimum standards that governments must adhere to, and has no provisions to hold companies liable for the full costs and damages of a spill should one occur". Greenpeace had leaked the draft document back in February, saying it was "disappointingly weak".
Black carbon
The other key issue environmentalists would like to have seen progress on is black carbon or soot. WWF says Russia blocked negotiations on an agreement to tackle black carbon, which is produced by burning diesel and other fuels and is blamed for increasing the melting of Arctic ice and snow.
Greenpeace sees a wide gap between the "firm recommendations from its (Arctic Council's) own scientists based on the Council-commissioned reports on ocean acidification and the impact of climate change on biodiversity", and the "lack of any meaningful action". That gap between evidence and recommendations from scientists and real political action, it seems to me, becomes even clearer looking at the wider cause of climate change in the Arctic and around the globe – human-made emissions of greenhouse gases. Without rapid action from the main emitters (one is a member of the Arctic Council, another has just been given observer status), it seems more than likely the Arctic as we know it will not exist for much longer. As I have written here before – "you can't have your ice and melt it". Can you?
DateMay 17, 2013 | 2:29 pm
TagsArctic, Arctic Council, Climate, Emissions, Greenpeace, ice, Oil, WWF
Arctic melt worries UN and White House
The UN weather agency WMO (World Meteorological Organisation) has confirmed that the Arctic's sea ice melted at a record pace in 2012, the ninth-hottest year on record. With just 3.4 million square kilometres (1.32 million square miles) during the August to September melting season, the sea ice cover was a full 18 percent less than the previous low set in 2007. The WMO's Secretary-General Michel Jarraud said this was a "disturbing sign of climate change", and pointed to the link between climate change and extreme weather events.
Meanwhile, a special briefing was called at the White House to discuss the possibility of the Arctic becoming ice free in the summer within just TWO years. Nafeed Ahmed, director of the "Institute for Policy Research & Development" headlines his post for the "Guardian": "White House warned on imminent Arctic ice death spiral". He describes the meeting, including NASA's acting chief scientist Gale Allen, the director of the Department of Homeland Security and the Pentagon as "the latest indication that US officials are increasingly concerned about the international and domestic security implications of climate change".
10 Arctic specialists were called in to advise the US government, including marine scientist Professor Carlos Duarte, currently director of the Oceans Institute at the University of Western Australia. I met and interviewed Prof. Duarte back in 2011 at the Arctic Frontiers conference, when he worked with the Spanish Council for Scientific Research. At that time, he was already calling for urgent action and warning of the danger of "climate tipping points", including the melt of the Arctic sea ice. His conclusions are based on research which was presented in an article in Nature Climate Change last year.
The West Australian newspaper quotes Prof. Duarte as saying the "snowballing situation would prove as hard to slow down as a runaway train". He told the paper the ice melt was accelerating faster than any of the models could predict, and the prospect of an Arctic Ocean free of ice had been brought forward to 2015, compared with a prediction in 2007 that at least a third of the normal sea ice extent would remain in summer in 2100. When I spoke to him in 2011, the US navy was already assuming a date of 2050 and Duarte said he expected it to be even earlier.
Professor Carlos Duarte on Arctic Tipping Points
Prof Duarte also warned of the increasing danger of melting methane. Let me quote a little from the interview:
DUARTE: "We know from the history of ice covering the planet along geological time scales that ice is strongly a non-linear element in the earth's system. It's one of the components that show very rapid, very abrupt changes and tipping points. So we expect that once the ice will be lost quickly from the Arctic and also from the shelves in Greenland, then other forces will be set in motion, and many forces will be set in motion by loss of ice. One of them is the release of methane hydrates from the shallow continental shelves, mostly around Siberia, and those are molecules of methane that are trapped into ice in the sediments of the continental shelves and in the permafrost on land. So if this ice melts, this methane can be released abruptly and suddenly. And deposits of methane trapped in the shallow sediments of the Arctic amount to about five times the greenhouse power that humans have set in motion through burning fossil fuels. So if this five times what we have released in 150 years is released within a few years, that would be detrimental to the climate system and it could lead to a very rapid warming, and could again set in motion other forces like increased freshwater discharge to the Arctic, which has already increased by 30 percent. And this involves a greater export of fresh water and buoyancy to the Atlantic, which may affect global circulation and global currents, and those in turn will affect regional climates also further south to the sub-Arctic region. Also, warmer temperatures are leading to dieback of the boreal forest and also the peat deposits in the boreal region are drying up to the extent that they can catch fire."
(IRENE QUAILE: How close are we?)
DUARTE: "We very much know what the threshold and the tipping point for the release of methanes will be, because the methane is kept in the hydrates, deposits in the salty sediments by ice, frozen sediments, and we know the freezing point of salty sediments may be around minus 1 degree. So when the temperature of water in the summer goes well above freezing point, the hydrates will defrost and the methane will be released. So what we need to monitor is the temperature of the shallow waters in the Siberian shelf and other shallow waters in the Arctic, in the Canadian region as well, and see how close they're getting to temperatures of 3 and 4 degrees, which will be those that will lead to melting of the hydrates."
Scary? The interview, it seems, is as relevant as ever, the Professor's warnings more urgent. I wonder what it feels like to be called in to the White House to brief the government of a country that is both a key player in the Arctic and a top emitter of the greenhouse gases that are causing the melt? On the one hand it must be satisfying for the scientists to know they are finally being heard. But there must also be some frustration about the extent of dangerous climate change that had to be set in motion first. Has the Arctic ice already reached a "tipping point"?
Let me close with another quote from that interview with Carlos Duarte:
DUARTE: "Unfortunately society is much more mobilised by opportunities than by risks. So the discourses and warnings of risks actually almost lead to inaction by society, whereas the sight of opportunities encourages society to set themselves in motion. So the opportunities for economic growth in the Arctic have dominated the discourse and the actions by society and policy makers. Those opportunities are new navigation routes across the Arctic, and the exploitation of oil, gas and fisheries, that were not accessible just a few years ago. The paradox in this is that the Arctic countries recognise that the forces that are improving access to these resources is actually climate change and that the reason for this climate change is the burning of fossil fuels by humans. Arctic nations themselves are responsible for 26% of the release of these greenhouse gases and are taking advantage of these opportunities, which will involve greater emissions of greenhouse gases. (…) I think there should be a balance between the economic growth these opportunities could bring about and the economic losses, they may bring about, which I don't think have been quantified."
DateMay 6, 2013 | 1:54 pm
Why a new "Arctic Circle" Forum?
While working on a story about the Arctic Council in the run-up to its next meeting in May, I was greatly interested by the announcement that there is to be a new global forum called the Arctic Circle. Iceland's President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, made the announcement this week at an event held by the National Press Club in Washington. On the Arctic Circle website, the new organization is described as "nonprofit and nonpartisan". The mission is "to facilitate dialogue and build relationships to confront the Arctic's greatest challenges. We aim to strengthen the decision-making process by bringing together as many Arctic and international partners as possible under one large 'open tent'. By facilitating circumpolar meetings of leaders across disciplines, we will identify truly sustainable development practices for the Arctic, the world's last pristine environment".
The background, of course, is the opening of the Arctic to shipping and commercial exploitation because of climate change. The organisers say the new open forum will help raise the profile of Arctic issues worldwide and discuss solutions "in a frank and collaborative manner".
I met President Grimsson in January in what at first sight might appear an unusual location – the Gulf emirate of Abu Dhabi.
We live in an ice-dependent world, says Iceland's President
He actually has close ties to the emirate, and was there for "sustainability week" and the World Future Energies Forum. He explained to me then his interest in making it clear that the Arctic is not just of significance to the High North region and the countries around it, but the planet as a whole. So I am not surprised that he is spearheading an attempt to open the region to the influence of other countries. Iceland has also been conducting a lot of negotiations with China, including a new free trade agreement announced by the President this week. As reported on the Ice Blog and DW before, China is increasingly interested in getting a foothold in the Arctic.
See China's Arctic ambitions spark concern
Grimsson told Thomson Reuters the new forum was needed because "while most countries have a stake in the melting of Arctic ice, only eight – Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States – are members of the Arctic Council". The intergovernmental group was established in 1996.
China, India and Singapore are amongst the non-Arctic states seeking observer status on the Arctic Council at a meeting to be held in Sweden next month. The new "Arctic Circle", on the other hand, would be open to anybody: "concerned citizens, representatives of ngos, scientists, researchers alongside governments and corporations."
The first meeting of the new forum will be held in Iceland in October. It remains to be seen who will sign up and how influential it will turn out to be. The formation of the group shows the Arctic's rising significance on the international agenda. The question is which forum will turn out be the best placed to effectively protect the sensitive ecosystems and traditional lifestyles of indigenous groups in the Arctic at the time when international commercial interest is growing steadily. And with the burning of fossil fuels continuing to exacerbate climate change and no progress being made towards reducing emissions – who is to mediate in the conflict between those who want to profit from exploiting oil and gas resources in The Arctic and those who want to stop using it and shift to climate-friendly renewables? There are those who would like to do both. But as the saying goes, "you can't have your cake and eat it" – or maybe you can't have your ice and melt it?
DateApril 19, 2013 | 2:25 pm
TagsArctic, Arctic Circle, Arctic Council, China, ice, Iceland
Antarctic Peninsula is thawing faster
Ice in parts of the Antarctic Peninsula is now melting during the summer faster than at any time during the last thousand years, according to new research results. The scientists have reconstructed changes in the intensity of ice-melt, and the mean temperature on the northern Antarctic Peninsula since AD 1000, based on the analysis of ice cores.
According to the study, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, the coolest conditions and lowest melt occurred from about AD 1410 to 1460, when mean temperature was 1.6 °C lower than that of 1981–2000. Since the late 1400s, there has been a nearly tenfold increase in melt intensity from 0.5 to 4.9%. The warming has occurred in progressive phases since about AD 1460, but the melting has intensified, and has largely occurred since the mid-twentieth century. The study concludes that "ice on the Antarctic Peninsula is now particularly susceptible to rapid increases in melting and loss in response to relatively small increases in mean temperature".
Paul Brown of Climate News Network says the findings explain a series of sudden collapses of ice shelves in the last 20 years, which scientists studying them had not expected. He also quotes the researchers as saying the current melting could lead to "further dramatic events, making the loss of large quantities of ice on the Peninsula more likely, and adding to sea level rise".
The study is also of interest against the background of the debate going on over the last 20 years on whether the Antarctic would gain mass through extra snow falling and so REDUCE sea level rise, or would lose ice because of higher sea and air temperature and so exacerbate the effect.
The scientists use a 364-metre ice core from James Ross Island to get in insight into both past temperatures and ice melt. Layers in the core show periods when summer snow on the ice cap thawed and then refroze. By measuring the thickness of the layers, they could tell how the history of the melting related to changes in temperature at the site over the last thousand years.
Lead author Dr. Nerilie Abram of the Australian National University and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) said: "Summer melting at the ice core site today is now at a level that is higher than at any other time over the last 1,000 years. And whilst temperatures at this site increased gradually in phases over many hundreds of years, most of the intensification of melting has happened since the mid-20th centrtury.
Dr. Robert Mulvaney from the BAS, who led the drilling expedition and co-authored the paper said: "Having a record of previous melt intensity for the Peninsula is particularly important because of the glacier retreat and ice shelf loss we are now seeing in the area. Summer ice melt is a key process that is thought to have weakened ice shelves along the Antarctic Pensinsula leading to a succession of dramatic collapses, as well as speeding up glacier ice loss across the region over the last 50 years".
The changes on the Antarctic Peninsula do not necessarily apply to other parts of Antarctica, such as the West Antarctic ice Sheet. Melting is also occurring there and could have an even greater risk of large-scale sea level rise.
Paul Brown from Climate News Network notes "it is not clear that the levels of recent ice melt and glacier loss in West Antarctica are exceptional or are caused by human-driven climate changes."
Lead author Abram says: "This new ice core record shows that even small changes in temperature can result in large increases in the amount of melting in places where summer tempearatures are near to 0°C, such as along the Antarctic Peninsula, and this has important implications for ice instability and sea level rise in a warming climate".
I interviewed Andrew Shepherd, Professor of Earth Observation at the British University of leeds, on a major satellite sutdy of the polar ice melt towards the end of last year. It makes interesting listening to complement this latest development:
Interview with Andrew Shepherd
See also:
Polar ice sheets melting faster than ever
Are warming seas changing the Antarctic ice?
Photo gallery: High season for Antarctic researchers
DateApril 16, 2013 | 12:43 pm


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Cardiac catheterization (heart cath) is the insertion of a catheter into a chamber or vessel of the heart. This is done both for diagnostic and interventional purposes. Subsets of this technique are mainly coronary catheterization, involving the catheterization of the coronary arteries, and catheterization of cardiac chambers and valves of the Cardiac System.
"Cardiac catheterization" is a general term for a group of procedures that are performed using this method, such as coronary angiography and left ventricle angiography. Once the catheter is in place, it can be used to perform a number of procedures including angioplasty, PCI (percutaneous coronary intervention) angiography, balloon septostomy, Electrophysiology study or catheter ablation.
This technique has several goals:
Catheterization of cardiac chambers and valves may be performed at the same time as a coronary catheterization, and may also involve nearby major vessels, such as the aorta. It is the main method of cardiac ventriculography (another being radionuclide ventriculography, whose use has largely been replaced by echocardiography).
It has the ability to measure the pressure gradient across a valve and derive valve area from it. Thereby, it can assist in diagnosis of, for example, aortic stenosis.[1]
This is also the procedure used in balloon septostomy, which is the widening of a foramen ovale, patent foramen ovale (PFO), or atrial septal defect (ASD) using a balloon catheter.
The history of cardiac catheterization dates back to Claude Bernard (1813-1878), who used it on animal models. Clinical application of cardiac catheterization begins with Werner Forssmann in the 1930s, who inserted a catheter into the vein of his own forearm, guided it fluoroscopically into his right atrium, and took an X-ray picture of it. Forssmann won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for this achievement, though hospital administrators removed him from his position owing to his unorthodox methods. During World War II, André Frédéric Cournand, a professor at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons who also shared the Nobel Prize, and his colleagues developed techniques for left and right heart catheterization.


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58% of parents talk to their kids about news and current events
Video: Parents discuss the importance of education reform
Kate Snow: Is anybody using election coverage as a teaching tool with your kids?
Jason: My son's 8. He's starting to ask questions about politics, but he frames them like an 8-year-old. He'll ask, "Are those the bad guys, Dad?" That's my biggest challenge, explaining to him that this is why we're voting. It doesn't make some people bad.
Kate Snow: On Parenting's Facebook page, Marisa A. wrote, "How do we teach our kids to cooperate when the grown-ups in government can't?" Do you share that same frustration?
Anna: We should be teaching our children that it's OK to disagree with somebody. They should stand up for what they believe, but be accepting and respectful of other people's views.
Kelly: My oldest daughter has come home from school and repeated things that her teachers said that definitely skew liberal. I'll tell her, "Well, that's one view, but here's another view." I've even written down questions for her to take to school and ask the teachers. It was great because at the end of the year, she had this one teacher, the most awesome guy ever. I probably picked on him the most. We had a nice long conversation, and he enjoyed all her questions.
42% say "The quality of my children's lives will be better than ours"
Aileen: I'm confident that my kids will have a great future. It's the rest of the country I'm worried about.


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Just wanted to give Envato a heads up!
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Just for the heads-up, lol
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