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Timothy J. Rinker, 69, of 344 North Shore Road, Cuba Lake, passed away unexpectedly Thursday (June 27, 2013) at home.
Born on Feb. 11, 1944, in Cuba, N.Y., he was a son of Howard Streator and Margaret Harris Rinker. On July 3, 1965, at Our Lady of Angels Church he married the former Janice E. Boyd, who survives.
Tim was a graduate of Cuba Central School, Class of 1965. He then graduated from St. Bonaventure University with a BBA in Business.
After college, Tim began working for the family oil business, Rinker Oil Corp. He worked in every aspect of the business, but retired as the President and Owner of Rinker Oil Corp in 2011 after 53 years. It was a job he truly enjoyed and loved working with his customers and employees.
Tim was a loving husband and father. He loved sharing with people how proud he was of his daughters and their families. When his daughters were young, he attended their sporting events, never missing a game. Cuba was a very important part of Tim's life and he quite often spoke of Cuba's history, telling of days past. He enjoyed his tours of Cuba Lake, both by car and by pontoon boat. He was a true supporter of what Cuba had to offer. After retiring, he loved playing cards, especially bridge. He will be remembered for having a catch phrase for everything.
Tim was an avid St. Bonaventure Men's Basketball fan, holding season tickets for many years.
He was a member of Our Lady of Angels Church and a former member of the St. Vincent DePaul Society. He was a current member of the Elks Lodge # 1495 of Wellsville. He was a past member and president of the Cuba Rotary Club, receiving the Paul Harris Fellowship Award for his service. He was instrumental in forming the Cuba-Rushford Alumni Association and was proud to serve as its first president. He had also served on the Village of Cuba Board for 12 years, was deputy mayor, and in 1992 received the Cuba Chamber of Commerce's Award for Man of the Year. He also was a former member of the Bolivar and Wellsville Country Clubs.
Surviving in addition to his wife are: Mary Kathryn (Jerome) Scherzinger of Fairmont, W.Va., Jacquelyn (Steven) Torsoe of Montebello, N.Y., Joanne (Aaron) Dozier of Fort Worth, Texas, Elizabeth (Jon) Zimmerman of Cuba; his grandchildren, Kathryn and Jacob Scherzinger, Kirsten and Kendra Torsoe and Bailey and Kinsey Dozier; His Sister, Kay Lee Bradley Joiner of Cuba; and Many Nieces Nephews and Cousins.
Friends will be received at the Mark F. Rinker Funeral Home & Memorial Service, Inc., 9 Bull Street, Cuba, N.Y., on Saturday (June 29, 2013) from 6-8 p.m. and on Sunday (June 30, 2013) from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Monday (July 1, 2013) at 11 a.m. in Our Lady of Angels Church, 50 South Street, Cuba. Fr. Dennis Mancuso will be the celebrant.
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Burial will be in Our Lady of Angels Cemetery, Cuba.
Memorials, if desired, may be sent to Our Lady of Angels Church, the Allegany County Area Foundation, the Cuba Rushford Alumni Association or to a charity of the donor's choice.
Online condolences may be sent at www.rinkerfuneralhome.com.
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PORT ARANSAS — Look for the pink neon "G." That's what Jane Santa Maria and Jerry Gnazzo tell their friends who cruise the city marina to find their house.
The Gnazzos first visited Port A in 2000 from New England to check out the opportunities for land development.
"We couldn't believe the available land and the prices," Jane said.
They moved to San Antonio and struck a deal on some coastal property and developed The Moorings townhomes located across from the Arnold Palmer Signature Golf Course.
After commuting between San Antonio and Port Aransas for several years, the Gnazzos rented a house until their waterfront home on West Cotter Avenue was rebuilt. They moved in 2004.
The dated home lacked color, style, a front door and didn't take advantage of the view.
"So we squared the house off and moved the living space up," Jerry said.
"We've done so many houses we knew what we wanted," Jane said. "We wanted color, somewhat of a beach style, contemporary and lots of light."
A front door was high on the list of priorities, too. They hired architect Rick Labunski of Harlingen to hammer out the plans, Bill Gavit to build it and interior designer Susan Castor to furnish the pad.
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Bahama-style maize shutters canopy the windows on the home's pale blue exterior. Its row house design positions the windows where it counts — on the front and back of the three-story home. Window space isn't wasted on the sides, because its sits close between two houses.
Reducing the three-car garage to two created space for Jane's much-wanted front door entrance. French doors open to Italian porcelain floors and pale blue-gray walls expressing love for art. The Gnazzos share an office space on the first floor, complete with a harbor view, a full bath, a kitchen and a Murphy bed between bookshelves for guestroom overflow.
Tan Berber carpet softens steps to the second floor where sleeping quarters swim in a pale yellow wall color and baths are detailed in glass tile work.
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On the second-floor landing, a small coffee bar with lighted glass cabinets displays blue and green stemware. An iridescent glass tile back-splash made from recycled glass, a sleek granite counter and custom white cabinets with slender metal handles stretch down the hallway.
The master suite achieves ultimate functionality and style with minimal flair. Pocket doors between the master suite and sitting area close off the space for watching a built-in TV. Through walk-in closet, another pocket door splits the master bath with a connecting guest room to share its sea-green recycled glass tile counters.
Pale blue walls surround the master suite highlighted with a white, low profile platform bed framed with a bench-like headboard shaped with end tables. Coral and teal palm print bedding adds a punch of color, but not enough to compete with the harbor view.
Kitchen that cooks
The pinnacle of the home's decor is reserved at the top where Brazilian cherry wood floors grace a jaw-dropping kitchen, an elegant dining area and a sophisticated living room.
A half-moon granite counter with a beadboard dressed base is the kitchen's heart with a near-25 foot cupola with windows breathing in natural light.
White cabinets with sleek metal hardware crafted by The Hoffman Company line walls extended throughout the three spaces. A glass tile back-splash depicts waves with glass fish figures swimming against the mosaic surface.
The dining area arches to a cathedral ceiling decked in white wainscot. Gold- colored slip covers dress the armchairs as teal rimmed china with a shrimp pattern makes a whimsical presentation at the dining table.
Glowing above the dining room wall's pitch, the pink neon "G" signals boating friends to the Gnazzos' nest.
"It was a housewarming gift from a friend, Jerry Johnson," Jerry said. "He saved it from The Granada movie theater's marquis in Brooklyn before it was demolished."
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Lots of stuff to discuss in this week's installment of the Firewall & Iceberg Podcast.
Don't worry, we talk about HBO's "Game of Thrones" for a long time at the end of the podcast. But we also cover the return of "Law & Order: Los Angeles" (with some spoilers), the premieres of "Happy Endings" and "The Paul Reiser Show," the NBC premiere of the final season of "Friday Night Lights" plus the "Burn Notice" telefim "The Fall of Sam Axe."
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I rushed into my favorite book, Oracle Database Licensing Information – 11g Release 1. Guess what? We now have 4 new opportunities to do business with Oracle. I still miss the price list. As if you could look at a new Release without the price ;)
It would not have been fair to show how Oracle 11g optimizer can now re-parse a query based on the execution statistics associated with a bind value compared to the previous executions of the same query with different bind values. It would not have been fair, to show you that without showing what happens when the second execution is faster that the first one, even with a sub optimal plan. This is what I'll do now !
Basically, what is done in the example below it the opposite of what I've done in my previous post.
The example in this post is intended to be use as a demonstration of the new bind peeking algorithm of 11g. You'll have to understand how it works before screaming! If it significantly enhances the behavior of the optimizer, I'll show you in a next post it also has its own drawbacks, you'll have to overcome…
To avoid being too far behind you guys that are already upgrading to 11g, I've decided to invest on 11g during the Beta Program. This has been a lot of fun and I wish I can share some of my findings with you. For example, did you know that 11g can go faster without any change at all ? The queries here will illustrate the change made to the Nested Loop Algorithm in 11g :
Thanks to Jeremy Schneider for quick info that Oracle 11g is available for download on OTN.
Now for some logrolling at its finest. I thought I'd try to help Sheeri, the MySQL She-BA, spread the word about the 21st episode of her OurSQL podcast as it is the second of a two-part interview with Pythian pres. Paul Vallée. The topic is, "The Rise of the MySQL DBA."
I am sad to report that my RSS feed for oracle-wtf definitely made me say WTF! but not in a good way. Actually visiting the site confirmed my suspicion, it's been hi-jacked by a splogger.
The 56th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly compendium of database blogs, has been published on Hasan Tongu Yilmaz's Oracle Blog.
Yes, I know, this subject of detailed extent map of the datafiles is a rather old one, and a few different solutions have been provided by several professionals, including the famous Tom Kyte. But none of the answers I found did exactly what I wanted, and therefore, I chose to write my own solution. OEM does provide this, but for a price — the Tablespace Map is part of the Oracle Tuning Pack — and I like the free stuff and the extra flexibility I have using queries.
come from a MySQL background, and I have been given the challenge of learning Oracle. So I decided to install my own Oracle database, which I'll be free to destroy in every way I can think of… and of course, free to bring it back to life. Recovering from crashes will probably be the most difficult part of my adventures in the Oracle world, but let's take one step at a time, shall we? This tutorial was based on a document which can be found here. I have adapted it for Oracle 11g.


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Offshore Energy exhibit visits Sandston's Donahoe Elementary
The Offshore Energy Center (OEC), based in Houston, Tex., yesterday brought its Mobil Oilfield Learning Unit (MOLU) to Donahoe Elementary School in Sandston. Students from both Donahoe and Sandston Elementary School took part in the exhibit sessions.
The MOLU is aimed at providing elementary and intermediate school children with opportunities to become interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) through the six self-contained components with curriculum-based, hands-on learning activities about earth science and energy topics.
The exhibit, geared for fifth-grade students, allows both teachers and students to be active participants.
"This is a great opportunity for us to show tomorrow's leaders the great benefits of accessible energy," said Michael Ward, executive director of the Virginia Petroleum Council. "New energy sources will continue to be explored and evaluated, and there is so much untapped potential in offshore drilling that we need to educate our youth so they can be better educated and prepared to make decisions which will affect their, and in many cases their children's, futures."
Studies have indicated the U.S. needs to increase the number of students pursuing careers in STEM. If there is no increase in these fields, projections indicate a future shortage of mathematicians, scientists and engineers in the U.S.
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Holman student named Miss Va. Coed Junior Teen
Holman Middle School student Victoria Nguyen recently was named Miss Virginia American Coed Junior Teen after competing in the Miss Virginia American Coed pageant in Williamsburg. She was the youngest competitor in her division. Nguyen now will advance to represent Virginia at the 2015 Miss American Junior Teen Pageant at Walt Disney World in Florida in November. > Read more.
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CAT Theatre's final show of its 51st season – Quartet by Ronald Harwood – will open May 22 and run through June 6. It will be the show's Richmond-area premiere.
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Granger, Ind., Nov 25, 2011 (CNA) - For Jerry and Lillian Smith of Granger, Ind., a recent September visit to see Jerry's brother, Holy Cross Father Tom Smith, in East Africa, is something they will not soon forget.
Fr. Smith is a missionary priest living in Kitete, Tanzania. The Smiths, parishioners of Sacred Heart Crypt Parish, Notre Dame, also visited Uganda and Kenya.
"Much poverty exists in East Africa," said Jerry Smith in an email to Today's Catholic. "Missionaries there work with poverty-stricken families and are truly performing a wonderful service for these children of God."
Despite the problems, however, the Smiths observed that those in poverty seem to be very happy people.
Smith said the prominent religion among the Christians is Catholicism.
"Churches are often full on Sundays and feast days with women and children and a few men," Smith noted. "Many of the men do not attend liturgies, which usually last for around two hours on Sundays."
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There is nothing that he is aware of in the United States, which can even come close to comparing how bad the dirt- and clay-based roads in East Africa actually are.
Traffic, especially in the cities, can be horrendous. "There are vehicles, motor bikes, bicycles, animals and people all competing for space on many of the roads," Smith added. "Virtually all of those in severe poverty walk everywhere as they have no money to purchase other means of transportation."
Smith said most of the impoverished live off of the land and their animals.
"You see cattle, sheep and chickens everywhere, with many families owning one or a few cows or sheep, often tied down on the side of the roads," he said. "They try to fatten the cattle and sheep up and then sell them. They cannot eat them as they have no means of refrigeration."
He added, "Very often you also see young boys or men shepherding flocks of cattle and/or sheep, which they are moving along the roadsides and pastures, trying to find grass for them to eat. Driving around them can be very tricky as they often make their way on the roads."
Farming is another business frequently labored by those in poverty, Smith noted. Banana groves, charcoal, coffee, tea, chickpea, corn, wheat and various other grains are raised in several of the countries wherever conditions are favorable for growing. Water can be extremely scarce and is a real concern for many who are attempting to farm and grow crops during the dry seasons.
Smith, who has been speaking to members of the Serra Club and religious within the Congregation of Holy Cross, offered the following recommendation: "All who can afford to travel to impoverished areas in East Africa should do so, especially those of us who have been given much in material gifts by Our Lord."
"It is so moving to experience the life styles of those living in poverty in Africa, to see how happy these people appear to be and how warm and loving they are," Smith said. "They have so little in material things and yet seem to be so much at peace with their life's burdens. One has to wonder whether in the whole scheme of life they really are the more fortunate children of God."
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US religious freedom commission granted brief extension
Washington D.C., Nov 25, 2011 (CNA) - A federal commission that advocates for religious freedom around the world has been given a four-week reprieve from closing its doors on Nov. 18.
Funding for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom was included in a "minibus" spending bill to fund the federal government through Dec. 16, amid continuing budget-reducing negotiations.
The bill was approved by the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on Nov. 17 and signed into law the next day by President Barack Obama.
Originally set to expire at the end of September, funding for the commission had already been extended through Nov. 18. At that date, the commission would have come to an end if Congress had not approved continued funding for another four weeks.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom now hopes for a Senate vote on a separate reauthorization bill to prevent it from going out of existence on Dec. 16.
In September, the House of Representatives voted 391 to 21 to approve a bill that would extend funding of the commission for two more years.
However, the process came to a halt in the Senate when a single anonymous senator reportedly placed a "hold" on the bill, preventing it from coming to a vote. The reasons for the hold were not disclosed.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom was originally created by Congress in 1998 to promote religious freedom by calling attention to religious persecution in countries around the world.
The independent, bipartisan commission advises the president, Congress and the State Department on the status of religious freedom overseas.
It presents an annual report on religious freedom around the world and recommends the designation of "countries of particular concern" for nations that tolerate "particularly severe" violations of religious liberty.
The U.S. bishops, observing the importance of religious freedom as a foundation for other human rights, have urged the Senate to reauthorize the commission.
Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., chair of the bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace, called in an Oct. 27 letter for the work of the commission to be continued.
"Ongoing attacks against Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East and in other parts of the world point to the need to pay more, not less, attention to religious freedom," he said.
Abolishing the commission, Bishop Hubbard argued, would send the unintended message "that the United States is not committed to the protection of religious liberty."
Critic points out media bias against adult stem cells
Seattle, Wash., Nov 25, 2011 (CNA) - After researchers in California called off a major U.S. embryonic stem cell study, a legal expert says that most major news outlets have given zero coverage to the far superior benefits of adult stem cells.
"Since embryonic stem cells were first derived, the media has told a materially unbalanced story," said Wesley J. Smith, a lawyer and senior fellow at the Discovery Institute's Center on Human Exceptionalism.
Smith said in a Nov. 23 interview with CNA that successful adult stem cell clinical trials "have either been ignored totally, or generally underplayed as story after story has claimed adult approaches offer more limited benefits than embryonic."
His remarks come as the California-based biopharmecuetical company Geron announced on Nov. 18 that it has dropped a widely publicized embryonic stem cell research study.
Geron said that the FDA-approved study, which began in 2009 in attempt to treat spinal chord injuries, would have to end due to "capital scarcity."
Fr. Tomasz Trafny, a member of the Vatican's Council for Culture, said the move shows how companies are beginning to see that it's "not worth it to invest money, energy," and "human potentiality" in embryonic stem cell research.
The decision by Geron to end its study is significant "because they publicly acknowledge that that they don't see any significant improvements in that research," he told CNA on Nov. 23.
Fr. Trafny said the shut down is also important because "it shows that those who focused on adult stem cells were right not only because of potential clinical applications but also from ethical point of view."
The priest is a key player in the Vatican's recent and unprecedented contract with NeoStem, a public firm pioneering new medical research with adult stem cells.
He noted that stem cells are the body's master cells from which all of the body's 200-plus types of tissue ultimately grow. Their versatility allows for potential in providing replacement tissue to treat countless illnesses and disorders.
However, despite the widespread advances of adult stem cell research as a potential cure, Wesley argued that media coverage on the topic has been scarce if not non-existent.
"No one forced editors and reporters to ignore the press releases and published studies that described the ongoing and very encouraging adult stem cell successes. They simply usually chose to overplay embryonic and underplay adult stem cell research in their reporting."
Smith believes that a contributing factor to this is that the media generally view issues through a political or religious lens.
He said that "disdain for pro-life views" as well as "anti-Catholic" sentiments can impact a particular news outlet's analysis "of what constitutes an important story."
"The media are particularly biased on 'cultural' issues and the embryonic stem cell controversy fits right in with that paradigm," he added.
Smith said that in order to counteract this dynamic, alternative media "has to keep setting the record straight" and stay factually accurate in their reporting.
"In doing so, it is important that they not engage in the same journalistic malpractice from the other side," he noted. "In other words, stick to the facts and don't engage in the same kind of hype that the pro-embryonic stem cell research media have."
Smith also said it's necessary to remind people "that the field is still young and many of the encouraging adult stem cell successes constitute early experimentation."
"This is important both as a matter of credibility—the double standard that cuts against 'conservative' views may be unfair but it isn't going away—and as an example of what real journalism looks like."
New York priest tipped as next Irish Nuncio
Vatican City, Nov 25, 2011 (CNA) - Monsignor Charles Brown, a 52 year-old New York priest who currently works in the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is rumored to become the Pope's next apostolic nuncio to Ireland.
"If that rumor is true I'd say hallelujah," Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York told CNA Nov. 24.
"What a good guy he is," the archbishop added. "He's a young, vibrant, very theologically savvy but pastorally sensitive guy."
Archbishop Dolan added that Msgr. Brown has "loved in New York" and has "a wonderful pastoral side to him" due to his work in university apostolates.
"So if that rumor is true, then praised be Jesus Christ!"
The news of Msgr. Brown's possible appointment emerged earlier this week following a meeting of the Irish cabinet in Dublin where the Holy See's nomination for a nuncio was discussed and approved. If appointed, Msgr. Brown would replace Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza who was reassigned to the Czech Republic in September.
It is widely recognized that relations between the Holy See and Ireland are currently at their lowest point since the two states established diplomatic relations in 1929.
Earlier this month, Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore announced the closure of Ireland's embassy to the Holy See after 82 years. His claim that the decision was taken solely on economic grounds was met with skepticism by many leading Irish Catholics.
The decision to close the embassy followed harsh words spoken against the Catholic Church in July by Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny in the Dublin parliament. Prime Minister Kenny accused the Vatican of attempting to "frustrate an inquiry" into clerical abuse in the Diocese of Cloyne, County Cork.
The Vatican rejected this accusation and a spokesperson for the Prime Minister later confirmed that he had not been referring to any specific incident. Prime Minister Kenny has yet to withdraw his remarks or issue an apology.
Irish-Vatican relations could face hope, however, with the possible appointment of a new nuncio.
A native of New York, Msgr. Brown studied history at the University of Notre Dame before going on to study theology at Oxford and medieval studies at the University of Toronto. He also has a doctorate in sacramental theology from the Pontifical University of Saint Anselm in Rome.
Since 1994 he has been an official at the Congregation for the Doctrine for the Faith where he worked closely with Cardinal Ratzinger—now Pope Benedict—up until 2005. The congregation is also the Vatican body that deals most closely with issue of clerical abuse.
Those who have worked with Msgr. Brown say he is much loved in the Roman curia and have described him as a good and holy man. Over many years, Msgr. Brown has given up much of his spare time—including holidays—to work with Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity in some of the poorest parts of the world.
Given his position as a Vatican official, Msgr. Brown has given few media interviews during his many years in Rome. However, in 2008 he spoke with a female Canadian journalist who described him as "handsome, smart, young and funny, with a New Yorker's easy way of keeping his cool."
The Vatican press office has not yet confirmed his appointment but it could be officially announced by the Secretariat of State as early as Nov. 26.


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By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI
By Hadeel Al-Shalchi
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt
The 27-year-old woman and her husband already had three children – all girls. They badly wanted a boy, and she had not conceived in five years, so doctors gave her hormones.
The startling result was healthy septuplets – four boys and three girls – heralded by Egyptian doctors as a miracle. But debate persists about the ethics of fertility treatment in a nation where medical oversight is lax, incubators and neonatal respirators are rare, and many families face pressure to have a son.
In addition, Egypt faces concerns about overpopulation and cheap fertility drugs could lead to a wave of multiple births. President Hosni Mubarak warned in June that growth is hindering Egypt's economy, saying Egypt's population of 79 million – mostly crammed into the 3 percent of the country's area around the Nile River – will double by 2050.
For the mother, Ghazala Khamis, the most pressing question now is how her impoverished family is going to get by.
"I'm really scared," she said, lying in her hospital bed in this Mediterranean coastal city. "We live in a mud hut with only two rooms. I don't know how we're going to afford 10 children now."
Khamis' husband Farag Mohammed Ali, a 31-year-old farm laborer, can find work only a few days a week, she said. "I'm really worried about what the future looks like."
Much about the Aug. 16 birth, by Caesarean section, was stunning. The babies are large for a multiple birth, weighing between 3 pounds 3 ounces and 4 pounds 10 ounces each. The duration of the pregnancy was also the longest ever for septuplets – 34 weeks.
By contrast, the world's first surviving septuplets, born to the McCaughey family in Iowa in 1997, came at 31 weeks, and the biggest baby weighed about the same as Khamis' smallest. There are two other sets of surviving septuplets, both born to Saudi women.
Khamis' doctors waited so long to deliver the babies because Egypt has only a few respirators for newborns, and none were available. So for weeks, doctors kept Khamis in Alexandria's Shatby Maternity University Hospital, letting the fetuses develop enough that their lungs could function on their own after birth. But the wait also increased the risk to the mother.
"We were simply blessed by God that no complication happened. … If there had been a complication, Ghazala would have died," Dr. Mahmoud Meleis, who performed the Caesarean section, told The Associated Press.
After their birth, images on television showed the boys – Mohammad, Kareem, Bilal and Yassin – and girls – Israa, Habiba and Do'a – lying side-by-side in two makeshift incubators, oxygen hoods covering their heads. Four were then whisked by ambulance to two other hospitals because there were not enough incubators at Shatby.
Except for the television images, Khamis has not yet seen all her babies; she has been able to hold and breast-feed only the three at Shatby. Though she was ready to leave days after the birth, she remains hospitalized because she has nowhere to stay in Alexandria, a four-hour drive from her farming village of Ezbat Emara.
Last week, baby girl Habiba and boys Yassin and Mohammed were resting in incubators at Shatby, tiny caps on their heads – red for the boys and lime green for the girl. All were breathing on their own, though Habiba and Yassin wore protective eye patches.
Some Western medical ethicists have questioned the use of fertility drugs by a young woman who already has three children, considering the risk of multiple births.
"This is a medical failure," said Guido Pennings, a professor of fertility ethics at the University of Ghent in Belgium. "You cannot take this risk because of the complications to the mother and the babies."
Pennings, who was not involved in the case, said Khamis' doctors should have been more careful in prescribing fertility drugs to a woman who had already demonstrated she was capable of conceiving.
"Twenty-seven with three children: That woman is fertile," he said. "Even if she had a period of infertility, that's an indication that you should be careful when you stimulate" ovulation.
Some Egyptian doctors are worried that the mix of cheap fertility treatments and Egyptians' eagerness to have many children could lead to more risky multiple pregnancies – which the country's health system cannot handle. Locally made versions of the drugs are government-subsidized and only cost about $7.50 a shot.
There is also pressure on women to produce a son as a point of pride and for financial reasons. Boys help families by working and earning incomes – often at a young age – and they ensure inheritance, since daughters and wives can only inherit a portion of their father's money, and if there are no male children, the bulk goes to the fathers' brothers.
"The important question to ask is why did she want to become pregnant after already having three children," said Hassan Sallam, head of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Alexandria.
"It's because she had three daughters and didn't have a boy. In many parts of Egypt, if she doesn't have a boy, it's as if she didn't have children at all."
Khamis sought fertility treatment five years after her youngest daughter, 5-year-old Rahma, was born because she was having trouble conceiving and wanted a boy, said her doctor, Abdel-Rahim Moussa.
He said he prescribed fertility drugs to stimulate egg production. After five injections, he recommended Khamis and her husband have intercourse.
The doctor said he was stunned when he later found nine heartbeats; he said he couldn't remember whether he did a sonogram to see how many eggs had developed before recommending the couple try to conceive.
"It's just so rare that all the eggs would get fertilized with regular intercourse," he said.
The doctor said he strongly advised Khamis to undergo fetal reduction, in which some fetuses are terminated to ensure the safety of the others and the mother. But he also told her there was the possibility of losing all the fetuses, and Khamis refused. Later, two of the fetuses were lost during the course of the pregnancy.
Although Islam forbids abortion, a recent religious decree by Islamic authorities at the country's main Sunni religious institution, Al Azhar mosque, allows fetal reductions due to the high risk to the mother and babies in a multiple pregnancy.
The real problem, doctors say, is a lack of guidelines in Egypt for fertility treatment and not enough facilities to deal with high- risk pregnancies. There are no restrictions on what fertility treatments or drugs can be given, and Egypt does little enforcement of pharmaceutical purity or standards.
Facilities for the septuplets' birth were poor. The Health Ministry sent incubators that were not sterile, there were not enough for all seven babies and there was no air conditioning in the operating room.
"There are just no rules or protocols for doctors to follow in this country," said Meleis. "Laws will be passed and they are not followed or implemented. No one had any idea what to do when it came to Ghazala's births – it sort of all just happened."
Khamis, meanwhile, is pleading for help for her family. The Health Ministry has pledged milk and diapers for two years, but Khamis says what she really needs is an apartment in Alexandria to be closer to doctors.
In line with some Egyptian traditions, each of the septuplets was given a name on their birth certificates, then a second "nickname."
The children were nicknamed after Mubarak and his family – in hopes of winning government help for the children, the mother's brother, Khamis Khamis said.
Surrounded by family in her sweltering room, a cockroach crawling on the ceiling above her head, Khamis raised her head from a pillow when news came that her husband had named the babies.
"They should have asked me first," she said after hearing the names. "I wanted one to be called Abdel-Rahim," after her doctor.
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Wednesday - 10/26/2011, 7:44pm EDT
Agencies now can order telecommunications integration services under a new contract from the General Services Administration.
GSA awarded 21 companies a spot on the Connections II contract. Under the contract, vendors will provide systems and support for federal buildings and campuses, including telecom equipment, support services and customized solutions. It will let agencies obtain and maintain connectivity from a user's desktop to the point of interconnection with the agencies' network service provider(s), GSA said in the award notice.
Under the 10-year indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract that is worth $5 billion, GSA focused on four specific functional areas:
- Communications and networking
- Building/campus facility preparation
- Operations, administration, and management (OA&M)
- Customer service and technical support
GSA expects Connections II to be available for task orders by the end of the month.
GSA has been working on Connections II since April 2010. GSA needed to replace the original (http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/104535) Connections contract awarded in 2003 to 17 companies, of which half were small businesses.
The awardees under Connections II are:
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- Apptis
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- Avaya Government Solutions
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- CenturyLink
- Concert Technologies
- EPS Corp.
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- General Dynamics IT
- Government Telecommunications Inc.
- Harris IT Services
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"Merriam's chipmunk's calls are distinctive. Perched on top of a stump or rock, the chipmunks vocalize long and vigorously, and the ""chip"" sound is often followed by a burst of sound called a ""terminal pulse."" These chipmunks are usually found below the timberline, at elevations of about 2,300-2,500 m. They nest in holes in the ground, under rocks, or in logs, and occasionally in holes in trees. When they are scampering in trees they jump from branch to branch, using their fluffy tails for balance. Where their range and the range of the California chipmunk overlap, the two may interbreed."
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Does anyone else have a gross taste in their mouth? It is my latest nausea and digestion symptom. It almost taste like their is mold growing in the back of my mouth. EWWW! I wonder if it could be candida/thrush or just an annoying pregnancy symptom?
Admitting I haven't been the best at oral hygiene mostly because it is a trigger for gagging and almost throwing up. Maybe I should pick it up a little.
I don't know what it could be, I would make an appointment with your dentist, but in the mean time, try Listerine, or another mouth wash and see if that helps?
I do have a nasty taste in my mouth too. Had it with my last pregnancy. Try chewing gum with Xylitol. Cuts down on bacteria.
I haven't been the best at oral hygeine for the same reason, but the gum helps alot.
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Thanks for the tips. I am going to try the xylitol gum. Last night I gargled with salt water and that seemed to help. I also read online about gargaling with baking soda water, I am going to try that too.
Ohh - havent heard that one before. Def gonna try the baking soda too!
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Another suggestion...are you taking prenatal vitamins? some brands leave a bad taste in the mouth, or bad burps. You can try taking the vitamins at night...it could help!
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I get lots of gnarly tasting saliva...I was eating certs for a while which really helped until I realized that they were giving me horrible diarrhea! Oops. I guess it's the fake sugar?
I get the gross taste every time I get morning sickness. I don't know what it is because it's there even after I brush, floss and gargle. I've been religiously keeping up with my dental hygeine because of the taste and it doesn't seem to be helping. Good luck.
i have it too, but for me it tastes like metal and my mouth has so much saliva in it. i feel like i'm constantly swallowing. chewing gum has been helping me, too, but then it makes that much more saliva. ugh!!
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Probably not it, but there is something called metal mouth syndrome that is a kind of allergic reaction to something on pine nuts. Only certain pine nuts cause it in certain people.
I don't have a link for this, but the taste of metal in your mouth is considered a symptom of pregnancy. I get a really bad taste in my mouth a lot, too. I chew gum but only a half piece, or else waaaay too much saliva for me, too. But the weirdest thing about the bad taste in my mouth is sometimes it's as if something suddenly appears in the back of my throat and I kind of cough/choke on it. If I am able to get it out it's like this teeny little off whiteish chunk. It's so gross. One of my friends mentioned this a few years ago, but no one else seems to know what I'm talking about.
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That whitish chunk stuff is sometimes called tonsil stones, they grow in the back of one's throat and are relatively common. I think I saw a thread on them here, but I don't remember where exactly. I get them all the time, whether or not pregnant.
Thank you so much! When I tried to explain it to DF he just looked at me like I was crazy.
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Decommissioning USS Nicholson
December 18, 2002
Commodore Holloway, Captain Harvey, former Commanding Officers, distinguished guests, families, friends, and the Officers and Crew of the Nicholson,
It's always an honor to be asked to speak at a Navy event -- but this is a sad duty --- I didn't expect this day to come so soon. Commissioning the Nicholson was one of the greatest honors in my life and I watched her with pride down through the years, as she was systematically upgraded and was compiling a record the envy of any other ship in the Navy. The Nicholson has held a special place for many of us - most of the commissioning wardroom is here today - and the officer in charge of our fleet introduction team - we have gotten together more often than most, to reminisce over our great days on the Nick and to admire the accomplishments of those who have followed.
It doesn't seem like 23 years plus, but -- time moves on. The Nicholson is a product of the seventies - those were challenging times. The Navy was stretched thin. At the same time the Soviet fleet was growing increasingly aggressive and had embarked on the greatest submarine building program in history. The Spruances were being rolled out to replace an aging surface fleet and to provide new ASW capabilities to counter the new Soviet submarines.
The commissioning crew began to assemble here in Norfolk in 1978 and the ship was commissioned in Pascagoula, Mississippi the following May. Our home port was Charleston. Although it seems like yesterday to me - over half the men and women in the Navy today weren't even born then.
It was the post Vietnam era. The cult movie of that year was "The Deer Hunter" with Robert Deniro and Meryl Streep. It was quite the rage. To our delight, there was an important scene with a toast to a key character -
"To Nick". The hot singing group was the Doobie Brothers - I won't give you a description - ask your parents.
The commissioning was spectacular - a balmy Mississippi spring day - It rained most of the morning but, to everyone's relief, it stopped ? hour before the ceremony - the sun broke out - it was a good omen.
We had appointed the Electronic's Material Officer "Balloon Officer" with the task of releasing "a thousand red, white, and blue balloons" when the pennant went up. There were balloons in nets everywhere on the upper levels. We hadn't planned on a Mississippi gully washer and I can't imagine what would have happened to those balloons in a down pour - so from the get go, as per our motto - "fortune was favoring the brave."
As for me - I lost my voice yelling over the band at the ship's commissioning party which had gone long into the night. I had the new X.O. come over to tell him he would have to read my speech. In typical fashion, he called the new ship's Corpsman and told him that if he had to read that speech, then the Corpsman was dead. The new Corpsman showed up at my room with a glass and said - "drink this and don't say anything until you have to start reading." With the X.O. standing beside me, I delivered the speech. Wouldn't you like to know what was in that stuff? I sure don't!
The commissioning crew was great but very green. The post Vietnam era was a tough recruiting environment for the relatively new "all volunteer force." The Spruance deliveries were being accelerated and the training pipeline was long, due to all the new systems. A Spruance sailor could easily be up for second class having never been to sea.
So when we got underway from Pascagoula, more than half the crew had never been to sea before. Except for trials, I don't think any of us had been to sea on a Spruance.
It was exciting to say the least.
But, as you can see - we made it. And the ship began shake-down leading to Nicholson's first deployment in the fall of 1980. The first wardroom and crew were spectacular. A record score of 95 in refresher training, a Naval gunfire support record, a clean sweep and battle efficiency "E" in her first competitive year. After a lot of deliberation the ship had adopted a bumper sticker which proclaimed that "there's none finer" and it seemed at every turn the crew was determined to prove it.
The first cruise was to the Mediterranean. There were several solid interactions with Soviet submarines as well as one of the first Freedom of Navigation Operations off of Libya. Those operations were a precursor to operation "El Dorado Canyon" - the punitive strikes on Tripoli in 1986. It was also part of the extended operations against various Arab regimes which continue today. Extended operations to which Nicholson has extensively contributed throughout her length of service.
Nicholson returned home from her first cruise in 1981, settling into years of service, which end today.
The Nicholson was a Cold War product - her early service was with the fast Carrier Task Groups operating on the northern and southern flanks of NATO holding strategic Soviet targets at risk. A front line ASW ship capable of mixing it up with a new breed of 2nd generation Soviet submarines the
C,V II's. In those early years, the laudatory messages of Nicholson's ASW prowess were frequent.
The ship became part of the 600 ship Navy of the "80's" ready to surge forward in both Europe and the Pacific to check the Soviet threat. Periodic collisions as the two fleets maneuvered in close proximity - incidents like the downing of the Japanese airliner in the Pacific were indicative of the tension of that period and were constant reminders of a precarious peace.
This was a time when Soviet submarines routinely patrolled off the coast of the United States - but, the Soviet Union was weakening.
Weakening in the face of an unwavering commitment to Peace through Strength - to stay forward and to stay ready for as long as it took. Nicholson was in it all the way. Operations off of Norway, an Arctic Service Ribbon - representatives to the NATO Standing Force - deployments to the Med and by the end of the 80's - 1988 to be exact - the Berlin Wall came down. And the Cold War was ending.
Despite the fact that this ship is a distinguished Cold War Veteran - Nicholson's major contributions lay in the Middle East and South West Asia. The darkening clouds of this continuing unrest began early. The Iranian Hostage Crisis occurred in 1979 not long after commissioning, and this trouble boiled through the 80's as Iran took aggressive actions to interrupt the flow of Middle East oil. By the late 80's the Navy was escorting tankers in the Persian Gulf. These were dangerous times. The "hostile peace" some called it.
The USS Stark was struck by an errant cruise missile. The USS Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine. Ships crews had to be extremely vigilant in a tinder box atmosphere with complex rules of engagement. During this period the Nicholson deployed to the Persian Gulf area three times. The last in 1990 as attention was turning to Iraq and ultimately Desert Storm. Often commended, sound training and alertness, the Nicholson always returned home safely.
The 90's saw four more Nicholson deployments in the Middle East area, as part of Allied quarantine and deterrence operations to hold Saddam Hussein in check in the aftermath of Desert Storm. These operations continue today. During the 1994-1995 time frame, Nicholson received her vertical launcher and SQQ89 upgrades and entered her last years as a fully capable strike platform. This was the type of ship the Navy needed to meet the increasing challenges of regional conflict that we see today. With these awesome new capabilities the Nick was not to disappoint.
In 1999, I was in Norfolk on business and I looked in the newspaper box and there was a picture of the Nicholson returning from deployment - with the headline - "Nicholson Joined Two Air Campaigns". The article went on to explain that the Nicholson had fired multiple Tomahawks against Iraq in December during Operation Desert Fox and then swinging back through the Med 3 months later, was called on again to return and conduct strikes against Kosovo in Yugoslavia during Operation Noble Anvil. The first ship to conduct Tomahawk strikes in two separate theaters in the same cruise.
The commissioning wardroom's twentieth reunion was coming up in just a couple of weeks so you can imagine the surprise when I went into a newsstand and bought all of the newspapers. It was a spectacular accomplishment and we were proud and elated. You had demonstrated what the modern surface combatant was all about. Long endurance - self-sufficiency and a lethal punch - and we could say - "that that was our ship." During those two missions the Nicholson delivered over 40 Tomahawks. Most of all, we were proud of the crew - You were trained - You were ready and - You were there!
During their last deployment in 2001, the Nicholson was called on once again - on the point in the Persian Gulf when the tragic events in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and Pennsylvania occurred - the Nicholson swung into action in Operation Enduring Freedom and conducted a Tomahawk engagement against Taliban and Al Quaeda positions. It was one of the first units to strike back in what will be a long and one of our country's most challenging wars - the War against Terrorism.
All in all, quite a record, and although I've spoken of many exemplary highlights - the Nicholson story is bigger than that. Twenty-three years plus of continuous excellence and readiness - a can do ship - a "we're on the way" ship.
Twelve deployments, five squadron battle E's, three clean sweeps - the Presidential Unit Citation, a Meritorious Unit Commendation, and three combat actions in three separate campaigns.
The Nicholson operated from the Arctic Circle off of Norway to the tip of South America and the Straits of Magellan - although she transited the Suez many times, she was no stranger to the Panama Canal. From these operations in the Pacific to the coast of Pakistan, Nicholson ranged literally over half the world. A record which exemplifies the global presence of the Navy today.
Veterans were buried at sea from these decks, babies were christened in the ships bell, young officers earned their spurs, and many a crew member achieved his quals. When the ESWS program was instituted, the ships hull number on a small tag, was soldered on the back of the insignia. "When you qualified on the Nicholson it meant more." This hull is going out but, the 982 will live on in the hearts of literally thousands of men and women who served in her -- and there were none finer!
In 1978 the magazine Scientific American printed an article on the coming revolution in military warfare - the central point was that precision guided munitions were being developed with single shot lethality which could be delivered from anywhere. The article confidently predicted that this would change warfare forever. And the author was right.
History will record that Nicholson spanned the breadth of this unique period of explosive technical growth:
? Satellite based global positioning to an accuracy of a few feet
? Extraordinary advances in military command and control
? Networked overhead sensors and third party targeting made coordinated attacks with previously unheard of response times almost routine
o Advanced signal processing
o Enormous computer capacity
The Nicholson was commissioned with guns having the same range as her predecessor in World War II and ultimately was delivering long-range land attack cruise missiles over 100's of miles with pinpoint accuracy.
And, as this century - as this millennium was ending, Nicholson was proving just how far the surface Navy had come. The mobility and endurance and the firepower to deliver punitive strikes against our enemies at any place, at any time.
The Captain tells me that with in excess of fifty launches "in anger", Nicholson still ranks as one of the top shooters in the Fleet. I'm confident that those weapons delivered more lethal damage than all the previous Nicholson's combined.
In many ways the Nicholson is a victim of her own success and Sea Power 21, the Navy's new strategy calls for a heavier emphasis on sensors and weapons and with these capabilities there is less emphasis on platforms. Nicholson, through her successful Tomahawk attacks, helped pioneer this strategy.
But, in order to execute this strategy in a time of competing budget priorities, the ships of the Cold War era must go to recapitalize the surface force. -- So the Nicholson has received her final orders - make room.
But, she is making room for a surface community with a bright future. The Navy will always need smaller, resilient, affordable platforms to screen and scout for the heavies. Ships with the distributed firepower and punch so that they will be forces to be reckoned with in their own right. Forces that will slow down, complicate and dilute the efforts of any opposition force that can be dispatched on raids and strikes on their own.
Yes, she must go - but the Navy is a very strong institution and it draws heavily on its traditions. The Nicholson name stands with the other naval greats - Jones, Truxton, Oliver Hazard Perry, Farragut - the fathers of the Navy. So I am certain that someday the fifth Nicholson will sail. I cannot imagine what she will look like - what hull form - propulsion - sensors/weapons package.
But, there is one thing for sure - she will have one more set of big shoes to fill - those of the 982.
The Nicholson was true to her legacy - the D-52, the 2nd, was the first ship to attack a U-boat in World War I. The "442", the 3rd, fought in Africa and Europe and then was sent west to the Pacific and the island campaigns through the end of WWII. So with a first in strike warfare and combat in multiple theaters, the 982 has faithfully maintained the Nicholson tradition.
I doubt if I'll make the next one but Skipper, I hope you, or certainly some of your young crew, will be there. They can roll you up here and you can tell 'em how you and the old 982 helped give 'em a tan in Afghanistan.
On a more serious note - Captain, let me again congratulate you and the crew for the outstanding job you have been doing. During your deployment, you help strike back when Americans needed it most - during your recent sonar trials you helped pave the way for better anti-submarine capabilities in the new surface Navy, and of course, the preparations for today.
It has been a great honor to stand with you all to see the Nicholson properly out.
And finally to the crew of the Nicholson - there isn't much that is more demoralizing than decommissioning your ship. You're proud of it, you know what it can do, you've bested newer ships - and now the Navy says "we don't want it anymore - it's not good enough." And then maybe you begin thinking - "then why did they put me here?"
Well let me tell you that that kind of thinking couldn't be more wrong. The crew is the ship. You are the brains and the muscle and the heart of the Nicholson. The 982 goes -- she helped win the war she was put here for and it's her time. You were on the point on 9/11 and you, better than anybody; know that this new fight will be long and tough. Thanks to you the Nicholson was there to be counted. And was there to hoist the Naval Jack that symbolizes our resolve - "Don't tread on me" and you - are the critical element in that resolve.
This is why we're really here. Its time for you to move on. You'll face challenges far more complex and dangerous than those of my era. But you are better trained and yes, smarter, and the Navy needs you now, on the new ships and the new systems that you have proved you can so ably man.
So get on with it! And I wish you all the best. We are very proud of you, and the job you have done, and the sacrifices you make every day.
Again - it has been a great honor to speak here today---
President John F. Kennedy once said -
"And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile,"
I think you can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction:
I served in the United States Navy."
To that - I am proud to add - I served in "the 982". There was none finer.
Thank You.


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A research project with distributed electronic teams was conducted to examine how virtual temporary teams quickly develop and maintain trust relationships with people that they hardly know, and may never meet again, with the goal of producing interdependent work. We collected data from 14 teams of students from three different universities with the aim of providing a theoretical and empirical explanation of what temporary, distributed teams do to produce trust as a foundation for cooperative work. Our results suggest that high levels of trust were maintained in teams that engaged in continuous and frequent interaction, were more efficient in moving through the phases of the project, focused on the work content of their projects, and achieved sufficient amounts of social penetration during the first part of the project to increase their work effectiveness throughout its conclusion. The implications of trust in virtual teams are discussed.
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