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Obesity is a common phenomenon among women of reproductive age. In England and Western countries, a fifth of pregnancies are in women with obesity.
Many fertility problems are due to obesity and are common among overweight women: menstrual cycle irregular or rare, an increased risk of a lack of productivity, increased risk during fertility treatments, increased risk of miscarriage and reduced chances of successful fertility treatment.
Even when the pregnancy is successful, obesity leads to increased percentage of pregnancy complications: increase in blood pressure, the development of gestational diabetes, increased risk for birth defects, increased risk of having a high weight infants and increased likelihood for Caesarean section.
Moreover, infants to obese mothers are more likely to have neonatal development of obesity in childhood and obesity in adulthood.
General evaluation of accepted measures of overweight and obesity is the body mass index measurement, known as BMI (Body Mass Index).
BMI over 25 are defined as the excess weight, BMI over 30 are considered obese, and values above 35 are considered morbidly obese, which is extremely conducive to the development of diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, heart disease, asphyxia apnea, back and joints pain and substantial disruption to the quality of life.
The rate of obesity among girls and young women has doubled in the last 25 years and most chances are that these girls will grow up to be obese women, this means their fertility damage is expected.
The link between obesity and fertility is mainly due to a decrease in the cycle of ovulation. One common syndromes associated with obesity and a decrease in fertility is Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. which 4% -7% of all women have, but the prevalence increases to 61% among overweight women. Obese women with PCOS suffer more from lack of ovulation which results productivity damage.
The main mechanism which causes the lack of ovulation in women is due to the phenomenon of fat tissue resistance to insulin. This phenomenon is most common in women with abdominal obesity, also called apple-shaped obesity, and accompanied by hormonal changes that prevent normal ovulation cycles. Even overweight women with normal ovulation cycles have greater difficulty achieving pregnancy than women in normal weight.
Obese pregnant women, whether pregnancy was achieved naturally or after fertility treatments, have an increased rate of early abortions and recurrent miscarriages.
The reason for this is hormonal and due to insulin resistance, accompanied by high levels of insulin in the blood and obesity accompanied by high levels of leptin (fat hormone).
Obesity also causes an increased percentage of pregnancy complications, including imbalanced blood pressure, gestational diabetes, the development of blood clots and embolisms, infections, and mood swings.
Fetal complications also are at a higher rate, and include fetal distress, lack of fetal development, abnormal presentation of the fetus, and shoulder being stuck in the birth canal. It also indicates the need for labor by instruments and Cesarean section.
The rate of development of birth defects in fetuses in obese women rises by 7% for every extra BMI point, and that over the values of 25.
Ability to test the accuracy of the ultrasound during pregnancy in obese women is affected, so this test is not accurate for 22-24 weeks in 10% of overweight and obese women, thus preventing early detection of fetal abnormalities.
Mortality rate are also dependent on the mother's BMI and pregnant women exceeds four times in obese women. Preterm birth rates are higher in overweight women mainly due to pre eclampsia modes in the mother and premature newborn. Among women with extreme obesity, with a BMI over 40, one in 121 women gives birth to a stillborn.
The combination of risks to the mother and the fetus require weight loss prior to pregnancy, whether spontaneous or in the process of fertility treatments. To maintain a normal pregnancy and bring a healthy baby into the world, women should make every effort to reduce the weight before planning a pregnancy.
Many obese women go to fertility centers. They often need more cycles of hormonal stimulation to create follicles, but overall, the rate of pregnancy after three cycles in obese women are 41% compared to 50% in women with normal body weight.
Losing weight, even a 5% -10% of body weight, improves insulin sensitivity, increases the ovulatory cycles, improves hormonal balance in women with polycystic ovaries and increases the chances of a healthy pregnancy.

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When President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and several members of Congress recently fired broadsides at The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times and, to a degree, The Wall Street Journal for publishing detailed accounts of a somewhat secret counterterrorism program, it was the mightiest political salvo at the press since Maryland's Spiro T. Agnew threatened the big three television networks and newspaper-dominated mixed media corporations.
"On November 13, 1969, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew became a household word when he vehemently denounced television news broadcasters as a biased `unelected' elite who subjected President Richard M. Nixon's speeches to instant analysis," begins a chapter on Agnew in the Senate Historical Office's Vice Presidents of the United States. "`The president had a right to communicate directly with the people,' Agnew asserted, without having his words `characterized through the prejudices of hostile critics. ... '"


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|July 25, 2011 | Volume 86, Number 20
Good Shepherd, South Hill: New outreach project to build church in Uganda
When parishioners of Good Shepherd Catholic Church in South Hill gathered for the Feast of Corpus Christi on June 26, they heard plans outlined for a new twinning arrangement with a poor rural parish in Uganda.
The parish pastoral council unanimously supported the idea of the effort when it was proposed by Father John Kazibwe, pastor of Good Shepherd who is originally from Uganda. Parishioners also felt it was time to be involved in an outreach project since the parish had paid off the mortgage of its large church and social hall which had been dedicated less than five years earlier in September 2006.
A gathering similar to a town meeting was held following the regular 8:30 Sunday Mass. The entire congregation remained in the church and first heard from Mary Alice Walters, who chairs the twinning committee. They heard a plea from Father John, as he is best known, and a power point presentation of how the project would proceed.
Father John presented a bleak picture of life in that part of Uganda where much of the land is used for agriculture. He admitted that he wept when he read a letter from the priest at St. Joseph Busibo in the Diocese of Masaka.
The priest told him that he and his parishioners were making a pilgrimage on foot for a distance of 140 miles to the site where the Ugandan martyrs were killed. They were to walk 20 miles a day.
"If somebody is walking 140 miles to ask God for the money to help build a new church, we must help them," Father John pleaded. "The existing church has cracked walls and a leaky roof. They have done what they could."
Father John pointed out that when he was a youth back in Uganda preparing for Confirmation, he had to walk nine miles or 18 miles round trip to his religious education classes.
Construction on the church, whose estimated cost is $100,000, has started and is proceeding "as funds become available, one brick at a time," Father John said.
Good Shepherd parishioners are being asked to contribute to a special collection each month.
Laura Bailey, who chairs the South Hill parish's finance council, said the parish is in a good position to help others because there is no debt on the building.
"We have Bingo every Tuesday night and I'm the game manager," Mrs. Bailey said, adding that she has been a member of Good Shepherd for 15 years. "Considering how the economy is, we do pretty well.
"On Bingo night we average between 100 and 130 each week, but at the end of the month we see only around 100 because their money runs out."
With the new church which seats 300 dedicated by Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo on Sept. 15, 2006, "we paid the debt on the church in about three and a half years," she said.
The mortgage for construction was $317,000 and was paid largely through Bingo receipts.
Father John is assisted in pastoral ministry by Deacon John Sadowski who normally comes to the South Hill parish on the first and third Sunday. They also have pastoral duties in St. Catherine of Siena, Clarksville, and St. Paschal Baylon, South Boston.
There are 98 registered households at Good Shepherd which has two liturgies each weekend. The bi-lingual (in Spanish and English) Mass is celebrated Saturday night at 7:15. The larger Mass in English is celebrated Sunday at 8:30 a.m.
The Hispanic presence is a comfortable fit with "Anglo" parishioners. There is an effort, however, to become "one church" Mrs. Bailey said.
"We're really working on that goal," she said.
As a sign of the rising Hispanic presence, eight of the 12 children who made their first Communion on May 15 are Hispanic. Of the eight teens who were confirmed at St. Joseph's in Petersburg after Easter, one was a Nigerian, one was a Filipino and the other six were Hispanic.
The entire Catholic community came together on June 26 at 5 p.m. at a potluck supper to say goodbye to Father Nixon Negparanon who had been parochial vicar the past two years. He has since become pastor of St. Pius X Parish in Norfolk.
The Saturday night bi-lingual Mass draws usually between 60 and 85 people, most of whom are younger with small children. Many Hispanics who worship at South Hill have manufacturing jobs and live as far away as 20 or 30 miles in North Carolina. Worshippers use a bi-lingual missalette with readings in both English and Spanish.
"We all have to have a home and this church is my home," said Erick Resendiz, 24 and newly married. A resident of the United States for 12 years, he graduated from Park View High School in South Hill and travels more than an hour each day for a manufacturing job in Prince George. He reads the priest's homily in Spanish after the priest delivers it in English.
"Father John or Father Nixon send me the homily by email on Saturday morning and I translate it into Spanish to read Saturday night," Mr. Resindiz explained.
Religious education of children plays an important role at Good Shepherd. Rhodora Bautista, who came to South Hill in 2006 from the Philippines to take a job as a special education teacher at Park View Middle School, is the leader of the CCD/Sunday School program in which 35 children are enrolled from kindergarten to high school. She previously taught at a Catholic school in Laoag City for 13 years.
Classes are held on Sunday mornings after the 8:30 Mass in what is referred to as "the old church."
A new Respect Life group which had its first meeting May 7, is led by Susan Castro, who moved recently to Good Shepherd from St. Bede Parish in Williamsburg.
"Our goal is to educate people about what Respect Life is," Mrs. Castro explained. "It encompasses not only the unborn and babies, but the disabled and elderly. We need to protect everyone."
Mrs. Castro, who is originally from Falmouth, Mass., is involved in the parish food pantry which is open to needy families each Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The pantry is stocked with donations from parishioners.
"We're only open to the general public on Tuesday, but if somebody calls and is in desperate need for food, we will help them," Mrs. Bailey said. "We don't turn people away."
Another outreach is prison ministry for which Deacon Sadowski is seeking volunteers to accompany him in his visits to three correctional facilities. The visits are to Mecklenburg Corrections Center in Boydton on Thursdays, and Lunenburg and Baskerville Corrections Centers on Sunday afternoons.
Good Shepherd Parish is served by Knights of Columbus Blessed Trinity Council No. 11741 which has members from that parish as well as the parishes in South Boston and Clarksville. Bayne Steele is Grand Knight of the council which has 62 members.
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Two subspecies of the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma brucei (T. b. rhodesiense and T. b. gambiense).
The bite of an infected tsetse fly (Glossina spp.). Bloodborne and congenital transmission are rare.
Endemic in rural sub-Saharan Africa. T. b. rhodesiense is found in eastern and southeastern Africa, especially Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, and Zambia. T. b. gambiense is found in central Africa and in limited areas of West Africa, primarily in Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, Sudan, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Chad, and northern Uganda. Tsetse flies inhabit rural, densely vegetated areas; travelers to urban areas are not at risk. Flies bite during the day, and fewer than 1% are infected.
Symptoms generally appear within 1–3 weeks of the infective bite and may include high fever, a chancre at the bite site, skin rash, headache, myalgia, thrombocytopenia, and less commonly, splenomegaly, renal failure, or cardiac dysfunction. Central nervous system involvement can occur within a month of infection and results in mental deterioration and eventually, death.
Nonspecific but may include fever, headache, malaise, myalgia, facial edema, pruritus, lymphadenopathy, and weight loss. Central nervous system involvement occurs after months to years of infection and is characterized by somnolence, severe headache, and a range of neurologic manifestations, including mood disorders, behavior change, focal deficits, and endocrine disorders. The clinical course of disease caused by T. b. gambiense is generally less severe than that caused by T. b. rhodesiense, but both are fatal if not treated.
Identification of parasites in specimens of blood, chancre fluid or tissue, lymph node aspirate, or cerebrospinal fluid. Buffy-coat preparations concentrate the parasite. Diagnostic assistance is available through CDC (www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx; 404-718-4745; email@example.com).
Infection can usually be cured by a course of antitrypanosomal therapy. Treatment drugs (suramin, melarsoprol, eflornithine) are provided by CDC under investigational protocols. Physicians can consult with CDC for assistance with treatment.
Avoid tsetse fly bites. Travelers should wear clothing of wrist and ankle length made of medium-weight fabric in neutral colors, as tsetse flies are attracted to bright, dark colors and can bite through lightweight clothing. Permethrin-impregnated clothing and use of DEET repellent may minimally reduce the number of fly bites.
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Pro — Ed Akademie is the proud winners of the National Schools Recycling Competition (SRC), a project of the Recycle Namibia Forum (RNF). Mr Johann Lemmer from Rent-A-Drum presented the school with a cheque of N$10,000. Pro-Ed Akademie also won the N$1,500.00 prize for "Best Regional School Coast" and the income of their recycling material amounts to another N$3500.
Lemmer pointed out to the students what a significant role each of them played. The competition winner is calculated based on the most recycling material per learner giving equal opportunity to smaller schools. The level of participation of each learner is one of the most important factors and with Pro-Ed Akademie it came to 40.9 kg per leaner which was double the amount of the second best performing school. Principal Christiaan Grobler said: "our recycling project and the awareness it creates has enabled learners and their families to make recycling part of their daily life".
As part of the celebrations participants in the Miss Pro-Ed Akademie competition modelled their ball gowns that were made of recycling material. 2013 is the 3rd year the school is competing. "We are more dedicated than ever to increase awareness of our learners on the positive impact recycling has on saving energy and land space and reducing air and water pollution. We strongly believe that when they leave our school they will continue living their daily life responsibly for a better tomorrow," said Mr Grobler.


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Shoaib Akhtar's suggestion for India rising pace sensation Mohammed Shami is to "work on his run-up" as he feels the talented speedster "has the potential to serve Indian cricket for a long, long time".
"Whatever I have seen, Mohammed Shami is the best fast bowler that India has at the moment. He is talented and should be nurtured with a lot of care. But I think he has one basic technical flaw in his bowling. His run-up to the crease is not very smooth and he needs to work on that aspect in order to get better in the coming days," Akhtar told PTI.
Asked to elaborate on what he meant about run-up problem, Akhtar said, "I think his run-up is not a measured and consistent one. It looks at times that he is labouring to the crease. That should not be the case. They should have a smooth action because that will help to generate a lot of pace on a consistent basis. Shami, I believe will serve Indian cricket for a long time, if he can work on that aspect."
Someone, who never believed in cutting down on pace despite several injuries during his more than a decade long career, Akhtar has one advice for the budding pacers.
"Do everything required but never cut down on pace. Look, pace is the key for any fast bowler. I am not saying that you shouldn't concentrate on maintaining a good line and length but you can always work around those areas keeping the pace intact," Akhtar reasoned.
The 38-year-old, who has played 46 Tests and 163 ODIs for Pakistan in a career spanning over 13 years, feels strongly that fast bowlers should abstain from playing T20 cricket in order to keep that "fear-factor" in the batsmen.
"I know it's a difficult ask but I feel that fast bowlers should stop playing T20 cricket. Having said that, I am not for once saying that they are incapable of playing the format, look at the pitches and playing conditions. It's heavily loaded in favour of batsmen," Akhtar said.
"T20 cricket has done one thing. T20 has completely diminished the fear about tearaway quicks, that used to be earlier there in the minds of the batsmen. The finest bowlers can be belted over their heads by batsmen who are just hitting through the line."
"Once the fear factor is gone, the batsmen also do not have any apprehension about the fast bowlers even when they
are facing them in Test and ODI cricket. If you want to preserve good fast bowlers for the longer version, which is
still sacrosanct, then you need to do away with quicks in shorter format. Otherwise, make some rules for the fast bowlers to survive. Authorities should think about them and not only about batsmen," added the fearsome bowler of
Asked what kind of more variations can a fast bowler bring in his game in order to survive the rigours of T20 cricket, Akhtar said:
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If ever there was a good time to be a landlord now seems to be the moment. Vacancy rates are at their lowest level in years while rental rates have been soaring.
Real estate investors who have held property over the long-term have seen a substantial revenue increase. Figures from the Census Bureau show that asking rentals rose from $438 in 1995 to a record $735 in the second quarter of 2013. Meanwhile, the latest vacancy rate is 8.2 percent, the tightest market for rental properties going back to at least 2005.
Rising rental rates for landlords reflect two trends:
First, there is a massive amount of pent-up demand. Part of it comes from people who simply do not have the dollars to buy, individuals who have faced uncertain economic times or have only been able to find part-time or low-wage employment. Double-up or triple-up and rental housing becomes affordable without the need for a down payment.
Second, there are fewer household formations than used to be the case. Jeb Kolko, the chief economist with Trulia, explains that we are seeing fewer household formations — about 2.4 million less than ought to be the case. The increase in adults who live with their parents is one result of this trend. Another is that such individuals are a potent pool of future renters.
Meanwhile, while rental demand has been soaring, long-term owners have enjoyed substantial benefits.
The typical existing home today is priced at $214,700. That compares with $114,600 in 1995.
But why go back so long?
A lot of attention is given to short-term real estate ownership, in some cases what is known as flipping. As an investment strategy, flipping makes sense when home prices are rapidly rising or property values can be substantially enhanced through upgrades and repairs. However, short-term approaches are not the only way to go: Many investors are long-term owners and by long term I mean a decade or more.
The long-term ownership has two goals: First, to create more equity through mortgage amortization and price appreciation. Second, creating an ongoing cash-flow stream through rising rental rates, refinancing to lower interest levels and continued depreciation and other tax write-offs.
Think of it this way: A child born in 1995 would be 18 this year. Had the parents bought the typical home back then they would have paid $114,600. Today the property is perhaps worth $100,000 more — a nice start toward reducing college bills if sold.
Or, back in 1995 the typical annual rent was $5,256 ($438 x 12). Today the same property is likely to have a gross income of $8,820. Yes, taxes and insurance went up, and yes there were likely repairs and vacancies, but as an alternative who would want yummy one-year CDs which now pay .7 percent?
Of course, as with any investment option, there are risks. The most obvious is that neither prices nor rental rates always go up.
Do others see rental opportunities? Today some of the largest investors in the world are buying single-family homes by the bunch. Roughly $17 billion has already been spent by institutional investors including Blackstone, Waypoint, and American Homes to acquire single-family properties for rent. In fact — according to a new housing report from Morgan Stanley — institutional investors will likely increase their purchases to $100 billion during the next several years.
That's a lot of buying. Maybe these folks know something....
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CHALLENGES of Fatherhood
By Jackie Burrell
Sunday, June 15th, 2008 at 5:00 am in Dads.
Happy Father's Day to all you dads out there! In this morning's Times, we celebrate the superdads out there — men like Derek Taylor (pictured above) who take fatherhood far beyond Ward Cleaver's cardigan and slippers. There's been a huge cultural shift in fathers' roles in the last generation. And now the 21st century dad — much like today's super moms — is expected to juggle career and intense family involvement, change diapers, drive carpool, coach the soccer team, and keep romance alive. That's a tall order. Take a look at the story, then click "comments" and tell us, what are the biggest challenges dads face today?
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Ortiz Continues To Crush Twins Pitching Wednesday
Boston wraps up their series with Minnesota Thursday afternoon at Target Field. Clay Buchholz will get the start for the Red Sox against Phil Hughes of the Twins.
Boston wraps up their series with Minnesota Thursday afternoon at Target Field. Clay Buchholz will get the start for the Red Sox against Phil Hughes of the Twins.
The Twins got a walk-off 2-run homerun from Chris Parmelee off Andrew Miller in the 9th inning last night to beat the Boston Red Sox 8-6. Minnesota went out to a 5-1 lead in the 2nd inning before Boston tied the game at 6 in the 7th inning.
The Twins are off Monday, then will host the Red Sox Tuesday night.
The Minnesota Twins scored three runs in the eighth to rally past the Detroit Tigers 4-3 on Sunday.
Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez both hit 3-run homers as the Tigers beat the Minnesota Twins 9-3 on Saturday.
The loss was the Twins' third in a row after taking the opening game from the Indians in the four game series.
The Twins fall to 15-17 with the loss and will wrap up their four game series in Cleveland this morning, with first pitch at Progressive Field scheduled for 11:05 AM on WJON.
The Twins are now 15-15 on the season and are currently 4.5 games behind Detroit in the American League Central. Minnesota is just a half-game behind four teams currently tied for two Wild Card spots.
The Minnesota Twins picked up a series win after downing the Baltimore Orioles 5-2 on Sunday.
The Minnesota Twins put an end to their four game losing streak with a 6-1 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday.
Ricky Nolasco became the first Twins pitcher to throw a complete game this season, but the offense fell quiet as Minnesota fell 3-0 to Baltimore on Friday.
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What makes a good magazine cover? Author Nigel French examines the design of magazine covers, dissecting the cover and explaining the purpose of the different components that make up the whole design. He then covers the design process from start to finish in Adobe InDesign, going on to show alternative workflows that exclusively use Photoshop and Illustrator. Each workflow shows you how to place and scale your image, position the masthead, add cover text, and package the end result as a print-ready PDF.
Now that we have our magazine cover designed, it's time to start preparing it for print. Before we make a print-ready PDF, we are going to preflight our document using InDesign's Live Preflight feature. Down here it says no errors, and that's always a good thing to see. And preflighting has been happening while we've been working on the document, but the Preflight profile or list of criteria that our document has to match that has been used is just the basic working profile.
And the basic working profile isn't rigorous enough for our needs. So we are going to create our own preflight profile. From the Preflight panel, I am going to choose Define Profiles, I am going to call it Magazine, and then it's just a question of checking the relevant boxes. So, starting out with the LINKS, I am going to leave those two checked. In the COLOR section, I want to make sure that the Transparency Blending Space is CMYK.
It's highly unlikely that it wouldn't be, but just to make sure, it's not going to hurt to have that checked. I also want to be informed of any overprinting or registration having been applied. Again, highly unlikely that such a problem would exist, but it's not going to hurt to have the boxes checked. More relevant and far more likely to be an issue is the image resolution. As we have discussed, we want the image resolution to be 300 pixels per inch. So, I am going to twirl that one open, and put 300 as the value in there.
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In the TEXT area, I'd like to be informed of any overset text, any missing fonts, any non-proportional type scaling. And in the DOCUMENT area, I'd like to be informed of any blank pages, and in the Bleed and Slug Setup, we want to make sure that the minimum bleed size is 9 points. We are not using a slug, so that's not relevant. That is pretty much it for our criteria.
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We Mustang enthusiasts like our tunes as much as we like horsepower. While too much is just enough when it comes to tire-frying rear-wheel horsepower, the same can be said for audio systems. Electronic crossover, watts, and dual voice coils are to audio fanatics what horsepower, stroker, juice, and slicks are to horsepower junkies. Typically, when you come across a really clean Mustang with lots of horsepower, it will have an outstanding audio system in it as well. We often see in-dash DVD systems, multiple amps, a couple subwoofers, and so on, all nicely installed in custom enclosures.
Our goals for this article were to peruse the audio/video aftermarket, see what's out there that's Mustang specific, and then report our findings back to you. We surveyed some of the biggest players and got quite an eyeful of the latest technology for in-car audio, video, and navigation. After all, what's the fun in having a 500hp street car if you can't pop in the new Korn CD and crank it while you cruise?
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It was just a few years ago that the head unit, or receiver, part of the audio system was nothing more than an AM/FM tuner that also had the ability to play cassettes or maybe CDs. The basic functions-such as bass and treble adjustments-were covered, along with a few "premium" features including changeable display colors to match your factory illumination or a single set of pre-outs for an amplifier. How times have changed.
Today's head units have so many features and options, you could spend days figuring out what everything does. Not that that's a bad thing. In today's head units you will find built-in equalizers; bass enhancers; multiple pre-outs for front, rear, and subwoofer speakers; and the ability to play CD-R audio discs and even MP3 CDs. But that's not all. Many have motorized controls and antitheft features unheard of a few years ago. There's even the availability of head units with built-in DVD players and navigation systems. The choices are just about endless.


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Profile: André Plourde
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André Plourde - Full Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs
Degrees: B.A., M.A. (New Brunswick), Ph.D. (British Columbia)
Office: D-391 Loeb, 613-520-2600 x 1858
E-mail: andre [dot] plourde [at] carleton [dot] ca
Languages spoken other than English: French
Research fields: energy economics, resource economics
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• energy and the environment
• economic and fiscal aspects of oil sands development
Selected publications:
Report – The Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel: Environmental and Health Impacts of Canada's Oil Sands Industry (with Pierre Gosselin, Steve E. Hrudey, M. Anne Naeth, René Therrien, Glen Van Der Kraak, and Zhenghe Xu), Ottawa: The Royal Society of Canada, December 2010 (xxiv + 414 pages).
"On Properties of Royalty and Tax Regimes in Alberta's Oil Sands," Energy Policy, Vol. 38, No. 8 (August 2010), pp. 4652–4662.
"Empirical Modelling of Energy Demand" (with David L. Ryan), International Handbook on the Economics of Energy, ed. Joanne Evans and Lester C. Hunt, Edward Elgar, 2009, Ch. 6 (pp. 112–143).
"Offshore Energy Revenues and Equalization: Having Your Cake and Eating It Too?" How Ottawa Spends, 2006–2007: In From the Cold: The Tory Rise and the Liberal Demise, ed. G. Bruce Doern, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006, Ch. 3 (pp. 50–72). [cover]
"Smaller and Smaller? The Price Responsiveness of Non-Transport Oil Demand" (with David L. Ryan), Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 42, No. 2 (Summer 2002), pp. 285–317.
"On the Renewal of Concern for the Security of Oil Supply" (with Chantale LaCasse), Energy Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2 (1995), pp. 1–23 (lead article).
"The October 1979 Change in U.S. Monetary Policy: Its Impact on the Forecastability of Canadian Interest Rates" (with James E. Pesando), Journal of Finance, Vol. 43, No. 1 (March 1988), pp. 217–239.


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Recently, an experimentally determinable quantity that can directly test the validity of the Ramsauer model for cross-section prediction was proposed by Azam and Gowda and investigated for 208Pb for neutron energies below 60 MeV. Results of further "relative differential shape-elastic cross-section" investigations proposed earlier are investigated in this paper for the most forward direction. The present investigations cover several nuclides for neutron energies from 1 to 120 MeV. The nuclides studied include some 19 (near-) spherical nuclei ranging from 40Ca to 209Bi studied earlier by Bauer et al. in their studies on the Ramsauer model. Ramsauer model predictions of relative differential shape-elastic cross sections for the most forward direction are compared with those obtained from the SCAT2 spherical optical model (SOM) code. The SOM potential, for neutrons and protons, developed by Koning and Delaroche has been employed for the investigations. Easy parameterizability of the 0-deg relative differential shape-elastic cross section in terms of its Ramsauer model expression and its possible application are briefly presented and discussed.
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Video: Richie Kotzen Talks About Developing His Legato Technique
Video: Richie Kotzen Talks About Developing His Legato Technique
While the Internet hasn't been all kind to the music industry, one of the major upswings of the rise of the digital age is the increased interaction between fans and musicians that social media channels allow.
In a new video blog, guitarist Richie Kotzen answers a fan-submitted question on how he developed his signature left-hand legato technique, which he talks at length about in the video below. You can check out all of Richie's video blogs on his official YouTube channel.
Kotzen released his latest album, 24 Hours, this past November.
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The machine he talks about here can also be used for other parts of the body, lol, don't try this at home kids!! ;-)
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If you compare the ratio of talent vs success as the biggest measure of the "Most Underrated Guitarist" in the land....gotta give it to Kotzen hands down. 24 Hours is a landmark release for him, one day the US will catch on and he'll be the biggest artist in the biz....but that would only happen in a perfect world.
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It's just about time for the "Entourage" movie to begin filming and you can tell because the stream of cast pictures is almost non-stop. With less than a week before production begins, writer Doug Ellin and Jerry Ferrara (Turtle) have been busy sharing photos on Instagram.
All of the male cast is accounted for, including Jeremy Piven, Kevin Connolly, Adrian Grenier, Kevin Dillon and Ferrara. "Let the games begin," Ellin writes with a group shot. Piven shared his own photo while getting fitted for suits, because you can't have Ari Gold any other way.
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Dear Family and Friends
Ruth's memorial will be held Wednesday, 29 April 2009 at 2:00 PM followed by a reception.
The memorial will be held at the following locationThe Raleigh Municipal Rose Garden
301 Pogue Street
Raleigh, NC 27607
The Rose Garden is located in the horseshoe-shaped area that can be seen on this map.
There is parking on the street around the horseshoe, on close-by residential streets, and in the adjacent Raleigh Little Theatre parking lot south of the RLT building, off Pogue Street.
[In case of rain, Ruth's memorial will be held in Carswell Concert Hall, Wainwright Music Building, Meredith College. As this map shows, the Meredith College campus is 1 1/3 miles west of the Raleigh Rose Garden.
On the map of Meredith College the Carswell Concert Hall is directly 'beneath' the number 37, in the Wainwright Music Building.]
Please check this site again in mid-April for updates.
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Kim Kardashian is just milking that baby bump for all it's worth. Once the, "pregnancy cravings" and, "will the birth be filmed?" questions all dried up, Kim has moved onto the, "I can't wait to get married to Kanye" answers.
Kim told the "Today Show" that she's definitely thinking about marriage, but isn't super worried about it.
"I'm so content with how things are right now. And how life is and we're so happy. We definitely want that in the future, but I'm not in a rush," says Kim.
She's also still legally married to Chewbacca Kris Humphries, so that's a major roadblock.
While many of us assumed that Kim's pregnancy was planned, Kim called the baby news a "pleasant surprise" because apparently Kim was told she would have a hard time getting pregnant, which I thought was Khloe's problem. I'm sorry, I'm confusing Kardashian storylines now.
"It was a pleasant surprise when so many doctors were telling me one thing and the opposite happens," claims Kim.
Here's something else she said about babies and/or marriage:
"I think until I really start seeing, like, a belly, it won't really sink in. It's just like a weird realization until you really start seeing the physical changes, um, and every day's different," says the reality TV star.
Just let me know when the televised wedding special will take place because I'd like to DVR it and then watch it on repeat forever and always! #ImNotObsessed
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Full .pdf of the finished result is here: http://www.summerblock.com/Ikea_Baby_Book.pdf
Step 1: Gather necessary software, etc.
--3D modelling software; I used Google Sketchup Pro and 3dsmax
--Adobe Illustrator
--Adobe Photoshop
--Adobe InDesign
--A handful of Ikea instruction manuals in .pdf, available here: http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/customer_service/assembly_instructions.html. Pick ones with similar layouts to the manual you want to make.
--Fonts; I had good success with Twentieth Century Modern throughout (bold-faced for the title page). Oddly enough, the Ikea Sans font that comes in the online manuals doesn't look quite right to me. I was using an actual manual that came with my bookcase for comparison, and the capital A on the cover, in particular, was hard to match.
--A 3D model of the object you want to assemble. Either construct it yourself or Google "free 3d model _" and fill in the blank. I was only able to find a baby model in Sketchup format, but then I exported it as a .3ds and used 3dsmax.
--A liberal interpretation of copyright/trademark law. Hey, it's satire!
Step 2: Sketch out manual
After you have a rough idea, think in particular about what kind of images you'd like to use--which parts of the model from which angles, etc., and make a list of all of these.
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I am in no ways an aromatic smoker. Normally I smoke strong Va-blends, hard-core burley blends, and full balkans.
Now, since I like to have a stable everyday-blend that I can smoke when time does permit me to indulge and immerse myself in expensive quality blends, I need something that is enjoyable in a kind of... let's say ambient way.
Porter House fits the bill. This is really good leaf, and in no way drugstore leaf. Porter House is one of the oldest existing danish aromatics still on the market. The is no "modern" perfume in this, just deep nutty, sweet'n sour cavendish goodness, with a pinch of virginia and unflavored burley.
Imagine a hybrid of Dark fragrant with an extremely subdued element of Sweet Dublin.
There is just about enough nic in this to keep me satisfied, but I do agree with the above reviewers: a wee bit more strenght would suit Porter House. But then, you can't have it all, eh!?
Buy it at http://www.danishpipeshop.com (It is not listed, but they carry it. (it's only available here in Denmark))
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What determines an aromatic? In my mind it's a question with many answers.. I usually detest aromatics - the ones that ared cased beyond tobacco recognition, with some artificial flavour and sugar by the kilo. This Porter House is kind of an aromatic, but not THAT kind. The double Cavendish may place this tobacco in the aromatic range, because it certainly smells like one. But the thing is, this mixture actually taste like it smells, unlike 90% of all aromatics I've tasted before.
I'm not sure whether it's cased or not (it most likely is, as 99% of all tobaccos are), but it's done to perfection here.
There's some good ol' buttery Burley in here, and that's what I taste alongside the Cavendish. The taste is almost as good as the tin aroma, and the tin aroma is almost as good as the room note. It smokes VERY easily - and that again makes me wonder whether or not to claasify it as an aromatic, because aromatics are kinda hard to smoke, and takes som practice. Porter House does not smoke hot nor wet, and it's just a delight to smoke.
Although I do sense the nicotine in there, it's not as full as I'd like. But for a pseudo-aromatic, I guess it's all you can get out of these tobaccos used.
Porter House Double Mixture by Orlik - I always have a tin at hand, and a couple of times a week, when my sweet tooth get's the best of me, this is what I'll crave. If The Solent (by Mac Baren) is the Sailor/Pirate's preferred everyday English, I guess this would be their once in a while candy.
I wish I could look up some info on this masterpiece, but I guess it's one of those very well kept secrets.
Anyways.. I believe this is made of 2 or 3 different top-plant Virginias, along with some decent Burley. Maybe the Cavendish is made from both Burley and Virginia here? It perplexes me, 'cause it IS a mild smoke, but at the buttom 1/3 you taste the nicotine from the Burley, in the same way as in toasted Burley (Kentucky).
Well...great tobacco makes you think doesn't it? So I guess I will classify Porter House as just that. Great smoke and highly recommended.
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Well what can one say to justify this truly amazing aromatic? It's a classic. Orlik is probably the most diverse brand in the world, and this insane mixture is a good representative of the aromatic scale perfection.
A good mix of burley cut plug and ribbon virginia, beautifully mixed with lots and lots of black cavendish. Yes, it is a sweet tobacco. But I've always found it somewhat naturally sweet, and the top-casing here is just hypnotizing.
The smoke is one of the coolest I've ever come across - smoke it like a madman, and it still behaves the way you want it! So this could actually be a beginners choice, as it doesn't produce any "gravy" in the bowl either.
So what is lacking? Why isn't Porter House the greatest mild aromatic in the world? Well that's exactly why, it's just at tad too mild. Could we keep the fantastic flavour, the intoxicating aroma, the raisin-smell of sweet virginias and the more than amazing smoking abilities AND add a little more 'body'? I don't know if it should be more burley-nicotine or some kentucky to boost it a little - but that's the only thing missing, from making Porter House the perfect all day aromatic. Because at this strength, you end up smoking a tin a day.
Porter House Double Mixture is and have always been in my regular rotation - it's a tobacco I can grab and carelessly throw in the bowl and just smoke it anywhere, anytime. But no matter what you're doing, you tend to stop doing it, finding yourself almost halucinating from the mesmorizing smoke.
If anyone out there knows of a similar tobacco, but with a little more strength, please don't keep it a secret!
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New Year's watchman's ballad, Portland, 1828
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A printed ballad of the watchmen on Central Wharf in Portland for the New Year in 1828.
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- Title: New Year's watchman's ballad, Portland, 1828
- Creation Date: 1828
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- Town: Portland
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1836 PG$1 Gold Dollar, Judd-67, Pollock-70, R.5, PR65 PCGS.
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Gem 1836 Gold Dollar Pattern, Judd-671836 PG$1 Gold Dollar, Judd-67, Pollock-70, R.5, PR65 PCGS. The obverse features a Liberty cap surrounded by numerous glory rays, similar in design to certain contemporary Mexican issues. The reverse features the denomination "1 D." within a coiled palm frond, with the date below and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA above. Christian Gobrecht is credited with both designs. Struck in gold alloy with a plain edge. Judd-67 has considerable historical importance, as it is the first Federal gold pattern as well as the first Gold Dollar issue. Originals are likely quite rare, although a number were restruck in the 1860s, one of which was struck over an 1859 Gold Dollar. This bright yellow-gold Gem has a needle-sharp strike and highly reflective fields, while the reverse has bold mint-made striations.
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