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2012 marks the 10th year that Edith Cowan University has been researching a very powerful medicine.
Each year we find new ways to prescribe this medicine and more diseases for which it is a very effective treatment.
Chronic diseases are of long duration and generally slow progression and account for 63% of deaths worldwide. In Australia they account for 80% of our health burden.
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Even aspirin has side effects as reiterated in a major paper published this year.
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Our research team at ECU has been investigating exercise medicine for the management of cancer and treatment side-effects.
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Australasian Prostate Cancer Conference
Presented for the first time clinical trials evidence that specific exercise prescription could prevent bone loss in prostate cancer patients. A World first from ECU.
Fitness NOT Fatness
If you are unfit then you are three times more likely to die of any cause than someone who has even moderate fitness.
This applies whether you are obese or normal weight. In fact if you are normal weight but physically inactive and thus unfit your risk of dying of any cause is still three (3x) times that of someone who is obese but is active and physically fit.
A single bout of physical exercise will increase your glucose tolerance. A single bout of physical exercise will improve cognitive function even in the elderly and those with existing impairment.
A single bout of physical exercise will improve mood, reduced anxiety and reduce depression.
A classic study published in 2005 investigated older people with clinical depression.
Routine GP care was effective and reduced depression but high-intensity resistance training was three times (3x) more effective.
Exercise has been demonstrated to lower total cholesterol and in particular it causes an increase in the good cholesterol - the HDL. 2010 – $1.54 Billion on cholesterol lowering drugs.
Same year a large study did not find benefit of statins – the main class of drugs used to control cholesterol.
09/10 financial year
$8.4 Billion Dollars spent by PBS drugs
Exercise Medicine has the potential to reduce this markedly at much lower cost, no side effects and far less personal suffering.
Preventing Cancer
Physically inactive - nearly twice as likely to develop colon cancer1
Active - 30% reduction in the risk of women of all ages developing breast cancer2
Reduces prostate cancer incidence of advanced forms and in older men - 70% reduction if >3 hours vigorous per week3 20 % reduction in risk of Lung cancer4
Surviving Cancer
Breast Cancer RR of death is 0.5 – that is half if physically active
Colorectal Cancer – 51-55% reduction in death rate
2011 study 61% lower risk of PCa death and 49% lower risk of dying of any cause.
Compared to Chemotherapy
Editor of JCO
Such effect parallels that of the leading drug treatment for breast cancer.
Hailed as a breakthrough
Don't give up your drug treatments
Not the message!
Benefit comes from integrative approach.
Exercise is Medicine in the USA
Exercise is Medicine Australia
Checkout the Website!
ECU Health and Wellness Institute
Exercise physiology, nutrition and psychology – the three pillars of integrative health.
The fourth pillar and the one that bears most of the load is the YOU. Permanent lifestyle change can only be achieved by the individual.
We must change our thinking that medicine will keep us healthy despite what we do or don't do for our bodies.
ECU Health and Wellness Institute is dedicated to researching and implementing integrative health. Last year we provided over 25,000 doses of this powerful medicine to 1000's of people ranging from overweight children to cancer patients, people with Parkinson's, cancer patients and most recently people with spinal cord injury.Outcomes have been extraordinary!
Do yourself and your family a favour. Get active, improve your diet, relax and meditate.
Team up with family and friends to help them do the same.
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I followed this link back from my blog this morning and was pleased to note that indeed there was a time when I was loving my life here
i see that there is an absolute collusion and shambles on the Haitian front.. that includes the United States, MINUSTAH, ALL the International AID workers, just EVERYONE
and we are EXPECTING
this year
now that is as many as died in the earthquake
and this is two years out from the earthquake
so I am no longer loving my life here
i was busy, you see, cleaning up the mess over here,.. what with the narco trafficantes and all
and i figured that what with ALL of you over there, SURELY you would have figured this one out?
which means that the rivers are polluted
which means that they need water
which means you must get up to the head of the water and run pipes
but leonel is so busy handing out contracts
and the red cross is so busy figuring out how to protect their income stream
and paul farmer is so busy with his publicity machine
and mickey is so busy having cocktails with sean penn
that i have bought a boat
kiss my ass i bought a boat
i am goin out to sea
where are you getting the 200k figure from?
Sounds a bit old testament for such a small country.
I have not been on Corbett's list for some time - getting most of my news through Facebook these days.
pedro.. there was a huge scream out on the 200k figure but do know or expect that it was publically released....but that is the figure
if you follow along the time line of my blog you will see that i was working first with the Haitians up in LT who had kwashikoor last summer.. then with Interpol on the narcotrafficantes from August til Dec... so I really had had no time to check on Haiti . I just assumed what with all that talent and brains and money combined, some sort of progress was being made.
But I can never underestimate the stupidity of men sitting inside of rectangles. Instead of progress, we have moved backwards.
Now we have the sole figure of the remants of the Haitian state tottering.
About 15000 armed, uniformed, unidentified mercenary reportable to no known person roaming the streets and the entries to public buildings
and the Haitian government is launching a logo campaign for tourism
The radical leftest priest is rumbling revolution again
the drug dealer trained in Ecuador is right beside him
MINUSTAH having brought Cholera to the Island, continues to deny any responsiblity and continues to occupy at great international expense, importing its food from the Dominican Republic, occupying the best hotels in Ft Liberte, flirting on the internet,
Relief net posts ALL the cholera treatment centers from all aid workers who are set up in place to deal with the victims who will surely come
the red cross used its 10 million dollar donation to buy prime land downtown where it plans to build a hotel to ensure its income stream
the top missionary is selling recycled garbage clothing on vogue
the best plan so far is for a korean sweat shop with workers housing with pit toilets
sure is lucky that none of that aid money fell into the hands of WYCLEF
he might have misued it
Just wanted to say - "I feel your pain - passion and frustration" - sadly im not really in a position to help at all. But i "feel" you.
Only Sweden and the UK are increasing aid budgets this year.
EUROPA - Press Releases - 2010 European aid report: read how EU's action helps the poorest countries to develop
US aid continues at a very low level in proportion to GNI. Just .21 % of GNI.
Official development assistance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Foreign aid has been flowing into Haiti for 80 years.
Perhaps it is not working?
it is not the size of the aid budget
it is their inability to figure out how to use it
the aid organizations are top down, militaristic, patriarchal
one of the very first consulants into Haiti
called in by the OAS
took time to make a date over the internet with a whore
fortunately,l he was kidnapped, his driver was killed, and he was held for 75k ransom.
this aid thing is a racquet.. just another form of colonization
where the rich people get donations and hire folks from Urugauy to do the work on the ground
the big nations contribute no boots on the ground
the only white skin that is broiling in the sun is IRISH
so far
That is what i see
Everyone but the IRISH are absent
no FRENCH
no Quebecois
No Canadians
No Americans
No British
did i say

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The Act is currently hung up in the Senate. That is just as well, because, as my colleague Jena Baker McNeill points out, it contains remarkable number of bad ideas. It reminds me of the old Monty Python sketch in which a "man on the street" suggested that Britain raise money by taxing foreigners who lived abroad. The idea that imposing additional fees will encourage "scholarly travel" — or any other kind of travel, for that matter — is bizarre. The Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) — used to automatically determine the eligibility of visitors to travel to the U.S. under the visa Waiver Program — was supposed to be free: imposing fees, as outraged letters from European ambassadors made it clear, could have negative implications for reciprocal visa-free travel between the E.U. and the US.
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Cutting Tools Volume III - Country & End-User Global Analysis: 2013-2018
- Language: English
- 300 Pages
- Published: January 2014
- Region: Global
With a television and video access market in profound transformation and practices that are still evolving, traditional television players face unprecedented instability. To address these questions, this study explores the key issues of the cord-cutting phenomenon. It presents a detailed analysis of the US market, the world's most advanced, so that lessons can be drawn for Europe.
- What lessons can be drawn from the strategies of the leading US players?
- What phenomena are actually at work: cord-cutting, cord-shaving, cord-switching, cord-never?
- How does OTT video impact television and video markets in Europe and the United States?
- Is Europe's lag behind the U.S. in audiovisual content and technology irreversible?
- What choices are TV industry players up against - moving towards defensive or offensive strategies?
1. Executive summary
1.1. The new video offerings in the United States: benchmark and best practices
1.2. Changes in the TV and video markets in Europe and the United States
1.3. Responses in the United States
1.4. Potential impact in Europe
2. The new video offerings in the United States: benchmark and best practices
2.1. The major players
2.1.2. Amazon
2.1.3. Apple
2.1.4. AT&T U-verse TV
2.1.5. Blockbuster/Dish Online
2.1.6. Comcast
2.1.7. Facebook
2.1.8. Google
2.1.10. Hulu
2.1.12. Netflix
2.1.13. PlayOn
2.1.14. Showtime
2.1.15. Sony
2.1.16. Time Warner Cable
2.1.17. Verizon
2.1.18. Vudu
2.2. Summary of offers: access modes
2.3. Summary of offers: models and content
3. Changes in TV and video markets in Europe and the United States
3.1. United States
3.1.1. Subscription TV: rising sales despite decline in subscribers
3.1.2. A television industry mainly funded by MVPDs
3.1.3. Changes in the video market in the United States
3.1.4. Various phenomena at work
3.2. Europe
3.2.1. Subscriptions remain the engine for growth in the TV market
3.2.2. Changes in the video market in Europe
3.2.3. OTT and the role of managed networks
4. Responses in the United States
4.1. Reaction of TV channels
4.1.1. Premium channels
4.1.2. The TV networks
4.2. Reactions of MVPDs
4.2.2. The development of storage solutions for on-demand services
4.2.3. Multi-screen TV before TV Everywhere?
4.2.4. Avoiding the development of a virtual MVPD: end of the unlimited Internet subscription
4.2.5. The growing role of the IP
4.2.6. Calling into question managed TV in telecoms' triple play
4.2.7. The strategy of bundles
5. Potential impacts in Europe
5.1. Highly varied risks
5.1.1. Diversity of markets
5.1.2. Likely a swifter market transition than in the US
5.2. The risks of cord-shaving are probably higher than those of cord-cutting
5.3. Development of TV 2.0 platforms
5.4. Do US offers pose a threat to European offers?
5.4.1. High visibility of US offers in Europe
5.4.2. A common trend of localising services
5.4.3. Caution required vis-a-vis US producers/distributors
5.4.4. Is there a risk to equipment providers?
5.5. Risk of heightened tension between players along the video distribution chain
5.5.1. Converging interests among pay-TV channels and commercial distributors
5.5.2. An idea running up against the reality of the market for rights
5.5.3. For now, OTT remains a complement to broadcast distribution
5.5.4. VOD services: feeble bargaining power in the current circuit
5.6. Conclusion: And if the losers were the European producers?
Table 1: Price Comparison of the basic triple play offerings of a few US and European operators
Table 2: Price Comparison of the OTT services of a few US and European operators
Table 3: Comparison of the changes in Internet and TV subscribers and ARPU of a few European cable operators
Figure 1: Changes in television revenues in the United States
Figure 2: Changes in TV subscribers in the United States
Figure 3: Quarterly changes in video subscribers (net additions) of US MVPDs
Figure 4: Changes in Comcast's video and Internet sales by quarter
Figure 5: Changes in the video sales and rental markets in the United States
Figure 6: Changes in the digitally-distributed video sales and rental markets in the United States
Figure 7: Trends in the video sales and rental markets in the United States, 2004-2017
Figure 8: Monthly video consumption time in the United States
Figure 9: Change in television revenue in the Western Europe
Figure 10: Changes in television revenue in the Eastern Europe
Figure 11: Changes in TV subscribers in Western Europe
Figure 12: Changes in TV subscribers in Eastern Europe
Figure 13: Changes in the video sales and rental markets in Europe, 2005-2010
Figure 14: Fox's authentication system on Hulu
Figure 15: Comcast VOD consumption
Figure 16: PVR penetration in the United States
Figure 17: Changes in Internet subscriptions in the United States, by technology
Figure 18: Changes in Internet subscriptions in the United States, by operator
Figure 19: Comparison of penetration of the various TV distribution networks in 2012 in major European countries
Figure 20: Comparison of penetration of the various TV distribution networks and TV's sources of funding in Western and Eastern Europe in 2012
Figure 21: Comparison of the number of on-demand audiovisual services by the leading IPTV providers in Europe (February 2012)
Figure 22: Comparison of the number of on-demand audiovisual services by the leading cable operators in Europe (February 2012)
- Amazon
- Apple
- AT&T U-verse TV
- Blockbuster/Dish Online
- Comcast
- Facebook
- Google
- Hulu
- Netflix
- PlayOn
- Showtime
- Sony
- Time Warner Cable
- Verizon
- Vudu


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Crews worked into the night Wednesday and throughout Thursday but their progress often was slowed by the continued gale-force winds and rain squalls, said AEP Texas spokesman Andy Heines
In many instances, crews had to return to the same sites because trees or other debris would damage power lines that already been repaired that day.
"There were repeated outages," Heines said. "It was one step forward and two steps back."
More than 2,800 AEP Texas customers were without power at point Thursday in the Corpus Christi area, Heines said.
Some crews were brought in from other areas to relieve employees who worked overtime to help restore power to parts of Corpus Christi.
"We worked through the night. We drew in crews from Beeville and Victoria to help out," Heines said.
Other areas of the Coastal Bend dealt with similar situations.
The Kleberg County Courthouse and Kingsville City Hall both were closed Thursday because of power outages. They are expected to re-open Friday.
Electricity to the downtown area surrounding the courthouse and city hall went out about 1 a.m. Thursday and crews eventually were able to restore power to that area one pocket at a time, said Kleberg County Judge Pete De La Garza.
All of the other county departments not housed in the courthouse that had power remained opened Thursday, De La Garza said.
"The only people off are the ones in the courthouse," he said.
About 10,500 residents remained without power as of 2 p.m. Thursday in Brooks, Duval, Jim Wells, Kleberg and Nueces counties.
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Noteworthy educational events in 1998 concerned achievement testing, the expansion of information technology, educational policy controversies, cross-national cooperation in higher education, methods of financing schools, and student protests. In some predominantly Muslim countries, controversy arose over the schooling of girls and the teaching of the Qurʾan.
Primary and Secondary Education
In a study of 34 nations by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Norway and Belgium had the highest percentage of high-school students who graduated, each with 100%. The seven next highest were Japan (99%), Finland (98%), Poland (94%), New Zealand (93%), Portugal (91%), South Korea (91%), and Russia (88%). Germany ranked 11th (86%), France 13th (85%), Canada 22nd (73%), the United States 24th (72%), Argentina 32nd (34%), and Mexico 34th (26%). According to the study's director, Andreas Schleicher, rates in the U.S. had remained much the same over the years, whereas many other nations had rapidly increased their rates in recent times.
Test results were reported for students in the final year of secondary school who participated in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study, sponsored by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement. The program's three tests focused on science-mathematics literacy, advanced mathematics, and physics. Among 21 nations represented in the science-mathematics literacy program, the highest average scores were in The Netherlands and Sweden, with Iceland, Norway, and Switzerland somewhat lower. Countries performing below the international average were, in descending order, Hungary, Russia, Italy, the U.S., Lithuania, Cyprus, and South Africa. In all 21 countries except South Africa, males had significantly higher average achievement than females. Students who made the greatest use of electronic calculators during the testing performed better than those who made less use of them. The nine nations in which more than 50% of students reported using computers weekly were Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the U.S.
Achievement tests for advanced mathematics and physics were administered in 16 countries. France ranked at the top in advanced mathematics, followed by Russia, Switzerland, Denmark, Cyprus, and Lithuania. The lowest average scores were in the Czech Republic, Germany, the U.S., and Austria. In physics Norway and Sweden were significantly higher than the other nations, followed by Russia and Denmark. The lowest physics scores were in France, the Czech Republic, Austria, and the U.S.
In the U.S. the school voucher and charter school movements continued to gain momentum. Typical voucher programs conducted by selected states and cities furnished parents a stipend ranging from $1,500 to $5,000 per year to help pay the cost of sending a child to a school of the parents' choice. Whereas in 1994 only 45% of respondents in a nationwide Gallup Poll endorsed voucher plans, in a 1998 survey 51% favoured full or partial government subsidies to pay tuition costs at any public, private, or church-related school. Support for vouchers was also expressed in legal decisions and monetary contributions from nongovernmental sources. The U.S. Supreme Court accepted the Wisconsin Supreme Court's ruling that the state's voucher program did not violate the constitutional separation of church and state. This allowed Wisconsin to continue its voucher plan, under which many holders of vouchers enrolled their children in private schools. The growing list of donors offering voucher funds for poor families included officials of Gulfstream Aerospace and Wal-Mart Stores ($200 million), New York City's School Choice Scholarship Foundation ($11 million), and patrons of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York ($10 million). Advocates of vouchers asserted that such plans improved education by allowing parents to decide where to have their children educated and by fostering healthy competition between schools. Opponents contended that vouchers not only breached the law separating church and state but also siphoned off the best students from public schools and allowed private schools to reject less-competent and handicapped pupils.
The first charter school in the U.S. opened in Minnesota in 1992. By the end of 1998, about 700 such schools were operating in 23 states and enrolling an estimated 165,000 students. The American version of a charter school was a primary or secondary institution financed by public funds but managed by either a nonprofit or a profit-making organization. The typical charter school was free to create its own curriculum, hire noncredentialed teachers, and monitor its own fiscal affairs. Such an arrangement, long practiced in other nations, was accompanied in the U.S. by heated debate. To evaluate the quality of charter schools, journalists visited dozens of them in the two states with the most charter institutions (Arizona and Michigan) and concluded that some of the schools were excellent but that many others displayed serious shortcomings--weak curricula, poor teaching, substandard buildings, and financial abuses.
A growing debate in the U.S. was concerned with whether students should hold jobs while attending school. A study conducted at the University of Massachusetts reported that in some communities as many as 80% of high-school students engaged in some sort of employment, with nearly half of them working 20 hours or more each week. Advocates of school-plus-work maintained that having a job builds self-confidence and teaches youths responsibility, economic self-reliance, and the ability to get along with customers and fellow employees. Critics worried that a job, particularly one that required more than 20 hours a week, deprived students of needed sleep and exercise, diverted their attention from school tasks, resulted in a shallow education, and left little time for social life.
In the U.S. the failure of educators to persuade teachers to enrich their lessons with advanced technology motivated officials of the Olympia, Wash., school district to create an 18-week course for training secondary-school students in computer technology so that those students could then help teachers improve their use of technology to enhance instruction. News of the success of the Olympia program caused other school systems to adopt the plan.
In addition to forbidding students to carry guns or knives, American schools began to outlaw the laser pointer--a device in the shape of a pen or large bullet that could cast a red laser beam on anyone or anything within a quarter of a mile. Not only did teachers condemn laser pointers for disrupting classroom instruction, but critics also warned of likely damage to eyesight if the beam was directed into the eyes.
Disappointing test results among black secondary-school seniors caused South African officials to question the effectiveness of their postapartheid public-school system. Over a one-year period the percentage of blacks passing the national matriculation exam dropped from 58.5% to 52.2%. During the three years of postapartheid South Africa, the former black, white, and Coloured (mixed race) education systems were slowly being merged, with the hope that test results for blacks would gradually improve. The current condition of the education system's infrastructure suggested, however, that this hope would not soon be realized, as 51% of schools still lacked textbooks and 57% were without electricity.
Research in five countries (Mauritius, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe) of the 12-nation Southern African Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality led to a variety of educational policy recommendations. Prominent among the suggestions were the proposals that parental support of children's schooling be increased through use of parent meetings, educational forums, and radio programs; that teachers receive specific training in how best to work with parents; and that each government set a national policy concerning the frequency and amount of homework for different grades in its schools. A new study was launched for the 1998-2001 period to provide information about reading and mathematics achievement at the sixth-grade level that could guide governments' educational decisions in the 10 nations.
Teaching computer literacy became an increasingly high priority in much of the world. The British plan for a "national grid for learning" set the year 2003 as the time that all 32,000 U.K. schools would be linked to the Internet. By late 1998 more than 6,000 schools were already linked. The plan was supported by a private charity organization, UK NetYear, which offered free E-mail address services to pupils and teachers along with a multimedia program for teachers titled "Computers Don't Bite." Initial funding included £50 million (U.S. $82.5 million) from the central government and £50 million from local authorities, with an additional £230 million ($380 million) for teacher training derived from the national lottery.
Ireland's education minister, Michael Martin, announced his government's intention to establish Ireland as the "information services hub" for Europe by ensuring that all Irish children were computer literate by the end of their school career. In pursuit of this goal, the government planned to increase annual spending on education from $3.3 billion in 1997 to $4.6 billion by 2002. Of that amount, $71 million would be used to acquire information and communications equipment, training, curriculum manuals, and Internet connections for 4,000 schools.
A new national education policy in Botswana aimed to prepare students for an industrial economy driven by information technology. A key feature of the plan would be a computer awareness program in all secondary and tertiary institutions. The program, organized in a 10-year basic computer education curriculum, was designed to develop students' skills in word processing and the use of spreadsheets and databases.
China's new primary-school policies--introduced in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and selected provinces--reduced children's homework load by 50% and replaced the age-old 100-mark-exam tradition with a system that rated students' performance as excellent, good, pass, or fail. Sixty percent of a child's grade would be based on overall achievement and 40% on behaviour. Supporters of the change claimed it would improve children's mental health and allow them time for leisure reading, painting, and club activities. Critics worried that the change would make students lazy, decreasing their effort to work as diligently as they had under the 100-mark system.
In South Korea a new primary-school textbook came under fire from conservative forces for portraying life in North Korea in too favourable a light. Government officials charged the author, Lee Chang Hee, with violating South Korea's national security law, but Lee's supporters contended that his "open attitude" toward the North was necessary if the North and South were ever to be united.
Struggles between Japanese conservatives and liberals intensified over issues of teaching patriotism in the schools. In Tokorozawa High School students refused to participate in graduation ceremonies that involved the nation's flag and the national anthem, an act that reflected the national teachers union policy of resisting the use of the flag and anthem in schools. At the same time, the Ministry of Education directed all schools to fly the flag and sing the anthem. The new film Pride was lauded by conservatives for portraying Gen. Hideki Tojo, the architect of Japan's military conquests in World War II, as a gentle family man who was the victim of American bigotry.
Evaluators of a voucher system that had operated in Chile since 1980 concluded that allowing parents to use a government tuition coupon to send their children to any school of their choice did not result in private schools' providing better education than public ones. Competition between public and private schools also did not raise the overall quality of education or reduce its costs. Instead, the new instructional materials, technical assistance, and teacher in-service training provided by the government was credited with the improved test scores that students had achieved in recent years.
Afghanistan's Taliban Islamic fundamentalist government moved further in restricting educational opportunities for females by ordering the closing of private schools that had been teaching girls in defiance of the government's policy of keeping women and girls at home. Foreign-aid representatives reported that in 107 such schools in the nation's capital city of Kabul, half of the 6,500 children enrolled had been girls. Under a new set of rules, the schools could be licensed to reopen if they admitted girls no older than age eight and if the curriculum consisted solely of lessons about the Qurʾan.
As a means of curbing Islamic activism in Turkey, the government closed dozens of Qurʾan schools, banned weekend and summer Qurʾan courses, and placed additional restrictions on religious instruction in the remaining Islamic institutions. Under the court ruling only children who had completed their eight years of required secular education could be taught about the Qurʾan, and the lowest age at which students could enroll was raised from 12 to 15. In addition, the president of the University of Istanbul, Kemal Alemdaroglu, banned from the campus men with Islamic-style beards and women wearing head scarves. Alemdaroglu's edict resulted in protest demonstrations by 2,000 Muslim students.
Opinion questionnaires filled out by two million French secondary-school students revealed their overwhelming enthusiasm for sex education and for letting students grade themselves. The study also showed widespread concern among teenagers about finding a job in view of a national unemployment rate exceeding 12%.


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Cast: Halle Berry, Jessica Biel, Jon Bon Jovi, Abigail Breslin, Robert De Niro, Josh Duhamel
Directed: Garry Marshall
Written: Katherine Fugate
Release Date: Dec 9, 2011
New Year's Eve celebrates love, hope, forgiveness, second chances and fresh starts, in the intertwining stories told amidst the pulse and promise of New York City on the most dazzling night of the year.


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Mount Whitney is universally famous as the highest mountain in the United State outside of Alaska, as well as the highest point in California. National Geographic's Trails Illustrated map of Mount Whitney is a two-sided, waterproof map designed to meet the needs of Whitney visitors with unmatched durability, detail, and up-to-date recreation information.
The front side of the map details the topography, hiking and horse trails of Mount Whitney's south side, through Sequoia National Park, Inyo National Forest and Golden Trout Wilderness. The Pacific Crest Trail cuts a treasured pathway through the map, with clearly illustrated amenities available at Cottonwood Pass and Cottonwood Lakes campgrounds just a short hike away. The inset features tips on backcountry safety, contact numbers, and essential information about the region.
The north side topography on the reverse side treks through Sequoia National Park, Sequoia-Kings Canyon Wilderness, Inyo National Park, and the John Muir Wilderness. Both the Pacific Crest and John Muir Trails are highlighted, along with the complete and most popular route for ascending the mountain, the 11-mile Mount Whitney Trail (alternate routes are also shown). View the amenities of the Lone Pine, Tuttle Creek, and Whitney Portal campgrounds, where hikers begin to acclimate. An inset illustrates the elevation of the Mount Whitney trail profile to its 14,494 foot summit.
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Chicago cashing in on the 'Gaymes'Written by Jack Kleban | | firstname.lastname@example.com
If you never heard of "Gaymes," don't feel alone. I hadn't heard the term either until this past week while visiting my daughter in Chicago. "Gaymes" is a newly coined term for "The Gay Games," a worldwide event held every four years. This year, Gay Games VII was held in Chicago.
As reported in the Chicago Tribune, there were approximately 10,000 athletes participating and a total of 100,000 participants involved in making the games a reality. Some articles focused on the economic benefits the event was bringing to Chicago. One article cited the benefits of a successful Gay Games to Chicago's bid for the Olympic Games.
On my flight to Chicago, and everywhere I went, I saw gay insignias on luggage and apparel. There was the "rainbow flag," the AIDS red ribbon and patches from previous Gay Games held in Sydney, Vancouver, New York City and Amsterdam.
At the airport and in the city, there were numerous signs promoting the Gaymes and the support for them. There were bus stop large color posters, headlines on front pages of newspapers and magazines, hotel welcoming signs, etc. It was apparent the red carpet was laid out welcoming all participants and visitors to the event.
I saw how aware many Chicagoans were to the activities of the Gaymes including their anticipation of what street routes to avoid due to the increased traffic and the effects it would have on parking.
There is an officially dedicated gay neighborhood in Chicago where my daughter and I decided to go for dinner. We went to a restaurant called X/O and had no choice but to use valet parking. Even though it was an early dinner time, all tables were booked. We were lucky and got a table in the lounge area overlooking the festivities going on in the outdoor back patio. Dinner was excellent.
After dinner we decided to visit one of the many neighborhood shops. I overheard business owners talking about their increased business and the effect the Gaymes were having not only on their businesses, but for the neighborhood and Chicago.
It was interesting to see how money and economics play into the equation of the acceptance of diversity. For the past several elections, we have heard of the "damage" same-sex marriage is having on our society, how same-sex marriage is a threat to the family, etc. What I witnessed at a downtown Sunday afternoon event was a large crowd of diverse people having a great time. I saw no threat.
Plans are being laid for Gay Games VIII to be held in 2010 in Cologne, Germany. I am sure there were German business men and women and City of Cologne officials on hand to see what they could learn from the Chicago Gay Games VII events to make Gay Games VIII a rewarding gathering of athletes and participants from around the world.
Jack Kleban is president of Midwest Computer Support in Sylvania. He may be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Teenage Road Trip #rt13
Posted on 12. Feb, 2013 by Katey Swenson.
There is this archetype in American culture of the "apathetic teenager." We've all seen it on tv and maybe even in real-life. The constantly texting, non-speaking, "a-shrug-is-worth-a-thousand-words" creatures who live in a self-involved cocoon until emerging – somewhere around age 30. But two weeks ago, at the Delaware-Maryland Synod Road Trip, hundreds of young people defied […]
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Final Day – LWR Road Trip
Posted on 15. Jul, 2012 by Dan Ruth.
Well, we're on our way back to Minneapolis, on our final leg of the journey. Over these nine days through seven states, we have truly met amazing folks and had many laughs. The variety of people we ended up meeting with was my favorite part of the road trip. From 4-year-olds to quilters, from first-ring […]
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Minneapolis, Fairmont & Sheffield – LWR Road Trip Day 6 & 7
Posted on 14. Jul, 2012 by Dan Ruth.
While we covered a lot of ground over the past few days, the pace has been a little lighter. Thursday in Minneapolis, many of us had a chance to catch up on needed rest and work, and John Nunes met a few friends. That evening, Pastor Mary Brown hosted a garden party to welcome John […]
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VBS, Quilters, Farmers & Friends – LWR Road Trip Days 4 & 5
Posted on 12. Jul, 2012 by Dan Ruth.
It's been a busy couple of days here on LWR's Summer Road Trip! I hardly had any time to hop on my computer to post any updates here. But the intensity of our schedule was matched only by the wonderful smiles, laughter and fun of meeting all these amazing people. On Tuesday morning, the LWR […]
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Valpo & Project Awestruck – LWR Road Trip Day 3
Posted on 09. Jul, 2012 by Dan Ruth.
Another wonderful day has now past on our road trip through the Midwest. Today we passed through Michigan and into Indiana, where we had a wonderful morning touring the campus of Valparaiso University (Valpo, to those in the know) and this evening we joined campers at Project Awestruck, a service camp in Crown Point, Indiana. […]
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Saron Lutheran Church – LWR Road Trip Day 2
Posted on 08. Jul, 2012 by Dan Ruth.
To be your presence is our mission blest, to speak for all the broken and oppressed, to be your voice of hope your love expressed, alleluia! We are your heart, O Christ, your hand and voice to serve your people is our call and choice and in this mission we, the church, rejoice, alleluia! The […]
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Arcadia & Ludington – LWR Road Trip Day 1
Posted on 07. Jul, 2012 by Dan Ruth.
Day one of LWR's 2012 Road Trip through the Midwest started out amazingly. We began the day at Camp Arcadia (a Lutheran camp in northern Michigan), picking up John Nunes from a week he and his family spent at the camp. John was the guest lecturer this past week, discussing with other families what it […]


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"There is a retreat from the local restaurant back to nights on the sofa"
Business quote of the day.
Business quote of the day.
by Helen Roxburgh Published
"Any hint of adverse economic developments is likely to provoke a retreat from the local restaurant back to meal deals and nights on the sofa".
Peter Spencer, chief economic advisor to the Ernst & Young ITEM Club, warns that a recovery in consumer spending is set to be fragile, and it will be two years before levels reach pre-recession spending.


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Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert announced today the following assignment:
Capt. Colin J. Kilrain, who has been selected for promotion to rear admiral (lower half), will be assigned as senior defense official and defense attache to Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico. Kilrain is currently serving as director, combating terrorism, National Security Council, Washington, D.C.


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Md. Teacher Who Lost Part Of Her Leg In Boston Marathon Bombing Throws Out First Pitch
A very special moment at Camden Yards Thursday night when Erika Brannock, the Maryland teacher who lost part of her leg in the Boston Marathon bombing, took the mound.
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Advance Directives
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"Advance Directives" are instructions you give regarding your future healthcare. This includes choosing someone to make healthcare decisions for you in the event you are unable to and stating your preferences regarding treatment near the end of life. Social Services at APD are available to answer questions and/or assist you in completing a directive.
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Websites providing detailed instructions and guides to complete Advance Directives are available for residents of New Hampshire (Foundation for Healthy Communities) and Vermont (Vermont Ethics Network).


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The result leaves the Buddies in the bottom two in the SPL, one place and one point behind their opponents, but Lennon was keen to highlight the positives from the game.
"This is a very difficult venue to come to and they are a very hard-working side but I thought we matched that and showed a bit of quality in the second half," he said.
"All that was missing for us was a goal, but our endeavour and commitment couldn't be faulted.
"The final ball was fantastic. We drew a couple of good saves and hit the woodwork. There was absolutely everything bar the end product.
"I am absolutely delighted that we are getting there and, more than that, in the manner that we are getting there.
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She says now the organization is continuing to find out the un-met needs of individual families:
"To be able to find out, you know, what is the situation? What resources do they have? Is it a family that has insurance? Because we know that if somebody has insurance, that typically they are going to bounce back quicker than someone who doesn't."
Miller says 700 Red Cross volunteers helped in recovery efforts statewide. A telethon fundraiser at WTVP last month raised nearly $900,000 for recovery. Miller says that money will help pay for less visible costs like emotional support, casework and technology expenses.


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I'm a 34 inch waist. I have ordered skiing pants from Norrona in the past. The M was a little too snug and the L had the desired relaxed fit. What size should I wear? The sizing chart on this brand is crazy!
Based on other reviewers description of the Fit of these, your experience with them and my own experience with norrona, I would go with a L. If it doesnt work out or you need a size swap, the backcountry guarantee and service make it easy. Good luck!
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I'm using Image Widget (By Shane and Peter, Inc.) to add a image to sidebar, and then I used this to give it hover image.
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Put the problem is, that only Opera support this :D
Any ideas how to do it more cross browser friendly? I have tried to find a widget for this, but haven't found one.
What happens to the image when you hover over it? As in, what effect are you trying to make?
Check "Free Beer" with Opera.
If it's something that you have to update via the CSS anyways, there's no point in using a widget to place it there, might as well just hard code it into the template. That way you can use CSS sprites instead.
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Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Waccamaw High School will be the scene of some good clean fun on June 21, as the schools Athletic Booster Club hosts the inaugural Warrior Mud Run.
The 5K course will feature more than 15 obstacles that will have to be completed, including tire flips, tire drags, mud pits and hay bales.
Volunteers have already dug the mud pits and have been getting the obstacles in place around the school.
Former Booster Club President Robbie Jones, who is overseeing the event, said the course will not traverse any of surrounding athletic fields.
Start times are 9 a.m. for individuals, 9:30 for male teams, 10 for co-ed teams, 10:30 for female teams, and 11 for kids.
Volunteers from Midway Fire Rescue will be on hand to hose down participants after the races.
Since the event is a fun run, no prizes will be given out to the top finishers.
Jones hopes to see at least 100 participants on Saturday.
There will be free refreshments for participants, and a concessions for sale for spectators.
There is no charge to come and watch the races.
Registration before Saturday is $180 per team, $50 per person or $25 per child.
Registration will continue Saturday morning until 8:30 a.m., but the cost increases to $220 per team and $60 per person. Children still pay $25.
Proceeds from the event go to the Booster Club.
For more information go to www.waccamawathletics.com. There is a link on the website to www.active.com.where people can register.
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Rounding up the list of new devices that was launched during the recently-concluded #MoreLumia event in Berlin is the new Nokia DT903. It's a wireless charging plate that's compatible with all Nokia Lumia smartphones running on Windows Phone 8.1.1 and are equipped with Qi-wireless charging technology.
Apart from its ability to wirelessly charge supported Lumia smartphones, the new Nokia DT-903 is infused with other features that expands the accessories functionalities.
When paired to a supported smartphone via Bluetooth, the DT-903 can notify users of incoming SMS and missed calls thanks to an LED light attached to the bottom of the accessory.
This LED light will also emit a constant glow, once it detects that a supported phone is being charged. On top of that, the accessory can intuitively detects a nearby smartphone that has 30% or less battery and will emit a breathing glow, informing the user to charge their device.
The new Nokia DT-903 Wireless Charging Plate will be available later this month and can be had for USD59. It will be available in Green, Orange and White.


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Ed Killer: Indian River County to rekindle artificial reef efforts
A construction boom of sorts is about to take place.
But don't worry, bulldozers won't begin knocking down trees on empty lots. This boom, if it gets rolling, will take place on the nearby seafloor.
Indian River County, along with several key partners, has once again begun to focus efforts on the creation of artificial reefs. Using concrete and steel materials donated from bridge refit projects, railroad ties, power poles and culvert pipes, county coastal engineers plan to increase the volume of oceanic habitat for marine life.
The county will attempt to create 10 artificial reefs in 10 years with the assistance of the Sebastian Inlet Sportfishing Association, Florida Institute of Technology and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. According to county coastal engineer James Gray, Indian River County has applied for a $6,000 grant from the FWC, and preliminary sea floor survey work already has begun.
"The county was approached by SISA back in 1999 to construct reefs using money the club and the state granted to us," Gray said. "The goal was to construct about 15 reefs, and so far, about eight of those have been completed in our permitted area about 12 to 15 miles offshore of Sebastian Inlet."
Gray said in addition to completing the first reef-building goal, the county has taken the lead to explore whether another site closer to the inlet and in shallower water can be used for more reef construction. The purpose of the shallower reefs, situated about four miles from the inlet, would be to provide habitat for and easier access to live bait schools by fishermen.
The original permitted area is in 70 to 90 feet of water. The new area, Gray said, likely would be in about 50 feet of water, depending upon certain specifications and requirements by the federal and state agencies that oversee artificial reef construction projects.
Loaders won't be shoving concrete off barges next week.
Unfortunately, the permitting process alone can take as long as 12 to 18 months and involves about eight different agencies. But when these reefs are dunked, they will begin to have positive effects almost immediately. Within days, reef fishes can begin to inhabit them. Within weeks, corals and other benthic organisms that establish living reefs will settle in. Larger game fish like groupers, snappers, sea bass, triggerfish, cobia and kingfish will follow soon after.
I'd love to see the entire process move along much more quickly. I am not a fan of creating more government; however, I strongly believe in the value of a coastal county's dedicated artificial reef program.
St. Lucie and Martin counties have very active artificial reef programs placing hundreds of tons of materials annually. The last time Indian River County placed an artificial reef was 2007.
Along Florida's 34 coastal counties there are some 2,400 artificial reefs. In the Panhandle, the state has created an underwater shipwreck trail to enhance fishing and diving opportunities in the region.
Artificial reefs support the state's $6 billion sport-fishing industry. That's more money than is coming in for golf and tennis combined. The majority of that money is spread around in the county where the fishing and diving takes place. Locally, reefs can generate an annual fishing and diving economic impact in the tens of millions of dollars.
SISA is seeking businesses and individuals who recognize the connection and encourages them to get involved with reef building. The 50-member fishing club has instituted an Adopt-a-Reef program, according to SISA's Greg Clifford. For $1,000, a vinyl-wrapped spar buoy that is visible at the sea's surface will bear the name of the donor and will be attached to the reef marking it for users.
"Strike Zone tackle store in Melbourne has already stepped up," Clifford said. "We're hoping to get about two years out of each buoy, barring weather events. Our goal is to be proactive in helping our fisheries. It's a long term effort."
But, it's an effort that builds more than just a reef or a fishery. It also builds a coastal economy.
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App Giveaway: Fluke HD for iPad
Fluke HD is a board game for the iPad. It has recently been updated with a classic board theme.
This is a fun little board game! The premise is very simple, so even kids can play. The goal is to get all your tokens to the finish line by rolling the dice. If you're lucky, you'll land on a teleport to move forward and if you're not so lucky, you'll teleport backwards or get your token knocked off by another player.
Rediscover the joy of board games on the iPad with Fluke HD. Download this visually vibrant and action filled game today to play with your friends, family, or loved ones. Fluke HD represents a digital twist on the board game genre with gameplay in the vein of classics such as Snakes & Ladders, Sorry! and Ludo.
- Live multi-player capability
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- AI support with 3 difficulty levels
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- Original game music and in-game sound effects
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as others have probably said i have spent too much on itunes this holiday weekend and need a freebie or the missus she will beat me
Sounds cool! I bet our 7 year old will love it.
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Always looking for good iPad board games.
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Heh...My .net framework won't update to 3.5, let alone anything else..T_T
It sucks that so many programs these days require the Frameworks..
Woh i never know it was so easy following your tutorial now i'm going to have some fun and i'm a complete newbie to this thanks again
Heh...My .net framework won't update to 3.5, let alone anything else..T_T
It sucks that so many programs these days require the Frameworks..
Man, My .NET Framework is up to date (3.5) and I installed Microsoft Forms 2.0 and it still has the error for unpacking the wad Do you have to have Microsoft Office? Because I only got trials with this computer a couple years back and they are over. This sucks because I made custom images for my channel and everything.........
I tried several wads (including your QUIT one) and it still won't work. Then I tried a different version of WaDder, and with a lot of patience, got it to make the .wad, but then once I installed it, it wasnt my pictures I made for some odd reason, it was like Tetris Anyways, that would be really cool if you could make it for me, I would really appreciate it.
Here are the files:
Gecko OS Channel Files.zip
Title-Gecko OS
4 Digit Name-GKOS
Thanks a lot man, it's perfect!
hey, thanks a lot for this. i have 1 question though. i am trying to make a channel for a backup game (e.g. wii sports). so i have no problem with .wad, .png, but the only thing that i have a problem with is the .dol. Bottom line: how do i get or find the .dol of a game?
If you mean the main.dol of the game, use WIIscrubber, load the iso then on the second partition (partition 2: data) expand and you will see main.dol as a branch. Right click on it then select extract and voila you have it on your PC
whoa, sounds great! i just got home so i will try it out now, thx again!


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Does anyone have any information on whether the Government allocated booms to beaches over estuaries? The beaches are more conspicuous, so it may have been done for political reasons. They are easy to clean, while the marshes are very difficult to clean. They will largely have to be cleaned mechanically, since there is not enough oxygen in the water for the microbes to consume the heavy concentrations quickly.
The spill is medium sweet crude. This means it is lower in the most dangerous components, i.e, benzene and sulfides (sour refers to the sulfide content). It is probably less than 1% volatiles and thus not as dangerous to the workers. By the time it reaches shore, the volatiles have evaporated in the hot tropical sun.
The Exxon Valdez was entirely different, but, of course, the environmental wackos love to make the comparison. It occurred near shore in March in a frigid climate. There was very little evaporation before it reached shore.
The tar balls are pretty much the same as asphalt, which is mixed with aggregate to pave roads. I guess, if you think they are toxic, you should wear a mask all the time.
The problem comes from the volatiles which are breathed in, thus bypassing the protections that ingestion has. The tar balls are formed by evaporation of the volatiles and the microbes' consuming the shorter chain hydrocarbons.
It is unwise to use Buzzards Bay as a comparison. You should compare this one to IXTOC 1, which also occurred in the Gulf. The Gulf has natural seepage of about $1M barrels a year. It has very effective strains of microbes which consume the oil quickly. The tropical temperatures make a big difference. The most deadly components of oil, the volatiles, will largely have evaporated by the time it reaches shore. The non-volatile components are all around us, e.g., asphalt pavement.
The big question is whether the Government diverted scarce resources (largely, booms) from protecting the estuaries to protecting the beaches. The beaches are high profile, but easy to clean. The sand can be removed and kilned. However, it would not surprise me if Rahm Emanuel, perhaps the most crass person in the world, convinced Obama to order this for political purposes.
In BP's animation, they state that they were working on it from almost Day 1. They seem to imply that they had the idea, but it is not clear.
There is also the possibility that Ralph C. Whitley, a Tampa plumber gave them the idea to replace the flange. He was in contact with Ruth Rogers at Cameron, International. Not sure of her job, but he apparently knew her and asked her to relay the idea to the CEO. Cameron manufactured the BOP. I was also told they fabricated the caps. This is an email on 6/8/10 to her describing the fix with emails of the various participants:
More at:
Fox & Friends keeps coming up with bogus claimants.
You have bought into the doom and gloom of the wacko environmentalist. Within a year, there will be nothing but tar balls at the bottom of the ocean. Google IXTOC 1 and read some scientific evaluations. The scientists were shocked at how fast the Gulf recovered. The key is the microbes that consume the oil. 1 million barrels a year have seeped into the Gulf naturally for millions of years. If your scenario were true, the Gulf would be full of oil.
The Democrats are gloomy. They will no longer have this as an issue in November. The microbes will have consumed all of the oil in the open ocean (except for tar bars at the bottom). BP will have replaced the sand on the beaches. The marshes will still need to be cleaned up, but few reporters are going on that trek.
In a way, it may have been a blessing in disguise, except for the deaths. Environmental hysterics can no longer scare people with their tales of doom. BP has shown that we can handle the worst oil spill. With what was learned during this one, the next one will will be kids' stuff.
I suspect BP approved this and will pay. They would much rather pay for oysters than try to clean up the marches, which involves a lot of hand labor.
A Tampa plumber, Ralph C. Whitley, Sr., came up with the design three months ago. He apparently could not get it past the red tape. so he contacted a friend at Cameron, but I am not clear on the timing or who convinced BP.
They lifted the 65-foot ban because of complaints by the MSM, according to an article.
Obama has turned reporting into a criminal offense. It is now a felony to get within 65 feet of a boom. How can the press photograph oily birds at that range. They also cannot fly over the spill areas below 3,000 feet.
Did anyone say Nazi Germany?
There are two basic strategies. One is to rely on microbes to consume the oil. Because they consume a lot of oxygen, the oil must be dispersed. This is quite workable in the open ocean. It will be clear of BP oil, except for tar at the bottom, in less than a year.
They can also concentrate the oil with boom and use something like the A-Whale. However, it was not outfitted for skimming when the spill occurred. It appears that the oil firms should pay to have one stationed in each zone, just in case.
One of the problems is that Obama did nothing to cut red tape, allowing too much oil to make it to the shore. One credible, but unverified, story is that Obama told Jindal that he would not help him, because he had opposed Obamacare. It is credible because of the parallel with the Kyl report and the Blogo tapes.
Obama also made a mistake in using scarce boom to protect beaches. In IXTOC 1, they gave priority to estuaries. The beaches are easy to clean. BP will simply remove the sand and burn off the oil. It will be much harder to get the oil out of the marshes. However, the microbes will be eating oil there also.
Ralph C. Whitley, Sr., was in contract with Cameron early on. He is the plumber who is credited with the idea of flange replacement. See the full story and early design at:
Of course, Cameron might have come up with the idea independently. In any case, they are to be congratulated for a well-engineered product.
It is not clear why BP did not go for this solution immediately. I do not know how long it took Cameron to fabricate it, but it seems that it could have been done sooner, if BP had ordered it.
People in NOLA should be outraged. The leak should have been plugged in 8 hours, using available technology, according to the "plumber" who came up with the idea to replace the flange. He was totally outraged when he wrote the emails at:
A design for the flange is at the bottom.
The plumber is Ralph C. Whitley, Sr.
The "Berkley Professor" who convinced BP appears to be Michael Gruters.
The outlook for Louisiana is pretty bleak. It is almost like Obama is trying to punish the state for voting for McCain.
The only hope is for the Republicans to take the House with its subpoena power to investigate Obama.
BP dannot restrict access. It is the Coast Guard doing it to take the heat off of Obama. He doesn't want video of the disaster to be shown on TV every night. Did someone say Nazi Germany?
The damage has already been done. Just the uncertainty is forcing companies to move their rigs to foreign waters. Who is going to start well, knowing that Obama could step in and stop it at any moment? I suppose the oil workers can follow them, but what about the others who depend on their spending? If Landrieu had any guts, she would become a Republican to send a message to Obama.
Obama is not the legitimate President. A documentary by life-long Democrats has proven that he stole the nomination from Hillary by election fraud. This is their website:
I think people in NOLA need to shake up Mary Landrieu a bit. Her positions are largely Republican. Unfortunately, she is stuck in a time warp. You cannot be a Blue-Dog Democrat and a sensible representative at the same time.


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Flashlight photography is a technique that many photographers are driven to these days. The use of flashlights in photography opens a new door of creativity for the photographer. When done correctly, LED flashlights can mimic natural lights and create effects not possible in Photoshop. Also, flashlight photography can be used to "paint" light across an image. This is done by using your camera's long shutter speed setting and sweeping the light from a flashlight across the scene. In order to take advantage of this kind of photography you will need the right kind of cameras.
Cameras for Flashlight Photography
The single-lens reflex, or SLR, is a type of camera made specifically for use with different film types. The SLR has a mirror on the inside of it which moves when you take a picture so the photographer is able to see the same image the camera does. What makes it so great for flashlight photography is the fact that you can adjust the shutter speed to a long shutter speed, perfect for LED light painting.
The digital single-lens reflex camera, or D-SLR, has the same capabilities of the SLR camera, only it doesn't use film. Instead, the D-SLR relies on a digital light sensor to capture images onto a memory card. You can also adjust the shutter speed for LED light painting.
Using these cameras with macro lights or LED flashlights for nature photography can create some interesting images. Flashlights have an incredible flexibility in that they allow the light source to be controlled at the photographer's will. This opens up whole new avenues for creative exploration.
Natural Flashlight Photography
With flashlight photography your creativity can run wild. Flashlights can be combined with other flashlights, camera lights, or ambient lights, to achieve experimental effects. For instance, try using the built in flash of your camera along with an evening flashlight held in front with no direct sunlight. This can add a natural warmness that means the difference between a dull picture and an interesting one. Also, different white balances through different colored gels or color conversion filters in front of white LED lights can simulate several different white balances of naturally occurring sunlight.
With macro, the subject to lens distance is much closer than usual, which allows for the flashlight to be held closer to the subject without being seen in the frame. This method achieves the desired effect in spot lighting photography sessions. Using LED flashlights you can get a cool aesthetic white balance that is perfect for mimicking and/or enhancing night shots. Also, using LED lights you can add subtle touches to your photo, such as "painting" an object with light so that it looks natural; something not capable of being done through an ordinary camera flash.
LED Light Painting
Adding LEDs to your photography is a great way to enhance your pictures. LED lights tend to be on the small side, and don't give off a whole lot of light. This means that you will need a lot of LED lights to get the picture quality you desire. It just so happens that LED lights are probably closest to the cheapest things on the planet, so you can get dozens of them for just a dollar or so.
Also, LED lights are very small. This means that they are wonderfully hard lighting sources. This is because the light of LED flashlights is extremely focused, so they are great for placing flat on the ground in order to light up the bottom of an object or some other straightforward part. However, if you need LED lighting going upward then you can stack LEDs on top of each other in tripod fashion.
Another way to use LED flashlights is to make a Velcro hook strap that wraps around the lens of your camera (use self-adhesive Velcro). Allow two extra centimeters slack for attaching some loop Velcro. This will create a Velcro strap once you connect the loop side to the hook side with the adhesive side facing outwards. Next, attach the LED lights to the adhesive side one LED at a time until you cover the entire strap, and voila! You now have your very own LED lighting source for pointing LED light directly at objects and you hardly spent a dime.
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