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Inflammation (Chronic)
Other Dietary Factors
Resveratrol and Pterostilbene. The exact mechanism by which resveratrol exerts anti-inflammatory activity has not been established, although it inhibits a variety of pro-inflammatory compounds (cyclooxygenase, TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6, NF-κβ) in animal models and human cell culture (Jha et al. 2010; Khanduja et al. 2004). The related compound pterostilbene has demonstrated similar inhibition of inflammatory markers in cell culture (Pan et al. 2008). Modulation of the inflammatory immune response likely contributes to resveratrol's protective role in animal models of heart disease, cancer, acute pancreatitis and inflammatory bowel disease (Clarke et al. 2008). Resveratrol may be protective against general, low-level para-inflammation as well: when taken with a single high-fat, high-carbohydrate meal (930 kcal), resveratrol (100 mg) prevented the sharp post-meal increases in markers of oxidation and inflammation in a small crossover study of 10 healthy volunteers. For example, synthesis of IL-1β increased by 91% over 5 hours following the test meal; with resveratrol, this increase was significantly less (29%) (Ghanim et al. 2011).
Curcumin. Extensive in vitro and animal studies have examine the effects of curcumin on experimentally-induced inflammatory diseases (atherosclerosis, arthritis, diabetes, liver disease, gastrointestinal disorders, and cancers) and disease markers (lipoxygenase, cyclooxygenase, TNF-α, IL-1β, NF-κβ, and others) (Chainani-Wu 2003, Bengmark 2006). Fewer human studies have examined curcumin's effects on patient-oriented outcomes in inflammatory diseases, but most of the small randomized controlled trials of curcumin have consistently shown patient improvements in several inflammatory diseases, including psoriasis, irritable bowel syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, and inflammatory eye disease (Epstein et al. 2010)(reviewed in White et al. 2011).
Tea polyphenols. The anti-inflammatory effects of green and black tea polyphenols have been substantiated by dozens of in vitro and animal studies (Singh et al. 2010) The polyphenols EGCG and theaflavin exert their anti-inflammatory effects through the inhibition of the NF-κβ signaling pathway, which decreases expression of several inflammatory proteins (lipoxygenase, cyclooxygenase, TNF-α, IL-1β, IL-6, and IL-8) in cell culture experiments (de Mejia et al. 2009). EGCG also inhibits the production and release of histamine, a key mediator of allergic and inflammatory response, in vitro (Melgarejo et al. 2010). In observational studies of tea consumption, >2 cups of tea/day (black or green) was associated with a nearly 20% reduction in CRP compared to non-tea drinkers, and significantly lower levels of two other inflammatory markers (serum amyloid A and haptogen, which are elevated in coronary heart disease) (De Bacquer et al. 2006). In clinical interventions, black tea appears to be more successful in reducing inflammatory markers than green (Galland 2010). A 25% reduction in CRP was also observed in a small trial of healthy, non-smoking men consuming a black tea extract (equivalent to 4 cups of tea/day) for 6 weeks (Steptoe et al. 2007). A similar average reduction was observed in a larger study of healthy, individuals at high risk for coronary heart disease, but revealed a more dramatic 40-50% reduction in CRP amongst individuals with the highest starting CRP values (>3 mg/L) (Bahorun et al. 2010).
Carotenoids. In the Women's Health and Aging Study, participants with the highest blood levels of α-carotene and total carotenoids were significantly more likely to have the lower IL-6 levels than participants with low carotenoid levels at the onset of the study (Walston et al. 2006). Participants with the lowest blood levels of α- and β-carotene, lutein/zeaxanthin, or total carotenoids were more likely to experience increases in IL-6 over a period of 2 years.
DHEA. Low levels of sex hormones are associated with systemic increases in inflammatory markers (Singh et al. 2011); DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone) an adrenal steroid hormone, the precursor to the sex steroids testosterone and estrogen. DHEA is abundant in youth, but steady declines with advancing age and may be partially responsible for age-related decreases sex steroids (Heffner 2011). In cell culture and animal models, DHEA can suppress inflammatory cytokine activity, in some cases more effectively than either testosterone or estrogen (Gordon et al. 2001). Chronic inflammation may itself reduce DHEA levels (Ernestam et al. 2007). DHEA supplementation in elderly volunteers (50 mg/day for 2 years) significantly decreased TNF-α and IL-6 levels, as well as lowered visceral fat mass and improved glucose tolerance (both associated with inflammation) in a small study (Weiss et al. 2011).
Fish Oil, is the best source of the omega-3 fatty acids eicosapentaenoic acid -- EPA, and docosahexaenoic acid – DHA that can only be synthesized to a limited extent in humans, which is why fish oil supplementation is so critical. Omega-3 fatty acids have been well studied for their prevention of cardiovascular disease and mortality in tens of thousands of patients; the anti-inflammatory effects of omega-3's contribute to this activity (Marik et al. 2009). They have also proven successful at improving patient outcomes in scores of studies of other inflammatory diseases, particularly asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, and rheumatoid arthritis (Calder 2006) (Giugliano et al. 2006).
The association between greater fish oil/omega-3 consumption and reduced systemic inflammation is substantiated by data from several large observational trials. In 855 healthy participants from the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, intake of omega-3 fatty acids was associated with lower plasma levels of markers of TNF-α activity; interestingly, high intake of both omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids (which are usually assumed to be pro-inflammatory) was associated with the lowest level of inflammation (Pischon et al. 2003). The Nurses' Health Study I cohort of 727 women revealed lower concentrations of inflammatory markers (including CRP and IL-6) amongst those in the top 20% of omega-3 consumption, when compared to those who consumed least amount (Lopez-Garcia et al. 2004). In the ATTICA study of over 3000 Greek men and women without any evidence of cardiovascular disease, participants who consumed over 300 g of fish per week had, on average, 33% lower CRP, 33% lower IL-6, and 21% lower TNF-α than participants who did not consume fish (Zampelas et al. 2005). In a sample of 5,677 men and women without cardiovascular disease from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) cohort, long-chain omega-3 intake (from fish or supplements) was associated with reduced plasma concentrations of multiple inflammatory markers (including CRP, IL-6, and TNF-α receptor, a measure of TNF-α activity)(He et al. 2009)
N-acetyl cysteine (NAC). Activation of the NF-κB pathway plays a central role in the activation of inflammatory cytokine genes; N-acetyl cysteine inhibits NF-κβ in cell culture, lowering expression of cytokines such as IL-6 and IL-8 (Araki et al. 2007) (Radomska-Leśniewska et al. 2006). Data establishing the effects of NAC on lowering chronic inflammation in humans is limited, but shows promise. NAC supplementation for 8 weeks demonstrated modest, but statistically significant decreases in circulating IL-6 levels in patients with chronic kidney disease (Nascimento et al. 2010). The effects were more pronounced in persons with significant inflammation at the start of the study (as measured by hs-CRP). NAC also reduced markers of systemic inflammation in a small study of patients with burn injuries (Csontos et al. 2011).
Boswellia. Boswellia serrata (frankincense) is a traditional anti-arthritic in Ayurvedic medicine; its anti-inflammatory properties have been attributed to the specific inhibition of 5-LOX and reduction in the production of pro-inflammatory leukotrienes by boswellic acids, a constituent of the Boswellia gum resin (Boswellia serrata. 2008). In cell culture, both crude and highly purified Boswellia extracts inhibited the production of pro-inflammatory TNF-α and IL-1β (Gayathri et al. 2007). One of the boswellic acids, Acetyl-11-keto-beta-boswellic acid (AKBA), was an inhibitor of NF-Kb activity in mice (Cuaz-Pérolin et al. 2008), while a topical mixture of the four most abundant boswellic acids decreased inflammation in a rodent inflammation model (Singh et al. 2008). A recent systematic review of human trials of Boswellia for inflammatory conditions revealed that the small number of randomized controlled trials on the extract have produced encouraging results for its use for asthma and osteoarthritis (Ernst 2008), warranting larger studies to confirm the extract as an effective therapy. Standardized Boswellia extracts (30% AKBA) have been effective in mitigating pain in osteoarthritis patients (Sengupta et al. 2008); when combined with non-volatile Boswellia oil, the standardized extract (called AprèsFlex™, or Aflapin®) demonstrated improved activity at a lower concentration (Sengupta et al. 2010). The use of Boswellia extracts for inflammatory bowel diseases has been investigated in multiple clinical trials, although results have been mixed (Gupta et al. 1997; Gupta et al. 2001; Holtmeier et al. 2011).
Sesame Lignans. The observation that sesame oil could decrease the production of arachidonic acid in fungi and rat liver cells led to the identification of the sesame lignans (sesamin, sesamolin, sesaminol) as specific inhibitors of Δ5 desaturase (delta-5-desaturase), one of the enzymes used in the synthesis of arachidonic acid (Shimizu et al. 1991). By inhibiting Δ5 desaturase, sesame lignans may reduce the synthesis of pro-inflammatory prostaglandin, leukotrienes, and thromboxanes, each of which require arachidonic acid as a starting material (Harikumar et al. 2010). In animal models, diets high in sesame seed oil reduced production of the pro-inflammatory prostaglandins PGE-1 and -2, as well as thromboxane B2 (Chavali et al. 1997). In humans, 5 weeks of sesamin supplementation (39 mg/day) reduced the production of the pro-inflammatory vasoconstrictor 20-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (20-HETE; a product of the enzyme 5-LOX) by 30% (Wu et al. 2009). This potential anti-inflammatory property of sesame lignans may partially explain its observed hypotensive (blood pressure-lowering) activity (Miyawaki et al. 2009).
Bromelain. The anti-inflammatory activity of the proteolytic enzyme preparation bromelain has been attributed to its ability to reduce COX-2 activity, decrease prostaglandin and thromboxane synthesis, lower circulating fibrinogen levels, and reduce cellular adhesion of pro-inflammatory white blood cells to the sites of inflammation (Yuan et al. 2006). Human trials of bromelain for inflammatory conditions have yielded promising results (Bromelain Monograph 2010). In a blinded study from Germany, researchers divided 90 patients with painful osteoarthritis of the hip into two groups: one half receiving an oral enzyme preparation containing bromelain for six weeks, while the other half received the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac (sold under the brand name Voltaren® and generic names). They found that the bromelain preparation was as effective as diclofenac in standard scales of pain, stiffness and physical function, and better tolerated than the drug comparator. The researchers concluded, "[the bromelain preparation] may well be recommended for the treatment of patients with osteoarthritis of the hip with signs of inflammation as indicated by a high pain level" (Klein 2006).
Another study comparing a standardized commercial enzyme preparation containing bromelain with diclofenac reached the same conclusion. The study reported that the supplement containing bromelain (90 mg, three times daily) to be as effective as diclofenac (50 mg, twice daily) in improving the symptoms of osteoarthritis of the knee. Patients reported comparable reductions in joint tenderness, pain and swelling, and improvement in range of motion at the end of the study. The investigators found bromelain to be as good as diclofenac on a standard pain assessment scale and to be better than the drug in reducing pain at rest (by 41% for bromelain versus 23% for the drug), improving restricted function (by 10% for bromelain versus 0% for the drug), being rated by more patients in improving symptoms (24% for bromelain versus 19% for the drug), and being evaluated by more physicians as having good efficacy (51% for bromelain versus 37% for the drug). In summary, the investigators determined bromelain to be an effective and safe alternative to NSAIDs such as diclofenac for painful osteoarthritis (Akhtar 2004).
In further research from the United Kingdom, a three-month study looked at the dose-dependent effects of bromelain, either 200 mg or 400 mg a day in volunteers with mild acute knee pain. Pain evaluation was based on patient symptom scores, which were reduced by 41% in the 200 mg bromelain group and by 59% in those receiving 400 mg of bromelain, indicating a dose-response relationship. This was also observed for scores of stiffness and physical function, which decreased significantly in the higher-dose bromelain group compared with those receiving 200 mg. The researchers also noted that overall psychological well-being was significantly improved in both bromelain groups, leading to their conclusion that this natural therapy may be effective in improving general well-being as well as symptoms in otherwise healthy adults suffering from mild knee pain (Walker 2002).
In animal models and cell culture experiments, bromelain has consistently demonstrated a variety of anti-inflammatory properties (Fitzhugh 2008; Secor 2008; Onken 2008; Secor 2005).
Mitochondrial Support
Reactive oxygen species generated during mitochondrial respiration contribute to inflammation, as outlined above. Aging individuals are especially susceptible to mitochondria-related oxidative stress since mitochondria become increasingly dysfunctional with age. Taking steps to support mitochondrial integrity and efficiency can help alleviate some of the systemic oxidative and inflammatory burden caused by poorly functioning mitochondria. Two nutrients, coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) and pyrrloquinoline quinone (PQQ) are powerful mitochondrial protectants (Sourris 2012; Tao 2007), and studies support an anti-inflammatory role for these compounds.
Pyrroloquinoline quinone is a cofactor for enzymes critically important for cellular energy homeostasis and redox balance (Rucker 2009). Several studies have shown that PQQ exerts a protective effective during circumstantial mitochondrial stress and increased oxidative load (Tao 2007; Xiong 2011). In one study, rats given a diet supplemented with PQQ displayed greater energy expenditure and, remarkably, increased mitochondrial density in liver tissue. PQQ supplemented rats also had lower triglycerides and their hearts were more protected against lack of oxygen than rats that had not been given PQQ (Bauerly 2011). During periods of limited oxygen supply to cardiac tissue, a dramatic spike in oxidative stress and subsequent inflammation damages cells; the findings from this animal model indicate that PQQ can stave off this inflammatory cell destruction by preserving mitochondrial efficiency in adverse conditions.
Coenzyme Q10 is an indispensable intermediary in mitochondrial ATP production. Studies have shown that CoQ10 levels are low during inflammatory conditions. In one investigation, patients with septic shock were found to have CoQ10 levels substantially lower than healthy individuals, and, among patients, lower CoQ10 levels correlated with higher levels of an inflammatory mediator called VCAM (Donnino 2011). In an animal model in which rats were given drinking water with added fructose, an experiment that leads to obesity, diabetes, and other inflammatory complications, CoQ10 supplementation attenuated the inflammatory response by decreasing hepatic expression of CRP and other inflammatory mediators (Sohet 2009). Laboratory experiments indicate that CoQ10 modulates the expression of several hundred genes, many involved in inflammatory signaling (Schmelzer 2008). Of particular significance, one experiment showed that CoQ10, at physiologically relevant concentrations, was able to blunt induced TNF-α by more than 25% via modulation of the NF-kB signaling pathway (Schmelzer 2008).
Guarding Against Inflammatory Glycation Reactions
The role of elevated blood sugar and glycation end products in initiating an inflammatory storm has been discussed above. Fortunately, in addition to reducing caloric intake to suppress both fasting and post-meal glucose concentrations, some natural compounds ameliorate the glycation process and may help rein in the sugar-induced inflammatory cascade. Chief among these anti-glycation nutrients are benfotiamine, a member of the B-vitamin family, and carnosine, an amino acid.
Benfotiamine has been used to target diabetic complications since the mid 1990's (Stracke 1996). More recent evidence continues to support its use as a powerful protector against blood sugar-induced tissue damage. In a clinical trial, 165 subjects with diabetes were randomized to receive benfotiamine at either 300 or 600 mg per day, or a placebo for 6 weeks. After the intervention period, those taking benfotiamine exhibited improvements in neuropathic pain in a dose-dependent fashion (Stracke 2008). An animal model found that benfotiamine relieved neuropathic pain by powerfully suppressing inflammation (Sanchez-Ramirez 2006). Moreover, laboratory experiments have shown that, in addition to blocking glycation reactions, benfotiamine may regulate inflammation more directly by modulating COX and LOX enzyme activity (Shoeb 2012).
Carnosine exerts a range of favorable biochemical effects within the body; it powerfully blunts glycation reactions and eases oxidative stress (Vistoli 2012). In addition, several experiments have revealed a marked ability of carnosine to suppress inflammation in various cell types (Fleisher-Berkovich 2009; Tsai 2010; Boldyrev 2007). Unfortunately, carnosine levels decline as much as 63% between ages 10 and 70 (Hipkiss 2009). Furthermore, in patients with type II diabetes, skeletal muscle carnosine content is markedly lower than in healthy control subjects (Gualano 2011). When carnosine is administered as a supplement to animals with chemically–induced diabetes, it is able to protect delicate retinal cells from inflammatory complications related to high blood sugar (Pfister 2011).


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JISC Collections exists to support the acquisition of digital content for education and research in the UK. In response to demand from our member institutions we have engaged in a series of world leading e-books projects:
E-books for FE
JISC national e-books observatory project
E-textbook business models for HE
Knowlegde shared worldwide
One of elements of open access is that, without any barriers to access, it has the potential to widen readership – to make what was once only accessible to those that could afford it – open to all. The UK monograph market sells on average about 200 – 300 per title, mainly to libraries, and … Continue reading »View full post
#OAbooks Conference Report
Continuing on the high note that was Open Access Week, Jisc Collections and OAPEN are pleased to release the report of the Open Access Monographs in Humanities and Social Sciences Conference that took place in July 2013 at the British Library. Collaboration was the key theme of the Open Access Monographs in Humanities and Social … Continue reading »View full post
Costing OA monographs
Ronald Snijder, Technical Coordinator; Project manager digital publications at OAPEN Foundation has presented some extremely interesting slides on the costs associated with an open access monograph. The analysis has been done by title, rather than by publisher, on the books included in the OAPEN-NL project. He has analysed the print costs and the OA costs (fixed and variable) … Continue reading »View full post
OAPEN-NL releases final report
The OAPEN-NL project (our sister project in the Netherlands) yesterday published its final report and it is essential reading for all those interested in OA monograph publishing. OAPEN-NL has explored the opportunities and possibilities for the open access business model for monographs and compared open access costs and impacts to conventional publishing. Between June 2011 … Continue reading »View full post
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This week, as part of Open Access week, Caren Milloy gave a presentation at Dundee University on open access monographs –why, how and what next. If you are new to open access monographs, you may find this presentation useful as it talks about the role of the monograph in humanities and social science research, why … Continue reading »View full post
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The Mexico City meeting is a landmark for At-Large. For the first time, the whole At-Large community will be meeting together face-to-face in the 'At-Large Summit'. About 90 representatives of the At-Large membership of organisations (called "At-Large Structures") are already confirmed. Mexico City meeting attendees will be able to spot them easily, as each will have a ribbon indicating their status as a Summit delegate attached to their ICANN meeting badges.
It is being held 28 February through 5 March, at the Sheraton and also at the nearby Melia Mexio Reforma hotel.
All ICANN staff, board members, and community members are invited and encouraged to attend the sessions, all of which are open to everyone.


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Museum botanist Sandy Knapp discusses the role the John Reeves collection played in documenting the natural world in the 1800s. It was as important to the study of natural history as modern data collecting and imaging techniques are today, and it continues to provide information vital to scientists in these modern times.
Turmeric, Curcuma longa. Watercolour from the John Reeves collection, c1817-1824. The image includes detail of the root and an individual flower.
There was great demand for information about natural history in Europe in the early 1800s.
Scientists and naturalists were keen to find out about species living throughout Asia. Traders were interested in products for commercial reasons and botanical and private gardens such Kew Gardens and the Horticultural Society of London were on the look out for all variety of exotic plants.
Because of this demand and his location in the Canton ports, Reeves was able to collect an incredible cross-section of specimens, not only from the gardens and markets of Canton but also from the interior of China as well as from all over Asia.
Reeves sent specimens back to Britain by sea but the lengthy ocean voyages often damaged or destroyed them despite the ingenious methods he used to protect them, for example installing mini-glasshouses on tea-clippers and encasing seeds in wax to avoid spoilage. Paintings and illustrations were far better at surviving the journey.
Mangrove fan palm, Licuala spinosa. Watercolour from the John Reeves collection, 1812-1824.
Reeves instructed the local artists he commissioned in the conventions of Western scientific illustration. For example, as well as painting a whole plant on a white background, the artist would often dissect parts of the specimen such as the fruit or flower and add details of these and other areas of particular interest.
These paintings proved to be invaluable in recording and communicating information about species.


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Tampa, Florida -- A 47-year-old woman died Wednesday night as she tried to cross Sheldon Road in her wheelchair.
Hillsborough Sheriff's deputies say around 8:35 p.m., Kimberly Laughlin was heading east across Sheldon Road at Wood Lake Drive in her wheelchair, coming from Radiant Food store. At the same time, Rosemary Fowler was heading north in the median lane of Sheldon Road in her 1997 Ford Explorer.
Fowler told police she did not see Laughlin and hit her in the center of the median lane.
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Alliance Française
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The Alliance Française (French pronunciation: [aljɑ̃s fʁɑ̃sɛz], French Alliance), or AF, is an international organization that aims to promote French language and culture around the world. Created in Paris on 21 July 1883, its primary concern is teaching French as a second language and is headquartered in Paris.[1] In 2014, the Alliance has 850 centers in 137 countries, on all five continents.[2]
The Alliance was created in Paris on 21 July 1883 by a group of eminent men, including the scientist Louis Pasteur, the diplomat Ferdinand de Lesseps, the writers Jules Verne and Ernest Renan, and the publisher Armand Colin.
It finances most of its activities from the fees it receives from its courses and from rental of its installations. The French government also provides a subsidy covering approximately five percent of its budget (nearly 665,000 € in 2003)
More than 440,000 students learn French at one of the centres run by the Alliance, whose network of schools includes:
- a centre in Paris, Alliance Française Paris Ile-de-France
- locations throughout France for foreign students and
- 1,016 locations in 135 countries.
The organizations outside Paris are local, independently run franchises. Each has a committee and a president. The Alliance Française brand is owned by the Paris centre. In many countries, the Alliance Française of Paris is represented by a Délégué général. The French Government also runs 150 separate French Cultural Institutes that exist to promote French language and culture.[3]
In 2005, along with the Società Dante Alighieri, the British Council, the Goethe-Institut, the Instituto Cervantes, and the Instituto Camões, the Alliance française was awarded the Prince of Asturias Award for outstanding achievements in communications and the humanities.
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The Alliance Française Paris Ile-de-France is a Higher Private Education Institute. It is an association from the law 1901. Located in the heart of the capital, the Alliance Française Paris Ile-de-France is a genuine international meeting point where more than 11,000 students from 160 different countries come every year to learn French. It is also the oldest one since the school offers courses in Paris since 1894.
The 110 faculty teachers at the Alliance Française Paris Ile-de-France are all certified in teaching French as a foreign language.
Until 2007, the year of creation of the Alliance Française Foundation, the Alliance Française Paris Ile-de-France was called "the Paris Alliance Française".
It was divided into three branches: the International Relations (DRI), the School of Paris, and the Department of Human and Financial Resources (DRHF). In 2007, the DRI has become the Alliance Française Foundation, while the School and the DRHF became the Alliance Française Paris Ile-de-France.
Three conventions are now governing the relations between the Foundation and the Alliance Française Paris Ile-de-France:
- a financial agreement: the Alliance Française Paris Ile-de-France supports the Foundation financially.
- an agreement for the premises: the Paris Alliance Française donated its building in Boulevard Raspail to the Foundation at the time of the division in 2007
- a teaching agreement: the Alliance Française Paris Ile-de-France supports the Alliances Françaises worldwide in their projects to professionalize their teaching and administrative staff. More than 40 missions per year are made abroad.
The Alliance Française Paris Ile-de-France works with Alliances Françaises from around the world, ministries, public bodies, and also large companies, supporting them in their desire to improve their command of the language in a professional environment.
It is also a training center for French language teachers. Each year, nearly 2,300 teachers across the world are trained on site or remotely, initial or continuing training.
It delivers specific diplomas for French teachers such as the 'DAEFLE' (Diplôme d'Aptitude à l'Enseignement du Français Langue Étrangère), created with the 'CNED' (National Center for Distance Education) or the 'DPAFP – FLE' (Diplôme Professionnel de l'Alliance Française Paris Ile-de-France en Français Langue Étrangère), which you obtain in five months after an initial training on site.
It also offers summer teaching courses for French teachers wishing to deepen and improve their knowledge. The Alliance Française Paris Ile-de-France has been awarded the FLE Quality Label, achieving top marks for each of the criteria studied by the auditors: welcome, quality of teaching, premises, school management.
It is also co-founder of ALTE (Association of Language Testers in Europe), an association that includes some of the most prestigious European institutions in the field of evaluation in foreign language.
Since 2010, it is the provider of the 'OFII' (French Office for Immigration and Integration) for language training of the signatories of the Contract Integration living in Paris.
- Botswana 1
- Comoros 3
- Ethiopia 2 (Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa)
- Ghana 4[4]
- Kenya 2[5]
- Lesotho 1
- Madagascar 29
- Mauritius 6
- Mozambique 1
- Namibia 1
- Nigeria 10[6] (Alliance Française de Port Harcourt)
- Southern Africa 13[7] (Alliance Française of Port Elizabeth)
- Swaziland 1
- Tanzania[8]
- Uganda 1[9]
- Zimbabwe 1
- Argentina there are 72 partnerships with 16,000 students forming a network is considered one of the largest and oldest in the world. In Rosario, Buenos Aires, Córdoba, Campana, Santa Fe, Mendoza.[10]
- Bermuda has 1 Alliance Française.[11]
- Bolivia has 5 Alliances Françaises in all the main centers of population: Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Sucre, Tarija.[12]
- Brazil There are 39 Alliance Française schools in Brazil, and 6 partner learning centres. Out of the federation's 26 states, only 7 have no schools ot learning centres. Alliance Française has been in the Brazilian educational scenario for over 125 years, since 1885.
- Canada has 12 Alliances Françaises from coast to coast: Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto (one in Downtown and one in North York), Mississauga, Markham Ottawa, Moncton, Halifax.[13]
- Colombia has more than 20 Alliances Françaises in 16 cities.[14]
- Costa Rica has 3 Alliances Françaises, the first in Barrio Amón, in the East side of the capital San José and another two, one in La Sabana (West side of the capital) and also in Heredia, another province of Costa Rica.[15]
- Cuba has 3 Alliances Françaises, one located in Santiago de Cuba and the other two in Havana City.[16]
- Dominica has 1 Alliance Française, in the capital city, Roseau.
- Dominican Republic has 4 Alliance Françaises, one in the capital city, Santo Domingo, and others in Santiago, Mao and Monte Cristi.
- Ecuador has 5 Alliances Françaises, located in the capital city of Quito and in the cities of Cuenca, Guayaquil, Loja and Portoviejo.[17]
- El Salvador has 1 Alliance Française Centre in the capital city, San Salvador.[18]
- Grenada has 1 Alliance Française in Saint George's
- Honduras has 2 Alliance Françaises, one located in Tegucigalpa and the other in San Pedro Sula.
- Jamaica has 1 Alliance Française Centre in Kingston http://alliancefrjm.org/
- Mexico has 38 Alliance Française organizations throughout the country and 12 affiliated centers.[19]
- Nicaragua has 3 Alliance Française Centre, in the capital city, Managua and others in León and Granada[20]
- Panama has 1 Alliance Française organization.[21]
- Paraguay has 2 Alliance Française organization throughout the country.[22]
- Peru has 12 Alliance Française organizations, 6 in the capital city, Lima and others in Trujillo, Arequipa, Iquitos, Cusco, Piura, Huancayo and Iquitos.[23]
- Puerto Rico has 1 Alliance Française, located in the capital city of San Juan.
- Trinidad and Tobago has 1 main centre located in the capital city, Port of Spain, with additional classes on offer in San Fernando and Tobago.[24]
- United States have 111 chapters in 45 states, including Alliance Française de Washington, Alliance Française de Chicago, and Alliance Française de San Francisco.[25]
- Venezuela, has 12 Alliance Française, 5 in the capital city Caracas, and in several others states of Venezuela.
Asia and Oceania[edit]
- Australia has thirty-one Alliance Française organizations.
- Bangladesh has two Alliance Française organizations, in Dhaka (Alliance Française de Dhaka, three branches located in Dhanmondi, Gulshan and Uttara) and in Chittagong
- Brunei Darussalam
- China has fifteen Alliance Française organizations: Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Dalian, Tianjin, Qingdao, Jinan, Chengdu, Wuhan, Chongqing, Hangzhou, Xian, and Nanjing.
- Hong Kong has three Alliance Française organizations, one in Wanchai, one in Jordan and another one in Shatin. Alliance Française de Hong Kong was created in 1953.
- There are 22 Alliances Françaises located in India (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Bhopal, Chandigarh, Chennai (Alliance Française de Madras), Coimbatore, Goa, Gurgaon, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Karikal, Kolkata, Madurai, Mahé, Mumbai, New Delhi, Pondicherry, Pune, Mysore, Tiruchirappalli, Trivandrum)
- Indonesia has 4 Alliances Françaises located in Medan, Balikpapan, Semarang and Denpasar.
- Macau[26]
- Malaysia has 3 centres in the capital Kuala Lumpur and one in Penang.[27]
- Maldives has 1 center in capital city Malé[28]
- Mongolia[29]
- Nepal
- New Zealand has three Alliance Française organizations. The Alliance Française d'Auckland has 900 members.
- In Pakistan there are four Alliance Françaises located in Karachi (Alliance Française de Karachi), Lahore, Faisalabad and Islamabad.[30]
- The Philippines has Alliance Française de Cebu located in Cebu City, and Alliance Française de Manille located in Makati City.
- Singapore has an Alliance Française located in Newton.
- South Korea has seven Alliance Française organizations: Seoul, Incheon, Daejeon, Jeonju, Gwangju, Daegu, and Busan.
- Sri Lanka has Alliance Française de Kotte located in Colombo, and Alliance Française de Kandy in Kandy.
- Taiwan has two Alliance Française centres in Taipei and Kaohsiung.
- Thailand has its main centre in Bangkok and branches in Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, and in the city of Phuket.
- Albania has four Alliance Française organization located in Tirana, Korça, Shkodra and Elbasan.[31]
- Armenia has one Alliance Française organization located in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.[32]
- Croatia has one Alliance Française organization located in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.[33]
- Iceland has one Alliance Française organization located in Reykjavik.[34]
- Ireland has six Alliance Française organizations. Dublin, the capital of Ireland, is home to the third largest Alliance in Europe.[35] There is also a location in Cork, Ireland's second city.[36] Alliance Française de Cork also organises the Cork French Film Festival.[37]
- Other locations in Ireland include Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick and Waterford, which also has a branch in Wexford.[38][39][40][41]
- Malta has one Alliance Francaise organization located in Floriana.[42]
- Moldova has one Alliance Française organization located in Chişinău, the capital of Moldova.[43]
- Romania has three Alliance Française organizations located in Braşov, Constanţa, Piteşti and Ploieşti.[44]
- Spain has twenty Alliance Française organizations located all over the country, promoted by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in Spain.[45]
- Turkey has one Alliance Française organization located in Adana.[46]
- United Kingdom has eleven Alliance Française organizations. The first Alliance Française organization in the UK was located in London, which traces its roots back to 1884.[47] During WWII, the London location served as the international headquarters of Alliance Française when the Paris location was closed.[48]
- Other locations in the British Isles include Bristol-Bath, Cambridge, Exeter, Glasgow, Jersey, Manchester, Milton-Keynes, Newscastle-upon-tyne, Oxford and York.[49]
Further reading[edit]
- Bruézière, Maurice (author) L'Alliance Française, Histoire d'une Institution 1883-1983, 1983 Librairie Hachette, Paris. ISBN 2-01-009341-0.
- Ürményházi, Attila J.(author) Un Centenaire de Rayonnement de la Culture Française (the abridged version of the AF's history to include Une Célébration de l'Alliance Française en Tasmanie), 2004. National Library of Australia, Canberra (Australian Collection) Np 943.9052 U77.
- ^ Alliance Française Paris Ile-de-France
- ^ The French language worldwide, 2014 report by the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie
- ^ French Cultural Institutes
- ^ AF Accra
- ^ AF Kenya
- ^ AF Nigeria
- ^ AF Southern Africa
- ^ AF Tanzania
- ^ AF Uganda
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- ^ AF Panama
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- ^ AF Peru, AF Huancayo
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- ^ Directory of Alliance Française U.S.
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- ^ AF Lahore
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Ledyard - After several students and parents spoke critically at Wednesday's Board of Education meeting of holding school on Veterans Day, Superintendent Mike Graner gave a presentation on activities planned for the day at all the district's schools.
The Board of Education decided this past spring to hold school Nov. 11, though the town historically hasn't. Graner said the board always invites comments on the upcoming year's calendar, but this year's went through with no controversy until several weeks ago.
Anthony Zinno, a seventh-grader at Ledyard Middle School, said he came before the board a few weeks ago to first complain of having school despite the holiday. He presented board members with a petition signed by more than 100 students asking that school be let out to honor veterans.
Eighth-grader Sarah Masten said she doesn't "really like missing school at all," but would rather spend the day with her father, a 28-year veteran.
Paul Whitman, a 23-year Navy veteran whose 6-year-old daughter attends Gales Ferry School, said he had requested an agenda for the day and was told by board members that it was simply a regular school day.
"I've been pretty upset about this," he said.
One other parent, Meredith Robinson, a retired Naval officer, said she was "initially taken aback" when she saw that there would be school on Veterans Day this year.
But she conceded that because of the many school staff and Board of Education members who have military backgrounds, it's "hard to infer any kind of nefarious intent" - particularly when there will be ceremonies in the schools.
"Veterans Day has real, live people involved," she said. "By allowing those people to come into the schools … I think that's more of a way of honoring them than giving them a day off."
Graner, who served in the Coast Guard, said he was aware of the concerns, and said that when the Board of Education voted to hold school Nov. 11, members began to work with school principals to plan programs for the day. Those will include the reading of essays and poems, performances of patriotic songs, student meetings with veterans, some of whom include school staff members, along with Ledyard High School military alumni, and wearing red, white and blue.
Graner also promised to report back to the school community on how the day's activities went.
"I think the children will get a good look at exactly what Veterans Day is," he said.
Board member Mimi Peck-Llewellyn, a 32-year Navy JAG veteran who said her husband served in Operation Desert Storm and her parents served in World War II, said the planned events are an appropriate way for students to spend Veterans Day.
"I wanted to ensure that those children in our community who do not come from a family of veterans have that same experience but for one day in Ledyard schools," she said. "I don't hesitate to say that I support having school on Veterans Day."
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PATENT OFFICE DESIGN FOR A BLOUSE Albert Einstein, New York, N. Y. Application July 2, 1936, Serial No. 63,612
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I'm glad you've actually used your bokashi. All of mine have ended up in my parents compost bin, whereupon the worms promptly evacuated. Now i'm waiting for my squash to die so I can dig this stuff in without killing anything else.
Bokashi composting
I compost all my food scraps – fruit, veggies, onions, citrus, dairy, meat – even bones! Sound revolting? Well, for the past few months I have been experimenting with a new type of compost. It's a Japanese method, and it's called Bokashi.
I always loved the idea of composting our food scraps, but in the apartment it just seemed impossible. I tried a worm farm for a while, but there were so many no-nos like onions and citrus, and then somehow I managed to kill them. Every time I dumped food scraps and old leftovers in the garbage I felt terrible, but it all seemed too hard. I discovered bokashi once we moved to the house, and I was an instant convert. I started raving about it to some friends at a party, and funnily enough, all but one of them was already using it, so I must have been living under a rock.
Bokashi is an indoor composting system that uses microorganisms to ferment the scraps. Because it is a process of fermentation, the smell is minimal and is similar to a yeasty/beery odour. The container is airtight, so even that minimal smell is completely contained.
To get these microorganisms, you buy a special treated grain powder (I get it from Bunnings) and add it to your food scraps in a bucket that you can keep inside. You can get the kits with the powder and bin at Bunnings or online, but I have gone the cheapskate solution, with simple multipurpose buckets from the hardware store. The drawback with my method is that my buckets don't have a tap. To make the process most efficient, you are supposed to drain off the liquid that accumulates in the bottom of the bucket and use it as liquid fertiliser, but I find that I fill the buckets so quickly that it doesn't matter.
My process is:
1. Collect the food scraps in a little bucket throughout the day. With bokashi you can compost all on the normal no-nos, like meat, citrus, onions, dairy – even bones! I literally put everything leftover from the kitchen in it.
2. Empty the scraps into the big bucket at the end of the day, or when the little bucket is full. With toddlers and babies in the house, we generate sooo many food scraps. The kids just chuck food on the floor during their meals, and I hate to see it go to waste.
3. Compact the scraps down to remove air pockets, then sprinkle the bokashi powder over the top of the new layer. A thin, even layer is best, but I can't sprinkle evenly while taking a photo
4. Close the big bokashi bucket, insuring that it is air tight, because the bokashi process is anaerobic.
5. When the bucket is full, leave it for a couple of weeks to continue fermenting. This is optional – sometimes I bury it straight away. After a few weeks you may get some white mould growing on the top – this is normal. Don't expect that the food scraps will be at all broken down – that won't happen until it is buried.
6. Dig a hole somewhere in the garden and empty the bokashi bucket
7. Cover over the hole
8. Leave for 4-6 weeks, before digging up and using as fantastic compost. After this time you may still find some vaguely-recognisable bits, like egg shells and tissues. They take a bit longer to break down, but it shouldn't smell anymore after 6 weeks.
I generally fill the 20 litre bucket once every 3 weeks or so and the bokashi powder costs $16 for about 5 months' supply. Really cheap compost, and an almost empty garbage bin. One week I put the first bag into the garbage bin on the morning it was collected.
I have used the compost from my bokashi bucket as the planting medium for my dwarf banana tree. It has absolutely thrived!
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Yeah the bokashi bins are really a cool and useful invention. You can even use it at the office
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Oh I really like the idea of this… but 20 litre bucket? That wasn't the once pictured, was it?? What do you think would happen if you just buried your compost without the bokashi powder??
I collect the scraps during the day in a small bucket, then empty it into the 20 litre one at the end of the day, or if the small one is full.
Burying without the bokashi powder would break down eventually, but the buckets would smell, and I think it would attract vermin. The fermenting process seems to speed up the process once it's buried, and I haven't had a single problem with pests.
Do you not drain any of the liquid away? Your large bucket doesn't look like it has any drainage. Any of the bought bokashi composting buckets I have seen, have a drainage section for the liquid that builds up, and I wondered if it was important to get rid of it, or do you not bother and let the liquid build up? I assume if you do, then you also pour it into the ground with the food waste once your large bucket is full. Thanks.
I've never bothered. I fill them up so quickly that the liquid build up have never been a problem. I just pour the full bucket (liquid and all) into the hole when I bury it.
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Throughout 2012, new names for presidential candidates have emerged in the mainstream and social media, but the old names continue to dominate the news.
Despite so many names popping up in public discussions, the nature of the debate has made a clear distinction between the contenders and the pretenders for the 2014 presidential election.
First, no matter how popular the figures are, they cannot become contenders if they are not qualified to run in the election. The major obstacle to run for able candidates is the presidential threshold.
While legislators are still negotiating the threshold required to make a bid for the presidency, many say the current figure of 20 percent will be maintained, meaning anyone intending to run needs support from a party or coalition of parties that have won at least 20 percent of the popular vote in the legislative election.
All the major parties at the House of Representatives want a high threshold, with the Golkar Party even suggesting 25 percent, while the Democratic Party is eyeing the range between 15 and 20 percent.
If the prevailing figure of 20 percent holds, then the 2014 election will only see three or four candidates run for the country's top job, as Article 6 of the Constitution obviates the possibility of an independent candidate, says Aleksius Jemadu, dean of Pelita Harapan University's (UPH) School of Social and Political Sciences.
"We're still waiting for the new law on the presidential election. But if the current threshold is maintained then we can only see three or four pairs of candidates run in the upcoming election," he said.
With the same threshold, only three candidates ran in the 2009 election.
Taking these conditions into consideration, the only real contenders at this point are Megawati Sukarnoputri, the former president, and business tycoon and Golkar chairman Aburizal Bakrie.
Regardless of internal wrangling, Golkar has formally nominated Aburizal as its presidential candidate.
By doing so, the party, which won 14.5 percent of the vote in the 2009 legislative election, has effectively closed the door on all other contenders, including those from inside the party.
That means that although former vice president and ex-Golkar chairman Jusuf Kalla is more popular than Aburizal according to most recent surveys, he must look to other parties for support if he chooses to mount a bid.
Megawati, chairwoman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), which won 14 percent of votes in 2009, has yet to announce her candidacy, but did indicate recently that she might run, dashing the hopes of retired general Prabowo Subianto of obtaining the party's nod.
Most polls have named Prabowo as the leading candidate for 2014, ahead of even Megawati and Kalla. However, many noted that his bid could be over before it begins because of a lack of party support.
However, analysts say Prabowo burned his bridges with the PDI-P by glorifying his role in the Jakarta gubernatorial poll, thereby damaging his chances of being selected by Megawati. Though she did not mention Prabowo by name, the former president blasted "free riders" that took credit for Joko Widodo's election victory.
Prabowo has two options left if he wants to run. One is to persuade President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to allow his Democratic Party, which won 20.8 percent of votes in 2009, to support him.
A less likely scenario is that he forms a coalition with several minor parties.
However, the biggest question in 2012 and heading into 2013 is who Yudhoyono will back. With the Democrats taking a shellacking from a host of graft allegations, Yudhoyono has indicated that the party will seek an outsider as its presidential candidate, saying that the party will only support the most popular figure.
Besides Prabowo and Kalla, others mentioned as possible picks for the Democrats include chief economics minister Hatta Rajasa and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Pramono Edhie Wibowo, both of whom are in-laws of the president.
Others include chief security minister Djoko Suyanto, Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan and Constitutional Court Chief Justice Mahfud M.D.


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College roundup: West Virginia thwarts UT's rally
Staff and wire reports : February 4, 2013 : Updated: February 5, 2013 12:10am
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Texas' Ioannis Papapetrou (1) passes around West Virginia's Juwan Staten (3) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game at WVU Coliseum in Morgantown, W.Va., on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013. (AP Photo/David Smith)
Deniz Kilicli and Jabarie Hinds scored 14 points apiece to lead West Virginia to a 60-58 win over Texas on Monday in Morgantown, W.Va.
West Virginia (11-11, 4-5 Big 12) swept the season series and sent the Longhorns (10-12, 2-7) to their seventh loss in nine games.
Freshman Eron Harris added 13 points for West Virginia.
Sheldon McClellan and Javan Felix led Texas with 12 points apiece.
Texas trailed by as many as 11 early in the second half but went ahead 49-47 on two free throws by Felix with 8:21 left. But the Longhorns were held to nine points — and two field goals — the rest of the game.
West Virginia scored five straight points, including Harris' free throw that put the Mountaineers ahead 59-54 with 25 seconds left.
(9) Syracuse 63, (25) Notre Dame 47: C.J. Fair had 18 points and 10 rebounds, freshman Jerami Grant scored a season-high 14 points, and the host Orange snapped a two-game losing streak. The Orange have won a school-record 36 straight at home, the longest active streak in Division I.
Texas College 94, Our Lady of the Lake 69: The Saints dropped to 15-9 (11-5 Red River Athletic) in Tyler.
(8) Penn State 69, (13) Purdue 61: In State College, Pa., Maggie Lucas scored 17 points, and the Nittany Lions withstood a second-half rally by the Boilermakers with defense to reclaim sole possession of first place in the Big Ten.
(14) Texas A&M 74, LSU 57: In Baton Rouge, La., Kelsey Bone scored 21 points to lead the Aggies (18-5, 8-1 Southeastern Conference) to victory.
Kristi Bellock scored 12 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for A&M.
Adrienne Webb led LSU with 17 points.
Our Lady of the Lake 110, Texas College 72: The Saints improved to 22-1 (15-1 Red River Athletic) after the victory in Tyler.


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"The most buzzed-about new songwriter in folkdom." - Scott Alarik, Boston Globe
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Jonathan's career started with a contest. In the year 2000, Byrd took grand prize in the North Carolina Songwriter's Coop Song contest in his hometown of Carrboro, NC. Inspired, he began to tour and recorded his first CD, Wildflowers. With spare production, these simple tales of love and death made a surprising impact. Other touring musicians, like Jack Lawrence and Larry Keel, began to cover these new songs that sounded so old.
Born in Fayetteville, NC, Jonathan got his musical start singing in a Baptist church. After learning piano and classical flute, he convinced his father to buy him a cheap electric guitar. The adolescent Byrd started breaking the rewind button on cassette players, learning Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix licks. Jonathan headed straight from high school into the Navy, carrying a guitar behind his bunk for three tours in the Mediterranean.
Back home, Byrd began to connect with a vibrant folk music scene. At fiddle meets and festivals, Jonathan fell in love with traditional music. And through music, he found a connection with his native ground. His writing took a hairpin turn, as he flat picked fiddle tunes and began writing new ballads. "The old world was not really different from today's world," Jonathan says. "Discovering the language and stories of that older world has shown me the essence of the human experience."


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Bellevue city officials declared a state of emergency at 1:30 p.m. Monday, asking local motorists to stay off the roads after floodwaters shut down travel throughout most of the city.
Bellevue Safety-Service Director Jeffrey Crosby said flooding on Monday was "as bad as it's ever been," comparing Monday's floodwaters to those of June 2006.
"Right now I don't know of a street in Bellevue that isn't flooded," Crosby said Monday afternoon. "All the pumps are working. It's just the volume of water has overwhelmed the system."
Non-stop rain throughout the morning flooded highways and even homes all over Bellevue.
The rain forced Bellevue police to call in off-duty and volunteer officers to handle the high volume of calls and flood emergencies throughout the city.
Several officers directed traffic at Bellevue's major intersections.
Floodwater converted Ancel Webb's front lawn and driveway at 2644 Ohio 269 into a small lake. He walked across his property in galoshes as his home was surrounded by water.
"I've never seen it flooded like this," Webb said as he surveyed the damage to equipment in his garage, which was also flooded with about one foot of water.
Sue Gardner, 210 Sherman St., was extremely frustrated with her flooded basement after dealing with the same problem last year.
"I'm disgusted, totally disgusted," she said. "I could cry. I have been crying all morning. I don't know what to do anymore. The city has got to do something about this."
Crosby said the city's been doing all it can, but Bellevue's flat topography prevented the non-stop rain from escaping fast enough.
Bellevue and Huron County emergency management personnel provided the city with at least three additional water pumps -- one 6-inch and two 12-inch pumps -- to siphon water out of Bellevue.
"There's not a lot of drainage -- no rivers, no creeks," he said. "When the water table's been as high as it has been, it just can't absorb the water. It has to go somewhere. I don't think you can build anything for this kind of rain."
The National Weather Service estimated that by 8 a.m. Monday, 1.5 inches of rain per hour was falling on the Bellevue area.
Meteorologist Martin Thompson said since Sunday two systems of air, one warm and one cool, converged with a tropical front over the Bellevue area and stopped moving, causing massive amounts of rain to fall.
"During summertime when a weather pattern does set up, it takes a long time for it to change as compared to the winter," Thompson said. "We had some measurable rain last week, but nothing like we're seeing now."
Thompson couldn't provide Bellevue's precise amount of rainfall, but said similar areas received 3-4 inches during the afternoon.
Traffic into and out of the city slowed to a crawl as cars stalled trying to drive through the flooded Main Street/U.S. 20 underpass.
U.S. 20 was also shut down at the Ohio 113 intersection.
Cindy Bilton, 38, of Norwalk thought her 1996 Dodge Caravan could make it across a two-foot deep puddle at the intersection of Sandusky Street and Sherman Street, but it stalled in the middle of the road.
"I stopped in the middle and somebody pushed me up this far," Bilton said as she waited for family to arrive and help her restart her van. "Everybody else was making it."
Crosby said the city's state of emergency is set to run indefinitely until the rain stops. Showers were expected to continue throughout Monday night.
People experiencing flooding should continue to call authorities and be patient, he said.
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A vocation to parenthood is a gift from God that is an experience rich in grace and blessing. Sharing in such an important way in God's creative love is a very special privilege.
Parenthood is a vocation not only important to the life of human society, it is a vocation vitally important to the life of the church. Christian parents teach not only human values, they transmit faith. Christian parents convey not only important truths, they introduce to their children the Word of God. Christian parents introduce not only rich family traditions and customs, they bring their children to the sacraments of the church. Without a proper foundation of strong Christian experiences, it would be difficult for children to grow and mature in ways that Christian parents hope for.
In the sacrament of baptism, parents are reminded they are the first teachers of their children. From their parents children will learn the lessons of faith, about God, about love, about the church. Parents are one of the greatest influences in the life of every human person.
The vocation of parenthood requires a spirit of sacrifice and generosity. Many times, parents work extra jobs, put aside their own plans, and make many changes in their own lives for the sake of their children. The virtue of generosity is inherent in the vocation of parenthood.
We live in a society that sometimes does not support the vocation of parenthood. The culture we live in, the entertainment industry that is so much a part of the daily life of young people suggest experiences and values that are sometimes antithetical to the Gospel message. Parents need support so they always keep in mind the role they play in the lives of their children. An active prayer life, a worshipping family, a family that develops friendships with other Christian families are all helpful supports to parents.
Oftentimes parents may feel the need to please their children, which in itself is an honorable desire. Yet it is so important for parents to realize that in addition to this, children need guidance and the assurance that someone is looking out for their well-being. Finding this balance is not always easy, which makes the prayer for wisdom so vital to being a parent.
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Chris Granger has open sourced the LightTable IDE with the 0.6 release. Third party plugin support was the highlight feature of the release. InfoQ talked to LightTable creator Chris Granger.
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Version 2.0 of Slick, a Functional-Relational Mapping, FRM, library for Scala, (corresponding to an Object-Relational Mapper, ORM, for object-oriented languages), was recently released with a code generator for reverse-engineering a database schema and new driver architecture to allow support for non-SQL databases.
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Om is a new a ClojureScript interface for Facebook's React HTML UI library. Om uses Clojure(Script)'s persistent data structures and requestAnimationFrame to further improve React's rendering. InfoQ talked to Om's creator, David Nolen, about Om and the benefits of functional concepts for application programming.
Xen Project Releases 1.0 of Mirage OS
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At the Scala Day last week, Sébastien Doeraene presented Scala.js, a Scala to JavaScript compiler. The compiler supports the full Scala language allowing its users to build web applications front to back in Scala and potentially reuse code between the server and the client.
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During QCon New York 2013, Rich Hickey gave a talk on functional databases. Hickey is well known for creating the Clojure programming language and is currently developing Datomic, which is a functional database. During his talk, Hickey argued that the useful properties of functional languages: data as values and pure functions, are just as useful in the context of databases.


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|Criminal Procedure: [italics]Motley v. Parks[/italics] did not overrule [italics]United States v. Davis[/italics] , which requires reasonable suspicion, not probable cause, that property is "owned, controlled, or possessed by probationer, in order for the item to fall within the permissible bounds of a probation search."
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|Municipal Law: The requisite intent to provide housing for seniors under the "senior exemption" exception to prohibitions on discriminatory housing policies in the Fair Housing Amendments Act and Housing for Older Persons Act can be that of a city in passing a zoning ordinance, and is not limited to the intent of a housing provider.
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|Bankruptcy Law: There is no basis in the plain language of the single asset real estate provisions of the Bankruptcy Code § 101(51)(b) for a "whole business enterprise" exception.
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|Civil Procedure: ERISA plan participant status under § 1132(a)(1)(B) is an element of a claim, not an issue of subject matter jurisdiction.
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|Immigration: A pleading stage admission of an allegation supporting removal in an immigration removal proceeding, can be relied on by the IJ for determining removal, but removal is not supported if the admission is made in an evidentiary stage of the proceeding; a court could not sustain removal if there is insufficient proof of a conviction or allegation in the documentary evidence coupled with an evidentiary stage admission.
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|Civil Procedure: The principle of [italics]cy pres[/italics] distributions in a class action lawsuit requires a relationship between the recipient of [italics]cy pres[/italics] distribution and the underlying causes of action or the interests of the class; [italics]cy pres[/italics] distributions to a Legal Aid Foundation and local chapters of the Boys and Girls Club of America do not necessarily meet the standards, and geographic representation of the class is part of the interests of the class.
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HUNTINGTON -- The Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine chapter of the American Medical Student Association has been awarded the Paul R. Wright Chapter Success Award by AMSA's national leadership for the chapter's programming efforts in 2013.
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