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Another cool Baen omnibus bundle - this time combining Edmond Hamilton's Starwolf trio of novels, and the various stories about the Interstellar Patrol.
Two different types of work - one focused on the antihero super space raider Morgan Change, whereas the Patrol stories are crazy intergalactic scale adventures with the plucky people of whatever species of the Patrol trying to stop space fleets, super weapons, or astronomical object obliterating devices.
Given some of the Interstellar Patrol stuff is 80 years old or so, it may cause laughing at the madcap style, but still fun.
Starwolves and the Interstellar Patrol : Starwolves and the Interstellar Patrol - Edmond Hamilton
Starwolves and the Interstellar Patrol : The Weapon From Beyond - Edmond Hamilton
Starwolves and the Interstellar Patrol : The Closed Worlds - Edmond Hamilton
Starwolves and the Interstellar Patrol : World of the Starwolves - Edmond Hamilton
Starwolves and the Interstellar Patrol : Crashing Suns - Edmond Hamilton
Crashing Suns : Crashing Suns - Edmond Hamilton
Crashing Suns : The Star Stealers - Edmond Hamilton
Crashing Suns : Within the Nebula - Edmond Hamilton
Crashing Suns : The Comet Drivers - Edmond Hamilton
Crashing Suns : The Cosmic Cloud - Edmond Hamilton
Starwolves and the Interstellar Patrol : Outside the Universe - Edmond Hamilton
Starwolves and the Interstellar Patrol : Battle for the Stars - Edmond Hamilton
Morgan Chane is a Starwolf. Basically meaning he was one of a band of nogoodnik more-than-human raiders.
At least until one atrocity too far caused a falling out that ended up with him ending a few of his crew.
Now he's on the run, mercenary, and on the hunt for loot, but there are complications - like Starwolf ships trying to kill him, that sort of thing.
3.5 out of 5
Morgan Chane has decided he'd fancy some time on Earth. Being a Starwolf, if he gets busted as not being from around there, he is toast.
However, doesn't have to worry about that for too long as the mercenary band he has an understanding with is hired for a dodgy mission.
The Closed Worlds are three planets that are isolated, insular and seemingly xenophobic.
So, more to that story than there seems for this mission.
3 out of 5
Morgan Chane learns of a planetary treasure, the Singing Suns, that has been stolen. He decides he'd like to try and recover it, with his mercenary friends.
Turns out their intel is bad, and it will be a lot harder than he thinks. In fact, he is going to have to ask the Starwolves for help, and hope they don't kill him.
The people they need to get it from, the Qajar, are rather scary themselves:
"Another body in the cluster, a big planet that swung far out from its dead and ashen primary, flashed into a parsec-wide flare. "Seven more of the robots got it," said Vengant. He began to swear. "Who are these crazy people, anyway, who explode worlds as a weapon? It's sheer madness." Chane shrugged. "They've got the worlds to spare . . . . This cluster is just a graveyard of dead suns and planets, with no life on any of them. And they've got the radite. A big charge of it, when it's set off, transforms a great mass of the planet into unstable atomic compounds, and it blows. It's easy for them."
3.5 out of 5
Space opera from the 1920s. The Interstellar Patrol looks like a cross-section of the Green Lantern Corps, pretty much, not the Lensmen.
The stories are all pretty similar, titanically scary astronomical menace that maybe the Interstellar Patrol can stop. From comets to nebulas. Even better if they have strange hidden worlds and alien battle fleets lurking in the middle, the former for our heroes to derring-do upon, and the latter to fire many ravening energy beams at.
Plenty of frenetic blowing stuff up to make you chuckle here along with some gallant alien heroes.
Crashing Suns : Crashing Suns - Edmond Hamilton
Crashing Suns : The Star Stealers - Edmond Hamilton
Crashing Suns : Within the Nebula - Edmond Hamilton
Crashing Suns : The Comet Drivers - Edmond Hamilton
Crashing Suns : The Cosmic Cloud - Edmond Hamilton
Stellar collisions are bad. Especially if someone is doing it deliberately. Time for a Great Space Battle. Then all we have to do is stop a star.
3.5 out of 5
Hey! You! Get offa my Sun!
3.5 out of 5
Stopping sun, not so hard compared to one of these. Especially as it has a planet in it. Space axes to the fore.
3 out of 5
This should be easy. We have heaps of ships. Hang on, why's a big round astronomical object have a massive cube fleet of its own?
3.5 out of 5
Poor galactic visibility? Won't worry a blind alien attack fleet.
3 out of 5
3.5 out of 5
Another crazy Interstellar Patrol adventure. The standard sort of mad colossoal scale Hamilton stuff, as you can see by the chapter titles.
1: The Swarm From Space
2: Chased Through the Void
3: Death-Beam and Crimson Ray
4: A Struggle Between the Stars
5: For the Federated Suns!
6: Into the Infinite
7: The Gates of a Universe
8: The Hall of the Living Dead
9: A Dash for Freedom
10: Flight and Pursuit
11: Into the Andromeda Universe
12: The Council Decides
13: The Sailing of the Fleet
14: Back to the Galaxy
15: An Armageddon of Universes
16: From Outside the Universe!
17: Outward Once Again
Here, they find what they think are strange meteors, but no, it is a huge alien fleet from another universe. Cue a capture and a visit to your good old intergalactic collecting zoo.
Serpent aliens, attractor ships, and throw in a third universe in Andromeda, for some gas being aliens and some sun shifting technology.
Plus some new death beams, of course.
I think no less than three times our Patrol stalwart declares they have won, here.
You want inter-universal ship chases with huge fleets and ten thousand times the speed of light, this is your man.
3.5 out of 5
Space opera and spies.
The United Worlds has five sectors, and things are tense, particularly between Lyra and Orion. Tense as in 'have space fleet, might use it' sort of tense. The Orionids also have the Lyrans outgunned, without some help.
As well as the where to put our space fleets, dance, there is some good old fashioned spies like us running around in the woods to try and gain or prevent advantages, as well as some of the more straight out diplomacy. Mr. Birrel has his hands full in this reasonable novel.
3 out of 5
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"Shaft Alley Specter" This apparition has been seen by many people, and has been described as a young man with dark black hair, sporting a beard, and wearing blue-gray overalls. The narrow corridor that leads to the ship's propeller shafts is called Shaft Alley, which has a big, heavy door, numbered 13. Long ago, during a routine, watertight door drill, a young, 18 year old crew member, John Bedder, was crushed to death by this door 13. While a present day night guard and his dog were patrolling Shaft Alley, the dog froze in his tracks, fixating his stare on an invisible presence at door 13, and refused to go through the door.
A tour guide spied a man with a beard, dressed in overalls, coming up the stairs behind her. While she waited for this lost tourist at the top of the stairs, in order to direct him how to get to the exit, he vanished.
The Apparition Helper in the Kitchen: The cooks and busboys of the Queen Mary's eating areas have witnessed a man, dressed as a ship's cook, enter the kitchen and then vanish. They have also seen self-moving dish ware, lights which turn on and off all by themselves, and kitchen utensils that disappear. (This ghostly cook is believed to be the one that was thrown into the ship's oven during a riot, over bad meals, that took place when The Queen Mary was being used as a troop ship.)
The Dedicated Engine Mechanic — A male apparition, donning a white, boiler room uniform, has been spotted working diligently on the ship's engines.
Tour Guide, Patsy L., and her entire tour group, got quite a surprise when a see-through naval officer, in his dress whites, walked by them, when they had entered the swimming pool area.
Security Guards have heard splashing and laughter coming from the empty pool.
In the pool area , and the balcony above it, an apparition of a young female bather in a green bathing suit has been seen by security guards. She likes to go right through the support columns, and can be mischievous, as she once pushed a guard into the pool water. (Over 40 years ago, a young woman drowned in the pool, during one of the many transatlantic crossings of The Queen Mary.)
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Act2:45+folks! Don't stop riding cause you grow OLD
Posted 19 July 2008 - 07:02 PM
Posted 19 July 2008 - 07:41 PM
This is just so you will know who John12 is and where he came from.
Things are going well in my part of the country. Just the same old grind. Horses are fat and sassy, but wishing for cooler weather. Along with the owner. We had to install all new water lines at the house, so I added hydrants at very place I could think of that I might ever need one. It sure is convenient. Out side of that nothing is happening. Haven't even had time to ride this summer. A most disgusting turn of events.
Gotta go now. I'll try to keep up a little better in the future. I enjoy chatting with you folks.
Advice is the most wasted thing on earth; a wise man doesn't need it and a fool won't take it.
Posted 19 July 2008 - 08:08 PM
My birthday is in 9 days and with every birthday I worry a little more about how long I will be able to keep riding! I am trying to ride more (in the summer) than I used to. It hasn't been really miserable yet! Even though we have been riding in 90 plus degree temps!
Posted 19 July 2008 - 08:45 PM
Posted 19 July 2008 - 09:01 PM
Besides the fact that we do not like change, how do you like the new site? I am having to re figure everything out myself. I have some of it figure out, but not all of it. I will have to experiment with this for a couple of days. Right now I seem to like it, but like I said will have to play with it.
DancinDreaminKid -I do not know if I will be back here in 9 days or not, due to working and my memory(LOL) I am going to go ahead and wish you a early HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! I hope you have a great and good one.
I had a message left on my answering machine Thurs about a temp to perm job. I will find out more about it Monday. I called Friday but the person was out to lunch. Right now I am leaning to taking the job because it is temp to perm., closer to home and less traffic, and I will probably be working an hour earlier and getting off an hour earlier than now. The job I have now is a indefinate temp job. The 2 other people from the same employment agency have been there almost 3 months and I know there is at least a month for me or longer, but then when we get finish, that is it for that job. After I talk to the person Mon., I will make my decision. I will let you know what happens. Just pray that I make the right decision.
Been hot, up to 100 today, and depending on what weather station you watch, could be 100 to 103 till mid week next week. That is the typical weather here. HOT HOT HOT!
Cannot think of anything else.
Everyone you know I am praying for you if needed. I need to get caught up on the posts again.
Have a GREAT weekend.
Posted 19 July 2008 - 09:31 PM
I buy most of our groceries, and just about the time I get the layout of the store down pat, so I don't have to backtrack, they change everything around. Difficult to make a shopping list.
Hope everybody learns the way here.
Posted 19 July 2008 - 11:04 PM
It has been really hot here lately. I did get a ride in last week but looks like the temps are going to be in the high 90's with humidity all the rest of the week to come. So probably no riding for me. I am going to Lake Michigan next Tuesday so that will probably be a much needed break from the hot temps.
Hope everyone likes the new board format and learns the ins and outs of all the new bells and whistles. Remember.....Change is GOOD!
Posted 20 July 2008 - 01:09 AM
It looks like they did a complete remodling job. Will have to start over learning my way around this place. Life has been busy lately, very little time to ride, I keep hoping that will change. PD
Posted 20 July 2008 - 09:11 AM
Everone stay safe and healthy
Posted 20 July 2008 - 01:58 PM
Posted 21 July 2008 - 12:54 AM
Thought I would bump this thread up from page 3. Life has been busy as usual, been going through my mother's things, very little she ever threw away, so we have discarded many items.
I'm still trying to figure out how some things work on this remodled site, it will all fall in place with time. I just learn slower than I used to. Later. PD
Posted 21 July 2008 - 06:27 PM
Had to run an errand this afternoon, and couldn't believe the drop in gas prices. I stopped at the Kroger supermarket where I get a 20 cent discount. I paid $3.61 a gallon. Yahoo!
Posted 21 July 2008 - 08:34 PM
Posted 21 July 2008 - 10:42 PM
Too much hullabalooooo on this new board format. I like things plain and simple.
Kinda miss being able to find posts quickly--feels like I have to search forever, even if I go to my history files.
Oh well...........
On a good note, rode my Sweets a few hours on Sunday. She hasn't been ridden much in the last couple of years with the young ones around, but I can take her out of the field and saddle up for a ride, and she's good as can be. She is the most amazing horse. We rode beside a moving train for a while. The engineer waved and waved.
Tonight I took Windsong out for a short ride. She's a stubborn little cus, so after her intial bucking on the lunge line, I climbed aboard and did some reining. Beautiful. She reins so nice! Then she balked like the dickens over leaving the yard, so we worked on that a while. Finally got out and rode a bit. That horse just needs more miles. When we got back I rode her in the field with Sweets and she was very soft to the rein and touch. Good girl.
Buddy's leg is slowly healing. I hope I can get back to working with him very soon. Much work to do to get ready for the Badlands ride!
Take care everyone!
Posted 21 July 2008 - 10:59 PM
My time zone is correct in my task bar. Are you tallking about a "My Controls" place on HC? Never even heard of a place like that. I think this new system is full of bugs. I'm posting this at 12:06AM. Check out what time this new system says I do it.
Posted 21 July 2008 - 11:34 PM
Just took me almost an hour to figure out how to do an avatar (picture instead of the goofy one that we are given).
I'm beat after all of that.
Posted 22 July 2008 - 05:58 PM
Posted 22 July 2008 - 06:10 PM
I have Gin at a trainer right now. I can actually ride her without being scared. It only took 3 years after gettin my noggin' banged. Other than that not a lot going on here, just too blamed hot.
Posted 22 July 2008 - 06:19 PM
I told someone that this New board is Like you had been riding a Nice Gaited Horse and Now your on a Bronc and got to learn how to ride all over again..!!
Things have been fine with me, just haven`t had much to post about lately...so just been doing a lot of lurking !!
I met a board buddy-- rwdodgerblue & ANDI
Posted 23 July 2008 - 12:19 PM
Posted 23 July 2008 - 07:10 PM
We are supposed to go to Tx. this week end to visit some friends and ride in the LBJ National Grasslands, I think. If I can remember my camera I will post a picture or two when we get back. If I can fgure out how to post a pic. I am not real computer literate anyway, and this new format is giving me fits.
Unfortunately, we are doing some adjustments to some of our machines this week and I am going to have to work for a while tonight. I'll try to check in later.
Have a great night.
Advice is the most wasted thing on earth; a wise man doesn't need it and a fool won't take it.
Posted 23 July 2008 - 07:54 PM
Good to 'see' you. :)
Good news on the hay. Of course it happens on the hottest day of the year...always. We put 150 in the quonset last weekend. Need a lot more, but it is hard to come by in these parts thanks to a cold, dry spring.
I was lucky--my daughter's boyfriend is really good at throwing bales. He's handy to have around. :)
This is the 3rd year we have been blessed with his help in tossing bales.
I plan on putting together a care package for him as a thank you. He's almost 20, has bought his own trailer house, works his butt off full-time, and is going to school full-time. I figure a care package will be a nice treat for him.
Time to head out and do chores. Kind of dodging between thunderstorms..........
so much for a ride this evening the way my weather alert keeps blasting.
Have fun in Texas........and pictures WILL be expected!
Posted 11 August 2006 - 10:39 PM
We have been around for almost 2 years and some great friendships have been made over the web due to HC and General Chit Chat.
I have learned so much about horsey things, gardening, baking, saddles, trailers,grand children and much more.
The people on this thread are considered my friends even though we have never met in person with the exception of a few at MN Horse Expo.
NEW FOLKS ,just like you are always welcome to sit awhile with that cup of coffee in the morning or that special drink at night.
So, come on along the trail with us. This is a good place to start your day and a relaxing one to hit just before you snuggle up to your pillow for the night.
Happy Trails to everyone!
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Posted 12 August 2006 - 12:28 AM
Well I had my first sweet corn out of garden the other day. Was surprised I remembered how long to let it boil, before taking out of pot.
Jack, Glad you were able to find those saddle stands. They'l move rather rapidly,I'm sure.
WEll my mind must be resting, because I can't think of anthing more to say. So Catch you later.PD
Posted 12 August 2006 - 07:48 AM
I know, I haven't posted much in here, but I tend to get lost in these types of topics. So much to read and keep up on.
PD, I've thought about trading in my car for a truck, too, but the car gets 23 MPH gallon in town and 26 or 27 on the Freeway. That's hard to beat.
Posted 12 August 2006 - 10:19 AM
First thanks for the help on the edit and then it's great to have you aboard again. I don't post as much as I used to either BUT I do read everyone elses posts.
People are having fun and sharing.
Have a nice weekend, everybody.
Posted 12 August 2006 - 12:26 PM
Well I'm happy to say I certainly qualify for this thread
PD I'd like to take this opportunity to tell you how much I enjoy reading your thoughtful, wise, and positive responses. It's very refreshing.
My husband and I own 3 horses, a 21yo quarter horse gelding, 9yo Appy gelding, and 4yo TWH mare. I took an early retirement 2 yrs ago from the banking profession, before that law enforcement, and we live adjacent to a 22,000+ acre State Forest with lots of great riding trails. We really just enjoy the simple things in life. Besides sharing my horse passion with my husband,(bless his heart) we also like to fish and golf ( well I hack away at it ). I've been searching for a "worthy" community service activity for a while now where I can volunteer along with our horses. I'm very excited to begin working with equine related start up programs with the Youth Crisis Center. I'm certainly hoping to make a positive difference.
Well off to the round pen. It's still a bit too hot to ride right now. Have a Blessed Day!
Posted 12 August 2006 - 02:24 PM
Be sure to come back and chew the fat again, and thanks for your kind words. Getting positive feed back is always appreciated. I do hope your community service career takes of for you. And when you can combine horse and youth, it is a wonderful thing. Best Wishes. PD
Posted 12 August 2006 - 02:35 PM
I have a 9 year old appy mare that I trail ride on. Our property adjoins BLM land, so we can literally ride forever. My husband does not share my love for horses, but tolerates it most of the time. At other times, he tells me that the local market is running a huge sale on Horseburger Helper.
I also took an early retirement in 2002. I was a city bus driver for over 15 years, prior to that I was also in law enforcement. I am now enjoying life in the slow lane.
Posted 12 August 2006 - 03:34 PM
Sold four of the seven saddle racks I bought yesterday, and saved the best three for last. Didn't make anything on the ones I sold, just passing them along to people. Two of them went to Fancy Paint and Old Cowpoke.


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"Julyna is a bold and innovative initiative by Canadian women who want to make a difference in cervical cancer prevention. It empowers women by increasing awareness about cervical cancer and the means to prevent it. It gives a voice to women in Canada who are affected by this terrible disease and want to do something about it." --Eduardo L. Franco, DrPH, FRSC, FCAHS
Dr. Franco is James McGill Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Oncology, and Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, McGill University, in Montreal, Canada. His research during the last 27 years has focused on the epidemiology and prevention of cervical and other HPV-associated cancers, and upper aero-digestive tract and childhood malignancies.
He published over 350 articles, 50 chapters, and two books on cancer epidemiology and prevention. He has served in the editorial boards of the American Journal of Epidemiology, Cancer Detection and Prevention, Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, Epidemiology, eLife, International Journal of Cancer, Medical and Pediatric Oncology, PLoS-Medicine, and Preventive Medicine.
His distinctions include: Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (2012), Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2011), McLaughlin-Gallie Award, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (2011), Lifetime Achievement Award, American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology (2010), Honorary President, EUROGIN Congress, Monaco (2010), Women in U.S. Government's Presidential Leadership Award (2008), EUROGIN Society's Distinguished Services Award (2006), Canadian Cancer Society's Warwick Prize in cancer control research (2004), Medical Research Council of Canada's Distinguished Scientist Award (2000), and Educational Excellence at McGill University (2000).
350 women in Canada still die of cervical cancer each year. The probability of surviving cervical cancer is lower than that of breast cancer.
Luckily, women can prevent most incidences of cervical cancer by properly screening themselves for the disease. Once a woman is 21 years of age and has become sexually active she should have a Pap test at least once every 3 years. Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the major cause of cervical cancer and is spread through genital skin-to-skin contact. There are two vaccines approved for use in Canada to prevent HPV infection. These vaccines should be viewed as a complement, not a replacement for cervical cancer screening.
In 2008 the Nobel Prize in Medicine was given to Dr. Harald zur Hausen for the discovery of the human papillomavirus (HPV). He recognized that certain types of HPV infection cause cervical cancer. His discovery led to improvements in HPV prevention through screening and immunization.
While screening helps identify women who need treatment, with HPV vaccination we can prevent the HPV infection from occurring at all. In the past five years scientists have completed considerable clinical research proving that HPV vaccines are safe and effective. Today, many countries have incorporated prophylactic HPV vaccination in their immunization programmes.
More than 40 types of HPV are mucosotropic, which means that they infect the moist mucosal areas of the body, such as the anogenital and oral tracts.
HPV types 6 and 11 are mucosotropic, but do not cause cancer. Instead HPV 6 and 11 cause visible growths or warty lesions, also called condylomas. Although benign, these anogenital warts from are obviously an inconvenience to the patient and cause much anxiety. Many tend to disappear spontaneously but recurrence is common. Treatment of these anogenital warts can be painful.
Roughly 25 types of mucosotropic HPVs can lead to precancerous lesions or cancer in the areas where infection becomes persistent. The most important carcinogenic types are HPVs 16 and 18, which are responsible for a little more than 70% of all cervical cancers. HPV 16 is also the dominant type in anal, penile, vaginal, vulvar, and oral cancers in which HPV is found to be the causal agent. Fortunately, both of the two HPV vaccines available currently protect against HPVs 16 and 18. One of these vaccines protects also against HPVs 6 and 11, thus preventing anogenital warts and reducing the risk of respiratory lesions.
Genital HPV infection is acquired mainly via sexual intercourse in which one of the partners is already infected.
Condom use protects against sexual transmission of HPV infection. Oral HPV infection is acquired via oral sex and anal infection via anal sex. Like all sexually-transmitted infections, having multiple sex partners increases the risk of eventually being exposed to one who is already infected and thus of acquiring infection.
Most men and women who engage in sexual activity eventually acquire HPV infection. It is the most common sexually transmitted infection we know.
The prevalence of cervical HPV infection is highest soon after the onset of sexual activity in the late teen years to around age 25 and then gradually declines because of the immunity that develops, which helps the body to clear these infections to levels that are below detection.
In some populations we see a second peak in prevalence in women aged 45 to 55 years, possibly as a result of the hormonal changes during menopause, which bring a weakening of the immune protection that developed earlier in life and may cause some latent infections to reoccur. This second peak could also be a consequence of the changes in lifestyle (e.g., a divorce leading to new sexual partners later in life) and thus of new exposures to men infected with HPV.
The vast majority of cervical infections are transient. They last around 8 months and then disappear (based on the molecular tests we use clinically). If an infection lasts more than 12 months and happens to be by one of the main oncogenic (cancer –causing) types of HPV (for instance, HPV 16 or 18) then there is a good chance that the infection could have progressed to a precancerous cervical lesion. Fortunately, pre-cancerous lesions tend to regress naturally, particularly in young women. However, for a woman aged 30 years or older, having an oncogenic HPV infection that does not clear within one year is reason to see a gynaecologist. A gynaecologist will take a biopsy of the cervix, and then decide if treatment for a precancerous lesion is needed.
For people who have underlying conditions which affect their immune systems, HPV is an even greater concern. Diseases such as HIV infection or conditions such as immunosuppressive therapy (e.g., for those who undergo organ transplantation), weaken the body's immune system and make people more prone to acquiring HPV infection that persists for a long time.
HPV is a slow and stealthy virus. I t may take from a few months to a few years for an HPV infection to become persistent and eventually cause precancerous changes in the cervix. It will take several years to a couple of decades more for these precancerous changes to become true cervical cancer.
Screening is the opportunity we have to detect these precancerous lesions early enough and then treat them so that cervical cancer will not occur. Molecular HPV testing is an exciting development in cervical cancer screening. Clinical trials have shown molecular HPV testing considerably improves the reliability of screening results. Molecular HPV tests use the same specimen that physicians collect for the Pap test, except that instead of smearing onto a glass slide, the collecting device (a cytobrush) is placed into a tube with a preserving fluid. Unlike the Pap test, which had about 45% false negatives, the HPV test has very few false negatives, thus it is a more sensitive test and can be easily applied for large numbers of specimens.
Canada has been a leader in research on cervical cancer and in HPV-associated diseases. It was the first country in the Americas to conduct publicly funded randomized controlled trials of molecular HPV tests versus Pap tests in cervical cancer screening. Canada was also a leader in the earlier clinical trials of HPV vaccination, completed in the mid-2000s. Canada was among the first countries to adopt publicly funded, school-based HPV vaccination, soon after Australia and the UK.
Canadian epidemiologists have also been pioneers in conducting studies of the natural history of genital HPV infection and of the risk factors that make women and men acquire such infections. There are major research teams in Quebec, British Columbia, and Manitoba that focus on the basic biology, epidemiology, and health economics of HPV infection and the diseases that it causes.
Much remains to be done and our Canadian teams are hard at work trying to understand how HPV can cause cancer in sites other than the uterine cervix. There is ongoing Canadian research on the role of HPV in oral and anal cancers and on the means of preventing these diseases.
Women with multiple pregnancies tend to have high risk of cervical cancer. These women are generally of low socioeconomic status; they have not been properly screened or not screened at all. All things being equal, breast cancer risk is affected by the age at a first full-term pregnancy; the later the age the higher the risk; with nulliparity (bearing no children) conferring highest risk. Since women who engage in university education tend to postpone childbearing for several years or indefinitely they end up with higher risks of breast cancer than those who have children earlier in life. Delaying the first pregnancy also decreases the window of reproductive opportunity for additional pregnancies. Being educated, these women are of higher socioeconomic standing and are receptive to health promotion messages and campaigns.
The end result of the above biological and socioeconomic differences in risk profile between these two diseases is a disparity in how the public perceives them. There is far more public perception and concern about breast cancer, despite the fact that it is not as preventable as cervical cancer.


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A man has had his car confiscated by police less than an hour after buying it in Cooma.
After buying the car on Tuesday last week at about 4pm, the 21-year-old man proceeded to race his car and do burnouts around town before police stopped him in Crisp Street.
Police said the man's driving was reckless and the burnout marks on Crisp Street show that if someone had been coming over the crest of the hill there could have been a serious accident.
The former Cooma resident won't get the car back for three months after being charged with aggravated burnouts under tough new laws to combat anti-social 'car hoon' behaviour.
The man will have to pay for the towing and the car's storage for three months.
Under current laws cars of repeat offenders can be seized and forfeited to the Crown.
Usually, these vehicles are sold and the money used to recover storage and collection costs. The new laws allow suitable vehicles to be released to Roads and Maritime Services for crash testing.


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What's that, you say? It looks remarkably like something from some movie or television series you might have seen once upon a time?
I have no idea what you are talking about.
None at all.
In all seriousness, this is far from an every-day carry rig, for a variety of reasons, but the TT-33 is far from an every-day carry firearm, for a variety of reasons as well (most notably its complete and utter lack of anything even approximating an "internal safety"). However, there is something particularly compelling about putting a firearm in like that in a holster like that. Obviously it is not a perfect rendition – for instance, the thumb break was impossible with a semi-automatic firearm, and the direction of the buckle on Mal's rig bugged the hell out of the guy who made mine, so he turned it around – but I dare say it gets the point across.
If you want one of your own, contact [email protected] at "oldradartech (at) hughes (dot) net"; he can obviously make them for TT-33 platforms, even ones with the whacky-arsed muzzle brake attached, and I imagine you could talk him into something similar for 1911s or a couple other different firearms as well. From what I understand, this rig design is better-suited for revolvers than semi-autos, if that makes a difference to you.
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cycle confusion
i know u can cycle a tank with gold fish for a month but is there any way to cycle a tank faster cuz i need mine up soon its a 20 gallon
you can cycle a tank faster buy putting a peac of drift wood in and a fish or 2 and i think a plant 2 a few people have luck and cycle it this way in a week
thanks man but is there any other way plz tell me
Basically to cycle safely you should have a fishless cycle. ?Fish can be used but in my opinion it's cruel.
In either case the tank will take anywhere between a few weeks and a few months. Tospeed up the cycle read the link below:
The only other advice I can really give is to be patient. No matter how quickly you want it to cycle sometimes you just can't do anything to speed it up and you just have to wait. Adding fish beforehand will just kill them or make them ill, and disrupt the cycle making it take longer.
hey nvm wut i siad about addin the fish if you do u are only sacrificin them 2 the tank. i would stick with drift would and u could even do the prawn method i think thats wut its called but unless u want 2 b mean and sacrifice the fish i wouldnet do it there r lots of ways to cycle the tank fast by useing cemical but i would stay away from em because people say they creat mini cycles in the tank and slow it down key thing is dont sacrafise the fish
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if done right it isnt cruel at all to cycle a tank with fish in it. Just use the right fish and monitor parameters doing any needed water changes. If you use a small ammount of fish the bacteria will be able to colonize fast enough to stabilize ammonia and nitrites as they form...allowing a safe environment for the starter fish. However, you say you want to do it fast and the fastest I have ever heard of is using BioSpira by Marineland. Its a little harder to find but ive heard it can cycle a tank in as little as 48 hours. Another method would be just to get some used filter media from an established tank as it will already contain bacteria colonies. You will have to transfer the media in a way as to not harm the bacteria though.
hey thanks guys if i have any more questions ill ask
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Specialty Beers Tasting: Friday, February 1st
Most of you may be familiar with those broadly defined styles including Amber, Blonde and Dark beer, but what happens when the beer in front of you doesn't fit neatly into any of the above categories? Our specialty beer tasting pulls together all the unusual and exotic (some might say extreme!) brews into one place to excite and delight the senses.
This tasting includes beers aged in Whisky casks, beers brewed with smoked malt and grains, others with fruit, right through to tantalizingly tart sour beers brewed with wild yeast strains.
Try all nine of these fantastic Specialty beers for $5 on Friday 1st February from 4:30-6:30pm.
Telegraph Brewing "Petit Obscura"
Gordon Biersch Weizen Eisbock
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Plastic Storage Sheds
By: Sean Marco Robinos |
Home improvement
Outdoor sheds come in a variety of materials and shed types. From wood to vinyl, metal to plastic. Outdoor storage sheds are not just for utility storage. The appearance of storage sheds affects the overall appearance of the property on which they are set up.
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Outdoor Garden Sheds
By: John A. Moore |
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Custom built garden sheds are enjoying a bit of a renaissance. I'm not sure what the trigger was but we are being contacted regularly by customers that are looking something a little extra when it comes to their garden shed. The old ubiquitous stand by sheds that are sold by the dozens in hardware stores do seem to be cutting it this year.
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The Best Storage Sheds
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There are a lot of things to consider if you''re thinking about building storage shed in your backyard. Before parting with your hard earned cash, invest some time into determining the size and the ty...
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Storage Sheds
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Storage sheds used to be a small building you found on a farm.Storage sheds can be big enough to put up shelves to hold all the different boxes and still have room for lawn equipment and bikes.
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Sheds - The Amazing Versatility of Storage Sheds
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If you own your own home - particularly if you don't have a garage - then you know that a storage shed is almost essential. Most people use their sheds to store lawnmowers and other outdoor equipment, but storage sheds are used put to a wide variety of uses. They can be pretty much whatever you want or need them to be.
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Why Backyard Wooden Storage Sheds Remain Popular
By: Ula Heximer |
Home Improvement
Houses are normally designed to fit the lifestyle and size of the family or the sole homeowner. In particular, it is not advisable to store outdoor equipment such as gardening tools inside the residence, which is why you might want to consider building wooden storage sheds within your backyard.
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Options For Outdoor Storage Shed
By: Florin Ciobanu |
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Are you looking into buying or building an outdoor storage shed? If you've never shopped for outdoor storage before, you might be surprised at the great number of options that actually exist.
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The Right Outdoor Storage Shed
By: Carl Guido |
Home improvement
The simple solution to the problem of space is to have an outdoor storage shed.
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Building An Outdoor Storage Shed
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Building an outdoor storage shed in your yard can be a great way to clear your garage of a few things and make room for your actual car. There are many options to consider when buying or building a shed, each of which you should evaluate before you start shelling out money.
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Add Space With Outdoor Garden Sheds
By: Derek Farley |
Home & Family
Not only to we modern home owners have a tremendous amount of stuff in our houses, but we also possess a lot of outdoor equipment as well. These types of equipment, whether lawn mowers, garden tools, or children's play things, are not conveniently stored in the basement since you have to lug them up the stairs and out the door every time you want to use them.
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Reinforcing Storage Space: Outdoor Sheds Purchase
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When there is no more space in your attic or garage, an outdoor shed can be added to your home. Outdoor sheds are built apart from the house to store necessities
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Keeping Outdoor Storage Sheds Clean All Year Round
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Want to know the secrets to keep your storage shed looking pristine all year round? We have the solutions you need to keep your sheds clean.
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Arrow Vinyl Sheds - A Great Solution For Outdoor Storage
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Home improvement
One struggle that almost every American homeowner faces is finding a suitable place to keep all of their stuff. Not only are people purchasing more stuff than ever before, many homes that are on the market don't provide adequate storage space. Many homeowners solve this problem by renting an expensive and inconvenient storage unit, making them feel as if they work for a moving company because of all the dropping of and picking up of items.
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How you can Use Outdoor Storage sheds To Organize Your Garden Equipment
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How come it seem there is never enough area to store everything you accumulate over the years
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Advertising Photography Advice - Garden Sheds And Outdoor Storage
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Advertising photography can mean setting up a miniature studio and lighting grid to take spectacular pictures of small diamond jewellery items, or it can mean taking product images for companies manufacturing items quite a lot larger, such as cars. But whilst it is often possible for advertising photography studios to take images of items such as beds, motorbikes and three piece suites in a studio
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2006 Florida State Seminoles Basketball Preview
2006 Florida State Seminoles Basketball Predictions
This team showed a lot of improvement last season, winning 20 games for the first time in almost a decade and posting a 9- 7 ACC mark. Despite their strong showing, which included a 79- 74 upset over Duke, they did not get an NCAA invitation, which coach Leonard Hamilton thought they deserved. Can Florida continue their winning ways, especially with the early loss of center Alexander Johnson (13.2 PPG, 7.4 RPG) to the NBA?
In the backcourt, this is an undersized team. Look for junior Isaiah Swann (8.4 PPG, 2.1 RPG, 2.9 APG, 44.2 FG%, 65.4 FT%) to provide solid leadership on one wing and hopefully develop some defensive chops, while Jason Rich (10.0 PPG, 3.1 RPG, 1.6 APG, 46.8 FG%, 73.7 FT%), on the other wing, will offer consistent scoring from the outside and mid-range. The third guard, playing point, will be Auburn transfer Toney Douglas. He has great court vision and is able at ball distribution. Douglas also has the potential to score in bunches.
In the frontcourt, 6' 9" and 220-pound sophomore Uche Echefu (2.3 PPG, 1.4 RPG, 0.2 APG, 44.8 FG%, 54.5 FT%) is expected to start. The Seminoles will be looking for the lanky, athletic Echefu to make a major developmental leap in 2006, while senior Al Thornton (16.1 PPG, 6.9 RPG, 1.2 APG, 51.8 FG%, 74.4 FT%) must excel at the other forward position. Freshman Ryan Reid, who stands 6' 8" and weighs in at 215 pounds, will see major playing time.
Coach Hamilton isn't going to cry over last season's snub by the NCAA. Instead, he and his team will work hard to prove the selection committee wrong. The Noles have less up front than last season, which means more defense from the guards. In his four seasons as the Seminoles head coach, Hamilton's compiled a 65- 58 record, which includes an impressive .731 home winning percentage.
This is a tough team to figure out. They could perform as well or better than last season, especially if Thornton and Echefu can turn it up a notch this year.
If you want more info on the 2006 Florida State Seminoles College basketball team check out the NCAA's official basketball team page of the program or check out some rival previews from Maddux Sports of schools like the Miami Hurricanes and Virginia Tech Hokies.


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- Elongated bowl gives a modern and comfortable look and feel extending out an extra 1-1/2" compared to a round configuration
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- Made from porcelain giving off a clean and classic look
- Floor mounted installation offers traditional styling and simple mounting
- ADA compliant - complies with the standards set forth by the Americans with Disabilities Act for toilets
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I lost my last CC-RD300W and was seeking a replacement.for a good price. SwinOutlet had it! I suppose they sell at this low price because they have white cases; I have only seen black. A great compact cyclometer, easy to read on the road, gives plenty of data for a non-GPS (for 10 x more $). Instructions are dense and complex but with patience you can set it. I have mounts for it on 3 road bikes. It does everything I need. If it says with me I will keep it for a long time. If I do lose it I will buy another here. Great product at regular retail, Better at the SwimOutlet price!
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Two Presbyterian missionaries from Connecticut, Samuel W. and Gideon H. Pond, arrive at Fort Snelling and soon begin working with the Dakota on the shores of Lake Calhoun. The Ponds would develop a Dakota alphabet, publish a Dakota newspaper, and record many traditional Dakota practices during their years as missionaries in Minnesota.
Soldiers expel Selkirker squatters from the Fort Snelling military reservation and burn their cabins. Although the Selkirkers had moved to escape the fort's boundaries the year before, a new survey showed that they remained within the military's jurisdiction. The settlers then relocate to the site that would become the city of St. Paul.
A group of Cutlerites, a branch of the Mormon Church that had faced discrimination elsewhere, arrive at Clitherall Lake and lay the foundations for the first permanent settlement in Otter Tail County.
Groundbreaking ceremonies are held for the present capitol building.
Mary Ann Courteau, who later became known as singer and songwriter Mary MacGregor, is born in St. Paul. In 1976 she recorded the pop song "Torn Between Two Lovers," which became a number-one hit the following year. She married Paul D. MacGregor on November 13, 1971, but they later divorced.
Windstorms in northern Twin Cities suburbs kill fourteen people and cause $57 million in damages.
Elsa Laubach Jemne was a Minnesota artist active from the 1910s to the 1960s. Though skilled as an easel painter, she is better known for the murals she created for public buildings, including post offices and courthouses.
Hubert H. Humphrey, a giant of Minnesota politics, was one of the most influential liberal leaders of the twentieth century. His political rise was meteoric, his impact on public policy historic. His support for the Vietnam War, however, cost him the office he most sought: president of the United States.
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The Global Business Coalition on Health held its conference "Define Forward: Business, Health and the Road Ahead" on May 14-15, bringing together more than 700 corporate executives, government leaders, policy makers, civil society visionaries and media champions to explore the intersection of business and health. GBCHealth featured its first panel on maternal health, entitled "Milestone Moments on the Path to Healthier Motherhood."
Christy Turlington Burns, founder of Every Mother Counts and director of the documentary film No Woman No Cry, kicked off the panel by reminding the group of three staggering statistics:
(1) Every 90 seconds of every day, a woman dies from a pregnancy-related complication; (2) Pregnancy is the number one cause of death of young women ages 15-19 in developing countries; and (3) 99% of maternal deaths occur in the developing world, the majority of which are completely preventable. Throughout her travels, Turlington Burns saw pregnancy-related death attributable to several factors: from the human resource shortage in Tanzania to social and economic barriers in Bangladesh, and from the lack of access to safe abortion in Guatemala to lack of health insurance coverage during pregnancy in the United States.
Gary Cohen, Executive Vice President of Becton, Dickinson and Company and moderator of this panel, reminded the room that MDG 5 shows the least amount of progress of all MDGs, with almost no progress in Sub-Saharan Africa. This means that women in the industrialized world have a 1 in 4300 chance of dying of maternal causes, and much higher in places like Sweden (1 in 14,100). But the chances are 1 in 31 women in the developing world, or specifically a 1 in 23 chance in Niger.
Yet it seems as if all sectors have started to take notice that prioritizing the health needs of girls and women is not only good for families and communities, but is central to thriving economies. The UN Secretary-General's Every Woman Every Child campaign and GBCHealth's Healthy Women Healthy Economies are both highly visible collaborative efforts to end maternal death and prioritize women's health.
The panel included the following speakers:
• Sarah Brown, Global Patron of White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood
• Naveen Rao, Lead, Merck for Mothers
• Benjamin Schwartz, Senior Director for Health, CARE USA
• Rhonda Zygocki, Executive Vice President, Policy and Planning, Chevron Corporation
When asked about the role education can play in reducing the high rates of maternal death among adolescent and teen girls, Sarah Brown highlighted the importance of girls' participation in school. When a girl is attending school, she is afforded safety, learning opportunities, access to lunches and vaccines, and increased status in her household. And while we have seen a decrease in maternal deaths in the last 20 years (from 543,000 in 1990 to 287,000 in 2010), these statistics are not decreasing for teen girls in the developing world. Access to schooling helps to reduce vulnerability to sexual violence, child marriage and exploitation. "Interventions are well-known and low-cost, and the interaction between health and education is crucial," said Brown. Protective structures for girls must include parents and schools, and reduce the burden of care on teachers.
Chevron's approach to maternal health has focused on prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) within its workforce, especially in regions where HIV prevalence rates are high. Rhonda Zygocki explained that they took a systems approach to protecting the health of their employees through Chevron's HIV and PMTCT policies, ensuring that these systems were infused with three core priorities: (1) Non-discrimination, (2) access to treatment, and (3) education, outreach and counseling. These priorities have guided their PMTCT activities, emphasizing education and breaking down to stigma surrounding HIV. This approach has allowed them to establish a culture of testing and treatment within their workforce, grounded in confidentiality, comprehensive care and support during all phases of pregnancy. Chevron's milestone moment is this: Systems can work, and the proof is in the fact that they've had no new cases of mother to child transmission in the past 11 years in Nigeria. The business case is clear. Gary Cohen chimed in, stating that this gives us all hope of reaching zero new pediatric HIV infections by 2015.
Since the majority of maternal deaths are preventable, Naveen Rao centered his discussion around the four major causes of maternal deaths (post-partum hemorrhage, pre-eclampsia, infection and obstructed labor) and the three delays to care (seeking care, getting care and receiving care). As an example of an easy solution to the delays in getting care, Naveen cited an example out of Nigeria. The taxi drivers union made a decision to provide on-call drivers to transport women to delivery sites. Those who made themselves available were allowed to be the first person in the taxi line at the airport. The incentive did not require any direct cost and provided timely transport to a laboring woman, and proved worth it to save women's lives.
In his travel to Bihar, India, Benjamin Schwartz observed a trend: women would deliver in the morning and leave the clinic or hospital hours later. Much more needs to be done to ensure that women receive the post-partum care they need, including immediate care following birth and the 3 follow-up visits as per WHO recommendation. CARE found that only 12% of women in Bihar received the care they needed, spurring on an innovative program designed to communities and facilities. They are piloting testing mobile phone algorithms with ASHAs (Accredited Social Health Activists) in Bihar, India, who are the first line of skilled care delivered to women in their homes. CARE is working to establish public/private partnerships to strengthen systems to provide family planning to women post-partum.
To close the panel, Gary Cohen asked three final questions of the panelists:
If you could remove one key barrier, what would it be?
What caused a light bulb to go off for you?
What is the impact of societal norms?
Rhonda Zygocki
"Stigma and social norms are the biggest barriers access to treatment, counseling and education, and we need to break down these cultural perceptions in order to create a critical mass of positive role models for women."
Benjamin Schwartz
"Inequitable gender and social norms limit women's ability to access care or preventive services they need. Changing social norms is difficult to do, some say, but we need to break down these inequities."
Sarah Brown
"Saving the mothers' lives means saving the lives of children through inexpensive and easy interventions. This is not a women's issue, and men need to be in these conversations."
Naveen Rao
"We know what is killing mothers, and we know why. And we end up standing around watching it happen. We need to decide whether mothers are worth the investment."
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Energy Generating Soccer Ball Brings Clean Power to Off-Grid Areas
Posted By Mike Chino On February 3, 2010 @ 1:30 pm In Design,Environment,humanitarian design,Kinetic Energy,Renewable Energy,Social Design | 6 Comments
When the sun goes down many developing countries rely upon dangerous kerosene lamps, which emit hazardous fumes and generate 190 million metric tons of CO2 each year. Seeking an eco-friendly alternative to this trend, four Harvard engineering students developed the Soccket [1] – a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. Soccer is found in just about every African country, so the energy-generating ball has great potential to encourage healthy activity while producing clean electricity to light up the night [2].
Photo from Soccket's study of soccer play in Nairobi, Kenya
The Soccket [1] was designed for use in off-grid areas where electricity for interior lighting and charging cell phones is hard to come by. The ball works by capturing kinetic energy [3] through an inductive coil mechanism [4], which works in a similar manner to those flashlights [5] that are powered by shaking. As the ball is batted about, it draws a magnet through a coil, creating current that is stored in a battery.
According to the designers, the device weighs little more than a standard soccer ball, and 15 minutes of play produces enough energy to illuminate a small LED for three hours. The students are planning to use a buy-one-give-one model (similar to the BoGo light [6]) to distribute the devices, selling them in western markets to subsidize their distribution to those in need.
Here at Inhabitat we're huge fans of designs that benefit communities [7], cut down on carbon emissions [8], and enable developing nations [9]. The Soccket [1] does all of that and brings fun into the mix by tapping the boundless energy of kids at play [10].
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Lead photo: Soccket prototype from pilot study in Durban, South Africa
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[2] light up the night: http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/10/27/e-charkha-spinning-wheel-by-rs-hiremath/
[3] kinetic energy: http://www.inhabitat.com/energy/kineticenergy/
[4] inductive coil mechanism: http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/10/06/iyo-induction-iphone-charger/
[5] flashlights: http://www.inhabitots.com/2010/01/19/jump-rope-with-flashlight-in-handle-recycles-kinetic-energy-into-light/
[6] BoGo light: http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/05/30/bogolight-solar-powered-flashlight/
[7] benefit communities: http://www.inhabitat.com/social-design/
[8] carbon emissions: http://www.inhabitat.com/global-warming/
[9] enable developing nations: http://www.inhabitat.com/humanitarian-design/
[10] kids at play: http://www.inhabitots.com/2009/03/05/play-pump-the-merry-go-round-water-pump/
[11] Green Inc.: http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/using-soccer-to-supplant-kerosene-use/
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With Michael Bradley signing for Roma, we've already seen one major transfer involving an American in Europe. Could another, featuring Clint Dempsey, be on the way?
It looks like Dempsey is finally getting the move to a big club he wants -- and fully deserves. And like Bradley, he'll be staying in his current league if he lands at Liverpool.
Less than a month before the season begins, we assess the prospects of 10 Americans in the UK.
|Clint Dempsey, who starred for Fulham, may be performing his magic for Liverpool next season.
Clint Dempsey, Fulham: Signing, officially, with Liverpool might take several more days yet, but the snafu that resulted this week tells you it's close to a done deal.
An American idol at the Kop, anyone? At 29, the time to leave modest Fulham is now, and Dempsey will depart with the blessing of the fans. Furthermore, his skills and versatility suit Liverpool. Dempsey can operate as an emergency striker, behind a lone striker or in a slightly deeper role. He's good with the ball at his feet -- important to new manager Brendan Rodgers -- and in the air.
Just don't expect Dempsey to score 23 goals as he did in all competitions last season. Getting between 10 and 15 for goal-shy Liverpool and helping the Reds return to the Champions League would do nicely.
If a transfer doesn't materialize, what a shame for the Texan.
Brad Guzan, Aston Villa: With a new manager at Aston Villa in the form of Paul Lambert, Guzan has his best opportunity yet to become the starter between the sticks. That and Shay Given's poor form at Euro 2012.
He's certainly waited long enough, making a miniscule six league starts for Villa in four years. When he has played, Guzan did little wrong deputizing for an injured Given between December and January. He also impressed during a loan spell at Hull last year.
Lambert defended Given this week but seemed to give Guzan preference. Lambert brought Guzan back to Villa after his contract had initially expired."I've watched Brad in games when he was in the team last year, and he was excellent," Lambert told Villa's Web site. "Brad played very well the time he was in and maybe he found himself a bit unlucky to be back out."
Villa craves stability, which it has lacked since Martin O'Neill quit in 2010.
Tim Howard, Everton: The order wasn't right for Howard. If only he'd played a few years at Everton and then moved to Manchester United, not vice versa.
Howard, however, continues to maintain he's happy at Goodison Park. He's been one of the most consistent keepers in the Premier League the last five years, and his good form ensured Slovakian international Jan Mucha didn't get a game in the league in 2011-2012. Only a prolonged slump would see Howard surrender the No. 1 spot.
From a U.S. soccer perspective, if Dempsey heads to Liverpool, the Merseyside Derby becomes even spicier.
Eric Lichaj, Aston Villa: Now here's a source of joy for Villa fans: the club's youth academy. In Gabriel Agbonlahor, Marc Albrighton, Barry Bannan, Ciaran Clark and Lichaj, the supply line to the senior squad has been steady.
Lichaj, 23, became a regular at the end of March, and his energetic displays, mostly at right back, were generally considered a positive.
"Eric's top quality," Albrighton told reporters this month. "I have said this ever since he came to the club, all the way through the youth, reserves, and now the seniors."
The exit of popular Spaniard Carlos Cuellar and impending exit of the not-so-popular Alan Hutton are good news for Lichaj, though Matthew Lowton, signed from Sheffield United, will provide competition at right back.
|Brad Friedel, at 41, is nearing the end of his consecutive games played streak.
Brad Friedel, Tottenham: This is the season that Friedel's eight-year streak of consecutive Premier League starts (totaling more than 300) comes to an end.
With Friedel's age -- 41 years old is getting up there, even for a keeper -- Spurs were always destined to be in the hunt for a new shot-stopper this summer, and France captain Hugo Lloris, Inter's Julio Cesar and Real Valladolid's Jaime have all been linked to Tottenham.
A point of concern: AVB has long been a fan of Lloris.
Stuart Holden, Bolton: Make no mistake: Had Holden played a full season (or even slightly less), Wanderers wouldn't be in the Championship. The box-to-box midfielder was a standout performer for Bolton, not to mention a breakthrough artist in Premier League, in 2010-2011.
Holden's only appearance last season came in the League Cup in September, and his engine was badly missed. Meanwhile, his return date from a knee injury isn't known. For Bolton, the sooner the better.
Tim Ream, Bolton: There was no gentle passage for Ream as he began life in English soccer in January. He had to replace Gary Cahill, was involved in a relegation dogfight and, like his teammates, looked on (from the subs bench) as Fabrice Muamba almost died on the pitch at White Hart Lane in March.
How much more difficult can this season get?
With a knee injury keeping David Wheater out long term, Ream and new signing Matthew Mills figure to be manager Owen Coyle's initial central defensive pairing. It should translate to plenty of game time and good experience for a man tipped to be a bedrock of the U.S. defense in the future.
Jonathan Spector, Birmingham City: The versatile Spector had to drop down a division to do it but he was a mainstay in a lineup somewhere, starting more games in a season -- 31 -- than ever before.
Despite Lee Clark (harshly sacked by Huddersfield) replacing Chris Hughton as manager, Spector's playing time shouldn't diminish.
If City makes the playoffs for a second year in a row, call it an achievement. The task, though, is made easier by a lighter fixture load.
|Could Robbie Rogers, who was injured most of last season, find his way into the Leeds lineup?
Robbie Rogers, Leeds: Leeds is more fancied than Birmingham to do damage in the Championship, no surprise given that fiery Neil Warnock is at the helm for a full season. Warnock, an unpopular sacking at QPR in January, knows how to take teams up.
The speedy Rogers, limited to four appearances last term thanks to injuries after moving from Columbus, will hope to work his way into the starting lineup in midfield. Striker Mike Grella's departure to Scunthorpe leaves Rogers as the lone American at Elland Road.
Alejandro Bedoya, Rangers: Joining Rangers was supposed to be a step up for Bedoya. So much for that.
While fellow US internationals Carlos Bocanegra and Maurice Edu are on the way out at financially stricken Rangers, Bedoya could be sticking around and plying his trade in the fourth tier of Scottish soccer.
The top level in Scotland, in terms of quality and competition, isn't great, so what of the Third Division and the likes of Berwick, East Stirling and Montrose? Fun. The lone upside for the midfielder is that he'll get games.


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Wood Group wins multiple contracts in Africa
Wood Group has secured 11 new contracts in Africa totaling approximately $240
million. The contracts were awarded over the last 12 months to Wood Group PSN,
Wood Group GTS and Wood Group Mustang for projects in five African nations.
Wood Group PSN, which provides brownfield production services, won contracts to
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Equatorial Guinea, Chad and Algeria.
Wood Group GTS, specialists in rotating equipment solutions, has secured a
long-term service agreement covering two GE Frame 9E gas turbines for an
operator in Ghana.
Wood Group Mustang, the process & facilities group of Wood Group Engineering,
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James Crawford, Wood Group PSN's managing director for Africa, said: "We are
committed to building a sustainable business in Africa and are very clear about
the countries and projects which we target, knowing where and how our expertise
can enhance our customer's operations. Creating opportunities for local
training and employment, Wood Group employs over 3000 people in 11 countries
across Africa. It is a key operating region, and these wins feed our ongoing
growth strategy for the continent."
Michele McNichol, Wood Group Mustang executive vice president, stated: "Our
commitment to building relationships and bringing economic value to African
countries continues with recent project activity in the region. We are
expanding our history of successful project delivery to support the development
of energy resources in this key oil & gas region and in providing career
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(Crookston, Minn.) – The University of Minnesota, Crookston Men's Hockey team looks to keep their positive momentum going as they hit the road for the first round of the 2009 Midwest Collegiate Hockey Conference (MCHA) Playoffs. The Golden Eagles swept Northland College by scores of 4-1 and 3-0 last weekend and earned the sixth seed. They travel to Milwaukee, Wis. to face the third seeded Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE) on Friday, February 20 and Saturday, February 21 at the Kern Center. The puck drops at 7:05 p.m. and 2:05 p.m. respectively. U of M, Crookston met the Raiders back on November 7-8 at the Crookston Civic Arena and earned a split. The Golden Eagles took game one 3-1 and dropped game two 3-2.
U of M, Crookston finished the regular season with an overall record of 5-20-0 and MCHA record of 5-15-0. They are led by Matt Marchel (Jr, Def, Grand Forks, N.D.) who has scored seven goals and added eight assists for 15 points. Brent Swanson (Jr, Fwd, Mason City, Iowa) has scored six goals and added eight assists for 14 points. Nigel Smith (Fr, Fwd, White Rock, B.C.) and Fred Kooser (Jr, Fwd, Omaha, Neb.) have each recorded 13 points. Smith has seven goals and sixth assists while Kooser has six goals and seven assists. John Lombardi (Jr, Fwd, Burnsville, Minn.) and Jonathan Frank (Fr, Def, Wallingford, Conn.) each have 10 points. Lombardi has eight goals and two assists while Frank has four goals and six assists. Bryan Dalbec (Fr, G, Superior, Wis.) has a 4.50 goals against average and a .882 saves percentage.
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MSOE finished the regular season with an overall record of 13-10-2 and 12-7-1. They swept Marian University 3-1 and 3-2 (OT) this past weekend. The Raiders are led by Steve Smiddy who has scored eight goals and added 19 assists for 27 points. Jason Woll has scored two goals and added 20 assists for 22 points. Conner Toomey has a 2.65 goals against average and a .911 saves percentage.
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As usual he will have to yield for Alonso............. he's looking good so far this season.
I imagine if he out qualifies Alonso Ferrari will hang him out to dry on strategy as they did last week.


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1. What drove you to a career in human rights advocacy?
"To some degree, my decision to work on issues of violence and human rights is wrapped up in personal experiences and political awakenings, traced back to that time when a girl first experiences violence. When is that? Who knows. I suppose my conscious decision to devote time and energy to issues surrounding violence against women came somewhere during or soon after university. I was pissed off and being eaten by my anger, and I knew it. I started volunteering for a rape crisis center and working at a shelter for survivors of domestic violence. But I found myself quickly frustrated by the limits imposed by the state and its policies – by power as it was expressed by law and the abuse of such power – and so I found my way to law school. This was after spending some time in Asia, where I had gone after applying for law school, with the belief that freedom as I knew it was coming to an end. I bought a one-way ticket to Calcutta and spent time volunteering at an orphanage, where at least 90 percent of the orphans were girls, and a "home for dying destitutes," where all the women had experienced violence of some kind in their journeys to this place, where they eventually would die. My time in Calcutta helped me understand the issues I had been working on at the local and national levels within an international framework. Law school enabled me to continue to grapple with issues of violence and abuse of power within an international human rights framework. Since then, I have focused on various issues: violence against women, what might be called traditional forms of political violence, war-related violence, and the death penalty. In my mind, all these things are linked and get at larger issues of power and the state. Human rights provided a framework for expression – to some extent, it gave me a language."
2. How did you learn of the Human Rights Center and the Fellowship Program?
"The Human Rights Center and its fellowship program were deciding factors for me in accepting the offer for admission at University of Minnesota Law School. This, coupled with tuition reciprocity and the promise of a manageable debt burden, seemed to provide me with the greatest chance of being able to do the work I wanted to do."
3. What was the structure of your Fellowship?
"My fellowship was with the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women. The post had just been created. We learned about it in Prof. David Weissbrodt's human rights class. I remember sitting in the library, preparing for human rights and reading about the position. I stopped my reading and turned to a friend, another fellow - Michael Reed Hurtado - and said, 'I know what I want to do next summer. I want to work for the Special Rapportuer on Violence Against Women.' I think I might have been half joking at the time. But he said, 'so why don't you write her?' and it suddenly somehow seemed like a real possibility. So I quietly researched the post, learned that the Special Rapporteur, Radhika Coomaraswamy, was based at an NGO in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and then sent off a letter and my CV. I don't think I told anyone else. Then, one fine day I received a letter in the mail with the UN insignia – in those days, this was quite exciting and maybe even a bit glamorous. I ripped it open and found a lovely letter from Radhika, who is now a dear friend but was then this larger than life character, offering me an internship. I dashed back to the law school with the letter in hand. I was so excited. One of my first stops was Professor Weisbrodt's office…. I remember just quietly handing him the letter. He was a bit shocked, since he had no idea I had even approached her."
"My fellowship was quite interesting. Although I was technically there to work for the UN SRVAW, I was at this local NGO – the International Centre for Ethnic Studies – and there were all kinds of things happening. Radhika was then co-director, along with the late Neelan Tiruchelvam, who was the intellectual, spiritual, moral and creative force behind the institution. He was a whirlwind of a man and quickly had me engaged in all kinds of interesting work specifically related to Sri Lanka. The deadlines for the UN work were not pressing, and both Radhika and Neelan encouraged me to be very actively involved in what was happening. On my third day in the country, Neelan sent me with a team of lawyers and academics on a fact finding mission. I later found myself in a working group on fundamental rights that was drafting language for a new constitution. I was commenting on chapters, researching multiculturalism, drafting editorials on a proposed marital rape law. And in between it all, I was researching and writing a report for Radhika on domestic violence which became the basis of her second report to the UN. I only finished the report for Radhika after I left Sri Lanka. My internship seemed to take on a life of its own. It was brilliant… exhausting, but brilliant. I was thoroughly challenged and engaged."
"We were also busy preparing for the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and, in August, headed to Beijing for the Conference, which was an amazing, if not slightly surreal, experience. You can imagine- thousands and thousands of women from all over the world converged on this little suburb of Beijing, Hairou. It was really amazing. It became all the more exciting when Radhika, at dinner one night with a few of her friends who were also human rights "stars" like Nigel Rodley, told me that she had been approached by a government that wanted to support her mandate and wanted to know in what form that support should come…. Among other things, she told them that she wanted a full-time, UN staff position in Colombo to assist her with her work. She asked if I would return to Colombo in that capacity. I said, of course. I was totally stunned and elated. I have been in Sri Lanka ever since."
"I worked for the UN at the ICES with Radhika on her mandate until 1999, at which point I thought I would leave Sri Lanka. I hadn't gotten as far as figuring out what I would do or where I would go. I found myself increasingly estranged from the United States and its policies, but also, for the very same reason, drawn to the US… So, I was just starting to think about what next, when what next hit me in the face."
"In July 1999, my friend and mentor, Neelan Tiruchelvam, was assassinated outside our offices in Colombo by a suicide bomber. There was no longer a question. I stayed in Colombo and worked with the ICES to figure out what life after Neelan meant. I then left ICES to help start an institution in Neelan's name – the Neelan Tiruchelvam Trust – to ensure that Neelan's work and legacy continued. After getting the Trust up and running and spending some time in the US working against the death penalty and working at UN headquarters, I decided to de-institutionalize myself for awhile. I moved to a small cottage on a remote beach in Southern Sri Lanka. There, I did some writing and then, gradually, developed an idea for a documentary film on memory and violence. This was two years ago. I am actually now in Delhi in the process of editing the documentary."
3. What are your thoughts on the field of human rights advocacy as a career?
"I don't really believe in 'careers.' I never set out to have a 'career' in human rights or in 'ending violence against women.' And, thankfully, I don't think I do. Is what I have described above a career? I don't know. It's just my life. I don't think I really know what a career is. I am doing what I want. I am doing what I believe in. I am sometimes paid for these things and sometimes I am not. I am lucky to live a life that is not dictated by financial considerations. I am also lucky to have skills for which people will pay if I find myself in need. I have done things because I have wanted to and because I have been willing to take risks and because I have been lucky. Astrologers tell me that I am the plaything of fate."
"I must say that I am increasingly concerned about the 'professionalization' of social justice work. More and more young people are entering the NGO sector or the nonprofit sector, it seems, because of a certain perceived glamour. They are there to do a job. That job involves conferences and international travel. There is no spirit of volunteerism or activism. When did social justice become a job… a career? It scares me. This is not to say that people should not be paid for good work. They should, lest social justice become the exclusive domain of the elite- a scary and rather counterproductive thought. But what are we saying about the status quo, what are we accepting in that status quo, when we talk of social justice as a career?"
4. What advice, then, do you have for young people looking to include social justice awareness into their careers?
"I don't accept interns or hire anyone whose commitment is driven by their career goals. Either you are there, in the struggle, whatever struggle that may be, or you're not. That's my advice."
5. What human rights issues do you see as most in need of reform in today's global community?
"United States hegemony and the policy it generates domestically
and internationally are two major impediments to the realization of human
rights, including women's rights. Patriarchy, as it continues to be expressed
in all our social formations, is of course another major factor. All of
us who are committed to rights have a responsibility to constantly examine
our actions, our lives, our classrooms, our communities, our countries
and our worlds, to understand the ways in which we contribute to inequality
and injustice. We are all responsible. If we are not addressing our own
place and responsibility in the world, how can we begin to address anyone
else's. We, US citizens, have a particularly great burden. If we fail to
accept responsibility, of our own accord, for our role in the perpetuation
of violence, oppression and inequality globally, we will be held bitterly
accountable through the violence we have spawned. I fear it may already
be too late."
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The Children's Home Society got a huge gift from the local Parrothead club.
The Panama City Parrothead Club has a reputation of partying with a purpose and that purpose is to raise money for local charities.
This month, the Children's Home Society was the lucky recipient of about 700 dollars worth of toys. The Parrotheads piled the toys in the lobby of the children's home society.
The society will make sure the toys are distributed to needy families in Bay County.
"It's nice to know that kids that are in need, you know, have got somebody that cares about them, cause we've all got our own kids and we love them, but to know that somebody's not getting everything ours do, it makes you feel super special to help them," said Lil Lewis
This isn't the first time the Parrotheads have donated toys to the society.
The group also holds a "Parrothead rendezvous" every year at the local Margaritaville with the proceeds benefiting the society.
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