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It used to be that the only people who had to worry about different meals for different dietary issues were hospital dieticians. Now it's anyone throwing a dinner party.
Take my buddy Sara DiVello. This nice, accommodating Boston yoga teacher invited four couples over for dinner — all friends of her husband's from college. "I asked if there were any allergies," she says, "and no one had any." So she got everything ready to make baked angel hair tibale, an Italian concoction of pasta, beef sausage, mozzarella, eggplant and assorted other tidbits. Something for everyone … to complain about.
"On the day of the party," DiVello says, "the emails start cascading in. One person was trying to go wheat-free to see if it helped her migraines, another was lactose-intolerant and couldn't stomach the mozzarella. A third ate chicken but not beef or pork, still another was vegetarian, and one was eating only organic."
Solution? I mean, her solution? (Mine would've been to put a bunch of little cereal boxes on the table and tell the guests, "Go wild!" Or maybe I would've had the party catered by one of the many ovo-lacto-beefo-gluto-sugar-free vegan caterers out there who just roll in a giant rice ball and call it a night.)
But what DiVello, clearly a nicer person, did was this: "I ended up making the dish with chicken sausage, to pacify the non-meat-eater, with a version without cheese for the lactose-intolerant person, another version with the cheese but without the chicken for the vegetarian, and yet another with just the chicken and the cheese and eggplant but no pasta for the wheat-free-migraine sufferer." And of course it was all organic. Because why pay the mortgage when you can throw a party for 20 of your pickiest friends? Make that your husband's picky friends.
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The Bucs were able to get outdoors for a team intersquad as they continue preparations for the 2010 season opener. The team has been working non-stop since the first full-squad practice on Jan. 29 going through several hitting and fielding sessions.
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The Orinoco Goose (Neochen jubata) is a waterfowl species that lives along forested waterways and marshlands in South America. Unlike the familiar species of geese that are frequently seen on lakes and rivers in North America and Europe, the Orinoco Goose is much less common. Although it has a huge range that includes the Amazon basin, Paraguay, and much of southern Brazil, it's rarely encountered outside of remote, protected areas.
Larger than a Mallard yet smaller than a Canada Goose, the Orinoco Goose is one of the easiest species of birds to see when traveling along remote Amazonian Rivers because they tend to hang out on sandbars and open, rocky areas of rivers. Although this striking looking species of goose lives in the Amazon basin, it's not really a forest bird. However, unlike most species of ducks and geese, it's rarely seen floating in the water either!
This interesting bird prefers marshes and the open, sparsely vegetated parts of big rivers where it can graze on succulent grasses and other riverside vegetation. In general, it prefers the same type of habitat as Capybaras and forages on similar types of vegetation. Indeed, both Capybaras and Orinoco Geese are often seen near each other although they don't typically forage for food together.
This waterfowl species is strikingly plumaged with a long, gray neck, chestnut body, and dark green wings. It also has long, bright pink legs and feet better suited for walking than swimming. Its handsome coloration actually helps this species blend into the rocky beaches it prefers, especially since it moves around very little.
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On April 8 & 9 at the Park City Egyptian Theatre, Utah will be graced by world-class performers, the Hunt Family Fiddlers. Mom and Dad, Jessi and Jenni (twins aged 21), Josh (19), Jonathan (17), Jordan (16), Justin (14), and JJ (13) make up this troupe of fiddlers who have performed all over the world. They've even opened for the Virginia Symphony and performed for Queen Elizabeth!
The shows include a unique blend of Celtic, bluegrass, inspiration and original music. Not only do they fiddle, folks, but they also include step dancing, drums, djembes, ashikos and cajons throughout the show. I don't even know what half of those instruments are, but I'm excited to find out!
It's hard to find something entertaining for the whole family some days, but if you're looking for something the second weekend of April, look no further. This show is sure to blow your socks off.
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As many of you know, I am working on a book for future farmers. Now I need some help. I have created a 16 question survey to try to better understand what motivates and what hinders wanna-be farmers.
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The recently reunited Archers of Loaf (myspace) played on Jimmy Fallon last Friday. I haven't found a late night performance so inspiring in a long time. It makes me want to play in a rock band. Thrash around on guitar. Or bass. Write cryptic lyrics about life and girls. Jump up and down. Yell so hard at the mic that spit flies everywhere. Do sweet air kicks. Turn turmoil into distortion and distortion into music.
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Russell Hales, M.D., assistant professor of radiation oncology and molecular radiation sciences, focuses clinical and research efforts on thoracic malignancies in the Department of Radiation Oncology. As director of Thoracic Multidisciplinary Clinic, he helps to provide an expedited treatment recommendation and counseling for patients with newly diagnosed lung and esophagus cancer by all specialists in one office visit. He is involved in the development of the Lung Cancer Center of Excellence.
- Director, Thoracic Oncology Multidisciplinary Program
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Selected PublicationsDr. Hales research activities focus on improving the effectiveness of radiation therapy for patients with lung and esophagus cancer. His interests bridge pre-clinical models of cancer treatment with innovative therapies. By exploring the effects of hedgehog pathway signaling on tumor response to radiation treatment, Dr. Hales research group is translating pre-clinical discovery to clinical trials to improve outcomes in patients needing radiation treatment.
He also evaluates new radiation technologies and their use in patients with lung cancer. For example, 4D MRI is being investigated as a means of more accurately tracking tumor motion with breathing, which results in improved targeting of tumor. He is also analyzes the benefit of daily image guidance in patients undergoing radiation therapy. Predictive models are being created which help personalize need for image guidance in patients undergoing therapy.
Jing Zeng, Khaled Aziz, Blake Aftab, Michael Armour, Sivarajan T. Chettiar, Rajendra Gajula, Nishant Gandhi, Tarek Salih, Joseph Herman, John Wong, Charles M. Rudin, Phuoc T. Tran, Russell K. Hales. Hedgehog pathway inhibition radiosensitizes non-small cell lung cancers. Clinical Cancer Research, Under Review Jan 2012.
Teboh Roland, Russell Hales, Todd McNutt, John Wong, Patricio Simari, Erik Tryggestad. A method for deriving a 4D-interpolated balanced planning target for mobile tumors. Medical Physics 2012 Jan 39 (1): 195-205.
Jing Zeng, Alfred P. See, Khaled Aziz, Saravanan Thiyagarajan, Tarek Salih, Rajendra P. Gujula, Michael Armour, Jillian Phallen, Stephanie Terezakis, Lawrence Kleinberg, Kristen Redmond, Russell K. Hales, Roberto Salvatori, Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, Phuoc T. Tran, Michael Lim. Nelfinavir induces radiation sensitization in pituitary adenoma cells. Cancer Biol Ther 2011 Oct 1 (7): 657-73.
Phuoc T. Tran, Russell K. Hales, Jing Zeng, Khaled Aziz , Tarek Salih, Rajendra P. Gajula, Sivarajan Chettair, Rachit Kumar, Danny Song and Theodore L. DeWeese. Tissue Biomarkers for Prostate Cancer Radiation Therapy. Under Review 2011
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Husain H, Hann C, Hales R Radiotherapy in small-cell lung cancer. Oncology. 2010 Oct, 24 (11): 1047-1049.
Hales, R.K. Bachereau, J. Ribas, A. Tarhini, A.A. Weber, J.S. Fox, B.A. and Drake, C.G. Assessing Oncologic Benefit in Clinical Trials of Immunotherapy Agents. Annals of Oncology. 2010 Oct; 21 (10): 1944-1941.
Hales, R.K. Shokek, O. Burger, P.C. Paynter, N.P. Chaichana, K.L. Quiones-Hinojosa, A. Jallo, G.I., Cohen, K.J. Song, D.Y. Carson, B.S. and Wharam M.D. Prognostic Factors in Pediatric High-Grade Astrocytoma: The Importance of Accurate Pathologic Diagnosis. J Neurooncol. 2010 Aug; 99 (1): 65-71.
Holmes, K.W. Hales, R.K. Chu, S. Maxwell, M.J. Mogayzel, P.J. Zeitlin, P.L. Modulation of Sp1 and Sp3 in lung epithelial cells regulates ClC-2 chloride channel expression. American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, 29: 499-505, 2003.
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Five UIC Student-Athletes Named to HL Winter All-Academic Teams
April 10, 2014
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INDIANAPOLIS - The Horizon League announced Thursday (April 10) that five UIC student-athletes earned 2013-14 Winter Academic All-League recognition. The Horizon League recognizes student-athletes with seasonal Academic All-League Teams in each of its 19 championship sports.
Women's Indoor Track and Field had four student-athletes awarded. Junior Tess Ehrhardt, who won the 3,000-meter run and took third in the one-mile run at the Indoor Championships, earned Winter Academic All-League recognition for the second consecutive year.
Junior Vince Errichiello with Men's Swimming and Diving was UIC's other honoree. Similar to Ehrhardt, Errichiello was honored on the Winter Academic All-League team for the second straight year.
"The athletes that were named to this winter's All-Academic Teams are some of our department's standouts, both on and off the field." said UIC Athletic Director Jim Schmidt. "Our student-athletes have put in a tremendous amount of hard work in the classroom this year and we are thrilled to see them recognized. This is another public reflection of the hard work and diligence displayed by our women's track & field teams and head coach Jim Knoedel."
A total of 76 student-athletes from six winter sports were honored in balloting by the League's faculty athletics representatives and sports information directors. To be eligible for Academic All-Horizon League consideration, a student-athlete must have a cumulative grade-point-average of 3.20 or higher (based on a 4.00 scale) and have completed at least one year at the member institution, having earned 24 semester-hour or 36 quarter-hour credits. A student-athlete must also be a starter or important reserve on his or her respective squad.
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Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) have selected James Corner Field Operations and Rice+Lipka Architects (RLA/JCFO) to plan a building and site renovation that has been funded by a LINC/Ford Foundation Space for Change grant.
The goal of this process is to refurbish MOCAD's facility and transform the site to activate the exterior by way of an outdoor space for Museum programming and improved visibility on the building's Woodward frontage.
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It may have been called by a different name: a concussion, Shaken Baby Syndrome, head injury, or anoxia due to trauma. These are just a few of the other names for Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), but all of them have the potential to kill or leave an individual with a need for life-long assistance.
Despite their outward differences, all of these people have experienced a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). These examples provide a glimpse into the complex and unique nature of TBI and its effects.
The goals of the Federal Traumatic Brain Injury Program focus on helping State and local agencies develop resources so that all individuals with TBI and their families will have accessible, available, acceptable, and appropriate services and supports.
Current estimates state that at least 3.2 million Americans have a long-term or lifelong need for help to perform activities of daily living as a result of a TBI1. These individuals and their families are often faced with challenges, such as improper diagnosis, inability to access support or rehabilitation services, institutional segregation, unemployment, and being forced to navigate complicated and cumbersome service and support systems.
Recognizing the large number of individuals and families struggling to access appropriate and community-based services, Congress authorized the Federal TBI Program in the TBI Act of 1996 (PL 104-166). The TBI Act of 1996 launched an effort to conduct expanded studies and to establish innovative programs for TBI. The Act gave the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) authority to establish a grant program for States to assist it in addressing the needs of individuals with TBI and their families. The TBI Act also delegated responsibilities in research to the National Institutes of Health, and prevention and surveillance to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-206) reauthorized the programs of the TBI Act of 1996. The 2000 Amendments (PL 106-310 – Title XIII of the Children's Health Act) recognized the importance of protection and advocacy (P&A) services for individuals with TBI and their families by authorizing HRSA to make grants to Federally mandated State P&A Systems.
The HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau administers the Federal TBI Program. The Fiscal Year 2012 appropriation is $9.878M, level‐funded from Fiscal Year 2011.
1 Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates (Selassie et al., 2009) include only TBI emergency department visits, hospitalizations and deaths in the United States (2002-2006). In the Children's Health Act of 2000, Congress recognized that the estimated figure of Americans living with TBI-related disability is an under-count. Estimates fail to capture individuals who have visited physician's offices, individuals who have not sought treatment for a head injury, State-level TBI data, or TBIs counted from Federal, military or Veterans Affairs hospitals.
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Severe. These medicines may interact and cause very harmful effects and are usually not taken together. Contact your healthcare professional (e.g. doctor or pharmacist) for more information.
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6.Drew BJ, Ackerman MJ, Funk M, Gibler WB, Kligfield P, Menon V, Philippides GJ, Roden DM, Zareba W. Prevention of torsade de pointes in hospital settings: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology Foundation. J Am Coll Cardiol 2010 Mar 2;55(9):934-47.
7.Phansalkar S, Desai AA, Bell D, Yoshida E, Doole J, Czochanski M, Middleton B, Bates DW. High-priority drug-drug interactions for use in electronic health records. J Am Med Inform Assoc 2012 Sep-Oct; 19(5):735-43.


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Dr. Schall-Leckrone is director of the TESOL and Bilingual Education Programs in the Language and Literacy Division.
Laura Schall-Leckrone
Professional Title: Assistant Professor
Areas of Academic Focus and Expertise: Preparing teachers to work with culturally and linguistically
diverse children; second language and literacy development; disciplinary
literacy; collaborative leadership.
Area of Work and Concentration at Lesley: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
and bilingual education.
Representative List of Recent Courses Taught: Teaching Reading and Writing to Speakers of Other Languages and Dialects; Sheltered English Immersion (PreK-6); Sheltered English Immersion (5-12); Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages: Content Areas
Education: BA, Swarthmore College; MAT, School for International Training; PhD, Boston College.
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Schall-Leckrone, L. & Pavlak, C.M. (2015) Methods and beyond: Learning to teach Latino bilingual learners in mainstream secondary classes. The Association of Mexican American Educators (AMAE) Journal. Schall-Leckrone,
L. & McQuillan, P.J. (2014). Collaboration within a Teacher Education
Program: Preparing History Teachers to Teach English Learners. In J. Nagle
(Ed.) Creating Collaborative Learning Communities to Improve English
Learner Instruction: College Faculty, School Teachers, and Pre-service
Teachers Learning Together in the 21st Century. Charlotte, NC: Information
Age Publishing, Inc.Schall-Leckrone, L. & McQuillan, P.J.
(2012). Preparing History Teachers to Work with English Learners through a
Focus on the Academic Language of Historical Analysis. Journal of English
for Academic Purposes, 11, 246-266.Schall-Leckrone, L. &
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to completing her doctorate, Laura worked for seventeen years as a bilingual
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"Flights of Fancy" — Stories for Children
Hare and Tortoise Race to the Moon by Oliver Corwin
Story Time Series
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Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
Museum staff will read stories for children about famous aviators, hot-air balloon flights, trips to Mars, the night sky, and winged creatures that soar through the skies. Afterwards, visitors ages two through eight-years-old will take part in a hands-on activity.
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The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs takes readers on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth behind the speculation. Apocalyptic Planet is a combination of science and adventure that reveals the ways in which our world is/i>
The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs takes readers on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth behind the speculation. Apocalyptic Planet is a combination of science and adventure that reveals the ways in which our world is constantly moving toward its end and how we can change our place within the cycles and episodes that rule it.
In this riveting narrative, Childs makes clear that ours is not a stable planet, that it is prone to sudden, violent natural disasters and extremes of climate. Alternate futures, many not so pretty, are constantly waiting in the wings. Childs refutes the idea of an apocalyptic end to the earth and finds clues to its more inevitable end in some of the most physically challenging places on the globe. He travels from the deserts of Chile, the driest in the world, to the genetic wasteland of central Iowa to the site of the drowned land bridge of the Bering Sea, uncovering the micro-cataclysms that predict the macro: forthcoming ice ages, super-volcanoes, and the conclusion of planetary life cycles. Childs delivers a sensual feast in his descriptions of the natural world and a bounty of unequivocal science that provides us with an unprecedented understanding of our future.
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—Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet
"A mesmerizing and provocative look at our ever-changing, "everending" planet . . . Childs's lively writing reveals awesome, otherworldy landscapes."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Childs aims to experience the apocalypse first hand…Gripping descriptions of deteriorating ecosystems that may soon require less travel and perhaps none at all for readers to experience." –Kirkus
"What makes Apocalyptic Planet so engrossing, despite its dark subject, is Childs's style. He is the best science writer I've come across in years, capable of not just capturing an image but doing it in a way that stays with you long afterward…Childs is the central character in his story, and his observations provide entertaining context for the calamities he contemplates across the globe." –Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post
"Craig Childs takes an Edward Abbey-esque journey across our rapidly changing globe. Apocalyptic Planet is lyrical, informative, and full of surprises."
Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe
"It is impossible to read Craig Childs and see the world in the same way again."
—Neil Shubin, author of Your Inner Fish
"Childs blends climate science, natural history, literary references, and personal reflections to create an immensely evocative sense of time and place…an engaging exploration of the land beneath us…intriguing." –Booklist
"Apocalyptic Planet looks at our ever-changing world to find refreshing and eye-popping insights in the most unlikely places…Craig Childs walking on the desert or climbing a mountain is like a gourmand at a sumptuous feast: the sensual delight with which he relishes the world around him gives the rest of us a vicarious thrill, even hunger. You just want to turn over that rock he sees, move dust to expose an ancient artifact, or scale the cave wall in front of him. Childs delights in the details of the rock, sand, and ice, and in them he finds stories as large as the planet itself. In his hands, the main casualty of apocalypse is our familiar view of Earth: it is impossible to read Childs and see the world in the same way again." –Neil Shubin, Amazon.com guest review
"Scientific, yet personal and passionate, Apocalyptic Planet will excite readers…An illuminating look at several possible scenarios for the end of the world as we know it." –Shelf Awareness
"Childs' Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth is a rip-roaring, gorgeously written look at the deep nature of the death of the planet by ice, fire, heat, species extinction — and these are just some of the ends that have already come to pass. Part travelogue, part thought-experiment, a good dose of craziness with regards to going into very dangerous places without preparation, 'Apocalyptic Planet' is a planet-smashing success in its ability to annihilate your cozy notions of stability." –Bookotron
"Childs's work has a way of elevating and astounding his listeners… His writing is at once sensual and scientific." –Telluride Inside podcase
"Compulsively readable." –Flagstaff Live
"Childs' new book is like no other you'll ever read about the 'end of the world'…Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth is a fantastic read in the tradition of great popular science books. It pulls off the near impossible, placating our concerns about the end of life as we know it — which won't be nearly as dramatic as we think, turns out — while also rousing us from complacent slumber." –Salt Lake Tribune
"Apocalyptic Planet deals with a kind of brutal truth that is almost never talked about, in politics, culture or even much in science—that the Earth's history is a story of huge, violent natural disasters and extremes in climactic conditions, and that there's no reason to believe that the future will be any different." –Santa Cruz Sentinel
"Apocalyptic Planet [is] quite a trip."—Robert Krulwich
"In chapters packed with vivid descriptions and lyrical language, Childs tells tales not merely of droughts and ice ages, but of globe-swallowing deserts and planet-freezing cold…this thoroughly enjoyable book is a fascinating travelogue of an excitable, seething and perilous planet where catastrophes are frequent, at least when measured on a geological timescale." –Science News
"In chapters packed with vivid descriptions and lyrical language, Childs tells tales not merely of droughts and ice ages, but of globe-swallowing deserts and planet-freezing cold spells … this thoroughly enjoyable book is a fascinating travelog of an excitable, seething and perilous planet where catastrophes are frequent, at least when measured on a geological timescale. " –Science News
"Apocalyptic Planet is transformative but never boring. Craig Childs takes us places we'd never go in our right minds. But afterward, we will never again regard our spaceship Earth in the same parochial light... he paints compelling pictures of what has happened in the past to destroy civilizations and life on land and sea. Then he forecasts what might occur in the future. Besides recounting his expeditions including a perilous, heart-pounding run down a swollen Tibetan river, Childs leavens his captivating chronicle with impish humor, scientific opinions, eco-studies, statistics and facts." –Austin American Statesman
Praise for Craig Childs
"Craig Childs is a master . . . He reminds us why we fell in love with the wild in the first place."
"Childs's own feats of asceticism are nothing if not awe-inspiring: he's a modern-day desert father."
—The New York Times Book Review
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I took the idea for this book from my aunt who was sitting on her kitchen floor weeping. We were in her home in Southern California with a broken refrigerator pulled out from the wall, food rotting inside. Streams of sugar ants laced the ceilings and baseboards. It was a seasonal infestation, tiny ants coming out of the ground and filing into her every room. She also had rats. We could hear them padding behind walls and along trusses overhead. I had found one dead in her bathroom vanity. The ants were all over it.
My aunt was in the middle of writing her own book about how to survive the end of the world. Her book was meant to prepare people for what she saw as a coming change, a much-heralded apocalypse and a dawning of a new age. Now she was having trouble just getting through her day.
"I feel awful," she cried. "Everything is falling apart."
She and I used to talk about end-times. That was years back in New Mexico, where she was born and raised almost within earshot of the first atomic explosion. She had looked me in the eye and told me the end was coming and I would be one of those who survived. With a sad and loving smile she had said, "If anyone is going to make it, you are."
Why did my aunt believe this? Maybe because I could skin and eat a snake or knew how to start a fire in the rain. But I didn't know what exactly I was supposed to survive, or even if I wanted to. I was younger when she told me this, a bit more spry anyway. Now I was too chunky and balding to survive anything of consequence. I couldn't even fix her refrigerator. Nor could I do anything about the rats or ants, nor the wildfires that had begun burning in the hills above her house, nor the tectonic fault itching to slip directly beneath us. Even the divorce she was going through was beyond me. I crouched before her, and all I could do was put my arms around her as tears started again, her life crashing in all at once. Together we weathered the terrible squall, what is said to be the end of the world.
With a strained laugh, she sniffed and palmed away her mussed bangs. "I feel so stupid," she said. I told her it happens to the best of us.
I put her to bed, pillows behind her back, and brought her a bowl of hot soup. When her eyes closed, I took her empty bowl. In the bathroom I doubled a grocery bag and removed that wretched rat, dropping its ant-maddened remains into a trash bin outside. I tidied her sink, quietly closed the door behind me, and made off with her book idea.
The term "end of the world" is thrown around as if we know what it means. Apocalypse? What sort of apocalypse—one that destroys civilization, life, the entire planet? How does it work? Is there a way to stop it, or is it just going to steamroll us?
And are we even asking the right questions?
Most people, when you ask, are a little vague on the details. Informed mainly by blockbuster films, the popular vision is that the end will be rather sudden and accompanied by a thrilling soundtrack as cities slide into the ocean and global climates swing overnight. Sure, that's one way it could happen.
Robert Frost mused it would be by either fire or ice. His conundrum was a product of the nineteenth century. Frost missed the wider, more circular array of options—volcanic cooling of the atmosphere, fossil-fuel-generated warming, global permafrost-methane releases, reentering ejecta from an asteroid impact burning the planet and sending it into a biological tailspin, and so on. Since Frost's time, we've girdled the earth with temperature probes, gravity sensors, and mass-balance buoys. Ice caps have been cored, ancient geographies exhumed. Trace down through ice cores and ancient lake-bottom sediments, pick at fossils and ruined cities, and you will see that the scientific and anthropological records tell a much more complex story.
Like any book, this one does not have only one starting place. As much as it was my aunt, it was also an earthquake. In mid-January 1994, driving back from guiding a trip in Baja, I stopped in Los Angeles for one night. I was sleeping on a couch on the third floor of a concrete apartment building in Pasadena when, a couple hours before morning rush hour, one of the most violent urban quakes ever recorded in California struck the city. Dressed in nothing but a sheet, I was off that couch in about two seconds as the floor banged back and forth beneath me.
This was not a huge event in global terms, 6.7 on the Richter scale, but it was one of the fastest ground accelerations ever recorded on the continent. I didn't have time to rub my eyes or blink. I knew you were supposed to get in a doorjamb to protect yourself, and that is exactly what I did. In the darkened light of the living room, where I'd just been, I could see shelves emptying themselves, books shuffling off the coffee table and onto the floor. This flimsy doorjamb wasn't going to save me if the building came down.
I had never been in an earthquake before, impressed by the sharpness of its pulses as if the building were being rapidly jerked around by its shoulders. This doorjamb seemed no place to be. I darted back into the living room, where I spread my feet and surfed the quake.
In those moments, my picture of the earth was remade. The floor felt as if foot pedals were pumping beneath me, a continental margin humped up on the back of a passing tectonic plate. Humans may have a big hand in carpeting the atmosphere with heat-trapping gases and dumping every toxin we can imagine into waterways, but when the earth decides to roll, it is no longer our game. Right then, this wasn't the planet I thought it was. All bets were off. The ground was moving, and overpasses were pancaking all around the city.
About ten seconds into it, the euphoria wore off. I must have instinctively known the tensile strength of concrete reinforced with tied rebar, and we were near the limit. I remember thinking, "If this goes on for about five more seconds, this building is coming down."
At that moment, the shaking subsided. The tectonic rumble echoed away. I stood slack jawed, amazed. Car alarms must have been going off everywhere, but to my ear there was nothing but unbreakable silence. The world was again still.
With power out, predawn dark was filled with stars.
Fifty-seven people died that morning in the Northridge earthquake. If it had struck during rush hour, that number would have been in the hundreds or thousands, freeways jackknifed under streams of commuters. A couple points higher on the Richter scale and it would have been the big one so many talk about, the catastrophe we seem to dream of as if we just can't help ourselves, drumming our fingers at the edge of apocalypse.
Power came back on between tantalizing aftershocks. I and the two others who lived in the apartment gathered at the television to get a sense of the damage. Seen from a helicopter, it was mostly buckled streets, fallen fronts of buildings, and freeways collapsed in bright morning light. As the helicopter turned to the eastern side of the Santa Monica Mountains, I witnessed something that made the experience viscerally indelible. The mountains on the television suddenly went hazy, as if a single blow had struck dust from a drumhead. I was about to say it must be an aftershock, but I was interrupted by a sound rising in the distance, not from the television, but from outside. The rumble grew as it passed over the city toward us, a wave rolling through the earth's crust. It hit us like a shoulder tackle, and our building violently swayed for a few seconds before settling again. The rumble passed and I understood in my bones the connected curve of the planet. Nothing was separate. We were all in this together, and I mean all, everything under the dome of the sky.
That event lifted a veil for me, and I glimpsed a seething and perilous world underneath. I wanted more. What else happens? What massive, elemental changes could come not to one city alone but to the entire planet? This book answers these questions. I will show you what it looks like when it happens. The interest is not merely prurient, the tales not only cautionary. This is what the earth is capable of. It is something that should be known.
To write this book, I traveled to nine different locations around the globe, each an apocalyptic landscape in its own right, an analogue for a likely ending to life even remotely as we know it. If a particular series of events happens, this is what the world will look like. I traveled from the inside bend of South America where sits the driest nonpolar desert in the world to the tectonic madhouse of the Tibetan Plateau to the severe, biotic dearth of central Iowa.
In the original sense of writing a field guide, I kept assiduous notes in journals I carried with me, pages crisped by sun and dotted with rain spatter. This book is what became of those pages. In the most desolate, phenomenal, and downright strange parts of the world, I recorded moments of global regimes shifting entirely. I saw when and where maximums and minimums were reached and new ages began. Land bridges have been consumed by seas, ice sheets have buried the locations of major cities, and formerly serene vistas have been encased in lava and volcanic ash. Comparing what is seen on the ground with geologic records spanning more than
4.5 billion years, I found evidence of an excitable planet where frequent and even regular catastrophes have not taken a hiatus for our benefit. Our version of the real world may be the most fleeting of pleasures.
This much scientists agree on: Five times in the history of the earth, most life has winked out. Five times, one species after the next disappeared, the chain collapsed, grazers died as the plants they depended on were lost, and predators disappeared shortly after, life on earth reaching as close to zero as you'd ever care to get. Up to
90 percent of life in oceans and 75 percent of life on land have been suddenly eliminated. These are the really big ones we talk about, the upheavals that lie at the far end of the pendulum swing, endings you would be glad not to witness.
But you may not have a choice, because we appear to be in one now.
On this much, too, scientists agree: The sixth mass extinction is well under way. Numbers of lost and declining species are rapidly rising with no end in sight. Some researchers offer outside estimates that as many as half of all remaining species may disappear within the next century. Since declines on this scale have happened only a handful of times in the fossil record, this point in earth's history appears pivotal.
Conditions will not remain as they are. That is a guarantee. They never do. In the geologic past, deserts have swallowed the globe, and most of the planet has been infrequently locked in ice, equatorial seas bobbing with slush. In one form or another, these changes have kept going, the earth shifting and jerking between equilibriums, pushed and pulled by all manner of forces, from planetary axis tilting to flushes of CO2. Our own warm and relatively moist geologic era of the Holocene has gone on for about ten thousand years, and yet it is only a sliver. Current conditions represent about 10 percent of what the earth has been like over the last three million years. Even a mere six thousand years ago, the climate of what is now Phoenix, Arizona, was nearly uninhabitable, water hard to find in the middle of a hyperarid desert.
We fret about whether we will survive the next major change. But who are we talking about being the ones to survive? Humans with our tricky thumbs and extraordinary ability to adapt and spread, familiar ecosystems, or the simple presence of life itself?
What would it mean to be the last ones standing on an ultimately sere and ruined planet?
Just to see it, to taste it, and to experience it firsthand, I stepped forward. Wanting to know what the end is made of, I went there. In the company of lava, ice, and blowing desert sands, I worked to see beneath the surface appearance of things and stand in the presence of apocalypse.
Meet the Author
Craig Childs is a commentator for NPR's Morning Edition, and his work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Men's Journal, Outside, The Sun, and Orion. Awards he has won include the Ellen Meloy Desert Writers Award, the Rowell Award for the Art of Adventure, the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, and, for his body of work, the 2003 Spirit of the West Award.
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Logan Forsythe (foot) will try jogging Wednesday for the first time since landing on the disabled list.
Yunel Escobar (knee) remained out of the Angels' lineup Monday against the Astros.
Juan Lagares (thumb) will begin a minor league rehab assignment Tuesday with Double-A Binghamton.
Cuban infielder Yulieski Gourriel had a 90-minute workout with the Mets on Monday in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
DJ LeMahieu (knee) is absent from Monday's lineup versus the Blue Jays.
Trevor Story (finger) is not in Monday's lineup against the Blue Jays.
Kristie Ackert of the New York Daily News hears from three Mets sources that Steven Matz has a bone spur in his throwing elbow.
Nationals prospect Trea Turner is starting in center field Monday with Triple-A Syracuse, reports Chelsea Janes of the Washington Post.
Nationals RHP prospect Lucas Giolito will be called up from Double-A Harrisburg to make his major league debut Tuesday against the Mets.
Three Cubs scouts attended the Yankees' series against Minnesota this past weekend.
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NOAA Nixes Dam Removal --Again
Environmentalists and some government scientists are rejecting the conservation plans released last week to protect wild salmon and steelhead in the Pacific Northwest, charging that the plans ignore science and promote the same policies that have already been rejected by the federal courts. The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Service, which oversees marine environments, released the new plans, known as biological opinions (BiOps), in response to U.S. District Court Judge James Redden's rejection of 2004 plans to protect the two species. The judge ruled those plans violated the Endangered Species Act because they did not consider removal of four dams on the Lower Snake River that block fish passage, prevent access to spawning habitat, and lead to severe fish mortality. The latest plans also leave the dams intact.
Both the Fish and Wildlife Service and the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clinton Administration agreed that removing the dams was necessary to allow the species to recover and to protect water quality in the Lower Snake River. In a draft version of a BiOp prepared in 2000, even NOAA agreed that planning for dam removal should begin. But those plans were put on hold by the Bush administration. The latest BiOps, like the 2004 plan, rely on trucking salmon around the dams and controlling predators to boost survival. "The accumulated benefits of these measures . . . have not met standards for survival," said one Fish and Wildlife Service scientist, who did not wish to be identified.
Conservation groups charge that the new plans regurgitate proposals touted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the Bonneville Power Administration and the Bureau of Reclamation, which operate the dams and market their electricity. "NOAA's job is not to just rubber stamp the actions proposed by these agencies," said Nicole Cordan of the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition. "Its job is to do a thorough review of the science surrounding the needs of these species. [This plan] completely goes against sound salmon science."
Grassley Asks CMS to Clarify Journal Policy
Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) last week asked the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to determine if medical journals used to justify reimbursement for off-label use of cancer drugs follow strict conflict-of-interest disclosure guidelines and require registration of clinical trials prior to publication. The agency recently named 11 journals to the list where efficacy studies showing an off-label use of a drug is useful may appear. At least one of the journals did not require authors to disclose conflicts of interest and more than half did not require registration of clinical trials prior to publication, according to an Integrity in Science Watch survey. "Conflicts of interest have been proven in peer-reviewed studies to have a significant impact on scientific outcomes," Grassley told acting CMS administrator Kerry Weems in the letter. "Accordingly, it is important that scientific journals maintain policies of transparency and financial disclosure." Grassley said he will seek rules ensuring that the studies used to justify payment policies are "peer-reviewed and free of bias."
White House Stalls on Admitting Censorship
The White House is so far refusing to turn over early drafts of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Julie Gerberding's testimony on global warming's impact on public health. In a letter to Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) last week, President Bush's counsel Fred Fielding expressed reluctance to hand over the documents. Boxer had demanded not just the early draft of Gerberding's speech to the Environment and Public Works Committee, but comments by White House reviewers. Fielding said "the request implicates core Executive Branch interests and raises separation of powers concerns as well." Boxer replied that she was "stunned that the White House is hiding behind 'separation of powers' and 'executive privilege' arguments to stop the American people from getting the truth about the serious public health impacts of global warming."
University Profs Fret Industry Control of Research
Faculty at two major universities have raised concerns about the chemical industry's influence over new industry-campus research collaborations, Chemical and Engineering News reports. The University of California at Berkeley recently announced a new collaboration to study chemistry and environmental policy research, which was launched with a $10 million gift from Dow Chemical. A Dow executive also sits on the program's steering committee. A similar research partnership is also underway at Harvard University, where German chemical industry giant BASF is spending $20 million to support research into new products. Berkeley public health researcher Michael P. Wilson, who works with the California Environmental Protection Agency on green chemistry issues, said independent researchers are unlikely to apply for grants from the Berkeley program "until the lines of authority are delineated." A Dow spokesman said the grant had no strings attached.
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The National Research Council called for greater public access to government science information, noting that post-9/11 restrictions harm scientific progress and threaten national security. . . . In the wake of reports that top officials at the Consumer Product Safety Commission repeatedly took trips at industry expense, frequently with heads of companies whose products were up for review, Democratic lawmakers led by Robert Menendez (D-NJ) have introduced a measure that would ban federal regulators from taking trips paid for by the industries they regulate. . . . The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has named Hugh Tilson, director of the Environmental Protection Agency's human health research program, as editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Environmental Health Perspectives. The appointment follows the agency's recent abandonment of privatization plans. . . . At least two-thirds of the non-profit groups that filed comments to the World Health Organization on intellectual property, innovation and global health had ties to the pharmaceutical industry, the Washington-based group Essential Action reports.
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Think Obama failed to deliver?The unemployment rate was 8.2 percent in February 2009, when Obama first addressed Congress. It hit double digits by that October and was 9.4 percent at last report. While the administration is quick to point out that 1.1 million jobs were created last year, there are 2.8 million fewer jobs now than when Obama took office.
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text: 12.09.13 In-Laws in the House? Save on These Family Deductions Holidays are a time when families come together from near and far. For many people, though, the nearest family reunion is just a room away. Having extended family or in-laws living with you might be tough in some ways, but it also might offer some tax benefits. Make sure you are making the most of the situation by claiming those tax deductions. Did you know you may be able to claim your in-laws as a dependent? Look at each parent individually. You may be able to claim them if: Their taxable income is less than $3,900. Even though they may receive Social Security benefits, they may still be a dependent if their income is less than $3,900. You provide more than half their total support. AND you provide more than half the cost of maintaining the home. Even better, they don't even need to be under the same roof. If you are providing more than half the cost of their home somewhere else in the U.S. and their income is less than $3,900, you may still be able to claim them as a dependent and keep peace in your life! If you are paying their support, providing their home (either with you or somewhere else) and they are in the U.S., but their income is $3,900 or higher, you may still be able to claim any medical expenses you pay for them as a deduction. No sibling rivalry needed There is also an underused tax rule that allows adult children who share the support of a relative to alternate who claims the relative as a dependent. When two or more people are providing more than half the support of a family member, such as a parent, including providing a place to live and that relative has a taxable income of less than $3,900, the group of individuals may choose a different member of the supporting group to claim the dependent exemption each year. Advice for suddenly not-so-empty nesters And don't forget those boomerang kids. Yes, if your child has moved back home, and their total income for the year is less than $3,900, you may be able to claim them as your dependent as long as you are paying more than half their support and half the cost of maintaining the home you are all living in. Unfortunately, the credits associated with young children (EITC and the Child Tax Credits) are not available for older children, but you can still claim the dependent exemption. While you are looking at the new make-up of your modern family, remember there may be some tax breaks associated with this new arrangement. Contact your local Tax Pro with any questions you may have about the possible tax breaks associated with aging parents and boomerang children.


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In the past decade, researchers working in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula have made a series of startling discoveries, revealing a gaping hole in our understanding of the Maya… could it be that what we thought we knew has suddenly turned out to be just half the story? Quest for the Lost Maya follows American archaeologists George Bey and Bill Ringle and their Mexico colleague Tomas Gallareta Negron as they find startling evidence of a forgotten Mayan society in the Yucatan. The team discovers a still more ancient royal palace complex buried beneath an ancient pyramid deep in the Yucatan jungle.
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After a stellar summer with the Corvallis Knight of the West Coast League, Huskies pitcher Brandon Choate was named second team All-WCL.
Andrew Ely may have been the last Husky among a Washington record eight players selected in the June 2014 Major League Baseball Draft, but he can stake claim as the first to play at the Triple-A level.
Calling ALL Huskies! We are less than two short months away from the 2014 Husky Baseball Alumni Weekend! All Husky fans, baseball alumi and donors are invited to join us September 26 for the annual Alumni Golf Tournament at Redmond Ridge Golf Course.
After helping the Washington Baseball team to its best season in a decade with 41 wins, a school-record No. 5 ranking and a berth in the NCAA Regional finals on the road against Ole Miss, Braden Bishop did not go on vacation. Instead, the All-Pac-12 Defensive team outfielder headed east to play in the prestigious Cape Cod League.
Former Husky star Jake Lamb realized his lifelong dream Thursday night when he made his Major League debut against the Kansas City Royals. Lamb, who lettered 2010-12 at Washington, was 1-for-4 after getting the start at third base.
As summer hits full speed, Husky baseball players have been playing in various different baseball leagues across the country, looking for a new experience and a chance to improve their individual game.
Pac-12 Coach Of The Year Meggs Receives Contract Extension
In a recent game in the short-season Pioneer League, four former Huskies met on the field for a game.
Former Husky Tim Lincecum pitched his second no-hitter against the San Diego Padres in less than a year, allowing only one runner Wednesday and leading the San Francisco Giants to a 4-0 win.
Last week Bishop Sankey was taking final exams in COM 340 and COM 440 and Brian Wolfe was in the Huskies' academic-support offices during UW's final week. Days later they were on their professional sports fields living a completely new life � with wildly varied amounts of money on hand. As Wolfe says: "It's weird."
Washington's Trevor Mitsui was selected to the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings 2014 West Regional first team as a designated hitter, while Tyler Davis was chosen as a second-team pitcher.
Three key players in UW's first NCAA tournament appearance in 10 years make their professional debuts Monday night inside the Class-A Pioneer League. It's two weeks to the day of their final college games, the Huskies' extra-inning loss in the NCAA regional finals at Mississippi.


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Kati Hanimagi uses a centuries-old process to create Oddball Press' unconventional line of greeting cards for a new generation.
The city's hottest political blogger, the brain behind Political Science 216, thrives on scandal and fights predatory lenders with a Blues Brothers-inspired move. We have just one question: Who is he?
Arsenio Hall loves his television and computer ... probably a little too much.
This month, the Cleveland native and former late-night host makes his return to TV with a new show that seeks to capitalize on our YouTube-obsessed nation.
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Green Tea...
Dramatically cuts blood sugar spikes. A compound in green tea called epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) blocks an enzyme needed to digest starchy foods such as bread and pasta. If you drink some green tea—the suggested amount is a cup and a half—when you're feasting on starches, your post-meal bump in blood sugar will be half its normal climb, a potential aid in fending off type 2 diabetes.
Fights cancer. Drinking three or more cups of green tea a week for at least six months lowered the risk for digestive system cancers in women by 14 percent.
Blasts fat. Overweight adults who had two servings of green tea daily for three months lost weight and fat, and their waists shrank a bit, too, says a study.
Improves memory. When EGCG reaches the brain, it appears to stimulate neuron growth in the hippocampus, a brain region related to memory. Mice given EGCG learned a maze faster than those that didn't get the compound.
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Shadow or not, my brain has suddenly turned to spring, despite the fact that I had the best week of skiing in two years this week. We got cheated out of the big dumps again, but 6 inches here and 6 inches there, with nobody skiing on it, finally begins to amount to something. I can handle more winter if it stays above zero and snows now and then.
During that weird week of 50-degree weather in January, the siren call of the tractors was irresistible. Even though it took about an hour to shovel the snowdrift away from the door of the barn, I did it, and managed to get all but one of the fleet to start. The Ferguson seems to have some goop clogging the carburetor. Even the 70-year-old John Deere fired up after I worked up a pretty good sweat hand-cranking the flywheel. It was a real joy to get them running and listen to the old engines run for a few minutes.
I'm easily amused, but it felt like spring. At least for a while, and then it felt like winter in Salt Lake as the barn filled with the exhaust fumes from cold, well-worn old engines running on full choke.
And then winter came back.
But the idea of spring has germinated way too early this year. There are lawn mowers in the hardware store. In one day's mail, I got catalogs of seeds, tractor parts and bike gear. I spent a pleasant evening in front of the roaring fire in the wood stove leafing through them.
The seed catalog was full of plants that wouldn't last a week in this climate. The seeds would wither and die the second the ZIP code was printed on the box. There's obviously some mistake. The seed company seems to think that people actually plant things in March. Yeah, right. The blueberries, they claim, will ripen in July. Or freeze. They had several miraculous varieties of sweet corn that were supposed to mature in just 75 days. I have no idea what they did to it to accomplish that, but the corn is probably more juiced-up than Lance Armstrong. It sure looked good, but even 75-day corn won't make it here without a greenhouse.
The bike catalogs were filled with pictures of people out riding in shorts in places that were not covered in snow. Moab has been colder than here for most of the winter. There's nothing inviting about heading down there. But it's Groundhog Day, and that will change quickly. A trip down south is becoming plausible.
I'm not sure if my anticipation of spring had much to do with the new excitement over the skiing, but they seem connected. The season seems like it's just getting started, and is quickly slipping away at the same time. In the same 75 days that mutant variety of sweet corn is supposed to mature, the ski season will be over. And then it's springtime in the mountains — which is nothing to look forward to. Better grab the skiing while it's there to be grabbed. A full week of powder skiing is worth getting excited about, even if the wind chill is below zero.
My freezer is still stocked with raspberries from last fall. Raspberries on my cereal before heading out skiing are not a bad way to start the day. Good as it is, I'm having a hard time keeping focused on skiing. The other day, skiing through the X-file trees, my brain wandered off to diagnose the problem with the Ferguson's carburetor. I'm pretty sure it's the float valve, I concluded, just in time to notice somebody had put a tree right in front of me.
Tom Clyde practiced law in Park City for many years. He lives on a working ranch in Woodland and has been writing this column since 1986.


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Chiriqui Travel Information
The Basics
Electrical current is 120 volts, 60Hz. Flat two-pin plugs are the norm. Type A/B.
The official language is Spanish. However, many Panamanians speak both Spanish and English.
Travel Health
It is recommended that visitors be inoculated for typhoid. Malaria prophylaxis is advised for most parts of the country other than Panama City and the Canal, and dengue fever is on the increase; travellers should take precautions against mosquito bites, as there are a number of tropical diseases spread by mosquitoes. Yellow fever vaccination is recommended for all travellers, except those visiting Panama City and the Canal, and is a requirement for all visitors arriving from an infected area. Vaccinations against tuberculosis and hepatitis B are sometimes recommended. Leptospirosis is a risk throughout the country, particularly during periods of heavy rainfall. Tap water is not safe to drink outside the capital without being boiled, filtered or chemically disinfected, and food should be eaten peeled, cooked and piping hot. Travellers are advised to carry an anti-diarrhoea drug. Medical facilities are good in Panama City, but less so elsewhere in the country. Critical medical problems require air evacuation to somewhere with better medical facilities, and travellers are therefore advised to have a fully comprehensive medical insurance policy. Quality control of pharmaceuticals in Panama is inadequate, so travellers are advised to bring a sufficient supply of their own medications from home.
Although a 10% service charge is added to most hotel bills, individual staff appreciate a gratuity appropriate to services rendered. Restaurant waiters expect a tip of 10 to 15% if a service charge is not included. Taxi drivers do not expect tips.
Safety Information
Most visits to Panama are trouble-free. Visitors should, however, be aware that there is a risk of street crime in Panama City and it is unwise to carry large sums of cash or valuables in public. Visitors should be vigilant using ATM cash machines in public places and beware of pickpockets and muggers in the main city shopping and tourist areas. There have been incidents of assault involving taxi drivers and armed hold-ups in restaurants. Use only registered taxi companies and call a cab rather than hailing one in the street. Do not allow the taxi to pick up additional passengers and do not share a taxi with unknown passengers. Burglaries have recently been committed by organised gangs who use ruses to gain entry to properties, so be cautious. Travel to Darien province only by air with an organized group to recognized tourist destinations protected by the Panamanian police. Travellers are advised to avoid the border area with Colombia, as this is particularly dangerous. Avoid political demonstrations in Panama City, usually centred on Panama University and the main road known as the Transisthmica.
Local Customs
A midday siesta is practised in many South American countries due to the heat. Tourists in Panama will find that shops and businesses are often closed during these lunchtime hours and should conduct their daily business either before or after siesta.
Business in Panama is formal. Handshakes are appropriate with men on meeting and departing, but not usually with women. Use of titles is very important to Panamanians, as is punctuality. Many Panamanians take an afternoon siesta, therefore business entertaining takes place over dinner instead of lunch. Many Panamanian business people prefer to host visitors to dinner at home, where they will be treated as VIPs and given a gift. The appropriate reciprocation is to invite the host to dinner in return. Dress for business is fairly formal despite the climate; men wear lightweight suits and ties and women wear lightweight dresses and suits. Office opening hours are from 8am to 12pm, then 2pm to 5pm or 6pm on weekdays, and 9am to 12pm on Saturdays.
The international access code for Panama is +507. Coin and card-operated public telephones are available, cards being sold at stores and vending machines. Cell phone providers offer GSM and 3G networks, and there are roaming agreements with most international mobile operaters. There are several internet service providers in Panama and internet cafes are widely available in Panama City.
Duty Free
The following items may be brought into Panama duty free: 500 cigarettes, 50 cigars or 500g of tobacco, three bottles of alcohol, opened bottles of perfume for personal use and gifts up to the value of B/.50. Fruit, vegetables and animal products are prohibited.
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As for your other question about the stock, is the receiver just a standard receiver (without the notch cut in the right side for the folder)? If it doesn't have the notch cut then you can put in a standard stock tang and use a fixed stock.
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You didn't show pics of how you did the short rivets it the barrel trunion, what's the trick there?
It just states "Reciever" on my reciept. Got ahold of OOH and they build them as "recievers". So I think Im good to go there.
It does not have the cut for the folder. I was looking at the ACE block/trunnion where I can use and ACE folding stock on it. What I was hoping to do is build it as a pistol buil. Dont mount a stock on it. Then later one day maybe register it as an SBR.
Great info......thanks
I built my AMD-65 and found this thread afterwards. Very nice thread.I used AK-Builder parts and tools as much as possible.I did use a Nodak receiver. My AMD went together soooo easy,much easier than my 3 romanian builds. There are 2 different long brakes for the short barreled AMD one is fron cncwarrior which tapers down to barrel size and also has 3 blast jets(holes) to direct the muzzle downwards. The other is from AK-Builder and is straight all the way back (kind of like a car -15 or colt commando) I eventually used the AK-builder brake (i liked the end result looks of the rifle better). I did not use the slot for the rear swivel. I drilled a hole just below the slot and mounted a threaded stud for a detachable sling swivel and it came out fine....GS
THANKS for the post and pics! You saved me a ton of time!
Whenever my friend gets an amd kit your tutorial will really come in handy.
By the way, those were really some :kewlpics:.
Just got an AMD65 kit and am stoked about the build!
This will be an essential resource for this build, and many others to follow!
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in transit | N21 is part of the nightbus project where the interstices of night, space, performance, and theatricality are explored as they interweave and disconnect. Staging the N21 as a transitory theatre, ideas about identity performance are visually captured to create an omnibus of London transportation night life. This busnographic journey is a look at how the frontier of the night enmeshed with the liminality of the bus create a transitory theatre where the driver becomes the stage director, and the riders the actors. I am the cinematographer capturing the seen/scene.
Through the captured images you will see that the nightbus is far from a proletariat chariot for the drunken, disorderly, and discarded. The bus is a theatre, and though the plot is as bumpy as the ride and the settings as transient as the riders there is a whole play with scenes and acts taking place. The people riding are performing their roles trying to get the most out of life. I, the audience, even become one of them: a performer. Together we are on a journey—in transit—trying to get to our destinations through the space external to our lived realities. We get on the nightbus and we get off the nightbus, but there is no end to this performance, there are only script alterations. This is the nightbus. Enjoy the ride.
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- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 4 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- Dash salt
- 1 cup finely chopped pecans
- Confectioners' sugar
- In a small bowl, cream butter and cream cheese until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Combine the flour, sugar and salt; gradually add to creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in pecans (dough will be crumbly).
- Shape tablespoonfuls into 2-in. logs. Place 2 in. apart on ungreased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 12-14 minutes or until lightly browned. Carefully roll warm cookies in confectioners' sugar. Cool on wire racks. Yield: 2 dozen.
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The University of Alabama Athletics Department renovated and expanded Foster Auditorium to create a new home for the Crimson Tide's volleyball and women's basketball programs, beginning in 2011. The remodel of Foster included refurbishing the arena portion of the building with new seating both on the floor level and the second level which overlooks the court, creating an impressive competitive atmosphere for both sports.
The restoration of the venerable three-story building was completed in January of 2011 in time for the women's basketball game between Alabama and Florida on Feb. 13, 2011, when the Tide defeated the Gators 64-59.
The renovation also included suites for both programs that house the teams' locker rooms, team areas, meeting and video rooms and coaches' offices. A weight room and athletics training facilities were also included in the project.
Originally built in 1939, Foster Auditorium was named in 1942 for Richard Clarke Foster, president of the University of Alabama from 1937-41. It was the largest and most expensive of 14 buildings added to campus between 1936 and 1939 using funds from the Public Works Administration.
In its original capacity, Foster served as home for intramurals sports, graduations, concerts, lectures and campus meetings. It also served as the home of several varsity athletic programs over the years, including men's basketball from 1939-68, women's volleyball from 1974-81 and 1989-95, women's basketball, which played selected games in Foster, from 1975-81, and gymnastics from 1975-84.
Additionally, the women's athletic program, including coaches and administrative offices, was located in Foster during the 1970s through the early 1980s.
The volleyball program, which began in 1974, practiced and competed in Foster for 15 seasons (1974-81 and 1988-95). The volleyball program was the last team to leave Foster, moving to Coleman Coliseum beginning with the 1996 season. After playing four seasons (1996-99) on the main Coleman Coliseum floor, volleyball competed in the Coleman Auxiliary Volleyball Extension (CAVE) for 11 seasons (2000-10), before returning to Foster Auditorium in 2011, where the Tide won its first match back in the building, defeating Alabama State, 3-0, on August 26, 2011.
Women's basketball played 35 games in Foster from 1975-81, splitting time between Foster Auditorium and the main floor of Coleman Coliseum, until permanently moving to Coleman Coliseum from 1981-2011. Following the completion of the renovation, women's basketball played their final three home games of the 2010-11 season in Foster.


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